Kristy LaPlante is a senior digital marketing leader specializing in cross-channel digital media planning and strategy. She's worked directly with numerous industries including Retail, CPG, Travel, Media, Entertainment, Finance, Healthcare, and Non-profits. Kristy is currently an independent consultant and Founder of Insight DCS, LLC and has worked with iconic global brands including Pepsi, Unilever, Samsung, Nestle, Disney, Nordstrom, Nike, Starbucks and more. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Ithaca College and a dual MBA and MS degree in marketing from the University of Colorado at Denver. She was recently named one of LuxuryDaily Magazine's "Top 25 Marketing Women to Watch" list and when she isn't teaching at GA, stays busy exploring the mountains with her pup, Lola.

Adele McCarthy-Beauvais is the Regional Director of General Assembly in Denver, Colorado. General Assembly is an education company that seeks to tackle the global skills gap. GA holds immersive and part time classes in web development, digital marketing, user-interface design and data science, not to mention a host of other relevant skills and topics for the 21st century workforce. Prior to General Assembly, Adele helped launch Educopia (now called Teach Forward), an education technology startup based in San Francisco that focuses on educator effectiveness and currently works shoulder to shoulder with state departments of education in Ohio, Tennessee and Massachusetts.

Adele served as the director of communications for The Broad Center, a non-profit focused on education reform by infusing public school systems with talent from other sectors and creating efficiencies to push resources down to the classroom. At Rocketship Education, a highly effective national charter management organization, Adele supported the launch of two charter schools in San Jose, CA and created operational systems for the organization to scale within the Bay Area and to other regions. Prior to transitioning into the education sector in 2011, Adele worked in media and held roles in strategy, operations, and communications for Public Broadcasting Services (PBS), The Washington Post, and book publisher, W.W. Norton & Company.

Adele holds a BA in English Literature from Princeton University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

Jenn Uhen loves to talk about money as the Founder/Community Organizer of The Pledgettes. The Pledgettes is on a mission to abolish the gender wealth gap by facilitating money conversations with womxn through expert-led events and a membership community pledging 1% of their income to improve their personal wealth. Everyone’s financial goals are as unique as they are. Jenn Uhen has spent her career connecting her clients to their audiences. From bands to brands, entrepreneurs to leaders at Fortune 500 companies, driving connection is at the core of what she has done. As a career coach, mentor, and advocate, Jenn heard from many womxn that they will start investing “someday” or that growing up, they were taught to save their money. They weren’t taught the benefit of “investing in themselves” or investing on their own. Jenn also saw that womxn who were confident and clear with their financial goals had these “right-time, right-place conversations.” Jenn had a number of those conversations and saw the impact it made her in life. Jenn and her husband have clear financial goals, which include a diverse portfolio of investment property, retirement accounts, and businesses. All while living a minimalist (but comfortable) lifestyle, including traveling the country in an Airstream RV.

Gregarious Narain is a serial entrepreneur and founder, having founded more than a dozen companies over the past 25 years. His most recent company, Chute (YC W12), raised $16MM, grew to millions in revenue with 50+ employees spanning 6 cities, before being acquired in 2018. Prior to Chute, Greg was the first employee and V.P. Product at Klout.

Greg’s diverse background gives him a unique point of view on the startup experience. A designer and developer by trade, Greg straddles the technical, product, and business realms to help align businesses around a common, customer-driven vision. Greg’s no-nonsense, outside-in approach to entrepreneurship has helped startups and the Fortune 500 alike understand and achieve the success they need.

Greg has spoken internationally at many leading industry events, including Cannes Lions Innovation, DreamForce, NAB, SXSW, AWS Re:Invent and mentored for programs including YC Startup School, Google Launchpad, TechStars and Founder Institute.