How to start a business: Amol Sarva, Greg Steltenpohl, Reiva Lesonsky, Jason Araghi, Laura van Galen
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Our expert panel includes:
Dr. Amol Sarva Dr. Amol Sarva is the founder and CEO of Peek -- the award-winning mobile messaging device that makes it incredibly affordable for anyone to connect to their email on the go. Amol was the second employee at Virgin Mobile USA, and has also worked for McKinsey & Company. His Ph.D. is from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree is from Columbia University.
Greg Steltenpohl
Greg Steltenpohl is founder and former CEO of Odwalla, Inc, the leading U.S. supplier of fresh juice and nourishing beverages. Greg is now the Co-founder of Adina for Life Inc., a venture backed startup focused on building an organic and fair trade brand with a good for you, good for the planet mission in the natural beverage category.
While at Odwalla, Greg led the company through its transformation from a small start-up to a publicly held corporation with an average growth rate exceeding 50 percent per year. Greg is a pioneer in employing ideals of environmental sustainability, employee empowerment, creative corporate culture, and community based marketing.
Together with Visa Founder Dee Hock, Mr. Steltenpohl has also been the co-founder and Chairman of the Interra Project. Mr. Steltenpohl has served on the advisory boards of Slow Money, the Santa Cruz Community Credit Union, Frontier Natural Products Cooperative and Social Venture Network. Greg graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies and currently resides in San Francisco.
Rieva Lesonsky Rieva Lesonsky is CEO of GrowBiz Media, a content and consulting company specializing in covering small businesses and entrepreneurship. Before co-founding GrowBiz Media, Lesonsky was Editorial Director of Entrepreneur Magazine. A nationally known speaker and authority on entrepreneurship, Rieva has been covering America's entrepreneurs for more than 26 years.
Lesonsky has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and numerous local and national television programs, includingthe Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox Business News, The Martha Stewart showand Oprah and can regularly be seen on MSNBC's Your Business. Lesonsky has written several books about small business and entrepreneurship, including the bestseller, Start Your Own Business. She is an editor-at-large at AllBusiness.com and contributes to The Huffington Post and numerous business Web sites.
She served on the Small Business Administration's National Advisory Council for six years, and was honored by the SBA as a Small Business Media Advocate and a Woman in Business Advocate. The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization honored her for helping drive "the entrepreneurial revolution in secondary education." The ASBDC awarded her a "Champion of Small Business" award. In 2003 Lesonsky was inducted into the Business Journalism Hall of Fame.
Jason Araghi
Jason Araghi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Green Beans Coffee Company. Since 1997, his company has supported deployed American Soldiers by bringing them 15 minutes of tranquility at coffeehouses positioned in war zones. Starting with a single cafe crafted from a converted 40ft sea container, Green Beans has grown to more than 70 cafes abroad and at home in the US. Green Beans is a classic story of entrepreneurship that started with the vision and passion of two individuals who saw their dream through to reality. Personal and financial risks, sacrifices, and long hours were all overcome with a never-ending belief that "failure is not an option." The company's most recent endeavor in support of military personnel is "Cup of Joe for a Joe," an initiative that allows anyone, anywhere, to buy a cup of coffee online and have it delivered along with their own personal message of thanks into the hands of a Soldier serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Green Beans has received consecutive-year recognition on the Inc. 500 and was awarded the Ernst & Young Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year award for Corporate Social Responsibility in acknowledgment of the Company's long-held commitment of financial support for military families and children of the fallen.
Jason resides with his family in Northern California and holds a MBA in International Business from NYU Stern and London School of Economics.
Laura van Galen
Laura van Galen, founder, president and CEO of Bleu Marketing Solutions, Inc. and Bleu Properties, Inc., is an authoritative direct marketer that understands the woven fabrics of customer acquisition and customer retention marketing with over 22 years of domestic and international success in this field. Ms. van Galen is also considered an expert in the technology and financial arenas, specifically as these relate to customer data marketing. Since the founding of the Bleu businesses, she has been invited to speak to audiences at MacWorld 2002, Northern California Direct Marketing Association, Women in Leadership at Santa Clara University, San Francisco State University MBA Marketing Department, San Jose State University Professional Development, Connect Direct 2007, Apple Specialist Marketing Coop in San Diego and Atlanta 2007, and more. Ms. van Galen was a finalist for the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Rising Star Award 2006, and a winner in 2008, and an American Marketing Association Finalist for the Change Master Award 2006. She currently resides on the NAWBO Board as VP of Marketing. Bleu Marketing Solutions, Inc. was also honored as one of the fastest growing companies in the Management Consulting Services industry by Inc. Magazine 2007, 2008 and 2009 as well as in the San Francisco Business Times in 2008.
As one of the country's prominent female direct marketing executives, Ms. van Galen has been recognized by numerous business and professional organizations. Omaha Steaks, a long-time client and business partner, has recognized her as an "ambassador" who "has not only ferreted some of our most successful programs, she's really taken the time to learn our business and function as an extension of our desks. Her tenacity, industry knowledge and direct marketing acumen have earned her a role as a critical member of the Omaha Steaks new business team."
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