Chris Tran is a business leader in the gaming industry, consultant,
advertising expert and career coach. He joined Riot Games after surviving
the 2015 Nepal earthquake. He has launched some of the biggest video
games in the world and hosted some of the biggest esports events in the
world. With over 20 years of experience in business, consulting, and digital
marketing, he has worked in the UK, USA, Switzerland, Canada, and
Southeast Asia. Known for pioneering advertising networks and DSPs in
Vietnam, Chris is a visionary in digital advertising and passionate about
helping others unlock their potential.

In 2017, Eric Cogorno took to YouTube the experience he gleaned from giving more than 20,000 in-person golf lessons.  His distinct style of clear language and simplified concepts have attracted close to 400,000 followers across his channels and many millions of views from all across the globe.  He’s on a mission to make world-class golf instruction available to everyone and create the biggest and best online golf school in the world.  

Eric has been featured on Forbes.com and was voted as a Golf Digest Best in State Teacher.  

He took his business from $80K/year to a multi million dollar golf instruction brand. In the process, he was able to also transform his entire lifestyle.

Jack founded Darkknight Ventures, LLC to lend guidance to C-suite leadership, entrepreneurs, and young professionals seeking to develop superior skills, advance careers, create and manage high-performance teams, grow revenue, arrange capital formation, and facilitate corporate recapitalization, scaling, and organization strategy.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Claremont Men’s College and a bachelor of science in civil engineering and a master’s degree in construction management from Stanford University.

Personally, Jack maintains an Airline Transport Pilot license and two Single Pilot type ratings for flying light jets. A fan of the iconoclast Batman and James Bond characters, Jack is also a second-degree black belt in Tomiki-style Aikido, a NAUI-certified scuba diver, an active CrossFitter, and loves rock climbing. 

The adopted daughter of Caribbean immigrants,
Lynne Thompson was Los Angeles’ 2021-22 Poet
Laureate and received a Poet Laureate Fellowship
from the Academy of American Poets. She is the
author of three previous collections: Beg No
Pardon, Start With A Small Guitar, and Fretwork, winner
of the 2019 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. Thompson is the
recipient of multiple awards including an Individual
Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles, the
Tucson Literary Festival Poetry Prize, the Steven Dunn
Poetry Prize, the George Drury Prize.
An attorney by training with a J.D. from Southwestern Law School,
Thompson sits on the Boards of Cave Canem, The
Poetry Foundation, and the Los Angeles Review of
Books. 
Thompson’s recent work can be found or is forthcoming in the literary journals Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, The Common,
Pleiades, The Massachusetts Review, and Copper
Nickel, among others.

Michelle Jensen, is the founder of Travel HerStory! Travel blog.

In 2013, she started blogging out of boredom while working a desk job at a film and TV studio.

Richard Cogswell is a people-first sales leader. He is an organizational team builder who believes that people, vision, values, and behaviors build winning sales cultures. Richard has held multiple senior sales leadership positions within a number of industries, working across EMEA, the United States, and APAC, within startups and listed multinational companies. Living and working in Singapore, Richard is currently working in Fintech and card issuance across the APAC region. 

Sarah Dale is the Founder of Project 1490.

After a 30-year career in advertising, Sarah created Project 1490 by combining her years in leadership with her experiences living in Montana. She's been fortunate to work at great brands like The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Nativo where she led big teams and drove hundreds of millions in revenue. 

While she's had an impressive career, Sarah's love of nature and experiences in the wilds of Montana started her wish to get other corporate women to build their confidence by learning outdoor skills.