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Harry Herington is the CEO of NIC. early 20 years ago, he helped transform NIC from a small start-up to a national company, as he puts it ''before the internet was cool,'' with a vision to harness technologies to improve citizen and business interactions with government. As the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Mr. Herington leads the Company as it works with more than 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies, and has developed thousands of digital government services that make government interactions more transparent, efficient, convenient, and mobile. Under his leadership, NIC has grown to become a nationally respected company, and has repeatedly ranked on Forbes' list of the ''100 Best Small Companies in America.'' His management philosophy has been featured this year in the New York Times, Forbes, and Entrepreneur magazines.

Matt Krepsik is the Chief Technology Officer for Quotient, leading the company’s strategy and insights team, engineering, product management, business development and media strategy business and enabling advertisers and retailers to deliver high performing, data-driven marketing strategies fueled by powerful insights into consumer purchase behavior. Matt brings more than 15 years’ experience with data analysis. Most recently, he led attribution, media planning and activation products at Nielsen. Throughout his career, Matt has worked directly with clients across the sell side and buy side of the media ecosystem covering a broad set of industries and spanning a diverse set of markets. He leverages the power of big data and advanced analytics to help clients improve their efficiency and drive the effectiveness of their marketing dollars. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences, a commentator in the press and a guest lecturer at NYU on modern marketing. He studied at the London School of Economics and holds Economics Bachelors and Master’s degrees from Marshall and Miami University, respectively.

James Bidzos is president and chief executive officer of Verisign. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors and has been executive chairman since August 2009. As the founder of Verisign, Bidzos is an Internet and security industry pioneer whose accomplishments include building RSA Security into the early standard-bearer for authentication and encryption, and launching Verisign as a company in 1995 to develop the digital certificate infrastructure for Internet commerce. Before returning to the president and chief executive role in August 2011, Bidzos served as Verisign's first president and CEO and also served as Verisign's chairman of the board of directors from April 1995 until December 2001, as vice chairman from December 2001 to July 2007, and as interim CEO from July 2008 to August 2009. Bidzos served as president and CEO of RSA Security from 1986 to February 1999, and then served as RSA's vice chairman from 1999 to May 2002.

Bob Brisco is a Chief Executive Officer at WEBMD HEALTH CORP. and Founder at Classified Ventures and is based in Los Angeles, California. He has worked as President at Universal Citywalk Hollywood, President/CEO at Internet Brands, and President at Universal Studios Hollywood. Robert studied at University of Southern California between 1980 and 1984; University of California, Los Angeles between 1985 and 1987; and UCLA Anderson School of Management between 1985 and 1987.

Jim Collins is a Chief Executive Officer at Fruition and is based in Denver Metropolitan Area. He has worked as Chief Growth Officer at Fruition, General Sales Manager at DexYP, and Area Manager at Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Jim attended University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business.

Sean Allen is co-founder and the CEO of BMC Group, an international information management and professional services firm that supports the legal, financial, corporate, and medical industries. Sean built the company based on the premise that the processes supporting legal, medical and corporate industry could be streamlined through advanced technology. Project planning and state-of-the-art technology is now applied to BMC's consultative service lines of bankruptcy, class action, litigation, mergers & acquisitions, investor communications and clinical trials. Sean has served as an expert witness in accident reconstruction and product liability. He has consulted within a cross-section of industries including automotive, financial services, manufacturing, medical, pharmaceutical and telecommunications. Sean is also a professional race car driver competing in the Speed GT World Challenge in a Porsche GT3 and the on the Historic Grand Prix circuit in the McLaren M30 Formula 1.

Kurt Theobald is the founder, CEO & Chief Strategist of Classy Llama. He previously worked at Nucleus Commerce as a CEO. Kurt has also attended College of the Ozarks in 2002.