Cofounder and CEO of UncagedInnovations.com, Stephanie Downs has over 20 years of experience creating, building, and selling businesses in a variety of industries. She also spent over a decade serving as a Corporate Social Responsibility Consultant advising companies on alternatives to animal materials. She founded her first venture in 1999, an internet marketing company, that she sold in 2014 to a VC firm.

Then in 2016, Stephanie founded the venture, Good Dot, an organization that grew into the largest plant-based meat company in India. She sold her interests in that organization to embark on helping build more innovative material companies. Now, Stephanie serves as the CEO of the emerging next-generation leather company, Uncaged Innovations.

Philip Sessions is a speaking coach who helps business owners, leaders, and salespeople become confident in public speaking. With over three years of experience being a podcaster, public speaker, and Toastmaster, Philip specializes in helping business owners step into their true speaking potential by building their confidence to empower them to lead their companies and express the vision, mission, and strategy of their company so all their employees can understand the WHY behind their work and not just the what!

Rena Zaharov is a leadership business coach who specializes in team building and helping organizations create compassionate work environments that support growth and contribution.