Jon McNeill is the CEO and Co-Founder of DVx Ventures, a venture studio focused on building and scaling businesses that address large, global markets.

Bruce Spizer is a native and life-long resident of New Orleans. He attended Newman School for 13 years and Tulane University for seven years, receiving a B.A.

Writer, director, podcaster, father of two girls. Husband to a Princess.

Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, which examines how Winston Churchill a

Jordan Salcito is an award-winning sommelier and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience at renowned restaurants including Momofuku, Restaurant Daniel, and Eleven Madison Park, where she was part of the team to win the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Wine

Sue Mobley is a New Orleans based urbanist, organizer, and advocate. She is Director of Research at Monument Lab..

Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA Today, a commentator for CNN, ABC News, PBS NewsHour and National Public Radio, a New York Times bestselling author and a nationally-known speaker.

Elyce Arons was the co-founder of Kate Spade and is the co-founder and CEO of Frances Valentine, a New York-based luxury apparel and accessories company.

Simon Rich is a Thurber Prize and Emmy winning humorist who frequent contributes to the New Yorker.

Wendy Rodrigue’s passion for art history delivered her to George Rodrigue’s French Quarter gallery in 1991, and as fate would have it, she began a lifetime with world-renowned artist George Rodrigue (1944-2013). The couple married in 1997. Wendy partnered with Rodr