Top Entrepreneurial Speakers

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson
Alexandra Wilkis Wilson is co-founder of Gilt Groupe, an innovative e-commerce company offering highly-coveted luxury lifestyle products and experiences. For the company's first four and one half years, she was Chief Merchandising Officer. Recently she took on a new responsibility as Head of National Sales for Gilt City, a fast-growing business within Gilt Groupe. Alexandra is a member of the...
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...
Anthony E. Zuiker
Anthony E. Zuiker is one of the most creative and multifaceted individuals working in Hollywood today. He is the creator of television’s hugely successful CSI franchise, which includes CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. The original CSI has received widespread critical acclaim and was recently named the most watched series in the world for the fourth time in five...
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, one of Vanity Fair's Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age, and was honored with the International Center for Journalists' first Innovation Award...
Chip Conley
No hotel executive in the world has overseen the development and creation of more boutique hotels than Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre, America's second largest boutique hotelier. At the age of 26 with no industry experience, Chip transformed a seedy 1950's "no-tell motel" into the world-renowned Phoenix Hotel, a legendary rock 'n roll hotel that catered to the likes of David Bowie, Linda...
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...Craig Newmark
Craig Newmark is a self-described nerd, pioneer of the Web, speaker, philanthropist, and a strong advocate of the use of technology for the public good. He is the founder of craigslist, which he started in 1995 and is now one of the world's most-visited websites with around 50 billion pages views per month...
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...
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...
Eric Ries
Entrepreneur and New York Times Bestselling Author, ERIC RIES, is best recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement, a new-business strategy which maximizes a company’s potential by allocating and improvising their resources as efficiently as possible. When Crown Business published Eric’s first book, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create...
Gary Vaynerchuk
Already considered a quintessential maven of modern-day marketing, GARY VAYNERCHUK is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author as well as a self-trained wine and social media expert. In high school, while working at his family owned liquor store, Gary started reading The Wine Spectator among other wine books and realized collecting wine offered an allure similar to...
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...
Gilt Groupe
As long time friends, Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson knew that they would always create something innovative together. For Alexis and Alexandra, the question was never “if” but rather “when.” Alexis returned from the West, her proving ground was Silicon Valley as a founding member of eBay, while Alexandra hailed from the East coast, blazing a trail up 5th Avenue with tenures at both...
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..
James Cameron
Born in Canada, James Cameron moved to California in 1971 at the age of 17. He studied physics at Fullerton Junior College while working as a machinist, and later a truck driver. Setting his sights on a career in film, Cameron quit his trucking job and went to work on low-budget science fiction films as a self-taught designer and visual effects artist. In 1984, his first directed film...
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...
John Mackey
John P. Mackey, co-founder of the Company, has served as Chief Executive Officer since 1980. Mr. Mackey also served as President from June 2001 to October 2004, and as Chairman of the Board from 1978 to December 2009. As the company's visionary, he has led the development of many innovative programs such as the $10 million in low-interest loans to local farmers and food producers to help them...
Kathy Ireland
kathy ireland Worldwide (kiWW) is the design and marketing firm founded in 1993 by CEO and Chief Designer, Kathy Ireland. The mission statement of kiWW is "...finding solutions for families, especially busy moms"TM. Forbes Magazine reports that kiWW is a "design empire which grosses over 1.4 billion dollars annually in retail sales." License Global Magazine names kathy ireland Worldwide® the
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
A lifelong American picker, Mike Wolfe has been combing through junk since the age of four and he's earned a reputation as one of the country's foremost foragers, traveling coast to coast in search of forgotten treasures. Where other people see dilapidated barns and overgrown yards, Mike sees potential gold mines packed with rare finds and sensational stories. And in the last three years, he's...
Paula Wagner
Paula Wagner has worked in the top ranks of the entertainment industry as a talent agent, film producer and studio executive. Currently, Wagner is developing films, theatre and television through her production company Chestnut Ridge Productions (CRP). Under the CRP banner, Wagner will produce the Broadway theatrical production of The Heiress starring Jessica Chastain and David Strathairn...
Peter Guber
Peter Guber is Chairman and CEO of the multimedia Mandalay Entertainment Group. Prior to Mandalay, Guber was Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, Co-Founder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. Guber produced or executive produced (personally or through his companies) films that garnered five Best Picture...Sir Richard Branson
Richard Branson is the eccentric and outspoken chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways and the founder of Virgin Records, which he went on to sell for an unprecedented $1 billion. Famous for his daring entrepreneurial style, he oversees the Virgin Group, Ltd., an extensive conglomerate encompassing over 360 companies, including recording studios, a travel business, publishing entities, and retail...
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..Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar is the multi-platinum recording artist known as the Red Rocker, lead singer of hard rock legendary group Van Halen and respected member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Throughout his career he also evolved into the entrepreneurial mastermind behind the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, a bar and restaurant owner and philanthropist. He continues to rock as an artist and businessman as...
Scooter Braun
Scooter Braun has strategically positioned SB Projects as one of the most exciting, and fastest-growing, companies in the entertainment industry. With the unprecedented success of clients such as Justin Bieber, Asher Roth, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Wanted and Cody Simpson, Scooter is widely considered one of the music industry’s most promising and powerful young executives. If Scooter Braun’s...
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...
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...Walter Robb
With a long and varied entrepreneurial history in natural foods ranging from retailer to farmer to consultant, Walter Robb joined Whole Foods Market in 1991. He opened and operated the Mill Valley, California, store until he became president of the Northern Pacific Region in 1993. Under Robb, the region grew from two to 17 stores, including four acquisitions. Robb then became Executive...Willie Degel
Willie Degel is a restaurateur, TV personality, author and perennial entrepreneur. Degel opened his first restaurant, Hollywood and Main at Flushing, Queens in the summer of 1990 and hasn't looked back since. Six years later he opened the first (of three) famed Uncle Jack's Steakhouses in New York City where he refined his unique method of growing a business. Based on his signature direct...Barbara Corcoran
Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job, however, that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country, when she borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City. Over the next twenty-five...
Rachel Zoe
An unparalleled fixture in the fashion world, RACHEL ZOE is a distinguished designer, entrepreneur and stylist, renowned for her effortless take on glamour. Having immersed herself in fashion and design for nearly two decades, Rachel has been heralded as one of the most influential forces working in fashion today. As a Los Angeles-based stylist, her illustrious career has flourished as she...
Andy Enfield
Recently named Head Basketball Coach for the USC Trojans, ANDY ENFIELD and his former team captivated the nation in the 2013 NCAA Tournament when the Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles accomplished an unprecedented feat by becoming the first No. 15 seed ever to reach the Sweet 16. In only his second year as Head Coach and FGCU’s second year of post-season eligibility, the Eagles also...
Jessica Alba
While JESSICA ALBA is a Golden Globe-nominated actress whose career continues to flourish in films such as FANTASTIC FOUR, SIN CITY, and LITTLE FOCKERS, she proceeds to distinguish herself as a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and author. A California native, Jessica comes from modest beginnings and never forgets to share her good fortunes with others. She is actively involved with charities...
Bill Rancic
Award-winning personality BILL RANCIC hosts the successful nationally-syndicated television show, America Now, and serves as co-executive producer with his wife Giuliana on the top-rated reality show, Giuliana and Bill. The duo will also share hosting duties for the upcoming NBC prime time program Ready for Love. Bill’s unique life experiences as an entrepreneur, best-selling author...
Doug Rauch
Serving as the President for 14 years, DOUG RAUCH‘s 31-year career with the Trader Joe's Company played a pivotal role in their growth from a small, nine-store chain in Southern California to a nationally acclaimed retail success story with more than 340 stores in 30 states. During his tenure at Trader Joe’s, Doug developed their signature buying philosophy, created their unique private...
Chad Hurley
In an era when “game-changer,” “status quo disrupter,” and “new standard,” are tossed around regularly, there are only a small handful of brands and technologies that serve as the indisputable, iconic personifications of those monikers. YouTube is one such entity. Serving as a website, a brand, and a verb, YouTube is the world’s largest and most popular video sharing site and the third...
Richard Rawlings
As co-host of the wildly popular Fast N’ Loud on the Discovery Channel, motor mastermind RICHARD RAWLINGS searches the far flung corners of Texas and surrounding states for forgotten and derelict classic cars to buy and restore at their famous Gas Monkey Garage in Dallas, Texas. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Richard followed in his dad's footsteps and developed a passion for cars...
More Speakers
- Jessica Alba
- Dan Aykroyd
- Joe Bastianich
- Howard Behar
- Sir Richard Branson
- Scooter Braun
- Marcus Buckingham
- James Cameron
- Sean "Diddy" Combs
- Chip Conley
- Barbara Corcoran
- Cindy Crawford
- Willie Degel
- Martin Eberhard
- Andy Enfield
- Tim Ferriss
- Michael Fertik
- Gilt Groupe
- Peter Guber
- Sammy Hagar
- Christy Haubegger
- Tony Hawk
- Chad Hurley
- Kathy Ireland
- Jenn Lim
- John Mackey
- Alexis Maybank
- Craig Newmark
- Greg Norman
- Bill Rancic
- Doug Rauch
- Richard Rawlings
- Eric Ries
- Walter Robb
- Gene Simmons
- Russell Simmons
- Martha Stewart
- Biz Stone
- Donald Trump
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Paula Wagner
- Alexandra Wilkis Wilson
- Mike Wolfe
- Rachel Zoe
- 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.
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