"Crazy is not trying.  There are people who imagine things and work to make them real - often surrounded by people who say it can't be done."

Meik Wiking is CEO of The Happiness Research Institute an independent think tank focusing on life satisfaction, happiness and quality of life. Their mission is to inform decision makers of the causes and effects of human happiness, make subjective well-being part of the public policy debate, and improve the quality of life for citizens across the world by exploring why some countries, cities, organizations and people are happier than others. It’s all about evaluating and measuring progress in society in a completely different way. Previously Meik has been Project Director at Monday Morning Scandanavia’s leading independent think tank english and also worked at The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark and The Danish Red Cross Youth . Meik is currently working his book The Anatomy of Happiness due to be published on 20th March 2016 International Day of Happiness.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #90 Meik Wiking - CEO The Happiness Research Institute

"Crazy is sticking in a job you don't love, moaning about your life when you never do anything differently, not taking risks, not making the most of the precious time we have on this planet."

Emma Morley is Founder and Project Director of Trifle Creative a fresh and creative commercial interior design company.  She is a Creative Doer whose passion is to create inspiring environments that make working lives and experiences brilliant. Previously she worked freelance in Project Management, design, consultancy, creative doer. She has held a variety of positions: Creative Coordinator, Manager of Creative Coordination Team, New Ventures Assistant, Internal Special Projects at What If! The innovation company that has dared companies to be different since 1992.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #24 Emma Morley Founder & Project Director Trifle Creative

"Crazy is when it suddenly snows in July."

Soren Holm is Head of Experience LEGO House and Vice President of LEGO Future Labs.  He is part of the team that has made LEGO into the successful company it is today. Soren is a LEGO Lifer, someone who’s here to stay.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #88 Soren Holm - Head of Experience LEGO House & VP of LEGO Future Labs

"Crazy is doing totally irrational things just to see what interesting and different results ensue."

Marty Cooper is an engineer, pioneer and visionary in the wireless industry and is known as the Father of the Cell Phone, for having invented the hand held cell phone. He and his wife Arlene are Co Founders of Dyna LLC which supports and inspires the advancement of insightful, innovative, and relevant technology solutions that benefit society.  Marty has won numerous awards for his work, the latest being ITU50 award in Geneva, Switzerland. The awards recognize individuals that have contributed to improving the lives of world citizens through ICT innovations developed, promoted or implemented by ITU.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #89 Marty Cooper - Founder/CEO DynaLLC & Inventor of handheld cellphone

"Crazy is thinking you know all the answers.  The more I listen, the more I understand that we need to be guided to solutions by the people experiencing the problem we're trying to solve."

Jane is an innovator with a global reputation for inspiring individuals and organisations to work together for positive social change. She is ever-curious and drawn to the humanity and courage of people doing it tough.  To date, Jane has founded five charities, all of which are flourishing today the most recent being Igniting Change, a purposely tiny organisation based in Australia  She is known for lateral thinking and creative initiatives including Comic Relief (Red Nose Day) in the UK, which has raised over a billion pounds and best-selling books including Dying to Know – bringing death to life.

Jane has sat on a number of not-for-profit boards including Oxfam UK, The St James Ethics Centre, The Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Committee and is currently a Director of Virgin Unite, which unites people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world.  and The Reichstein Foundation, which works for social justice and environmental sustainability by investing strategically in inspirational people, projects and organisations. It is a catalyst for more effective philanthropy in Australia.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #79 Jane Tewson - Founder Igniting Change & Co Founder Comic Relief

"Crazy is doing something that makes no sense but you feel compelled to do it."

Andres Amador is a man wanting to bring beauty and awakening to the world. He is an Earthscape Artist who creates art installations in varied ways, of which one is facilitating team bonding. He is Founder and Artist at Andres Amador Arts.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #45 Andres Amador - Founder & Earthscape Artist

Crazy is not doing something together about all the scary stuff that's happening in the world.

Ivo Gormley is the Founder of GoodGym, a growing movement of runners who run to do good www.goodgym.org  Previously, Ivo consulted and advised on user participation for technology startups and public services in the UK and US. Ivo directed the documentary film Us Now, an exploration of participatory culture. The film has been broadcast around the world, including Channel 4 in the UK, translated into 24 languages and watched by millions online. He has presented his work to governments worldwide including the French National Assembly, The Hague, the European Union, The Houses of Parliament (UK) and Washington DC. 


BUSINESS MAVERICK #73 Ivo Gormley - Founder of GoodGym

Crazy is living someone else's life.

Marc Winn is Husband. Father. Owned by Dog. Mischief Maker. Lover of Changing the World.  These days I am a full time social revolutionary spending much of my time focused on making the world a better place. I would struggle to look my son in the eye if I didn't at least have a go.  Marc is Former Lone Nut of The Dandelion Project a community project aimed to inspire Guernsey to become the best place to live on earth by 2020. It is so crazy it might just work http://dandelion.gg  He helps entrepreneurs to build sustainable life enhancing businesses that matter  www.marcwinn.com .  He is Ambassador for The World Fix, an organisation designed to articulate, celebrate and facilitate greater institutional experimentation* on a global scale, in order to accelerate systemic change. Co Founder of Born Limitless, his bold passion project that wants to transform the peak of what education so far achieves for children.  Marc is Curator of TEDx St Peter Port.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #80 Marc Winn - Former Lone Nut of The Dandelion Project

Crazy is seeing something that no one else can see and the willingness to jump in with both feet to make it happen, because you just know it will make the world a better place. And when you turn out to be right, then they call you brilliant!

Judi Neal is Chairman and CEO of Edgewalkers International http://edgewalkers.org Previously she was Director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, and is currently She is recognized as an expert on spirituality in the workplace and speaks and consults internationally. Her research focuses on business leaders who have a strong commitment to their faith and spirituality, and began studying how they bridged the spiritual world and the material world of business.  She is author of  Edgewalkers: People and Organizations that Take Risks, Build Bridges and Break New Ground; co-authored The Spirit of Project Management  with Alan Harpham; and is editor of the Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace. She recently published her fourth book titled Creating Enlightened Organizations:  Four Gateways to Spirit at Work. Her next book is The Handbook of Personal and Organizational Transformation. She has published widely in academic journals and has created an international community of Edgewalkers.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #86 Judi Neal - Chairman and CEO Edgewalkers International

Crazy is what we don’t understand.  We’re very poor judges of what we don’t understand, but everything new comes from what we don’t understand.  So we’ve got to get a bit comfortable with crazy.

Pablos Holman is a Futurist, inventor and Notorious Hacker.  Pablos works on invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies - making wild ideas a bit more practical and vice versa. He helped create the world's smallest PC; 3D printers at Makerbot http://www.makerbot.com ; spaceships with Jeff Bezos; artificial intelligence agent systems; and the Hackerbot, a Wi-Fi seeking robot. Currently, Pablos is working for Nathan Myhrvold at the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory http://intellectualventureslab.com where a wide variety of futuristic invention projects are underway including a fission reactor powered by nuclear waste; a machine to suppress hurricanes; a system to reverse global warming; and a device that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers to help eradicate malaria. He is Founder of Bombsheller  a clothing company of the future. We make the one good thing you need, not the ten shitty things you don't. Everything is manufactured on demand in Seattle, radically changing what is possible. http://bombsheller.com  And is Advisor at Glowforge http://glowforge.com  which is creating a new class of 3D printers that are more useful and delightful than anything you've seen.Pablos is a respected and dynamic speaker with an incredible ability to explain complex technology to any audience. He has informed and entertained audiences at world-renowned technology summits including United Nations, the World Economic Forum at Davos, The CIA, TEDx, BIL and DEFCON on invention, innovation and the future of technology.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #16 Pablos Holman - Futurist, Inventor and Notorious Hacker.

Crazy is what we do today against all logic that others think is completely logical tomorrow.

Joseph Nakhla is a technologist with a passion for solving real life problems. He is Founder and CEO of Bazinga!, the world's first cloud-based platform designed to solve many of the problems people experience in living in cities and bring harmony back to communities www.mybazinga.com .  Joseph has spent his professional life in startups and loves mavericks.  Previously Joseph spent almost two decades as an entrepreneur overseeing sales, marketing, product development, support and more for products that touched hundreds of millions of people's daily lives.  He believes that it takes guts to build something from scratch but it takes your soul to see it through. 


BUSINESS MAVERICK #58 Joseph Nakhla - Founder and CEO Bazinga!

Richard Loat is Founder and CEO of Sport for Food  www.sportforfood.com
which aims to tackle hunger across the world using grass-roots, street sports as a vehicle for social change that transcends borders, languages, and distance bringing fans together. As one of the world's quickest growing social movements, we mobilize and engage socially conscious individuals by harnessing their passions for either street hockey, basketball or football to bring local communities together in the name of a great cause.  He Business Develop for Laureus https://www.laureus.com  and is a Shelter Box Response Team Member http://shelterbox.org 


BUSINESS MAVERICK #19 Richard Loat - Founder/CEO Sport for Food.

Matt Friesen is Co-Founder and CEO of Wantering a better way to search, discover and shop online. www.wantering.com Matt is a part time entrepreneur. Full time dreamer. A Self taught engineer turned entrepreneur. 3 startups. 3 exits. Ready for the next adventure.  Previously he was Board Member of the Enspire Foundation Compassionate Community Builders! We are a boutique charity focused on creating endless ENSPIRING moments for individuals to help those less fortunate locally and internationally. Our volunteers, supporters and partners know us personally and experience for themselves the immediate impact and results of their contributions. www.enspireme.org , Co-Founder of Just the bill the easiest way to manage your expenses www.justthebill.com  and Founder of Thirdi Software and Volunteer Advisor to Junior Achievement of British Columbia is the world’s largest NGO dedicated to educating young people about business. We strive to inspire and prepare youth to succeed in a global economy www.jabc.ca 

BUSINESS MAVERICK #4 Matt Friesen - CoFounder and CEO Wantering

El Chico is a DJ and Musician http://dirtycheeks.com . ‘As long as I’m still here, it's very hard to write my own bio, if I'm 'creative' and/or 'open-minded' then I'll always learn, always grow, and thus 'what I do' or have done constantly changes. I am a son, a brother, an uncle, a friend, a lover, a neighbour, a DJ, an enthusiast yes just an enthusiast, if I like it and I feel aligned with the vibrational frequency, I too sing on that frequency. You can't define feelings with words, they were here before, you can't describe you 'being' it has to be experienced, that’s why we are all so wonderful, all powerful and unique’.  He is a member of For Boarders By Boarders a non-profit skate, snow, music, art and media community.https://www.facebook.com/Forboardersbyboarders 

BUSINESS MAVERICK #54 Luke Hemmant [El Chico]  - DJ and Musician DirtyCheeks

Tim Wilson is a Creative Action Man.  Amongst his roles right now, he works as a regional coordinator for Code Club, a network of coding clubs for kids aged 9-11. The role is the marriage of many things he loves - as a community manager communicator, facilitator and project manager.
He is passionate for working on things that stimulate creativity and helping folks of all ages to unleash their super powers on the universe.
He is also a musician with a passion for drumming, singing and composing with my bands Under A Banner and Progoctopus.
He wants to pack in as much joy into life as possible and to drink lots of fantastic coffee.  Forget work/life balance! How about fun/fun and for working for the things that you truly believe in.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #6 Tim Wilson - Creative Action Man

Charles Day helps leaders and their organizations to unlock the economic power of creativity.  He works with many of the world's most disruptive companies - from global brands to entrepreneurs - and he is an executive coach to some of the world's most celebrated creative leaders. Charles is an Adjunct Professor at New York’s Columbia University, where he teaches the art and science of building companies that unlock 'Profitable Creativity'.



BUSINESS MAVERICK #52 Charles Day - Co Founder The Lookinglass

Chris Barez Brown is Founder of Upping Your Elvis, an Author, Speaker, Capability Maker, Improving Business Folk's Creative Leadership
Chris’s life mission is to re-awaken our minds, take people off auto-pilot and engage them in their everyday working lives. In high demand around the globe, he has spoken on every continent and to all types of audiences from intimate conferences to large scale events. The author of three books and therefore rich in content, Chris loves to shake things up with lots of interaction, energy and hard hitting messages that can easily be incorporated into business and life. Human, simple, entertaining yet provocative; guaranteed to leave audiences inspired and buzzing with creative.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #35 Chris Barez Brown - Founder Upping Your Elvis

David Chan is Commercial Director of the Drucker Society London and 
Director, Information Leadership Network at Cass Business School

As part of a team that created the DSL, I have assumed executive responsibility for commercial activities including revenue generation, sponsorships etc.   The Drucker Society London is an affiliate of the Drucker Society Europe, dedicated to putting into action what we have learned from the work of Peter Drucker about management and leadership for the benefit of society as a whole.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #9 David Chan -  Commercial Director Drucker Society London

Fern Adria Gastromic hero, pioneer and illustriously great chef. 
Ferran’s culinary empire stems around the world, blessing each location with boundary-pushing, gastronomic phenomena that leave its guests dumb-struck and in love. Most popular is the now defunct elBulli, which was voted The World’s Best Restaurant five times in a row from 2002 to 2009, with over 2 million reservation requests every year.
Experimenting with ingredients, flavours and techniques, chef Adrià’s culinary career began in a renovated beach shack in Spain, pioneering Molecular Gastronomy. In 1984, upon joining the kitchen staff at ElBulli as a line cook, Ferran was nominated Head Chef only to make it one of the most sought after restaurants showcasing avant-garde cuisine.
Today, chef Adrià writes cookbooks, teaches and lectures on cooking, stars in culinary programs and has launched LaBullipedia, a type of culinary Wikipedia and heads up the Elbulli Foundation.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #96 Ferran Adria - Co Founder ElBulli Foundation

Gregg Fraley is Co Founder of Kiln a training, consulting and strategic design company that ramps up your creativity and agility. http://kilnco.com He is a serial entrepreneur and international expert in creative problem solving providing consultancy to Fortune 500 corporations. A keynote speaker on company innovation and commercial creativity, Gregg’s business novel Jack’s Notebook features on reading lists from University of California Berkeley’s MBA to Judge Business School and City University in the UK. Always a pioneer, his Emmy-award winning team at Warner Cable’s QUBE earned a cable ACE Award for innovation. As a former board member and current leader for the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) in the USA from 1995 to 2015, Gregg has trained scores of professionals in Creative Problem Solving (CPS) using the Osborn-Parnes model. He continues this work through KILN, a firm he co-founded in 2010 to create IdeaKeg, a unique subscription service for company teams to generate breakthrough thinking. As a consultant to corporations, his projects span culture assessment, ideation and qualitative research, as well as training scores of professionals in Creative Problem Solving (CPS), idea generation, creative selling and team building.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #53 Gregg Fraley - Co Founder of Kiln

Greg Malpass is CEO and Founder of Traction on Demand, a cloud technology consultancy and software development firm.  He’s the first to admit that his intentions in starting Traction were very simple: to serve a small number of clients and help them better unite their sales and marketing teams. Contrary to his early intentions, and using his unconventional leadership style, Greg has grown Traction into a nationally recognized brand with 200+ Tractionites, and in 2014, Traction was named top 10 best place to work in Canada for the past three consecutive years. While Greg rarely admits to having a plan (or business guess), he is the first to share his hopes for Traction, which are to build a company that plays a positive and purposeful role in the lives of its team members, customers, partners and community.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #78 Greg Malpass - CEO and Founder Traction on Demand

Jason Smith is CEO and Co Founder of Klue a curated intelligence platform providing companies with a lens into their
competitors world. He is a 20-year Internet entrepreneur with experience building enterprise focused technology companies 
Previously, Jason served as President of Vision Critical, helping grow the customer intelligence SaaS company from start-up to 500+ person market leader with 600+ enterprise clients including Staples, HP, BBC, Nestle and Conde Nast. Prior to Vision Critical, Jason was an active investor in ecommerce custom apparel company GAIA Ultimate, served as Vice President at Electronic Arts, and co-founded Columbus Group, a 100-person digital agency pioneer acquired by TELUS (NYSE: TU). Jason graduated with Honours in Marketing from UBC’s Sauder School of Business, is the recipient of Ernst and Young's Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, BDC's Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Business in Vancouver's Top 40 under 40, is a founding board member of NewMedia BC, a past board member of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, and served as an advisor to Mobify (mobile retail commerce), ContentDJ (content marketing & curation), CrowdEmotion (visual market research), Strutta (social engagement platform acquired by LX Ventures), and Garabaldi Capital (growth equity advisors).  In 2012, Jason bought four around-the-world plane tickets and travelled through 13 countries with his wife and two daughters.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #36 Jason Smith - CEO Co Founder Klue

Mike Dickson is the Founder and CEO of Rainmaker Foundation, a collaborative charity launched in January 2012. Rainmaker's aims are to 'inspire generosity' - and 'to create a world where what matters most is what we do for others'. The Foundation connects philanthropists and change-makers - 'Rainmakers - to inspirational causes in the UK and globally.  Rainmaker also advises companies on developing effective partnerships with charities, which inspire employees and help to create a more intelligent business. Clients include businesses in Private Equity, hedge funds, retail, banking and airlines.

Mike is the author of the thought leadership book on generosity called Please Take One Step. Please Take One which was launched at Ted Global to inspired global movement to encourage generosity.

Mike co-founded the successful children’s charity Whizz-Kidz, which provides mobility equipment for disabled children. Whizz-Kidz is now the largest UK supplier of paediatric mobility aids outside the NHS, and has raised over £75 million to provide equipment for more than 7,500 children and young people. Mike's main role is to inspire people, to help others. Specialties: Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, NGO's, writing.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #70 Mike Dickson - Founder and CEO Rainmaker Foundation

Raj Singh has  been involved in a variety of mobile products over the past 15 years beginning with WAP games in 1999! I’m presently at Salesforce via acquisition of my company Tempo AIfocused on mobile productivity. I’ve worked on a number of apps that have and retained top 100 in their respective App Stores across a range of categories (Utilities, Lifestyle, Photos, Productivity, Video etc). I have angel-invested in mobile, see my AngelList but now am an investor in a mobile Seed fund called ENIAC Ventures. I’m currently tracking mobile ad tech and social graphs. I grew up and live in sunny CA – I’m spending my free time getting better at riding my motorcycle and making time to hit the MMA gym!

BUSINESS MAVERICK #8 Raj Singh - Founder Tempo Al

Rickie Josen is a Facilitator Business Consultant and Trainer supporting people into Business or into Work who operates with the Fun/Fun balance – fitting business around the life (rather than other way round) and on a mission to encourage everyone to do the same!   She is also Business Skills trainer for Crisis the national charity for single homeless people and Learning Manager for The School for Social Entrepreneurs   She is also Founder and CoHost for Jelly a co-working space   Co Organiser of LikeMind and Founder of Birmingham Favourites.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #12 Rickie Josen - Facilitator Business Consultant and Trainer

Robin is a practitioner of change and transformation who has been doing it, across Free Range, Fair Trade, Renewable Energy, Rainforest protection, poverty eradication and climate change, since 1991. He created the virtual agency HOST UNIVERSAL in 1997, SOHOST in 2013 and SOHO DAIRY in 2015. He continues to work with inspirational ideas and people to tackle serious challenges head on, believing that there is no issue that cannot be flipped to a positive outcome and that we do not have to screw the planet or its inhabitants to earn reward.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #76 Robin Smith - Founder Host Universal, Sohost and Soho Dairy

Shed Simove is a performer, author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker on creativity and innovation.  Harnessing a constant stream of ideas from his astonishingly active mind, Shed has learned to transform his unconventional concepts into lucrative new business ventures which form the basis of his completely unique stand-up routines, books and inspirational speeches. Following a degree in Experimental Psychology at Balliol College, Oxford, and two years working in DisneyWorld, Florida (as a Sixteenth Century Gentleman), Shed worked in TV Production, heading up programmes including ‘The Big Breakfast’, ‘Space Cadets’, and ‘Big Brother’. Shed soon became known industry-wide for making innovative, ground-breaking television shows. In 2003, Shed was appointed Commissioning Editor of Channel 4’s ‘Big Brother’ http://www.channel4.com  and throughout his TV career was also involved in discovering and launching many stars including Kelly Brook, Tess Daly, and Russell Brand.  As well as a successful career in television production, Shed has forged a highly innovative merchandising empire – selling one million novelty gifts, executive toys, best-selling adult sweets, books and greeting cards worldwide. He's even launched his own currency! Shed has  won ‘Gift Of The Year’ twice for two of his creations – a range of birthday candles that spelt “You’re Old” and the hugely popular 'Sound Machine'. He also gained worldwide fame as the bestselling author of 'What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex', a 200 page book that is completely blank inside. This title reached the top fifty of the Amazon chart and was featured in the Guinness Book Of Records for ‘Most Blank Pages In A Published Book’  He also wrote Ideas Man, Success or your money back and Presents money can’t buy.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #84 Shed Simove - Founder of The Talent Shed

Shubhendu Sharma is Founder and Director of Afforrest a service provider for creating natural, wild, maintenance free, native forests. At Afforestt, we work passionately on and off-site to provide the best solutions at the lowest possible cost. 

BUSINESS MAVERICK #93 Shubhendu Sharma - Founder and Director Afforrestt

Tarry Giannakos is  Co-Creator/Founder of Revolver Coffee.  Revolver is about two things: Coffee, and the experience that should go with it. Their coffee program is simple, but precise. All drinks are made fresh to order - after you order it, never before - from a rotating menu of our favourite coffees from world class roasters around North America. It's quite simple: We order what we like, and we don't order what we don't. We like being consistent, so we measure and weigh every variable there is, until there isn't. And we like details, of which coffee is but one of many in a finely tuned life. But it's such an important one, isn't it?

BUSINESS MAVERICK #44 Tarry Giannakos - Co-Creator and Founder Revolver Coffee

Mark is Owner of Multiply.  He holds a recently awarded doctorate with research specialisms around branding, brand storytelling and organisational culture.
His career spans advertising (WPP – Ogilvy Group), integrated marketing as MD of KLP Euro RSCG (part of the worldwide HAVAS Group) and founding partner of Multiply. He is also a fully fledged creative capability, planning and NPD facilitator and in his spare time a lover of the sweet science.


BUSINESS MAVERICK #49 Mark Fowlestone - Owner of Multiply

David's newest global venture is The Plastic Bank, the worlds only organization to monetize plastic waste. The Plastic Bank provides incentive to the worlds disadvantaged to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency. The Plastic Bank solves poverty and reduces plastic waste by revealing the value in Ocean Bound Plastic waste.  David was recently named one of the world’s most compassionate entrepreneurs by Salt magazine.  He is also Founder and Thought Leader at The Core Values Institute, a consulting and Global thought leadership platform.  He has also been the President of the Vancouver Chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organisation.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #98 David Katz - Founder/CEO The Plastic Bank

Pocket is the Founding Partner of SoGal Ventures.  Her mission is to close the diversity gap in entrepreneurship within our generation. With that in mind, she founded SoGal, a global community influencing 50,000 diverse entrepreneurs and investors in 20+ countries. We empower, inspire and connect entrepreneurial minds with high-impact communities, digital media, funding resources, networking, and startup advisory.

Pocket was Forbes 2016  30 Under 30 Asia in Venture Capital & Finance and LinkedIn 2015 Top Voices in VC & Entrepreneurship.  She has been featured in Forbes, Harper's BAZAAR, BBC World News, The Huffington Post, Inc., The Straits Times, Channel News Asia, The Business Times, Next Shark, e27, DBS Treasures campaign, East West Bank, CLEO Magazine etc and is a Tedx and keynote speaker.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #99 Pocket  Sun - Founding Partner SoGal Ventures

Igor Faletski is CEO and CoFounder of Mobify.  He is passionate about making mobile commerce simpler, more effective and truly personal. Together with a fantastic team of engineers, designers, data scientists and marketers, I work on products and services Mobify customers rely on for all their mobile commerce needs.

Today, Mobify is the #1 mobile commerce platform powering Beyond the Rack, Ann Taylor, Crocs, Thinkgeek, Starbucks, Petflow, British Telecom, Expedia, Garmin, Bosch, Siemens, Charles Tyrwhitt, Condé Nast and many more leading retailers around the world.

BUSINESS MAVERICK #5 Igor Faletski - CEO and CoFounder Mobify

Alexander Asseily is the founder and Executive Chairman of State. State is a global opinion network that enables any publisher site to give its visitors a light-touch and expressive way to share opinions that can be instantly networked and aggregated for deeper social engagement and insights.

Alexander is the co-founder of consumer technology company and industry-leading mobile lifestyle wearables company Jawbone, serving as Jawbone’s CEO through 2007 and as Executive Chairman until January 2015. In 2013 he co-founded Chiaro Technology, the women’s technology company behind the award-winning pelvic exercise tracker Elvie launched in 2015.

Alexander grew up in Beirut and London before receiving his BSc in Product Design and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He is an investor and advisor to a number of startup companies and charities in the USA and Europe, and in 2015 was appointed to sit on the Council of Google’s Digital News Initiative Fund.

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