Scottsdale 03.29.2018

Rachel Semro, Jessica Rinehart

Crowns of Courage is a 501C3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing halo wigs to any child with chemotherapy related hair loss, at NO cost to the family. Our halo wigs can make a difficult situation a little easier by alleviating the fear of hair loss. Halo wigs are different from traditional wigs. Read more>>

Megan McNamee

As a registered dietitian, I had always loved working with moms and babies. Shortly after my first daughter was born, I found myself not wanting to go back to a full-time position but knew I wanted to somehow work in the new mom space. Read more>>

Fred Tieken

As a young man in the Midwest, I was a rock musician and producer. I released several albums that are still in demand by collectors today. I get phone calls all the time from people looking for copies of those old recordings. It was an interesting time to be in the music business and having one of the first inter-racial bands was quite a challenge. Read more>>

Matt Carter

Being born and raised in Phoenix, but travelling and eating in some of the best restaurants in the world, I have a passion to elevate the food and cuisine available here. That’s why I have a diverse platform of restaurants serving modern takes on French, Latin, Italian and American. Read more>>

Amy Denny

In the late 90’s I was working in a tile showroom in Seattle and fell in love with a glass mosaic line made by Oceanside Glasstile – to the extent that I packed up and moved to Southern California to become their product designer. Read more>>

Michael Richau

BOOM! began in 2007 with the vision of provided entertainment for corporate events. Since, the company has expanded from a side business, to a full time operation serving Arizona and surrounding states. When I started BOOM! I working full time as an elementary school music teacher. Read more>>

Jorge Luis González-Becerra

Biography: Maestro Jorge L. González-Becerra has been an educator and a teacher of the Authentic Argentine Tango in Southern California for twenty years. Recently he has founded the Tango Academy Arizona. His teaching is rooted in the traditions of the neighborhood of the barrio Balvanera – Congreso in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina where he was born, raised and educated. Read more>>

Walter Hollander

Cornelis Hollander’s debut was sensational. In 1982 the largest jewelry design contest in the country was the “Gold 82” competition. Cornelis was working for a local jeweler in Phoenix who told him to design a piece for the contest. With only three days until the deadline Cornelis quickly made a ring for his work, and later that evening in his garage he fashioned a second ring to enter under his own name. Read more>>

J.D. Dwyer

Growing up my dad had his General Contractors’ License In Tucson, AZ. He and my mom would build a new house every couple of years in the Catalina Foothills area. Each new house got bigger, and they owed less. It was encouraging to watch and help. Read more>>

Irene Catsibris Clary

I graduated from The University of Toronto and plunged right into land development in the mid 1980’s. I started out by working for large corporations that had a name in the industry and continued my career by acting as a representative for land developers and builders in Toronto Canada. Read more>>

Dr. Sari Roth-Roemer

Growing up as a native Arizonan, I finds comfort in both the smell of the desert rain and the heat of a summer day. My desert roots foster a hardy resiliency and compassion for those who are looking to accept the difficulties in their lives. Read more>>

Eric Ramsey

I’ve been playing music since forever – you know, high school garage bands, college bar bands and the like. I took about 20 years off playing in public due to work, family, etc. I picked up performing again about 15 years ago, trying to balance my work as an electrician with my solo music career and being a single dad. Read more>>

Dr. John DenBoer

I started this company, originally, in memory of my Grandmother, Jean Seeling, who died at the age of 96, but had dementia for 5-10 years prior. Like many people like her, we lost her before she physically deceased. Read more>>