Adam Sheridan
MacGyver Impersonator
Adam Sheridan
MacGyver Impersonator
Adam leverages his background in investment finance, sales, and project management to support innovation and business development efforts. He has a passion for learning, efficiency, and creative problem solving. His professional experience includes financial modeling, product development, and outside technical sales. He has advised startups in areas of retail apparel, consumer goods, manufacturing, and technology. He’s earned a B.S in Business Administration and graduated summa cum laude with an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Kansas. He also later earned a B.S in Mechanical Engineering to pursue his love for invention. Linkedin
Dan Scott, CEO
The Zipline Park Owner
Dan Scott, CEO
The Zipline Park Owner
Dan is a serial entrepreneur with proven leadership and critical thinking skills. A summa cum laude graduate of St. Luke’s College; he went on to work in well-respected emergent and critical care positions including leading a 32 bed urban ICU. Dan started his first marketing company in 2008 and soon found success leveraging medical journal subscriber data as targeted advertising tools for companies like GE and Phillips.
He has over a decade’s worth of experience in building, scaling, and managing data intensive marketing campaigns and has developed a robust knowledge base on digital marketing and data driven marketing. Most recently, Dan acquired and led the corporate turnaround of a 143 acre Adventure Park. Growing the business to 48 employees and developing a work place culture of customer centric excellence.
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Brendan Reilly, CRO
The Dog Savior
Brendan Reilly, CRO
The Dog Savior
Brendan has a decade’s worth of experience in technology, software, sales, sponsorship, and sports marketing. He was Co-Founder and CEO of EON Sports VR, a VR/AR company that provided solutions to the sports industry’s elite, including MLB, NFL, PGA Tour, ACC Network, and NCAA teams. Brendan was featured on ESPN, MLB Network, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC, Fortune, Forbes, and more as a leading pioneer in technology in sports. He is often found presenting on topics of emerging technology having been the keynote speaker for conferences and groups throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.
Brendan successfully sold EON Sports in January 2018. Since selling EON Sports, he has worked as a consultant helping technology companies in sports, marketing, and technology scale efficiently, fund-raise, and find product market fit.
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Richard Neal, CSO
The Amateur Paleontologist
Richard Neal, CSO
The Amateur Paleontologist
As a pioneer in both the Social Web and Big Data revolutions, Mr. Neal was the first to identify the need for a construct of multidimensional comprehension in the emergent digital domain. Through constructing the new science of Digital Sociology, Rich created the vernacular necessary for business to understand and leverage actionable intelligence from diverse online sources.
His book, “Expanding Sentience”, focuses on Online Collectivism based from Mathematical Epidemiology and has been used in several Universities’ Marketing Science courses and continues to be purchased worldwide. Mr. Neal has over 15 years in technology and business leadership. He is a serial entrepreneur with three businesses and multiple IP sales to his name, and is routinely invited to speak to prestigious institutions on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data.
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Brian McClendon
Tech Guru
Brian McClendon
Tech Guru
Brian McClendon is a Research Professor at the University of Kansas after spending 2 years at Uber leading their Maps and Business Platform efforts. For 10 years prior, Brian was a Vice President with Google and led the entire Geo business unit including Google Maps, Street View and Google Earth. He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 which led to Google Earth. In the 1990s, He spent 8 years at Silicon Graphics, designing 3D graphics workstations. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 and holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas. He holds thirty issued patents, including many relating to KML, the XML-based language schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization in two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers. Linkedin
Wayne Morgan Ph.D.
Ops Ninja
Wayne Morgan Ph.D.
Ops Ninja
Wayne Morgan, Ph.D. served as Chief Operating Officer and a Partner at Netchemia, a K-12 Talent Management SaaS software company, for 10+ years. During his tenure, the company experienced dramatic growth, ultimately serving over 2,500 school districts across 47 states. In this role, Dr. Morgan led two add-on acquisitions, a private equity investment from Mainsail Partners, and the eventual sale of the firm to Vista Equity Partners in early 2015. Previously, he served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for MRI Global. Earlier, he was a Partner and Vice President at Black & Veatch, a global engineering construction and technology company, for over twenty years. Dr. Morgan currently is Director of the Growth Mentoring Service at the Enterprise Center in Johnson County (ECJC), a team mentoring program developed and practiced at MIT. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the ECJC Board of Directors and an active angel investor in the Mid-America Angels. He serves in Advisory and Board member roles for several Kansas City area technology startups. Linkedin
Robert Howard
Mr. Fortune 500