Sami Viitamäki, Megan Berry, Matt Hartman, Amy Kadomatsu & Marc Klein

Teaches at Actors Connection New York

Sami Viitamäki

A native of Finland, Sami Viitamäki’s experience spans business, advertising, technology and innovation roles. He leads experience strategy, design & technology at Havas NYC, and has worked in his career with leading brands such as Hershey, TD Ameritrade, Nissan, McDonald’s, Adidas and GSK. He looks at intelligent, conversational interfaces through well-honed business and design lenses, and also writes about these topics for VentureBeat.

Megan Berry

Megan Berry is head of Product at Octane, a platform that lets you easily create a bot for your business. Previously she was VP Product at RebelMouse, where she helped brands and startups drive organic growth from their content. She also ran a consulting company focused on helping early stage startups achieve momentum through community and social product. Before that, she led community and marketing at social influence startup Klout, after joining as their fourth employee. Megan graduated from Stanford, Phi Beta Kappa.

Matt Hartman

Matt Hartman is a Partner at betaworks ventures. Betaworks is a startup studio and venture capital fund focusing on building and investing at in engineering and design driven consumer technology products. While at betaworks, Matt has led investments in over 30 companies including Remote Year, Gimlet Media, Product Hunt, and Anchor.fm as well as co-founded its botcamp accelerator. Prior to betaworks, Matt built the technology platform Trammell Crow Company (acquired by CBRE), joined Hot Potato (acquired by Facebook), and built ReferBoost (licensed to Apartments.com). You can listen to Matt's podcast about profitable, non-VC backed businesses at dybpodcast.com.

Amy Kadomatsu

Amy Kadomatsu is co-founder and president of ROKO Labs, creator of InstaBot, in-app chatbot technology. Prior to ROKO Labs. A serial entrepreneur, Amy has created and launched multiple start-ups including TheMarkets.com, which was sold to S&P Capital IQ in 2010 for $300M. Passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, Amy is an active seed investor with HBS NY Angels, a mentor at Entrepreneurs Roundtable and an advisor to start-ups. Amy is a graduate of Harvard University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Matthew Saunders

Matt Saunders is Director of Product Management for Marvel Entertainment. In this role, he oversees a portfolio of digital products, for Marvel’s Digital Media, Kids, and Digital Comics businesses. Matt also has lead the development of products for IAC/InterActiveCorp, Weight Watchers International, and the Associated Press. He has an MBA from The George Washington University, where he was a Presidential Administrative Fellow.

Marc Klein

Marc Klein works with McKinsey New Ventures, a consulting arm focused on fostering innovation analytics, design thinking, mobile, social, in order to help clients manage their business processes, and develop talent. Before McKinsey, Marc launched a Boomerang, an on-demand laundry and dry-cleaning app; raised $750k in seeding funding, and sold the company a little more than a year later. Marc is a graduate of Syracuse and received his MBA from Wharton.