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Erika Nardini currently serves as CEO of Barstool Sports, the digital media juggernaut delivering 24/7 unfiltered, authentic, and satirical sports and entertainment content to over a billion followers on social media and millions of people through its website, app, podcasts, and Sirius XM channel.

Robert D. Manfred Jr. is an American lawyer and business executive who is the tenth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball. He previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball and succeeded Bud Selig as Commissioner.

Jeffrey Carr has been on the faculty of the New York University Stern School of Business for 23 years where he teaches marketing, competitive strategy and entrepreneurship in the MBA, EMBA and undergraduate programs. In 1998 he was selected for the Stern/Citibank Teacher of the Year Award, received the NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award in 2011 and was named the Stern Faculty of the Year in 2012.

Ms. Acevedo served as Chief Executive Officer of the Girl Scouts of the USA from May 2017 to August 2020, and as interim Chief Executive Officer from June 2016 to May 2017.  Sylvia was also Chair of President Obama’s White House initiative for Educational Excellence for Hispanics in early childhood leadership. Ms. Acevedo currently serves on the Qualcomm Board of Directors.

Leonard Steinberg started a firestorm in the real estate profession when he joined the small start-up technology-focused New York-based brokerage Urban Compass as company President in mid-2014 after 17 years in the industry at both Corcoran and Douglas Elliman. The 50-person company has mushroomed in just 6 years to a 20,000-person, nationally recognized brand called simply Compass with over 325 offices throughout the USA .

Jay Samit is the former Independent Vice Chairman of Deloitte. An American digital media innovator, he has pioneered advancements in music and video distribution, social media, and ecommerce. He is the author of the bestselling book "Disrupt You!". An active philanthropist, Samit was appointed to the White House's initiative for education and technology by President Bill Clinton.

John Catsimatidis is an American billionaire businessman and radio talk show host. He is the owner and CEO of Gristedes Foods, a grocery chain in Manhattan, and the Red Apple Group. He moved with his family from Greece to New York when he was an infant and grew up in an apartment in Harlem. He worked as a grocery clerk while attending New York University but dropped out for a chance to own a piece of the shop where he worked.

He is one of the most dynamic and charismatic forces in the hospitality industry today. He runs some of the city’s most notable establishments in the city including Clinton Hall, which has five locations in NYC, The Lookup rooftop and Slate. Telly began his career in investment banking, but made a career 180 when he dove into the hospitality business.