Gary Conroy

Founder and CEO of The Startup Studio

Gary is a serial entrepreneur, educator, and business consultant. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Gary moved to the United States and began a distinguished career in entrepreneurship and entertainment asset management and ownership.

In 2014, Gary founded The Startup Studio LLC, a global education services company whose mission is to bring about real and sustainable change to education.

Carey Cook

President of Vocabulary University

Carey Orr Cook, the grandson of Carey Orr, the Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist from the Chicago Tribune, learned his life-long love of words from his grandfather. He works in the investment business and has been drawing cartoons for 20 years in his "free time".

With Jan Cook (his wife, partner and retired high school teacher), they have built a strong teacher, student and parent awareness of their Vocabulary University® brand. The technical and graphical assistance from Bob Marzewski and Maria Reeves have been extraordinary and irreplaceable!

Steven Yee

Sr. Manager at Oracle

Steven Yee is a senior manager with innate startup expertise and is passionate about building excellent teams. With nearly 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, Yee assembles teams to deliver large-scale technology products. He serves as a senior cross-functional manager and often handles additional roles in order to keep operations on target.

Yee has helped two start-up companies reach successful initial public offering, and has a proven track record in motivating and driving teams in the areas of engineering, marketing and sales for successful product launches.

Michael Cameron

CEO of Cameron Academy of Real Estate

Michael has made a mark on career education with his passion and proven methodology. With over two decades of experience running the #1 real estate school in central Florida, Michael brings his vision to the online community to provide a convenient solution to the busy man or woman.

At Cameron Academy Michael graduates 5000 students per season.

Kayhan Krali

Founder and CEO of Legonimbus

Kayhan started his education life in Marmara University Mathematics Department and continued in Yeditepe University Educational Leadership and Management graduate program. Hi was a part of the Educational Leadership at PTC, Future of Education at Harvard University, Coaching Education at Ericsonn Coaching International, Art and Practice of Leadership Development at Harvard Kennedy School.

Between 2016 and 2020, he was the Director of the FuturED - Eurasia Education and Future Summit organization, which he pioneered. He has been teaching at MEF University for the past year.

Jason Rukman

CEO of Ucodemy

Jason Rukman has extensive experience with mobile devices and networks. His track record demonstrates his ability to innovate, implement and collaborate as needed to bring the right solution to market.

At Bsquare, Rukman has been the lead engineer responsible for bringing the open source WebKit platform to Windows CE, a platform that is now the basis for many large deals. He hired the team that bought the platform to market and drove much of the business side as well. Most recently, Rukman was promoted to manage a large team working on an Android project and was made responsible for the architecture and operations.

Rukman co-founded and was CEO of Suhari LLC, a mobile development company. Later, he helped sell the company and technology to Medio Systems.

John Hatch

Technical Consultant at Oracle

John Hatch is a senior software engineer with over 20 years of software engineering experience. He architected, developed, and shipped Embedded Desktop and Interface Composer configurable shells for Windows CE and Window NT Embedded.

At Microsoft, John automated big data pipelines to support compliance analytics for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing programs.

Previously, Hatch worked as the Windows CE Kernel program manager at Microsoft and was the owner, consultant and independent software developer for Rockfish LLC.