Brooke Waupsh

Brooke is an award-winning marketer and brand strategist. She has experience breathing life into established brands such as Coors, Clorox, and Charles Schwab, as well as successfully introducing a new financial technology consumer brand, Kasasa, to the market that is now nationwide and supported by the 4th largest network of financial institutions behind Bank of

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Nathan Ryan

A serial entrepreneur, business and community leader, Nathan Ryan is the co-founder and CEO of Blue Sky Partners, which helps companies put healthy, sustainable systems in place so they can scale. His key passion is making sure organizations are responsible to people’s needs, removing the gaps that keep people from reaching their full potential. That

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Ben Rubenstein

Ben Rubenstein is Chief Revenue Officer, realtor.com®, in this role, Ben is responsible for overseeing the combined sales organization. He founded Opcity in 2015 to match qualified home buyers and sellers with real estate professionals. Ben and his team built the company’s client base to more than 11,000 brokers and more than 100,000 agents, and

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Janice Omadeke

Janice Omadeke is the CEO and Founder of The Mentor Method, an enterprise platform helping companies keep and develop their diverse talent using the proven power of mentorship. Using a double-blind algorithm, The Mentor Method is closing the opportunity equity gap in the workplace. Her company won Capital Factory’s Women in Tech Challenge, is a

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TiWanna Kenney

TiWanna A. Kenney (TK) was the first African American woman to earn the Benefit Auctioneer Specialist Designation through the National Auctioneer Association (2016). She is the Founder and Principal Auctioneer of Astounding Auctions and puts a focus on creating equity and support for women and people of color in the auction industry. After just 3

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Chris Palmisano

Chris Palmisano is Founding Chief Operating Officer and Chief Revenue Officer at Rocket Dollar, a fintech startup helping Americans with their retirement. Prior, he held leadership roles in sales, marketing, business development, and operations at several companies in Austin including SolarWinds and Google. Along the way, he has founded or co-founded several small and family

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Chris Ragland

Chris Ragland is a partner and investor of several firms. Having most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer for Noble Capital for nearly a decade, he is now the Chief Financial Officer for YGC, a corporate start-up studio. He has spent twenty years building firms that specialize in all aspects of finance, real estate,

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Rina VonFrisch

At an early age, Rina had a passion for finance and fashion. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. for a semester while interning at Gucci. She returned back home to attend Arizona State University where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in Business and Communication. While

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Vanessa McElwrath

As a Wealth Management Partner, Vanessa assists clients in developing long-term investment plans and portfolios to achieve their financial goals and objectives. Vanessa sees her role as her clients’ chief financial officer – someone who can view their financial situation with the perspective needed to help them make smart decisions about the management of their

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Malini Rajput

Malini Rajput is Central Texas Market President of Capital One Bank. With more than 19 years’ experience in the financial services industry, Rajput leads the bank’s overall commercial banking strategy and community engagement in the Central Texas market. Rajput, a native Australian, is passionate about giving back to the Austin community she, her husband and

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