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Andrew Kalleen

Andrew Kalleen has been a musician all his life, his father starting him on piano as a child. He began playing guitar, singing, and writing songs in high school, then went on to a bachelor’s of music in composition at SFSU. After College, he moved to New York with the goal of creating art that was valued highly enough by his community that it would support him to continue making it. He found that goal realized, singing songs in the quieter late night hours of the subway. A fascination with the American popular song’s evolution over the last 100+ years has led to an eclectic assortment of compositions. He wrote and released his first album with his band Lawrence & Leigh, and has recently embarked on a solo project entitled simply Andrew.

Angela Ceberano

Angela has worked in public relations for over a decade, gaining invaluable experience and contacts throughout the industry. In the last ten years, Angela has represented some of the biggest international celebrities and brands. At 28 she saw an opportunity to create a new-school PR agency that was obsessed and addicted to results. Angela began Australian based Flourish PR in February 2010 and the business has grown from a home office into a busy dynamic agency. Angela runs a dedicated team of publicists and creatives who are new school thinkers in the world of PR.

Craig Lipset

Craig Lipset lives at the convergence of patient advocacy, drug development, and digital health. He is Head of Clinical Innovation at Pfizer, drawing on novel partnerships and digital tools to reinvent clinical research. Craig also serves on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research and for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and is a Mentor at health tech accelerator Blueprint Health. Craig has been recognized on the AlleyWatch “Guide to Who’s Who in eHealth”, Pharmaceutical Executive’s “Emerging Leaders”, and the PharmaVOICE “Most Inspiring People in Life Sciences”. In 2014 his work was covered from Nature Medicine to the Wall Street Journal.

Dr Alieta Eck

Alieta Eck, MD is a physician innovator– she and her husband have a third-party free medical practice in Piscataway, NJ and have operated the Zarephath Health Center, a non-government free clinic for the past 11 years. She has been involved in health care reform since her Internal Medicine residency, and served as the President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons in 2012. She views the Medicaid system as an ineffective, bloated, bureaucratic nightmare that does not increase access to care and fleeces the taxpayers. She would like to present an alternative to the Affordable Care Act once it is ruled unConsitutional, or simply does not work.

Dr. Janice Presser

Dr. Janice Presser, CEO of The Gabriel Institute, is a behavioral scientist and the architect of Teamability® – a completely new technology that measures how people will perform in teams. Dr. Presser has been engaged in the research and development of talent science and team analytics for over 25 years, and is a teamwork expert. A recognized thought leader in qualitative assessment and human infrastructure management methods, she is the author of six books, including the new @DrJanice: Thoughts & Tweets on Leadership, Teamwork & Teamability®. Her forthcoming book will explore the theoretical and physical foundations of teaming, and the profound impact the analytics of team chemistry have on the structure, development, and leadership of teams. Specialties: team analytics; talent science; executive, management, and staff assessment and development; metrics; workforce management solutions; organizational development; leadership, teambuilding, innovation

Glenn Zimmerman

He got into extreme skiing and extreme sports before they were a thing because every superhero should try flying at least once. While at Boston University, it was his desire to save the day that brought him to Post- Soviet Russia where he explored the emerging homeless population. His Syndrome brought him to journalism school at Syracuse University to get his MS in Mass Communications. He later became an award winning reporter with the number one station in Detroit (WXYZ-TV) and with NBC’s flagship station in New York (WNBC- TV). Glenn is a sought after speaker on video engagement and mass media. It is all part of his quest to help save the day, one story at a time.

Janet Carlson

Janet Carlson was raised in an Air Force family with five siblings and after ten years in corporate America, she purposefully took the path of entrepreneur, since it was the only way she could be guaranteed never to be told what to do by anyone ever again. As leaders in the e-Sampling world, the One Eleven team was very familIar with the exorbitant amount of waste in pharma sampling and were at the same time were becoming very aware how many Americans needed help affording their medicines. In 2013, the One Eleven Group launched PharmaCares, a 501(c)3 non-profit to help U.S. Veterans and Americans in need gain access to affordable health insurance and medicines. By taking excess and short-dated product and delivering to people in need - two problems have been solved and the planet is a much healthier place to live for us all.

Rawn Shah

Rawn Shah has been an active explorer and advisor of collaboration and culture in online communities globally with experience as a journalist, a product developer, a gamer, a content marketer, and a business strategist. In prior roles, he has led collaboration strategy and transformation projects across IBM worldwide in employee engagement, marketing & sales business processes, technology, policy, and ethics. He is a prolific writer with over 500 articles published in print or online in Forbes, CNN, JavaWorld, LinuxWorld, Advanced Systems, among dozens of others technical and business publications. He has written 7 books, including “Social Networking for Business” (Wharton School Publishing/Pearson, 2010), and edited a number more. He currently writes business-technical blogs on Forbes, LinkedIn, and rawnshah.com.

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