After 12 years in corporate sales leadership I was laid off and started my own business shortly thereafter. Jerry’s Kitchen, a modern-American food truck rolled onto the streets of Philadelphia in August of 2014 serving breakfast and lunch on the corner of 33rd and Arch Streets in University City. The truck would also regularly serve at local festivals and street fairs.…
Praveen Kathpal is CEO of Motor, a fast-growing company that helps electric utility companies accelerate consumer EV adoption. He previously served as VP of New Business at AES Next and as VP of Market Applications at Fluence, a leading energy storage technology and services company. He has served as chair of the Energy Storage Association board of directors.…
Pierre Kattar is an Emmy Award-winning video journalist and filmmaker. As a backpack journalist, he reports, writes, shoots, edits and produces news videos and documentary films. Based in Washington, D.C., Pierre is available to travel for assignments.
Since 1999, Pierre’s work has won numerous awards including two Emmys, a Peabody, Scripps Howard Foundation, Casey Journalism Center and three RTNDA Edward R.…
Mike Keymer is an engineer and business leader with broad experience helping small companies grow and thrive. As Manager of the New Ventures practice at Right Start Group, Mike has helped many startups and early-stage companies with strategy, IP, sales and marketing, product development, and financing needs. In 2013, Mike co-founded Topspin Labs, a business incubator focused on helping established companies commercialize their technologies for new markets by founding new startups to pursue those opportunities.…
David is a co-founder of Omniscient Digital, a premium content marketing agency helping B2B software companies growing organic traffic and leads. He also serves as head of Growth at People.ai, implementing a freemium product-led growth motion to their suite of products, and previously served as a growth product manager and marketer at HubSpot for 6 years, helping them grow the freemium business.…
Shainoor Khoja is the founder and CEO of Thrive Community, an innovative, digital platform that keep seniors connected and engaged with their families and caregivers. She also leads Better Business Enterprise, a strategic management consultancy with a focus on utilizing technology for social impact in emerging markets.
Shainoor has spent the past two decades driving social and economic development in critical fields, particularly healthcare and education in some of the world’s most challenging environments.…
Robert Kinsler is the founder and CEO of United Fray and Publisher of District Fray Magazine. As a lifestyle services and media company, Fray is on a mission to Make Fun Possible by creating and sharing fun things to do. Working across social sports, events, and media, Fray builds communities, fosters relationships, and creates value for our members and partners.…
Allison Kirsch is the Chief Operating Officer of FI Consulting. Over the last 6 years, she has played a central role in FI’s growth to more than 50 professionals through the strategic development, coordination, and oversight of the company’s operations, human resources, and finance functions. Allison’s focus on organizational development has allowed for scalable growth while maintaining FI’s core principles.…
Dorothy is an operations and finance executive with over 20 years experience in the sports, media and professional services industries including CBS Sports, FOX Sports, NBC, Scripps Networks and CBS Radio, as well as Deloitte in NYC. She has a BA in Accounting/Economics from Long Island University, and professional certificates in Human Resource Management from Villanova University and Executive Women in Leadership from Cornell University.…
Peter is a native of Washington, DC and splits time professionally between his two favorite cities, DC and New York. Peter is COO of the District’s Capital Fringe, a non-profit organization centered on incubating artists in the performing arts. Peter is also Co-Founder and CXO of Blender, an upscale collaborative workspace targeted at established entrepreneurs and small businesses.…
Demetrios has more than 20 years of experience helping enterprises get value from their data as a software developer, architect, strategist, and technology executive. Prior to founding Silectis, he was the CTO at a predictive analytics company building terabyte scale solutions to optimize pricing and campaign targeting, a strategy consultant at Bain & Co., and a director in Gartner’s technology consulting practice.…