Sairee Chahal

Sairee Chahal is Founder and CEO of SHEROES – the world’s largest online ecosystem for women. She is on the Board of Directors of Paytm Payments Bank and Milaan Foundation, and an ambassador for Girls x Tech Foundation.

The SHEROES Network is home to the SHEROES app; Babygogo, a platform to support young mothers’; Maya, a global reproductive health platform; remote work product MARS, and women-focused publication Naaree.com. The network has a national and global footprint of 20 million women.

Sairee has an M. Phil from JNU and a PGDBM from IMT Ghaziabad. She is a Fellow of the Ananta Aspen’s Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship and a member of Aspen Global Leadership Network.

She is a recipient of the Devi Award, Femina Achievers Award, Editor’s choice for L’Oreal, Femina Women’s Award and Business Today, Most Powerful Women in Indian Business, and a Cartier Award Alumni. In 2018, SHEROES was awarded in the “Social & Economic Empowerment” category at the IAMAI Digital Awards.

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Brea Starmer

What if the working world enabled us all to have a great impact, doing especially the work we love, in the space we (truly) have available? It’s possible – when we embrace the talent market shift underway. Brea founded Lions+Tigers, an agency building a bridge to the future of work, to empower professionals and enable clients through hybrid consulting engagements to harness this movement and achieve more, more flexibly. Lions+Tigers specializes in organizational effectiveness, business and marketing consulting, and coaching practices with a lighter lift.

As a mom to three young kids, Brea champions inclusive hiring practices and fearless conversations about workplace fit, especially for her working parent peers. Prior to founding Lions+Tigers, Brea worked for Fortune-50 companies, and for firms with less than 50 employees. The commonality: the intersection of business needs and human needs, driving for impact and growth.

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Frank Valdivieso

Gryphon Consulting is a managed service provider of computer networks, data backup and recovery solutions, applications, personal computers, laptops, and smart phones with expertise in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, and Microsoft Office. We also assess, design, build, deploy, and manage networks. Our network support capabilities range from simple IT moves to remote network performance management.

Prior to starting Gryphon Consulting, Mr. Valdivieso started his career with Electronic Data Systems successfully completing the Systems Engineer Development Program and moving into a Project Management position where he led several full life-cycle development projects. After leaving EDS, Mr. Valdivieso joined Applied Digital Solutions and as the Director of Information Technology was responsible for the all of the information technology projects. Mr. Valdivieso joined Maricom Systems, Inc. as the Vice President of Business Development where he helped grow the company and successfully win several Federal Government contracts. Mr. Valdivieso was also the Vice President for the Federal Divison for TreCom System, Inc.

Mr. Valdivieso holds an MBA from George Washington University and a BS degree from the University of Florida.

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Nick Hughes

As the creator of Founders Live, Nick is a successful entrepreneur with business achievements in social media, digital payments, and e-commerce. He excels at interpersonal leadership, communication, business and product development. In addition to creating the global entrepreneur network Founders Live, Nick stays busy as an advisor to numerous startups and occasionally takes positions in sales or biz dev roles if needed. Previously he founded the mobile payment startup Seconds as well as helping start Coinme, a company built around expanding bitcoin and digital transactions into the physical realm via Bitcoin ATM’s. As a sought-after adviser, entrepreneurial speaker and writer with guest appearances on popular technology and media outlets, Nick enjoys helping others discover their unique entrepreneurial path.

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Michael Kenney

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