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Position: Co-Founder and CEO at 

Clint P. Jones is CEO of GoHealth (NASDAQ: GOCO), a leading health insurance marketplace that he co-founded with ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú alum Brandon Cruz and has served as GoHealth’s Chief Executive Officer since GoHealth’s founding in 2001. He has also been a member of GoHealth, Inc.’s board of directors since 2020 and a member of GoHealth Holdings, LLC’s board of managers since 2019, as well as serving on the board of managers of GoHealth’s predecessor since its founding in 2001.
Clint serves as member of the board of directors of Bridge Legal from June 2000 to January 2001,

Mr. Jones served as Intranet Market Manager for Holt Value, a former division of Credit Suisse. Mr. Jones speaks regularly at industry events and conferences. He is also active in insurance regulatory forums. GoHealth, Inc. (GoHealth) was named to The National Association for Business Resources’ list of Summer 2020 “Best and Brightest Companies To Work For in the Nation.” This is the fourth consecutive year GoHealth has won the national award. GoHealth also won the “Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” in Chicago for four consecutive years, beginning in 2017. In 2013, Mr. Jones was recognized by EY as the EY Entrepreneur of the Year for the Midwest and was also named to the annual Chicago leadership list, Crain’s 40 under 40.

Mr. Jones holds bachelor’s degrees in both Marketing and Management Information Systems from the Farmer School of Business at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University.

Jeff Kadlic

Position: Founding Partner, Evolution Capital Partners

Jeff Kadlic is the Founding Partner of Evolution Capital Partners, the award-winning and nationally recognized private equity firm dedicated to driving small business transformational success. His passion is simple; arm and inspire founders and business owners with operational leadership, capital management, and success drivers that competitive markets demand. He is the creator of Evolution PRO℠, the systematic organizational change agent that transforms the challenges small businesses face into sustainable and profitable growth.

As an industry bellwether, Jeff Kadlic drives entrepreneurial excellence and success outcomes. Evolution Capital Partners is the recipient of the 2014 Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Deal Makers Award.   Ernst & Young named Jeff Kadlic as a 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.  Evolution Capital Partners is the 2013 recipient of Inc. Magazine 500 Award, featuring it as one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S.  In 2009 Jeff was the recipient of Cleveland Crain’s Business 40 Under 40 as one of Ohio’s leading business professionals. Jeff is a national speaker and published writer across leading industry initiatives, including micro-markets, micro-buyouts, entrepreneurial business strategy, and organizational transformation.  He co-hosted the radio show dedicated to best practices impacting the entrepreneurial community. 

Prior to forming Evolution Capital Partners, Jeff executed complex investments within large institutional settings for over ten years.  Collectively, his varied institutional investing experience laid the foundational experiences and market knowledge required to be successful across the competitive investment landscape of today.  Jeff earned his Master of Management Studies degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University (Ohio).

Jeff is a dedicated steward for his community and philanthropic organizations. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University and the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University’s Parent Council. He served as philanthropic board president for the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes and remained an active Board Member for nine years until 2019.    Jeff was also named Chairman of the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Cleveland Development Board in 2015. Jeff calls Cleveland, Ohio home, where he lives with his wife and four children.

Maria Katris

Position: Co-Founder and CEO at 

Maria Katris is Co-Founder and CEO of , which has revolutionized the way the tech industry recruits and hires top talent. She transformed the company from its start as a networking site for the industry to the disruptive platform it is today, a national home for tech professionals and more than 1,800 customers, including innovative companies of all sizes across sectors. Headquartered in Chicago, Built In employs more than 220 professionals. 

Monthly, Built In attracts 3 million tech professionals globally. They rely on the platform’s content to learn about tech trends and news, grow professionally and discover opportunities at companies with missions they want to join. For its customers, Built In puts the stories of their cultures, technology and people in front of this otherwise hard-to-reach audience, helping companies fill their roles of the future.

In 2019, Maria and her team closed a $22 million Series C funding round led by Updata Partners with participation from MATH Venture Partners, which at the time was the largest funding round closed by a female CEO-led firm in Chicago history.

In 2021, Built In was recognized by the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing companies in North America. This marked the third consecutive year Built In was recognized on the Deloitte list. Also in 2021, the company earned a place on Inc. Magazine's 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, with a growth rate of 277% over the previous three years.

Previously Maria was the Executive Director of TiE Midwest, the Chicago chapter of a Global not-for-profit organization dedicated to high-growth entrepreneurs. Immediately prior, Maria founded Nanny Boutique, a Chicago-based nanny placement agency, which she sold within two years. Maria has strategic experience working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital as a strategic analyst to the VPs and CEO. Prior to that, she spent four years as a healthcare consultant at Arthur Andersen and Huron Consulting Group.

In addition to building a fast-growth company that continues to disrupt the tech recruitment space, her top priorities include her awesome husband and being a mother to three amazing daughters. As she creates a path to purpose for her employees and the tech professionals who use Built In, she also follows her own purpose — a mission to show her daughters and team what it means to lead with empathy, accountability, and humility.

Maria was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest Finalist for 2020 and was recognized by Crain’s in its “40 Under 40” list. She earned her bachelor’s in Finance from the Farmer School of Business at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University and her MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Sean Lane

Position: Founder and CEO at  and Founder and CEO at 

Sean Lane is Founder and CEO of Columbus-based , which markets an AI workforce platform built specifically for healthcare that has been adopted by over 600 hospitals, including 22% of the top 100 health systems in the country. The company’s software acts as a router between systems and data by automating repetitive, high-volume tasks and workflows, delivering hospitals and health systems increased revenue, reduced costs, and increased capacity.

In July 2021, Olive AI passed Root’s record for the largest venture capital funding round at the highest valuation in Ohio history with the $400 million round that closed last month at a $4 billion post-money valuation. To-date the company has raised almost $900 Million in funding.

Sean Lane is also Founder and CEO at Circulo Health, a Health Tech company that plans to bring much needed, disruptive innovation to Medicaid Managed Care. Earlier this year, the company closed a $50 Million seed venture round led by current Olive AI investors Drive Capital, General Catalyst, Oak HC/FT, and Silicon Valley Bank Capital.

Sean spent five years an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force and later served as an intelligence officer at the NSA, solving big challenges as a software engineer and technology leader.

In June 2021, Sean was named to Columbus Business First 2021 Power 100 list of the 100 people making the biggest impact in Central Ohio for 2021. He earned his bachelor’s in Political Science and Government at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University.

Wendy Lea

Position: CEO at , Former CEO at , Board Member at , Board Member/Advisor to a number of high growth companies, and former Co-Founder and CEO of The Sales Consultancy (sold to )

Wendy Lea is CEO at Energize Colorado, a nonprofit 501c3 organization established to provide relief to small businesses in Colorado, supporting local businesses in recovering from the economic impact of COVID-19, and serves as a Board Director at Techstars, the top-ranked startup accelerator network in the world.

Wendy recently stepped down from , a public-private partnership established to drive the next phase of growth for the Greater Cincinnati region—innovation that will be enabled and delivered by startups, where she served as CEO from 2014 to 2018.

An accomplished Silicon Valley executive, Wendy has deep experience in marketing, sales, and customer experience. She is an expert at digital innovation and has worked with hundreds of companies around the world, from start-ups to large multinational corporations. Lea has experience with freemium, direct, and indirect business models. She has broad knowledge in business financing, from bootstrapped start-ups to venture funds and private equity partnerships.

Wendy serves on several boards, including , a leader in online customer communities and is headquartered in San Francisco, where she is the executive chair and Denver-based , a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) that empowers teams to centralize and manage content, author collaboratively, publish to multiple outputs, and distribute to learning audiences, among others.

Wendy holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing from the School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi.

Michael Markesbery

Position: Michael Markesbery is co-founder and CEO of . OROS designs, develops, integrates, and markets a line of extreme outerwear using its patented Aerogel-based SolarCore technology that is considered the “best insulation on the planet.” Developed from the NASA technology used for space suits, the space shuttle, and the Mars Rovers, OROS infused Aerogel to create Solarcore, helping to make outerwear thinner, warmer, and more flexible.

A 2015 graduate of The Brandery, the company raised a $2.0M seed round led by NCT Ventures with Fengshion Capital in 2016. Closed two follow-on seed+ stage rounds that total more than $8 million, one completed in 2018 and another in 2019, that includes investments by Listen Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Ridgeline Ventures, Break Trail Ventures, Elizabeth Street Ventures, RedHawk Ventures, retired Goldman Sachs Director Eric Dobkin, Misfit Wearables founder Sonny Vu, and retired Grainger CEO Jim Ryan. In October 2019, the company announced a multi-year $2 million subcontract under a Other Transaction Authority prototype agreement (pOTA) from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center (CCDC-SC) Division of the United States Department of Defense.

Since its commercial launch in 2015, OROS has sold more than $10M of its extreme outerwear gear to customers in more than 100 countries worldwide, and today, the company’s proprietary insulative technology, SolarCore, is featured in other brands products, such as LL Bean’s boots, Cabela’s boots, and John Deere gloves, among others.

Michael was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List of Top Disruptive Entrepreneurs in the U.S. in Retail & eCommerce in 2018 and was a member of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University’s distinguished 18 of the Last 9 List of Top Gradates in 2017. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Zoology and Animal Biology and a minor in Entrepreneurship from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University.

Rod Robinson

Position: Vice President of Business Acceleration, Supplier Inclusion & Sustainability at , Founder and former CEO at ConnXus, and Board Member at .

Rod Robinson is Vice President of Business Acceleration, Supplier Inclusion & Sustainability at . Previously, he served as CEO of ConnXus, Inc., a supplier data management software company that he founded in 2010 that enabled Global 2000 companies to discover new suppliers, manage supplier diversity tracking, supplier risk, compliance and reporting. ConnXus’ cloud-based platform provides powerful tools and analytics that enable large companies to validate, quantify and measure the diversity within corporate supply chains.

Rod led the company from start-up through multiple rounds of angel investment and venture capital financings that totaled more than $10 million, 628% revenue growth (2013-2018), building an enterprise customer base—including American Express, Caesars Entertainment, Coca-Cola, Cummins, Dell, Fifth Third Bank, McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble and other leading brands—before the acquisition by Coupa on May 4, 2020. Rod currently serves on the Advisory Board of The Techstars Foundation and previously served as Chief Procurement Officer at Cincinnati Bell.

Rod was recognized by EY as a finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Midwest in 2012. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the West Virginia University Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Dun & Bradstreet fellowship recipient.

Aaron Ryan

Position: Commissioner and President of  and  and Investment Committee Member of 1809 Capital

Aaron Ryan is Commissioner and President of Overtime and Overtime Elite (OTE), a transformative global youth basketball league that offers the world’s most talented young basketball players an alternative pathway to becoming professional athletes.

Overtime, named to LinkedIn’s Top 50 Startups list for 2021, has raised more than $140 million in venture funding to-date, including an $80 million Series C that closed earlier this year and was co-led by Sapphire Ventures and Black Capital VC that valued the company at $280 million. Other investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Micromanagement Ventures, Morgan Stanley Counterpoint Global, Blackstone Strategic Partners, PROOF, and more than 30 NBA stars, including Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant.

Previously, Ryan had 22-year career at the NBA, where he served as Senior Vice President of the NBA 2K League, the first official esports league operated by an American professional sports league. In addition, Ryan currently serves as a member of the Investment Committee for the new ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú alumni-led growth equity investment fund, 1809 Capital, a $10 million syndicated fund that co-invests with ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú alumni GPs and investment managers at leading institutional venture funds.

Aaron holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University.

David Schwab

Position: Executive Vice President at , Founder of , and Creator/Host of  Podcast

David Schwab is Executive Vice President at , the world’s largest sponsorship consulting practice and a pioneer and leader in athlete and personality representation and management with more than 800 employees globally.

David also founded , which is a celebrity strategy business with one goal in mind – to make this process straightforward, smarter and more efficient. Octagon First Call educates companies, associations and non-profits on the proper use of celebrity talent, then advise them on how to get the most value out of their partnership. This includes identifying the right talent, securing agreements, tailoring campaigns to fit both the marketing goals of the brand and the unique talents and appeal of the celebrity and managing the relationship throughout the duration of the term. And even telling clients when not to hire.

David is Creator and Host of  Podcast, a weekly podcast with highly successful ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University alumni exploring the common traits that bring people to Oxford, Ohio and how that helped them with their professional successes.

David holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the Farmer School of Business at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University.

Todd Schwarzinger

Position: Venture Partner at , former Managing Director of Life Sciences and Healthcare at 

Todd Schwarzinger is a Venture Partner at Refinery Ventures. Previously, he was a Managing Director and head of the Life Sciences and Healthcare practice at  for the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest. Todd and his teams focused on capital, banking, and relationship solutions for healthcare clients of all life stages spanning biopharma, medical device, digital health, diagnostics, and life science tools.

Todd joined SVB with more than 15 years of investment banking and consulting experience with healthcare and life sciences companies. Prior to joining SVB, Todd was an Executive Director in the healthcare investment banking division at  where he advised a broad range of medical device and biopharmaceutical clients on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, the equity and debt capital markets. In his nearly nine-year career at Morgan Stanley across both London and New York, he was responsible for life sciences M&A transactions totaling over $5 billion and raised over $3 billion in capital markets transactions spanning North America, Europe and Asia.

Todd holds a bachelor’s in Finance from the Farmer School of Business at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University and received his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Greg Van Kirk

Position: Founder and CEO at , , , and 

Greg Van Kirk is a social entrepreneur, consultant and educator. He is Founder and CEO at , , , and . These are all ventures whose mission is to design and implement social innovation responses to long-standing development challenges.

Over the course of 20 years, Greg has worked with a diverse variety of organizations, leaders and communities in the US, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Suriname, Brazil, Haiti, The Dominican Republic, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Egypt, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, South Africa, India and Thailand.

He has designed social entrepreneurial experiences, taught courses, and led workshops for thousands of students and professionals. Greg founded of SocialEntrepreneurU, is a former Ashoka ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhip Group Member, is a two-time Ashoka Globalizer Fellow and World Economic Forum "Social Entrepreneur of the Year for 2012 (Latin America)".

He is the principal designer of the award winning  and has served as a consultant for organizations such as Levi Strauss Foundation, Solutions Journalism Network, USAID, Chemonics, VisionSpring, Soros Foundation, Church World Service, Inter American Development Bank, Water For People and Fundacion Paraguaya in the US, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

Greg began working in rural small business development as a Guatemala Peace Corps volunteer in 2001. He worked in investment banking for five years before arriving in Guatemala. Two deals he led at UBS during this time won “Deal of the Year” honors from Structured Finance International magazine. He currently lives with his family in New York City.

Greg also contributes time as a “Social Entrepreneur in Residence” at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University, Columbia University, NYU, Marquette University, Indiana University, University of San Diego and Arizona State University and has taught social entrepreneurship courses at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú, Columbia, and NYU.
Greg is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative and was recognized by The World Economic Forum as the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012. He holds a bachelor’s in Business Administration, Marketing, and Economics from the Farmer School of Business at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University.