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Jacob Knudsen
Jacob Knudsen is the Chief Marketing Officer of Blade HQ, the Lehi, Utah knife and everyday-carry retailer that has grown from a 2003 startup into one of the largest online cutlery stores in the United States. An industrial designer by training - he earned a BFA from Brigham Young University - Knudsen joined Blade HQ in the mid-2000s and spent roughly sixteen years as its Chief Creative Officer before moving into the CMO seat in 2023. His fingerprints are on the brand's design language and on the content engine behind a YouTube channel with more than half a million subscribers. He is also a serious balisong collector, a subject he walked viewers through on Blade HQ's Collector's Corner, and a co-host of the first episode of the company's Steel and Stories podcast.
Scott Weidley
Scott Weidley is President, CEO and Chief Engineer of ClinCapture, the Las Vegas eClinical company that built its reputation on giving away validated electronic data capture software for free. With two decades in cloud and clinical software, Weidley has steered ClinCapture's Captivate platform toward AI baked into the structural layer of trial design, championed a low-and-no-cost access program called Weidley's Wish, and reinvented himself as a podcaster whose show 'Vibe with Scott Weidley' broadcasts from Vegas and has crossed three million YouTube views.
Tom Lemberg
Tom Lemberg is the Founder & CEO of Curebase, a San Francisco-based decentralized clinical trial platform that has enrolled over 60,000 patients across 60+ studies. A Harvard-trained computer scientist and molecular biologist, Lemberg built Curebase from his couch in 2017, joined Y Combinator in 2018, and raised $59M to transform how clinical trials work - letting patients participate from home and bringing their own doctors into the research process. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022, he's on a mission to make clinical trials accessible to any patient, anywhere.