Cynthia Todd, MBA, CEO, is an experienced entrepreneur. She has launched a growing natural soap manufacturing business with regional distribution and is building her business reach and impact nationally and internationally through designing a dispersed manufacturing model, next sites include Kenya, Philadelphia, Chicago and Seattle.

Jill Bamburg was one of the co-founders of BGI and has served in both faculty and administrative capacities since 2002, most recently as Dean of Academic Affairs during the 2010-11 school year. She is an avid student and practitioner of instructional design and has led the development of both the first and second iterations of the BGI curriculum. Prior to joining BGI, she worked in adult education (Antioch University/Seattle), high tech marketing

Carolyn Eslick, Executive Director of GROW Washington, a microenterprise business development incubator, and Mayor of Sultan, Washington, provides business and market development experience and expertise

As the founder/owner of an ad agency and co-founder of SEOmoz, Gillian melds more than two decades of traditional media marketing experience with the demands of the fast-changing SEO landscape. Although she usually works behind the scenes, running the business end of SEOmoz, Gillian has addressed audiences in traditional media and SEO, served as a guest lecturer at the University of Washington, Children's Hospital, SMX, and other organizations, a