Running Remote 2018 Highlights
June 23rd, 2018
to June 24th, 2018
Running Remote 2018 was held on June 23-24, 2018 at Fivelements, Bali, an award-winning eco-
250 attendees along with top remote work leaders gathered in Bali for Running Remote, the largest-ever conference on distributed teams.
Speakers
Speaker & Sponsor Greetings
Testimonials
Venue
Fivelements, Bali
Fivelements, Bali opened in late 2010 as the first of a new genre of wellness destinations bridging the wisdom of traditional healing cultures with innovative wellness concepts. 18 International Awards across hotel, wellness, spa, culinary and sustainable design industries, including the SPA Cuisine Award 2017.
Fivelements, Bali has hosted for a number of intelligent events such as TEDx.
With a focus on high impact wellness strategies, Fivelements is extending their concept across various models in unique cultural destinations and financial centres.
Optional yoga classes overlooking a river will take place before an organic breakfast, followed by world-class workshops, panel discussions and talks in the magnificent gardens and their sacred space.
Schedule
Day 1: Building Your Remote Team
How We Turned 3 Failures Into $50M In Sales: Justin Cooke, Co-Founder Of Empire Flippers
How We Turned 3 Failures Into $50M In Sales
Justin Cooke, Co-Founder Of Empire Flippers
Kaylie Boogaerts
Kaylie has spent the past 6 years helping business owners build productive world-class remote teams and implement efficient processes by: – Developing a stellar hiring,
Lavinia Iosub
Lavinia has spent the last ~10 years becoming an expert in the mindset, practices and tools to make that happen and she is always excited
Jean Hsu
Jean Hsu is the Vice President of Engineering at Range. Prior to Range, she built product and engineering teams at Google, Pulse, and Medium, and
Bruno Cunha
Bruno Guerra Cunha is a self-starter operator who spent the last 7 years building partnerships in startups from Seed to Series D. He started working
Allen C. Koski
Allen has been actively involved in developing and supporting international healthcare, global wellness, dental, disability and travel medical plans for multinational employers ranging from the
Drew Calin
Drew was born and raised in Los Angeles, but has spent the past decade living and working Asia. His entire career has centered on commercial
Nacho Rodriguez
As CEO and Founder of Repeople, Nacho has been actively involved in the design and implementation of a strategy that positions the Canary Islands as
Jennifer Dennard
Jennifer Dennard is the Founder and COO of workplace collaboration software company, Range. Global teams at Twitter, New Relic, CircleCI, and more keep their teams
Lila MacLellan
Lila MacLellan is a reporter for Quartz, a global business news site. She covers the workplace, leadership, and management topics for Quartz at Work. Her
Sagar Khatri
Sagar Khatri is a young and dynamic professional and CEO of Multiplier, a SaaS-based global employment solution that was founded in 2020. Having worked with
Ryan Burke
An experienced evangelist and consultant on distributed working, he is currently building out the customer facing business at Qatalog, a centralized work hub enabling the future of work.
Matt McKinney
Matt McKinney is the Head of People Strategy Execution at Poly. In this role, Matt integrates workstreams between the HR Leadership Team, other corporate functions,
June Bolneo
June is a remote work advocate and founder of WorkRemote, a provider of remote work training to individuals and companies. She is also a Head
Ally Fekaiki
Ally is a 30 year old British-Iraqi entrepreneur. Ally founded Juno in 2019, after his personal experiences at work made him realise that giving people
Amy Lynch
Amy Lynch believes everyone deserves to design a life that works for them and their family. Over the past decade, she’s negotiated remote work arrangements
Libryia Jones
Libryia Jones, also known as “The Remote Work Queen” is a Client Director at a Technology Consulting Firm and also a Remote Work Advocate and
Dethra Giles
Dethra Giles is a four-time TEDx speaker, executive coach, and award-winning author best known as the CEO of ExecuPrep, a remote first, international Performance Optimization
Douglas Ferguson
Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based change agency that helps enterprises spark,
Lawrence Coburn
Lawrence Coburn is a serial entrepreneur who lives in the Mission District of San Francisco with his wife and daughter. He is the CEO and
Sami Hero
Sami Hero is the Chief Revenue Officer for Remo where he manages sales, marketing, customer success and analytics teams. Sami’s primary focus is to help
Chrissie Arnold
Chrissie Arnold is the Director of Advisory Services for the Future Forum, where she is focused on designing and leading executive workshops about the Future
Ike Stranathan
ke Stranathan is an American entrepreneur and the CEO of STAFFVIRTUAL. He is an avid traveler who has visited over 60 countries. Ike founded STAFFVIRTUAL
Kim Mota
Kim Mota serves as Senior Vice President of People Experiences at Poly. In this role, she is responsible for all aspects of human resources, including
Dave Cairns
Dave Cairns started his career at CBRE in 2012 after being a professional poker player where he was ranked as one of the top 100
Neil Miller
Neil Miller is the Director of The Digital Workplace. He has talked with over 200 of the best thinkers and leaders in the world about
Alex Morris
Alex is a partner in McKinsey’s Toronto office and core leader in our innovation practice. Alex offers strategic and creative counsel to CEOs, senior executives,
Andrea Robb
Andrea Robb is a founding member of Vibrancy – a future of work design firm – and Andrea Robb Consulting. She is a former HR
Mike Vardy
Mike Vardy – also known as “The Productivityist” – is a highly-acclaimed productivity strategist and the creator of the productivity philosophy and framework known as
Fiona Lideza
Fiona Lideza is the Chief Operating Officer of STAFFVIRTUAL. Fiona started her career as a customer support representative for Amazon when she was 18 years
Dave Macnee
Dave Macnee is a Senior Relationship Manager of the Future Forum, where he is focused on executive engagement and building the Future Forum membership program.
Manuela Bárcenas
Manuela Bárcenas is a startup marketer on a mission to help managers and their teams work better together. In 2018, Manuela was marketing hire #1
Daphnée Laforest
Daphnée is the founder of Modern Leaders, a consulting firm on a mission to help executives, people ops and team leaders drive a company-wide shift
Andrew Blain
Andrew is a founder of remoteaf.co, the world’s first framework for remote friendly business agility. As a successful founder, technology leader and company director with
Janelle Bieler
Janelle Bieler was appointed as Adecco Canada’s President in 2020, following her role as Senior Vice President for Adecco Staffing in the U.S. In that
Nikki Shum-Harden
Nikki Shum-Harden is a strategic marketing executive with nearly 20 years of experience in technology, media, entertainment, gaming, and digital marketing. Nikki currently serves as
Harry Moseley
Harry D. Moseley plays a key role in Zoom’s transformational leadership. Previously Harry served as the chief information officer at KPMG and Blackstone and as
Jeff Shiner
Skilled in digital strategy, eCommerce, search engine marketing (SEM), digital marketing, and analytics, Jeff Shiner has a demonstrated history of growing businesses and working in
Nathan Barry
In previous careers Nathan has been a designer, author, and blogger. After learning the power of email marketing he gave up a successful blogging career
Kandace Miller
Kandace Miller is Head of Global Demand Gen at Hibob. Throughout her career, she has developed global marketing campaigns that have helped thousands of HR
Ankit Dhawan
Ankit Dhawan is an immigrant from India, a 2x founder, a Cornell graduate, and an ex-Amazon AI product lead. He loves seeking new adventures and
Gonzalo Aguero
Gonzalo is an experienced HR executive with more than 10 years in the field, spanning multiple companies and industries. He is a proven global leader,
Brie Reynolds
Brie Reynolds is the Career Development Manager and a Career Coach at FlexJobs, the leading site for remote and flexible work. She and the FlexJobs
Valerie Krämer
Valerie Krämer is co-founder of Remi, a culture-building platform for remote and distributed teams. She founded the company together with Rebecca Görres in early 2021.
John Carroll
John Carroll is the Vice President Global Human Resources for Guest Worldwide (GWW) LLC, based in Somerset NJ. Guest Worldwide, a Sysco company, has been
Colman Ho
Colman Ho is a serial entrepreneur, sales, and marketing team leader with successful go-to-market experience in media & advertising, travel & hospitality, education & entertainment,
Harris Stolzenberg
Harris Stolzenberg is a co-founder of Flok — a company providing end-to-end company retreat planning. He graduated from MIT, which is where he met Jared
Jason Miller
From his time in the U.S. Navy, and throughout his civilian career, Jason Miller has always believed changing things for the better for just one
Tara Carcillo
Tara Carcillo is the CEO of The Clearing, a people-centered management consulting firm. She is also a builder, storyteller, and scientist. As a builder, Tara’s
Tyler Lessard
Tyler Lessard is a truly engaging, dynamic, and entertaining thought leader in the areas of B2B marketing, content marketing, video marketing, and video selling. As
Kerri Lewis
Kerri Lewis is VP, Global HR at XE.com Kerri Lewis is VP of Global HR at XE, the world’s most trusted financial services platform that supports
Paul Miller
Paul Miller is CEO and Founder of Digital Workplace Group (DWG), rated by the Financial Times in 2020 and 2021 as one of the UK’s
Michael Koenig
Michael Koenig is a serial tech entrepreneur, experienced Chief Operating Officer, and a passionate promoter of remote work. As an early employee at Automattic, the
Judith (Judy) Bitterli
Judith (Judy) Bitterli currently serves as Senior Vice President of Consumer Marketing at McAfee. She is a passionate advocate for online security, family safety, and
Reema Batnagar
Reema Batnagar joined Pixar Animation Studios in February 2019 as Vice President, Human Resources. In her role, Batnagar is responsible for leading Pixar’s human resources
Rhys Black
Rhys is Head of Remote at Oyster. Drawing on his experiences as the Founder of two fully remote companies, it is his goal to fulfil
Annett Polaszewski-Plath
Annett Polaszewski-Plath is the CEO of Interprefy AG. Born and studied in Germany, Annett has spent many years living and working in the United Kingdom
Valerio Coppo
Meet Valerio Coppo, Cosmopolitan Venetian and Withlocals Host. Valerio spent half his life away from Venice: Exploring Germany in Bochum and Göttingen, enjoying the post-Olympic
Samantha Fisher
Samantha “Sam” Fisher is the Head of Dynamic Work at Okta, where she leverages her diverse background across design and construction, associate services, technology, sustainability,
Cristina Muntean
Cristina Muntean is a consultant, trainer, mentor and coach who specializes in personal branding, strategic communications, emotional and systemic intelligence for leadership. A former journalist
Chris Dyer
Chris Dyer is the founder and CEO of PeopleG2, where he manages 30 full-time remote employees and 3,000 independent contractors. PeopleG2 is routinely ranked one
Ariane Bobiash
Ariane Bobiash is inspired by the social impact potential of technology. As Senior Account Executive at Oyster, she helps employers tap into the global talent
Øyvind Reed
Prior to joining Whereby as its CEO in January 2017, Øyvind Reed spent the previous decade heading up leading video conferencing company, Videonor (which acquired
Chase Warrington
Chase Warrington is the Head of Remote at Doist, a remote-first team with 85 employees in 30+ countries. He is also a regular contributor to
David McKeegan
David McKeegan is an experienced entrepreneur, finance professional, Enrolled Agent, and MBA. After years of living abroad, David and his wife Carrie McKeegan struggled to
Nici Bush
Nici Bush is leading significant transformation programs across Mars, Incorporated. She leads a cohesive enterprise “Future of Work” program. In this role, Nici is examining
Priscilla Tuan
Priscilla Tuan is the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Sovos Brands. Sovos Brands is a private-equity backed company that transforms high potential brands into
Mandy McNamar
Mandy McNamar is Engineering Senior Manager at Raytheon Technologies within the Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD) business unit. Mandy is a Department Leader responsible for
Mason Hipp
Mason Hipp is a software developer and co-founder of Slides with Friends. He is a strong proponent and leader of remote teams who loves to
Paul McKinlay
Paul McKinlay is VP of Communications and Remote Working at Cimpress, parent company to e-commerce brands like Vistaprint. Paul has been leading employee communications, change,
Ben Summers
Ben Summers currently leads the enterprise New Ways of Working (NWoW) group at Vanguard. The NWoW group consists of 70 change professionals, charged with implementing
Melissa Daimler
Melissa Daimler has been an executive at high-growth companies for over twenty years. She now works as an executive coach, advisor, and facilitator. Her primary
Dr Jay Patel
Investment group EDGE196 was founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur & investor Dr. Jay Patel. Dr. Patel searches for outstanding founders, forms cross-functional teams, brings
Cecilia Razak
Cecilia Razak is Co-founder of Slides with Friends, an interactive presentation tool with the mission of bringing people together when they have to be apart.
Jonathan Wallace
Expert DOJO is the most active international early-stage startup accelerator in Southern California. Since 2018, they have invested in over 100 startups to accelerate their growth.
Dave Williams
Dave Williams leads NOMADX as its CEO and Co-founder, and is a pioneer in the digital marketing, advertising, and ad tech industries as a serial
Ivan Brkljac
Before becoming Managing Director at Tačka Povratka, Ivan Brkljac was a Co-founder and President of Mokrin House, the first coliving project in South East Europe,
Craig Kaplan
Craig Kaplan is the Chief Customer Officer at Virbela, a virtual world platform for remote work, learning, and events. In his role, Kaplan leads sales,
Alex Howland Ph.D
Alex Howland, Ph.D., is president and co-founder of Virbela, a virtual world platform for remote work, learning, and events. Howland created Virbela in 2012, before
Jess Dodge
Jess Dodge is Vice President, Revenue at Globalization Partners and will be co-moderating their Break Out Session. Jess was named Sales Hacker’s ‘Most Dynamic Woman
Diane Albano
Diane Albano is Chief Revenue Officer for Globalization Partners and will be co-moderating their Break Out Session. She is an accomplished sales and marketing leader
Tracy Hawkins
Tracy Hawkins has been active in all aspects of corporate real estate and facilities management for over 15 years – her skills encompass project management,
Wayne Turmel
Wayne Turmel is a Co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute. He has spent the last twenty years or more obsessed by how people communicate at
Gene Padaliak
As the Co-Founder of Remeet, Gene Padaliak is determined to fix broken meetings and streamline remote & hybrid communications. With Remeet, all of your meetings
Özlem Yurdakul
Ozlem Kalaca Yurdakul has more than 25 years of experience at key functions of leading multinational companies and global brands, mainly in Human Resources. She
Mine Dedekoca
Workplace Culture Curator Mine Dedekoca was the first Future of Work expert in Turkey to bring together people and communities by organizing events to create
Erik Huberman
Named to Forbes 30 Under 30, Erik Huberman is a brand marketing expert, serial entrepreneur, and founder of Hawke Media, the fastest-growing digital marketing agency
Brett Estep
Brett Estep is Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Insured Nomads. Insured Nomads is the first insurtech in global benefits, offering a full portfolio of
Nicole Sahin
Nicole Sahin’s mission is to eliminate barriers to doing business internationally and building global teams. As founder and CEO of Globalization Partners, she is recognized
Tony Jamous
Tony Jamous is the CEO and founder of Oyster, the company that believes anything is possible remotely. As a distributed talent enablement platform, Oyster are
Lily Stoyanov
Lilia Stoyanov is CEO/CFO/Angel Investor managed global operations at Transformify, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Skrill/ Paysafe. A fintech and digital transformation expert, she is also a
Mita Carriman
Mita Carriman is the Founder & CEO of Adventurely – a meetup app for digital nomads. Originally a Business & IP attorney from New York
Kevin Eikenberry
Kevin Eikenberry is a recognized world expert on leadership development and learning, and is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. He has
D Sharma
D Sharma is the Co-Founder & CEO of Wellness Coach. He is passionate about the future of humanity and the importance of protecting our mental
Andrew Jernigan
Andrew Jernigan is the CEO of Insured Nomads. Andrew is justice driven and is passionate about protecting people, those from every country, and every type
Jack Mardack
Jack Mardack is deeply inspired by the power of software to change the world and make it a better place. He’s been very lucky to
Katherine Huh
Katherine Huh is the Advisory Real Estate Director for Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) US. She is Lead for Workforce of the Future for Asset and
Mauricio Morales
Mauricio Morales is the Founder at DailyBot: a chatbot and toolkit that helps remote teams run efficiently. Mauricio has been building tech products for 15+
Rahul Aggarwal
Being awarded as the Rising Entrepreneur of the year 2019 and Entrepreneur 35 under 35 in 2020, and Asia’s Most Promising Business Leaders 2021 by
Sabyasachi (Saby) Sengupta
Sabyasachi Sengupta is man of many talents. Business Developer for ABN AMRO Bank N.V and an accomplished TEDx speaker, communication specialist and writer. As a
Nina Hersher
Nina Hersher is Co-founder of the Digital Wellness Institute and CEO and of the Digital Wellness Collective, the only global trade association for Digital Wellness
Nellie Hayat
Nellie Hayat is Head of Workplace Transformation at VergeSense. Previously, a workplace strategist at Stripe for 4 years supporting the company’s rapid growth. In 2020,
Pricelda Cid
ErgoTherapy was founded by Pricelda Cid an Occupational Therapist specializing in Ergonomics. Pricelda leverages 17+ years in the medical field working in hospitals throughout the
Mag Boron
Mag Boron is the founder and CEO of Pangian, the fastest-growing remote-work community around the world with over 100,000 remote work professionals from 150 countries
Leah Sutton
Leah Sutton is the SVP, Global Human Resources at Elastic, a global open source software company, and responsible for all facets of HR from recruitment
Johnny Boufarhat
Located in London, Johnny Boufarhat is the Founder and CEO of Hopin, an online events platform that’s redefining virtual events and connecting people around the
David Barrett
David Barrett is the founder and CEO of Expensify. He started programming at the age of six and has been aspiring to become an expense
Sam Pessin
Sam Pessin is Founder & CEO of Remote Year. Remote Year delivers community-focused travel programs to remote workers worldwide. Sam Pessin grew up all over
Andrey Khusid
Andrey Khusid is building the world’s most popular online collaborative whiteboard platform. Currently, he’s the Founder and CEO of rapidly growing Miro, funded by Accel
Jason Thomas
Jason Thomas is the Co-founder & CTO at CoScreen, a radically different remote collaboration platform. Jason is a hard working, self driven, hands on, low
Till Pieper
Till Pieper is Co-founder & CEO at CoScreen, a radically different remote collaboration platform. He has led and worked in distributed teams at Google, SAP,
Cristina Muntean
Cristina Muntean is a former business journalist turned strategic communications and personal development consultant, trainer and coach. She specializes in strategic communications skills (Media Training,
Gabriele Da Vita
Gabi Da Vita, Gabi to his friends, is the host-with-the-most in Rome for Withlocals for Business. Gabi embraces all that is amazing about life in
Eric Shoup
Eric Shoup is the CEO of Peerspace. He’s spent his career building online communities. Prior to Peerspace, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Scribd,
Shiran Yaroslavsky
Shiran Yaroslavsky, the CEO and Co-Founder of Cassiopeia, is passionate about maximizing workplace experience through AI. Cassiopeia empower managers to lead remote teams effectively with
Sara Knox
Sara Knox is the Director of Operations at Bottleneck Distant Assistants. Bottleneck Distant Assistants is a team of remote-based professionals dedicated to assisting business leaders
Jaime Jay
Jaime Jay is the Founder and Managing Director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. Jamie is proud to say that he is committed to ‘The Ripple Effect’
Uptin Saiidi
Uptin Saiidi is a journalist and video creator who spent 10 years reporting for CNBC and MTV News. He’s lived in New York, Singapore, Hong
Mike LaRosa
People know him as “Mike the Coworkaholic”. Since 2013 he’s researched, studied and visited over 600 flex workspace locations in 42 countries. His blog, Coworkaholic,
Matthijs Keij
Matthijs Keij is the Chief Executive Officer at Withlocals, an international experiential company that connects people to local hosts who offer private, personalised tours from
Rachel Lanham
Rachel Lanham is Voodle’s Chief Customer Officer and is obsessed with growing a vibrant tribe of voodlers and being their voice in the organization. Rachel
Bryan Hornung
Bryan Hornung is CEO & Founder of Xact I.T. Solutions. Bryan has consulted, coached, and helped hundreds of businesses demystify technology & cybersecurity since starting
Talia Goldberg
Talia Goldberg is a partner in Bessemer Venture Partner’s San Francisco office and invests across early and growth stage software and internet. Talia joined Bessemer
Ashwin Nandapurkar
Ashwin Nandapurkar is part of the founding team at Remo.co He is a professional problem solver and passionate, hands-on marketer and growth hacker.
Kaleem Clarkson
Kaleem Clarkson is a husband, father, employee experience professional, remote work advocate and speaker. He is the Chief Operating Officer of Blend Me, Inc a
Karen Mangia
Karen Mangia is an internationally-recognized thought leader whose TEDx appearance, keynotes, blogs and books reach hundreds of thousands of business leaders each year. She is
Sujan Patel
Sujan Patel is the founder of Mailshake, a sales engagement software used by 20,000 sales and marketing professionals. He also owns 8 other SaaS companies under
Ernest Lee
Ernest Lee is Managing Director of Development & Investments for citizenM Hotels in North America. In this capacity, Ernest is responsible for leading new development
Carlos N. Escutia
Carlos Escutia is the founder and CEO of GroWrk Remote, the first all-in-one remote workplace management platform for distributed teams. Previous to GroWrk, he was
Matt Barrie
Matt Barrie is an award winning technology entrepreneur and Chief Executive of ASX listed Freelancer Limited. Twelve-time Webby award-winning Freelancer.com is the world’s largest freelancing
Ruth Annus
Ruth Annus is Director General of Citizenship and Migration Policy Department at the Ministry of Interior of Estonia. Designing identity management policy, identity documents policy
Tom Moran
Tom Moran is an executive leader responsible for developing, communicating, executing and sustaining corporate initiatives at Prodoscore. People are at the epicenter of all essential strategy.
Siim Sikkut
Siim Sikkut currently serves as Government CIO of Estonia where his role is to set strategy and policies for the development of digital government and
Hassan Osman
Hassan Osman is currently a Program Management Office (PMO) Director at Cisco Systems, where he leads virtual teams on delivering large & complex programs for
Jodi Rabinowitz
Jodi Rabinowitz is the head of talent and organization development at Zoom Video Communications. She is responsible for driving all aspects of employee development and engagement
Neil Patel
Neil Patel is the co-founder of NP Digital and Ubersuggest. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, Forbes says he is one of the
Brian Robertson
Brian Robertson is the world’s foremost expert on Holacracy., a revolutionary framework for self-managing organizations. After years as CEO of an award-winning software company, he
Zoë Harte
Zoë Harte holds the position of Chief People Officer at Upwork and leads their talent strategy. She has guided the growth of the company’s team
Morgan Smith-Lenyard
Morgan is a People Operations Business Partner, with a focus on Talent Management at Help Scout and Founder of Dismantled.work. She finds the most enjoyment
Hilary Callaghan
HRebel founder Hilary Callaghan exists at the intersection of productivity, diversity, recruitment and hiring. Her background isn’t a linear story of X then Y; she
Claire Lew
Claire Lew is the CEO of Know Your Team, a software tool that helps managers become better leaders. Know Your Team’s tools help managers hold effective one-on-one meetings, build rapport in their
Shane Mac
Shane Mac is the CEO & Co-founder of Assist which was acquired by Conversocial in 2019. He is also the Senior Vice President at Conversocial.
Ilya Bukshteyn
Ilya Bukshteyn is an accomplished executive Product and Program Management Leader. He is the Head of Product (Partner Director), Microsoft Teams Devices at Microsoft. Ilya
Nathan Latka
Nathan Latka is the principal of private equity firm Latka Capital; executive producer and host of “The Top Entrepreneurs” podcast; and CEO at two companies
Sergey Mitrofanov
Founder and senior brand strategist consultant of MITROFÁNOV & PARTNERS Brand Strategy Advisors (The Flow Collective member company) and Strategic Development Director at Pulsar Venture Capital. International
Marianna Volodina
Marianna Volodina – The Founder and the Head of the International Human Development Academy “Human the Creator”. Psychologist, energy therapist, personal growth coach, author of
Alena Gatina
Alena Gatina is a finance professional in Development, Oil & Gas, Pharma (Vet), and the Automobile business. She has more than 20 years of experience
Elena Fadeeva
Elena Fadeeva has 15 years experience in senior management roles in international B2C, D2C and B2B companies. She has helped companies set up, and led
Samar Singla
Samar Singla is a serial entrepreneur and a physicist by education. He has previously worked as a researcher at IBM and CERN. He is one
Davit Baghdasaryan
Davit is the CEO & Co-Founder at Krisp.ai. Krisp is best known for its AI-powered noise cancelling app that works with Zoom, Teams, Meet, Loom and
Aydin Y Mirzaee
Aydin Y Mirzaee is the CEO at Fellow.app — helping managers and their teams work better together. He is a tech loving entrepreneur with a
Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy
Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy aka Kuppu is the Global Head—Zoho for Startups at Zoho Corporation. She has been part of Zoho’s growth story for about a decade,
Steph Smith
Steph Smith is the Head of Trends, Product Manager at The Hustle. Trends is the Hustle’s latest product with 6000+ paying subscribers. Trends helps business operators stay
Paul Vallée
Paul Vallée is the founder and CEO of Tehama and a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies that enable the
Guido Knook
Guido Knook is Co-founder & CEO at Atium. Previously he was Head of Product at Mimi Hearing Technologies, where he led culture development as the
Hoyin Cheung
Hoyin Cheung is a seasoned entrepreneur, product manager, and digital marketer. His core passion is to help businesses grow in a scalable way with software
Andrew Green
Andrew Green is the Head of Design at Canva — leading and growing the hugely talented design team at Canva — across Product Design, Template Design, Brand,
Leon Barnard
Leon Barnard is a Designer, Writer, and Educator at Balsamiq. He uses his 10+ years of experience as a UX designer to teach user interface design
Suman Gopalan
Suman Gopalan is the Chief HR Officer at Freshworks and is responsible for translating our motto of “happy employees means happy customers” into action. Suman joined Freshworks
Garrett Rokosh
Garrett Rokosh is a Managing Partner, Conscious Leadership Coach, and Workshop Facilitator at Social Architect. As a coach and facilitator, he challenges distributed teams to attain
Sharon Koifman
Sharon Koifman is the founder and president of DistantJob — a boutique staffing agency that helps recruit full-time remote employees. He believes every company, from the
Micha Kaufman
Micha Kaufman, is Fiverr‘s Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors since our inception. He is
Sam Parr
Sam Parr is the founder & CEO of The Hustle, one of America’s fastest growing media companies. Each morning The Hustle gives ~1m users the important
Kieran Flanagan
Kieran Flanagan is the VP of Marketing/Growth at HubSpot where he manages a team of 60+ marketers who help grow HubSpot globally. Kieran has helped
Cody McLain
Cody McLain founded his first company at just 15 in his parents’ basement. Since then Cody has gone to build and sell 4 companies –
Marge Aviso
CEO and founder, Marge Aviso, began Telework PH back in 2015 with the vision of revolutionizing the way business processes outsourcing to the Philippines is done. Growing
Noah Kagan
Noah Kagan, the founder of AppSumo, is a famous entrepreneur who writes about marketing at OkDork.com. Noah was a cubicle slave at Intel, #30 at Facebook
Tayo Rockson
Tayo Rockson is a writer, speaker, consultant, podcaster, and brand strategist who runs UYD Management — a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations incorporate sustainable
Leah Knobler
Leah Knobler is passionate about growing a team of smart, empathetic people at Help Scout. They are a remote-first, B Corp company building an all-in-one platform
Shaun Prime
Prior to joining Selina, Shaun Prime was previously the CEO at Native the largest operator of Apart-Hotels and built-to-rent properties in the UK where he grew
Aaron Ross
Aaron Ross is the co-author of “From Impossible To Inevitable” (with Jason Lemkin) and of Predictable Revenue (called the “Sales Bible of Silicon Valley”) about sales systems
David Abraham
David Abraham is the co-founder at Outpost, a next-generation travel and hospitality brand designed to meet the needs of remote professionals and nomads exploring the world
Gonçalo Hall
NomadX is a community centric brand that creates legendary experiences for digital nomads all around the world. Gonçalo is also the creator of the Digital
John O’Duinn
John O’Duinn is a computer guy who has written code and led teams in companies ranging from four person startups to non-profits to multinationals –
Karen Rubin
Karen Rubin is the Chief Revenue Officer at Owl Labs. Beginning her career in 2004 in investment banking, Karen then completed four years as project manager
Chris Herd
Chris Herd is the founder and CEO of Firstbase, an all-in-one provisioning platform that lets companies provide all the practical equipment remote workers need at the touch
Roberta Sawatzky
Roberta Sawatzky is a creative business collaborator committed to meaningful research and effective teaching both in a co-located and distributed working model. Armed with a
Tracy Keogh
Tracy is the co-founder of one of the largest remote communities, Grow Remote. Having more than 10 years of experience in technology startups, Tracy spent the
Paul Estes
Paul Estes is an unstoppable advocate for the Talent Economy who is dedicated to creating opportunity for everyone, reskilling by doing, and bringing diversity to
Jo Palmer
Jo Palmer is the owner and founder of Pointer Remote Roles, 2019 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award National winner and Ambassador for Flexible Work Day. Jo is
Christopher Finneral
Christopher Finneral is the CEO and founder of SketchDeck, a software-powered design service. With an innovative design platform, the talented, global design team focuses on the
Tricia Sciortino
As CEO of BELAY, Tricia Sciortino strives to lead and inspire her team to provide extraordinary services while finding great talent along the way. It’s her
Matt Davey
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Jess Dodge is Vice President, Revenue at Globalization Partners and will be co-moderating their Break Out Session. Jess was named Sales Hacker’s ‘Most Dynamic Woman
Diane Albano
Diane Albano is Chief Revenue Officer for Globalization Partners and will be co-moderating their Break Out Session. She is an accomplished sales and marketing leader
Tracy Hawkins
Tracy Hawkins has been active in all aspects of corporate real estate and facilities management for over 15 years – her skills encompass project management,
Wayne Turmel
Wayne Turmel is a Co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute. He has spent the last twenty years or more obsessed by how people communicate at
Gene Padaliak
As the Co-Founder of Remeet, Gene Padaliak is determined to fix broken meetings and streamline remote & hybrid communications. With Remeet, all of your meetings
Özlem Yurdakul
Ozlem Kalaca Yurdakul has more than 25 years of experience at key functions of leading multinational companies and global brands, mainly in Human Resources. She
Mine Dedekoca
Workplace Culture Curator Mine Dedekoca was the first Future of Work expert in Turkey to bring together people and communities by organizing events to create
Erik Huberman
Named to Forbes 30 Under 30, Erik Huberman is a brand marketing expert, serial entrepreneur, and founder of Hawke Media, the fastest-growing digital marketing agency
Brett Estep
Brett Estep is Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Insured Nomads. Insured Nomads is the first insurtech in global benefits, offering a full portfolio of
Nicole Sahin
Nicole Sahin’s mission is to eliminate barriers to doing business internationally and building global teams. As founder and CEO of Globalization Partners, she is recognized
Tony Jamous
Tony Jamous is the CEO and founder of Oyster, the company that believes anything is possible remotely. As a distributed talent enablement platform, Oyster are
Lily Stoyanov
Lilia Stoyanov is CEO/CFO/Angel Investor managed global operations at Transformify, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Skrill/ Paysafe. A fintech and digital transformation expert, she is also a
Mita Carriman
Mita Carriman is the Founder & CEO of Adventurely – a meetup app for digital nomads. Originally a Business & IP attorney from New York
Kevin Eikenberry
Kevin Eikenberry is a recognized world expert on leadership development and learning, and is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. He has
D Sharma
D Sharma is the Co-Founder & CEO of Wellness Coach. He is passionate about the future of humanity and the importance of protecting our mental
Andrew Jernigan
Andrew Jernigan is the CEO of Insured Nomads. Andrew is justice driven and is passionate about protecting people, those from every country, and every type
Jack Mardack
Jack Mardack is deeply inspired by the power of software to change the world and make it a better place. He’s been very lucky to
Katherine Huh
Katherine Huh is the Advisory Real Estate Director for Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) US. She is Lead for Workforce of the Future for Asset and
Mauricio Morales
Mauricio Morales is the Founder at DailyBot: a chatbot and toolkit that helps remote teams run efficiently. Mauricio has been building tech products for 15+
Rahul Aggarwal
Being awarded as the Rising Entrepreneur of the year 2019 and Entrepreneur 35 under 35 in 2020, and Asia’s Most Promising Business Leaders 2021 by
Sabyasachi (Saby) Sengupta
Sabyasachi Sengupta is man of many talents. Business Developer for ABN AMRO Bank N.V and an accomplished TEDx speaker, communication specialist and writer. As a
Nina Hersher
Nina Hersher is Co-founder of the Digital Wellness Institute and CEO and of the Digital Wellness Collective, the only global trade association for Digital Wellness
Nellie Hayat
Nellie Hayat is Head of Workplace Transformation at VergeSense. Previously, a workplace strategist at Stripe for 4 years supporting the company’s rapid growth. In 2020,
Pricelda Cid
ErgoTherapy was founded by Pricelda Cid an Occupational Therapist specializing in Ergonomics. Pricelda leverages 17+ years in the medical field working in hospitals throughout the
Mag Boron
Mag Boron is the founder and CEO of Pangian, the fastest-growing remote-work community around the world with over 100,000 remote work professionals from 150 countries
Leah Sutton
Leah Sutton is the SVP, Global Human Resources at Elastic, a global open source software company, and responsible for all facets of HR from recruitment
Johnny Boufarhat
Located in London, Johnny Boufarhat is the Founder and CEO of Hopin, an online events platform that’s redefining virtual events and connecting people around the
David Barrett
David Barrett is the founder and CEO of Expensify. He started programming at the age of six and has been aspiring to become an expense
Sam Pessin
Sam Pessin is Founder & CEO of Remote Year. Remote Year delivers community-focused travel programs to remote workers worldwide. Sam Pessin grew up all over
Andrey Khusid
Andrey Khusid is building the world’s most popular online collaborative whiteboard platform. Currently, he’s the Founder and CEO of rapidly growing Miro, funded by Accel
Jason Thomas
Jason Thomas is the Co-founder & CTO at CoScreen, a radically different remote collaboration platform. Jason is a hard working, self driven, hands on, low
Till Pieper
Till Pieper is Co-founder & CEO at CoScreen, a radically different remote collaboration platform. He has led and worked in distributed teams at Google, SAP,
Cristina Muntean
Cristina Muntean is a former business journalist turned strategic communications and personal development consultant, trainer and coach. She specializes in strategic communications skills (Media Training,
Gabriele Da Vita
Gabi Da Vita, Gabi to his friends, is the host-with-the-most in Rome for Withlocals for Business. Gabi embraces all that is amazing about life in
Eric Shoup
Eric Shoup is the CEO of Peerspace. He’s spent his career building online communities. Prior to Peerspace, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Scribd,
Shiran Yaroslavsky
Shiran Yaroslavsky, the CEO and Co-Founder of Cassiopeia, is passionate about maximizing workplace experience through AI. Cassiopeia empower managers to lead remote teams effectively with
Sara Knox
Sara Knox is the Director of Operations at Bottleneck Distant Assistants. Bottleneck Distant Assistants is a team of remote-based professionals dedicated to assisting business leaders
Jaime Jay
Jaime Jay is the Founder and Managing Director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. Jamie is proud to say that he is committed to ‘The Ripple Effect’
Uptin Saiidi
Uptin Saiidi is a journalist and video creator who spent 10 years reporting for CNBC and MTV News. He’s lived in New York, Singapore, Hong
Mike LaRosa
People know him as “Mike the Coworkaholic”. Since 2013 he’s researched, studied and visited over 600 flex workspace locations in 42 countries. His blog, Coworkaholic,
Matthijs Keij
Matthijs Keij is the Chief Executive Officer at Withlocals, an international experiential company that connects people to local hosts who offer private, personalised tours from
Rachel Lanham
Rachel Lanham is Voodle’s Chief Customer Officer and is obsessed with growing a vibrant tribe of voodlers and being their voice in the organization. Rachel
Bryan Hornung
Bryan Hornung is CEO & Founder of Xact I.T. Solutions. Bryan has consulted, coached, and helped hundreds of businesses demystify technology & cybersecurity since starting
Talia Goldberg
Talia Goldberg is a partner in Bessemer Venture Partner’s San Francisco office and invests across early and growth stage software and internet. Talia joined Bessemer
Ashwin Nandapurkar
Ashwin Nandapurkar is part of the founding team at Remo.co He is a professional problem solver and passionate, hands-on marketer and growth hacker.
Kaleem Clarkson
Kaleem Clarkson is a husband, father, employee experience professional, remote work advocate and speaker. He is the Chief Operating Officer of Blend Me, Inc a
Karen Mangia
Karen Mangia is an internationally-recognized thought leader whose TEDx appearance, keynotes, blogs and books reach hundreds of thousands of business leaders each year. She is
Sujan Patel
Sujan Patel is the founder of Mailshake, a sales engagement software used by 20,000 sales and marketing professionals. He also owns 8 other SaaS companies under
Ernest Lee
Ernest Lee is Managing Director of Development & Investments for citizenM Hotels in North America. In this capacity, Ernest is responsible for leading new development
Carlos N. Escutia
Carlos Escutia is the founder and CEO of GroWrk Remote, the first all-in-one remote workplace management platform for distributed teams. Previous to GroWrk, he was
Matt Barrie
Matt Barrie is an award winning technology entrepreneur and Chief Executive of ASX listed Freelancer Limited. Twelve-time Webby award-winning Freelancer.com is the world’s largest freelancing
Ruth Annus
Ruth Annus is Director General of Citizenship and Migration Policy Department at the Ministry of Interior of Estonia. Designing identity management policy, identity documents policy
Tom Moran
Tom Moran is an executive leader responsible for developing, communicating, executing and sustaining corporate initiatives at Prodoscore. People are at the epicenter of all essential strategy.
Siim Sikkut
Siim Sikkut currently serves as Government CIO of Estonia where his role is to set strategy and policies for the development of digital government and
Hassan Osman
Hassan Osman is currently a Program Management Office (PMO) Director at Cisco Systems, where he leads virtual teams on delivering large & complex programs for
Jodi Rabinowitz
Jodi Rabinowitz is the head of talent and organization development at Zoom Video Communications. She is responsible for driving all aspects of employee development and engagement
Neil Patel
Neil Patel is the co-founder of NP Digital and Ubersuggest. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, Forbes says he is one of the
Brian Robertson
Brian Robertson is the world’s foremost expert on Holacracy., a revolutionary framework for self-managing organizations. After years as CEO of an award-winning software company, he
Zoë Harte
Zoë Harte holds the position of Chief People Officer at Upwork and leads their talent strategy. She has guided the growth of the company’s team
Morgan Smith-Lenyard
Morgan is a People Operations Business Partner, with a focus on Talent Management at Help Scout and Founder of Dismantled.work. She finds the most enjoyment
Hilary Callaghan
HRebel founder Hilary Callaghan exists at the intersection of productivity, diversity, recruitment and hiring. Her background isn’t a linear story of X then Y; she
Claire Lew
Claire Lew is the CEO of Know Your Team, a software tool that helps managers become better leaders. Know Your Team’s tools help managers hold effective one-on-one meetings, build rapport in their
Shane Mac
Shane Mac is the CEO & Co-founder of Assist which was acquired by Conversocial in 2019. He is also the Senior Vice President at Conversocial.
Ilya Bukshteyn
Ilya Bukshteyn is an accomplished executive Product and Program Management Leader. He is the Head of Product (Partner Director), Microsoft Teams Devices at Microsoft. Ilya
Nathan Latka
Nathan Latka is the principal of private equity firm Latka Capital; executive producer and host of “The Top Entrepreneurs” podcast; and CEO at two companies
Sergey Mitrofanov
Founder and senior brand strategist consultant of MITROFÁNOV & PARTNERS Brand Strategy Advisors (The Flow Collective member company) and Strategic Development Director at Pulsar Venture Capital. International
Marianna Volodina
Marianna Volodina – The Founder and the Head of the International Human Development Academy “Human the Creator”. Psychologist, energy therapist, personal growth coach, author of
Alena Gatina
Alena Gatina is a finance professional in Development, Oil & Gas, Pharma (Vet), and the Automobile business. She has more than 20 years of experience
Elena Fadeeva
Elena Fadeeva has 15 years experience in senior management roles in international B2C, D2C and B2B companies. She has helped companies set up, and led
Samar Singla
Samar Singla is a serial entrepreneur and a physicist by education. He has previously worked as a researcher at IBM and CERN. He is one
Davit Baghdasaryan
Davit is the CEO & Co-Founder at Krisp.ai. Krisp is best known for its AI-powered noise cancelling app that works with Zoom, Teams, Meet, Loom and
Aydin Y Mirzaee
Aydin Y Mirzaee is the CEO at Fellow.app — helping managers and their teams work better together. He is a tech loving entrepreneur with a
Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy
Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy aka Kuppu is the Global Head—Zoho for Startups at Zoho Corporation. She has been part of Zoho’s growth story for about a decade,
Steph Smith
Steph Smith is the Head of Trends, Product Manager at The Hustle. Trends is the Hustle’s latest product with 6000+ paying subscribers. Trends helps business operators stay
Paul Vallée
Paul Vallée is the founder and CEO of Tehama and a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies that enable the
Guido Knook
Guido Knook is Co-founder & CEO at Atium. Previously he was Head of Product at Mimi Hearing Technologies, where he led culture development as the
Hoyin Cheung
Hoyin Cheung is a seasoned entrepreneur, product manager, and digital marketer. His core passion is to help businesses grow in a scalable way with software
Andrew Green
Andrew Green is the Head of Design at Canva — leading and growing the hugely talented design team at Canva — across Product Design, Template Design, Brand,
Leon Barnard
Leon Barnard is a Designer, Writer, and Educator at Balsamiq. He uses his 10+ years of experience as a UX designer to teach user interface design
Suman Gopalan
Suman Gopalan is the Chief HR Officer at Freshworks and is responsible for translating our motto of “happy employees means happy customers” into action. Suman joined Freshworks
Garrett Rokosh
Garrett Rokosh is a Managing Partner, Conscious Leadership Coach, and Workshop Facilitator at Social Architect. As a coach and facilitator, he challenges distributed teams to attain
Sharon Koifman
Sharon Koifman is the founder and president of DistantJob — a boutique staffing agency that helps recruit full-time remote employees. He believes every company, from the
Micha Kaufman
Micha Kaufman, is Fiverr‘s Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors since our inception. He is
Sam Parr
Sam Parr is the founder & CEO of The Hustle, one of America’s fastest growing media companies. Each morning The Hustle gives ~1m users the important
Kieran Flanagan
Kieran Flanagan is the VP of Marketing/Growth at HubSpot where he manages a team of 60+ marketers who help grow HubSpot globally. Kieran has helped
Cody McLain
Cody McLain founded his first company at just 15 in his parents’ basement. Since then Cody has gone to build and sell 4 companies –
Marge Aviso
CEO and founder, Marge Aviso, began Telework PH back in 2015 with the vision of revolutionizing the way business processes outsourcing to the Philippines is done. Growing
Noah Kagan
Noah Kagan, the founder of AppSumo, is a famous entrepreneur who writes about marketing at OkDork.com. Noah was a cubicle slave at Intel, #30 at Facebook
Tayo Rockson
Tayo Rockson is a writer, speaker, consultant, podcaster, and brand strategist who runs UYD Management — a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations incorporate sustainable
Leah Knobler
Leah Knobler is passionate about growing a team of smart, empathetic people at Help Scout. They are a remote-first, B Corp company building an all-in-one platform
Shaun Prime
Prior to joining Selina, Shaun Prime was previously the CEO at Native the largest operator of Apart-Hotels and built-to-rent properties in the UK where he grew
Aaron Ross
Aaron Ross is the co-author of “From Impossible To Inevitable” (with Jason Lemkin) and of Predictable Revenue (called the “Sales Bible of Silicon Valley”) about sales systems
David Abraham
David Abraham is the co-founder at Outpost, a next-generation travel and hospitality brand designed to meet the needs of remote professionals and nomads exploring the world
Gonçalo Hall
NomadX is a community centric brand that creates legendary experiences for digital nomads all around the world. Gonçalo is also the creator of the Digital
John O’Duinn
John O’Duinn is a computer guy who has written code and led teams in companies ranging from four person startups to non-profits to multinationals –
Karen Rubin
Karen Rubin is the Chief Revenue Officer at Owl Labs. Beginning her career in 2004 in investment banking, Karen then completed four years as project manager
Chris Herd
Chris Herd is the founder and CEO of Firstbase, an all-in-one provisioning platform that lets companies provide all the practical equipment remote workers need at the touch
Roberta Sawatzky
Roberta Sawatzky is a creative business collaborator committed to meaningful research and effective teaching both in a co-located and distributed working model. Armed with a
Tracy Keogh
Tracy is the co-founder of one of the largest remote communities, Grow Remote. Having more than 10 years of experience in technology startups, Tracy spent the
Paul Estes
Paul Estes is an unstoppable advocate for the Talent Economy who is dedicated to creating opportunity for everyone, reskilling by doing, and bringing diversity to
Jo Palmer
Jo Palmer is the owner and founder of Pointer Remote Roles, 2019 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award National winner and Ambassador for Flexible Work Day. Jo is
Christopher Finneral
Christopher Finneral is the CEO and founder of SketchDeck, a software-powered design service. With an innovative design platform, the talented, global design team focuses on the
Tricia Sciortino
As CEO of BELAY, Tricia Sciortino strives to lead and inspire her team to provide extraordinary services while finding great talent along the way. It’s her
Matt Davey
Matt Davey is the Chief Operations Optimist at 1Password. He oversees marketing, design, content, and partnerships and hosts a podcast. 1Password is a leading online security app
Iwo Szapar
Iwo Szapar is a Remote Work Advocate & Co-founder of Remote-how, the world’s leading platform for distributed management powered by and for the community from 128
Molood Ceccarelli
Molood Ceccarelli is often referred to as the queen of remote work, is the CEO and founder of Remote Forever where she coaches distributed companies to adopt
Renate Kohlmann
With over 25 years’ experience in global management and leadership roles, Renate’s journey to remote working began in 2004 as EMEA Outsource Operations Manager with Dell and
Stephen Gates
Stephen Gates is the global design leader building world-class organizations that integrate human-centered design to drive product and service innovation. He is currently working as
Dee Coakley
Dee Coakley is the Co-Founder & CEO of Boundless – a cloud-based platform that allows small and medium-sized innovative businesses to quickly and easily manage multi-country payroll
Simon Harrison
Simon Harrison is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, leading the global marketing function to engage new and existing customers and partners, drive adoption
Ryan Malone
Ryan Malone is the Founder and CEO of SmartBug Media®, a leading Intelligent Inbound marketing agency that assists businesses in generating leads, increasing awareness, and building
Ryan Chartrand
Ryan Chartrand is the CEO of X-Team, providing high performing, on-demand teams of developers to the world’s leading brands (Fox Broadcasting, Riot Games, Beachbody, Coinbase, Sony,
Chathri Ali
Chathri Ali is the Chief Operating Officer for ReCharge, the leading subscription billing platform designed for physical subscription goods. She currently oversees our remote sales, marketing,
David Hassell
David Hassell is a serial entrepreneur, business columnist, and speaker, who believes that when leaders support their employees in becoming their best selves, high engagement,
Sherry Walling
Dr. Sherry Walling helps smart people do hard things. She works with leaders and entrepreneurs to tackle the common and uncommon challenges that go along
Rob Walling
Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author, and podcast host. He is the co-founder of the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers, called TinySeed.
Stacy Elliott
Stacy Elliott is the Sr Director of Executive Communications; Office of the Executive Vice President of Microsoft. Stacy spent her early career in public relations with
Eran Zinman
Eran is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at monday.com. monday.com is a cloud-based Work OS, that enables remote teams to run their processes, projects, and everyday
Dave MacLeod
Dave MacLeod is the CEO of the crowd communication platform: Thoughtexchange. He and his team have been empowering leaders to bring people together to solve problems
Taso Du Val
As Toptal’s Chief Executive Officer, Taso manages Toptal’s core team of hundreds of team members distributed throughout the world, with a focus on innovation. Since Toptal was
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
David Heinemeier Hansson, popularly known as DHH, needs no introduction. He is the CTO of Basecamp, co-author of 4 books, and the creator of the open-source
Ignacio Nieto & Asep Priandana
Ignacio Nieto Carvajal Founder of Digital Leaves OÜ and Empresa En Estonia OÜ Ignacio is a micropreneur and digital nomad, currently living in Kuching, Malaysia Asia. He is
Michael Craig
Michael Craig, Founder at Dojo Bali Coworking, Clue Digital Agency, Mintox Adaptive Software, & CEO of Hubud.
Nataniel Orea
A social entrepreneur, focused on AI, machine learning and big data Ventures, he is the Co-Founder of Coworking Nest, the 1st solar powered coworking space in
Khalid El Khatib
Khalid El Khatib is the VP of Marketing and Communications at Stack Overflow — The largest online community for developers and one of the 50
Mardi Kaplan
Mardi Kaplan is a Training and Development Manager at Toyota Financial Services (TFS). She formally transitioned to a fully remote role in February 2020, just a
Badri Rajasekar
Badri Rajasekar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jamm – a lightweight voice and video collaboration app for remote teams. He was formerly the CTO and SVP
Edmund J Lowell
Originally from the United States, graduating from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts where he studied law, finance and technology, Edmund Lowell is a serial entrepreneur living in
Marcela Fernandez
Marcela Fernandez is the employer brand Ambassador of Selina – one of the world’s top startups serving the rapidly growing Digital Nomad Community. She dropped
Tim Burgess & Duncan Macintosh
In a variety of businesses over the last 20 years, we’ve dealt with thousands of international workers. We believe that people, businesses and nations get
Vikram Bharati
The inspiration for Tribe Theory was born when Vikram spent two years backpacking around the world, where he traveled to over 50 countries in six continents and
Alex Wellman
Alex currently leads the global marketing efforts for the Government of Estonia’s e-Residency programme. The main mission of the programme is to help location-independent entrepreneurs
Ilyas Vali
A SpaceX Hyperloop award winning team and globally distributed organisation with over 1300 engineers from more than 59 countries. rLoop is a decentralized crowd-sourced research and development
Peter Ivanov
Peter Ivanov is Manager, Entrepreneur and Virtual teams Expert with over 20 years of international experience. His book “Virtual Power Teams” is translated in 6
Tammy Bjelland
Tammy Bjelland is the Founder and CEO of Workplaceless, an elearning company that trains teams on how to work, lead, grow, and thrive remotely. With her
Ben Bickford
Ben thrives on helping his clients unleash their potential by aligning business strategy, culture, high performing teams and innovative software and IT solutions that deliver
Ragnar Everest
Ragnar is the CEO of 1Office, an Estonia-based company which provides remote-entrepreneurs a comprehensive set of time-saving & cost-effective solutions to establish & manage their
Jonathan Ronzio
Trainual helps fast-growing businesses and teams turn best practices into standard practices. Jonathan Ronzio started building a production company with his brother Chris before either of
Ken Weary
Ken is the CEO at Hotjar, a European based start-up with over 200 remote team members globally distributed. He is also a digital nomad and
Anthony Pompliano
Anthony Pompliano is an American army person and entrepreneur-turned-investor. He is a Co-Founder and Partner at Morgan Creek Digital, a leading asset manager investing capital on behalf
Adii Pienaar
Adii Pienaar is the founder of Conversio and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to Conversio, Adii was the co-founder of WooThemes / WooCommerce, where he made
Mariano Suarez-Battan
Mariano Suarez-Battan is co-founder and CEO at MURAL. Teams of all sizes and industries use MURAL’s digital whiteboard to explore complex challenges visually, facilitate design thinking
Marit Martin
Marit is the co-founder and CEO of Hundred5, a candidate-screening software used by remote companies to discover whether the candidate has what it takes to do
Reg Cheramy
Reg Cheramy is co-founder and CEO of Stormboard, a real-time online stickynote and whiteboard collaboration platform enabling remote teams to quickly capture more ideas and opportunities
Trimikha Valentius
Trimikha is the Team Lead Developer at Ogilvy Australia, one of the largest advertising agencies in the world which has a remote team of 80+. He
Stuart Jones
Founder of Coworkation, Stuart Jones is a person with a great energy and vision towards new ways of seeing the digital work of the modern
James Sundance
James Sundance, founder of multiple companies, employs more than 400 worldwide, in Philippines and through platform outbounders.com He is currently working on Coravida: an Ecovillage
Steve Munroe
HUBUD is one of Forbes’ top 10 co-working spaces on earth. Steve is Hubud’s prime schemer and evangelist for new ways of working, learning and living. He
Andrea Loubier
Andrea Loubier has been recognized as one of the thought leaders & top female entrepreneurs in South East Asia. She is passionate about women in
Justin Cooke
CMO/Founder at Empire Flippers and host of Empire Flippers podcast, Justin is the brand ambassador of the company. He’s also a digital nomad (i.e. homeless), but spends
Sean Hodges
Sean is a senior software developer at TransferWise with an extensive background in Web and mobile technology. He has a passion for creative and modern product development,
Indrek Pallo
Enterprise Estonia Singapore office fosters business relations between Estonia and Singapore, but also Malaysia and Indonesia. The special focus is on trading and export, but
Joel Gascoigne
Joel Gascoigne is co-founder and CEO of Buffer , a social media software used by hundreds of thousands to plan their content in advance and help people have a greater
Dmitriy Zaporozhets
Dmitriy Zaporozhets lives in Ukraine and cofounded Gitlab in 2011 with Sytse Sijbrandij to build open source tools to help teams of developers collaborate more easily
Dominic Price
Born in the harsh Manchester Winter of ’77, Dominic has a career that has reached far and wide through Europe, US and Asia PAC. Today
Lara Owen
For almost a decade Lara Owen has been an advocate for flexible work solutions, and has a proven track record of designing operations and spaces
Sarah Kuehnle
Meet Sarah Kuehnle, Dribbble’s Head of Product. Dribbble is a community of designers. Web designers, graphic designers, illustrators, icon artists, typographers, logo designers, and other creative
Zack Onisko
Zack Onisko is CEO at Dribbble, the global community for designers and creative professionals to showcase, promote, discover, and explore design. Dribbble was founded in 2009 and
Marcie Murray
Marcie Murray is the Global Director of Support at Shopify. She joined Shopify in 2012 on the Guru team where she had the opportunity to speak
Andrew Warner
Andrew Warner was one of the pioneers of the internet startup scene — starting online in 1997 and growing his business into a multi-million dollar
Omar Zenhom
Omar is the Co-founder and CEO of WebinarNinja, an easy-to-use webinar platform. Founded in 2014, over a million people have already attended a webinar with WebinarNinja
Nick Francis
Nick Francis co-founded Help Scout in 2011, a customer service tool used by more than 10,000 businesses. Help Scout’s team of about 90 people is all remote,
Wade Foster
Wade Foster is the CEO and co-founder of Zapier, a workflow automation tool used by over four million people to connect the work apps they use
Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross, also known as Gross, is the founder at Pioneer and a technology angel investor. Gross has invested in companies like GitHub, Figma, Uber, Gusto, Notion,
John Eckman
John Eckman is the Chief Executive Officer at 10up, a distributed digital agency with a focus on building great web publishing experiences on open source platforms,
Andy Tryba
Andy is a technology optimist and the founder & CEO of Ionic Partners, an investment firm focusing on ‘2nd Chasm’ company acquisitions. Ionic Partners focus
Sara Sutton
Sara Sutton has long been passionate about helping people find jobs. Currently, she is the Founder & CEO of FlexJobs and Remote.co, two leading services
Dan Martell
Dan Martell is an award-winning Canadian entrepreneur, top angel investor, founder of SaaS Academy and CEO of Clarity, Flowtown and Spheric Technologies, mentors at least a
Lori McLeese
Lori McLeese is the Happiness (w)Rangler (Global Head of Human Resources) at Automattic Inc (the company behind WordPress.com and so much more!). She and her team focus on
Matthew Kepnes
Matthew Kepnes, popularly known as Nomadic Matt, is a New York Times best-selling author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day and
Marvin Liao
Marvin is a Partner at Game Groove Capital. He invests in Digital Media, Enterprise SAAS, Marketplace, Fintech, Adtech, Digital Health, Internet of Things & Mobile
Rachel Russell
Rachel Russell is the Flexible Work Lead at Microsoft leading the effort to evolve Microsoft’s approach to flexibility with a focus on creating an environment
Mathilde Fouque
Mathilde Fouque, is a Senior Program Leader in the Corporate Talent team (Performance management, Leadership and Culture) at General Electric. Mathilde has visited 33 countries across
Darren Murph
Named an “oracle of remote work” by CNBC, Darren serves as GitLab’s Head of Remote. A visionary in organizational design, he works at the intersection
Tara Vasdani
Tara Vasdani is the Principal Lawyer and Founder of Remote Law Canada., a law firm specializing in Civil Litigation, Employment Law, and Remote Work. In both
Peter Lang
Peter is a champion of remote work and driving employee-friendly operational excellence, which he’s implemented as co-founder/CEO of Uhuru Network and Uhuru Talent Network, a fully distributed
Sahin Boydas
Sahin Boydas is the CEO and Founder of Remote Team. He is a serial entrepreneur living in Silicon Valley. He co-founded movie marketing platform MovieLaLa and
Darcy Boles
Darcy Boles is Director of Culture and Innovation at TaxJar. She is highly skilled in architecting company culture. She is committed to never working any other way
Milena Berry
Milena is the co-founder and CEO of PowerToFly.com – the fastest growing global platform connecting women with companies that value work-life integration, female-friendly benefits, equal pay for equal
Jeff Robbins
Jeff Robbins co-founded Lullabot, a Drupal-focused digital strategy, design, and development agency whose clients have included The GRAMMYs, MSNBC, Tesla Motors, Intel, Fast Company, Harvard University,
Jennifer Farris
Jennifer Farris is Chief People Officer of Terminal, which builds remote teams of skilled engineers around the world by tapping into global engineering talent who want
Greg Caplan
Greg Caplan is the founder and CEO of Remote Year. Remote Year brings together groups of inspiring professionals to travel, live, and work remotely in different
Zach Boyette
Zach Boyette is the co-founder and managing partner at Galactic Fed, a Growth Marketing Agency headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 2017, the Galactic Fed is a
Jen Raines-Loring
Jen Raines-Loring currently serves as VP of People at Springboard Retail, the leading POS and retail management software company. Jen operates a full time remote team of
Andreas Klinger
Andreas Klinger is an Investor at Remote First Capital. A group of remote founders, operators and early investors investing in the next generation of remote
Morgan Legge
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Ali Greene
Ali Greene is a full time digital nomad, logistics guru, consultant, and remote work expert. She has ten years of startup experience and four years
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Kyra Zeroll
Kyra Zeroll is a Director of Marketing at The Clorox Company, which is headquartered in Oakland, CA. She has 19 years of Clorox business and marketing
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Sally is the CEO & Founder of Forshay, a firm that offers a modern approach to executive recruiting, with the unusual blend of supporting overworked
Jutta Horstmann
Jutta Horstmann is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of eyeo, the company behind the single most popular browser extension ever developed: Adblock Plus. As a
Stu Smith
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Kate Lister
Kate Lister is president of Global Workplace Analytics (GWA), a research and consulting firm that helps employers understand and prepare for the future of work.
Juanisa McCoy
Juanisa McCoy is the lead UI/UX designer at Raytheon, blogger, content creator, digital nomad, and hot chocolate lover. She is focused on voice, video, data,
Eric Schuetzler
Eric Schuetzler is the senior executive highly skilled in Innovation & Product Development Strategy. He has the consumer insight to create in-market points of difference,
Andrew Filev
Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a collaborative work management platform. Under his leadership, the company has been consistently recognized for its
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Maren Kate is the co-founder of Zirtual, a BPO which had to fire 400 people due to exceeding the burn rate. Zirtual is a startup
Bryce Maddock
Bryce Maddock is the Co-founder and CEO of TaskUs, the world’s leading digital customer experience outsourcing company. He leads the company’s international operations with a
Tim Minahan
Tim Minahan is the executive vice president, business strategy and chief marketing officer (CMO) at Citrix, where he has a proactive role in helping to drive focused strategic
Job van der Voort
Job van der Voort is the CEO of Remote.com. Remote makes it possible to employ anyone, anywhere. Their mission is to simplify how companies employ
Dana Loberg
Dana Loberg is an artist turned serial entrepreneur, the person behind StartX (S19), 500 Startups (B19) and Betaworks Alum. Currently she is working in Silicon
Derek Gallimore
Derek Gallimore has been involved in business since his first venture at 17. He has traveled extensively and lived in more than five countries. This
Joe Blair
Joe is an investor at Cota Capital, an industry- and stage-agnostic investment firm based in the Bay Area with $500M AUM. Joe has worked on
Laurel Farrer
As the Founder and CEO of Distribute, a virtual organizational development think tank and consulting firm, Laurel Farrer is an internationally-renowned thought leader on the
Jordyne Blaise
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Sarah Beyahte Sandnes
Sarah Beyahte Sandnes is the co-founder and CTO of SafetyWing. She is the lead engineer of ad-network Tapdaq until Series A. Sarah has a background
Steli Efti
Steli Efti is the co-founder and CEO of Close. He’s Silicon Valley’s most prominent sales hustler, a YC alumni, advisor to several startups and entrepreneurs
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Liam Martin
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Lavinia Iosub
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Jean Hsu
Jean Hsu is the Vice President of Engineering at Range. Prior to Range, she built product and engineering teams at Google, Pulse, and Medium, and
Bruno Cunha
Bruno Guerra Cunha is a self-starter operator who spent the last 7 years building partnerships in startups from Seed to Series D. He started working
Allen C. Koski
Allen has been actively involved in developing and supporting international healthcare, global wellness, dental, disability and travel medical plans for multinational employers ranging from the
Drew Calin
Drew was born and raised in Los Angeles, but has spent the past decade living and working Asia. His entire career has centered on commercial
Nacho Rodriguez
As CEO and Founder of Repeople, Nacho has been actively involved in the design and implementation of a strategy that positions the Canary Islands as
Jennifer Dennard
Jennifer Dennard is the Founder and COO of workplace collaboration software company, Range. Global teams at Twitter, New Relic, CircleCI, and more keep their teams
Lila MacLellan
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Sagar Khatri is a young and dynamic professional and CEO of Multiplier, a SaaS-based global employment solution that was founded in 2020. Having worked with
Ryan Burke
An experienced evangelist and consultant on distributed working, he is currently building out the customer facing business at Qatalog, a centralized work hub enabling the future of work.
Matt McKinney
Matt McKinney is the Head of People Strategy Execution at Poly. In this role, Matt integrates workstreams between the HR Leadership Team, other corporate functions,
June Bolneo
June is a remote work advocate and founder of WorkRemote, a provider of remote work training to individuals and companies. She is also a Head
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