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The Icebox Cool Stuff
The Icebox Cool Stuff is an Atlanta-based, full-service branded merchandise and custom apparel agency founded in 2001 on the belief that promotional products can actually be cool. It handles the whole chain - creative design, product sourcing, in-house decorating, warehouse fulfillment, company-store management and global distribution - for corporate clients ranging from Delta Air Lines to Google. Roughly 150 employees work across three locations and 150,000+ square feet of warehouse space, serving brands that want merchandise people actually keep and wear.
Michelle Peterson
Michelle Peterson is the Chief Marketing Officer of Kendra Scott, the Austin-based fashion and fine jewelry brand. A chemical engineer turned marketer, she spent 18 years at General Mills before leading marketing at Life Time, Holiday Inn Express, and the juice brand Pressed. At Kendra Scott she unified the brand and performance teams into a single 'brand builder' organization, driving record direct-to-consumer traffic, customer growth and loyalty around a 'connection before transaction' philosophy. She was named a 2023 Adweek Marketing Vanguard.
Paige Fuller
Paige Cannon Fuller is the Chief Marketing Officer of The Icebox Cool Stuff, an Atlanta-based branded merchandise and apparel agency, where she leads the marketing and creative teams that build merch programs for enterprise clients such as Delta Air Lines and the NYSE. A marketing and brand strategist with a background spanning apparel, e-commerce and consumer brands, she joined Icebox in 2018 as VP of Marketing & Brand Management and was elevated to CMO in 2024. Earlier she founded the advisory shop Fuller Made and held senior marketing roles at Alternative Apparel.
Tim Rumer
Tim Rumer is a sporting goods executive who serves as Senior Vice President of Business Development at Mizuno USA in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. A left-handed pitcher drafted by the New York Yankees out of Duke University in 1990, he spent eight professional seasons in the minors and reached Triple-A before trading the mound for the boardroom. At Mizuno he climbed from business unit manager to product and lifecycle leadership - including a stint running ball glove development - and now steers partnerships and growth across the company's team sports and golf divisions.
Global Payments
Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is an Atlanta-based payment technology company that helps businesses accept and process payments across in-store, online and mobile channels. After acquiring Worldpay and divesting its issuer-processing business in January 2026, it became a pure-play merchant solutions company serving more than 6 million merchant locations across 175+ countries, handling roughly 94 billion transactions and $3.7 trillion in annual payment volume.
Kevin Reilley
Kevin Reilley is the CEO of Westhill, an Atlanta-based insurtech company building the first end-to-end digital managed repair platform that connects insurance carriers, homeowners, and vetted contractors. He took the top job in October 2020 after eight years helping scale HOVER, the property data platform, as CEO and Executive Vice President. Across more than three decades he has led or helped build technology companies including Pictometry (now EagleView), CPA Global, LegaLink, Vaultus, and LexisNexis. He now also sits on the advisory board of QuantivRisk, an auto-liability analytics startup.
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is a privately held, family-owned conglomerate based in Atlanta, Georgia, that traces its roots to a single Ohio newspaper bought by James M. Cox in 1898. Over more than a century it grew into a roughly $23 billion-a-year business spanning broadband and cable (Cox Communications), automotive services and marketplaces (Cox Automotive, which owns Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and Manheim), and media (Cox Media Group and Axios). Still controlled by the Cox family and led by fourth-generation CEO Alex Taylor, the company reinvests its cash into new bets such as greenhouse agriculture, advanced plastics recycling and healthcare, while pursuing an aggressive Cox Conserves goal to be carbon and water neutral by 2034.
Universe
Universe is an Atlanta-based modern holding company that buys and builds vertical software businesses. Founded in 2021 by Nick Miller and Eric Stromberg, it acquires and incubates niche software products, then deploys capital and infrastructure to grow them into purpose-built tools for specific markets. Its portfolio spans Goldie (business management for solopreneurs in beauty and wellness), Equilab (a training community for equestrians), and Invoke (AI-powered tools for artists and creative teams).
Eric Holmen
Eric Holmen is the CEO of Revenue Grid, an AI-powered revenue intelligence and sales engagement platform. Over a nearly 30-year run in marketing technology, he has served as CEO, CRO and CMO for fast-growing SaaS companies including Splash, Silverpop, Airship, SmartReply and Ortto. He is known for scaling go-to-market teams, doubling Splash's business through the pandemic, and advising startups and private equity and venture investors on operational execution. A self-taught childhood programmer turned operator, he holds three marketing patents and blends design, data and empathy in how he builds teams.
Karen Bennett
Karen Bennett is Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Cox Enterprises, the privately held Atlanta conglomerate with nearly 50,000 employees across automotive, communications, and media. She oversees talent, benefits, HR technology, inclusion, and corporate brand. A Terry College of Business alumna twice over, she spent nearly 14 years at Turner Broadcasting before climbing through Cox Media Group and Cox Communications to the parent company's top people role in January 2023.
Wingz
Wingz is a healthcare-focused rideshare platform built specifically for Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT). It connects credentialed, background-checked drivers with patients - often elderly, disabled, or low-income riders - who need reliable, scheduled rides to and from medical appointments. Originally launched in 2011 as Tickengo (the first company in the world to win a ride-sharing license, ahead of Uber and Lyft), Wingz pivoted to specialize in medical transport: HIPAA-trained drivers, transparent contracted pricing with no surge, recurring 'standing order' trips, and curb-to-curb, door-to-door, and hand-to-hand service levels. The company partners with NEMT brokers, Medicaid/Medicare payors, and health plans, and has delivered over one million rides across multiple U.S. states.
Christine de Wendel
Christine de Wendel is the co-founder and U.S. CEO of sunday, the QR-code checkout company that shrinks the worst part of dinner - waiting for the bill - from roughly fifteen minutes to about ten seconds. She spent two decades scaling European e-commerce unicorns Zalando and ManoMano out of Paris before founding sunday at age 40 with Big Mamma restaurateurs Victor Lugger and Tigrane Seydoux, then moved home to Atlanta to plant the company's U.S. flag. A Georgetown School of Foreign Service graduate who once wanted to run the United Nations, she now runs a hospitality-payments business that has processed billions in restaurant transactions.
Conor Sen
Conor Sen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and founder of Peachtree Creek Investments, an Atlanta-based money management firm. He built a national following by reading the economy through housing, demographics and the slow grind of millennials moving through their life stages, and turned a habit of arguing with strangers on Twitter into one of the most-cited macro voices in financial media. His tagline, 'The future is a policy choice,' doubles as his worldview.
Nic Reese
Nic Reese is AVP of Digital Media Enterprise at Adobe, based in Atlanta, Georgia, with over 15 years of experience driving enterprise sales and adoption of Adobe's creative and marketing technology platforms. He has championed Adobe's generative AI initiative - Adobe Firefly - and works at the intersection of creative software, marketing cloud, and enterprise digital transformation at one of the world's leading software companies.
Bryson Koehler
Bryson Koehler is the CEO of Revinate, a hospitality SaaS company specializing in guest data platforms, CRM, and marketing automation for hotels. A career technology executive with deep roots in enterprise data and cloud infrastructure, Koehler previously served as CTO at IBM Watson & Cloud Platform and as EVP/Chief Technology, Product, Data & Analytics Officer at Equifax. He built the legendary Weather Company data platform - processing 4GB of data per second from 40 million mobile devices - before IBM acquired it in 2016 partly due to his work. His return to hospitality with Revinate merges two career obsessions: data engineering at scale and the guest experience.
KP
Karthik Puvvada - universally known as KP - is the Head of Community at Netlify and the de facto face of the Build In Public movement. After waiting 12 years to found his own company due to visa constraints, he built and scaled programs that have helped 500+ founders across 68 countries. He hosts the Build In Public Podcast (top 10% globally), has championed 150+ Product Hunt launches, and evangelizes radical founder transparency as both a philosophy and a growth strategy.
Sangram Vajre
Sangram Vajre is the co-founder and CEO of GTM Partners, the only analyst firm exclusively focused on go-to-market strategy for B2B SaaS companies. Before that, he co-founded Terminus (2014), the platform that defined the account-based marketing software category, and served as CMO at Pardot through its $2.5B acquisition by Salesforce. A WSJ and USA Today bestselling author of three books, host of the 900-episode FlipMyFunnel podcast, and curator of the GTMonday newsletter with 175,000+ subscribers, Vajre is one of the most influential voices in B2B marketing. An immigrant from Nagpur, India who arrived in the U.S. with $350, he became an American citizen in late 2024 after 22 years in the country.
Lil Baby
Lil Baby is one of Atlanta's most commercially dominant rappers, born Dominique Armani Jones on December 3, 1994. He went from dealing drugs in Southwest Atlanta to releasing four consecutive number-one Billboard 200 albums between 2020 and 2025. His 2020 album 'My Turn' was the best-selling album of the year across all genres, and 'Drip Too Hard' with Gunna is RIAA Diamond certified. In his Trendsetter era (2025-2026), he released the birthday mixtape 'The Leaks' and the charting singles 'Mrs. Trendsetter' and 'Mr. Trendsetter,' continuing to define Atlanta trap for a new generation.
Teddy Swims
Teddy Swims (born Jaten Collin Dimsdale) is a Georgia-raised soul-pop singer whose tattooed exterior and raw emotional delivery mask a voice that sounds like it was forged in a Pentecostal church and tempered by decades of Marvin Gaye records. After years in Atlanta metalcore bands and a viral YouTube cover career, he signed with Warner Records in 2019 and spent the next few years quietly building toward an explosion - 'Lose Control' (2023) became the #1 song in America for 2024, spent 112 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, earned Diamond certification in four countries, and accumulated 1.7 billion streams. His debut album project 'I've Tried Everything but Therapy' (Parts 1 & 2) earned Grammy nominations and festival headlining slots worldwide, cementing him as one of the defining voices of mid-2020s soul-pop.
NishA Acharya
NishA Acharya is a tech talent executive and career strategist with 14+ years of experience placing engineers and consultants at Ernst & Young. As US Talent Acquisition Recruiting Lead for EY Technology Consulting, she has built pipelines for some of the most sought-after tech roles in consulting, with a growing focus on AI, Physical AI, and Robotics. She runs 'The Leverage' newsletter, helping tech professionals navigate career growth, and speaks at Women in Tech events globally on recruiting, STEM, and how to build a career that compounds.