John Mullins

John Mullins is an entrepreneur, an Associate Professor at London Business School, and author of The Customer-Funded Business: Start, Finance, or Grow Your Company with Your Customers’ Cash (Wiley, August 2014).

Anik Bose

Anik Bose is a General Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with deep Silicon Valley roots. >>>

Luis Montes

Luis is an experienced healthcare entrepreneur and business executive. >>>

Greg Brandeau

Greg Brandeau is the former President and COO of MakerMedia. Previously, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for The Walt Disney Studios. >>>

Javier Hernández

Javier Hernández has a degree in communications science, is an expert in intangible management (EOI Business School) and an alumni of ESIC Business & Marketing School with a master’s in digital business. He has experience as an IT consultant in the telecom and hospitality industries and as online marketing technician in different start-ups. He currently collaborates with 1M/1M as an ambassador in Spain. He speaks five languages, is happily married and plans to run his own business soon.

Cynthia Montgomery

Cynthia Montgomery is the author of The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs (HarperBusiness). She is also the Timken Professor of Business Administration and immediate past head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where she’s taught for 20 years. For the past six years, she has led the strategy track in the school’s Owner, President, Manager Program, attended by leaders of mid-sized companies from around the globe. You can read more here at the author’s website.

Jeff Weber

Jeffrey Weber had dreamed of owning his own business since high school.  He finally found his opportunity, just shy of his 30th birthday, when he established Technology Resource Center.  Focused on enterprise software licensing and providing what is now known as a “cloud” solution, his company grew rapidly earning a rank on INC magazine’s “Top 500 Fastest Growing Private US Companies” list in 2001 and 2002.   He successfully positioned and sold the company to a Fortune 100.

Weber went on to immerse himself in the entrepreneurial community becoming an adjunct faculty member teaching entrepreneurism, serving as a board advisor for Loyola University of Chicago’s entrepreneurism program, a mentor for Silicon Valley-based Founder Institute and launching High Growth Illinois – an SBDC grant-funded service to provide free counseling to entrepreneurs in Illinois.

Weber is currently launching two new Internet-based start ups and is the author of From Idea to Exit: The Entrepreneurial Journey, which  won the 2011 “USA Best Book Award” for Entrepreneurism & Small Business, the 2012 “Small Business Trends” Book Award for “Start Ups” and the Silver Medal 2012 Axiom Business Book of the Year (Entrepreneurship).

Greg Muender

Greg Muender is President of Ticket Kick, a California company that helps drivers get red light tickets, speeding tickets,  and other traffic tickets dismissed by helping drivers through the trial by written declaration process. The company, which formally launched in 2010 has been providing similar services since 2006 and is the leading company in this industry and growing rapidly. Greg is a car enthusiast and stays involved with local car organizations in San Diego and Southern California. When he’s not
working on the business, he enjoys go kart racing and traveling.