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Summary: Jesse Lear is a serial entrepreneur — He was the co-founder of V.I.P. Waste Services, which was acquired in 2018 by Valet Living and is one of his most recent companies. V.I.P. Waste Services provides valet trash and recycling programs for the multi-family housing industry, as well as comprehensive waste management solutions. Milestones: (00:00:00) …

Summary: Kelly Ruoff is the Chief Brand Officer at Root Insurance Company, a car insurance company that helps good drivers get better rates on car insurance, based on how you drive. Before joining the team at Root, Kelly was a Partner and Chief Creative Officer at Ologie, and she also spent some time as a …

Summary: Gordon Gough is the President and CEO of The Ohio Council of Retail Merchants. In this role, he is the point person for the Ohio retail and wholesale issues in the Statehouse and Congress, and he manages the council’s budget, staff, and vendors. He’s spent over 15 years at the Ohio Council of Retail …

Summary: Chris is a partner and co-founder of the Green Block Group, a strategic communications and innovation consultancy firm working with businesses, entrepreneurs and organizations to build better products and get buzz doing it. Before co-founding the Green Block Group, Chris spent some time in politics and got his degree from Miami University here in …

Summary: Jeff and Neil are Partners at Nonfiction, a local branding and design agency based in Worthington. Their team works with clients like Huntington Bank, Columbus State, BalletMet and Echo Spirits Distilling. They envision every design project with less complexity and noise, and more honesty and meaning; which is how they help their clients stand …

Summary: Brett Kaufman is the founder and CEO of Kaufman Development – Brett has been working in the real estate industry for over 20 years, with a focus on investment, banking and development. He has received numerous awards for his professional accomplishments, including being recognized twice as the developer of the year by the Building …

Summary: Brandon is a serial salesperson, 2x Seven-Figure Entrepreneur, Sales Author, Angel Investor & expert speaker on sales, marketing & entrepreneurship. Brandon is the Founder and CEO of Seamless.ai, a sales leads company based in Columbus where they help companies maximize revenue, increase sales and acquire their total addressable market instantly using artificial intelligence. Milestones: …

Summary: Madison is the founder and CEO of POINT, as well as the Director of Corporate Development at GnomeDX. POINT is a 501c3 non-profit organization, which has designed an application to help connect volunteers with charity opportunities in their city. Last September, they secured $200k in funding, and they currently have over 4,000 users and …

Summary: Andy Panos is a Co-Founder and the COO at Cloudbreak Health, a tele-health company that provides a suite of industry-leading services to their customers. Andy first founded LAN, or the Language Access Network, back in 2003 when his brother got into an accident in Mexico, which was compounded by the fact that Andy’s family …

Summary: Judy Mobley is the CEO of Children’s Hunger Alliance, a local non-profit with the mission of ensuring that children without access receive healthy food, education, and physical activity. In Ohio, 1 in 5 children are unsure of where their next meal will come from. However, because every region faces its own unique barriers for …