
Janine Yancey is the Founder and CEO of Emtrain, a San Francisco-based AI-powered compliance training and workplace culture analytics platform she founded in 2006. A former employment lawyer and first-generation college graduate, she built Emtrain to replace lecture-style compliance check-boxes with cinematic, skills-based learning backed by behavioral data. The platform serves 800+ enterprise clients including Netflix, Yelp, and Chevron, has raised $18M in funding, and is known for its proprietary Workplace Color Spectrum and culture benchmarking engine drawing on 25 million employee sentiment data points. Yancey famously predicted the #MeToo movement in a 2016 Medium article - months before it went global.
Jordan Lewis is the General Counsel of Redbud VC and Vice President & General Counsel of The Premiere Group, both based in Columbia, Missouri. A dual-licensed attorney (Missouri and Illinois) with a decade-plus of experience, he bridges the worlds of law, tax, and venture capital - handling M&A, fund structuring, governance, and legal strategy for a pre-seed VC firm that bets on founders shaped by struggle. Before Redbud, he cut his teeth as a litigator at Carmody MacDonald in St. Louis and has been a published voice in Missouri In-House Counsel on biometric privacy and employment law.