Abbe Serphos Communications Consultant, Advisor to CEOs on Reputation and Awareness Abbe Serphos is an independent communications and marketing consultant and advisor to CEOs and senior leaders on reputation and awareness. She counsels clients on public relations, publicity, internal communications, social media, issues/crises, thought leadership, writing and live event production, including program creation and curation.Previously Ms. Serphos was Global Head of PR and Communications at Reuters. In that role she was the chief Reuters spokesperson globally and oversaw all aspects of Reuters external and internal communications, marketing and related materials, Reuters comms social channels and strategy, thought leadership, the Reuters historical archive, editorial events, the Reuters Newsmakers platform and issues/crisis management.From 2006 to 2016 Ms. Serphos was a corporate spokesperson and senior communications strategist at The New York Times Company where she served as a communications counselor to senior leadership, including C-suite and other executives. There she handled media relations, strategic, corporate, financial and brand communications, global internal communications and issues/crises. Before joining the Times Company Ms. Serphos held communications roles of increasing responsibility at Barnes & Noble, Kraft Foods, The Buoniconti Fund/theUniversity of Miami School of Medicine and Vorhaus & Company. She began her career at Howard Rubenstein Associates.Ms. Serphos is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and completed extensive MBA graduate coursework at Baruch College/CUNY. She is a member of several industry organization and serves on various boards.
Damien J. AmeyPartner, Boundless 1 Ventures
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Patrick DalyChief Executive Officer of Sonas Home Health Care
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Tiffany NguyenSoftware Engineer at Google
Tiffany Nguyen Software Engineer at Google Tiffany is a Software Engineer at Google with experience across a range of technologies and industries (AI/ML, Mobile, Gaming, Ads, and Hardware) in both the US and Asia. She has worked on products reaching 1B+ users to startup-sized ones in Area 120 (Google’s startup incubator). She currently leads a team in Taiwan working on Pixel device software, with teams around the globe.A lifelong learner, she is also a mentor and a coach, and loves working with smart and passionate people not only to find their spark, but to build a better world. Favourite Quote: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Caroline von der GroebenFounder of Brandstories
Caroline von der Groeben Founder of Brandstories Caroline is a global entrepreneur, manager, tech leader, investor and advisor with experience in founding companies, running operations and doing investments as well as strategic development in the corporate environment. Caroline was looking after market leading brands of Procter & Gamble with a responsibility over 150Mio. € turnover. She co-founded and led several start-ups with up to 50 employees, was chief of staff to the board of Axel Springer SE, the leading media company in Europe, and was running their US representation in San Francisco for several years, doing investments and partnership as well as business development. On the side she founded the Young Digital Leader Association, a group of managers in leading digital roles of the big, mostly DAX noted companies in Germany. At the moment she is working on her company Brandstories in the D2C space out of Shanghai and Berlin. Favourite Quote: “Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.” – William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin’ Donuts
Henry ChenManaging Partner at ReedVista
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Jessica GleesonCEO at BrighterBeauty
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Amber UrquhartFounder at Willow
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Sabrina WeschlerProduct Designer at Dropbox
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Iñaki Pedroarena-LealHead of Partnerships at StartEngine
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