Tony Averbeck

Business Development, Pipeline Success, Inc.

Proven sales professional with over 24 years of competitive new business development and sales management experience.

Harlan Beverly

CEO, Karmaback

Harlan Tytus Beverly writes from Austin, Texas about sales and marketing for logical type thinkers. Discover and discuss sales and marketing tools and techniques (including Social Marketing) that make sense to logical type thinkers such as engineers, lawyers, scientists, and mathematicians… not just MBAs.

Charisse Castagnoli

Independent Security Consultant & Lecturer

Ms. Castagnoli has over 25 years experience in the information technology industry, including 18 years in security product development, marketing and business development. She is an adjunct professor of law at the John Marshall Law School where she teaches a course on Information Security and US Policy.

Damon Clickscales

Software Engineer, VitalSource Technologies

Web developer.

Kevin Dasch

VP, Finance & Business Development, IMVU

Kevin joined IMVU in April 2007. He has responsibility for IMVU’s corporate functions, including finance, human resources, legal, customer support, and corporate partnerships. He also oversees IMVU’s virtual economy. Prior to IMVU, Kevin spent seven years at Dell, where he most recently led the company’s Corporate Strategy Group, reporting to the Office of the CEO.

Andrew Donoho

President, Donoho Design Group, L.L.C.

Ben Dyer

CEO, TechDrawl LLC

Serial entrepreneur working with startups, restarts, and exits.

Bill Leasure

Director Networking Knowledge Center at Dell

Accomplished marketing leader in Fortune 500 (Intel, Motorola, Dell) and startup (early-stage, mid-stage) environments. Distinguished career and reputation for visionary strategy development and results focused execution. Over 25 years experience working with technology and business.

Miles Olson

President, Hoot Interactive

Miles Olson is the founder and president of Hoot Interactive, an online marketing agency specializing in Pay-Per-Click advertising on the Google and Bing networks. He has been responsible for the management over one hundred national and international campaigns for brands such as Time Warner Cable, St. Jude Medical, Office Max Canada, and Cavender’s Boot City.

Rick Orr

Founder, TabbedOut

Founder of TabbedOut where we are making Far-Field mobile payment possible at bars and restaurants across the US. Free download for iPhone and Android. Try it!

Mark Phillip

CEO/Founder, Are You Watching This?!

Mark is a Brooklyn-born MIT dropout using technology to build brands. He is the Founder of RUWT? Sports, a technology company based in Austin, Texas.

Carol Thompson

Founder, The Thompson Group

Nationally recognized as a speaker on leadership and Austin early ‘economic boom,’ Carol Thompson has been recognized by the Austin Business Journal as “one of Austin’s 5 most powerful women” and named by the Austin American-Statesman as one of Austin’s “top 25 tech players to know.” Carol founded The Thompson Group in 1993 to work with companies and organizations as a high-level, strategic marketing partner. Her expertise lies in strategy, business development, evaluation of initiatives, and positioning companies in the marketplace.

Larry Walker

Director, Various companies

Marc Yagjian

Managing Director, Origin Partners

Marc Yagjian is an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to early stage technology companies. He is currently a managing director of Origin Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund which he co-founded in 1999. As an entrepreneur, Marc was a co-founder and senior executive of Tivoli Systems, a pioneer in systems management and enterprise software.