Deborah Novick is an experienced investment banker and has acted as strategic advisor to hundreds of emerging growth companies over the past 20 years. Ms. Novick financed more than 50 companies in private and public transactions ranging in size from $100,000 to over $15,000,000. Deborah was part of the team that introduced the inventive financial structure SPAC, and led the first 13 SPAC IPO roadshows and subsequent mergers.

Mike Bender is a media industry veteran with 12+ years at digital, broadcast and mobile media companies. Mike has built key relationships with Fortune 500 advertisers while working at ABC Television. At Univision, Mike was in charge of building and generating awareness of Univision’s online properties that targeted Hispanics. While at Break Media and StarMedia, he built and developed global sales teams. Mike has a B.A. in Economics from Yale.

Steve Ward is a celebrity matchmaker with two hit TV shows on VH1- Tough Love and Tough Love Couples. Over 1 million people view each episode of Tough Love. He regularly appears on various TV, radio and other media outlets as a dating expert and the “male” perspective on dating. Steve is positioning himself as the male matchmaking expert and has proven himself to be a marketable personality for the cable networks.