Tara Hunt, aka MissRogue

Tara who is a self-professed shopaholic and longtime online community member (about 18 years now). She wrote a book on this stuff and is completely nuts about bringing humanity back into business. She'sworked with over 30 startups and been a serial entrepreneur.

Her shopping interests? Fashion, Design, Beauty, Fitness

Jerome Paradis

Jerome, who is a proud geek and has been an entrepreneur from the time he started working. In his 20 years career, he has developed some pretty hefty multi-level CRM/ERP applications and patented some heavy tech, but in the more recent years, Jerome has been enjoying himself developing social media applications, including the very popular Facebook application Status Competition.

His shopping interests? Geeky, Kids, Design, Home

Cassandra Girard

Cassandra is passionate about building products. With the help of her engineering step-father, she submitted her first invention, age 9, for extendable alpine skies. Yeah, it never got approved for commercial use, but still. She spent the better part of the last 15 years working in tech, from mobile to web and everything in and around it. Most recently with innovative e-commerce and design development shops like Truition and Fluid.

Her shopping interests? DIY, Home, Design, Green, Fashion

Our Brilliant Advisors

Nilofer Merchant

CEO, Author and Strategist, Nilofer Merchant often provides a “secret sauce” for Fortune 500 companies attempting to win markets. Having worked with many major corporate brands such as Adobe, Apple, Nokia, and others, Merchant has honed a management framework for solving tough problems. Her collaborative approach to strategic planning enables her to drive innovation, and lead strategic planning with many global brands such as Hewlett-Packard, Pinnacle, Logitech, Openwave and Symantec.

Merchant is a BusinessWeek columnist on the innovation mindset and a collaboration expert with FastCompany. In addition, she’s been quoted, profiled or published in major business publications such as MIT's Sloan Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. Merchant’s ideas are not only practical, but engaging and she attracts standing room only crowds when she keynotes at business leadership events, technology expos, women’s conferences and universities – ranging from Web 2.0 Expo, to CTIA, TED and Stanford

Craig Donato

Craig Donato is the founder and CEO of Oodle, a consumer internet company whose mission is to provide online tools that make it easier to buy, sell, and give locally. Found online at www.oodle.com, Oodle is currently available in several markets, including Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, and Dallas, among others.

Prior to Oodle, Donato was CEO of Grand Central Communications, which provides an internet service for business-to-business integration. Before joining Grand Central, Donato was a senior vice president at Excite@Home where he oversaw the Excite Search and Community business units and managed Network Programming.

Donato holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Corey Liebow

Corey J. Leibow serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercado Software, Inc. Mr. Leibow has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Crowd Science, Inc. since July 2010. He has been in executive capacities at leading edge companies for more than 22 years. Mr. Leibow served as Executive Vice President of worldwide sales and services at SEEC, Inc./Asera since August 2003. Mr. Leibow's leadership also includes Chief Operating Officer of ClickSoftware, an enterprise software company specializing in field service solutions and Executive Vice President of sales and professional services at Ajuba, a B2B integration company which was acquired by Interwoven. Before Ajuba, Mr. Leibow served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales Operations at Cadence Design Systems. Earlier in his career he was a co-founder of the North American CRM practice at KPMG Peat Marwick (now BearingPoint) and a Director of North American sales with Computer Associates Inc. He serves as a Director of Mercado Software, Inc. Mr. Leibow earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Communications from the State University of New York.

Aaron Gotwalt

After years of developing innovative Internet applications for other people's companies, Aaron put his passion and talent into founding one of his own. As vice president of product development, Aaron drives the design and creation of CoTweet's flagship business collaboration platform used by thousands of avid Twitter users each day.

Prior to CoTweet, Aaron produced multi-tiered rich Internet applications on diverse technical platforms as lead developer for andCulture, an Internet marketing and communication firm based in Pennsylvania. While completing his undergraduate degree at Penn State University, Aaron co-founded Elexio, a vertical market web content management solutions provider.

Louise Guay

Louise Guay has a great mastery of strategic positioning, planning agile and wealth creation through technology, both with startups than established firms. When she ran My Virtual Model inc. it has contributed to the success of Lands' End, Sears, H & M and IBM in the e-commerce office.

Her professional career is impressive and includes several real innovations: the first online fitting room with 3D models configurable, the virtual identity, customizing the user experience, social shopping, and researching visual styles. Several large fashion retailers in Europe and American call on her expertise, particularly in the areas of consolidation of the production lines of clothing and shopping 2.0.