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Pritzker Group

Kristi is an accomplished sales and operations professional with extensive experience developing corporate partnerships and building community relationships. She is responsible for facilitating relationships for Pritzker Group’s family of companies and connecting them with the firm’s wide network of experts. Kristi served as a strategic account manager for Kapow, an online marketplace and corporate event provider. Prior to Kapow, Kristi was vice president of events for 1871. Kristi operationalized 1871’s focus on connecting businesses, organizers and entrepreneurs during its early stages.

LimeRed Studio

In 2004 Emily founded UX agency LimeRed Studio with a plan to prioritize high-quality design, user experience, and meaningful social impact. Lime Red is now the nation’s only WBE certified B Corp UX agency. Her experiential spectrum includes design, business development, user experience, writing, marketing, and strategy in online and offline programs for multinational corporations. Emily is also the co-founder of ImpactX Labs, an accelerator for solving social problems with human-centered design and collaboration. She’s run accelerators for nonprofits and is a mentor for other women in business.

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

During his 18 years in education, Scott’s innovative reform work has yielded increased educational access for diverse learners in North America and the United Kingdom. NFTE works with students in low-income communities across the country which are often plagued by crime, violence and high dropout rates. During his administrative tenure in Chicago Public Schools, District 89, and the UK, Scott was a fierce advocate for marginalized youth. In 2010, The Chicago Board of Education appointed Scott SWAT Team Leader to overhaul failing and non-compliant schools where he overhauled district 89 policies.

Keith Bradley is an Information Technology Program Delivery professional with more than 16 years of program development and implementation experience. Since 2015 Keith has served as an ecosystem consultant and educator for the City of Sibenik (Department of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development) in Croatia as well as a mentor for start-ups and entrepreneurs in Europe. Prior to working in Sibenik, Keith was the Managing Director of the Chicago Blue 1647 headquarters location and served as an assistant to Harper Reed (Chief Technology Officer for 2008/2012 President Obama campaigns). Keith is also a two-time finalist for the U.S. State Department “Professional Fellows Program Alumni Impact Award” for his work and dedication within the U.S. State department Professional fellows program.

For the last 10 years Vedran has been actively involved into business coaching, starting with product development and product segmentation to setting up R&D teams with aim to foster innovative products and services in client companies. Through HAMAG-BICRO Vedran advised numerous SMEs regarding their innovative ideas and products, helping them to identify gaps to their success and overarching them. As an intellectual property expert he identified key issues with clients and helped them protect their innovations through various legal instruments.

Dajana started her career as a expert associate in charge of the organization of economic delegations, visits of ambassadors, monitoring European Union policy and current affairs on a national and European level related to European issues. Last year she started working in the Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovations and Investments (HAMAG-BICRO) in the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN). With her previous experience in networking she is responsible for meetings of enterpreneurs on the brokerage events (B2B) and producing partnership profiles for the EEN database aiming to connect croatian companies with potential partners and new markets.