Sam Schatz is the CEO and co-founder of Biohm Technologies, a Cleveland-based microbiome company betting that the future of gut health lives in fungi, not just bacteria. After spending a decade as AeroFarms' first employee scaling vertical farming from a startup into a global leader, he pivoted to the gut, turning a direct-to-consumer wellness brand into a B2B ingredients and data company built on a proprietary dataset of bacterial and fungal gut populations. He pairs data science with biology, raised a $4.52M Series B in 2025, and shipped Mycohsa, a probiotic blend clinically shown to break down digestive biofilms. Off the clock he is an Adirondack 46er and open-water swimmer.
Joe Pulizzi is the originator of the term 'content marketing' and the founder of the Content Marketing Institute, which he built from a cocktail-napkin idea to a $17.6 million exit. Known universally as 'The Godfather of Content Marketing,' he has written nine books, spoken in 20+ countries, and now publishes the Orangeletter newsletter to 50,000+ subscribers while advising creators to own their audiences before AI makes discovery obsolete.