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Voices
Brand & Field Marketing Director
Belle Baldoza is a brand and communications architect driven by brave storytelling at the speed of culture. As ByteDance’s first Global Communications Director outside China, she was the strategist behind TikTok’s explosive entry into 15+ emerging markets.
She helped build Netflix’s global presence from zero to cultural phenomenon, pioneered Spotify’s international communications during global expansion, and guided Airbnb through crisis communications during COVID-19. Now the Director of Brand & Field Marketing at Voices, the world’s most trusted voice solutions platform powered by professional talent, she leads creative, communications, social media, events, and integrated campaigns at the intersection of AI innovation and human authenticity.
Named by PRovoke Media as one of the Global Influence 100: Rising Stars and Asia-Pacific’s Innovator 25, Belle is a Filipino-Canadian leader who has seen firsthand how culturally relevant and courageous storytelling drives authentic connection and measurable business impact.
Glewee
Co-Founder & CMO
Christian Brown is a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Glewee, and a Creator Economy & Influencer Marketing leader with 10+ years of experience across entrepreneurship, e-commerce, technology, and digital marketing.
After entering the industry at just 17 years old, Christian has spent his career building companies, working with creators, and helping brands understand how social influence drives modern consumer behavior.
His perspectives on the Creator Economy have been featured in and contributed to publications including Forbes, Adweek, Digiday, Entrepreneur, and many more.
Tagliani Multicultural
Founder & President
Hernan Tagliani is one of the most respected voices in multicultural marketing today. A trusted advisor to Fortune 500 brands, he has spent his career helping organizations understand how culture, identity, and business growth intersect in an increasingly diverse marketplace. His work has influenced how major brands rethink strategy, relevance, and long-term growth in a multicultural-first economy.
Hernan is the author of the best-selling book Multicultural Mainstream: The Power of Hispanics in Consumer Marketing, a widely referenced guide that reframed multicultural marketing as a core business discipline rather than a niche practice. His insights are regularly featured in leading U.S. publications including Forbes, Adweek, Entrepreneur, and The Business Journals. He also leads the Multicultural Group at the Forbes Agency Council, where he helps shape the conversation around inclusive growth and cultural relevance in modern marketing.
As a Hispanic business leader, Hernan brings both strategic clarity and lived experience to his work. His mission is direct and uncompromising: to help businesses move beyond performative inclusion and build marketing strategies that reflect the real America they serve. Through his writing and speaking, he challenges outdated assumptions about multicultural consumers, educates senior leaders, and inspires the next generation of marketers to lead with both insight and responsibility.
Hernan is the founder and president of Tagliani Multicultural, one of the fastest-growing independent multicultural advertising and digital agencies in the United States, with offices in Orlando, Miami, and New York. Through his agency, consulting work, and executive training programs, he helps organizations connect authentically with multicultural audiences, particularly Hispanic consumers, one of the most influential and fastest-growing segments in the U.S. economy. His work is grounded in a single belief: brands that understand culture are better prepared to grow, compete, and lead in the future.
RAD Amplify
Head of Marketing
John King is a growth-oriented marketing executive and community builder who helps founders, brands, and civic organizations turn bold ideas into real momentum.
John serves as Head of Marketing at RAD Amplify, a predictive creator intelligence platform that helps brands and agencies maximize creator marketing performance. Earlier in his career, John built the marketing organization at SparkCognition from the ground up, helping lead the company’s growth into Texas’s first AI unicorn. Before that, he spent years in economic development, leading CleanTX and directing clean energy initiatives at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce; this work helped put Austin on the map as a global clean energy hub. More recently, John was CMO at WorldQuant Foundry, where he helped launch the venture studio and oversaw GTM for multiple portfolio companies. He has also invested in and helped operate a number of Austin-born brands, including High Desert Vodka, Carabuena Tequila, and Restore Hyperwellness.
A dedicated civic leader, John has held board and advisory roles with the Austin Under 40 Awards, Austin Young Chamber of Commerce, the Young Men’s Business League, the Young Women’s Alliance, SXSW Eco, Pecan Street Project, the City of Austin Economic Prosperity Commission, and SKU. For his professional and civic leadership, John has been recognized as a Who’s Who in Energy honoree by the American Business Journals and as an Austin Under 40 Award winner.
Lickly
CMO
Nita serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Lickly, where she leads growth, positioning, and go-to-market strategy. Known for bringing an AI-first lens to execution, she focuses on building systems that translate complex technology into clear, differentiated value for enterprise buyers.
She is also the founder of Studio CMO, where she provides fractional CMO and executive advisory support to companies at pivotal growth moments—often stepping in as the first senior marketing leader or partnering with enterprise teams navigating category creation and go-to-market transformation.
Across her career, she has worked at the intersection of product, sales, and marketing, building and scaling marketing organizations from the ground up. She has led global teams of 100+ marketers, managed $20M+ budgets, and built demand engines exceeding $500M in pipeline, while supporting organizations through acquisitions and major growth inflection points.
Her work is defined by a balance of strategic clarity and operational depth—equally comfortable shaping executive-level strategy or rolling up her sleeves to build what’s needed to scale.
PACO Collective
CEO
Kaizen Analytix
CMO
Tamara is a driven, entrepreneurial marketing and growth executive with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations accelerate revenue, modernize customer engagement, and build scalable growth engines. She specializes in translating data, consumer insights, and emerging technologies into strategic initiatives that drive measurable business outcomes.
Her expertise spans brand strategy, growth marketing, customer lifecycle management, Generative AI, and marketing technology (MarTech) transformation. She helps organizations leverage AI-powered tools, automation, and integrated MarTech ecosystems to create more personalized customer experiences, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate speed to market. Throughout her career, Tamara has built and optimized marketing infrastructures that connect strategy, technology, and execution to increase acquisition, engagement, retention, and customer lifetime value.
As a strategic and systems-oriented leader, Tamara excels at defining long-term vision, leading organizational change, and aligning cross-functional teams around shared business objectives. Her strengths include identifying growth opportunities, transforming complexity into actionable strategies, and creating the processes, capabilities, and accountability frameworks that enable organizations to scale with confidence and deliver sustainable results.
Pixida Estiatorio
Head of Social Media
Tyler has built an audience of 6M+ followers across TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitch, and Spotify, generating 100M+ views every month. Tyler’s only goal in starting this venture: Tyler loves making people laugh. What started as content creation became a career built on understanding what makes people stop scrolling, engage, follow, and take action!
Today Tyler puts that to work as a social media consultant, helping creators and brands with platform growth, content strategy, audience development, and positioning, and as a partner to brands looking for organic, personalized content that actually reaches people. Tyler is always looking to connect with brands, creators, entrepreneurs, marketers, and media professionals who want a stronger presence online!
Additional jury members to be announced
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