Your Startup Culture Starts with the People You Hire! Entrepreneurs Unplugged

Nov 19th 6p-9p - Your business is growing like a weed and you have too much work to handle with your current staff. Congratulations! But how do you handle hiring for rapid growth without losing the culture you’ve worked so hard to establish?

 

This event features three amazing speakers who can share their wisdom on hiring for startups, growing a company culture, and much, much more.

Tix - $20-30


11/19/13 - 11/19/13

6p


Marcy Capron, Partner & CEO at Polymathic

Marcy Capron is Partner & CEO at Polymathic. She's foremost a maker and technologist, secondly an interior designer and baker of epic cupcakes. Marcy currently resides in Logan Square, where she focuses on creating products for entrepreneurs with her forward-thinking team of 10.

 


Shradha Agarwal, Chief Strategy Officer & Co-founder, Context Media

ContextMedia co-founder Shradha Agarwal has always had a passion for communication and launched her first media enterprise at age 9. While building ContextMedia from the ground up, she branded the healthcare media company as for-benefit, a successful for-profit enterprise that exists for social benefit, and focused on organizational culture architecture. Having led ContextMedia’s product development strategies for media and technology, Shradha currently designs and oversees the expansion initiatives that have doubled the company’s growth year-over-year. Shradha is also an angel investor through JumpStart Ventures, mentor at the Founder Institute & Blueprint Health, serves on the board of Northwestern Student Holdings, and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. Shradha was recently honored as a White House Champion of Change and recognized as Tech Woman of the Year in Chicago. She was inducted by Crain’s as a 40-Under-40 young achiever in 2012. As a broadcast journalism/international studies alum of Northwestern University, Shradha’s prior experiences have taken her into newsrooms at NBC and CLTV. At NU she founded the Northwestern Business Review and served as the Editor-in-Chief developing the mission, plan and operations for the bi-annual magazine still distributed. She was featured by the NU Alumni Association as 1 of 30 most promising graduates in her class of 2,000 students. Having lived in Delhi, Calcutta and Singapore, where she attended a United Nations HS, Shradha says she’s drawn to big cities. Now living between Manhattan and Chicago, she loves the energy of the former and the friendliness of the latter. She enjoys traveling internationally and is fascinated by learning new cultures. Shradha is also a music, food and dance enthusiast.

Shawn Riegsecker Founder and CEO, Centro

Shawn Riegsecker is the founder and CEO of Centro, the leading provider of intelligent media logistics software and services for agencies, publishers, and advertisers. Shawn founded the company in 2001 with the goal of making it easier to buy and sell digital media, and since then he has transformed Centro into a partner to hundreds of clients, helping them simplify complex media decisions, connections, and processes in an increasingly digital world. His leadership, commitment to innovation in the digital media industry, and unique approach to culture and employee engagement has led Centro to receive many accolades, including appearing on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, the Inc. 500, and No. 1 on Crain’s Chicago Business’ Best Places to Work 2011, 2012 and 2013. Shawn recently spoke at Entrepreneurs Unpluggd, TechWeek, and Digiday:Local. Shawn was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2008 and 2011, recipient of the National Association of Newspapers 2008 Advertising Person of the Year Award for his contributions to the newspaper industry, and has been a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization since 2010. He is also serves on several boards, including the advisory board for TechWeek. Locally, Shawn is a member of the selection committee for 1871, a community of Chicago designers, coders, and entrepreneurs working together to grow business, and is also an angel investor in the FireStarter Fund, a group of Chicago founders supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Performers
Marcy Capron, Shradha Agarwal, Shawn Riegsecker

Production
Tim Jahn, Stella Fayman, Alon Schwartz, Christine Mortensen

Tags: Social, American, 2013