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Ryan Stevens
Founder
I'm the Founder of Digital Reference. I'm an operations, revenue, and customer experience focused executive. A leader that “values values” with a focus on empathy, integrity, and continuous improvement. I'm experienced in taking a lean approach to scaling revenue from $0 to $50M and building organizations from the ground up to 200+ employees. I'm professionally obsessed with online marketplace strategy, B2B ecosystems, talent development, finding operational efficiencies, and developing passionate value-driven teams.
Charley Baouamina
Founder
Charley Baouamina is Founder and Creative Director of Charley SIGNATURE, an award-winning global luxury branding and creative agency specializing in brand strategy, positioning, identity and creative direction. With two decades of luxury expertise, the agency has collaborated with Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, Dior, Gucci, Bvlgari, Aston Martin Residences, Lamborghini, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, St. Regis, Fairmont, Waldorf Astoria and Atlantis. Charley SIGNATURE creates distinctive brand worlds for luxury hospitality, real estate, fashion and lifestyle brands engaging UHNW audiences.
Brian Munroe
Fractional COO | Author | Trainer | Project Recovery Expert
Brian Munroe is a fractional COO and implementation specialist. He is the operator leaders call when a system migration stalls, margins slip, or the owner is stuck firefighting instead of running the business. Most of his work is in healthcare, with clinic groups, specialty practices, home care agencies, and PE-backed platforms. In 30 years he has completed over 150 project rescues across healthcare, finance, technology, manufacturing, and government. He installs KPI governance, rebuilds broken workflows, and deploys AI that cuts manual work. He recently wrote "My AI Makes Me More Human."
Mario Meyer
Founder & CEO / Fractional CTO
Mario Meyer is the founder of Reyem Tech, a Toronto-area fractional CTO firm for growing US & Canadian businesses. With 25+ years leading technology across startups and enterprises in Canada and Brazil, he helps owner-led companies make their big technology decisions: system selection, technical due diligence, project rescue, first engineering hires, AI adoption and scale readiness. Engagements start with fixed-scope packages and grow into ongoing advisory. Mario is VP of the King City Chamber of Commerce and mentors founders through U of T and Rotman. MBA, ITIL and COBIT certified.
Dan Cohen
Professional Squarespace Web Designer
I’m Dan Cohen, a professional Squarespace website designer, Squarespace Platinum Partner, and founder of Can Dohen Web Design. With experience across 20+ industries, I work with businesses in New York, across the United States, and internationally to create responsive, easy-to-manage Squarespace websites that balance professional design, functionality, and performance. Reach out to discuss your project and start working together.
Alexis Myers
Web Designer & Digital Marketing Strategist
Alexis T. Myers, founder of ATM Digital Strategies, is a Washington, DC-based web designer and digital marketing strategist with industry experience dating back to 2012. She founded ATM Digital Strategies in 2020 and serves small businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs locally, nationally, and internationally. Specializing in conversion-based web design, UX Design, and digital marketing, Alexis helps clients build a professional online presence, expand their reach, attract qualified leads, and convert more clients.
Ankush Goyat
Squarespace Web Designer
I’m Ankush Goyat, a professional Squarespace website designer, Squarespace Gold Partner, and founder of Web Goyat Web Design. With experience across more than 12 industries, I help businesses in Toronto and worldwide create responsive, high-performing Squarespace websites that are professionally designed and easy to manage. If you’re planning a new website or redesign, get in touch to discuss your project and explore how we can work together.
Catherine Liang
Leadership & Performance Coach
We are committed to helping you lead without self-abandonment by providing a safe, empathetic, evidence-informed coaching partnership that names what’s real (including identity and workplace politics), strengthens boundaries, and turns insight into practical next steps–so that high-achieving, purpose-driven leaders can reclaim balance, protect their health and relationships, and shine with calm, values-led authority.
Cristina Neil
Founder & Owner
Safe & Sound Coaching Co. provides trauma-aware life and career coaching for individuals navigating burnout, career transitions, overwhelm, and major life changes. Founded by HR professional and certified work and life coach Cristina Neil, Safe & Sound offers a warm, judgment-free space to gain clarity, build confidence, strengthen self-trust, and turn meaningful goals into manageable next steps. Coaching is personalized, practical, and designed to meet each person where they are without pressure to have everything figured out.
Josiah Roche
Fractional CMO and Google Ads Consultant
Josiah Roche is a multi-award-winning Fractional CMO, former journalist and founder of JRR Marketing. Since 2019, he has helped service and ecommerce businesses improve their Google Ads, SEO, conversion rate optimisation and marketing strategy. His team has generated more than $100 million in tracked client revenue. Josiah audits roughly 200 Google Ads accounts a year and teaches the same methods to more than 185,000 YouTube subscribers. His commentary has appeared in HubSpot, Business Insider, WP Engine, Databox, Zapier and TrafficGuard. He also wrote Un-F*ck Your Marketing.
Sue Ellen Burch
Fractional COS / COO / Integrator for Founder-Led Businesses
Fractional COS / COO / Integrator for Founder-Led Businesses · Turning Operational Chaos into Scalable Systems | CEO, Brydge Advisors | Certified Exit Planning Advisor | HBJ 40 Under 40 & Who’s Who Honoree
HUGO ACURIO
Fractional COO/CMO | AI Compliance for Healthcare & Pharma
I'm Hugo Acurio, a fractional COO/CMO for US telehealth, diagnostics, and pharmacy companies scaling from $5M to $150M. Operations run with AI, pharma-grade compliance. I built the patient-ops system behind 100K+ encounters at HelixVM, put a production AI sales agent on a live regulated channel in 13 days, drove 300% regional growth at Omron LATAM, and took Iris Global Ecuador from losses to $650K-$850K in profit. English, Spanish, Portuguese. See the board, invent the system, and build it.
Emma Bryant
Naming Specialist
Emma Bryant is a naming specialist, brand strategist, and award-winning copywriter with 10+ years of experience. Her work sits at the intersection of strategy, systems, and language — from naming startups to developing scalable naming frameworks for complex organizations. She is the founder of The Nameist and Nametag (nametag.live), an AI-powered name evaluation tool. Emma writes The Nameist Substack and has spoken on naming at organizations including Monzo and Great British Energy.
Craig Barbieri
Fractional CTO | AI & Digital Transformation Leader | AEC
Craig Barbieri is a technology executive who leads AI and digital transformation in architecture, engineering, and construction. He has two decades of director-level technology leadership at firms from 500 to several thousand staff, twice operating as de facto CTO, building technology organizations from nothing and managing budgets up to $5M. He now runs Barbieri Technology Group, a fractional CTO practice covering AI strategy, governance, and adoption, and builds AI software products including TermsWatchdog. He holds an M.Arch and MLA from Penn.
Nihil Kumar
Global Brand Consultant, Design Architect, Business Advisor
Most brands look like everyone else. Not because the founder lacked vision, but because the brand was built on aesthetics and trends, not psychology and function. That’s the problem I fix. I’m Nihil, Global Brand Psychologist, Consultant, and GTM Advisor. I help founders build brands that don’t just look good. They think, speak, and sell. My approach isn’t marketing. I use cognitive science applied to brand architecture. How does your audience perceive, remember, and choose you?
Shahzad Safri
Founder | AI Search & Agentic AI Consultant
Founder of 360 Automation AI (an OpenAI Select Partner), where every engagement starts with a structured company knowledge base, then AI agents and AI solutions built on top of it. He also helps businesses get found and chosen by AI. Founded agenticplug.ai, where he runs AEO and GEO programs and optimizes businesses for agentic commerce, using the A.G.E.N.T.I.C. Framework. Ranked 1st out of 50 brands in Searchable’s AI Search Accelerator Cohort 1. He holds an MIT Sloan AI Business Strategy executive certification and several OpenAI partner certifications. Based in Kansas City.
Moise C Nzouatoum
Software Architect & Developer
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Mark Scrimenti
Fractional COO and Strategic Operating Partner
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Brad Hayden
Founding Partner & Chief Revenue Officer
Brad Hayden helps startups, CPG and e-commerce brands, and growth-stage companies connect fragmented operations for their next stage of growth. His more than 20 years of experience include Dell Technologies, Amazon and entrepreneurial environments. At Today’s Growth Partners, Brad works alongside Mary Douglas on client strategy and execution. His focus spans revenue operations, partnerships, business development and channel expansion. He brings experience with enterprise account growth, supply-chain process improvement and P&L leadership for Amazon’s Blink direct-response television program.
Remco Marcelis
CEO Standard Ledger; Fractional CFO for startups & scaleups
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