MICHAEL GREEN is a Branch Manager at Morgan Stanley. He joined Shearson Lehman Brothers, a predecessor firm of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, in May of 1991 where he provided advice and counsel to both college foundations and affluent individuals. Beginning in 2000, Michael served as a National Training Officer where he helped train and develop over 2,200 the firm’s new financial advisors. As Branch Manager, Michael is responsible for the supervision of financial advisors and staff who provide complex wealth management solutions for some of the metropolitan area’s most significant corporations, endowments and high net worth families. Michael received his B.A. degree in Management and Marketing from Capital University.

ROB MCDONALD is a Co-Founder of The Brandery, routinely a top 15 business accelerator located in Cincinnati, OH.  The Brandery has graduated five cohorts of companies and they have received over $65 million in venture capital financing.  In addition to his work with The Brandery, Rob is the co-founder and co-manages Vine Street Ventures Fund, a venture capital fund dedicated to investing in web and mobile technology companies.  Rob is also an attorney in Taft Stettinius and Hollister’s Business & Finance group. He focuses his practice on working with emerging companies on financing, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate work.

TIFFANY NORWOOD, a serial entrepreneur, was one of the pioneers of digital satellite radio. Tiffany then became an early player in the broadband industry as the Head of European Operations for Time Warner’s Road Runner, and then as a co-founder and EVP of Product at Next Generation Broadband, which created the technology for consumers to self-install high-speed data and digital phone services. An active social entrepreneur, Tiffany was the co-founder of NetworkE, a non-profit responsible for opening a clinic in Addis Ababa that provided OB/GYN and pediatric services to 4,000 low income women and children, as well as a healthcare facility in Dukem that continues to treat many more. She has also spent time in Israel and Palestine, evalution investment opportunities for The Telos Group and The Aspen Institute.

BROOKE REID is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and has held positions on the Institutional as well as the Retail side of the business. She has served as Head of Business Development in the Private Banking Group in Wealth Management and prior to that, ran the Short-Term Credit Products Origination and Investor Marketing effort in Global Capital Markets, helping large corporations and financial institutions raise shortterm capital. Earlier in her career, Brooke covered Latin American corporate clients in the Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions group. Brooke holds a BBA in International Business with a concentration in Finance from Howard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

DANA A. THOMPSON, is a Clinical Professor of law and the Founding Director of Michigan Law School Entrepreneurship Clinic. Prior to the Entrepreneurship Clinic, she taught in the Law School’s Urban Communities Clinic, where she represented small businesses, startup ventures, and community-based organizations, primarily in Detroit. Before joining Michigan Law, Dana taught at Wayne State University Law School and founded and directed Wayne Law’s Small Business Enterprises and Nonprofit Corporations Clinic. Dana sits on the board of directors of Michigan Community Resources and was elected to serve on the Wayne State University Board of Governors. In addition, she served on former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm’s emerging Small Business Leaders and Entrepreneurial Council.

HAMET WATT is a Venture Partner at Upfront Ventures. He is also co-founder and Chairman of bLife and co-founder and Chairman of MoviePass. Previously, Hamet was an entrepreneur-in-residence at True Ventures, after exiting another company that he founded called NextMedium. Prior to founding NextMedium, Hamet advised Nielsen Media Research in the development of the first product placement measurement service for network and cable television. Hamet was also a General Partner in the New Africa Opportunity Fund - the first US-backed venture fund investing in post-apartheid South Africa.