Sumaya Kazi is an internationally recognized innovator, leader, speaker and award-winning entrepreneur. She has been featured in over 150 newspapers, magazines, radio interviews, and television spotlights in top-tier outlets such as Newsweek, BusinessWeek Magazine, CNN, ABC News and Washington Post.  She was also named as BusinessWeek's 25 Best Entrepreneurs Under 25 Years Old in the United States.  In addition, she founded The CulturalConnect, an online media publishing company dedicated to young professionals around the world. The CulturalConnect has grown from one weekly e-magazine to five weekly e-magazines and has published over 700 interviews of awe-inspiring young professionals in the for-profit and not-for-profit industries to a readership in over 100 countries.  In between her schedule, she is also an inspiring mentor at BUILD.

Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, & internet marketing nerd.  Dave currently runs a seed-stage investment program for Founders Fund, and also manages the fbFundRev social incubator for Facebook.  Dave is an advisor and investor in more than 50 companies including:  Canopy Financial, Mint.com, SlideShare, Mashery, TeachStreet, KISSmetrics, Simply Hired, Twilio, Bit.ly, UserVoice, and CreditKarma, among others.

Annette Jordan was recently crowned as Miss Rim of the World and participated in the Miss California USA pageant 2010 as Miss Lake Arrowhead.  She is a senior at Biola University majoring in Mass Communications with an emphasis in Journalism and Film and a minor in Biblical Studies.  Her career in journalism came to a climax two years ago when she went on a journey to connect the fragmented pieces of her past. She is a foster youth alumni, who grew up with two sets of foster parents.  Recently, she used social media to search for her biological parents.  The internet transformed her life forever.  She was reunited, after 15 years of separation, with her biological father, grandparents, and sisters.  After her investigative work, her passion for journalism spurred to new heights, with experience and opportunities in New York, Washington and Los Angeles.

Tim Galida is best known as the keyboard player and singer of the well-known and local favorite 80's cover band Pop Rocks, a high energy rock/dance band that delivers fun, wild, and unapologetically over-the-top music.  Pop Rocks has become the choice for leading Fortune 500 companies, startups, and non-profit organizations.  They have performed for a range of well-known clients and venues, such as Google, LucasArts, the Giants, Oakland A's, Cisco, Adobe, and City of Hope.  Although locally known as the Pop Rock member, he is nationally recognized as a member of the indie pop band, Blue Rabbit.  Tim, along with Blue Rabbit, have performed with artists such as The Ting Tings (famously known for their hit record song, "Shut Up and Let Me Go"), Emily Jane White, Chelsea Wolfe, Beat Beat Whisper, and The Chapin Sisters.  The band's debut album is currently in rotation on 170+ stations across the country.  Although Tim is seen as a rock star, his background as an engineer actually led him to a career in music. He has made sound effects, music, and voiceovers for a leading video game audio company and still manages time to consult as a recording engineer, sound designer, and voice-over actor.

Born in Moscow, Maria Kochetkova trained at the Bolshoi Ballet School for eight years before dancing with The Royal Ballet and English National Ballet in London. She joined the San Francisco Ballet as a Principal Dancer in 2007. Her classical repertoire includes the title role in Giselle, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Kitri in Don Quixote, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker and the title role in Alice in Wonderland. She has also performed in George Balanchine’s Jewels, Divertimento 15 and Violin Concerto, William Forsythe’s in the middle, somewhat elevated and ballets by Mark Morris, Yuri Possokhov, Helgi Tomasson, Jorma Elo, Christopher Wheeldon, David Dawson and Hans Van Manen.

Kochetkova’s prizes and awards include medals at the International Ballet Competitions in Seoul (Gold, 2005), Rome (Gold, 2005), Riety (Gold, 2005), Luxembourg (Gold, 2003), Varna (Silver and the Press Jury Prize, 2002), Moscow (Bronze, 2001). She is also a winner of the Prix de Lausanne (2002).

Kochetkova performed the Grand Pas de Deux in San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker which was broadcast by PBS in 2008 and won the solo gold medal in the NBC series Superstars of Dance which was watched by over 10 million viewers.

STEVE WHARTON, Actor on NBC's Trauma TV Show