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Patrice Tanaka

Patrice Tanaka

Patrice Tanaka is co-chair, chief creative officer, and whatcanbe SM ambassador for CRT/tanaka, an entity she helped co-found in September 2005. Her agency has been recognized as the “Best Agency to Work for in America,” “Most Admired Mid-Size PR Agency in the U.S.,” and “#1 Most Creative PR Agency in America,” among other accolades by various PR organizations and trade media. CRT/tanaka has also won more than 300 PR and marketing awards for client campaigns.

Born and raised in Hawaii, Patrice graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1974 and now lives in Manhattan. She devotes much of her free time to serving on the boards of non-profit organizations dedicated to helping women and girls, including the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, the American Friends of Phelophepa (the South African health care train), and Asian Women in Business. She also serves on the Past Presidents Council of New York Women in Communications and is a former trustee and member of the Women’s Forum New York. Patrice is a competitive ballroom dancer and avid tennis player.

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Bill Tancer

New York Times bestselling author Bill Tancer is the chief data scientist at Signos, a company that connects people to their metabolic signals. Bill works across the three billion cells of data that amount to 10,000 life-years of data that Signos has amassed. Prior to Signos, Bill was the senior vice president and general manager of global research for Experian. Bill’s expertise in data analysis has been quoted in The New York TimesWall Street Journal, and Financial Times. He has been a frequent guest on CNBC, CNNBloomberg, and has also appeared on Good Morning America. His data expertise was the subject of a feature on ABC’s hit show 20/20. Bill also penned an online column for TIME magazine.

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Hemant Taneja

Hemant Taneja is the CEO and Managing Director of the global venture capital firm General Catalyst. He is a multi-year Midas List investor, a best-selling author and a founder. His career includes early investments in market-leading companies like Stripe, Samsara (NYSE: IOT), Snap (NYSE: SNAP), ClassDojo, Grammarly, Gusto, Applied Intuition, and Anduril. He has also hatched numerous companies like Commure, Tendo and Livongo, which was acquired by Teladoc in an $18.5B merger, the largest in digital health history.

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Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott, executive chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society. He has authored 18 books, including Wikinomics, which has been translated into over 25 languages. His second TED Talk has been watched by over 7 million people on TED.com alone.

In 2016, with his son Alex, he coauthored the global bestseller Blockchain Revolution, now translated into 20 languages. In 2017, Don and Alex cofounded the Blockchain Research Institute, whose 150+ projects are the definitive investigation into blockchain strategy, use-cases, implementation challenges and organizational transformations. The Blockchain Research Institute has since expanded globally and its new focus is on Web3—specifically the integration of AI, blockchain, the Internet of Things and Extended Reality.

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Chuck Tate, Ph.D.

Chuck Tate, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at California State University, Bakersfield. Like the Batman, he has a rarely seen alter ego who is gregarious and witty, but in reality Dr. Tate is obsessed with research and spends much of his time in his cave-like office plotting his next set of studies.

Ian Tattersall

Ian Tatersal is a curator in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His research is in paleoanthropology and lemur biology, and he is the author of some 20 books including Becoming Human (Harcourt Brace, 1998), Extinct Humans (with Jeffrey Schwartz: Westview Press, 2000), The Monkey in the Mirror (Harcourt, 2002), and the forthcoming New Oxford World History, Vol 1: Beginnings to 4000 BCE (Oxford University Press) and Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (with Rob DeSalle: Texas A&M University Press). He lives in Greenwich Village, N.Y.

Melissa Tatum

Melissa L. Tatum is the Associate Director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law. Much of her teaching and scholarship focuses on the intersection of minority groups, individual rights, and the criminal justice system. She is also the author of several short stories published by Yard Dog Press.

Ephren W. Taylor

Ephren W. Taylor

Ephren W. Taylor is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and the CEO of two publicly traded companies, one of which is recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the “Top 100 Socially Conscious Corporations in the United States.” Named by The Michigan Chronicle as one of the top “10 people making a global difference,” at 27 years old, Ephren Taylor is the youngest African-American CEO of any publicly traded company in U.S. history. Taylor began his career as a video-game developer at the age of 12 and built a multimillion dollar technology company, GoFerretGo.com, by the age of 17.

His 2009 Wall Street Journal bestselling book “Creating Success from the Inside Out” (John Wiley & Sons), serves as an expose of the mindset of today’s multimillionaires while defining success as not only attaining wealth, but how to utilize it. As a result, he’s become a frequently requested speaker and panelist across the country.

Robert Brian Taylor

Robert B. Taylor is a pop-culture writer living in Pittsburgh. He’s a Marvel Comics boy at heart but will argue passionately that “Batman Begins” is the best superhero film ever made. He contributed the essay “The Captain May Wear the Tight Pants, But It’s the Gals Who Make Serenity Soar” to the Smart Pop anthology Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly. His TV column runs weekly in The Herald, the newspaper of record for Rock Hill, S.C.