Christine (Chris) Shirer
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JoinMyTable Founder Chris Shirer drew on her 17-year relationships in the restaurant and hospitality space to define the JoinMyTable concept. Her digital agency, Madison + Fifth, works with several high profile Columbus, Ohio-based restaurant groups. She has assembled a dream team of senior, visionary leaders in the restaurant and payments transaction space on her advisory board and counts Cameron Mitchell, leader of the $300-million dollar Cameron Mitchell Restaurants group as a seed stage investor. Chris completed Rev1 Ventures’ Concept Academy in May 2015 and was one of forty companies in a field of 600 engaged to move forward for potential investment that year. Her development team, Catalyst Partners, is located in the Rev1 incubator.
Chris is a branding and digital marketing expert whose experience is best applied to questions around developing a brand identity, identifying and confirming target markets and managing multi-disciplinary teams (creative and development) in the product development life cycle.
Dinesh Dhamija
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An entrepreneur, innovator, technologist, and educator with worldwide experience, Dinesh is passionate about solving complex problems and creating practical commercial solutions. His unique blend of business and technology experience, disciplined execution, creative thinking, and ability to bring people together has enabled him to take many successful technology products to market, all the way from concept to launch. He has been able to scale the success of these products by building integrations and strong partnerships with global technology corporations and their ecosystems. Dinesh’s strengths include strategy, technology, innovation, architecture, and research & development.
He was a tenured Associate Professor in Engineering & Technology at Ohio University and a researcher and consultant with companies such as Cooper Industries, IBM, Accenture, Hubbell, GM, and GE Aircraft Engines. Dinesh co-founded a company that built Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) software, serving as its CTO, Chief Strategist, and Evangelist. He built strong partnerships with companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Infor, and SolidWorks, growing the company to over 500 customers worldwide, leading to its acquisition by Infor in 2013. At Infor, Dinesh most recently reported directly to the CEO, spearheading innovation, architecture, integration, and driving major initiatives with customers, partners, & cross-functional teams worldwide. He led the concept-to-launch delivery of Infor’s Contract Lifecycle Management solution and actively managed a pipeline of innovative solutions in manufacturing, distribution, services, and healthcare.
Dinesh is a thought leader who has delivered many national and international presentations worldwide. He has worked with many technology companies, enterprise businesses, and investors, building trusted advisor relationships and a reputation for getting things done. He built his successes by focusing on customers and market needs, with clarity on objectives and milestones, and assembling cross-functional teams that are creative and collaborative.
Gary Cao
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Mr. Ge “Gary” Cao is a senior leader in decision analytics strategies and implementation, with more than 15 years of experience in an entrepreneurial pre-IPO start-up environment and in well-established corporations. He has founded or built decision science teams in six companies in multiple industries: retail and ecommerce, healthcare (insurance, distribution, products & services), financial services (credit card, student loan), and consumer marketing and risk analytics solutions.
Gary is the head of data and advanced analytics at Express Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. Between 2012 and 2016, he was Vice President of enterprise analytics strategy at Cardinal Health, leading an enterprise-wide data and analytics initiative by working closely with stakeholders across levels and functions. From 2007 to 2012, Gary was chief analytics officer at IXI (acquired by Equifax in 2009) in McLean, Virginia. Earlier in his career, Gary served as head of data and analytics, corporate marketing at Anthem; chief analytics officer at Collegiate Funding Services Inc. (acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2005); and various leadership roles in predictive decision analytics modeling and customer marketing strategy at Bank of America credit card business.
Gary was an advisory board member of Direct Marketing Association’s Analytics Council (2006-2012), a co-author of “The Future of Direct Marketing” (2009), and Associate Editor of DMA Analytics Journal (2012). He was a speaker and judge on multiple events related to decision analytics function and career development at Tulane University, The Ohio State University, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), and Peking University.
Gary is a member of the Board of Directors at “naisA Global” (http://www.naisaglobal.org/), a national non-profit organization focused on mentoring and developing new leaders in Asian American community in the U.S. Gary was recognized as one of the “Top 100 under 50” Executive Leader in 2015 by Diversity MBA Magazine.
In addition to a Master’s degree in Technology Management from University of Pennsylvania, Gary holds an MBA from Tulane University, an MA in Economics from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Economics from Peking University.
Tina Fisher
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Technology e-commerce entrepreneur Tina Fisher is the Co-Founder & CEO of Modalist. Modalist is an innovative multi-vendor e-marketplace for designer fashion. Thousands of designers and stores all in one place. We allow our retail partners to drive more sales. Also, Modalist shoppers love that they no longer have to browse multiple websites to find their favorite designers and the fashion they love. Shoppers can also follow their favorite designers which will allow them to receive curated product feeds based on the designers and style tastemakers they love!
Prior to launching Modalist, Fisher founded Italian Fashion ecommerce site, L’Italia and served as their CEO. L’Italia provided an invaluable course in all facets of online retail and became the genesis of the Modalist concept. Tina also serves on several non-profit boards. She is an active member of several Angel Capital Groups including OTAF, X-Squared Angels & The ACA - a collective of accredited angel investors.
