Emma Mcilroy has been challenging the status quo since her days in Ireland – dressing as Captain Hook for Career Day in 2nd Grade.

Wildfang launched in March 2013, with 20k+ girls joining the family in just 30 days. Emma created the Wildfang lifestyle brand to remind individuals that they can be whoever they want and wear whatever they want.

It has since grown into a multi-million-dollar omnichannel business with four stores in three states and has been featured in the Guardian, the New York Times, Vice, Refinery 29 and Vogue.  

In 2018 alone, Wildfang raised over $500k for charities that support reproductive, immigrant, and women’s/human rights. They’ve also built a fanbase of badass celebs including Janelle Monae, Chvrches, Rachel Evan Wood, and Blondie, to name drop a few. Which is almost as crazy/cool as building a cult brand from the ground up. Let’s call it a tie.

Emma has 15 years’ experience in brand marketing at two world-class brands: Nike and Barclays. Last year, she was named one of Inc.’s Female Founders 100, Oregon Entrepreneur of the Year by OEN, and Executive of the Year by the Portland Business Journal.

Alex Banayan is the author of the national bestseller The Third Door, which chronicles his five-year quest to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Warren Buffett, Maya Angelou, Steven Spielberg, and dozens more of the world’s most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.

Banayan has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, Business Insider’s Most Powerful People Under 30, and been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Billboard, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and CBS News.

An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world, including Apple, Google, Nike, IBM, Snapchat, Salesforce, Disney, Harvard, and countless others. Microsoft declared that Banayan “cracked the code for success.”

A leader of the next generation of entrepreneurs and the focus of major media around the world, Banayan is a venture associate at Alsop Louie Partners, a high-tech venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Fortune magazine reported that Banayan was “the world’s youngest venture capitalist” and Business Insider named him one of the “Most Powerful People Under 30.”

Banayan has contributed to FastCompany, The Washington Post, VentureBeat, Entrepreneur magazine, The Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. He’s been featured in major media including Businessweek, Forbes magazine, Fortune magazine, Fox News, Bloomberg TV, and CBS News.