About Marissa Levin

Marissa Levin founded Information Experts, a global strategic communications & education firm, in 1995. She launched her firm after working for a man that capped her net worth at $34,000. 17 years later, IE is forecasting $25 million for 2012.

As CEO of Information Experts, Marissa leads the effort to define, shape, and evangelize the organization’s values, mission, vision, growth strategy, brand, and corporate culture. Marissa has led the organization’s entry into the federal market to achieve a sizeable presence in 17 agencies, while maintaining a strong presence in the commercial market.

Under her leadership, Information Experts has won more than 90 awards for creativity & leadership, was named to the Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies for 2009, 2010, and 2011, and won the SmartCEO 2010 GovStar Industry Star Award.

Marissa’s passion of mentoring other business owners motivated her to launch Successful Culture in June 2011. Through Successful Culture she applies her 17 years of experience to help business owners build extraordinary cultures to attract and keep top-level talent & customers, which results in high growth.

Marissa is finalizing the title for her book where she shares her experience and achievements in Advisory Board cultivation including her patent-pending SCALE™ Model process for business owners to select, compensate, and leverage a board of advisors to grow and maintain a successful and profitable business.

About Euan Semple

Euan Semple is one of the few people in the world who can turn the complex world of social networking into something we can all understand. And, at the same time, learn how to get the most from it. Ten years ago, while working in a senior position at the BBC, Semple was one of the first to introduce what have since become known as social media tools into a large, successful organization. He has subsequently had five years of unparalleled experience working with organizations such as Nokia, The World Bank and NATO He is a one-man digital upgrade option for us all to download. This world is changing fast, but he makes sense of it because he understands that the core basics remain the same: community, learning, interaction. He is a master story-teller who offers a host of practical tales about how this new world can work for real people in the real world. Author of Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do: Manager's Guide to the Social Web.

About Halelly Azulay

Halelly brings over 19 years of professional experience in the fields of workplace learning, performance, and communication with regulatory, corporate, government, non-profit, academic, and entrepreneurial clients. She is the author of Employee Development on a Shoestring (ASTD Press, 2012).

Halelly has worked with organizations such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Booz Allen Hamilton, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FINRA (formerly NASD), American Psychological Association (APA), Management Concepts, Inc., National Minority AIDS Council, Office of Naval Research, John Hopkins University, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Ruesch International, The Performance Institute, ebb associates, and the University of Maryland.

She has researched, developed, delivered and evaluated solutions in areas such as management and leadership; teambuilding; emotional intelligence; coaching and feedback; successful interpersonal interactions; Myers-Briggs (MBTI®) personality type; strengths-based leadership and development; and workplace communication skills.

About Jon V. Ferrara

A social entrepreneur at heart, Jon founded GoldMine Software in 1989 where he served as the executive vice president of the company until he sold it in 2000. GoldMine is one of the all time best selling CRM products that helped pioneer the entire Sales Force Automation (SFA) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market. During this time Jon was awarded the Earnst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award while GoldMine was named PC Magazine's Editor's Choice in 1993 and again in 1995, 1996 and 1997.

After selling GoldMine and watching the immense rise in power social media was experiencing, Jon entered the startup world again when he noticed a distinct lack of any products that effectively combined Relationship Management, Social Listening and Engagement, and Collaboration with Sales and Marketing. In 2009 Jon founded Nimble to create an extensive Social Business platform to fill this gap.