Current Speakers

Kelly Campbell

  • President, Peacock and Direct to Consumer
  • NBCUniversal

Kelly Campbell serves as President of Peacock and Direct-to-Consumer for NBCUniversal. In her role, Campbell is responsible for Peacock’s streaming business and works in close partnership with leadership across NBCUniversal television, film, news, and sports. Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Campbell served as President of Hulu, where she led the streamer’s live and on-demand businesses. She joined Hulu in 2017 as Chief Marketing Officer, where she played a key…

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Jake Capps

  • Managing Partner
  • Meaningful Partners

Jake Capps has been a private equity investor for two decades with a passion for the consumer sector. Jake founded Meaningful Partners to create an investment platform with a community of accomplished executives all devoted to serving others to empower and accelerate growth in leaders who will define the next generation with a commitment to positive purpose.  Prior to starting Meaningful Partners, Jake worked at three large private…

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Harrison Clay

  • Head of Biogas in the Energy Transition Group
  • Mercuria Energy

Harrison Clay serves as the Head of Biogas in the Energy Transition Group at Mercuria Energy. Mercuria is a global energy trading and investment group based in Geneva, Switzerland.  Prior to Mercuria, Harrison served as President of Clean Energy Renewable Fuels, a biogas production, marketing and distribution company, from its inception through its sale to BP in 2016.  Harrison spent four years working in the Environmental Products group…

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Laurie James

  • Transformative Coach and Author

As an author and transformative coach, Laurie loves helping people find their power to create the life they desire. Her book, Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go is about her path to self-discovery and freedom after she found herself caring for elderly parents and raising four daughters while her marriage began to crumble. During that time she had to reevaluate everything she thought she knew.…

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Chris Stone

  • Deputy Managing Editor for New Initiatives and Vice President of LA Times Studios
  • Los Angeles Times

Chris Stone is the Deputy Managing Editor for New Initiatives and Vice President of LA Times Studios at The Los Angeles Times. In his role, Stone guides the launch of new products and initiatives and provides leadership across the studio’s portfolio. He is leading the launch of initiatives such as The Times’ editorial partnership with Verizon using drones, robotics and 3-D mapping technologies to enhance storytelling capabilities, and…

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Kevin Whilden

  • Co-Founder and Director
  • Sustainable Surf

Kevin is a green business entrepreneur and a geologist. His passion is solving the problem of climate change, and his career has spanned this field: scientific research in Antarctica, carbon offset policy and development, energy efficiency and renewable energy, and Clean Tech startups developing technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Kevin’s underlying interest is in understanding how complex systems work and what is needed to create large…

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