Steve Welch

Steve started his first big entrepreneurial success, Mitos, in 2001 with hardly a cent to his name.  Without ever raising outside money Steve built Mitos into a global company in the biotech manufacturing field prior to selling it in 2007 at the age of 29 to a Fortune 500 company. Under Steve’s guidance Mitos developed several critical innovations and patents which transformed the manufacturing process of biological drugs and vaccines and allowed Mitos to develop a global sales and distribution network. Following the sale of Mitos, Steve co-founded DreamIt Ventures, a new business accelerator model.. As a 2009 Eisenhower Fellow, Steve has spent time around the world studying all aspects of economic development. Throughout Asia, Europe and North America Steve has examined how economic development is impacted through 1) government policy 2) technology transfer institutions 3) funding sources and 4) culture. In 2010 Steve published “We are all Born Entrepreneurs” in which he uses his story and those of over a dozen other entrepreneurs to explain what drives entrepreneurs, while at the same time sharing lessons learned from the success -- and failures -- of entrepreneurs. In 2011 Steve started KinderTown as an educational app store for parents with children ages 3-8. KinderTown helps parents become their child’s best teacher by utilizing game-based learning on the tablet with learning in the physical world. In 2013 with almost 400,000 users Steve sold KinderTown to Demme Learning. In 2015 Steve founded Restore Hyper Wellness to expand the limits of personal health and performance, to help people do more of what they love through personalized, science-backed therapies. Restore has 225+ locations spread throughout the US. Steve lives in Austin, TX.

Amy Shecter

Amy’s business leadership success has transcended industries and operating environments, with a career spanning beauty, fashion and fitness across digital and physical channels in the domestic and international markets. As a senior executive, Amy has led DTC, wholesale and licensing, in startup, high growth and turnarounds businesses with a focus on delivering strong financial results.   

An inspiring enterprise leader, executive team mentor and equally nimble strategist, operator, marketer and merchant, Amy leads the business through a discerning consumer lens and excels at galvanizing the organization to execute. She remains acutely focused on creating an emotional connection between the brand and the customer.  

Currently the CEO of Ever/Body, a haven for high-tech beauty services that serves to demystify cosmetic dermatology and make it more available for everyone, Shecter offers a bold vision to revolutionize the industry and lead an ambitious growth strategy focused on accessibility, market expansion, strategic partnerships and more.   

Prior to Ever/Body, Amy was the CEO of Glamsquad, CEO of CorePower Yoga and also served as the President of C. Wonder. Earlier, Amy operated in several senior executive capacities at DKNY, Cole Haan, and Tory Burch. Amy advanced up the merchandising, marketing and operations ranks in various leadership roles and began her career at Bloomingdale’s.  

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Alison Ward

Alison Ward has over 30 years of international experience in sustainability and corporate affairs. Alison is the CEO of CottonConnect, where she leads a team of over 80 employees, impacting the lives of over 560,000 cotton farmers in India, China, Pakistan and Bangladesh.  Under Alison’s leadership the organization: drives supply chain transparency connecting sustainable fibres from farm to store; focuses on the rights and skills of women in supply chains through pioneering gender programmes; and continues to develop innovations at a farm level. She leads cotton strategies and programmes for global brands and retailers.

Previously Alison worked with Mondelez International and Kraft Foods and was the Global Head of Corporate Responsibility in Cadbury.

With a mission to drive scalable change, Alison serves as a Member of the Sustainable Cotton Steering Committee for Textile Exchange.  She also sat on the Sustainability Advisory Committee for the London Olympic Games and has been a Coach and Mentor to commercial teams at WWF and the Ethical Trade Initiative.

Aileen Long

Aileen leads Climate Risk Stress Testing at Citi, responsible for the buildout of the firm’s scenario analysis framework, strategic roadmap, and analytics capability implementation across the organization. This includes the development of climate-related methodologies and integration into scenario design, data, models, infrastructure, and stress testing governance across an end-to-end program.

She started her career at Citi in Corporate and Investment Banking covering Power and Utilities in New York. She has also held numerous roles across Equity Research, Credit Risk Management, and Enterprise and Legal Entity Stress Testing over the course of her banking career.

Aileen earned her Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance and Management.

Dr. Neil Parikh

Dr. Neil Parikh is the Chief Medical Officer of Thirty Madison, focused on implementing technology to deliver care at scale. He oversees the clinical, research, and strategic partnership organizations within the company. Prior to Thirty Madison, Neil was President of Oscar Medical Group and Senior Medical Director at Oscar Health leading Care Delivery, where he oversaw Oscar’s clinic and telemedicine operations, complex case management, and clinical concierge services. Neil is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, where he has been teaching and practicing since 2014. Neil completed his Internal Medicine residency at Cedars Sinai, his MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and his MD at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Neil stays connected to philanthropy through Amply, a giving platform he co-founded, and as a member of the Healthcare Advisory Council to the Ronald McDonald House NY. He splits his time between New York and Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.