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Geoff Wilson is President and Founder of 352 Inc., the digital
product development agency he started more than 15 years
ago out of a dorm room at the University of Florida. 352 creates
digital products for clients ranging from start-ups and mid-size
businesses to prominent brands like AutoTrader, Microsoft and
Wells Fargo. 352 currently has 80 full-time employees across
its offices in Atlanta, Tampa and Gainesville, Florida. Because of
352's success, Geoff was recognized as one of America's Top 30
Young Entrepreneurs by INC Magazine in 2006. Geoff has also
founded several startups, most recently partnering with his wife,
Kim Wilson to create SocialNewsDesk, a SaaS social media man-
agement CRM for newsrooms.
Nick Spriggs is from Columbus, Ohio, with a BSBA (1989) in fi-
nance and accounting from The Ohio State University and a JD
from Capital Law School (1993). He has had the good fortune to
practice as an attorney (1993–1995), work in asset management
at a bank (1995–1999), join and rise to president of a private
equity firm (1999–2011) and ultimately start NEO3DO with his
partner David Briggs. NEO3DO is an on going effort and they still
enjoy it tremendously. They won SBA SCORE micro-enterprise
business of the year for Nevada 2014. He is living in Las Vegas
Nevada which he believes is a great city for start ups.
Francis Battista is co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society,
and today, considered to be one of the foremost thought leaders
in animal welfare. He studied engineering and physics at NYU
and SUNY Albany. In the late 1960's the calling to discover a
more purposeful life led Francis on a journey through the US, En-
gland and Canada with a group of friends, some of whom would
become the other co-founders of Best Friends Animal Society.
Understanding that kindness towards all, animals and humans,
is fundamental to a spiritual life, Francis and his friends devoted
their energies to healing our collective relationship with animals,
beginning with the challenge to end killing companion animals
as a method of population control.
Geoff
Wilson
352 Inc,
President &
Founder
Nick
Spriggs
NEO3DO,
Co-Founder
Francis
Battista
Best Friends
Animal Society,
Co-Founder
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