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Speaker Profile: Terry Bean

Chief Networking Officer
Founder of Networked Inc and Motor City Connect

Terry’s passion is helping others succeed. As a consummate networker, he makes sure he understands not only the needs of his associates, but how to bring together the resources to satisfy those needs.

Terry is the driving force behind Networked Inc., a company that he co-founded to bring buyers and sellers of products and services together efficiently. His firm has provided training on the concepts and benefits of networking to numerous sales teams and professionals.

Terry viscerally understood the value of maintaining professional relationships immediately upon joining the business community in 1996. Since that time, Terry has started numerous face to face and virtual networking groups. He is currently the 9th most connected Linkedin member in Detroit, is an associate at CNO Partners and works with www.RNIA.org to help formalize networking as a recognized Industry. Maintaining these relationships have helped him achieve the success he presently enjoys.

Terry holds a B.S. in Psychology and a M.A. in Business Communications from EMU. He enjoys softball, weight training, The Simpson’s and his 5 year old daughter, Drea.

@TerryBean

www.networkedinc.com

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Speaker Profile: Charlie Wollborg

Chief Troublemaker/Founding Partner of Curve Detroit Advertising, Marketing and Design.
Charlie opened the doors on Curve Detroit Advertising, Marketing & Design in 1999 after being thrown out of several well respected ad agencies. As a writer, designer and strategist, he has delivered blue sky ideas and bottom line results for blue chip local and national clients including: Saturn, Mazda, Boyne, Sanders Candy and Blue Cross. He loves ice cream, hiking in Tobermory and the feel of Lake Michigan sand between his toes. His dislikes include poorly designed billboards, speed limits and people who flick cigarette butts out the window. He’s happily married to his unhappily married wife, Elena and nine month old son Lanagan Jack, who will one day grow up to be a pirate.

@charliecurve
http://www.curvedetroit.com/

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Speaker Profile: Pete Thomas

In November 2005, Pete Thomas walked away from the finale of NBC’s The Biggest Loser a Winner – and a loser. He won $100,000 for losing the most weight of all the contestants that season. What he lost was 185 pounds in only nine short months … and with it an unhealthy lifestyle that Pete, armed with knowledge about nutrition and exercise, has truly put behind him.

The new Pete Thomas walks around with a body fat percentage in the single digits, compared to the 51% body fat he dragged around in his 400+ pound pre-Biggest Loser days. And he doesn’t just walk anymore. Pete works out an hour per day five days a week.

As a child, Pete never learned about nutrition and exercise due to his transient lifestyle – a result of his mother’s serious mental illness. Several times as a young child, he was left alone or with his younger sister for weeks at a time, forced to find food wherever he could.

Although an avid reader, Pete missed major portions of elementary school as he was in and out of multiple foster homes. Still, he managed to graduate with honors from Detroit Kettering High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society and Who’s Who Among American High School Students.

After attending the University of Michigan, Pete worked to build a successful career. That’s when years of poor eating habits began to catch up with him. During his first 14 years of marriage, he gained 10 pounds per year, despite following a number of fad diets.

“Being on The Biggest Loser really saved my life,” Pete says. The knowledge he gained revolutionized the way he eats and exercises, so that now, more than three years after being on the show, he has successfully kept the weight off.

Based on his experience at The Biggest Loser Ranch and extensive research into the science of weight loss, Pete has developed ‘Lose It Fast Lose It Forever™,’ a 10-week class that is helping the obese achieve a new lease on life.

He has appeared on ABC’s The View, The 700 Club, and eXtra as well as being featured in People Magazine, Runners World, TV Guide, The Detroit Free Press, inTouch Weekly and Real Health (Cover).

As a full time motivational speaker Pete now travels and spreads his “Winning Principles” to sales organizations, businesses, churches and community groups nationwide.

www.winningman.com

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Speaker Profile: Scott Monty

The best way to describe Scott is “Renaissance Man.” Friends and colleagues that know Scott from one facet of his life are very frequently surprised to learn of his interests and talents in other areas.

Scott is a marketing and communications professional focused on the digital industry – specifically on social media. His career spans a number of industries such as healthcare, pharma, biotech, travel, automotive, tech, and communications, and includes a wide range of clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Some of Scott’s clients include American Airlines, Audi, Starwood Hotels, IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences, Boston Scientific, The Coca-Cola Company, Millipore, Motorola and Kraft Foods, as wellas numerous small-cap and start-up ventures.

Scott is currently the head of social media for Ford Motor Company, where he holds the title Global Digital & Multimedia Communications Manager. While his role is based in the Corporate Communications area, he is a strategic advisor on all social media activities across the company. From blogger relations to marketing support to customer service to internal communications and more, social media touches many facets of Ford business, and Scott is there to ensure it is consistent across all of them. As Consigliere for crayon, LLC, Scott served as the primary point of contact for clients, representing their interests. But his role elevated his connection with the client beyond a typical account service role, counseling clients with a firm understanding of their industry, a breadth of knowledge of the landscape of new marketing, coupled with a personal approach to deepen the relationship.

Scott joined crayon after three years with PJA Advertising + Marketing, a BtoB shop that specializes in the high tech and health sciences industries, where he helped clients with integrated brand campaigns and led an e-newsletter practice for a major client. Previously involved in the managed care and biotech/pharma/medical device consulting space, he has served in a variety of sales, marketing and communications roles. In addition to his marketing background, Scott is an active blogger and podcaster. He writes about issues relevant to the intersection of advertising, marketing and PR at The Social Media Marketing Blog (www.scottmonty.com) and also writes The Baker Street Blog, a literary undertaking, at www.bakerstreetblog.com. Scott has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, has guest-hosted the podcast Marketing Over Coffee, has been interviewed on numerous marketing podcasts, and is a recognized thought leader in the marketing industry.

Scott received his Master’s in Medical Science from Boston University’s School of Medicine concurrently with his MBA from BU’s Graduate School of Management. He lives in the greater Boston area with his wife and two young sons, golfs all too infrequently, and has a hidden talent for voice over work.

@scottmonty
www.scottmonty.com

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We Love WP.com- Shows Love

Brand Camp University site is featured on WordPress showcase site www.welovewp.com.  Thanks for showing love the groundswell continues.  Remember it is not what you say about yourself, but what others say about you that matters.  (I won’t turn this into a perception vs. reality discussion).

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