Raised on real estate with a focus, commitment and drive to support organizations in their number one initiative, growth. After spending the first half of my 21 year real estate career in sales, I recognized a passion for leadership and evolved from agent to branch manager, and finally an executive position as general manager of a tri-state consortium. During my years of leadership I recognized the single-most critical responsibility of any leader is to attract, develop, inspire, and retain quality leadership talent - transferring skill-sets that stimulate the growth of an orgaization. Specialties: Coaching, Training, Consulting, Speaking, Budgets, Pro-Formas, Projects, Agent Training, Marketing, Business Planning for Agents and Brokers, and Technology.

I build best in class strategies, strategy departments and most importantly, strategists. I’ve had the benefit of doing everything from brand strategy to connections planning, from creative briefs to press releases, and I’ve learned the secret that every single part of it matters. I aspire to be a mile wide and a mile deep, and I try to help other people do the same.

Proud Chief Product Evangelist and co-founder of Pi Datametrics, one of the world's leading cloud-based search intelligence solutions, servicing some of the biggest brands and agencies across the globe. Previously a full time lecturer in Business and Emerging Technologies with 7 years spent lecturing at graduate and post grad level. Left teaching around the start of the original dot com boom and joined a startup, worked with global organisations including Andersen, CompTia and Intel in numerous locations including the UK, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin and Australia, advising on online best practice. Post the dot com crash, started an online consultancy, working within the telco sector before co founding Intelligent Positioning and architecting the Intelligent Positioning Engine that today gathers over 50 billion bits of data globally, feeding Pi Datametrics. Passionate about the future of search and in particular, personalisation and voice search. Speaker at numerous search events including BrightonSEO and State of Search. Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire.

Hello! I lead the Product organization at Envoy, and have previously held leadership roles at Benchling, Box, and IBM. I've also started my own company, Subspace, and been a very early employee at another startup, BigFix. Read a bit more about Envoy at https://envoy.com/blog/author/jonfan/ and about how I think about product at https://www.platohq.com/mentors/jon-fan.

Jon Ferrara, has been recognized for pioneering innovation in the customer management category. He's the founder and CEO of Nimble, an award-winning social sales, and marketing CRM for individuals and teams. It's Ranked #1 in Overall Satisfaction by G2 Crowd and integrates with Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite. Learn more at Nimble.com. Ferrara was the creator and co-founder of the award-winning customer management product GoldMine. In 1999, Goldmine got acquired by FrontRange and Ferrara left to pursue other interests. During those years, Ferrara continued to watch the CRM market. He saw that most of the CRM products that were serving small businesses moved upmarket (and became more costly and complex) or fell by the wayside, leaving the market underserved. Specialties: - Entrepreneurship and Product Innovation - Brand and Identity Development - Marketing and Sales Strategy - Managing Global 350+ persons Corporations