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Adi Tatarko is the CEO and co-founder of Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design, bringing together both professionals and homeowners via mobile, local and social tools. Adi and her husband and cofounder, Alon Cohen, started Houzz out of challenges that they faced during their own remodeling process. Today, millions of homeowners and more than 1.5 million active home professionals connect through Houzz.com and its mobile apps every month, sharing their photos, advice and product recommendations. Earlier in her career, Adi founded a software company, which developed products and services for the high tech industry. She lives in Palo Alto, CA with her husband and three boys. In her spare time, she still enjoys looking at inspiring home design and renovating the rest of her own house one room at a time.

Equal parts entrepreneur, product leader, and technologist, Movoto’s Chief Executive Officer, Imtiyaz Haque, has an unwavering passion for building and nurturing high-growth products and teams. He is leading Movoto to make it the most trusted platform for selling and buying real estate with confidence. Before his role as CEO, Imtiyaz served as Vice President of Engineering where he led Movoto’s Global Engineering. Before joining Movoto, Imtiyaz was the Head of Global Research & Development for Philips's Enterprise Imaging & Informatics, where he focused on Lean Startup principles and Agile Development Methodology to deliver innovations to the company. He honed his skills in entrepreneurship when he founded and served as CEO of a Java technology company, growing it to over 100 clients in less than two years and acquiring profitability, which led to a successful company acquisition. With a strong commitment to entrepreneurship & leadership, Imtiyaz passed on his experience and knowledge to up-and-coming entrepreneurs by mentoring teams at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He has a master’s in Computer Science from the State University of New York and worked many years architecting, designing and developing software in a variety of domains. Over the last 20+ years, he has bought and sold many homes giving him a unique insight on how the real estate industry has evolved during this time and knows what the pain points for consumers and agents alike are. He cares deeply for providing the best experience for consumers and agents with the Movoto platform. His culinary talents are the stuff of legend, and his epicurean tastes are unmatched. He is also a master Ping-Pong player and loves challenges. Although he was never a runner, he recently took up the challenge to run a half-marathon and accomplished it!

Cory Rellas is the Chief Operating Officer for Drizly. Since helping found Drizly in 2012, Rellas is responsible for Drizly's day-to-day operations and business strategy, overseeing strategic partnerships, finance, and recruiting. Before Drizly, Rellas served as an associate for Sankaty Advisors, the credit affiliate of Bain Capital, where he focused on high yield and distressed investments and middle market companies in turn around and growth situations. Cory holds a B.A.A. in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and he lives in Boston, Massachusetts. You'll find him drinking Miller Lite or Macallan 12.

3x Best Selling Author of Organic Networker, CEO and Founder of Gara Group & Velovita ®, Investor & Serial Entrepreneur.

JD Sherman was most recently the President and Chief Operating Officer of HubSpot, where he set company goals and aligns them across HubSpot. Prior to HubSpot, JD spent six years as Akamai's Chief Financial Officer, where he was responsible for finance, strategic planning, and corporate development. During his tenure, Akamai grew from over $200 million to $1.2 billion in revenue, with over 2,000 employees globally, and was added to the S&P500 index. JD also served as the Chief Financial Executive of IBM's $21 billion Systems and Technology Group. During his 15-year career at IBM, JD held a number of senior executive positions in finance. As Vice President of Finance and Planning for the zSeries Server Division, JD served as financial and business leader for IBM's $5 billion mainframe computer division. He was instrumental in the company’s pricing strategies and led a worldwide finance and sales operations team responsible for an $800 million expense budget. JD also served as CFO for CommQuest, which was acquired by IBM. He developed the post-acquisition business plan and led the integration of CommQuest into IBM. He holds a BA in Economics from Emory University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Christopher Webb is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur and investor. He is currently co-founder and CEO of ChowNow, a technology lab devoted to building fun, innovative products for the restaurant industry. Prior to founding ChowNow, Chris spent ten years on Wall Street where he held various trading positions at Bear Stearns, RBC, and Lehman Brothers. Webb is a founding investor in Tender Greens, a LA-based restaurant chain, and a few early stage technology startups including Soma Water, OnFleet, ZestFinance and SHIFT (acquired). Chris occasionally writes on Medium, covering the cross section of restaurants and technology.

Reid Hislop is a Sales and Marketing Manager at Automated Dynamics and is based in New York Metropolitan Area, Albany, New York. He has worked as Vp Marketing at Hislop Consulting Group, VP:Marketing at MAPINFO CORP, and VP:Mktg & Investor Relations at PLUG POWER INC. Reid works or has worked as VP:Global Marketing at Pitney Bowes Business Insight and from VPN/Firewall vendor to leader at Esoft. He studied at University of Alberta.