Abby Taylor is Co-Founder and CBO of Playa Bowls, New Jersey’s original superfruit bowl franchise. Abby and her co-founder began their company as a single umbrella stand on the boardwalk, and since then, it has grown into a national brand with over 200+ franchises, which Abby oversees. In 2019, Abby was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and received the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Regional Award for Innovation.

Bob Cecere was the Chief Operation Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Baring Asset Management North America, a now $347 billion global investment firm with over 1,800 professionals and offices in 16 countries. Most recently, he founded the Cecere Group, which is a financial services consultancy firm. Before Barings, Bob worked at PWC, John Hancock, and Putnam Investments. 

Chris Barton is the co-founder and former CEO of Shazam, an application that can identify music based on a short sample played using the microphone on the device, which was later acquired by Apple for $400 million. Today Shazam has been downloaded over 2 billion times and is considered one of the world's most popular apps. 

Chris has also played a key role in tech history as a founding member of Google’s Android Partnerships team where he created Android's mobile operator partnership framework. He also spent four years at Dropbox where he led carrier partnerships and was one of the first 100 people at the company.

Now, Chris is the Founder and CEO of Guard, a system that detects drowning in swimming pools using artificial intelligence. He is also a motivational speaker.

Deval Patrick is an American politician, businessman, and former civil rights lawyer who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. He was the first African-American Governor of Massachusetts. He served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton. Deval previously served as the General Counsel for both The Coca-Cola Companies and Texaco and is a Founding Partner of Bain Capital Double Impact Fund, and chairman of the board for Our Generation Speaks.  He is currently the Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership and a Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Kevin Hartz is the co-founder and former CEO of Xoom, an electronic funds transfer and remittance provider, which went public at a $500 million valuation in 2013 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015 for $1 billion. He then co-founded and served as CEO of Eventbrite, an event management and ticketing website, which went public at a $200 million valuation and now has a market cap close to $1 billion. Now, Kevin is the cofounder and General Partner in A*, a venture capital firm that has invested in companies like Airbnb, Doordash, Dropbox, Getir, Opendoor, Reddit, PayPal, SpaceX, Uber, and Pinterest. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Eventbrite.

Mike Cassidy is the Co-Founder and CEO of five start-ups which were all successfully acquired. Apollo Fusion designs and builds ion thrusters for satellites and was acquired by Astra for $145 million.  Ruba helped travelers share their favorite places and was acquired by Google. Xfire helps gamers play online with their friends and was acquired by MTV for $110 million. Direct Hit was a revolutionary search engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, etc. and was acquired by IAC’s Ask.com for $500 million. Stylus Innovation was acquired by Stylus for $13M.  

Mike has a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT.  He graduated from Harvard Business School.  He studied jazz piano at Berklee College of Music.

Paul English is the cofounder of the travel metasearch engine KAYAK, which sold for $1.8 billion to Priceline, and which was later acquired by Booking Holdings for $2.1 billion. He also cofounded Lola.com, Moonbeam, GetHuman, Intermute and Boston Light. He is the Founder of Boston Venture Studio, a startup to create consumer technology companies. Paul's nonprofit work includes the Bipolar Social Club, Summits Education in Haiti, Embrace Boston, and the Winter Walk for Homelessness.

Philip Ingelbrecht is the cofounder of Shazam, an application that can identify music based on a short sample played using the microphone on the device, which was later acquired by Apple for $400 million. After his time at Shazam, Philip was on the founding team and became the President of TrueCar, a pricing and digital retailing website for new and used car buyers, which later went public. Now, Philip is the CEO of Tatari, a TV advertising company, and the Executive Chairman of Boomerang, a technology company that reconnects people with their lost items.

Richard Coraine is a Senior Advisor for the Union Square Hospitality Group, the premier hospitality company that houses a collective of New York’s most beloved restaurants and bars, event services. Richard has co-founded and directed the conceptualization, incubation, and launch of numerous successful businesses, including Shake Shack, Eleven Madison Park, Blue Smoke, Maialino, North End Grill and Untitled at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most recently, he oversaw the relocation, design and development of the company’s flagship brand, Union Square Cafe, in its new space. Richard joined USHG as a partner in 1996, following a decade of leadership with Wolfgang Puck Group and the launch of his own restaurant, Hawthorne Lane.

Robert Langer is the cofounder of Moderna, the now-30 billion-dollar pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that, among other feats, developed one of the primary coronavirus vaccines. He has co-founded over 40 companies, his patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 400 companies, and he is worth over $1.2 billion. He is one of 8 Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member. He has written over 1,500 articles, which have been cited over 413,000 times; his h-index of 319 is the highest of any engineer in history and the 3 rd highest of any individual in any field. Dr Langer served as Chairman of the FDA’s Science Board, its highest advisory board from 1999-2002. He has over 220 awards, 41 honorary doctorates, and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors.

Sam Yagan is a serial entrepreneur who is the founder of SparkNotes, an online study guide service, and OkCupid, the internationally renowned data site. He most recently served as the CEO of ShopRunner, leading its $230 million 2020 sale to FedEx. Prior to ShopRunner, Sam served as CEO of Match Group, a $10 billion holding company that owns Tinder, Match.com, OkCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish, and OurTime. There, he led the company through Tinder’s launch in 2012 and through Match Group’s IPO in 2015. Now, Sam serves as Co-Founder and Managing Director of Corazon Capital. 

Outside of work, Sam devotes himself to mentoring technology entrepreneurs and civic leadership. Professional accolades include TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People”, Fortune Magazine‘ s “40 Under 40,” and Crain’s Chicago "Tech 50". Sam has a BA with honors in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Sarah Leary is the cofounder of Nextdoor, the free and private social network for neighborhoods. Nextdoor went public in 2021 at a $4.3 billion valuation. She is also a Venture Partner at Unusual Ventures, with a focus on Unusual’s consumer practice. Before then, she served as the Vice President of Product and Marketing at Epinions and Shopping.com before the company was sold to eBay. Sarah is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Spencer Rascoff is an entrepreneur and company leader who co-founded and served as CEO of Zillow, a now-public real estate marketplace company with a market cap of around $15 billion. He also co-founded Hotwire, a travel company which sold to Expedia for $685 million; and dot.LA, a successful tech newsletter; as well as Pacaso, Recon Food, Queue, Path, and the successful venture capital firm 75 & Sunny. 

Spencer is on the Board of Directors of Palantir, and is a former Board member of Zillow Group, TripAdvisor, Zulily, and several other tech companies. He is a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and he is the host of "Office Hours,” a podcast featuring candid conversations between prominent executives on leadership, diversity and inclusion, and startups.

Stephen Goldsmith is an American politician who was the 46th mayor of Indianapolis and was the deputy mayor of New York City for operations from 2010 to 2011. He is also the Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy and the Director of the Innovations in American Government Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He currently directs Data-Smart City Solutions, a project to highlight local government efforts to use new technologies that connect breakthroughs in the use of big data analytics with community input to reshape the relationship between government and citizens.

Stephen Kaufer is the co-founder of TripAdvisor, the travel research platform that aggregates reviews and opinions of members about destinations, accommodations, hotels, restaurants, and activities throughout the world. He led the sale of the company in 2004 to IAC/Expedia, who in turn spun it off into its own public company in 2011, and remained as CEO until 2022 when he stepped down for his next adventure.  Tripadvisor is currently valued at approximately 3 billion dollars. Steve is now the co-founder and CEO of GiveFreely, a browser extension that saves users money by finding coupons when they shop, with the amazing twist that every time a user makes a purchase, the store makes a donation to the users’ favorite charity.  

Wendy Kopp is the CEO and co-founder of Teach For America and Teach for All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations working to expand educational opportunity in their own countries. Since its founding in 1990, Teach for America has generated over $300 million in annual revenue and includes over 50,000 corps members and alumni, who have collectively taught more than 5 million students across the nation.