Keynote Speaker
If you’re looking for a keynote speaker for your conference or event, I’m your speaker.
I’ve spoken at entrepreneur, founder, marketing, technology and security conferences for the last two decades. Venues range from small audiences under a hundred to thousands of people.
I use stories from my experience in entrepreneurship, raising money, and investing, to give your audience an engaging presentation where they leave with an actionable playbook to achieve success in their life and their business.
Speaking Topics
These are a sample of the topics I’ve spoken on. We can customize to your audience’s needs.
How to Build a Business Plan in 11 Slides: Your audience learns how to do this in 11 slides with templates and formulas that are easy to understand and use. Handouts and downloads available and can be customized for your event. This talk is based on the book I wrote called Back of the Napkin to…Business Plan in 11 Slides available on Amazon.
For: Conferences, events, companies who want to teach their employees how to build business plans to launch new product and services.
How to Build a Pitch Deck to Raise Money from Investors in 11 Slides: Your audience learns how to do this in 11 slides with templates and formulas, including how to build the financials to include the thing investors are looking for, that are easy to understand and use.
This presentation also includes a section on the different stages of raising capital (Pre-Seed – Public), the types of investors in each stage, what they expect, and deal terms you can expect to see.
Handouts and downloads available and can be customized for your event.
For: Conferences, events, companies who want to teach their employees how to build business plans to launch new product and services.
AI, machine learning, emerging tech and it’s applications: I started using AI/ML techniques to auto generate content that led to over $550,000/month of free SEO traffic for a social networking and e-commerce site that I founded and later sold to a large public media company in 2012. Since that time I used AI/ML in my own companies, advised large corporations and served as a subject matter expert (SME) to the US government and Department of Defense.
For: Conferences, events, companies who want to teach their employees how they can leverage modern technology to improve operations through automation and save time and money.
Marketing: I bring over two decades of marketing experience from marketing modeling in the early years of the Internet at America Online, to SEO, social media marketing, email marketing, podcasting, video, and direct marketing. I have real word case studies I can share from how we took a premium service at AOL from $0-$90m in revenue in twelve months, to generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in free organic search traffic, to designing your marketing financials from the bottom up vs the top down.
For: Conferences, events, companies who want to improve their marketing results.
How to raise money from investors: Your audience learns the different stages of fund raising, how they are different, what’s required at each stage, and approaches I’ve found successful from having raised money from friends and family, angel investors, venture banks, and venture capital firms.
For: Conferences, events, companies who want to teach employees how to raise money from internal sources.