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Melissa Hall is a brand strategist, speaker and educator that works with fashion, lifestyle, and wellness companies. She is the founder of Melissa Hall Consulting and The Emerging Designer, a network for designers and creative professionals.

A 28-year veteran of the marketing industry, Mark Freid is the owner of Think Creative, an award-winning branding and marketing firm that is driven by a “Culture of Gratitude” and the founder of Happiness Counts (happinesscounts.com), the company’s consulting arm that focuses on organizational culture and leadership.

I’ve spent 15 years reminding brands how to have fun by helping them use real-time marketing and emerging media. We call it advertising, but honestly it’s just teaching companies how to be as cool as their customers. Along the way, a few of these companies (Red Bull, vitaminwater, TAKE5, Wingstop, and Spirit) also taught me a thing or two.

Claudine Sokol is a self-described Evangelist of Nielsen and has worked for over twenty years in the media industry. With a wide range of experience working in the media, including national, mobile, movies, digital, local television and local audio.

Brad Zollars is in his 10th year with the Royals and second as the club's Senior Director of Advertising & Marketing. He oversees all marketing, advertising and promotional initiatives for the ball club including management of the club's advertising agency of record.

Steve Tingiris is a software engineer, turned entrepreneur and professional dabbler. In his career, Steve has founded and sold three technology companies and is currently the managing director of Dabble Lab where he leads the day-to-day operations while still blocking plenty of time to dabble with the latest emerging technology.