Joe Yakuel attended Tulane University, where he graduated with his BS in Finance in 2009 and earned his MBA in Digital Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and Business Analytics in 2014 from NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is the founder and CEO of WITHIN, the world’s first Performance Branding company, which he founded in 2015 with a vision of upending the traditional agency-client relationship.

WITHIN applies a business-first approach to marketing, helping brands maximize growth by removing silos between Performance & Brand. WITHIN partners with brands across verticals, including Nike, Anheuser-Busch, Facebook, and Hugo Boss.

Before WITHIN, Joe held roles at Quidsi and The Vitamin Shoppe, where he ran eCommerce and retail marketing. WITHIN has generated over $5 billion in revenue for its brand partners through media and creative services.

Emery Skolfield is an omni-channel marketing, strategy & CRM executive. Passionate about content and storytelling. Privileged to lead people and cultivate talent. Driver of profitable growth and brand value. Curious. Creative. Pragmatic. Focused. Hungry.

Emery specializes in brand strategy, digital strategy, omni-channel and e-commerce.

George has spent the last 14 years leading companies building “social” technologies, from B2B team collaboration to marketplace negotiation systems to face-to-face technologies for conferences. As the founder and CEO of TurnTo, George has been at the leading edge of social commerce innovation since before Facebook’s first offerings in the field.

TurnTo’s “Ask Owners” product is now the gold standard in social Q&A for e-commerce. Before George was obsessed with social technology, he was a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and a technology policy analyst for the US Congress. George holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and an AB from Harvard.

Kevin Chou is a successful entrepreneur and investor with a focus on the gaming and crypto industries, including three startups that reached valuations estimated at over $1 billion (Rally, Forte and Kabam). He is the founder of SuperLayer, a venture studio aimed at creating user-friendly crypto products to bring in the next 100 million people into crypto. Prior to SuperLayer, Kevin founded Rally, a blockchain project for creators and their fan communities, which reached a fully-diluted market cap of over $3 billion in 2021. He was also the founding CEO of Forte, a blockchain game developer platform, and currently serves as Chairman of Gen.G, an esports enterprise bridging Asia and North America.

Before his ventures in gaming and crypto, Kevin was a venture capitalist at Canaan Partners, investing in consumer internet and digital media. He has been recognized by Fortune, CNN, and Business Insider for his achievements, and in 2019, he was honored as UC Berkeley's Alumnus of the Year. Kevin holds a magna cum laude degree from the UC Berkeley undergraduate Haas School of Business program and serves on the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley.

George Ruan is the CEO and co-founder of Honey, a coupon-clipping browser extension. He co-created the company in October 2012.

Before Honey, Ruan founded and co-founded several companies during and after his education at UC Irvine, including Animebooks, ABDOTCH Publishing, Karmarama, and Medical Science International. He functioned as CEO of Open Presence from January 2008 to September 2012.

Ray Cao is the Cofounder and CEO of Exact Media. He is disrupting the traditional direct mail industry by enabling brands to target their inserts through ecommerce packages. In the past, Ray was a board member for the Impact Entrepreneurship Group. Prior to Exact Media, he founded Loose Button which was one of North America’s largest beauty subscription companies. Ray was a founding employee at Polar, a native advertising platform for some of the largest media companies in the world. He graduated from the University of Waterloo for Systems Design Engineering.

Ray is a past recipient of AdAge’s Top 40 Under 40, Waterloo’s Top 40 Under 40, and Profit Magazine’s Future Entrepreneurial Leaders Top 20 Under 30 award. When he is not trying to reinvent the world of direct mail, you can find him hosting dinners with interesting people and using ClassPass with his wife to explore new workouts.