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Jason Akatiff is extremely passionate about being an Angel Investor, Entrepreneur & Advisor in businesses involving online marketing, lead generation, advertising, ecommerce and education. With 25+ years of experience at the heads of companies he’s mastered building, inspiring and leading teams of top performers. He believes A level people create A level companies and A level cultures of growth and acceleration. Most important to Jason is that the products and services he creates truly builds value in the users minds and turns them into HUGE fans of the brand after using the product.

Tim Burd is the founder of the largest digital marketing community in the world and is the CEO of three privately held companies. Forbes calls him the “Godfather of Facebook Ads.” Burd founded and manages an enterprise-level advertising agency, Agency Y, which specializes in advertising for Meta, Google, Native Ads and more. He also travels the world, speaking at conventions and consulting Fortune 500 companies, small business owners, startups, and governments on specialty digital marketing and business expansion. Burd has a strong passion for helping others succeed. Burd also runs a legal services company called Mass Tort Strategies with over 50 employees in the Southern California office that helps find people who qualify for multi billion dollar medical class action lawsuits and helps connect them with the right law firm. Mr. Burd resides in Southern California.

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Alex Micol, Founder of Affiliate Takeover, is a defining figure in performance marketing. He’s driven growth for global brands including Mindvalley, Gundry MD, and Dr. Marty — generating over $95 million in affiliate commissions. Through Affiliate Takeover, he’s setting a new standard for affiliates, built on integrity and scale.

Van is an International Expert in the Performance Marketing Space. Van has built multiple 6-8 figure businesses and exited 2 of them. Most Notably Van Helped scale Diesel Power Gear, featured on Discovery channels hit TV show “Diesel Brothers”, from $4M to $30M in Revenue in 2020.Van is an international speaker at marketing events all over the world since 2018, where he trains thousands on cutting edge advertising techniques moving forward. In 2019 Van was awarded the “snapchat star of the year” award for his work on their platform.Currently Van is involved in multiple direct to consumer brands. He is the founder and CEO of both Tuff Ring and GOAT Media, and sits on numerous boards for his expertise in online marketing.

Adrian Aidid is the Founder & CEO of LDX Digital, a growth agency managing over $11M/month in ad spend and scaling DTC brands through Google and YouTube. His team has helped multiple brands surpass $100M+ in revenue by building high-performance funnels, creative strategy, and conversion-driven growth engines.

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Hen Kinan is a former affiliate marketing entrepreneur and creator of SHINEz, which he scaled and exited after reaching multi-million dollar revenues. Today, he focuses on AI-driven content and distribution, building scalable social media engines that generate millions of views monthly. A global speaker, Hen shares practical insights on where AI and media are heading next.

Giuseppe is a digital marketing veteran with 10+ years in affiliate marketing and a decade-long focus on native ads, making him one of the earliest pioneers of this traffic format. As head of media buying at Maverick Media, he has built and led one of the world’s top-performing native ads teams, delivering industry-leading conversion volumes.

Andrei Lunev, PhD, is a co-founder of Tegra, an AI-powered growth partner for DTC brands, launching thousands of creatives per day. With a PhD in mathematics, he brings scientific precision to cost-controlled media buying and scaling campaigns to $100K+/day with consistent CAC. He learned directly from Meta’s Bidding Development Team and understands their algorithm from the inside out.By replacing a 40-person team with AI agents, he and his partner produce 3,000+ creatives a day - proving that math and AI beat guesswork and headcount.

Vipul Taneja is a performance marketing entrepreneur, business strategist, and AI-first growth leader with over 12 years of experience building scalable digital businesses across global markets. As the founder of Adsparkx, he has built and led high-performing teams across finance, insurance, healthcare, lead generation, and affiliate ecosystems, with expertise spanning Google, Meta, TikTok, and performance-driven customer acquisition. Known for his strong leadership, operational excellence, and data-driven execution, Vipul focuses on building sustainable growth systems, empowering teams, and creating performance-oriented organizations that scale efficiently. Alongside scaling Adsparkx into a high-performance marketing company, he is also building Vibelets.ai, an AI-powered automation platform designed to transform the future of media buying through intelligent campaign automation, AI-driven decision-making, and scalable operational systems.

Jordan Deskoski is the co-founder of MarketX, a performance marketing company focused on scaling direct response brands through paid media and creative systems. Over the past year, he and his business partner scaled VSL funnels on Facebook and native ads to more than $200,000 per day in revenue — operating without a traditional team. Their results made Jordan the top affiliate on Clickbank by volume.

Roshan is a serial entrepreneur who built and sold multiple pest control and solar companies before turning his operator experience into software. He co-founded Sequifi, a commission and payroll automation platform for field sales organizations, and scaled it to a $35M valuation in under two years, growing 10x by solving the exact compensation and performance problems he faced while running his own sales teams. His work sits at the intersection of field sales operations, revenue intelligence, and go-to-market infrastructure, giving him a ground-level perspective on what actually drives close rates and unit economics at scale.

Marisha Lakhiani is the Chief Growth Officer at Mindvalley, where she spearheaded revenue growth from $30M to $170M. A marketing innovator, Marisha pioneered strategies that increased customer lifetime value by 700% and reduced acquisition costs by 30%. She expertly manages multi-million dollar product launches and has doubled market share in 18 months. Marisha's expertise spans performance marketing, AI integration, and subscription models in the digital education space. Her data-driven approach combines the art and science of marketing to deliver cutting-edge solutions for scalable growth. A dynamic speaker, Marisha shares insights on driving exponential growth in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Samar Hussain, a performance marketer, insurance broker and systems architect who’s helped generate over $250 million in insurance premiums through some of the most profitable pay-per-call funnels in the industry. Based in Miami, Samar is known for building internal machines that blend AI, LLM tuning, and real-time call intelligence to turn conversations into conversions. He’s trained custom voice agents, optimized thousands of scripts, and created feedback loops that help teams close faster and scale smarter.

Anca has spent over a decade building and scaling companies in the performance marketing space, generating over $100M in annual profits for partners and affiliates along the way. She literally wrote the book on affiliate marketing, authoring Affiliate Insider. A TEDx speaker and sought-after voice on stages across the world, she now serves as CPO at Scalers, where she applies her performance-first approach to help businesses scale through media buying operations. Her specialty is traffic, content marketing, and building teams that actually move the needle.

Jason Kutasi is the founder and CEO of SkyHouse, a performance marketing agency that managed $50M in ad spend for 2025 - its first full year of business. He’s driven roughly $500M in advertising over his career and built a children’s book publishers acquired by Scholastic and a digital marketing platform acquired by Capital One.  Jason specializes in copywriting, funnel analytics, and scaling high-growth DTC and telemedicine brands.

Zaid Rahman is the Founder & CEO of Flex, an AI-Native Private Bank for HNW Business Owners. Zaid’s a Thiel Fellow. Previously cofounded an AI startup building a natural language generation engine. Zaid also invests in early-stage startups with Valyrian. Flex (flex.one) is the “full financial home” for middle-market business owners globally. Flex combines business banking, personal banking, private credit, payments, and an agentic ERP into a single platform, replacing the patchwork of fragmented banks and point solutions that have long underserved this segment. The company has raised $165M in equity and $300M in debt and is among the fastest-growing FinTechs.

Eric Santiago has spent 15 years in DTC acquisition, helping scale brands past $500 million in revenue across the entire funnel. He came up through affiliate marketing and built his approach around a question most operators skip: not just who converts, but who stays. He went on to run growth for one of the most aggressive acquisition machines in beauty, and now advises founders and media buyers on the acquisition architecture that turns cold traffic into customers worth keeping.His work focuses on the gap between a winning ad and a profitable customer.

Greg Rollett is an Emmy Award-Winning Producer and Best-Selling Author who has spent 20+ years helping brands, publishers, and affiliates build businesses the right way. His content, TV shows, and documentaries have been featured on Amazon, Entrepreneur, Inc., Forbes, and Fox. Through it all, his message has never changed: scamming grandmas isn’t cool, and White Hat always wins. Today, Greg serves as Head of Growth at GiddyUp, where he works across three platforms built for ethical, performance-driven commerce: GiddyUp, the leading white hat partner commerce network; Grommet, the product discovery marketplace connecting new and emerging brands with 3 million+ shoppers; and RKVR, a revenue recovery engine that identifies, engages, and converts the ~95% of shoppers who leave without buying. Whether he’s working with Fortune 500 publishers or first-time founders, his mission is simple: create a world where doing the right thing is also the most profitable thing.

Agnė Ginaitė is the CMO and Shareholder at Pulsetto, one of the world’s fastest-growing wellness technology brands. She leads acquisition, growth, and commercial strategy across multiple channels, helping scale the company to tens of millions in annual revenue and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. Before joining Pulsetto, Agnė built and managed her own e-commerce brands and has spent years helping businesses grow through performance marketing, conversion optimization, and customer acquisition. She is passionate about building scalable growth systems, turning insights into revenue, and helping brands unlock their next stage of growth. Agnė has spoken at Affiliate World and other international marketing and startup conferences, where she shares practical, real-world lessons from scaling brands at speed.

Arsalan Khan is the Founder & CEO of AKM, a performance growth partner that scales, grows, and invests in the DTC brands he loves. With roots in the agency world, Arsalan has helped scale some of the most well-known eCommerce brands from 7 to 9 figures across Meta, Google, and email. Over time, the natural progression led to taking equity positions and acquiring ownership in the brands he helped grow. He is the co-founder of Marbl, and through AKM has launched a fund that invests directly into emerging consumer brands — backing over 17 brands in the past three years.

Strategic Partnerships and Supply Lead at Kayzen. I’ve been working in the ad tech industry for over 6 years, focusing on managing supply partnerships, as well as researching the mobile programmatic supply landscape. I love sharing my insights through articles, reports, webinars, and Kayzen’s School of Programmatic, making the complex in-app ad space accessible and engaging for everyone.

Scott Rewick is a serial entrepreneur and operator who has spent 25 years building and scaling direct-to-consumer brands. Since 1999 he has founded, scaled, and exited six 7- and 8-figure online businesses — including Metareward (acquired for $28M), NetBlue ($100M), LuckySurf ($8M), ADex ($22M)and NativePath ($50M) — deploying over $500M in paid media along the way. Today he runs SK Commerce, a portfolio of D2C consumer brands,and advises 7–9-figure eCommerce companies through The Digital Advisors. His current focus is using recursive agentic AI to scale consumer brands end-to-end — from creative production to customer service to daily operations.

Alex Micol, Founder of Affiliate Takeover, is a defining figure in performance marketing. He’s driven growth for global brands including Mindvalley, Gundry MD, and Dr. Marty — generating over $95 million in affiliate commissions. Through Affiliate Takeover, he’s setting a new standard for affiliates, built on integrity and scale.

Ezra Firestone has been recognized by Shopify and Entrepreneur Magazine as a leading ecommerce expert and a refreshing voice in the entrepreneurial community. He has founded multiple 7- and 8-figure brands (generating over $200 million in the past 5 years), and shares his personal and professional insights through Smart Marketer and Zipify Apps. An outspoken proponent of “people over profit,” he leads a team of 180 employees while traveling the world educating business owners on how to build brands with integrity and purpose. Most recently Ezra partnered with Shopify to create their premier course on Facebook advertising.

Marisha Lakhiani is the Chief Growth Officer at Mindvalley, where she spearheaded revenue growth from $30M to $170M. A marketing innovator, Marisha pioneered strategies that increased customer lifetime value by 700% and reduced acquisition costs by 30%. She expertly manages multi-million dollar product launches and has doubled market share in 18 months. Marisha's expertise spans performance marketing, AI integration, and subscription models in the digital education space. Her data-driven approach combines the art and science of marketing to deliver cutting-edge solutions for scalable growth. A dynamic speaker, Marisha shares insights on driving exponential growth in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape.

As the Founder of Systematiq.ai, he’s operationalized common AI tools for businesses and marketing teams. By injecting AI into workflows, he's amplified productivity & impact, streamlined finances, and revolutionized client experience and communication.

Rory is the former Head of Client Acquisition at Tetra. He helped 100+ clients increase their production from email & sms marketing to the tune of $100M+ in sales.

Kian is one of the world’s leading product development and sourcing experts who has personally sourced over 2,500 products for some of the leading brands, retailers and licenses such as the NBA, Olympics, United Nations plus much more.Kian has personally visited more than 500 factories and developed products for Amazon and Shopify store owners which have surpassed over 1 million units sold on a single product.Kian has also educated thousands of people through his YouTube channel (Sourcing with Kian) as well as being an instructor for Foundr on Product Development and Supply Chain.

Nick Shackelford has spent the last 10 years immersed in the performance marketing world. After working with legacy brands Pepsico and Apple, he quickly found his groove going direct consumer with viral products like Fidget Spinners and Magnetic Eyelashes. Now, having worked with over 248 D2C brands specifically focused in paid media and creative on Facebook, Instagram, Snap, and Pinterest. This has provided Nick has an interesting perspective on how brands truly scale in modern times with or without VC / PE backing.

Nick is a partner in konstantkreative.com, structured.agency, geekoutevents.io, and wearelucyd.com and www.drinkbrez.com as well as an angel and advisor to motionapp.com, northbeam.io, triplewhale.com, marketerhire.com, and a few other marketing-related businesses.

Brooke is currently the VP of Media & Acquisition at Neurogum, where she oversees media strategy and DTC growth. In this role, she leads initiatives that drive customer acquisition and scale brand visibility across digital and traditional media channels.Previously, as Director of E-commerce & Media at Liquid I.V., Brooke played a key role in overseeing acquisition, retention, and media channels. Earlier in her career, Brooke was Digital Marketing Director at FOCL, a plant-powered wellness brand, and Senior Digital Account Executive at RALLY, a PR and communications firm. She began her career in the programmatic advertising space, working with Quantcast in Los Angeles and DSPolitical in Washington, D.C.