Todd has spent more than 20 years working at the intersection of finance and equality, first as an investment banker before joining Merrill Lynch as Head of Diversity Strategy and Credit Suisse as Head of Diversity and Inclusion. Todd created the first team of financial advisors in Wall Street focused on the LGBTQ+ community and brought almost $2 billion of new assets to Merrill Lynch from LGBTQ+ couples and nonprofit organizations. Additionally, he is the founding chair of Jeffrey Fashion Cares, which raised more than $8mm for LGBTQ+/HIV causes under his decade of leadership, and is currently the CEO of Out Leadership, the world's premiere global platform for businesses to drive LGBTQ+ equality.

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Melanie Bender's experience spans two decades leading purpose-driven businesses, accruing industry accolades including Fast Company’s Most Creative People, WWD’s Beauty Vanguard, Glossy's 50, Beauty Independent’s Brand Builder of the Year, among others. Starting at Who What Wear as VP of Marketing and Brand Development, she helped build a $150 million annual retail business. Next, she was the founding president of Versed, which under her leadership, became the #1 clean skincare brand in mass channels. Most recently, Melanie was the CEO of Rhode, a minimalism skincare brand that was awarded Allure's "Best of Beauty," Beauty Inc's Newcomer of the Year Award 2022, and already ranked in the top 10 most talked about skincare brands on social media - all in their first year of business!

Fred Mwangaguhunga started off as an attorney on Wall Street but soon became an entrepreneur, founding and running a door-to-door laundry service with elite clients like Mariah Carey and The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. After his successful exit from that startup business, Fred founded mediatakeout.com and has grown it into the number one urban celebrity online news outlet with an audience of over 40 million monthly visitors. Called a "rising star" of New Media by The New York Times and one of the industry's "Top Media" people by The New York Observer, Fred has appeared on many top tier national media outlets like Access Hollywood, Bravo with Andy Cohen, GQ, Wendy Williams, CBS, BET, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, and the list goes on and on.

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