Edward G. Rogoff is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and former Dean of the LIU Brooklyn School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences. Prior to that he was the Lawrence N. Field Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He was also Chair of the Department of Management. He received a B.A., M.B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University where he wrote his thesis under the supervision of Nobel Laureate William Vickrey.

Dr. Rogoff has served as the Academic Director of the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College, teaches, and conducts research in entrepreneurship, particularly relative to minority and later-life issues. Dr. Rogoff was named the 2010 Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

He is the author of Bankable Business Plans and co-author of The Entrepreneurial Conversation. His most recent book is The Second Chance Revolution: Working for Yourself after 50, co-authored with David Carroll. His newest book, Bankable Business Plans for Non-Profits co-authored with Perry-Lynn Moffit was published in 2021. He has published in such journals as The Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, The Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Family Business Review, and Journal of Small Business Management. Dr. Rogoff has been Guest Co-Editor of the Journal of Business Venturing and the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship and is currently on the Editorial Board of the Entrepreneurship Research Journal. He initiated and supervised the largest study of minority entrepreneurs in the United States, the National Minority Business Owners Survey. Since 2007, he has led a research partnership with Babson College under which Baruch and Babson constitute the U.S. team of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the largest, longest continuing, and most respected international study of entrepreneurship in the world.

Professor Rogoff has written articles for the New York Times, Forbes, and Newsday, as well as having been a guest on CNN. Prior to joining the faculty at Baruch College, he was an entrepreneur in the radio broadcasting industry where he headed two companies that operated 23 radio stations throughout the United States. He was the President of the Hemophilia Association of New York for more than 20 years, continues to serve on its Board and the Boards of the Hemophilia Services Consortium and LiveOnNY, the New York organ donor network. In addition, he serves on the Boards of the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship and the New York Family Enterprise Center.

Rod Khleif is a passionate real estate investor who has personally owned and managed over 2000 properties. As one of the country’s top real estate, business, and peak performance luminaries, Rod has also built over 23 businesses in his 40 year business career. A compelling rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story, Khleif soared from humble beginnings as a young, impoverished Dutch immigrant to incredible success. Rod’s experience involves both remarkable triumphs, and spectacular failures, which he affectionately calls “seminars.” Rod brings incredible authenticity and insight to his approach to business, success and life. Rod loves training and coaching the “psychology of success” to aspiring real estate investors and entrepreneurs. He can train and coach on virtually any business or success related topic in great depth, contributing incredible first-hand, technical, and motivational knowledge and skills. Rod Khleif has combined his passion for real estate investing with his personal philosophy of goal setting, envisioning, and manifesting success to become one of America’s top real estate investment and high performance life coaches. As an accomplished entrepreneur and business owner, Rod has built several successful multi-million dollar businesses. But ask him what he is most proud of, and he will tell you about his work as a community philanthropist.

Corporate attorney turned fashion tech and sustainability entrepreneur, Stephanie is the Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, a marketplace to buy and sell unused textiles, keeping them out of landfills and turning pollution into profit. Prior to starting Queen of Raw, Stephanie worked as a lawyer in the fashion, media/entertainment, start-up, and technology industries and co-founded a sustainable textile manufacturing facility. An advocate for women in business and sustainability, her companies have been featured in NPR, Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, WWD, ELLE, Cheddar, Parade, WCBS, United Nations, Fortune, Entrepreneur, WIRED, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Fast Company. Stephanie is a 2020 Inc. Female Founders 100, NASA/NIKE/IKEA/DELL LAUNCH.org Innovator, a Grand Prize WeWork Creator Awards Winner presented by Ashton Kutcher, a Cartier Women’s Initiative Laureate, an MIT Solve – Circular Economy Solver, a Climate Change Finalist in Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity, a Finalist for The Elevate Prize, a thredUP Circular Fashion Fund Recipient, and an LVMH Innovation Award Finalist. She is a Member of Pledge 1% and New York Circular City Initiative and Founding Member of Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, along with Aveda, Kering, and Stella McCartney.

Teeka Tiwari is the editor The Palm Beach Letter, cryptocurrency advisory Palm Beach Confidential, Teeka Tiwari’s Alpha Edge service, Palm Beach Venture, Palm Beach Quant, and Palm Beach Crypto Income Quarterly. A former hedge fund manager and Wall Street executive, he’s widely considered one of the world’s premier cryptocurrency analysts.

Teeka epitomizes the American dream. Growing up in the foster care system in the United Kingdom, Teeka came to the United States at age 16 with just $150 in his pocket and the clothes on his back. By 18, he had become the youngest employee at Lehman Brothers. Two years later, he shattered conventions by becoming the youngest vice president in the history of Shearson Lehman.

In 1998, he made a small fortune going short during the Asian crisis. But then, he “got greedy” (in his own words) and hung on for too long.

Within a three-week span, he lost all he had made—and everything else he owned. He was ultimately compelled to file personal bankruptcy.

Two years after losing everything, Teeka rebuilt his wealth in the markets and went on to launch a private fund. After these events, he developed a newfound appreciation for risk. He made risk management his No. 1 priority. Today, Teeka’s personal mission is to help teach individual investors how to grow their money safely.

Teeka has been a regular contributor to the FOX Business Network and has appeared on FOX News Channel, CNBC, ABC’s Nightline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and international television networks.

Helena Yohannes is the Co-Founder of 2•4•1 Cosmetics, an effortless and clean beauty brand that instills confidence, kindness and integrity.

Helena went on to receive her education at Skidmore College with a double major in Government and Sociology.  Helena currently lives in Los Angeles where her company is headquartered enjoying the sunshine, listening to audiobooks and focusing on uplifting women through beauty.

Feven Yohannes is the Co-Founder of 2•4•1 Cosmetics, an effortless and clean beauty brand that instills confidence, kindness and integrity.

Derek is Chief Regenerative of Awí Superfoods, a “food-for-good-tech” with a mission to catalyze the Amazon bioeconomy through “regenerative nutrition”. He founded Dharma Investments, focused on seed investments in impact startups such as Impact Bank, Nuttzo and Green Fuel. Derek was a partner at TCP Latam (turnarounds) and Director at M&A boutique BroadSpan Capital. He began his career as a Latam TMT Analyst / Associate at JPMorgan in NY and from 2002-2005 ran the Brazilian operations of a venture philanthropy investment co focused on clean energy SMEs. Derek has a B.A. from Duke University in economics and Latam studies. He is a student of yoga and meditation, launched Rick Jarow’s book, Creating the Work You Love, in Brazil and studied extensively with coach Anthony Robbins.

Surbhi Rathore is the CEO and co-founder of Symbl.ai. Symbl is bringing to life her vision for a programmable platform that empowers developers and businesses to monitor, act, and comply with voice, video conversations at scale in their products and workflows without building their in-house data science expertise. This Techstars alum co-founded Symbl almost 3 years ago and is now backed by Amazon and has raised an early-stage venture round of $6.5M which deployed capital to grow a global team of tech enthusiasts to more than 50 people. She comes with experience from technical and customer-obsessed roles in both startups and enterprises such as Nevis Networks and Amdocs. Before co-founding Symbl, she worked in the Conversational AI space with a focus on delivering value to Telecommunication users. Surbhi is an international tech leader who advocates for Women in AI with a personal mission to inspire more women to work in Data Science. She is a national speaker, an accessibility equity champion, and the ultimate adventure capitalist. Surbhi has been honored with the Women in Voice Award for Founder of the Year, Amazon’s Top 10 Women to Watch in 2020, and the Will Reed Top 50 Companies in 2021. Follow her and her company’s recent work on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Rodney Williams is the Co-founder of SoLo Funds, an innovative mobile marketplace for  short-term, personal loans, where he assists SoLo’s leadership in growth, finance, and innovation. Since 2018, SoLo has processed over 150,000+ loans and redefined lending for 400,000+ users. SoLo has surely driven to new heights surpassing 2000% growth in the past 12 months, but grounded in the same hope and mission: to build a community that enables financial autonomy for all.  Prior to founding SoLo, Rodney founded LISNR (Visa Backed Fintech) and led the company to over $40M in funding, numerous awards and partnership across retail and financial services. He currently serves as the company’s Chairman. Rodney’s career started at Procter & Gamble in brand management where he was a critical catalyst in the company’s digital strategy and start in eCommerce & social media. Rodney has been recognized with numerous awards, including Ad Age’s 40 Under 40 in 2012; Cannes Gold Lion award in 2015; and CNBC Disruptor 50 List in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 to name a few. Rodney is a graduate of West Virginia University and Howard University. He is a member of the 2019 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

A serial entrepreneur, Jacob started WPIC in Beijing in 2004 as an alternative for the many Western organizations frustrated by China’s obstacles to brick and mortar sales. His passion for performance marketing and technical prowess soon garnered a reputation for unmatched ROI on digital marketing campaigns and e-commerce platforms.

Having earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Beijing Jiaotong University
and as a member of the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Executive Education program focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Jacob is amongst the leaders of China’s online revolution.

Described by BRIC Magazine as China’s “Go-To Digital Man,” he is a featured speaker at FT Innovate Asia and a rising influencer in the field of digital advertising in emerging markets.

As the driving force behind WPIC’s world-class data, e-commerce solutions and AI technology, Jacob and his team drastically reduce the challenges his clients face in reaching the world’s largest online market.

Co-Founder & CEO of Producers Market: Keith has worked in the supply side of the agricultural industry for 13+ years. Keith’s passion for supporting producers is the initial inspiration behind the Producers Market platform. He envisions disrupting the $4 trillion agriculture value chain industry by creating a world that is fully regenerative and uplifting to farmers. Producers Market is working with 500+ producer groups across 70+ countries.  Keith graduated from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor of business administration degree in 2008.

Jodi Lawaich is the owner of The Write Stuff VT and a partner in Trifecta Web. For over twenty-five years, Ms. Lawaich wrote copy for multi-million dollar companies like Kaplan Test Prep, Vermont Teddy Bear, and PajamaGram. In 2019, Ms. Lawaich started The Write Stuff VT to help small businesses with the marketing content needed for social media, email marketing, websites, and more. She also began her MFA studies in 2019, pursuing her master’s in creative writing. Continuing to follow her entrepreneurial spirit, Ms. Lawaich partnered with two fellow BNI (Business Network International) members in March 2020 to form Trifecta Web, a custom web design company. In June 2021, Ms. Lawaich was presented with a Top 100 Marketing & Advertising Leader Award at the MARsum Marketing, Advertising & Retail Summit in Las Vegas. Ms. Lawaich lives in Burlington, Vermont with her daughter Avery, a freshman at Providence College, and their rescue pitbull Mollie.

As a podcast host, speaker, author, and money mindset coach, Celeste Hartwell is passionate about helping women coaches, authors, and speakers make a shit ton of money while breaking all the rules.

As the CEO of Divine Feminine Leaders, empowerment has always been a way of life for Celeste, whether it has been through supporting and inspiring young girls with reading, creating and leading women social groups, or managing the Burlington, VT chapter of eWomenNetwork.

Celeste is passionate about helping women know their worth, listen to their own Divine guidance in their life and business to break old paradigms and patterns so they can live the life they truly desire.

Brittany is a NYC based actor, model, and digital creative. Brittany has been featured in national commercials, beauty campaigns, digital ads, and has had opportunities working with global brands like Lancôme, VH1 x Pepsi, Patrón, Michelob Ultra, & Blue Apron to name a few. You may have seen her in her most recent national tv commercial spot for Spectrum Mobile and can look forward to an upcoming 2021 holiday beauty campaign with Tula.

Dash recently starred in ‘Little Women’ (2019). He has appeared on Amazon TV, in indie films and theatre and is currently producing and acting in a new feature film ‘The Fish’ in post production. As a performer representing the worlds top global brands, Dash has worked on the creative and commercial side for over 8 years in New York City.

Regarding MomentMakers; we are a collective of artists with decades of experience in the arts, we’ve produced feature films, performed on Hollywood film sets and represented top global brands.

Technology expert with 15+ years in the industry leading technology projects for startups and large companies, including high security applications on Wall Street processing millions of dollars a day. Was the co-founder and CTO of a social shopping site and the Director of Engineering at a fintech startup focused on workflow management and automation tools. Phil also worked for eight years as Vice President of and Manager in the Applications Development Division at Citi. An architect and engineer with CISSP certification, he mentors at the Richard Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Fernanda Vanoni Matta: A food innovation specialist, Fernanda Matta is a chemist and holds a PhD degree in natural ingredients by the University of Surrey – UK. Born in Brazil, she has over 9 years of experience in the food system. International background in the US, Brazil, UK and Europe and delivered several projects about Biodiversity-based Innovations. She works as an insight seeker and a meaning maker, combining market and consumer trends to develop strategic planning for innovation. On a mission to revolutionize the food system to be healthier and ethically and sustainably produced.

Liam is a Public Affairs and Communications Specialist at WPIC Marketing + Technologies, a leading technology and e-commerce consultancy that drives revenue for global brands in China and Japan. Offering an expansive solution set, WPIC delivers tailored services to clients covering data analytics, e-commerce activations, brand strategy, creative campaigns, merchandising, warehousing, 3PL integrations, and more. Based in Beijing, Liam’s helps guide WPIC’s public and government affairs, strategic communications, media engagement, corporate branding, content marketing, and lead generation.

Liam previously worked in BCW’s Corporate and Public Affairs practice in Beijing, where he helped clients manage reputations, respond to crises, and navigate policy issues. His client portfolio included multinationals from the internet, semiconductor, energy, pharmaceuticals, apparel, F&B, and cosmetics sectors. Before joining BCW, Liam managed a nationwide high school debate league in China, traveling to nearly every province to organize debate competitions for students.

As a Global Director of Business Development at Pivt, John is excited to provide a social infrastructure for those taking the big step of relocating themselves and their families (something he’s experienced first hand on more than one occasion). Before joining Pivt, John worked for market research and consulting firms in financial services, where he helped develop strategies to bring new products to market and organically grow his clients’ businesses. An avid traveler, speaker of three languages, and outdoors enthusiast, John is passionate about giving people the tools they need to explore the world around them.