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Bill Dessel Cut Vodka's Proof - Then Sold the Argument One Shelf at a Time
A lawyer, manufacturer and accidental restaurateur saw a missing rung on the drinks menu. KEEL became his thirteen-year lesson in category design, customer listening and the useful art of letting go.
Maor Levran
Maor Levran is the co-founder and CEO of Slice, an AI-powered global equity platform that helps finance and legal teams issue, track, and stay compliant with equity compensation across roughly 60 countries. A corporate lawyer for over a decade who was repeatedly ranked a Top Tech Attorney by The Legal 500, Levran started Slice in 2022 after watching companies struggle - and sometimes face six-figure fines - when granting stock options and RSUs to international employees. Slice has raised $32 million total, including a $25 million Series A led by Insight Partners in early 2026, and manages equity for more than 70,000 employees at companies such as Wiz, Wayve, and Aidoc.
David Brown
David Brown is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of ACTIVZ, a West Jordan, Utah direct-selling company he launched in 2017 with longtime partner Ryan Thompson. A self-described 'recovering lawyer' with a J.D. from Cornell and a Japanese degree from BYU, Brown traded corporate law for the nutrition business in 1994 and went on to lead some of the industry's best-known turnarounds - tripling Natural Balance, building Metabolife into the world's largest retail diet brand, and taking LifeVantage from roughly $3 million to more than $200 million. With ACTIVZ he built a multinational from day one, launching in Mexico before the United States and reaching markets across Latin America and Japan.