Joel Weingarten and Michelle Said

Teaches at Data & Marketing Institute

Joel Weingarten is a currently a consultant to early stage start-up businesses He works with founders and CEOs on high level strategy, fundraising, team building, product, design and marketing.

From 2010-2014 Joel was founder and CEO of StyleOwner, a venture-backed startup at the intersection of e-commerce, social and fashion. Prior to founding StyleOwner, Joel taught robotics at Penn in the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department. There he developed a successful inner city education initiative using robotics in classrooms.

During graduate school at the University of Michigan, Joel was a part of a DARPA (defense department research) grant where he helped develop the world’s fastest legged robot (RHex). When not building robots or websites, Joel can be found cooking with his wife Anna, playing in Central Park or blaming his Canadian roots for turning the temperature down in the office.

Michelle Said is the Senior Manager, Certification and Curriculum Development with the New Marketing Institute. In addition to overseeing and editing documentation to support training, she uses her 10 years of experience in the online space to educate others in NMI’s industry-leading Digital Marketing and Omnichannel certification tracks. Prior to joining NMI/MediaMath, she worked in all sides of the industry, first in establishing the rich media certification process at EyeWonder and helping to lead the company’s office in Dublin, Ireland, before trying her hand in the programmatic ad space in account management and yield delivery positions. Michelle earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and English from the University of Southern California and watches movies religiously at home in Brooklyn.