Heather K. Terry is the Co-founder & CEO of GoodSam PBC. She has been a CPG mentor and angel investor, the author of From Broadway to Wall Street, a Partner and the Chief Strategy Officer of BeyondBrands (a top tier CPG consulting agency focused on natural products in NYC), and the host of the Scaling with Soul podcast (on hiatus).

For over a decade, she’s been immersed in the complexities and nuances of the consumer-packaged goods vertical. First as the co-founder of NibMor Chocolate. Next, as the mastermind behind the expansion of popular clean beauty and wellness brands including S.W. Basics, Pulp Pantry, GoodSam, Organic Bath Company and more. She has been a highly-sought after advisor to many up-and-coming wellness products on a mission to land coveted spots on the shelves of national retailers like Whole Foods and Target.

Her expertise has been featured at WELL Insiders, WELL Summit, ALT Summit, The Wild Rose Collective, the Rising Women Conference, Good Housekeepings Raise the Green Bar Summit and the Regenerative Rising Summit. She is a graduate of the International Culinary Center in NYC and has an MFA from Rutgers University.

Alysia Reiner is best known as "FIG" on all 7 seasons of Orange Is the New Black, for which she won a SAG AWARD, and as of June 8th, you can find her on Disney + as Agent Sadie Deever in the much anticipated new Marvel series Ms. Marvel! Additionally, she just finished her 5th season as Sunny on Peabody Award-winning Better Things on F/X x HULU, as well as her first season playing Kathryn in STARZ’s Shining Vale with Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear.

She both starred in & produced the Sundance Film Festival feature film hit Equity & Tribeca Film Festival favorite Egg, which is 100% fresh on ROTTEN TOMATOES. A few other filmed adventures include getting married in the Oscar winning film Sideways, getting naked in an Emmy Award winning episode of Broad City, and going head to head against Viola Davis on How To Get Away with Murder, and she just starred in Stampede Ventures' feature film, Going Places, and wrapped The Independent with John Cena, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Brian Cox.

She loves working as a change maker for women and an advocate for women's rights & climate change initiatives. She is on the board and an ambassador for GDIM, on the board of EARTH DAY INITIATIVE, on the advisory board for AIR PROTEIN, the face and zero waste eco-emissary for IZZY BEAUTY, and started eco-fashion zero waste initiative, Livari. As a champion of all things eco-friendly, she and her husband used their home as a way to share information about building green. Their brownstone eco-renovation in Harlem was featured on television's "World's Greenest Homes" and "Renovation Nation"; in various magazines like Dwell, Gotham, Origin and The Nest; and they allowed the environmentally friendly construction process to be chronicled on websites such as Dwell.com and Kohler.com. Alysia has been invited to speak and keynote at The White House, The United Nations, Google, Cannes Lion, Women's Media Summit, Collision, and countless film festivals and events about breaking barriers for women in all fields, specifically the entertainment industry.

As Chief Merchandising Officer at FreshDirect, Scott Crawford leads merchandising and product development and identifies areas of growth and new revenue channels across the company. In keeping with FreshDirect’s mission of providing access to the freshest, highest quality food to as many people as possible, Crawford and his team take great pride in discovering diverse food and beverage brands, leveraging the company’s resources and expertise to bring best-in-class companies to retail and to its customers.

Neda Daneshzadeh is the Co-Founder & Co-Managing Partner of Prelude Growth Partners, a growth equity firm that supports brands made for the new modern consumer. Prelude Growth partners with founders and CEOs to provide deep category experience, value-added operational support and a broad network to power the high potential, fast-growing consumer brands of tomorrow.

Prelude Growth Partners seeks to make investments of $10 million to $50 million in each company, across branded consumer categories including personal care, beauty, food & beverage, baby, pet, health & wellness and other consumer product, service and technology companies. Investments include: Banza, Sol de Janeiro, Summer Fridays, So Good So You, Westman Atelier, 8Greens, Bachans, Blueland, dpHUE, Naturium and Fly By Jing.

Kate is the Chief Brand Curator at Hive Brands, an online shop for sustainable, socially conscious brand. She leads the team responsible for filling Hive’s virtual shelves with the best-of-the-best in sustainable groceries, personal care, pet and home/cleaning. She’s spent over a decade at the intersection of specialty food and e-commerce, including roles at Dean & Deluca, Levain Bakery and Mouth.com. Kate holds an MA in Food Studies from NYU and is always hungry for a warm chocolate chip cookie.

Michael is the CEO of 'I and love and you,’ a Boulder, Colorado based, next generation brand of premium, holistic pet food and treats. “I and love and you” wins with consumers who share
Millennial and Gen Z values of offering human focused, pet specialty quality to an omni-channel digitally native consumer. The company continues to accelerate its growth, which has
repeatedly landed the company on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies.

Michael’s career has focused on partnering with company founders, and venture capital & private equity backers to build and scale fast-growing consumer businesses with innovative
brands. Most recently, he served as an Operating Partner at L Catterton, the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm. His prior roles include CFO and COO of Plum Organics,
the organic baby food brand that drove a full reimagination of the industry, Chief Administrative Officer of Restoration Hardware, a leading purveyor of premium home furnishings, and President of Wellness Pet Foods, one of the first natural pet food brands in the U.S. He has also served on the Boards of several pet food brands, including “I and love and you,” Lily’s Kitchen (UK), and JustFoodForDogs.

Prior to this, he worked with venture-backed technology companies, having served as the CFO of retail technology firm MarketMax, and co-founded an e-commerce technology company that served Fortune 500 retail and financial service companies. He began his career in the New York banking industry with JPMorgan Chase as a commercial lender to consumer businesses. He received his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a BS in Chemical Engineering from NYU’s Polytechnic School of Engineering.