Belmont University

Battle Ground Academy

THNK School of Creative Leadership

Early Stage Investor & Advisor / Areas of Interest ( Future of Work & Mobility, Climate Tech,  Plant Based, Creator Economy, SaaS)

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

We create the most inspiring work experiences imaginable.
Unsettled is an award-winning travel and experience company for independent professionals navigating the future of work. Since 2016, Unsettled has run hundreds of coliving/coworking experiences for over 3,000 community members across 86 countries. More recently, through Unsettled's Remote Labs we help leading organizations and their employees adapt to hybrid and remote work.

Through our 30-day co-working retreats and adventures in some of the world’s most inspiring destinations, Unsettled takes your work, life, and adventures beyond traditional borders. We co-create original monthly programing, experiences, and more with our 3,000+ alumni spread across 80+ countries.

Through our Team Journeys™ Experiences for companies, we help leading organizations and their employees adapt to hybrid and remote work. Our partnerships with startups and Fortune 50 teams are both tactical – the crucial concepts, tools, and tips needed to thrive in a remote world – and strategic, as we build intimate communities within organizations to create happier, healthier, more productive remote culture.

HANDS-ON CULTURE CHANGE FOR YOUR REMOTE TEAM
Unsettled’s Remote Labs is dedicated to helping you make the most of remote and hybrid ways of working.

We guide teams to reimagine how you work and help you build a hybrid work culture that is purposely designed for your team members to work at their best no matter where they are.

By specializing in experiential solutions for organizations, we let you rethink how your people, communication, and technology can come together in new ways to create breakthrough approaches to being more productive, efficient, and engaged.

The result? A more productive, connected, and engaged work-from-anywhere team.

At the very same time, we help you build the intimate community connections that keep your organization’s common values and objectives front, center, and together – even when your team is apart.

Unsettled

Advisor / Investor

About Circuit: Circuit is transforming short-range, shared mobility by making it more efficient, sustainable and accessible. We’re building tech-enabled, last-mile shuttle services in cities and at developments around the US. Using our on-demand app, fleets of electric vehicles, and teams of W2 drivers, we’ve provided over 5M rides without burning an ounce of gas.

Circuit just announced a partnership with private inter-city rail provider Brightline+ for first/last mile shuttle services around their Miami, West Palm Beach, and Fort Lauderdale stations and was awarded a grant from NYSERDA in New York.

Circuit supplements mass transit and offers an alternative to ride-hailing apps, and it does so at no cost to riders or the environment. Its fleet of electric vehicles provides city residents with free shuttle rides, reducing traffic congestion and emissions in urban areas. The service partners with advertisers and local governments, and unlike ride-hailing services, all drivers are hourly-wage Circuit employees — not independent contractors — which ensures a higher level of service and a commitment to rider safety.

- Our secret sauce is offering a turnkey solution to our transit partners,” said Esposito, Co-Founder of Circuit. “There are a lot of companies that either have ride-sharing apps or can manage fleets, vehicles, and teams of drivers. We can do both.”

And Circuit’s value for the environment is obvious. Its electric vans shuttle people short distances within an urban core or neighborhood, which means fewer vehicles on the road and lower emission rates. Circuit’s service also provides easy connections to mass transit, which can ease the ecological impact of transportation in the long run.

Circuit currently operates in cities in New York, Florida, Texas, and California, and the results speak for themselves. Circuit is making transportation easier, greener and fun. We’re building on-demand, last-mile shuttle services for cities around the US.

Circuit

Family Office (Early Stage)
Portfolio:
Circuit is a free, electric, micro-transit solution. Circuit uses fleets of nimble cars that fulfill the first-mile last mile gap that’s experienced by municipalities around the world.
-  <a href="https://www.ridecircuit.com/about-us">https://www.ridecircuit.com/about-us</a>

SunWink- Health & Wellness (<a href="https://drinksunwink.com/">https://drinksunwink.com/</a>)
-  We believe in the power of Herbs / Plant Based

Your Daily Source for Podcast Discovery. Series A raise led by Greycroft
<a href="https://www.podchaser.com">https://www.podchaser.com</a>

Persona is a talent-first, SaaS platform that fills a critical gap between the $30B music publishing market & the $18B+ creator economy.
-  <a href="https://www.personamusic.io/">https://www.personamusic.io/</a>

Unsettled is an award-winning experience & travel company for independent + remote professionals who live, work, & travel differently.
We design co-created journeys that support entrepreneurs, creatives, & more recently, Fortune 50 companies who are navigating the future of work.
<a href="https://beunsettled.co">https://beunsettled.co</a>

Ping - is a patented, cross platform voice technology that allows users to hear all their messages and email read aloud, when touching their device is dangerous, illegal (driving) or inconvenient.
<a href="https://www.pingloud.com/about">https://www.pingloud.com/about</a>

PeakMetrics uses ML to spot trends & predict message resonance across news, social, & TV/radio.
<a href="https://www.peakmetrics.com/">https://www.peakmetrics.com/</a>

AdCritter - The Small Business Ad Platform
<a href="https://adcritter.com/">https://adcritter.com/</a>

Plant Baby- Kiki Milk is a delicious and nutritious plant-based, dairy-free milk. Our milk blend is formulated for ages one & up.
<a href="https://www.kikimilk.com/">https://www.kikimilk.com/</a>

DogSpot is a smart sidewalk sanctuary, providing your dog a safe & cozy home away from home while you briefly go somewhere they aren't allowed.
<a href="https://hellodogspot.com/">https://hellodogspot.com/</a>

Density - <a href="https://www.density.io/">https://www.density.io/</a>
Powering the future of how we measure & manage physical space. Anonymous people counting tech.
Kleiner Perkins led Series C

Fomo Spaces - <a href="https://joinfomo.com/">https://joinfomo.com/</a>
-  creates a social layer for virtual events that makes the real & virtual worlds a unified experience.

GRA, LLC

Director Of Operations / Deal Flow

AdCritter gives small businesses the ability to create and manage effective digital advertising campaigns. Its subscription platform provides access to pre-designed ads with suggested phrases and calls to action, along with premium tools such as location-based targeting, audience-based targeting, and search-based targeting for any kind of business. Ads are then delivered to top websites across the internet. Since relaunching its platform in September 2020, AdCritter has experienced double-digit monthly revenue growth and is now one of the leading self-serve advertising platforms in the country.

For more information, visit <a href="http://www.AdCritter.com">www.AdCritter.com</a>

Strategic Partnerships:
AdCritter Strategic Partnerships allow companies to sell digital advertising to their existing client base. Our relentless focus on simplicity makes it easy to scale and minimizes operational pain.

Who is it for? Anyone who needs to sell digital advertising capabilities to large groups of small advertisers.

SMB software providers
Marketing Groups
Franchisors

Selling advertising to small businesses was once difficult to scale. Small clients want help designing ads. They request frequent changes. They’re price sensitive and expect strong results.
AdCritter largely eliminates these challenges with pre-made ads, targeting templates, and self-serve technology. The platform can be customized to meet the unique needs of the small businesses you serve. It can be embedded, used in part or in whole, or integrated via API.
The small businesses you serve deserve the best results modern ad tech has to offer. We’d love to help you deliver it.

AdCritter

Director Of Strategic Partnerships

Persona is a talent-first, SaaS platform that fills a critical gap between the $30B music publishing market and the $18B+ creator economy.

Unlike the traditional music publishing industry that uses complexity and legal rules to take money from creators, Persona makes it simple for the 20M+ professional content creators to quickly and easily license, publish and monetize music for their video content.

Actively Raising Capital.
To Learn more - <a href="https://www.personamusic.io/">https://www.personamusic.io/</a>

Persona Music

Hurdl (<a href="http://www.hurdl.com">www.hurdl.com</a>) is a B2B data capture & communication company that identifies and activates live audiences while building lasting, new communities of fans for the artists, teams and brands that use our platform.

Hurdl solves 2 core problems for our clients:

1.       Do you know who is in the audience? Now you will.

2.       Can you chat with them? Now you can.

Personalized marketing at live events is the next major vertical for advertisers and Hurdl has the solution, today.

Hurdl delivers the most uniquely personal data set in the live-events industry that equally attracts all three pillars of the entertainment market: 1) property (i.e. performer, team), 2) sponsoring brand and 3) venue. Each of these parties is looking for direct access to their fans/customers’ demographic data and a way to have a personal relationship. Hurdl’s SMS marketing platform (Stella) offers its clients the opportunity to regularly stay in touch with their new, Hurdl-activated communities. Hurdl’s team of text-based campaign management specialists assists clients to curate their messaging and to develop ongoing marketing surveys via Stella. Hurdl also offers publishing, data analytics and demographic trend reporting.

No App Required
Simple, Smart & Familiar
Commerce Capabilities
Measurable Results & Trackable Engagement

Hurdl Inc.

Strategic Advisor / Investor

My role/focus is to lead business development and engagement efforts within cities, university campuses, venues, innovation districts, & mixed use developments - and to better understand each of their smart infrastructure/IoT needs in order to become a more "resilient" and equitable place to live, work & play.

I would love to discuss the holistic approach Verizon is taking to address the many needs that city officials, mayors, small business owners, citizens, tourist, and real estate developers are confronted with - drop me a line.

We are currently designing and deploying smart city solutions (interactive, digital kiosks focused on engagement, connectivity, & safety for cities, universities, & venues as well as intelligent lighting/communication hubs) for municipalities, private real estate developers, university campuses, shopping centers and entertainment venues.

Verizon provides “Palo” unified technology hubs where anyone can engage with the community, the Internet and local services at any time. Palo hubs are street-smart, providing essential information like place making, public safety announcements, transit updates, and upcoming events to citizens on the street.  Free Public WiFi, security cameras, emergency calling, and area lighting adds further value to communities.

Link - <a href="http://www.verizonenterprise.com/products/internet-of-things/smart-cities/">http://www.verizonenterprise.com/products/internet-of-things/smart-cities/</a>

Verizon

Business Development Executive, Verizon Smart Communities

- LQD WiFi was acquired by Verizon in November 2016)

Leading the Urban Technology revolution by developing technology that enables smarter cities and provides always free, ubiquitous WiFi. LQD WiFi developed the Palo platform which was acquired by Verizon in 2016.

The Verizon Digital Kiosks are a unified business solution that enhance communities. They are:
-  Street-smart, providing a network of public information, safety and emergency assistance;
-  Technology hubs that unify an individuals ability to engage with the community, the Internet and local services at any time;
-  Financially transformative, through a business model that turns cost centers into revenue generators for cities;
-  The new fabric of 21st century communities, including free WiFi, way-finding and contextual mapping, credible news and information, community guides, e-commerce and public safety.

LQD WiFi

Co-Founder, Chief Development Officer

MTP is a non-profit organization that leads crowd-funded transcontinental train journeys that empower diverse groups of enterprising and civic-minded Millennials to explore America's new frontiers.

Stopping in ten cities in ten days, our journeys provide opportunities for personal development and shared discovery through on-train seminars led by distinguished mentors, workshops with local leaders, and participant-led projects in MTP communities.

The Millennial Trains Project

Director of Partnerships / Participants Coordinator

- Supported both co-founders of the Festival.

The Global Poverty Project

Business Development Officer/Partnerships  (Global Citizen Festival)

Kalu Yala is the first tropical destination to embody the very ethos of how we think, communicate, do business, connect, and effect change in the 21st century. It is designed to grow food, ideas, relationships, organizations and capital. Think of it as a "demonstration hub" for social entrepreneurs to test, tinker, make and hopefully one-day scale game-changing ideas.

- Kalu Yala is really trying to become the hub for sustainability in the tropics, and [become] a 'tropical laboratory' to experiment and develop products that can be exported to the entire tropical belt around the world," Stice says.

I was tasked with engaging and plugging in social entrepreneurs, thought-leaders, investors, and professors into our global community. I immersed myself in some of the most progressive cities (La, Portland, San Fran, Seattle, Austin, NYC, Vancouver, Mexico City..etc) to recruit citizens for our community (‘Hub of Social Entrepreneurs’). I developed an amazing network of social entrepreneurs and global citizens from my work with Journey of Action across sectors (ethical fashion, tea/coffee, education reformers, community activists, forward thinking designers, disruptors in the toy industry, and impact investors) that led us building a diverse community of Kalu Yalans.

Kalu Yala

Director of Citizenry - Connected Entrepreneurs, Professors, Makers, & Investors into this Ecosystem

Short-form documentary series that features incredible members of the Millennial Generation who are transforming the traditional systems of business, non-profits (“for purpose” organizations), and education for the better but receive little to no media attention. The idea being to draw attention to these new role models of our generation and inspire young people to become active citizens, vote with their dollar, take risks, pursue different careers paths, and aid them in discovering their passion/purpose. We partnered with Timberland to sponsor the Alaska to Argentina tour, formed content sharing partnerships with notable digital platforms, and had the opportunity to work with Oxfam and the UN Foundation. We were featured in Fast Company’s “Change Generation” series, Mashable named us the “top 4 social entrepreneurs to watch for 2012,” and were highlighted by GOOD Mag, <a href="http://TakePart.com">TakePart.com</a>, Oprah Radio, Planet Green...etc. Check out <a href="http://www.journeyofaction.com">www.journeyofaction.com</a>

Journey of Action

Co-Founder

I taught Lower and Middle School Spanish (varying grades based on numbers of students)
Coached Basketball & Tennis during the school year & led summer camps.

Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown