Prior to co-founding Alignable, Eric Groves spent 10 years as a founding executive of Constant Contact leading their go to market efforts, and growing the business from start-up to a public company with 400,000 customers and $200MM in revenue.
Ron Oertell is Chief Financial Officer at LendingUSA, LLC, a consumer lending company focused on physical point-of-sale locations. He has more than 25 years of experience as an attorney, investment banker, investment fund manager and CFO, and has completed over $9 billion in capital transactions.
Loretta Solon Greene is the Associate Administrator for the Office of International Trade (OIT) at the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Robert E. McKnight, Jr. is a life-long rancher from Fort Davis, Texas. He currently serves as president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, a 142-year-old association that serves cattle producers across Texas, Oklahoma and beyond.
Ph.D. Major: Clinical Psychology, Minor: Social Psychology. University of Colorado at Boulder, December 1981
Dr. James Finck is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and Chair of the Oklahoma Civil War Symposium.
Debbie Georgatos hosts the talk show America, Can We Talk, which aired on Salem radio stations for 4 & ½ years and expanded in 2019 to a video podcast format
Dr. Kevin Peek has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors, including founding the Trade Policy Research Group in 2003, located in San Francisco, California; documentary and investigative work in Mexico City, Venezuela, and Spain as chief economist with Peek Media; and extensive consulting on international trade policy.
Teo Sepulveda is an economist currently working for South Texas College. Born in Houston, Texas and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, he has made the Rio Grande Valley his home since the early 2000s.