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Jacob Braunstein
Jacob Braunstein is the co-founder and CEO of LiveControl, a Santa Monica company that turns any venue into a professional live-video studio using PTZ robotic cameras run by a remote team of producers. He invented the remote-camera system at the core of the platform, which now produces thousands of streamed events each month for churches, schools, theaters, government bodies and memorial services. Braunstein was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and has raised roughly $33 million, including a $30 million Series A led by Coatue Management in 2021.
Emily Brittain
Emily Brittain is a Senior Communications Manager at Microsoft, working within the Office of the Americas Markets & Industries President. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, she crafts the stories that shape how Microsoft's largest regional business - spanning Canada, the United States, and Latin America - communicates its vision internally and externally. A Northwestern University-trained journalist with over 11 years at Microsoft, she brought a multimedia storyteller's instincts to one of the world's most consequential technology companies, producing town halls, executive narratives, and brand messaging at scale.
Alex Ragir
Alex Ragir is the co-founder and co-CEO of Glimmer (formerly Storyhunter), the global content-production platform he grew from zero to a vetted network of more than 40,000 filmmakers and creators across 192 countries. Before building software, he was an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News and the Associated Press in Brazil, where he won the 2010 Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on financial crime in Latin America. He works at the seam between journalism, film, and enterprise technology, helping Fortune 500 companies hire and pay creators anywhere in the world.
Shawn Heide
Shawn Heide is a Boston-based entrepreneur who blends culinary creativity with digital storytelling and enterprise AI. As co-founder of 9muse Creative Studio, he crafts cinematic brand films for companies across New England. His culinary arc spans founding Wagwan Jerk Bar in 2017 — a Caribbean-meets-New England pop-up launched at Boston farmers markets — to directing culinary operations at The Kitchen at White Barn, a Neapolitan pizza restaurant grown from a working farm. Pursuing his MBA at Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Shawn is also connected to Upstage AI, the enterprise AI company known for document intelligence and large language models that raised a $120M Series C in early 2026.
Julia Enthoven
Julia Enthoven is the co-founder and CEO of Kapwing, a San Francisco-based online video editing platform that has grown to 25 million registered users. A Stanford Math & CS graduate and former Google Product Manager, she co-founded Kapwing in 2017 with Eric Lu after they both left Google. Under her leadership, Kapwing evolved from a simple meme maker into a comprehensive AI-powered video editing suite used by creators, brands, and educators worldwide. Named Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Tech (2020) and Product Hunt Maker of the Year (2018), she has also launched Tess, an artist-compensating AI image generator, and is an outspoken voice on building ethical AI tools.
Ryan Hollander
Ryan Hollander is the CEO of Glimmer (formerly Storyhunter), the all-in-one creator management platform connecting enterprises with 50,000+ vetted creators, production companies, and agencies across 192 countries. Headquartered in New York, Glimmer manages billions in corporate content spending and has produced content for clients including Meta, CNN, Bloomberg, Hearst, and Airbnb. Hollander leads the company through its evolution from a video production marketplace into a full-stack creative workforce platform backed by $11.9M in total funding.