Kelley Lee Gin
Mompreneur, Kelley Lee Gin is a long time entrepreneur and full time mom to two young girls. She founded an event planning firm, Picture Perfect Events which is now Kinada Events for Kids and Kinada Events Corporate. Her expertise is in strategic planning, customer experience, and design. Kelley’s drive and passion for events lead her to produce Tween event, "Make A Mark". Make A Mark focuses on empowering Tweens who are entering their teenage years with educating them on body image and self-esteem. Kelley believes in educating young girls at an early age so they can be strong leaders and positive role models. Kelley and her companies were featured in numerous publications such as Glamour Magazine, Huffington Post, and online outlets.
Erika Brechtel
As seen in SELF magazine, on the cover of OC Family Magazine, on Huffington Post, PopSugar, The Everygirl, HGTV.com, Today.com and Refinery29, Erika Brechtel is a branding strategist, designer and author with 16 years of experience developing unique identities for international lifestyle clients through digital, print and social media, and photography art direction and styling. Erika also contributes hosted content and interviews, leads branding workshops, and speaks at events for Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), Inc.com, LA Business Journal Women's Summit, Women Founders Network, UCLA Anderson School of Management, the LA County Women's Leadership Conference, Entrepreneurs' Organization's Global Leadership Conference, Fabletics and Bumble Bizz. In 2016, Erika joined Orange & Bergamot as Co-Founder, empowering female founders with community, educational content, and branded websites and digital marketing. In 2018, Erika released her first book with Kalika Yap, The Little Brand Book, an illustrated framework of 144 brand personality archetypes for the modern woman in business. Erika most recently served twice on the board of directors for the Junior League of Orange County, CA (JLOCC) training and developing female leaders, and on the Laguna Road Support Our School Foundation, having previously volunteered with the UCLA Watts Tutorial Program, LA Works, Lower East Side Girl's Club (NYC), and Project Soar in Marrakech, Morocco. Erika lives in Pacific Palisades with her 9-year-old daughter Leighton.
Gina Kim
Gina Kim-Park is an artist who started not with paint but with petals. Gina created The Mille Fiori Studio 16 years ago and continues to create memorable events with her fabulous team. Creating stunning design installations for social to corporate and retail. Today, her work is sought after both nationally and internationally. Design installations in Miami, Korea, and New York City have proven that the language of Gina's art is universal. In 2015, she started an international endeavor and created a pop up series called Creacion: An exclusive, interactive and immersive workshop and lifestyle experiences through technology. She launched the Creacion series in The US, Europe and Asia in 2016. Creación is now available in Los Angeles, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, London. She will also open in Vietnam and Japan 2019.
Marco Romero
PROJECT MANAGER AT [CACH] AGENCY
It’s been almost 3 years since Marco Romero and Anu Bhardwaj met for the first time in Los Angeles, CA and since then [CACH] Creative Agency Chicago has worked alongside powerful women in the nonprofit sector. [CACH] re-designed The State Of Women logo and Women Investing in Women, the agency also created QryptoQueens, SHEQ and Krypto 4 Kids, branding. Marco Romero has been the visual manager of several projects of this non profits including: The World Women Report (Digital Magazine), Electronic Press Kits, #IAMVESTED Campaign, thestateofwomen.org redesign, e-blast design and other digital campaigns for The State Of Women and Women Investing in Women, this year, [CACH] designed and developed the qryptoqueens.com website and other visuals for Blockchain On The Beach Summit.
Stephen Meade
Stephen Meade is an American entrepreneur, executive and business founder who is passionate about creating companies that make a difference in the world. He has the ability to catapult an idea from pure concept to the creation of a thriving business. In the past 20 years, he has created, incubated and architected nine (9) successful technology-based companies. He is a seasoned business leader who frequently speaks on the art of networking at executive leadership conferences and the largest communities of startup (i.e. executives, entrepreneurs, start-up founders, co-founders, students) around the world.
In 2005, he founded Big Bamboo, LLC to serve as the incubator for ideas that are worth building a team around and bringing to market. Currently, all ideas come solely from the Founder, Mr. Meade, and the company does not take on or incubate outside business or services.
He is currently the CEO of MonetaPro.IO, which is a FinTech Blockchain company for Global Companies to participate in Corporate Trade. MonetaPro.IO competed in and won the Silicon Valley d10e Global ICO contest, which to date was the largest ICO competition in the World featuring 32 companies. MonetaPro.IO also took 3rd place at d10e (Seoul, Korea), 4th place at d10e (San Juan, Puerto Rico), and 2nd place at d10e (Malta). Most recently, MonetaPro placed 3rd at CoinAgenda Europe 2018.
Mr. Meade is also the CEO of Upper Street Marketing (Stock Symbol: UPPR), a boutique public company focused on technology around Media, Entertainment, and Influencers. The first product for UPPR, MagMo (which stands for Magazine Moment) is a photo sharing tool for major brands to create stories and share it with their existing audience. MagMo can provide monetization for social media audiences of the brand through a patent pending process known as the “back cover.”