Online Success Journey

Michael Loban is the Chief Growth Officer at InfoTrust, a global analytics consulting and data governance company. When he is not motivating organizations to undertake a digital transformation, Michael can be found passing on the power of digital analytics to the next generation of marketers and analysts through his roles as Term Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati and Adjunct Faculty at Xavier University. He is also a presenter and author, with work published in Forbes, AdWeek, and CIO Magazine. "Michael has the rare skill of taking complex subjects (web analytics, digital marketing) and making them easy to understand for everyone."

Shawn Livermore has been a tech startup founder, entrepreneur, and technology consultant for over 20 years. He’s written books on software development and writes software in many programming languages. After raising investment capital for his startups 6 times, Shawn began to look beyond the code to see the bigger picture: The systems, patterns, and models of thinking that most deserve our attention. Instead of hype and hustle, Shawn focuses on tangible, factual, and replicable bits and bytes that most people wouldn’t see or pay attention to. From small fragments, Shawn can assemble larger stories to help people think, speak and create like a tech genius.

Jason Klug is a serial entrepreneur and has founded 3 successful companies in the past decade. Jason was always captivated by how products were made studied mechanical engineering in college, and during his senior year, Jason decided to withdraw from college in order to pursue his product development passions. After selling his first company making iPad and tablet enclosureshe was propelled into entrepreneurism. Starting Klugonyx out of his 1-bedroom apartment, it quickly became a full-service product development firm and it’s been the core of everything Jason does and loves to do since. His dream has always been, and continues to be, helping others become successful. Through Klugonyx, he aids other founders and entrepreneurs with the entirety of their product development journey, while also building more brands and products on the side that will help expand the quality of others’ lives.

Bob Wheeler’s crusade for personal growth has crosspollinated with his accounting practice to create a new approach to personal finances. His passion is to help others gain insights about how their emotions trigger financial decisions. Combining finances with behaviors, Bob explores his personal concept of creating a healthy relationship with money in his recent book, The Money Nerve. While strengthening his accounting practice, Bob has simultaneously ventured into the realm of standup comedy, distilling a concoction of warmth, humor, information, motivation and budgeting directives. He is also currently the CFO for The World Famous Comedy Store. Bob has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, ascended to the Mount Everest Base Camp, and hiked several smaller mountains in between. With charm and humor, his experiences feed his wit as a stand-up comic and financial motivator.

JP Clement is the CEO of boomtime. He has over 30 years of experience in marketing, digital strategy and product management for companies ranging from startups to global brands such as Madison Square Garden, General Mills, DFS Group Ltd., Johnson & Johnson and National Geographic. JP has worked for or helped companies in both the B2C and the B2B sectors and founded three digital strategy and marketing agencies after working for many years on the corporate side of marketing. JP’s passions are analytics, digital products and creating the right strategy at the right time for the right audience.

David Emmons has been an artist for decades, selling his copper and stained glass hanging water gardens at the most prestigious Art Festivals in the country. He spent over 30 years setting up and tearing down, with countless days sitting in the rain. Feeling the disappointment of merely breaking even, he missed his wife, his kids, and more. So David made a shift and it changed his life. Instead of his previous 30 shows a year, he now only exhibits at 1 or 2 of his favorite shows. Using his social and online marketing skills, his internet business increased by 1,000% and is rising monthly. Now that he is free of the frustration of working so hard, David has turned his focus towards helping others create this same freedom and success for themselves.

Kristin Molenaar is an entrepreneur-enthusiast who lives by the mantra: ​Work Less, Make More​ - which has enabled her to build a 6 figure business while working an average of just 5 hours per week. Kristin's mission to eradicate entrepreneurial stress fuels her passion for sharing the 3 crucial steps every entrepreneur needs to take to achieve true freedom in business. Kristin is the founder of the podcast booking agency, YesBoss VA. At YesBoss, she and her team help service-based business owners book podcast features, so they can generate new leads in just one hour per week. When Kristin isn't growing businesses, she can be found advocating for foster care and adoption.

Jeroen is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast growing startup companies. Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to follow up the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of their leads manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data together automatically and then actively helps you to follow up. It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features.

Andrew Rey helps entrepreneurs and business people get corporate credit, so they can grow their business without ruining their finances. His mission is to help business owners start, build and scale their businesses using little known yet highly effective business credit and financing strategies that most people are still completely clueless about. He works with Business Owners, Real Estate Investors and aspiring Business Owners who want to scale their businesses fast and need the cash to make it happen. Even if you’re just getting started and have terrible credit, there’s a good chance they can help. He is also a best-selling Author on Amazon.

Matt Gillis has 20+ years of mobile, media, and technology expertise with a history of building and operating companies from startup to scaled global market leader delivering $1B+ in annual revenues. He spent the last 8 years prior to joining clean.io in the digital media industry leading the publisher platforms business at Millennial Media and Oath (now called Verizon Media, which was the combination of AOL/Yahoo). He also led mobile videogame startup Cosmic Infinity to its eventual acquisition by Japanese videogame publisher Capcom. Matt is married with three great kids.

Arjun Rai is a NYC based entrepreneur who is on a mission to support small businesses with the power of visualized data science and artificial intelligence for digital marketing at HelloWoofy.com. A firm believer that every SMB should have an unfair advantage to compete against unlimited marketing budgets. Since high school, Arjun has been networking with some of the most well known entrepreneurs and even worked on a few projects and startups of his own. Upon graduation, Arjun pursued his career opportunities and came to New York City where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Technology, and a few weeks into college, Arjun launched his second startup, fuelbrite.com, a social media agency focused on small businesses and startups, and a student-focused organization, TheBizDen. Arjun currently lives in New York City with his girlfriend, two cats and a dog.

Maxine Nwaneri is the Founder of The Future is Greater. She lifted herself up from homelessness & addiction to become a Cambridge MBA Graduate, top leader in the Tech Financing Industry, and now Executive Coach and Consultant helping individuals and businesses achieve results they thought were impossible. She has helped clients on 5 continents achieve extraordinary results, using tips, tools & techniques developed from over two decades of dedication to radical growth and transformation. She is passionate about helping clients overcome difficult circumstances, so that they can thrive, not just survive during challenging times, and experience peace, purpose, and success. Her work and message have been featured on several stages and publications internationally including HuffPost, Success Magazine, and Thrive Global. 

Jeff Harry shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day. Jeff is an international speaker who has presented at conferences such as INBOUND, SXSW, and Australia’s Pausefest, showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play, and he has been recognized and featured in major groups, publications and media outlets Jeff believes that we already have many of the answers we seek, and by simply unleashing our inner child, we can find our purpose and, in turn, help to create a better world.

Veronica teaches accounting, bookkeeping and tax business owners how to create and repurpose content to have massive visibility online, attract and convert the right audience to grow their business. In late 2010, after 20 years in Corporate America as an Accounting and Finance executive Veronica found herself craving flexibility, creative freedom and building something of my own. She launched and grew her own offline CFO consulting practice, but found she could not scale with the business model she’d built. Expanding her consulting practice to the online space gave her leverage to create a business she absolutely L-O-V-Es! Through her simple framework, you’ll learn how to create content and repurpose it to give you maximum exposure and stretch out the life of the content you spent time creating. Veronica can help to UP-LEVEL and love your content creation strategy to grow your business online!

Caleb and his wife began their married life by purchasing more than 50 books about writing. The newlyweds would often pen stories for hours at a time while serving as live-in night managers at a retirement facility. Caleb spent the next decade breaking into the traditional publishing industry. He sold 20,000 books but found himself unsatisfied with the results. So he took a four-year break to learn marketing secrets from a mentor who'd spent $1 billion in online ads. What good is a message, after all, if you can't get it out to the world? Now he's helped hundreds of aspiring authors write books, build platforms, and win book contracts. Caleb believes books are the big domino that knock down all of the MASSIVE aspects of impacting lives, such as building your authority, growing your fanbase, accelerating your profits, and increasing your influence. Writing a book helps you do work you're passionate about and leaves a legacy that stands the test of time. If that resonates with you, get in touch with Caleb and h

Ever since his mother signed him up for piano lessons at age five, Thornton Cline has been writing non-stop. With over 1,000 published songs, 150 recorded songs, 32 traditionally published adult, children’s and YA books published, Thornton Cline has been nominated multiple times for Grammy and Dove Awards. In 2017, Cline won a first-place Maxy Literary Award for “Best Children’s Young Adult Book” and his books have appeared at the top of the Amazon bestselling charts. Cline has been honored with “Songwriter of the Year” twice-in-a row and has received a platinum award for certified sales of over one million units in Europe. Cline continues to mentor, speak, teach, and inspire aspiring authors and songwriters around the world. When Cline isn't writing, he is teaching at Welch College in Middle Tennessee. He resides in Hendersonville, Tennessee with his wife, Audrey and their cat, Kiki.

Curt Mercadante is founder of Merc Enterprises and he is a branding expert, speaker and business strategist who helps businesses increase authority brand exposure to the right clients so they can make more money. For more than 25 years, Curt has counseled small businesses and entrepreneurs, as well as some of the largest corporations and associations in the country. He’s built three profitable businesses, including a 7-figure Public Relations and Advertising agency. Curt is also a Gallup-Certified Strengths Trainer, host of the Freedom Mindset Radio podcast, and author of the bestselling book, “Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle.” Curt has spoken, trained, and coached around the world. He and his wife, Julie, and four children reside in Charleston, SC.

Parker is a co-owner and the Chief Business Officer at Evolved Finance; a bookkeeping agency that specializes in helping online entrepreneurs to build more profitable and financially stable online businesses. For over 6 years, Parker has been advising some of the top coaches, course creators, influencers, and thought leaders on how to make more sound business decisions using their financial data. Before joining Evolved Finance, Parker spent five years at adidas America where he became the US product manager for a $50-million dollar a year product category.

Damian Prosalendis became a self made millionaire at 20 years old. Just 1.5 years earlier he was sleeping on a mattress he picked up from the trash. He used to live in a roach infested dorm room and distribute flyers on the street for 1 euros per hour. By the age of 21, he had founded and ran 3 companies. Damian created the world’s largest consulting firm for Amazon Sellers, known as SPXMAC, which serviced over 10,000 clients from 116 countries, ranging from new start-ups to multi million dollar e-commerce brands. Thus, he was interviewed and featured on the world-class, prestigious Forbes Magazine. Now, at the age of 24, Damian Prosalendis has expanded his business empire by starting several new ventures. These include Badass Talent, a model and talent management agency in Miami, Studio Badass which is a video production studio that focuses on luxury living and lifestyle productions, and Anax Publishing which is a digital media and publishing company that specializes in personal development publications.

Alexandria is an Empowerment Coach & Business Mentor for aspiring entrepreneurs. Her mission is to help women make their dream life a reality. She aims to help women move from feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and lost to feeling aligned, motivated, and driven by a clear vision. Having always followed the “rules of life”, Alexandria was thriving on the outside but on the inside, she was fighting a battle with anxiety which ultimately resulted in a breakdown. Her breakdown became her breakthrough, as she realized that her depression was not an illness but a symptom - a sign of how unhappy she was with the life she had created. he ripped up the rule book, left her corporate job and decided to create her own path - one that would inspire and empower other women to do the same.