Jade Dai, a co-founder of GL Capital. As the controller of the company, Jade manages investor relations, secures investments, and works with CPA teams for tax strategy on all existing properties. GL Capital has more than 100 investors, including individuals, family offices and private equity institutions.
Prior, Jade was the co-founder of Zoom Venture Partners, investing in early- to mid-stage companies with high potential for exponential growth. Jade’s team provides financial and intellectual support to boost their value.
Jade is also founder of Elite Education, an education company, supporting high school and college students through homestay support, internship opportunities, mentoring, consulting, personal growth programs, leadership coaching and summer programs. Jade is also president of World Youth Value Society, where Jade’s team runs various youth charity and educational programs in China, Kenya and the United States.
Judith is passionate about influencing capital flow to Small & Growing Businesses in East Africa. She is an Investment Advisor at SHONA, a consultancy organisation working with early stage entrepreneurs in East Africa. She is the co-founder of The Signal Ug, a resource to discover and support Small Businesses in Uganda. Her expertise is in Business Analysis, Financial Analysis, Financial Modelling, Community Building & Relationship Management.
Recently awarded Michiana’s Forty Under 40, Macy Troyer works closely with business owners and investors as a commercial real estate broker in Indiana. Macy is also the founder of Blossm, a social media marketing and consulting agency pioneering the way to elevate businesses on social media and strengthen the way organizations are seen and communicate on social media.
Erna Šošević is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of provider of a digital B2B market overview
Pooja is a computer science engineer with an MBA. She has experience with both Product & Project management and is a creative problem solver.
She is also a digital solutions consultant for tech applications, products & services.
Jessy Santana is a mother, wife and creative. A previous learning and development professional she’s balancing career transition and consulting with her newfound venture, The Way We Work, an online platform that seeks to help companies in transition create the #futureofwork through an inclusive lens.
Sruti in one sentence – “A polymath – live passionately curious”. Inspired by Albert Einstein’s quote.
Her career has spanned various industries: automotive technology, biofuels and recently S.T.E.M. education. She has spearheaded new product and program launches with her innate program management and system integration skills while thinking “outside the box” with lots of moving parts. Sruti’s natural strength lies in problem solving and bringing unconventional strategies to a launch. As a people’s person, building lasting relationships is key to getting things done.
Today, she is active in the Houston startup community, consults with various startups. She also has her own business, provides S.T.E.M. based leadership program for kids
Shannon is the Founder & CEO of the Voice + Visibility Women’s Summit (VVWS) in Sarasota, FL. The VVWS convenes diverse, cross-sector female leaders with a mission to empower women, expand networks & opportunities, and elevate the voices of diverse women.
She is a social entrepreneur with three decades of experience in public and private sector collaboration, fundraising and diversity and inclusion work. Shannon is the Co-Founder of Visible Men Academy, (VMA) a public charter school for low-income boys in Bradenton, FL. At VMA, Shannon created the Whole Child and Family Program, Women SHINE Gender Equity Curriculum and lead organizational advancement. Shannon is a Board Member of the Women’s Resource Center.
Shannon’s early career was in social work in academic medicine. Shannon received her BA from Colgate University, and earned a Master’s in Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work.
She lives with her husband Neil, two teenage sons and a growing tribe of pets in sunny Sarasota. Shannon’s TEDx Talk is Failure & Forgiveness in the New South.
Carla Luna is a first-generation Dominican-American and a student at Harvard Law School. Now in her second year at Harvard, Carla participates in various student organizations, including the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project and the Harvard Business Law Review. Her interests include emerging technologies and community development. Carla was also selected for the Honors Program at the Securities and Exchange Commission and currently interns at the Boston Regional Office during the school year.
Prior to starting law school, Carla worked in finance and professional services. During her first summer of law school, she worked as a summer associate at DLA Piper in Chicago. This summer she will be working as a summer associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York.
Carla is a New York City native. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, visiting museums and trying new restaurants. She is an alum of the Posse Foundation and a graduate of Babson College, where she studied Business and graduated summa laude.
Caren has an MBA from USC’s Marshall School of Business and a BA in Journalism from USC’s Annenberg School for Communication. Post-MBA, Caren was recruited into a highly selective Commercial Leadership rotation program at GSK, bringing her to brand management, supply chain, and Chief of Staff positions in New Jersey, Beijing, and Taipei, respectively. Prior to business school, as employee #2, Caren helped to scale a startup in the water management industry from the ground up – VivoAquatics is currently the leading water management SaaS platform and service provider in the US. Early in her career, Caren worked in the education space, helping to fundraise and create programs to help underserved students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She brings this passion for education into every aspect of her life. Caren is now heading up the Taiwan chapter of SoGal Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to supporting diverse entrepreneurs and investors around the world.