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Advisor Team
Betty Degeneres:
The mother of gay icon Ellen DeGeneres, Betty is an LGBT activist in her own right. She was the first non-gay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign’s National Coming Out Project, and is the author of two acclaimed books, Love, Ellen: A Mother-Daughter Journey and Just a Mom.
Lorenzo Thione:
Lorenzo Thione is a serial-entrepreneur and currently the Founder, President & Chairman of Artify It - a disruptive subscription service in the contemporary art market. He was the founder and product architect of Powerset, now part of Microsoft, and helped develop the natural language search engine capability for Bing. Lorenzo is also a Broadway producer, having worked - amongst others - on the Tony Nominated musicals American Idiot and Catch Me If You Can. He's currently producing the upcoming Allegiance, with Lea Salonga and George Takei, which will premiere at the Old Globe in San Diego in September 2012. He's a founding board member and chair of StartOut, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship within the LGBT community.
Andy Sernovitz:
Author of New York Times bestseller Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking and the fantastic blog "Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That!" He runs WordofMouth.org, where marketers and entrepreneurs learn to be great at word of mouth marketing, and SocialMedia.org, the community for social media leaders at the world's greatest brands. He taught word of mouth marketing at Northwestern and internet entrepreneurship at Wharton.
Terry Macko:
As Chief Marketing Officer of the World Wildlife Fund, Terry Macko leads strategic communications initiatives that serve a base of 1.3 million members. He oversees the creative expression of the WWF brand across all media and advertising channels, ensuring that WWF remains the world's most recognized conservation brand. Macko has been recognized by Advertising Age as one of the “Power 50” marketing leaders in America.
