Over the past three decades, Matthew Stafford has been entrepreneurial and successfully building several businesses across various industries, including Concrete, Brick and Mortar Locations, POD, and Software-based ventures.
Matthew Stafford, the Managing Partner of Build Grow Scale and an equity owner of some in-house Ecommerce brands, has knowledge and expertise, enabling him to mentor thousands of store owners through paid Ecommerce groups and live events.
His experience has also allowed him to help hundreds of ecommerce brands scale past the million-dollar mark – with many hitting the $10 million mark. To top it off, he's been speaking on stages about ecommerce optimization for the past seven years! In fact, before COVID-19, BGS hosted the largest yearly Ecommerce-focused event in North America – BGS LIVE.
For over 25 years, Gerry Hays has been working at the crossroads of entrepreneurship, education, and innovation — launching and exiting startups, mentoring early-stage founders, and teaching venture strategy and mindset everywhere from Indiana University to classrooms around the world. But Gerry isn’t just another serial founder.
After years of watching the capital markets become more exclusive and less effective, he decided to stop playing defense — and start building alternatives. He’s the founder of Doriot (Dor-ee-o), where he’s pioneering VentureStaking™ — a patent-pending, community-powered model for startup investing that flips the traditional system. He also created Fantasy Startup®, a gamified investing platform as addictive as fantasy sports, and QAI, a first-of-its-kind certification that offers a practical on-ramp to accredited investor status for the everyday person.
Gerry talks fast, thinks bold, and doesn’t hold back — especially when it comes to equity, access, and the future of investing. If you are interested in disruption, democratizing finance, or what’s really broken in venture capital, Gerry brings a conversation that doesn’t just observe change — he builds it.
James Elliman Founder of Elliman Technologies LLC has been working on computers since he was in 5th grade installing antivirus for his neighbors. In 2019 he launched Elliman Technologies LLC with one goal in mind to simplify IT and more importantly simplify IT for small businesses.
Yaakov Sash is the founder and CEO of Novospir and the former Head of Digital Asset Markets Technology at Credit Suisse. At Novospir, he's pioneering the future of gaming through digital and non-digital game currencies. The company’s flagship release, Stack the Pixels, is a next-generation series of games showcasing breakthrough monetization, social gameplay, and massively multiplayer technology—from one player to millions.
Learn more at www.stackthepixels.com.
