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Mark is a cross-functional collaborator with experience in strategic market growth, clinical and commercial operations, including manufacturing, market access, sales, training, contract negotiation and client interface at the C-Suite, as evidenced by successfully working with 21 teams on various projects.He has expertise in strategic initiatives as evidenced by generating an innovative business, profit model that identified strategic key accounts, talent gaps and market dominating positions and enlisting new talent for two Sales Development Managers, a Marketing Director, and Account Management team leading to $4.1MM.

Nathan Lewis has written four books on economic topics, and has been featured in television documentaries in the U.S., South Korea, China, Russia, and Britain. He has spoken at events hosted by the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, the American Principles Project, and others. He has testified in Congress on economic issues. His writing has appeared in many media outlets, including Forbes, the Financial Times, Huffington Post, Nikkei Business, Daily Reckoning, Worth, and other publications. Today, he serves as a Fellow of the Wealth and Poverty program at the Discovery Institute.

He has fifteen years of experience in the asset-management industry. He formerly served as a macro analyst for institutional investors, and later helped manage money for hedge funds. Today, he is the editor of the Polaris Letter, an investment newsletter for individuals.

Matteo Tagliariol is the 2008 Olympic champion in épée fencing. Outside of being an athlete, he is a father and man of many interests including business.

He likes to create digital content and organize fencing camps at an international level where he teaches students to better manage competitive situations. Matteo also speaks for companies on motivational topics based on his experience gained at the highest level of competitive fencing.

Josiah is a three-time Olympian who flew the flag for Malaysia at Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, and London 2012.

In 2004/2005 he was awarded the Olympian of the year and Sportsman of the year awards. Josiah won Malaysia's first and only cycling gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, has been the top-ranked Keirin cyclist in the world, and won the World Cup title twice along with the Asian Champion title 3-times throughout his career.


Josiah also co-founded and was the CEO of Australian hospitality tech start up, Intertain.com.au. He is also a published author, TEDx speaker, and Asian Games Gold Medal Coach. Josiah's mission is to inspire and teach others to dream big, set goals, and acquire the skill sets necessary to achieve their goals.

Kate is an IFBB Professional Olympian Athlete. She now focuses on preventative medicine through the medium of lifestyle intervention. Kate does so by utilizing nutrition, movement, and mindfulness as paths to optimize longevity and enhance lifespan performance.

As she pursues her Masters of Science at USC in the evolving interdisciplinary field of Gerontology, she's thrilled to expand her food coaching business into a more specialized genre of preventative medicine, research, and counseling.

Kate thrives when creating age-specific resources for clients with specific issues such as processed food addiction, chronic illness prevention, sleep deficit, and C-level stress management.

In her spare time, she is a social researcher, a volunteer crisis counselor, and a yoga teacher and personal trainer.

For over 30 years, Dr. Jonathan Reichental has been successfully helping organizations leverage the value of information and communications technology to solve business problems, increase effectiveness, and support revenue growth. He has a track record of delivering a high-volume of successful, multi-million-dollar projects and initiatives in both the private and public sectors.

Reichental is recognized as a global thought leader on a number of emerging trends including smart cities, the fourth industrial revolution, blockchain technology, data governance, and digital transformation. He is an in-demand board advisor, global keynote speaker, educator, and writer who has written three books on the future of cities: Smart Cities for Dummies, Exploring Smart Cities Activity Book for Kids, and Exploring Cities Bedtime Rhymes.

Reichental is currently the founder of Human Future, a global business and technology advisory, investment, and education firm.

He is formerly a multiple award-winning Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Palo Alto, focusing on modernizing the technology environment and pushing the possibilities of innovation in local government. He had oversight for over $50M in technology funds per year, and during his seven-years at the city, successfully delivered over 250 technology projects.

Under Reichental’s leadership, Palo Alto was named one of the top five digital cities in America four years in a row, including the top spot in 2013. Reichental was awarded the distinction of being one of the 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in Government in America in 2013.  He also won a best CIO in Silicon Valley award and a national IT leadership prize. In 2016, he was named one of the top 20 most influential CIO’s in the United States and in 2017, he was named one of the top 100 CIOs in the world.

Prior to joining the City, Reichental served as CIO of O’Reilly Media, an integrated media company. During his tenure he led the successful technology effort to deploy a new global ecommerce platform, enhanced the financial system, maintained PCI-compliance, implemented an IT governance process, and made several strategic upgrades to the network infrastructure.

Before O’Reilly Media, he spent almost 15 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in a variety of technology-related roles including leading technology innovation for the US firm.

Reichental holds several degrees including a Ph.D. in Information Systems. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco and instructs at several other universities.

His work has been featured on US and international television and radio, in magazines, newspapers, and online publications, that include CNN, BBC, NBC, CBS, NPR, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Irish Times, CIO magazine, InformationWeek, Government Technology, Mashable, and many others.