After a 25-year career with Procter & Gamble, Geoff Smith retired and founded LP Enterprises, LLC – an IT strategy consultancy serving a wide variety of clients – Fortune 500 companies, the sports industry, and non-profits. This diverse mix of clients includes Intel, Kroger, Forrester Research, the Cincinnati Bengals, the NFL, the Cincinnati Reds, University of Louisville Athletic Department, the Alzheimer’s Association, and United Way.

At P&G, Geoff progressed through a variety of IT, business, and leadership responsibilities. He retired as a member of the Company’s IT Executive team, responsible for Global IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, and Advanced Technology evaluation. Prior roles included Global leader of Procter’s Customer and Consumer-facing solutions as well as CIO of P&G Japan ($2B). His organizations twice won CIO Magazine’s prestigious Enterprise Value Award.

Geoff remains personally committed to the advancement of the IT profession. He leads the Cincinnati CIO Roundtable (Fortune 500 CIO’s) and the IT Leadership Forum (CIO’s of companies under $1B), and has been a contributing writer for CIO Magazine. He is a founder of the INTERalliance, a non-profit collaborative that attracts top high school talent to IT careers. Additionally, he serves on Advisory Boards for several universities’ IS departments.

In addition to his IT professional affiliations Geoff serves on several non-profit Boards including the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame/Museum and the President’s Advisory Board for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. He received a B.S. degree in Operations Research from Cornell University.

Mr. Couture leads the cloud computing initiatives for clients within the Bluewolf family. A published thought leader, he has more than 20 years experience leading enterprise Information Technology Organizations through their evolution from technology to information centric models. He is a past winner of the IW 500 for thought leadership and has sat on many IT advisory boards helping firms assemble strategies for future growth. Prior to joining Bluewolf, Mr. Couture held CIO positions in the Healthcare, Manufacturing and Telecom industries. He holds an MBA from SNHU and BS degrees in Management and International Finance from Franklin Pierce College. He lives in NH with his wife and three children.

Wil Schroter is a serial entrepreneur. At age 19, while a still a student at the Ohio State University, he began his first company, Blue Diesel, an interactive marketing agency serving clients such as Best Buy, BMW, and Eli Lilly. As CEO of the company, Wil grew Blue Diesel from his dorm room beginnings to over $60 million in capitalized billings in just over 5 years. Wil sold Blue Diesel to inChord Communications, joined their Board, and helped the company grow to over $600 million in annual billings. Shortly there after in 1997, Wil co-founded Kelltech Internet Services, a technology consulting company based in Cleveland, Ohio. Kelltech was sold three years later to GTCR. Then in 2002, Wil decided to leave the agency/consulting world and launched Swapalease.com, an on-line marketplace for automotive leasing. Within just three years Wil grew the company from a pure startup to the world's largest automotive finance marketplace, with over $2 billion in vehicles listed on its service. With his entrepreneurial experiences in hand, Wil saw an opportunity to help other aspiring business owners get up and running so he launched Go BIG Network. Go BIG quickly became the largest community of startup companies. Today over 300,000 companies use Go BIG to find funding, recruit talent and seek expert advice.

  In each of the following five years Wil has founded a new company each year (with no specific plan to do so). In year one, GotCast.com to connect aspiring talent to on-camera roles.  Then in year two, Virtucon Ventures, the technology incubator for startup companies (whose website you're currently visiting ;). Next, in 2008 Wil founded AffordIt.com to help consumers purchase large ticket items by turning big prices into smart, affordable payments. Then again in the following year, Wil founded BizPlan.com, an on-line business planning and management tool that helps upstart entrepreneurs turn their ideas into viable plans and great companies. Finally, in 2010 Wil co-founded Unsubscribe.com which provides a simple way for anyone to unsubscribe from any junk mail. 

In addition to starting companies, Wil also writes about them. He has been a nationally syndicated columnist for American City Business Journals where his entrepreneurial advice appears in over 40 major markets. Moreover, he is a contributing columnist for Forbes as well as the author of "Go BIG or Go HOME" which details how to grow startup companies as quickly as possible.

Wil has been named Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Association and is has also been recognized by the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year program.  He has also been named the Ohio Businessperson of the Year as well as Business First's Top 40 Under 40.  He is frequently featured in national media including NBC, The Wall Street Journal and CNN.