Rachel Herren

With a background in sales and customer service, Rachel makes sure that Hess Meat Machines is always raising the bar on delivering a great experience to its customers, which includes restaurants and stores across St. Louis as well as health and educational organizations, like BJC Healthcare and Washington University. 

On top of providing high-quality supplies and equipment, Hess offers in-depth training on every piece of machinery sold, 24/6 emergency services from factory-trained technicians, and a Preventative Maintenance Program that helps customers save time on labor, uncover problems before they arise, and increase productivity, and more. 

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Brandon Hull

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Amit Jain

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Buck Jordan

He is also the President, Cofounder & Chairman of Miso Robotics, which produces multiple products across robotics and AI to solve some of the largest gaps in back of house restaurant operations such as robotic frying stations, vision-enabled grill systems and automatic beverage dispensers.

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Tanuj Joshi

Felicity Kelly

Felicity Kelly is the Head of Sustainability at Bunzl Australia & New Zealand. She assists organizations in enhancing their sustainability performance and reputation, as well as managing their entire value chain through stakeholder engagement, communication, risk management, problem-solving, strategy development, and execution. Felicity holds a Master's degree in Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management from Monash University. She has extensive experience working across various sectors, primarily in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and logistics

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Saleem Khatri

Saleem S. Khatri is CEO of Lavu Inc, a global restaurant management platform. Lavu's world-class products include mobile point of sale, payment processing and back of the house software. Before joining Lavu, Mr. Khatri was Co-Founder and CEO of Instavest, Inc., an software-based investment manager backed by Y Combinator. Prior thereto, Mr. Khatri was an executive member of the Office of Financial Stability at the United States Department of the Treasury.

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Robert Kim

Robert Kim is a Co-Founder of Ritual, the mobile pickup app connecting restaurants with customers to offer a simple time-saving way to, pay for and pick up lunch and coffee orders for themselves and colleagues On the platform, restaurants have seen 3-4x growth in repeat customers & order sizes.

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John Krebs

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Dana Krook

Rebecca Lazar

Rebecca Lazar is the Product Marketing Manager at Zenzap, where she's focused on a simple idea: work communication should be easy, not another source of stress. She believes in building tools that teams actually want to use, while providing the structure and security businesses need. At Zenzap, Rebecca is passionate about shaping a product that delivers the simplicity of a personal chat app with the security, organization, and professional boundaries that businesses require.

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Mark Lee

Mark Lee is a Risk Consultant at HUB International. Mark has over 6 years of experience in risk control consulting. In this role, he develops and implements solutions in the areas of risk mitigation, employee and customer safety, emergency management and response, and regulatory compliance. 

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Bob Leonard

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Larry Levine

Larry has over 35 years of industry experience in high tech, home care and Indirect Spend reduction consulting. Having worked at various high tech companies including Data General Corporation (now Dell Technologies) and Lucent Technologies (now Nokia) in his early career, owning and managing a Home Care company in his middle career and now owning and operating a Cost Reduction franchise, Larry has gathered experience and deep skills working with individuals, small and medium businesses and Fortune 100 business executives. His nation-wide clients span multiple industries including automotive,

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Chuck Lewis

Strong sales professional with an engineering background skilled in Negotiation, Business/Market Development, Sales Leadership, Custom product development, and Strategic Communications. Specializing in such industries as, Retail, QSR, Transit, Education and a host of other markets with a focus on digital kiosks and display enclosure solutions, electronic enclosures for indoor and outdoor applications.

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Laura Livers

Laura has held a number of senior executive positions including CEO, President, and EVP with market research firms, and has managed 7 of the top 10 QSR chains’ national mystery shopping programs, including McDonald’s.