Colin Krause

Colin Krause

Colin Krause developed a crowd-sourced jingle-writing platform, The Jingle Collective™, that enabled new talent to break into the business. At the same time, he co-founded Adversocial™, a social media platform targeted toward advertising professionals. His electronic rockabilly band, Dialup Modem, performs at digital festivals.

Jessica Marie Lindsey

Jessica Marie Lindsey

Jessica Marie Lindsey created a blogging platform as an undergraduate, and translated its peer‑to-peer messaging paradigm into an image- and video-sharing service that became the basis of an alumni social network. How to Get There From Here, her self-published memoir about leveraging social media to create realistic online personas, became a top seller. She paints watercolor portraits of family pets.

Ann Adele O’Rourke

Ann Adele O’Rourke

Ann Adele O’Rourke created a video streaming service as a college project, and sold it to a leading media conglomerate for a seven-figure purchase price. Her study of single-character social-media IDs won a Momentication™ award for its discovery of patterns in identity and expression. A former marching band director, she founded the Glockenspiel Society and … More

Jeffrey Benton

Jeffrey Benton

Jeffrey Benton built an advertising podcast into a global platform and a best-selling memoir, There’s an Echo in Here, about media successes, failures, and best practices. A widely accredited expert on online etiquette, he is a popular speaker at disruptive conferences. His macro photography transforms ordinary substances into imaginary vistas.