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Lauren Izaks Built a PR Agency by Teaching the Work Behind the Work
The former Chicago educator turned one humbling management mistake into a philosophy: build the system, teach the system, then give people room to grow.
Laura Baker Is Making Marketing Answer the Hard Question: Did It Grow the Business?
After marketing Tim Hortons, mattresses, investments and hardware, Laura Baker arrived at Weed Man with a practical thesis: the dashboard matters, but the customer’s memory matters more.
Matthew Marx
Matthew Marx is the co-founder and CEO of Evocalize, a Seattle- and Austin-based collaborative marketing platform that lets franchises, brokerages, lenders and multi-location brands push automated, compliance-friendly digital ad campaigns down to their local partners. A Babson MBA and 20-year marketing-technology operator, he built Evocalize after product leadership stints at Bazaarvoice, Oracle Retail, PA Consulting in London, and the MassPRIM pension fund.
Robert Huntington
Robert (Rob) Huntington is the CEO of Oakscale Franchise Partners and of Metric Collective, a New York-based group that builds, markets, and invests in franchise brands. A former high-school history teacher who ran the single largest Huntington Learning Center before earning an MBA at Kellogg and consulting at BCG, he now applies data, software, and digital marketing to a slow-moving industry, connecting entrepreneurs with franchise concepts and helping emerging brands scale. He led the angel round that seeded Oakscale with $1.2M in 2019 and frames franchising's challenge bluntly: the industry has been coasting downhill and now has to pedal.