Speakers & Mentors

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  Laurie Harness
  Harness & Summers, Inc.
  With 20 years of experience in leading both small business and corporate arm start-ups, Laurie brings a wealth of knowledge and multi-faceted view of the entrepreneurial challenges and rewards all start-ups have in common. She has held senior level roles and on site consulting positions with Mitsubishi, Proxima/InFocus, Office Depot Business Services to name a few, and is a founder of Harness & Summers event consulting.
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  Brant Cooper
  The Lean Entrepreneur
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  Bennett Blank
  Intuit Inc.
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  Roland Ligtenberg
  Qualcomm Inc.
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  Kelly Abbott
  Realtidbits
  Past: Match.com, Livejournal.com, Oprah.com. Present: Realtidbits, which powers social on ESPN.com, CWTV.com and WWE.com.
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  Rodney Rumford
  Snaply.me
  Co-Founder of Tweetphoto/Plixi. Product Manager at Lockerz. Entrepreneur who is versed in bringing products to market quickly.
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  Chris Corriveau
  StockTwits
  Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at StockTwits and responsible for the amazing technology and team that has developed all of the StockTwits products.
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  Olin Hyde
  Ai One Inc.
  8x serial entrepreneur with 2-4-2 record. Currently bringing new form of artificial intelligence to market as a platform-as-a-service.
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  Tanya Maslach
  GOTRIbal
  Passionate. Tireless. Do-er. Building the first destination site that harnesses the power of community for the individuals within it who aspire to live active, healthy, adventurous lifestyles.
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  Johnny Chan
  eBoost Consulting
  Johnny leads the team that has acquired millions of customers and created over $1 billion worth of enterprise value on behalf of its clients
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  Melani Gordon
  TapHunter
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  Scot Chisholm
  StayClassy
  Scot co-founded StayClassy, an online fundraising platform for Nonprofit organizations. He is currently the company’s CEO and Chairman. Scot has been selected by Businessweek as one of the top 5 most promising social entrepreneurs in America, and one of the top 40 young leaders under 40 years old by San Diego Metropolitan Magazine. He's also certified by the American Society of Quality as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
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  Sean Callahan
  Lockerz
  Sean Callahan is the founder of Plixi, a real-time photo sharing platform for the social web, acquired by Lockerz in January 2011. Previously Sean founded AddsYou, OBEY Clothing, Self Skateboards and several other internet-based businesses. Sean holds an MBA degree from London Metropolitan Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in High Technology Management from California State University of San Marcos.
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  Dave Churchville
  MyClientSpot.com
  Software entrepreneur, founder of MyClientSpot.com, player of blues, erstwhile herder of cats, eternal pragmatist.
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  Speakers
  San Diego based start-up; Discover New People Through Photos!