Investing In Chicago Panel at The Big Night Showcase
Education, technology, design, and venture capital will be the tip of this iceberg. Moderated by Chicago Inno’s General Manager Will Flanagan, this diverse panel of experts will challenge the term “Investing” and what that means for Chicago. Is it all about the money, what about resources for creatives and non-profits, or more importantly inclusion for women and the African American community? This panel will occur in one of rooms during The Big Night Showcase #1 July 13th. Check out our amazing participants, and get your tickets below. Ticket prices increase June 11th, and July 1st.
The Big Night Showcase #1
Investing In Chicago Panel
Location: Moonlight Studios
Date: July 13th
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Doors Open 6:00 pm
Will Flanagan (Moderator)
GM of Chicago Inno. He digs innovation, in all of its weird, wonderful forms. The way Mase says “hey man, how you doin?” at the beginning of Welcome Back makes me super happy.
Samara Mejia (Panelist)
Samara Mejia is a Senior Associate of MATH Venture Partners that is an early to growth-stage fund managed by a seasoned team of hands-on investors and operators. Prior to joining MATH, Samara spent eight years at Goldman Sachs, where she recently consulted top wealth managers on their business practices. Samara also worked in sales where she was continually ranked top 5 in selling financial products, advising on portfolio construction, and providing market insights. She began her career in the Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodity (FICC) group where she lead multiple technology enhancing projects across global exchanges. Samara has an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
G.Andrew Meyer (Panelist)
Andrew Meyer is a top award-winning advertising writer and creative director in traditional, digital and social media. He has led creative for many major brands including Altoids, Samsung, Corona, and Cadillac and wrote “Find Your Beach” for Corona. He currently is a Creative Lead for Global Marking at Facebook and Instagram. Having extensive experience in virtually all categories of creative from Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett Worldwide, Adjunct Instructor at The University of Chicago’s Graham School of General Studies, all the way to Group Creative Director at Cramer-Krasselt, he understands the value of business from a creative’s perspective. Some of his many awards include Three Film Lions at Cannes, Five One Show Pencils, Ad Age Marketer “A” list, Two Gold Effies, and more.
Thomas K.R. Stovall (Panelist)
Thomas is the Founder of CANDID Cup, a Chicago-based technology firm on the forefront of thought leadership in the microfeedback industry. Global enterprises crowd source, track and monitor private microfeedback about the culture, brand health and efficiency of process in various areas of their operation, as a trending metric, directly from employees, customers, and others connected to the organization through CANDID’s OmniView™ microfeedback monitoring dashboard. Thomas is a published author expert with best-sellers to his credit on the topic of business amplification who, in addition to being 1 of 7 Code2040 Entrepreneurs in Residence leading the Google for Entrepreneurs initiative in seven cities across the United States, is also the creator of ImBlackInTech, a business amplification event series led by and targeted toward Black and Latino/a Founders and Professionals in the technology industry. ImBlackInTech hosts The Founders Series, which is the Midwest’s largest quarterly technology panel for Founders of color.
Priya Shah (Panelist)
Priya Shah is the Founder and Executive Director of non-profit The Simple Good, which connects and empowers at-risk youth to bring positivity into communities through art, discussion, and creative programming on a global scale. Prior to The Simple Good Priya worked within the Assurance Practice at Ernst & Young and later moved on to work as a Project Manager in Strategy & Operations at Groupon. Through her diverse partnerships and endeavors, Priya has gained an unique perspective on humanity and taken it as a responsibility to engage her understanding of communities in need. This has led her to study abroad in South Africa, Turkey and Brazil as well as attending World Summits in Morocco and South Korea. Priya has an Accounting & Finance degree from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
WHAT HAPPENS AT THE GLAPPITNOVA FESTIVAL?
The beauty of being at the Glappitnova global celebration July 7th – 14th is you never know exactly what you’re going to get outside of the pure intellectual and experiential bliss ranging from storytelling, performances, art installations, parties, and panels in an underground environment. We smash it all together uniting extremely talented people spanning all industries at our Big Night Chicago Showcases July 13th, and July 14th 2016.
