Dave Parker

Code Fellows is the Pacific Northwest’s premier technical skills training academy, delivering high-quality live instruction both online and in-person to people from all backgrounds. Learners are guided toward vocational change and life transformation through software development, technical operations, cybersecurity and career training. They guide people from all backgrounds to change their lives through fast-paced, career-focused education. They shape passionate learners with immersive training to meet industry needs and improve diversity. Code Fellows has taught over 1,600 graduates and iterated on their curriculum and format to ensure students receive the most industry-relevant training as effectively and efficiently as possible. Students are immersed in their learning with daily lectures, pair programming, weekly presentations from full-time instructional staff who are seasoned industry professionals, one-week project sprints, and more. Graduates work at Amazon, Microsoft, Zillow, Expedia, XBOX, NIKE, Starbucks, Nordstrom, and over 800 other companies. The modular style of the Code Fellows program allows students to test into the course level that is most appropriate for their current skill level. In addition, the modular class structure allows students to choose the schedule and timing that meets their needs. Code Fellows believes everyone should have the opportunity to succeed. In reality, many qualified candidates aren’t pursuing careers in a technology-related field because they are discouraged somewhere along the way. That’s why Code Fellows offers scholarships to help individuals who come from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds find rewarding careers in tech. Code Fellows supports both domestic and international curriculum licensing partners through its Powered by Code Fellows program. Code Fellows also offers a tutoring program and platform to both students and non-students, technical instructor certification, and corporate training.

Transom helps businesses clarify and amplify the true story about what makes them special.

Our mission is to help brands send more relevant, high performing email by leveraging data in smart, innovative ways. AudiencePoint’s newest product, ListFit, is an email intelligence tool built from our proprietary data pool giving email marketers a multi-brand view of their subscribers’ engagement. ListFit delivers an immediate impact to high-volume senders by leveraging subscriber insights to improve program performance, increase engagement, and drive incremental revenue. We were pioneers and remain industry leaders in Send Time Optimization (STO). Our STO goes beyond the sender's own data by leveraging the AudiencePoint data pool to analyze historic engagement data per email address across multiple brands to pinpoint the best time to send your message to each recipient. Our hyper-personalized send time recommendations deliver increased opens, clicks, and conversions. For over 10 years, we have equipped email marketers with insights on their email subscribers that no other company can provide. Our insights allow marketers to be more surgical with their segmentation driving customer engagement and conversions with easy to implement tools.

Guidant Financial helps individuals secure small business funding to start, buy or grow a business. An industry leader in innovative business and franchise funding, we work with new and existing business owners to educate them on their options and create customized funding solutions. Our full suite of funding options include 401(k) business financing, SBA small business loans and unsecured business loans, as well as growth capital and other business services. Visit Guidant on the web at guidantfinancial.com.

OneAccord Partners builds value for small and mid-market companies in the Northwest. We begin with a thorough business assessment customized to your business, then act as operating partners to help you implement comprehensive sales, marketing and leadership processes to execute growth initiatives and build lasting value. Our differentiators: • Experience leading privately held companies • Principled processes • Extensive industry expertise • Values-based client commitment Industry groups: • Manufacturing and distribution • Aerospace and industrials • Business and tech services • Consumer/food and beverage • Healthcare products and services Our OneAccord Capital division serves as a trusted advisor to provide clients with sell-side M&A representation and expert advice on preparing for a business transition, sale or recapitalization event. This division also maintains Solomons Fund, an investment fund founded with the purpose of acquiring companies with an EBITDA of $1 million to $2.5 million. OneAccord Capital takes a values-based approach to acquiring businesses by preserving legacy, caring for employees and communities, and providing long-term capital to fund business transition and growth.

For over 20 years, Classmates has operated as the leading online social network service in the United States for bringing high school alumni together. Classmates serves over 70 million members and enables its users to find and reconnect with high school friends. In addition to facilitating connections with high school friends, Classmates also features the largest library of digitized yearbooks available anywhere on the Internet, to help members reconnect, reminisce, engage, and plan reunions with alumni. Located in the heart of Downtown Seattle, we work in small empowered teams that create a big impact. We are agile and down-to-earth, collaborate toward common goals, and enjoy a balance between strategic and tactical as well as work and life. Classmates is owned and operated by PeopleConnect, Inc., which is an equal opportunity employer.

Entrepreneurs shape the future, sparking innovation, creating jobs, empowering dreams. We believe in challenging the status quo and finding solutions, one business at a time. While that journey can bring influence, recognition, and personal reward, it can also be arduous and lonely. Mindful of the unique pressures and isolation experienced along many an entrepreneur’s path, in 1987, a group of young pioneers designed a solution: a membership community dedicated exclusively by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs who have a proven record of success. Soon, that collective grew from a few hundred to many thousands, evolving into the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). Today, EO welcomes entrepreneurs everywhere, connecting 18,000 of the world’s leading entrepreneurs from every sector, generation, culture, and walk of life across 80+ countries worldwide. We create belonging, forge connections, exchange diverse perspectives, and share extraordinary experiences, all year long. What makes our community special? In a word: connection. With EO, we go beyond the business to the whole entrepreneur, gaining insights that we pass on to our families and work teams. We recognize the interconnectedness of our success and learn to balance individual achievements with collective impacts. By gathering locally and connecting globally – in chapters, in regions, as one borderless community – we experience a 360-degree entrepreneurial journey that unlocks more of our full potential. As members of EO’s local and global communities, we belong, so we can become even more. Join EO and engage in a diverse collective that is always learning, always growing, and thinking big while being bold. Together, we will move the world forward.

We envision a world where all entrepreneurs have a shot at solving our greatest challenges and those who seek resources can find them confidently. Through early-stage funding, we’re seeding a generation of founders and innovation for all.

We envision a world where all entrepreneurs have a shot at solving our greatest challenges and those who seek resources can find them confidently. Through early-stage funding, we’re seeding a generation of founders and innovation for all.

Fearless Fund invests in women of color-led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or series A financing. Our mission is to bridge the gap in venture capital funding for women of color founders building scalable, growth aggressive companies.

Trajectory Media is the seminar and event management company for the Trajectory Series, the book series beginning with Trajectory: Startup—Ideation to Product/Market Fit (https://amzn.com/195329507X). The company hosts the @GetTrajectory Meetup, (www.meetup.com/gettrajectory), a pre-accelerator program for idea-stage founders. Dave is a frequent speaker for accelerator programs worldwide including being an All-Star Mentor for Techstars, a top trainer for the Global Accelerator Network (GAN.co), 500 Startups, and economic development groups in emerging markets. These programs cover both Startup and Scaleup helping founders from launch to exit. Dave is the former SVP of Programs and People at UP Global (sold to Techstars) where he helped scale startup programming to 120 countries serving over 74k attendees in a year.