John is a seasoned marketer focused in brand strategy, integrated programs, and B2B/B2C marketing and media investment. Previously CMO eCommerce grocery retailer FreshDirect.com and VP Marketing Hyperion Solutions. He has advised Big Data companies like eXelate (a division of Nielsen) and Big People organizations like WPP.

Raised a Kansas Jayhawk, lived in Chicago, Shanghai, San Francisco, John now calls New York City home.

• Expert in brand positioning strategy, awareness program design, aquisition, CRM, ecommerce, insights and analytics, social media, partnerships
• Developed media components supporting launch of American Express “Small Business Saturday” social marketing platform
• Achieved over $2 Billion or 26% in incremental sales to Amex’s Open small businesses division.
• Led work for P&G, Microsoft, eXelate, J&J, Verizon Wireless
• John has a B.S. in Journalism and Advertising from the University of Kansas

For over 25 years, Bill has been a leader designing data-driven business solutions in retailing, digital, healthcare and financial services. His current focus is on the convergence of traditional retail with online marketing.

Bill calls NY home, but is proud to ply his Ohio-bred skiing skills on the slopes of Vermont with his daughter.

• Led business analysis teams at CitiGroup leveraging aggregated credit card data to optimize retail marketing decisions for Home Depot, Sears and Macy’s. Defined the realtime rules insuring anonymization of credit card data streams
• Led cutting-edge predictive modeling programs for American Express, Sears, GE and JPMC
• Led business analysis and data modeling efforts across several global projects for Amex, JPMC and CIBC
• Bill graduated from Duke (Engineering) and the MIT Sloan School

Dave’s hands-on finance management helps business through early stages and rapid growth to become national market leaders. He has direct experience managing all aspects of finance, experience in delivering on projected results and special expertise in working with institutional investors and banks. His focus is in taking advantage of strategic opportunities, including acquisitions, business turnarounds, joint ventures, managed care and start-ups.

An amateur musician, Dave has owned over 100 guitars.

• An investment banker at Lehman, then SVP at Interpublic Group of Companies’ (NYSE IPG) largest subsidiary, McCann – Erikson, focused on digital acquisitions and restructuring for the technology practice groups, reporting to the CFO of the holding company
• Led roll-up and LBO of healthcare retail chain (for Madison Dearborn Partners) as CFO of Dialysis Centers of America, and also served as CFO of Radiology Corporation of America, a startup in diagnostic imaging. Both grew to become leaders in their respective markets.
• Dave graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara and the Wharton School of Business

Andy is a Mobile Product Development and Marketing Strategy expert focused on startups, launches and revitalizing midsized businesses. He is also an avid wordsmith whose proprietary game – CrosswordsCubed – is a Top 75 game on Shockwave.

On Monday nights Andy plays basketball in Mount Vernon in a pick-up game continuing now for over 19 years.

• Andy’s core experience in B2B and B2C includes digital games, apps, education, fashion, real estate and financial services.
• He has developed multiple business and product plans for mobile gaming and mobile apps.
• He also has extensive work in sourcing deals for M&A and Bus Dev transactions in Marketing Services, Agency, Retail and related platforms.
• Andy led product launches for Harte-Hanks, Sallie Mae, SRDS and American National Bank (now part of JPM Chase)
• Andy has a BA in European History from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard Business School

Dan has over 20 years of general management, product management, and evangelical sales and marketing in FinTech and SaaS-based business services. He is a product / marketing strategist and a hands-on problem solver, able to address competitive positioning, new business forecasting, organizational and sales / channel structures, selecting and managing strategic vendors, and regulation / compliance.

Dan prefers to travel with a backpack (and his three daughters), but occasionally consents to staying in a 5-star hotel.

• Sold a company to Intuit; turned around a division at a mid-market public company; led startups in high growth FinTech markets.
• Executive and non-executive board member
• Experience in payments, online investing, big data, CPG and retail financial services
• Dan’s large company experience include E*Trade Financial (president of Corporate Services), Fidelity Investments (online retail), AT&T (information systems sales and product management). His smaller company experience includes several prepaid program managers and Tienda Pago, an online lending and business services company.
• Dan graduated from Cornell University (electrical engineering) and the MIT Sloan School

Jon is a senior executive with over 25 years experience working across multiple industries including media, technology, marketing services, healthcare, travel, education and consumer products. He plays a wide range of roles in both start-ups and large corporations, to identify and build businesses around new business opportunities.

Jon travels the world – with his wife and two daughters -seeking new tech toys to buy.

• Strong strategic and operational consulting for growth and turn-around business units. Leads strategic planning, business development, fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, product development/strategy, as well as in operational efficiency.
• Held both strategic and operating roles in digital and publishing: Bigfoot Interactive/Epsilon, Viacom, Bertelsmann, Columbia Pictures, GORP.com, and LocalAlert.
• Advised companies on over 40 financial transactions (buy-side/sell-side M&A and fundraising). Jon is also an active angel investor.
• Jon holds a B.A. in Communications from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania

Bill is a Funnel-Conversion expert, focused on helping organizations get more revenue out of the sales and marketing funnel. A 20+ year veteran, Bill helps businesses widen sales funnels and grow pipelines, as well as close gaps and eliminate bottlenecks in their current process and engagement strategies.

An avid and accomplished sailor, Bill will take any role – as Captain, navigator, 1st mate, or delivery crew – if it means getting on the seas.

• Bill has worked with hundreds of early stage and Fortune 500 businesses across a diverse set of industries e.g. IBM, CSC, EMC, Moody’s, Forrester. Skilsoft, Iron Mountain, Progress Software, FuseSource, Liberty Medical, Genworth, Ipswitch, Acronis, Limelight Networks, Constant Contact, Dragon, MarketSoft, and many more.
• To scale today’s customer acquisition & retention engines,  Bill’s unique breadth of experience across multiple disciplines includes: demand generation, messaging, branding, database, big/medium data analytics, sales, and 1 to 1 marketing; along with proprietary and proven algorithms. frameworks, programmatic tools, processes and analytics to unlock latent potential.