Award-winning global marketing executive with 20+ years of experience helping brands, and the people that drive them, reach their full potential. Transformer of marketing teams, leader of brand/product innovations and consistent driver of business growth. Expert in revitalizing brands to either become or reestablish themselves as true industry leaders. Expert in building consensus among individuals, teams, and key stakeholders to foster inspirational and inclusive organization cultures. Known community and company leader always searching to envision breakthrough results. Extensive global work and travel helps shape a holistic view of cultures, experiences and marketing strategies. Schlegel is leading the all-new Product Marketing function at Weber-Stephen Products LLC, helping bring to life the most innovative, legendary grills in the world. Prior to Wilson, Schlegel was most recently at Wilson Sporting Goods Co., having led the global marketing organization for the company's iconic Racquet Sports business. After nearly 13 years at Procter & Gamble, Schlegel spent 3+ years helping to transform the Louisville Slugger brand prior to its acquisition by Wilson in 2015. He has worked both domestically and internationally on widely recognized and highly marketed brands; including Louisville Slugger, Herbal Essences, Old Spice, Aussie and Wella. Now, as a proven marketing vet, he was most recently responsible for all marketing strategy & execution across the Wilson Racquet Sports portfolio, the #1 and most iconic name in the sport. Schlegel has a wide array of experience and a proven track record of success in growing sales and market share, branding, innovation, line extension, retailer/customer collaboration, in-market execution and leadership. In 2013, Schlegel received the Rising Star Award from The CMO Club, recognizing some of the top marketing leaders with less than 15 years experience. And, in 2014, Schlegel was named one of the "40 Under 40" in marketing and advertising by Advertising Age and named to the Louisville Business First "40 Under 40 in Business" in the Greater Louisville area. Today, Schlegel resides in Winnetka, IL with his wife (Audra), daughter (Madeline) and furry family member, his dog (Izzy), a rapidly growing Newfoundland pup. While sports plays a different role in life today, Schlegel still fits it in wherever he can among other priorities in life, such as friends, family, faith and serving others.

I build at the intersection of content and business. As the president of SERHANT. Ventures, I co-founded and lead a fast-growing subscription content-to-commerce business. We offer courses, membership, coaching, speaking engagements, and events to tens of thousands of aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs around the world. I’m responsible for the entire P&L and all business functions, including sales, marketing, product development, technology, fulfillment, and finance while managing a team of over 35, 40% in-person and 60% remote. Over the past five years since pitching the idea to Ryan Serhant, I’ve become an expert in creating, launching, and scaling digital products and services that generate millions in revenue and impact. Prior to launching the SERHANT. Ventures business, I spent nearly 10 years as a producer and journalist at NBC News. I mastered the power of storytelling from the best in the business through evolving roles at TODAY, NBC Nightly News, NBC News Specials, and NBC News Digital. My capstone at NBC was launching and growing a new digital lifestyle vertical to over 1 million on-platform starts within its first year. I enjoy helping entrepreneurs monetize their own thought leadership through mentorship and consulting. I speak at conferences about building subscription businesses and the power of storytelling for business growth. In addition, I volunteer for my alma mater as a member of the Cornell University Council, mentor entrepreneurs with StartEd in NYC, and spend as much time as I can with my young sons William and Theo and my wife Theresa. I earned my MBA at NYU Stern and a BS in Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.

I like numbers just about as much as I like people.

Kyle Simpson is a Human-Centric Technologist. His mission is to show the world that the culture of empathy and relational information exchange are keys to unlocking the full potential of every human in the workplace. JS and open web technologies are among Kyle's favorite tools to augment human endeavors. Kyle has published 11+ books on JS, taught thousands of developers from teams around the world, and his training videos have been watched over 800,000 hours. He's always fighting for the people behind the pixels.

Kyle currently works primarily in the blockchain industry, spending time as an investor, miner, advisor, and executive in many businesses in the space. He specializes in compliant real world asset tokenization, focusing on creating compliant investment vehicles that capitalize on reduced cost of capital and back office processes using innovative technology stacks. Through working with startups as a consultant and investor, he has a keen eye for business development and specializes in management and fundraising through personal accounts and his network. With a finance and economics background, he provides technical experience to further evaluate business proposals, and has made successful investments in companies, as well as the stock and crypto-asset markets.

I am a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently serve as a Marketing Operations Consultant at Etumos.

Experience and Passion for technology and financial services leadership and consulting. History of working in the information technology and financial services industries. Skilled in Strategic Planning, Operations Management, Business Development, Technology Strategy, Project Management, and executing on strategic plans. Strong finance professional with a MBA focused in Business from Colorado Technical University.