Ron is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur having visualized, founded, built and sold five companies through management buyouts, private equity firms, private investors and public markets.  Currently, Ron is the Chairman of StartEngine, one of the industry’s leading equity crowdfunding platforms. AtStartEngine, his mission is to help entrepreneurs realize their dreams. StartEngine has over 100,000 registered investors on the platform and is the leading platform in the equity crowdfunding space. In addition, Ron is actively engaged as a partner/advisor in several start-ups and growth companies both in and out of the tech sector. Ron also serves as an instructor for courses at the UCLA Anderson School of Business/Price Center for Entrepreneurship. In the past, Ron has taught innovative courses as at the University of California Riverside, University of California San Diego and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Keith Ferrazzi is recognized as a global thought leader in the relational and collaborative sciences. As Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and its Research Institute, he works to identify behaviors that block global organizations from reaching their goals and to transform them by coaching new behaviors that increase growth and shareholder value.

A New York Times #1 best-selling author of Who’s Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone, as well as a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune and many other leading publications, Keith’s gained over 20 years of experience, from the C-Suite to founding his own companies, and distilled those years and experiences into practices and solutions he brings to every engagement.

Shilpi is an enterprise SaaS leader with extensive experience in creating go-to-market teams that deliver high growth and consistent results.  Shilpi’s expertise in Customer Success includes execution in both direct and channel reseller environments; programs design in Customer Lifetime Value, Retention, and Expansion; installed based marketing; C-level value selling and challenger sales methodologies; and strategic partnerships.  Currently, Shilpi works with Strategic Accounts at Workplace by Facebook. Shilpi has led Customer Success at SugarCRM where she was responsible for delivering the company’s global software renewal revenues; she has worked with business leaders in technology companies ranging from startups to Fortune 50 while at Gartner; and she has expertise in the US State and Local Government industry from her tenure with Motorola.