As a business lawyer, Joseph represents startups to publicly-held technology, life science and consumer companies, venture capital and private equity funds and investment banks in a wide range of seed and venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings. Joseph has represented issuers and underwriters in dozens of IPOs and follow-on public offerings involving companies in the technology, life sciences and consumer sectors, including leading investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and Oppenheimer.

He is currently a partner and Co-Chair of the Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Practice of McCarter, a 400+ lawyer U.S. law firm with a global practice.

Sam Newbold has been supporting VentureOut companies to secure US visas since 2013. He is experienced in a wide range of employment based, family based, and investment based immigration issues, working closely with the global startup and tech communities, representing cutting edge companies and talented individuals who comprise New York’s rapidly growing Silicon Alley.

Mr. Newbold also works closely with foreign investors seeking nonimmigrant or immigrant status through EB5 or E-2 investments, and he is also experienced in helping foreign business owners receive L visa status through establishing New Offices in the United States.

Lexie Kier is a Principal Strategist and Founder of AOK Group, a growth consultancy for startups. She advises bold brands and startups on fundraising, customer insights, branding and marketing and often takes on interim leadership roles to help with periods of intense change, entry into new markets, and expansion.

Previously, Lexie founded Cuurio, an index of startups and innovation platform helping bold brands find clarity, context, and connection. ​Cuurio helped a growing number of innovative brands and agencies (including Warner Brother, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, and J. Walter Thompson) to create vibrant native mobile partnerships that activated consumers in new channels.

Joy is an experienced founder, investment evaluator, and advisor to high growth innovative companies across sectors seeking to scale sustainably. She advises on partnerships, business modeling, go to market strategy, operations, and financial modeling. Joy has advised dozens of companies across geographies from M&A and strategic planning to process improvement and supply chain management.

Joy is an active advisor across accelerators and university startup communities including VentureOut, Techstars, I2F CyberNYC, Cal Hacks, and Columbia University’s Entrepreneurship Design Studio.  Joy is an alumna of Columbia Business School, The London School of Economics, and UC Berkeley.

Matt Swulinski is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and growth hacker that leverages a data-driven approach while focusing on cutting through the noise and driving ROI for startups & enterprises. He combines Fortune 500 Innovation Consulting experience with learnings from founding his own startups to help accelerate growth for other companies. He serves as a Mentor & Startup Advisor at various VC firms and startup accelerators, delivering value through coaching & teaching growth marketing boot camps around the US.

Charles Kergaravat is head of international marketing at Klaxoon, an award-winning company that is changing the way businesses harness the power of teams with solutions designed to make meetings more efficient and work practices more collaborative. Charles works closely with Fortune 500 executives and university researchers to help understand, predicate and implement transformations happening in organizations worldwide around the Future of Work. He has conducted multiple studies to measure how new ways of working are effecting and changing work habits at the intersection of people, places and technology.
Charles is very active in the technology scene, working closely with startups, accelerators, and incubators to further entrepreneurship and innovation. Prior to joining Klaxoon, Charles worked over 15 years on Wall Street for Societe Generale and Lehman Brothers. In 2008, he started Velo4Cure to raise funds for cancer research and completed a 3007 km solitary Tour de France by bike.

Marissa Lowman is an early-stage investor in Future of Work and Healthcare startups at Village Capital, the best-connected impact investing organization in the world, where she heads the Future of Work practice.
Marissa trains and invests in the top early-stage US and Canadian startups focused on upskilling and reskilling, healthcare workers, HR/people ops tech (including recruitment and hiring), and continuous learning.

Adriel Bercow is an investor at Kairos K50 Venture Fund, an early stage venture fund investing across all companies accepted to the Kairos K50 program. The K50 program is a global recognition of the 50 most-innovative startups from around the world, with young founders tackling global challenges.

While Kairos invests across a range of categories, Adriel's two interest areas are the Future of Work and Future of Living.

Soumya is an HR Technology, Transformation & People Analytics Leader. An Advisor for People & Organization across the Globe. A well-known Keynote Speaker & Author/Writer and a Strategist for Future of Work.

Jeanne is a workplace visionary and activist driving her clients to think differently about work, the future workplace and the future workforce. She is a Partner of Future Workplace, a HR Advisory and Research firm assisting organizations in re-imagining and re-inventing how they operate in the future workplace.

Gregory transforms vision and strategy into execution and meaningful business outcomes. He's a global technology and business leader with 10+ years of experience successfully designing and delivering strategies, and managing portfolios of revenue-producing, cost-saving, and risk-mitigating programs and projects for multinational companies and organizations.  He is currently the CIO Office Program Manager in the Global Office of the CIO at Zoom Video Communications.

With almost two decades of experience in the collaboration software industry, Lepofsky helps organizations improve the way their employees work together to get their jobs done. Lepofsky’s primary research area The Future of Work, focuses on: integrating collaboration and business processes (Purposeful Collaboration), structuring work via Social Task Management, leveraging analytics and digital assistants to work more productively, the strategic impact of mobile computing on business transformation, and measuring workforce culture based on Digital Proficiency instead of age.