Founder of South Beach’s first major style magazine, Napoleon’s magazine –Nouveau– coined the phrase “South Beach.” In the 90’s, He ran the leading event promo company which organized events such as the Miss Florida Pageant, Elite Models’ Look of the Year Gala, Miami Grand Prix’s opening gala and Miami Open Tennis Championship Players’ Gala. After moving to Los Angeles, He became the advertising director of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and was originator of the outdoor movie showings at the Cemetery.

With 30+ years of experience in software development and architecture within enterprise environments, most notably finance, Erick currently consults for QubeChain LLC, sits on the advisory board of the Ubiquicoin initiative, and is involved in a handful of projects including an effort to address touch- points between the nascent DAO space and the real world, a venture to replace a nation’s official currency with a virtual coin, and a proposal to develop the world’s first risk-free coin.

The daughter of the late, legendary California legislator George Zenovich, who helped write the landmark California Agricultural Labor Relations Act that first recognized the rights of farmworkers to bargain collectively, Ninon worked on the 1980 presidential campaign of Governor Jerry Brown, who remains a close family friend.
 After majoring in International Relations at USC, she launched an acting career while at the same time working to expand the rights of her fellow artists’ as an elected member of the Screen Actors Guild board of directors. She chaired SAG’s legislative affairs committee and successfully served on the negotiations team pushing for improvements to commercial contracts.
 More recently, she worked for the Writers Guild of America West helping organize the writers of reality TV programs in an attempt to bring their productions under WGA jurisdiction.

Navarro is also the founder of the Social Media department at the second largest advertising agency in Israel, Adler, Chomski, Varshavsky. Additionally, Tal also founded Sumo – Social Media Marketing College in Israel.

Tal Navarro has helped brands and organizations effectively carry their messages to their target audience using Social Media (social networks, the blogosphere, social software, etc.), create brand awareness and use of social platforms in order to increase sales, manage the companies online community, define the company goals from social marketing and plan a long-term strategy.

Following her two years at the prestigious department store, she was hired by Giorgio Armani and went on to become the Director of Public Relations for Emporio Armani. While at Armani she was responsible for creating those memorable red carpet looks for Hollywood’s biggest stars that are still talked about today. She also spearheaded on-going relationships for non profit alliances and produced special events for the west coast. When she resigned her position, she was hired as the Regional Public Relations Director for Dolce & Gabbana. She is now dedicated to making a positive impact on the world by working at Givit.

analysis, quality assurance and processes of developing web sites, UI/UX for desktop and mobile applications. He provides cutting edge solutions to Givit’s web needs.

Matt brings to the table a Degree in National Securities Studies and Risk Management, Expertise in Logistics, supply chain management and grassroots marketing.

She is a Co-Founder for the British Blockchain Industry Association, and is Section Chief Co-Editor Blockchain for Good: for Frontiers in Blockchain. In 2018 she was awarded Top 10 Digital Frontier Women and UN Decade Of Women Quantum Impact Champion. She successfully started her own international development management company, which merged with ABT Associates in 2013. She remained for 4 years to scale that business and resigned as CEO in March 2018 to pursue her mission to accelerate the uptake of blockchain and  frontier technologies for social impact. She leverages her networks in international development, public health, global partnerships, technology,  research, and entrepreneurship to educate, inspire and connect people globally on how blockchain and frontier technologies can transform emerging economies and improve the lives of poor and disadvantaged communities.

For more than 8 years, Arie worked at Morgan Stanley as International Client Advisor and Private Banker running both The Levy-Hafen and The WMO Groups. As a dual licensed Financial Advisor with both Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley Private Bank N.A., Arie serviced institutional and ultra high net worth clients. He also served as an investment advisor to think tanks, technology incubators and Blockchain companies and single-family offices. Since 2010, Arie has been actively involved with various distributed ledger initiatives, advising start-ups and speaking at multiple FinTech conferences. He also has a special focus on Identity, cryptographic security, risk and compliance (KYC\AML) and Tokenized Ecosystems.

Mirna also advises governments and regional institutions on digital transformation strategies. She has more than 15 years of experience in government affairs, investor relations, journalism, strategic digital communications and global partnerships with public and private clients. Mirna is MIT Certified in Fintech and e-Commerce, has an executive MBA from Cass Business School (City University of London) and certified in Digital Marketing and Communications from Columbia Business School.

Alex is the founder of Open Influence, a leading influencer marketing company that has successfully managed over 1,500 influencer-driven social media campaigns for both Fortune 500 corporations and up-and-coming businesses.

The company is headquartered in New York City, with additional representation in the EU, UK, Australia and South America.
 Rik is a Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, and a Corporate Roundtable member of the World Conference of Mayors. He is a featured keynote speaker at Harvard Business School and Stern School of Business events and a digital expert on CNN and CNBC. He speaks to corporate leaders around the world on the practice and potential of the Internet of Value at such events as the 2016 European IP Summit (Brussels), Finance 2.0 (Zurich), and the World Web Forum (Zurich), He has written for CNN International and has been covered in Forbes Magazine.

A law graduate from London, Cal is a UK lawyer and a U.S. multi-State litigation expert. Cal has experience working with some of the best- known technology firms in Silicon Valley. In 2015, Cal undertook his Certificate in Financial Markets from the prestigious Yale University. In 2016, Cal left a top California law firm to start Gresham International, a compliance and strategy firm specializing in the cryptocurrency space. Cal works with companies operating within the cryptocurrency world such as ICOs, currencies, funds, financial firms, crypto-media, and crypto-funds. Gresham has provided services to over 40 successful ICOs. Cal is regularly
featured in many international publications and is often invited to speak at
blockchain conferences.

Set the vision, strategy and blueprint for the Clinton Foundation’s initiative focused on reducing preventable health outcomes and closing health inequity gaps across the United States.
Ginny Devised the strategy and led the operational and strategic start-up activities for the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI). She also raised more than $5 million from large corporations, such as GE and Verizon, and individuals to support the development of CHMI. In addition, she built strategic and measurable partnerships with 31 corporations and non- governmental organizations to support access to health and wellness, valued at more than $100 million and projected to impact more than 25 million people in the initiative’s first year.

Operation USA has worked in 100 countries since 1979 and has provided over $450 million in aid and development assistance.
Operation USA was awarded the President’s Volunteer Action Award by the White House in 1983 for the organization’s work as the first U.S. NGO to provide relief to Cambodia and Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War (1979.) Operation USA shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize as a key member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

Worth Magazine (December 2001) named Operation USA one of “America’s Best 100 Charities”. Charity Navigator annually gives Operation USA high ratings and in 2008 named Operation USA as the #1 rated “Exclusively Privately Funded Charity in America.”

Lisa was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as NYC’s first vice president of marketing and is a former Vice President of Viacom, Vice President of Digital Media for NBC Universal. Lisa is currently a senior advisor to Maria Shriver.

Robinson has made a lifelong study of outflanking and outsmarting the competition. In his first career, he developed a revolutionary approach to taking standardized tests as one of the two original co-founders of The Princeton Review. His paradigm-exploding test-prep book The SAT: Cracking the System, is the only one ever to have been reviewed by The Wall Street Journal or have become a New York Times bestseller. After selling his interest in the company he’d helped launch, Robinson turned his attention in the early 90’s to the then-emerging field of artificial intelligence, developing a program that could analyze text and provide human-like commentary. He was later invited to join a well-known quant fund to develop statistical trading models before establishing himself as an independent global macro advisor to the chief investment officers of a select group of major hedge funds and UHNW family offices.

Angy is the former CFO of Yum Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Wing Street), and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.

The company runs hundreds of campaigns for Fortune 400 companies every month. He is also a tech investor, a creative & strategy lead with 18+ years experience working on brand and performance campaigns. Active in the arts – film and theater director, photographer -along with issues and advocacy work on behalf of non-profits.

During his tenure, The LA Weekly won numerous journalism awards and became the largest circulation, with the most advertising weekly in the country. The company also launched LA Style magazine which was later sold to American Express for a considerable profit.

With a background in hospitality management for more than 25 years, Laurel has brought strong leadership and fresh ideas to the Chamber, and strives to continually improve and invigorate membership benefits. In an economy where most other Chambers are declining in memberships, the Santa Monica Chamber continues to grow under Laurel’s leadership, representing over 1000 businesses and thousands of employees. In 2010, Laurel created an organization in partnership with the City of Santa Monica under the umbrella of the Chamber called the Santa Monica Alliance whose mission is to attract, retain and grow business in Santa Monica. She also created the Organization of Women leaders (OWL) and partners with the Commission on
the Status of Women to produce the International Women’s Day breakfast to
celebrate women all over the world.