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Michael Deem is an experienced senior professional who has operated in senior management, Board, and advisor capacities with companies ranging from start-up, to rapid growth, to large multi-national companies. His intellectual bandwidth has benefited companies from a wide cross section of industries that include Life Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Genomics, Data Science, Biotechnology, Energy, and Cancer Research.

Michael recently finished his term as Department Chair of Bioengineering at Rice University. In this capacity, he oversaw a department with 20 tenure track faculty, 5 non-tenure track faculty and instructors, 20 support and research staff, 200 undergraduate and 125 graduate students, and an annual research and operating budget of approximately $27 million. The faculty represent a broad range of disciplines in bioengineering: basic physics of biology and cancer, synthetic and systems biology, multimodal imaging, machine learning, tissue engineering, and biomaterials. The department is consistently ranked in the top 10 programs in Biomedical Engineering.

Michael is an active member of The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and is available for select Board appointments. Certified by SAFe in Lean Portfolio Management, Agile, and Scrum.

James is the Chief Executive Officer at FJ Holdings and Khuri Enterprises.

James Khuri is an American businessman, social media influencer, and wildly successful entrepreneur who have been developing successful, innovative businesses and business models for more than 20 years. His groundbreaking work in restructuring e-commerce platforms has propelled him into the spotlight in recent years as he works tirelessly to build a better e-commerce business model that has a more consumer-friendly global impact.

James Khuri is the CEO of nine firms that center on a variety of industries from retail shops to real estate to e-commerce platforms to manufacturing goods and distribution. His strong drive to not only achieve personal success but also make the world a better place, sets him apart from so many garden variety businessmen who are more focused on building their empires than helping build a world that is more inclusive and nurturing for all.

And that is what sets James Khuri apart.

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Sports and Pokemon Card Market

Trading Cards

“The world is more similar than we know.” (James)

Pokemon Was Created in Japan

Ecommerce

Distribution / Logistics to a Product-Based Business

Scaling a Business

Collectibles

Efficiency as a Founder

Marc is a high energy, high caliber Sales Leader and Sales Training Professional with over 22 years of broad commercial experience and a strong history of success in the pharmaceutical industry. I am experienced in the traditional pharmaceutical, buy and bill, and specialty pharmacy business models.

He has been recognized as an exemplary leader at the National and Regional level who is skilled in achieving sales and business objectives through strategic planning, attention to people, and a focus on execution. He is also a highly skilled facilitator and experienced in both on-boarding and building out continuous training platforms and the ability to diagnose training needs and build and implement training curriculum that incorporates adult learning principles for live, on-demand, and virtual formats. 

He has been able to gain diverse product and subject matter expertise in multiple disease states, and have a proven ability to drive organizational effectiveness and revenue growth through strong communication skills, developing cross-functional partnerships, effective presentation skills, accountability, problem-solving skills, and a positive mindset. 

With a high level of adaptability and agility through many organizational changes, his capacity to drive results with limited resources and see projects through to their end in a flexible and innovative manner is unlike any other.

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Marc's Background

Sales

Sales Pipeline

Managing Well

Leadership

Life Lessons

Adversity

Faith

Kevin has immense professional experience in the marketing and management field spanning nearly 30 years. He started his career immediately after college by joining a governmental relations firm and then went on to establish ‘Beer Drinkers of America’–an advocacy organization sponsored by Anheuser Busch and Miller Brewing. Thereafter, Kevin served as an Executive Vice President of Marketing for the Birmingham Fire (NFL’s World League of American Football) and served as Vice President of Marketing for First National Bank of Albuquerque.

After accomplishing great achievements by 30 years of age, Kevin decided to establish and start his own business. By July 1994, he established his first successful company - Promotion Dynamics - a Sports Marketing, Sales and Event Management company. Seven years later by August 2002, Kevin started another business and established Coaching Charities.

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HBCU Legacy Bowl

Sports

Non-Profits

Setting Up Successful Events

Life Lessons

Leadership

Creativity + Innovation

Rene Pardo is an inventor, creator and entrepreneur. A visionary driven by innovating world firsts to impact and help people, his entire life he has been supporting advanced R&D and building tech companies around exceptional, bright people.

He is most recognized for co-inventing and developing the world's first electronic spreadsheet (1969), as well as Forward Referencing, the cornerstone functionality of modern spreadsheets and reactive programming.

The spreadsheet was licensed to and used by the budgeting department of AT&T and every telephone company in North America throughout the early 1970’s, including Bell Canada, as well as by General Motors in Warren, Michigan.

A pioneer in Human-Computer interactions and interfaces, he is also recognized for his advancements and major contributions to education and multimedia.   

Norman McLaren (National Film Board in Montreal, Quebec) and Ken Knowlton (Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey) became Pardo's role models. Inspired by the environment of the NFB and Bell Labs which offered complete creative freedom to outstanding individuals, Rene continues to strive to replicate in business settings the same environments fostering creativity and innovation.

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The Internet

Startups

Entrepreneurship

Systems in Business

Destiny

Rhythm of Life

Lessons from Others (Rene's mother, Norman McLaren, and more)

How to Stay Young Forever

The Difficulty of Patent Lawsuits

Rene's Journey in Business

Lanpar

Brainwave Technologies

Design

Technology

Web3

NFTs

Creativity + Innovation