Christopher Isaacs
Christopher Isaacs is the Owner & CEO of Total Healthcare Solutions LLC (also known as Doctors Medical Supply), a minority-owned durable medical equipment and healthcare services provider in Washington, D.C. Since founding the company in 2007, he’s grown it into a local leader with an estimated $1.1 million in annual revenue, eight staff, and strong community engagement […]
Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky is a renowned software developer, author, and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 (creator of FogBugz, Trello, and Glitch), and in 2008 co-launched Stack Overflow with Jeff Atwood. Serving as Stack Overflow CEO from 2010 to 2019 and later as Chairman, he guided the company through its sale to Prosus […]
Chris Camillo
Chris Camillo is an American angel investor and pioneer of “social arbitrage”—a method of investing based on early signals from social media and online conversations. Starting in 2007 with $20K, he reportedly turned it into $2M within three years, and later grew $84K into $42M over 15 years, averaging ~77% annual returns—audited and featured in […]
Dennis Steele
Dennis Steele is the Co‑Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Podium, a leading interaction management platform for local businesses—now valued at $3 billion after raising a $201 million Series D in November 2021 led by YC Continuity He began by helping local businesses boost online reviews, founded Podium in 2014 alongside Eric Rea, and led the company from an attic […]
Chuck Hammel
Chuck Hammel III is the President & Co‑Founder of Pitt Ohio Express, a leading regional less‑than‑truckload (LTL) transportation and supply chain company founded in 1979. Over his 45‑year tenure, he has expanded Pitt Ohio into multiple Mid‑Atlantic and Midwestern markets, grown it to 3,100+ employees with nearly $830 M in annual revenue, and earned accolades including multiple […]
Fedor Saldivia
Fedor Saldivia is the CEO & Founder of Neo Moon, a Miami-based fintech startup founded in July 2020. Neo Moon is a stablecoin-powered challenger bank targeting Latin American users for remittance, savings, and daily payments. Fedor brings a unique blend of legal, financial, and tech expertise—having built fintech and blockchain ventures since 2014, including Wekho, […]
Nasrin Thierer
Nasrin Thierer is a Chicago-based entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist with a 22-year career at Motorola, where she pioneered their first consumer two-way radio. After founding and successfully exiting a cloud-based marketing automation company, Revenew, Inc., in 2016, she co-founded the Thierer Family Foundation and AssetBlue Investment Group in 2015–2016. She leads efforts to leverage technology […]
Patrick Ennis
Patrick Ennis, PhD, is a highly experienced venture capitalist and technologist based in the Pacific Northwest. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group (since April 2019), where he helps build and scale startups across cybersecurity, AI, and enterprise infrastructure . Before Madrona, Patrick was Global Head of Technology at Intellectual Ventures, leading […]
Russell Farscht
Russell Farscht is a senior M&A, strategy & finance executive at IAC, leading mergers, acquisitions, and strategic growth initiatives across their portfolio of consumer, media, and technology businesses  Before joining IAC, he spent nearly 20 years at The Carlyle Group as a Managing Director in its flagship North American buyout fund, focusing on media and tech […]