Bringing over 25 years experience from the startup space Connie is a versatile, accomplished business professional. Her experience expands over areas in account management, customer experience, operations, business development, sales and marketing and product development. Connie has contributed and played multiple roles in a variety of startups, including founding member of a K-12 Education startup as Operations & Director of Partnerships to a Mobile Healthcare startup as Director of Client Services & Implementation. Other industries that she has worked in include Automotive Manufacturing, E-Learning, and Sales & Marketing.

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Gv is a Growth Strategist with over 20 years of experience living at the center of a marketing, product, sales & self-care Venn diagram. A multipotentialitie at heart, Gv’s interests and experience span the roles of entrepreneur, executive, coach, marketer, salesman, product manager, DJ and Yoga teacher. Grounded firmly in the cornerstones of alignment, strategy, and process, Gv pulls from all of these disciplines to help startups launch, companies grow, and entrepreneurs live an integrated life.

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With more than 15 years of experience, Hemingway is committed to fostering equitable economic opportunity across America by empowering regions through data-driven strategic planning, public-private partnerships, and leading-edge community advancement practices.

Wildly entrepreneurial, she has been a founding member of six companies and an advisor to hundreds of high-growth startups through serving as the director of various Mentor Networks, Business Accelerators, and Community Financial Institutions. Having worked her way from coast to coast, Hemingway is an economic development powerhouse, award-winning event producer, and nationally recognized thought leader in entrepreneurial ecosystem design.

In addition, her background as a public relations specialist has equipped her with an uncommon expertise in digital media production, corporate and government relations, community resource mapping, and innovative scaling tactics which make her an invaluable asset to any growth-oriented organization. She recently relocated to St. Louis from Asheville, N.C., with her two children and can often be found moonlighting as a YMCA Little League Coach.

Devon Moody-Graham, MBA is an International business strategist, author and community leader dedicated to seeing a positive shift in economic development through entrepreneurship in underserved communities. She’s the Chief Solutions Officer of CEOMom Empire LLC and Lead Strategist in Business Development to several companies, non-profits, and universities. She creates and facilitates transformational entrepreneurship programs and experiences.

Her experience and partnerships have brought over $4M in capital to small businesses. Devon created a community for mothers that aspire to start businesses and develop professionally. She has worked with over 500+ businesses and 15,000 youth and young adults in entrepreneurship and professional training over the last 13 years to bring awareness to the feasibility of wealth building. She has served on a select White House committee on technology and entrepreneurial resource access. In 2018, she was selected to represent the state of Missouri in the SCORE and Sam’s Club America’s Small Business Championship competition with her business and social development group CEOMom.

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Quentin is a serial entrepreneur, skilled in negotiation, commercialization, corporate relationship management, growth strategy, mobile applications, and vision development, which provides assistance to our ventures as he supports their progress toward successful market entry and growth stages.

Quentin is also the President of QCO Consulting and has involvement in the leadership of several other ventures.

Quentin is passionate about improving processes, growing companies, negotiating fair business deals, and seeing new thought leadership applied to organizations of all sizes.

Quentin has his MBA, a degree in Management and Information Systems, and a certification for Sustainable Business from Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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