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University of Colorado | Icebreaker

University of Colorado

The University of Colorado (CU) is a premier public research university with four campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, and the Anschutz Medical Campus.

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Storyteller capable of showing and demonstrating success through articulating value for highly technical solutions. Dedicated contributor and knowledge expert on Salesforce products which allows me to instill significant product and organizational impact for clients in the federal space. Extensive experience presenting in front decision makers, large audiences, and executives through oral and written engagements with a high level of subject matter expertise, product knowledge, and industry knowledge.

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CEO @ Baton Health | SaaS/Services Founder, Operator, Advisor

✨Aakanksha Upadhyay

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CEO & Co-founder, Navii – career. companion. network | Backed by leaders from Meta, Google, Coinbase | Ex [Meta, Google, Coinbase, Lyft]

Christina Martin

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Chris has contributed technology expertise to scripted television. Chris focuses on AI, film/tv development and animal welfare nonprofit work. Chris has spent years building and investing in entertainment and technology. Previously at Marina View, Chris built and sold the well-known music property, Backstage Artist Lounge, on tour for 10 years with 500 famous bands. Chris also worked on two Oscar-winning films, “Crash” and “Bobby.” Chris performed ballroom dance for over a decade and has her VFR Private Pilot’s license. Companies that Chris advised include Aventus in the UK, Wyre, and one of the largest US music tours, Breakaway Festival. Chris authored several short films and a music video for RCA Records entitled “Fairy Tale” by Saint Asonia. Chris interviewed dozens of well-known talent for media outlets both on-screen and print. Chris traded currency derivatives and built the entire entertainment practice of an international payments company. Chris was cast in and won VH1's television show "Rock Band 2 The Stars" starring Alice Cooper and Sebastian Bach. Chris covered the UK, EU and North America as VP of STW Fixed Income Management with >$12 billion AUM. Chris traded OTC derivatives in Charles Schwab headquarters, becoming VP of a statistical arbitrage hedge fund. Chris was elected Trustee of University of Colorado’s $1 billion Foundation & Endowment, allocating significantly to alternative assets. Chris received her Bachelor's in International Affairs from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Summa Cum Laude. Chris did an MBA at UCLA, studied abroad in Spain and China and completed courses at The Institute for Adventure Sports. Expertise: Fintech, Writing/Editing, Venture Capital, Currency Markets, Music Touring, Corporate Finance, Business Strategy, Communications, Marketing, Private Equity, Hedge Funds.

Julie Graves MA, LAT, ATC

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With over 15 years of advanced knowledge and experience in the medical field, I bring outstanding communication skills, self-motivation and an enthusiastic approach to achieving performance expectations.

Armando Somoza, MBA, MFA, CPC

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Armando Somoza is a father, 5x founder, serial intrapreneur, nonprofit executive, ICF-certified healing-centered executive coach, artist, and resident riff-raff. His experience in innovation, design strategy, business development, and responsive pedagogy has fueled his 20+ year career of building, launching, and scaling products, programs, and initiatives inside of organizations, as well as launching business ventures that express his vision for impact in the world. He is co-founder of a coaching consultancy called Alma Mia and CEO & Co-Founder of Rapport Studios, a full-service creative agency that exists to disrupt, awaken, and re-orient people's relationship to knowledge and culture. His executive experience in nonprofit leadership and startup has shaped the foundation of his radical approach to cross-functional organizational leadership and love for design strategy, pedagogy, and facilitation. He has extensive experience designing and facilitating executive professional development workshops, national conference presentations, and technology-enhanced interactive learning experiences.

Elizabeth Hernandez

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During my years at The Denver Post, I’ve been a breaking news and general assignment reporter, an education writer and a guinea pig. As a breaking reporter, I covered hard-hitting stories statewide in three consecutive ways: posting engaging and accurate tweets from the scene, following up with a quick and efficient online story that I updated as news developed and finishing by authoring a thoughtful, informative print piece well before deadline demanded. My byline is adhered to everything from mass shootings like the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood attack to a story on Lake Titicaca frogs that gained international attention. In my education reporting, I focused on amplifying the voices of underrepresented students and educators across Colorado. My story on college women who use sugar daddies to help pay their tuition went national, and my coverage of a Denver Chicano school made my community aware of the struggles of minority students from a fresh perspective. As a guinea pig, I was entrusted by Post editor-in-chief Lee Ann Colacioppo to roll out a new style of beat reporting. This role allowed me to leave the bureaucracy of education reporting behind, instead handpicking interesting, important stories I knew would catch readers’ eyes online and in print and keep them hooked until the last graf. My narrative, conversational tone attracted a younger audience, and my thorough reporting kept our traditional readers gripped. I used Twitter and a professional Facebook page to create a dialogue with my community and examine what issues were on their minds, as well. News is important on its own, but breathing humanity and compassion into a story is what drives me. I covet finding the right words to bring another person’s story to life. I take pleasure in being playful when a story demands it, poignant when it applies and straightforward when it matters.

Theodore Van Rooy

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I love Algorithms, Machine Learning, AI, and Data and Statistical Sciences. From Digital Advertising, Retail, Finance, Energy and Security, I find useful patterns in data and exploit them. Tool: R, Python, Full Stack AWS, Torch, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Causal Inference, LLMs.

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Dependable and self-motivated professional with over 10 years’ experience in a fast-paced SaaS environment. Ability to understand and communicate technical solutions clearly and effectively. Strong ability to build trusting relationships with clients and colleagues. A great teammate who is willing to sacrifice for the good of the team/company.

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Jonathan Hess is a technical leader who has built world-class engineering teams and operated internet-scale infrastructure. He has spent the first 5 years of his career with his hands on the keyboard building software in Java, C++, Python, Ruby, and PHP. He spent the last 10 years building cross-functional teams that built valuable software. He has kept his hands on the keyboard building major pieces of Pinterest’s infrastructure as well as an array of other highly technical applications ranging from IoT to network security. Jonathan Hess currently leads the Performance program at Pinterest, an effort to improve the performance of Pinterest across mobile, web, network, server and AWS cloud platforms.