Oliver Chan

Founder, CEO
Stage3 Agency

Oliver Chan is the founder of Stage3 Agency and Executive Producer for S3 MediaWorks, where he bridges the gap between conceptual ideation and creative production. With over two decades of experience across design, marketing, and filmmaking, Oliver helps global brands like Toyota, Grand Seiko, and Alpine realize their creative visions. A lifelong advocate for innovation, he is deeply fascinated by the intersection of storytelling, emerging technology, and the future of AI.

Charisma Deberry

VP, Strategic Communications & Engagement
Horizon Media

Charisma Deberry is an award-winning communications executive shaping culture, narrative, and reputation at scale. With a background spanning entertainment, classified communications, social media, and on-air television, she brings a multidimensional lens to storytelling. A published author and trusted strategist, she translates complexity into clarity—driving visibility, influence, and measurable impact for brands and leaders alike.

David Leggett

Managing Partner
Black Airplane

David is a designer/engineer turned serial entrepreneur. From 2003 until 2008, David owned and operated a number of online publications with millions of subscribers. In 2008 he co-founded UX Booth, which he helped grow into a leading user experience publication. He invested in Python Safety in 2011, where he played a key role on the leadership team until the company was successfully acquired by 3M in 2015.

Currently, David serves as Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Black Airplane, a digital product agency built to solve business problems.

John Roescher

CEO
Raw Materials

John Roescher is co-founder and CEO of Raw Materials, a design company built upon “balancing rigorous, data-driven processes with a sense of romance.” After teaching himself code at a young age, John curated his interest in the internet and technology to found the pioneering digital design firm, Handsome.

In response to the industry’s growing focus on efficiency over originality, John later shuttered Handsome to co-found Raw Materials, going on to win

Jocelyn McCall 

Co-Founder | Editor-in-Chief
The Soulhaus

Jocelyn is a global brand marketer strategically leveraging 14 years of multidisciplinary expertise to creatively bridge the gap between consumers and business goals to unlock a brand’s MAGIC.

Throughout her career, she has excelled as a proactive idea generator who has developed a deep understanding of the design, hospitality, beauty, fashion, and the landscape of both corporate and small business operations. Some of the brands she’s worked for include Etsy, St. Regis Hotels and Resorts, Marriott International, L’Oreal, Kiehl’s, NYFW and a myriad of boutique brands, agencies, and small businesses in various categories.

Chaoqun Wang

Design Director
Tom Ford Beauty

Chaoqun Wang is a design leader with a foundation in tech and a focus on brand, product, and storytelling. She has led rebrands and global campaigns for companies including Apple, Instacart, TikTok, Rakuten, and Google.

Currently leading 2D Design at Tom Ford Beauty, she oversees digital campaigns, product launches, and brand experiences across global markets. Her work blends strategy and systems thinking into creative visions.

Dawn Carpenter

Founding Director
Solidarity Economy Workshop | Georgetown University

Dr. Dawn Carpenter is a multi-award-winning financial ethicist, documentary filmmaker, and podcast host whose work spans ethics, podcasting, and film. She created the award-winning podcast What Does It Profit? and directed, produced, and co-wrote Interwoven, which has won 14 film festival awards. A pioneer in contributive justice theory, she advises the Vatican’s Economy of Francesco. At the Milken Institute, she leads research on financial longevity and how work, capital, and institutions shape human flourishing across longer lives.

Joel Rottier

Senior Vice President, Creative Services
Love Advertising

Joel Rottier is SVP of Creative Services at Love Advertising, where he helps shape smart ideas into hard-working creative. A designer and developer turned creative leader, he has a natural eye for how brands adapt as channels evolve. Based in Houston, he brings high standards, a grounded POV, and the belief that knowing when the work is done is a creative skill itself.

Kristen Kulenych

Partner, Chief Experience Officer
Modus Agency

Kristen brings more than 25 years of award-winning creative and business leadership to her work, including more than a decade developing new products, services, and user experiences for the web.

She has led some of the industry’s most acclaimed creative teams at Young & Rubicam, Luminant Worldwide, and Braincraft Technologies, and has advised brands including ADP, Allianz, Coldwell Banker Real Estate, Dow Jones & Company, Fisher Price, Morgan Stanley & Co., NBCUniversal, NYSE Euronext, Pfizer, Showtime, Sony, United States Army, Vonage, Wyndham Hotel Group and Xerox (to name a few).

Reece Quinones

Executive Vice President & Sr. Creative Director
The Hatcher Group

Reece Quiñones is an award-winning executive creative director, film producer, and design educator whose career bridges the worlds of visual storytelling, strategy, and purpose-driven communication. As Executive Vice President and Executive Creative Director at The Hatcher Group, a national marketing, communications, and design firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, she leads multidisciplinary teams in developing integrated campaigns, brand identities, and digital experiences that inform, inspire, and drive impact for public-sector and nonprofit clients.

With more than 25 years of experience, she has guided creative strategy for national campaigns with clients such as the FBI, NOAA Corps, CDC, USDA, and Maryland 529.

Ainsley Rossitto

Senior Director, Podcast Strategy & Operations
CBS News

Ainsley builds scalable growth engines for digital content by connecting strategy, operations, and cross-functional execution to increase audience, revenue, and efficiency. At Paramount, she led strategy and business operations for the CBS podcast portfolio, overseeing the full lifecycle from concept through launch, programming, distribution, and commercialization.

She runs ad operations and manages the partner ecosystem behind growth, including platform relationships focused on merchandising and content licensing partnerships that expand both reach and revenue. Earlier in her career, she helped build the first marketing function at Great Minds and led audience growth initiatives at NPR across content strategy, SEO, and distribution.

Billy Burgess

Global Brand Director – Culture & Content Creation
Diageo

As the Global Brand Director for Content of Diageo’s Portfolio Scotch, Billy is the acting creative lead responsible for all advertising and digital content needs. His expertise spans omnichannel marketing, performance optimization, and creative direction; having managed portfolios valued over €3B+ and influence over marketing investments exceeding €60MM..

Beyond his corporate role, Billy serves on arts & culture boards, is pursuing advanced studies in digital media design, and launched a mobile app.