Winston P. Thompson, CPA and Financial Planner, has been actively providing audit, tax and financial services within the Brooklyn Community for the past twenty years.  Mr. Thompson is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm.  The firm is headquartered in downtown Brooklyn, with offices in Long Island, Manhattan and the Bronx. The firm recently celebrated its twenty-fifth year in business.

Prior to the founding of Thompson & Company, Mr. Thompson spent two years as an auditing officer with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, a Wall Street Investment Banking firm and five years with a big five international accounting and consulting firm.

Mr. Thompson obtained his under graduate and graduate degrees from St. Francis College, Brooklyn and Pace University, New York, respectively.

Mr. Thompson remains active in various community events.  He is a Member of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the Bedford Stuyvesant Real Estate Board and the President of the Finance Committee of the Harriet Tubman Charter School Board of Directors.

He also has had rich experience working as an Online Adjunct Professor for several top online universities for over five years. He works with online learners and facilitators on a daily basis and understands the challenges of delivering a simple to use cost-effective online training solution.

Matt holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a BS with honors in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State, Luis Obispo, where he graduated Eta Kappa Nu (National Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society).

Director of New Media at Path Interactive, a digital marketing agency in NYC, consulting and managing campaigns for leading national brands and agencies on their paid search, search engine optimization, and social media efforts.

Ruben is also an Adjunct professor @ NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, teaching several courses on Social Media and co-instructing an SEO course.

A seasoned online marketing professional, prior to joining Path Interactive, Ruben’s related experience includes founding and marketing a one of the Internet’s first vertical search directories, and was an advertising internet consultant at Verizon Information Services marketing national brands and small businesses pioneering Verizon’s first online solution geared at local search on a national scale.

Ruben is also a blogger, contributing blogger, and prevalent speaker on Social Media topics and has spoken at number of events including Web 2.0 expo in NY/San Francisco, Search Engine Strategies, Columbia Business School alumni, Columbia School of Journalism, and  keynotes for a Cisco Norway and Social Media Brazil.

Ruben Quinones is also graduate of Nyack College in Nyack, NY.

Steven Conyers, owner and President of CMIT Solutions of Brooklyn North, serving Brooklyn and surrounding areas, has over 20 years experience in providing business focused Information Technology services. His significant expertise includes creative approaches to solving business problems with technology, reducing operating costs and improving competitive advantage, revenue potential, and the timeliness and usefulness of information.  From desktops and servers support through cloud services, we offer the right solutions for your particular needs.

As owner of CMIT Solutions of Brooklyn North my goal is to help small business owners increase their profits through the effective use of technology. This includes managing their IT infrastructure (my expertise) allowing businesses owners and professionals to focus on running their business.

CMIT Solutions of Brooklyn North provides IT services and IT solutions that growing businesses in New York City need: computer networks, network security, IT support, troubleshooting, data backup and recovery, Cloud services,  IT consulting and more — all things necessary to ensure you have a productive and safe network. What really sets us apart are our managed services plans and our national Network Operations Center (NOC). For a fixed monthly fee, the CMIT Marathon managed services plan provides proactive maintenance, monitoring and technical support for your business’ technology infrastructure – including servers, PCs, laptops, networks, and printers. In addition we provide the best available business continuity solutions for small businesses.

I’m Nicole Chamblin, the Chief Visionary and productivity consultant of Visions Productivity Solutions.

I love helping others connect with their passion and what matters most—one vision at a time. Clients benefit from my powerful VISIONS process to learn how to organize their time, projects, electronic/ paper information and be more productive.

I am a Certified Professional Organizer (CPO ^®) with a bachelor’s in Psychology, and a masters in Communications. I am a member of various professional organizations including the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) the New York Chapter of NAPO, and Barbara Hemphill’s group of Certified Productive Environment Specialists™. My training and years spent as a marketing professional in small and large companies give me unique insight into the productivity challenges facing at work.

Through my virtual and onsite seminars, I have personally delivered productivity training to hundreds on topics including Personality and Team Work, File Management and Project Collaboration,Time Management and Office Productivity issues.

My popular virtual Lunch ‘n Learn Series includes fan favorites such as How Do You Know if You’re Disorganized?  24 Signs to Watch Out For, 20 Steps to Becoming a Better Time Keeper, Is Your Desk a Disaster Zone?  22 Tips to Cleaning it Up and No Is Not a Dirty word –What to do When Everyone Comes to You.

The following services are available virtually or on-site:

• Personal Time Management Training
• Individual/Group Productivity Consulting and Accountability Partnership
• Productive Environment Consulting
• Productive Personality Analysis & Consulting
• Project Collaboration & Document Management

Marshall Sponder is the author of Social Media Analytics,Effective Tools for Building, Interpreting, and Using Metrics, published by McGraw-Hill in August 2011.   Marshall is an independent Web Analytics, data and SEO/SEM

specialist working in the field of market research, social media, networking, and Outbound Communications. He provides digital data convergence generating ROI and develops data metrics, KPIs, and dashboards that drive businesses by

setting and evaluating benchmarks.

For nearly a decade now, Marshall has been influencing the development of the industry, lately focusing on social media metrics. He also possesses considerable in-house corporate experience as a group leader at IBM and Monster,

combined with contract work at Porter Novelli PR, and is currently enjoying an engagement as a Senior Analytics Manager and thought leader at WCG (Weisscom Group); Marshall also has deep connections to the NYC startup and development community and has his ear to the ground for any new developments and the next “new thing.”

Marshall is Board Member Emeritus at the Web Analytics Association and Member of the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO) and WOMMA (the Word of Mouth Marketing Association). He holds an MA in

Media Studies from the NY Institute of Technology and possesses a Certificate of Marketing Management from Baruch College.

Marshall is an active member on the Integrasco Advisory Board (based in Norway) and the PeekYou Advisory Board (based in NYC)

Jim is into Attitude Adjustment. He feels that it is important to change the mind of the individual in order to affect different results, especially in the case of business owners. For more than 25 years Jim has put entrepreneurs and business owners on the right track to success. As Chief Coach of The Better Business Builders, he believes in motivating, training, educating and getting to those "reticular activators" that shape both behavior and action.

Prior to co-founding The Better Business Builders, Jim served as the Director of Small Business Consulting Services for a regional community development company on Long Island. In that capacity, Jim was responsible for providing business planning and training to new and established businesses on Long Island, New York. He focused on Succession Planning, Market Planning, Cash Flow Planning and Operations Planning. Jim was also responsible for maintaining their loan portfolio. Jim also served as the Commissioner of General Services for the Town of Babylon where he oversaw the planning and completion of two National Blue Ribbon Award winning Urban Renewal Projects.

Jim is a Licensed Professional Business Coach with the Professional Business Coaches Alliance, Inc. He is also a Certified Business Planning Trainer, a Certified Financial Literacy Trainer, Certified Marketing Administrator and Certified Facilitator for the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation’s FastTrac Programs. He is also a Certified Economic Development Professional. Jim served on the faculty of C.W. Post, Long Island University, as a business planning trainer and Co-Coordinator of Corporate Training. He currently serves on the business advisory board of the Katharine Gibbs School. Jim hosts a weekly international radio show called Building Your Extraordinary Business which can be heard every Wednesday on Blogtalk Radio http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Nemley.

Jim is also an Ordained Minister and is married and has six children.