Soltan Bryce is the Harvard Business School Leadership Fellow and Special Assistant to the COO & EVP of Strategy at Boston Medical Center Health System. During his time at HBS, he helped launch Plume, a venture-backed digital health company focused on the trans community, as Head of Growth. In his spare time, he advises venture-backed digital health companies focused on population-specific virtual care models and scouts for Gaingels, an angel investor network.
Eric Campbell is the Managing Partner at Value Investment Group, a private family office focused on influencer-backed private equity and value investing. Eric has deployed over $50 million in capital and invested in over 30 companies with 7 exits to date including Draftkings, Coinbase, Airbnb and others. Eric was recognized by Forbes as a 2020 30 Under 30 recipient in Venture Capital. Prior to VC, Eric worked at Google and then Uber for almost 4 years. At Uber, Eric was responsible for Regional Operations and Strategy for the Middle East and Africa.
Courtney Couch is a business woman who is focused on making meaningful connections, building better brands, and strengthening her community. After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill in 2008, Courtney founded c.luxe creative executing events, activations, and PR services for growing brands and professional athletes. Courtney has partnered with some of the best and brightest talent and some of the world’s most recognizable brands including Adidas, Disney’s Black Panther, The Bail Project, Travis Scott, Rajon Rondo, T.I, and Rodger Saffold. Currently, Courtney serves as the Director of Marketing at Atlantic Records where she manages 12 artists including multi-platinum rapper Don Toliver.
Hannah Elly is a first-generation entrepreneur whose expertise in social growth, customer communities, and product design propelled Nugget from a tiny, three-person operation into America’s fastest-growing manufacturing company(Inc. Magazine; 2020, 2021). Her work has sparked new, industry-wide trends in both children’s toys and furniture, grown Nugget’s social following to more than 500,000 people, and been covered in publications like Parents Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and BuzzFeed News. In her current role as Chief Creative Officer, Hannah supports Nugget’s product and marketing teams, creating visuals that are the perfect balance of fun for kids and beautiful for adults. Hannah is passionate about diversity, inclusion and using social platforms for good.
Dezbee McDaniel is a career entrepreneur. He is an alum of Venture for America, a prestigious entrepreneurial fellowship, where he worked with technology startups across sales, marketing, and operations. Dezbee has since founded and accelerated startups from inception, currently building CliniSpan Health- a software platform that diversifies clinical trial recruitment. Dezbee was a 2018 Forbes Fellow and was also recognized by Charlotte’s Inno 25 under 25 in 2020 as one of the best and brightest entrepreneurs contributing to the Charlotte region.
Shruti Shah is an advisor, investor, and coach to a handful of growing companies. She was previously the co-founder and COO of Y Combinator backed Move Loot, an online full-service marketplace for buying and selling used furniture, where she led national expansion and general business operations. Over the course of three years, she and her co-founding team raised $22 million dollars. Shruti was honored by Forbes as a 2016 30 Under 30 recipient in Retail and E-Commerce and the Aspen Institute as an Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar in reimagining capitalism. Prior to co-founding Move Loot, Shruti worked for the New Schools Venture Seed Fund, a seed fund that invests in early-stage education technology companies, and she was also a public school teacher in Baltimore.
Dedren Snead is an emerging technologist, creative consultant, and social futurist from Snow Hill, North Carolina, currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. Dedren’s creative studio work utilizes graphic novels, video games and animation along with mobile applications and augmented reality to build inclusive storytelling and cultural equity in Popular Media. A serial entrepreneur, Dedren’s startup SUBSUME, a gamified learning platform connects K-20 students to Creative and Technical training for future-ready workforce development.
