Top Entrepreneurial Speakers
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Alexander Blass
Wharton and Oxford-educated, Alexander Blass is an internationally acclaimed American entrepreneur and innovator. He has traveled to over 40 countries and appeared in hundreds of media outlets, including multiple cover stories. Now 36, he is the youngest grand prize winner ever of the Daily Record's Top Innovator of the Year Award, which credited him with...
Anne Mahlum
Anne M. Mahlum is the Founder and President of Back on My Feet (BOMF), a strategic and unique nonprofit organization that promotes the self-sufficiency of the homeless population by engaging them in running as a means to build confidence, strength and self-esteem...
Anthony E. Zuiker
As the creator and executive producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, one of the highest-rated dramas in television history, Anthony E. Zuiker is tuned-in to America's steep consumer expectations. Not only did Zuiker develop a blockbuster television series; he built an entertainment empire that transformed television programming and advertising. A world-wide phenomenon, the CSI franchise ...
Atoosa Rubenstein
Atoosa Rubenstein started Big Momma Productions, Inc. in December 2006 after a prominent, thirteen-year career with Hearst Magazines. Her most recent position was as editor-in-chief of Seventeen. Prior to that, at age 26 she founded and served as the editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL! This made her the youngest editor in Hearst Magazine's 100-year history. Her new ventures will expand her...
Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality...
Biz Stone
Biz Stone has been named Nerd of the Year by GQ, one of the Most Influential People in The World by TIME magazine, Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc Magazine, and one of Vanity Fair's Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age but Biz Stone, 37 is best known for over a decade of developing collaborative web systems freely accessed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide...
Chip Conley
At age 26, Chip Conley started out as a rebel entrepreneur, building one of America's most successful boutique hotel brands, Joie de Vivre. As the company's leader for 24 years, Chip was honored as the "Most Innovative CEO in the Bay Area" by the San Francisco Business Times in 2007 and JdV was named the "2nd Best Place to Work in the Bay Area" in 2008. He is the author of three books including...
Christian Siriano
Oprah Winfrey calls his designs "works of art." Tim Gunn calls him "a prodigy" and "the next great American fashion designer." Only 24 years old, Christian Siriano was born to design. Raised by a creative family in Annapolis, Maryland, Christian began designing at just thirteen years old and attended the Baltimore School for the Arts and then went on to study at the American...
Christy Haubegger
Christy Haubegger founded Latina magazine in 1996 following her graduation from Stanford Law School. It was in a business course there that Haubegger conceived of and developed a business plan for a groundbreaking magazine that would showcase fashion, beauty, lifestyle and empowerment for Hispanic women.
Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford is one of the most recognizable faces in the world, having appeared on over 600 magazine covers worldwide. Crawford’s reputation as being both a smart and savvy businesswoman has allowed her the opportunity to foray into many different aspects of commerce. Crawford’s name and face have been responsible for launching numerous new brands, as well as repositioning such classic...
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning actor, comedian, screenwriter, and most recently business entrepreneur. He attended Carleton University in Canada, but dropped out before receiving his degree. He veered away from his study of criminology in college in order to pursue his interest in acting. He began as a comedian in various Canadian nightclubs and went...
Danny Seo
Environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo calls his eco-friendly way of living "Simply Green." Through his best-selling books, television programs, products, magazine columns and his how-to lifestyle lectures, Danny Seo continues to share the creative ideas that have made him America's leading lifestyle authority on modern, eco-friendly living. Born on Earth Day in 1977, Danny has championed...
Dany Levy
Business owner, journalist and savvy cultural observer, Dany Levy brings a sense of intensity, vision and creative voice to all her endeavors. After graduation from Brown University with a BA in English with honors in creative writing, Levy began her career in 1994 at New York magazine. There, she revamped and edited the Sales and Bargains section in 1996, and subsequently created the...
Debbie Travis
Debbie Travis was born and raised in Lancashire, in the north of England. After Art College and a very successful 6-year modeling career, she entered the television industry as a freelance editor and producer. With this experience to her credit, Debbie started her own production company making documentaries. During a 1985 visit to a TV buyers market in Cannes she met her future...
Donald Trump
Real estate magnate, best selling author, philanthropist and most recently executive producer of the smash television hit The Apprentice, Donald J. Trump has epitomized success in America for more than three decades. To the lectern he brings his unquenchable entrepreneurial spirit, legendary financial acumen and signature charismatic flair, in sharing the secrets behind his many achievements in...
Duff Goldman
Chef Duff Goldman started working for acclaimed Baltimore Chef Cindy Wolf while attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. After graduating with degrees in History and Philosophy, Duff left Baltimore to study pastries at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley, California. While in Napa, Duff was a stagiere at the French Laundry, working under acclaimed pastry Chef...
Eric Ries
New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned. He cofounded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup. He is a frequent speaker at business events, has advised a number of startups, large companies, and venture capital firms on business and product strategy, and is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard...
Gary Vaynerchuk
The world of business is coming full circle. The rise of the Internet and the empowerment of the common consumer has created a fundamental shift in how businesses are expected to behave. To take advantage of this opportunity, businesses will need to look backwards and scale the caring their grandparents' businesses exhibited towards their customers or watch their competition pass them by...
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons co-founded KISS 35 years ago. KISS continues to be the juggernaut of licensing/merchandising, with over 2,500 licenses. KISS has broken box office records set by the Beatles and Elvis and continues stronger than ever. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, KISS has been America’s number one gold record award winning group of all time. Gene Simmons has several...
Gentry Humphrey
How do you take a brand from big to huge? How do you make a brand part of the everyday lexicon? Gentry Humphrey, the man who helped make Air Jordans a standard wardrobe accessory, tells audiences how to move consumers by innovating, imagining and inspiring. If you doubt the influence the Jordan Brand has had on popular culture, think about this: Before the first AIR JORDAN...
Greg Norman
Greg Norman was born February 10,1955. He decided to give golf a try as a 15-year-old and just two years later, at his first day at Virginia Golf Club in Brisbane, Australia, he was a scratch player. He has won 86 professional events around the world, including two British Open Championships and 20 U.S. PGA Tour titles. The culmination of an astounding golfing career came Nov. 11, 2001, when..
Howard Behar
Howard Behar is the former president of Starbucks Coffee Company North America and Starbucks Coffee International. He joined Starbucks in 1989 when the company had just begun to venture outside the Northwest region. Initially serving as Vice President of Sales and Operations, he grew the retail business from 28 stores to more than 400 stores by the time he was named president of Starbucks Coffee..
Jack Nicklaus
No name is more synonymous with greatness in the sport of golf than the name Jack Nicklaus, and no single person has changed the face of the sport more than Jack Nicklaus – the player, the designer, the philanthropist, and the good-will ambassador. Jack, 70, has been named “Golfer of the Century” or “Golfer of the Millennium” by almost every major golf publication in the world. He was...
James Cameron
Born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, James Cameron grew up in the historic village of Chippawa, near Niagara Falls. In 1971, he moved to Brea, California where he studied physics at Fullerton Junior College while working as a machinist and, later, a truck driver. Cameron quit his trucking job in 1978 and raised money from local dentists to produce a 35mm short film...
Jeff Ma
As a member of the MIT Blackjack Team, Jeff Ma created an ingenious method for counting cards -- using talent, creativity, math and teamwork to win millions in Vegas. (Card-counting, by the way, is not illegal; casinos just don't like it.) Ma is the subject of the best-selling book Bringing Down the House and the hit movie, 21, which topped the box office in its first two weeks...
Jeff Ng
With his hands in just about everything, 33-year-old Jeffrey Ng aka jeffstaple has masterfully created a world of communicating through design. The founder and owner of Staple Design, Staple Clothing and Reed Space, Jeff is a graphic, web and clothing designer, artist, DJ, writer and entrepreneur. Born in New Jersey, Jeff attended New York University to study journalism. While in college, he...
Jeff Staple
With his hands in just about everything, 33-year-old Jeffrey Ng aka jeffstaple has masterfully created a world of communicating through design. The founder and owner of Staple Design, Staple Clothing and Reed Space, Jeff is a graphic, web and clothing designer, artist, DJ, writer and entrepreneur. Born in New Jersey, Jeff attended New York University to study journalism. While in college, he...
Jeffrey Saad
Jeffrey Saad is the star of United Tastes of America, which debuted on the Cooking Channel in November 2010. He is the executive chef and partner of The Grove, San Francisco's Living Room; the perfect place for gourmet comfort food, fabulous music and a breathtakingly cool vibe. Enamored with food and formally trained at the Culinary Institute of America and the California Culinary Academy...
Jenn Lim
Jenn Lim is the CEO and Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness, a company she and Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) co-created in 2010 to inspire happiness in work, community and everyday life...
Joe Bastianich
Beginning with almost Dickensian roots, working in his parents' Felice and Lidia's Italian restaurant in Queens, washing dishes, cleaning the sidewalk, and touring the jungle-like meat markets of the Bronx, Joe Bastianich's life charts a culinary adventure that ends with this nice Italian boy becoming one of America's premier restaurateurs - as well as a noted winemaker, bon vivant, street...
Marcus Buckingham
Marcus Buckingham has dedicated his career to helping individuals discover and capitalize on their personal strengths. Hailed as a visionary by corporations such as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, and Disney, he has helped to usher in the “strengths revolution,” persuasively arguing that people are dramatically more effective, fulfilled and successful...Martha Stewart
From her award-winning magazine, Martha Stewart Living, to her bestselling product lines, Martha Stewart shares the creative principles and practical ideas that have made her America's most trusted guide to stylish living. Millions of consumers rely on Martha Stewart as their arbiter of style and taste and their guide to all aspects of everyday living - from cooking and entertaining...
Martin Eberhard
One of Fortune Magazine's Top Innovators and the man who founded the revolutionary Car Company, Tesla Motors, Martin Eberhard is waking business audiences up to the idea that innovation is the key to success and the key to making green cool. From the Rocket eBook to the Tesla Roadster, the visionary Eberhard is continuously pushing the envelope and changing the way we think of product...
Michael Fertik
Michael Fertik founded Reputation.com with the belief that businesses and individuals have the right to control and protect their online reputation and privacy. Credited with pioneering the field of online reputation management (ORM), Fertik is lauded as the world's leading cyber thinker in digital privacy and reputation. He is a serial entrepreneur and one of Silicon Valley's go-to thought..._website.jpg)
Mike Wolfe
If you would have told me fifteen years ago that I'd be picking for a living, I wouldn't have believed you. That said I've been looking for treasures in the trash forever. When I was five, I had my first big score when I found a pile of old bicycles in my neighborhood on trash day. And I was always bringing home old bottles and other random stuff. I never thought of it as junk: to me, it was...
Muhummad Yunus
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides the poor - mainly women - with small loans they use to launch businesses and...
Paula Wagner
Paula Wagner, a co-owner of United Artists Entertainment, LLC (along with Tom Cruise and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.), also serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer, overseeing all its day-to-day operations. She and Cruise took charge of United Artists in November 2006, with the aim of reviving the venerable studio founded nearly 90 years ago by movie legends ...
Peter Guber
Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives and entrepreneurs in the entertainment and communications industries. Films he personally produced or executive produced, including Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in the Mist, The Witches of...
Rod Beckstrom
Rod Beckström is an entrepreneur and catalyst who has successfully created new businesses and changed established ones through his creative ideas, powerful concepts and passion. He co-authored the bestselling book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations that presents a new model for analyzing organizations, leadership styles and competitive strategy.
Russell Simmons
Acknowledged as the Godfather of Hip-Hop, he is the visionary behind Def Jam, the legendary label that launched the careers of such artists as Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Jay-Z and Ludicrous; his immensely successful fashion empire of Phat Fashions defines the next generation of chic style, while his Def Comedy Jam, Run’s House and Def Poetry Jam shows breathed new life into comedy and..
Scooter Braun
Scooter Braun has quickly and successfully positioned SB Projects as a full-service entertainment company that includes Schoolboy Music, RBMG, Sheba Publishing and management. Scooter Braun also serves on the advisory board for Pencils of Promise, a non-profit organization that was founded by his brother, Adam Braun. Pencils of Promise partners with local communities and other organizations to...
Sean "Diddy" Combs
Sean Combs, the CEO and founder of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group is a multifaceted entertainment powerhouse. Sean "Diddy" Combs was recently declared "One of the Most Influential Businessmen in the World" by Time Magazine and CNN. Combs, 41, oversees one of the world's preeminent urban entertainment companies, encompassing a broad range of businesses including recording, music...
Shaun Tomson
Shaun Tomson has been listed as one of the 25 most influential surfers of the century and as one of the 10 greatest surfers of all time. He was a professional surfer for 14 years, winning the IPS World Title in 1977. During his career he was both the youngest and oldest surfer to win a pro event. He is the author of the best-selling book Surfer’s Code – 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through...
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is an angel investor (StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter, etc.) and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages...
Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk was nine years old when his brother changed his life by giving him a blue fiberglass Bahne skateboard. By twelve, Tony was sponsored by Dogtown Skateboards, by fourteen he was pro, and by age sixteen Tony Hawk was widely considered the best skateboarder in the world. In the ensuing 17 years, Hawk entered an estimated 103 pro contests. He won 73 of them, and placed second in 19. By far...
Trey Ratcliff
Trey Ratcliff (@TreyRatcliff) runs the #1 Travel Photography Blog in the world at StuckInCustoms.com, which receives over half a million monthly page views. Chris Anderson from TED called Trey a "pioneer of HDR photography." HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is a new paradigm in art that creates images like no one has ever seen before. Trey has had the first HDR photograph to hang in the...
Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso is the world’s top-ranked female poker player. At 22-years-old, she was the youngest woman to reach the final table at the World Series of Poker circuit level. Vanessa started showing signs of above-average intelligence at an early age, speaking at age one, reading by age three and playing poker by age five and then fluent in French and Spanish. She studied at Duke...
Alexandra Wilkis Wilson
Alexandra Wilkis Wilson has over thirteen years of international experience in luxury goods and retail. She is Founder and Chief Merchandising Officer of Gilt Groupe, an innovative online lifestyle shopping destination that launched in November 2007 revolutionizing the fashion industry and ecommerce in general. Gilt Groupe was valued at $1 billion in the spring of 2011. Prior to co-founding...
Alexis Maybank
Alexis has dedicated her career to building and launching innovative and compelling ecommerce experiences for consumers. In 2007, Alexis became a founding CEO of Gilt Groupe, working to expand the company's sales categories from women's brands to include lifestyle categories such as sporting goods, home decor, children's apparel, local experiences and luxury travel services. Prior to founding...
More Speakers
- Dan Aykroyd
- Joe Bastianich
- Rod Beckstrom
- Howard Behar
- Alexander Blass
- Scooter Braun
- Marcus Buckingham
- James Cameron
- Sean "Diddy" Combs
- Chip Conley
- Cindy Crawford
- Martin Eberhard
- Tim Ferriss
- Michael Fertik
- Duff Goldman
- Peter Guber
- Christy Haubegger
- Tony Hawk
- Gentry Humphrey
- Dany Levy
- Jenn Lim
- Jeff Ma
- Anne Mahlum
- Alexis Maybank
- Ben Mezrich
- Jeff Ng
- Jack Nicklaus
- Greg Norman
- Trey Ratcliff
- Eric Ries
- Vanessa Rousso
- Atoosa Rubenstein
- Jeffrey Saad
- Danny Seo
- Gene Simmons
- Russell Simmons
- Christian Siriano
- Jeff Staple
- Martha Stewart
- Biz Stone
- Shaun Tomson
- Debbie Travis
- Donald Trump
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Paula Wagner
- Alexandra Wilkis Wilson
- Mike Wolfe
- Muhummad Yunus
- Anthony E. Zuiker
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial
Since the early days of the American business landscape, entrepreneurs have been the backbone of growth and innovation in this country.
The entrepreneurial public speakers of CAA have all lead their companies, as well as other organizations, to the highest levels of growth and prominence within their industries.
Choose from corporate event speakers who are deeply involved in the worlds of advertising, marketing, and the internet. These are entrepreneurs who have been through all the ups and downs that accompany growing a business from scratch and enjoyed success because of their experiences.
There are few better ways to inspire a business audience than with an entrepreneurial business speaker from CAA.
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