Business Rockstars

ROBERT MACHADO - CEO & Co-Founder13 years of experience in Executive Search for a major player in the industry. Strong experience placing C-Level executives, especially in General Management and Sales roles.Successfully launched and managed 6 offices for a large recruitment firm.Hired and trained approximately 170 professionals in the recruitment industry.Experience as board member for technology and recruitment firms. Prior to his current role, launched and managed one of the subsidiaries of IMG, a global leader in sports, fashion and media.UDO NIETSCH - President & Co-Founder10 years of Executive Search and Recruitment industry experience in the US and Europe within Lifesciences, Sales & Marketing, and Human Resources. Director for the Business Units, Executive Search and Sales & Marketing in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Highly skilled in Executive Search practices, niche skill profile identification, Account Management and Recruitment business start-up. Experience in building successful S

LEHR Inc. is a leading provider of award winning, environmentally friendly, propane-powered products and tools. Dedicated to a cleaner planet through environmentally friendly technology, the LEHR family of products utilizes a patented technology, which ensures that they are the cleanest, greenest and most reliable tools on the market today. The ideas behind LEHR were born during a series of long cold nights spent in the North Sea converting gasoline engines to run on propane while aboard the research vessel the Sea Surveyor. Having already used propane to power small engines on several other ships in his years at sea, Captain Bernardo Herzer, CEO and founder of LEHR, knew he had something. “Propane is just safer, more efficient and more reliable,” said Captain Herzer, “that’s why we used it on our ships.” Years later, LEHR is now a groundbreaking leader in the research and development of environmentally friendly technologies.

Kris Finstad is the Founder, CEO, President and Director of Los Angeles based corporation Content Checked Holdings Inc. (ContentChecked). Since 2014, ContentChecked has served as a fast, reliable, and efficient mobile application that helps consumers make empowered purchasing decisions in accordance with their dietary preferences. Previously, Kris has been an Investor, Chairman and Senior Principal owner of FimBul Capital, a UK based offshore fund. He is Co-founder of CheckContent AS, Norway, a Scandinavian branch of the food allergy application company. Kris has also co-founded and funded several startups in the technology, real estate and the bio-tech fields and holds several board member positions with various organizations.Permanently located in Los Angeles, Kris originally hails from Norway and earned his International Baccalaureate (IB) from Lundsberg Skola and a General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) from Millfield School in England. Additionally, he also holds an Master of Business Adminis

Love Young Thai Coconuts? Hate Opening them? A safe, easy way to open Young Thai Coconuts, no matter what your size or strength. Coco Jack & Scoop are Internationally Patent Pending and Coco Jack comes with a 1 Year/1000 Coconut Guarantee when purchased with our Coco Mallet.Coco Jack also comes with a specially designed shock absorbing grip, whose material was originally developed to absorb the vibration from motorized lawn mowers! They will help protect your hand from excess vibrations if you're opening a lot of coconuts at once. "The small difference I had hoped to make in consumers' lives has suddenly become an opportunity to help solve a global problem."

The future inspired Burritobox – bringing fast food to the vending industry, and also bringing automation and fast food together for the first time ever. Our company is called The Box Brands and we have many more concepts (we actually started with Pizzabox first!)I’m 29, I’m a huge Star Trek fan, and that’s where the real inspiration came for me – wanting to bring the future into the present, and bringing high-quality food in an automated way to consumers in new environments and new places. You can learn more about Burrito Box here: http://tastetheburritobox.com

Rickard Hansson is the founder and chief executive officer of Incentive. With more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, Rickard is a serial entrepreneur and self-taught programmer who created Incentive in 2008 based on his belief that internal workplace communication should be a social and collaborative experience.Prior to founding Incentive, Rickard started Mindroute Software in 2002, where he developed Lemoon, a user-friendly content management system (CMS). Within three years, Mindroute became the second largest CMS firm in Sweden, boasting 100 to 150 new clients per year.After the launch of Incentive in 2008, the platform was nominated for Best Software of the Year in Sweden. In 2013, Rickard sold Lemoon’s assets to focus exclusively on Incentive and has since moved Incentive’s headquarters to Southern California’s up- and-coming tech hub, Silicon Beach. Since the founding, Incentive has helped thousands of companies from more than 100 countries accelerate positive business outcomes through imp

POP Paddleboards is committed to making stand up paddle boarding accessible to the masses. We believe that everyone across the globe near a river, lake, harbor, or ocean should have the opportunity to be apart of this emerging lifestyle.We represent a culmination of people who are attracted to water and love being in it. We are veteran 9-to-5ers spending every free moment we have on a board, paddle at the ready, in the nearest body of water we can find. POP Paddleboards is the brainchild of a family of adventure seekers and water lovers. We embody a life that encourages exploration, fitness, and above all: fun

Recently honored as one of the Top 50 Most Creative People of 2014 and the 2014 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award, Mick Ebeling is a film/television/commercial producer, philanthropist, technology trailblazer, author, entrepreneur and public speaker. Ebeling is CEO of Not Impossible Labs, an organization that develops creative solutions to address real-world problems. Not Impossible Labs was founded on Mick’s firm belief that nothing is impossible. With no technical background in ocular recognition technology, Ebeling created Not Impossible’s first project: The Eyewriter. An open source, low-cost, DIY device, The Eyewriter enables individuals with paralysis to communicate and create art using only the movement of their eyes. Time Magazine named The Eyewriter one of the "Top 50 Inventions of 2010," and the device is now part of MoMA's permanent collection. Not Impossible's latest endeavor, Project Daniel, now celebrates its one-year anniversary.

Eric Bandholz is the founder of Beardbrand, a men's grooming company that focuses on beard care. With the help of his co-founders, Eric bootstrapped the business from nothing to 7 figures within two years. Eric graduated from the University of South Carolina and currently resides in Austin, TX with his wife, daughter, and dog.

Chris Considine is the founder and CEO of CXC Simulations, a Los Angeles-based, high-tech engineering firm specializing in the production of world class racing simulators for home, professional and commercial use. CXC now serves clients on every nearly every continent. CXC’s corporate client portfolio includes super car manufacturers Ferrari, Aston Martin, McLaren and Lamborghini as well as major automobile brands such as Cadillac, Ford and Toyota and non-automotive related corporations such as Intel, GoPro and Arrow Electronics. Considine currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and enjoys being outdoors and spending time with his wife, Cherie, and their two boys.

The SignalVault uses our E-Field Technology to make your information invisible to hackers without batteries or charging. We suggest two SignalVault Credit & Debit card protectors per wallet. The device contains a microchip that detects scanners and creates white noise to mask your information as well as a signal blocking component, giving you Dual-Stage protection.Place one SignalVault on the left side of your wallet, behind your cards with the centered SignalVault logo facing out. Place the second SignalVault on the right side of your wallet, behind your cards with the SignalVault logo facing out. If using only one device, make sure the SignalVault installed side of your wallet is facing out towards any potential hacker.

Alison Levine is a history-making polar explorer and mountaineer. She not only served as team captain of the first American Women’s Everest Expedition, but she also climbed the highest peak on each continent and skied to both the North and South Poles—a feat known as the Adventure Grand Slam, which fewer than forty people in the world have achieved. In January 2008, she made history as the first American to complete a 600-mile traverse from west Antarctica to the South Pole following the route of legendary explorer Reinhold Messner. Levine completed this arduous journey on skis while hauling 150 pounds of her gear and supplies in a sled harnessed to her waist. Her success in extreme environments is noteworthy given she has had three heart surgeries and suffers from Raynaud’s disease, which causes the arteries that feed her fingers and toes to collapse in cold weather—leaving her at extreme risk for frostbite.Levine is the author of the New York Times best-seller On the Edge: The Art of High Impact Leadership

Hudson Jeans was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Our denim comes from the most respected denim suppliers in Europe and Japan, and our jeans are created and designed in the USA. The cut and sew process takes place at our closely monitored third-party facilities located in both USA and Mexico under the highest standards of quality.

Butterfly Design Group, a full-service web development company, was founded in early 2000. Starting as a one-person operation, we have grown to a group of talented graphic designers, web designers and programmers. We offer a wide range of possibilities to meet your online design, development and marketing needs. Our professional services and expertise will help your business achieve the presence it needs in today's competitive world.We partner with our clients to develop practical solutions to meet their objectives.Experience Success with The Butterfly Design Group.

If you walk into any police or sheriff's department in the country, you will hear and feel the frustrations of those that walk the halls. The technology that they use is outdated, clunky and wasn't designed with the end-user in mind. We've been there and done that. We want to avoid going through the murky, political process of coming in as outside consultants, speaking with a handful of officers, diluting their ideas through the chain of command and coming back with something entirely different. The people that directly design our technical solutions have actually been in the field and worked as law enforcement professionals. Our software is designed by cops, for cops.Our actual development is accomplished by former military personnel, law enforcement personnel and software engineers that have previously built massive U.S. military intelligence platforms. These developers carry top-secret security clearances by the federal government and are always on the cutting-edge of intelligence solutions.

Within the nightlife, bar and restaurant industry, there is no greater authority than Jon Taffer. Best known for his ‘in your face,’ no holds ‘barred’ style of turning failing bars into profitable businesses on Spike TV’s number one hit show “Bar Rescue,” which is currently in its fourth season and nearing 100 episodes. Jon is the world’s top bar and nightlife consultant and internationally recognized, award-winning concept developer.In November 2014, Jon debuted his highly anticipated, all-inclusive bar and nightclub management app, Jon Taffer’s BarHQ, to industry acclaim and five-star reviews. He’s also a best-selling author having penned, Raise the Bar: An Action-Based Method for Maximum Customer Reaction.Jon currently resides in Las Vegas with his wife Nicole, and his dogs Moxie and Winston.

We are the eBay for breakups. We help you sell all that crap you're left with when a relationship ends...AND we help you bounce back to your best self faster!Bella is an expert in challenger strategy and upstream thinking. In other words, she loves shaking things up and sticking it to the proverbial man. She has worked as a brand, marketing and innovation consultant for 10 years and partnered with some of the world’s largest companies; helping to reinvent their brands, shape their innovation pipelines and transform their company culture. Her accent is a hot mess having lived in Australia, England and America, she’s gelato obsessed and will do anything for a costume party.

Courtney Nichols Gould, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of SmartyPants Vitamins. For the last four years, Courtney Nichols Gould has served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of SmartyPants. Her experience is in architecting and building companies from idea to launch and beyond. She also remains an active advisor and angel investor to start-ups across a variety of industries. Gordon Gould has worked in the digital media and internet industry for over 16 years. Gordon has co-founded several companies in the consumer social media space and was founding CEO of both Upoc.com, the world's first mobile social network, and ThisNext.com, the largest independent social shopping platform. Gordon has worked closely with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, technologists, content providers, marketers, non-profits, and consumers/users to help create compelling, useful services.

The story behind This Is Ground is rooted in adventure and design, both of which influenced the experience of Founder & Creative Director Mike Macadaan. There was his role as a crew chief for an advertising blimp traveling from city to city, carrying an array of weird, wild blimp gear. There were also his years spent as a graphic designer, working with unwieldy tech and design tools without anywhere to easily store them. The tipping point came one day when a design friend asked Mike for a creative solution to a common problem: cords, everywhere. Having just gotten tacos from a nearby restaurant, the Cord Taco was born, and with it, This is Ground, which found its own name in Mike’s previous role as a blimp operator and an appreciation for David Bowie songs. Among other experience, Mike honed his professional credentials as VP of user experience & design for AOL Time Warner, working on product design for AOL and AIM; principal UI designer for Intuit, focused on TurboTax and SnapTax; creative dir

Danny Trejo has developed a prolific career in the movie business, yet his road to success has been hard earned and anything but typical. From imprisonment to helping young people battle drug addiction, acting to producing, the name, face, and achievements of Danny Trejo are well recognized in Hollywood.Trejo grew up on the streets of Los Angeles. Despite spending the latter part of his youth and early adulthood incarcerated, he rose to great accomplishment. Upon his release from Soledad Prison, he became involved in programs aimed at helping those who, like him, battle drug and alcohol addictions.Despite his impressive list of credits, it’s his continual role as a devoted father of three and as an intervention counselor that bring him the most satisfaction.