Deluxe Advisory Panel

An expert with 11 years of experience consulting and speaking on the future of business communications and social networks, Chris is a New York Times best-selling co-author of “Trust Agents,” and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. His blog, chrisbrogan.com, is in the top five of the Advertising Age Power 150.

Gene currently writes columns for The New York Times, Forbes.com, The Huffington Post and American City Business Journals. Gene has authored several books such as "In God We Trust: Everyone Else Pays Cash," the #1 Amazon Small Business Best Seller "Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists" and “Small Business Desk Reference.”

Known as “Small Biz Lady,” Melinda is a leading small business expert with years of experience as an entrepreneur, professional speaker, social media strategist, small business coach and startup columnist for Smallbiztrends.com. Melinda hosts #Smallbizchat, a weekly chat on Twitter about launching and running a profitable small business.