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Dana Kim
Dana Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Highlight, a New York-based product intelligence platform that modernizes in-home product testing for consumer brands. A former qualitative market researcher who spent years collecting insights the slow way - standing in stores with paper surveys for brands like Coca-Cola and Nike - she went to Wharton for an MBA, met co-founder Ethan Kellough, and built a technology-driven alternative that pairs a proprietary consumer community with logistics automation and AI analytics. Founded in 2020, Highlight has raised more than $30 million and works with brands including Nestle, Procter & Gamble and Mondelez. Kim has been named to GreenBook's 2022 Future List and Inc.'s 2024 Female Founders 250 list.
Jessica Talbert
Jessica Talbert is the co-founder and CEO of Park Padel, a San Francisco-based padel club operator she launched in 2022 after discovering the racket sport on a summer trip through Spain. A former strategic UX researcher with a decade in tech at Chime, Lyft and Stanford's Graduate School of Business, she traded user interviews for blue glass courts and now builds membership communities around one of the world's fastest-growing sports. Park Padel raised $5M in seed funding, opened the most visible courts in the US on the Embarcadero, expanded to a six-court flagship in South San Francisco and a club in West Sacramento, and aims to put 100 courts on the ground across Northern California.
Elizabeth Lopez
Elizabeth Lopez is the CEO and founder of Brite Cleaning Industries (BCI), a California-based commercial cleaning and facilities management company she built from a single office client in 2005 into an operation serving over 50 million square feet weekly. A women-owned, GBAC-certified enterprise headquartered in Fremont with reach across Northern and Southern California, BCI serves corporate offices, manufacturers, healthcare facilities, aviation, and government organizations. Lopez is known for her community engagement and for maintaining a 90% employee retention rate and 85% customer retention rate in a demanding service industry.