John Qualls, President of Eleven Fifty Academy, is an accomplished business leader who has spent his career developing and promoting innovative technology solutions that drive and enable business growth and profitability. His early roots are in application development, data center collocation, managed network services and disaster...
Danielle is a startup founder with a successful start and exit. Her passion is bringing new ideas to market and exploring agile and innovative concepts. Danielle’s specialty is taking business ideas from concept to reality and driving growth into enterprise stage....
Brian is a multifaceted business professional who has never had a “real” job (for very long). A career entrepreneur since childhood, he shares his time between NYC and the Virgin Islands. Brian has many spectacular failures under his belt but successfully produces creative marketing &...
Brigadier General Jeffrey Hauser (USAF) is a member of Indiana State University’s Department of Aviation Technology, and serves as the Director of Unmanned Systems. Brigadier General Hauser also serves as Assistant Adjutant General - Air, Indiana National Guard. In his military capacity he serves as the...
After an accident that left him completely blind in 1997, military veteran, Lonnie Bedwell, raised three daughters as a single father, became an award-winning author, a renowned adventure athlete and a motivational speaker. He holds first blind kayak descents on the Grand Canyon, Zambezi, and...
Brad Niemeier, 29, is the owner and founder of Azzip Pizza. Brad graduated in 2012 from Purdue University with a degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management. He won the $20,000 Grand Prize of the Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition with the idea for Azzip...
Garrett Mintz is the Founder and CEO of Ambition In Motion. Garrett works with university departments (e.g. athletic departments, business schools, academic departments), fraternities/sororities, and honor societies to connect college students with alumni for mentorship. Garrett helps avoid alumni losing touch and students not knowing...
Ross David is a singer-songwriter and recording artist. His music has garnered more than six million streams on Spotify, with people from all over the world recording covers and choreography to it. After touring the US and abroad, performing in venues from LA to Atlanta...
Stephanie, a native of Silicon Valley, is the SnapShyft™ Team's luminous task master in Operations, Accounting, Finance and HR. Growing up in Silicon Valley, raised by her grandparents, both of whom retired as long term IBM employees (first in New York, then relocating to San Jose), tech...
In her role as Senior Advisor in the Office of Nuclear Energy, Suzanne serves as the Political Liaison between the Office of Nuclear Energy and the Secretary of Energy, as well as the White House. She provides political and strategic leadership to the office and...