Company: WeAccel (We Accelerate Women’s Impact, PBC)

Teams: All, Business Development

Background Industries: Economic, Business, & Workforce Development; Technology, and International Trade; Community Engagement

Specialties: Development Strategies for Smart Communities / Public-Private Partnerships; Banking & Finance; Real Estate

Associated Organizations: Global Communities Technology Challenge (GCTC) under the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), City of Oakland, City of San Leandro; IDotConnect (Principal); Wells Fargo Bank, Crocker Bank (AVP, Real Estate Industries); TwoPointOakland (Co-Founder); Mission Bay Residents Assn. (President)

Company: WeAccel / The Marcus Consulting Group

Teams: Thought Leadership, Communications, Strategy

Background Industries: Business & Consumer Electronics, IoT, Publishing, Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Strategic Communications, Marketing

Specialties: Ethical Technology For Social Equity In Communities; Community Engagement (Resident / Local Gov), Strategic/ Crisis Communications, Smart Cities, Publishing, Events; Marketing, UX/UI; Customer / Consumer Technology Advocacy

Clients / Associated Organizations: Cisco Systems, Link Oregon, Global Communities Technology Challenge (GCTC); Editor: PC Entertainment Magazine (IDG); Ziff-Davis Publishing & Events, Softbank/Key3Media, Lotus Development; Nikon Precision; Technology Assoc. Of Oregon (TAO), CHIFOO

Company: BorjaPlus

Teams: Creative, Communications

Background Industries: Sales; Marketing (Digital & Physical); Political Campaigning

Specialties: Social media, digital & graphic design, web design, creative development

Associated Organizations: Smart City Diaries, City of San Leandro

Company: Enterprise Development Consulting Group (EDG)

Background industries: The Enterprise Development Group (EDG) is an international consulting firm that specializes in innovation strategy and best practices, organization design, and leadership development across a myriad of industries.

Specialties: Climate Strategy, The CO-STAR (TM) pitch, Innovation Best Practices, Leadership Training.

Clients: Apple; Intel, Logitech, BBC; Kaiser Permanente; Swiss.com; Stanford University; Southern California Edison, Lockheed Martin

Company: Enterprise Development Consulting Group (EDG)

Background industries: The Enterprise Development Group (EDG) is an international consulting firm that specializes in innovation strategy and best practices, organization design, and leadership development across a myriad of industries.

Specialties: Climate Strategy, The CO-STAR (TM) pitch, Innovation Best Practices, Leadership Training.

Clients: Apple; Intel, Logitech, BBC; Kaiser Permanente; Swiss.com; Stanford University; Southern California Edison, Lockheed Martin

Company: WeAccel (We Accelerate Women’s Impact, PBC)

Teams: Operations, Creative, Communications

Background Industries: Public Relations; Communications & Digital Branding; Entertainment Journalism (Music, Film)

Specialties: Communications (internal and external), creative development

Associated Organizations: Ann Flower Communications; Lobeline Communications; World Race Productions; Girls Behind the Rock Show; Absolutepunk.net; Substream Magazine; Kennedy Consulting.

Company: Lost Summit Films

Teams: Creative

Background Industries: Filmmaking

Specialties: Filming, creating scripts and video production

Associated Organizations: Smart City Diaries

Key Projects: Smart City Diaries; Out From the Ashes; Truth is Beauty; A Gentle Walk; Circular Resonance

Company: Consulting & Business Coaching

Background Industries: Digital economies; hardware in technology; blockchain; consulting

Specialties: Circular economies; regenerative design and entrepreneurship; clean tech

Associated Organizations: Holo.host; Lifeguides; VEME; Karavan; LUMAN.io; Solar Punk

Company: Deep Blue Institute & UIXGlobal

Background Industries: Consulting; education; blue economy

Specialties: Sustainable, resilient city development, including infrastructure, design thinking, civic engagement, entrepreneurship, social capital, impact investing, blue economy

Associated Organizations, Past or Present: Clean Tech Open, Seasteading Institute, Digital Raign, Meeting of the Minds, Impact Hubs Bay Area & Roma, Prospect Silicon Valley