Alan Bell (Edward Jones, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Alan is dedicated to helping his clients understand and meet their financial goals. He is also responsible for recruiting diverse candidates to the Edward Jones Opportunity.
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Amy Frisella (Woodworth & Frisella, PC, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is an attorney who specializes in business-to-business breach of contract and collection matters since 2002. Amy manages collection accounts all over the continental U.S., allowing businesses to outsource portions of their accounts receivable department and offering attorneys and law firms a one-stop law firm to pursue payment from former clients throughout the country. Amy’s extracurricular titles include adjunct professor in the legal department at Bay Path University, member of several boards of directors for local businesses and non-profits, and president of her church.
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Andy Payne (Angel Investor, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) was Co-Founder of Open Market (1994-1998) and is an angel investor.
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Carl Barnes (Morse, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is an attorney who helps amazing people to start companies, to grow them, to get them financed and to get them sold. He also represents investment funds and professionals as well as strategic and PE buyers. His clients include startups spanning a wide variety of technologies, investors, mid-market companies and publicly traded companies in the U.S, Europe and Asia.
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Chiara LaPlume (LaPlume Law, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is a real estate and general business law attorney, specializing in providing personal attention as a business advisor to small and medium-sized businesses in the greater Boston area. She provides international experience and legal services in Italian as well as English.
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Chris Umana (Umana Law, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is an attorney whose practice focuses on business and corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, start-up and formation of companies, and drafting and negotiating licensing, product purchase and sale, employment and other business and commercial agreements.
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Dave Clough (MPower Advisors, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is President of MPower Advisors, which helps business owners realize the full potential of their businesses both in profitability and the personal rewards that should come with entrepreneurship. Specialties: Human Capital Development, Hiring, Sales and Marketing, Business Planning and Operations (processes).
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Des Pieri (Interim CEO/COO, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is a professional interim CEO or COO. He is asked by investors and/or board members to help companies get started, restarted, or grow to the next level, having run organizations from pure startups to companies with $25 million in revenue.
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Drew Hannah (Drew Partners, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) partners with CEOs and their leadership teams to position, fund, transform, and scale revenue-stage businesses to accelerate growth and maximize company value. He does this by bringing a unique blend of operating experience and investor insight. His clients are often founders and first time CEOs who must deliver key outcomes for their stakeholders including: sustainable cash-positive operations, repeatable and predictable sales processes, revenue scale, and ultimately, high value exit.
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Erik Wegweiser (Intelligent Database, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is a custom FileMaker database software design consultant and contractor. Intelligent Database specializes in creating database-driven desktop, mobile and web applications that allow clients to keep track of the things, people and information they work with every day. Their way. Specialties include making life for clients better, with measurable ROI, by creating tools that allow people to work more efficiently and productively, together.
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Jim Kobe (James A. Kobe, P.C., Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is an attorney who specializes in employee-side employment law and civil litigation matters. In the field of litigation, he focuses on employment, real estate and business and commercial matters. In the field of employment law, in addition to handling employment litigation, he also provide services to employers and employees in a variety of areas including hiring, termination and severance, non-competition, discrimination, harassment and compensation issues.
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John Koenig (John L. Koenig Law, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is an attorney who helps business owners prepare for and accomplish The Most Important Transaction of Their Life – their business succession, including: inside sales to co-founders, sales to key employees or junior associates, and sales to outside third parties.
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Julia Abbott (Samuel Sayward & Baler, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is an attorney who concentrates her practice in advising individuals and families in the areas of estate planning and taxation.
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Justin Aiello (Aiello Designs, Greater Portland, Maine) provides engineering services to independent inventors and product-based startup companies. This includes design, engineering, prototyping services as well as the ability to implement these products into mass production. Specialties: Award winning product design, 3D CAD Engineering, plastic part design, high-end computer generated renderings, US patent searches, rapid prototyping and overseas production sourcing.
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Karen Donoghue (HumanLogic, UNITED STATES) is a consulting Interaction Architect who works with Product Management leaders to determine and refine requirements and apply User-centered design (UCD) to PM. She conducts primary user research and analysis, and produce concept designs, interaction models, flows and wireframes. She contributes to MVP releases working on new feature design and also perform user experience audits on existing products. Her clients include Google, VMware, T-Mobile, The Associated Press, ForAllSecure, SecurityScorecard, the U.S. government, and many startups.
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Larry Gennari (Gennari Aronson, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is a finance and transactional lawyer who values his role in facilitating key relationships and strategic opportunities for his clients. Larry’s clients, whether they are public companies, venture-backed or angel-financed private companies, entrepreneurs, investors or board members, look to him as one of their most trusted business advisors.
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Luke O’Brien (Trinity Law Group, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is an experienced in-house counsel who spends his waking hours making law firms & legal departments more efficient.
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Mark Newberg (Stockbridge Advisors, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is President of Stockbridge Advisors, a strategic consulting firm focused on Impact, ESG (environmental, social, and governance), and Opportunity Zones.
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Melissa Levine-Piro (Levine-Piro Law, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is the founder of Levine-Piro Law, P.C. as well as Affordable Law Group. She actively manages both firms. Melissa practices in the areas of family law and general civil litigation. Melissa also provides mediation services to couples going through divorce.
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Mike Douglas (Gennari Aronson, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) a partner at Gennari Aronson, LLP, is a corporate and securities lawyer with deep experience in negotiating and structuring complex transactions for clients in a wide range of industries. Mike works with emerging growth companies across their entire lifecycle, from drafting founder equity and employment agreements to negotiating venture rounds and exits.
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Mike Fleischner (Clockwork Design Group, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is the CEO and Production Director of Clockwork Design Group, Inc. (Clockwork Design Group, Inc; Waltham MA). Founded in 1994, Clockwork helps law firms, CPA and financial firms, engineering and construction companies, and technology firms build powerful brands. Mike is Clockwork’s technology guy. He is the primary liaison between the designers and the developers or printers, and prepares and checks all files for online or print prior to release. Mike graduated from Tufts University with a degree in English Literature, and took graphic design classes at Rhode Island School of Design.
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Mike Gonnerman (Michael Gonnerman Consulting, Hanover, New Hampshire) is a financial guru with over five decades years of experience as a Director, Advisor, financial consultant, CFO and auditor. He helps companies deal with issues involving corporate oversight, financial management, financial reporting, forecasting and financing. He is the author of ‘Ask Mike,’ a collection of questions and answers about entrepreneurial finance, and he is a frequent speaker on finance and entrepreneurship. His financial tools have been adopted by hundreds of companies.
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Nadia Nassif (Springboards Consulting, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is CEO and Founder of Springboards Consulting, LLC, a global communications coaching practice focused on accelerated career development for consulting, litigation, and expert services professionals through individual coaching programs, workshops, and specialized training support for multicultural employees. Springboards offers training to legal clients in the areas of: writing training seminars and private coaching; vocal and performance coaching for testifying experts and those preparing for deposition; business development communications strategy and training for practice partners; and, language and cross cultural coaching for legal professionals of multicultural and English as Another Language backgrounds.
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Nick Bliamptis (ProfileGraderPro, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) s the President & Founder of Facet Executive Search, which specializes in recruiting senior-level executives and key strategic personnel for venture-backed startups. Nick applied his recruiting and technology background to create ProfileGraderPro.com, which helps professionals at all levels upgrade their profiles and successfully market themselves using LinkedIn.
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Nick Iannuzzi (Grossman & Associates, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is a Partner at Grossman & Associates, Ltd., where he concentrates his practice in Family Law. Attorney Iannuzzi has over two decades of experience handling Family Law matters including divorce, custody, paternity, child support, alimony, restraining orders, removal, modification and contempt actions.
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Paul Kamp (Blueberry Hill Enterprises, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) provides strategic consulting for early stage ventures defining transformational business models, product management, developing partnership strategies, structuring commercial transactions, technology licensing, mergers, acquisitions and acquisition integration. Clients include MongoDB, WiredTiger, RocketChat, CVS, Commonwealth Financial Network, Backbone Networks, Greenleaf Medical,and Campus Guardian.
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Robert Finkel (Moritt Hock & Hamroff, New York City, New York) is an AV-rated attorney who has over 30 years of experience as a tax and business lawyer, Robert’s practice focuses on the areas of individual and business taxation including tax controversy and tax litigation.
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Scott Goffstein (AAFCPAs, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is the International Tax Partner at AAFCPAs whose diverse international tax expertise comes from his years of proven experience advising start-ups, venture-back companies, and global companies expanding into U.S. markets with complex cross-border, international accounting and taxation issues. Scott advises companies on challenges and opportunities stemming from expansion into the U.S. markets, including managing and structuring cross-border transactions. His expertise includes tax treaty issues, transfer pricing methodologies, inter-company transactions, and forecasting the impact of the ever-evolving IRS tax code. Scott emphasizes multi-year tax planning to minimize future tax burdens and avoid potential issues.
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Scott Lewis (CEO Roundtable, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is CEO of CEO Roundtable Boston, Boston’s premier peer experience for CEOs, Founders and Senior Executives.
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Sean Abbott (Company Counsel, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is a corporate attorney with experience advising start-ups, established operating companies and investors on a broad spectrum of business law issues. Currently, Co-founder and Principal of Company Counsel, LLC, providing an innovative, cost-effective alternative to traditional legal service models. Specialties: General corporate representation, start-up issues, entity formation, equity and debt financing transactions, technology licensing, employee hiring and firing, corporate governance and board of directors issues, employee equity incentives, joint ventures, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, commercial and other third party contracts.
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Steve Cagnetta (Company Counsel, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is an attorney and the founder of Company Counsel, LLC, which provides affordable part-time general counsel for emerging companies, venture firms and angel groups. He has significant experience with start-up issues, licensing or other relationship-type agreements, equity and debt financings, employment compensation and general corporate matters. He acts much in the same way a general counsel for a large corporation would operate. He often will work with existing outside counsel and handle those matters where the fees for such counsel have become prohibitively expensive. Specialties: Part-time general counsel, licensing, general corporate, M&A, equity and debt financing.
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Tom Biggins (Atlantis Technology, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is the founder of Atlantis Technology. Together with some wonderful longtime colleagues, they provide web and mobile software development and data services. Their customers are folks with interesting and meaningful ideas to create products and services that put a dent in the universe.
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Tom Dodge (NewView.Media, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) produced 413 videos across 85 marketing, event, and fundraising campaigns in 2019. Tom guides brands through preproduction, filming and video editing. He is the recipient of the “Best Business Video Marketing Agency” for Greater Boston in 2020 from Corporate Vision Magazine’s Media Innovator Awards.
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Vanessa Schaefer (Clockwork Design Group, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is the President & Creative Director of Clockwork Design Group, Inc. (Clockwork Design Group, Inc.; Greater Boston MA). Founded in 1994, Clockwork helps law firms, CPA and financial firms, engineering and construction companies, and technology firms build powerful brands. Whether designing a website, creating a logo, developing an ad campaign, or building a marketing plan, Vanessa prides herself on being a problem solver and enjoys helping clients meet difficult challenges.
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Will Herman (Author & Investor, Greater Boston, Massachusetts) is an active angel investor with over 80 investments, a corporate director, an author and a startup mentor. He was previously a serial entrepreneur, having started 5 companies – mostly successes, but a couple of miserable failures. He sold his last company, Innoveda (NASDAQ:INOV), a supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software tools to Mentor Graphics in 2002.
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