Jill Burns is the co-founder of Austin Cocktails, a woman-owned spirits brand that was inspired by her family’s farmland traditions, supported by angel investors, and acquired in 2022 by Constellation Brands the #1 total beverage alcohol company in the U.S.
After decades working in sports marketing and public relations, Jill teamed up with her sister, Kelly, to fulfill their dream of designing natural, bar-quality cocktails in a convenient can that would stand out among the artificial flavors and syrupy spirits dominating the market. They learned hard work and high standards by spending summers at their grandfather’s farm in Minnesota, values that continue to drive Jill’s business career and company today.
In its early days, Austin Cocktails was awarded one of the largest rounds of funding by Central Texas Angel Network and became the Ardagh Group’s first beverage investment. Constellation’s purchase of Austin Cocktails made it one of the few women-owned beverage brands fully to receive corporate venture funding that year.
Before launching Austin Cocktails, Jill led her own marketing firm, elevating and communicating on behalf of NFL stars, Olympians, innovative startups, and household-name brands. She began her career working with legendary agent Leigh Steinberg and for celebrated professional athletes at his premier sports agency,Steinberg and Moorad.
Jill serves on The United Way’s Women of Tocqueville Society, the board of YPO Dallas Gold, and is a former board member of the First Tee.
When she isn’t searching for a new flavor or spending time with her husband, two sons, she gives back by inspiring and mentoring the next generation of female entrepreneurs.
Jill graduated from Santa Clara university where she was captain of the women’s golf team.
Jessica is a British investor, advisor and writer focused on health and wellness. Her investments include Whoop, THEO's Plant Based and Revolut. She previously qualified a Chartered Accountant at PwC, worked in corporate finance and then ran a UK angel investor network. Jessica's zone of excellence is helping people connect to themselves, others and their environment. She writing her first book on fixing the loneliness epidemic and studying for a Psychology Masters. She regularly visits LA to speak at conferences and events on mental health. Jessica is certified as an executive coach and meditation teacher, and co-founded a mindfulness training business Mind: Unlocked.
Founder and CEO of ELK Development, a real estate development firm based in Los Angeles.
As Founder and CEO of ELK Development, Evan runs a national real estate portfolio focused on multifamily holdings primarily in tax-incentivized Opportunity Zones. Currently, over 1.2M SF & $1B in projects are under construction in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Tampa.
Evan is an affiliate partner with New Era Energy, a Midwest-based developer focused on renewable energy and tax-incentive projects. New Era Energy has overseen more than $2B in tax equity placements for solar, wind, biomass +.
San Francisco expat, Texan/Austinite, aspiring WSOP winner, 2x founder and burner, not an amazing singer yet a karaoke ringleader, lover of Pilates, adventure travel, hosting events, making connections for others, pennywise pound foolish,
Zeb is the CEO of GEM Funds, a private private equity group focused on investing in high-tech agriculture, fintech, and building services. Zeb also served as the YPO Southern 7 Chair for 2023-2024, helping lead the largest YPO chapter in the world.
I'm the Founder/ CEO of Barbell Logic - a premier online fitness coaching company in the B2C, B2B, and public sector (Military) space. I'm also the author of the Forbes Published book "Undoing Urgency."
Co-Founder @ Endora Technologies, Inc. | Helping the world Reflect More & Compare Less
Endora aims to boost your wellness through reflection using mobile games that are personalized with your memories.
Curious mind who works in finance and loves to talk about politics, economics, investing, kite boarding and traveling when not listening to podcasts, doing Pilates, playing cards or reading
Creating videos for a living -- All-in Tok -- 20vc -- and travelling the world while doing it. I can help you with your social media and short-form content strategy!
Building Tech Products. Followed my dream, moved to the US and started two tech companies. I can confidently say US is the best country in the world 🇺🇸
Hi! I'm the co-founder of Endora.
Endora's magic grabs photos from your phone and creates personalized, bite-sized mobile games with your memories.
Cloud Engineering at Healx, a biotech working on rare disease drug discovery, research & development using AI
For Fun: Running & Latin dancing
Not too late for higher Ed. First amendment warrior. Not all DEI is bad. Ask me about it.
Lawyer. Mom. Military wife. Tulsi G fan.
Founder of Biospark Intellectual Property Law in Cambridge, MA, a boutique law firm serving biotech innovators and their investors.
Growth Operations strategist in fintech (financial tech).
Interests: Design, technology, anti-aging + longevity, financial markets
Mathematician, former academic, board member Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. Interested in higher ed innovation, and philosophy of math.
LA-based senior software and cloud infra engineer
Paramotor pilot and sailor in my free time
Empire Bakery, Empire Marketing & Epic. Supporting myeloma patients and research.
Hello
I'm looking forward to meeting everyone and will update my bio later. ☺️
CEO, Previva Health Group, founder, CareCo.
Host of the #1 podcast in Value based care
Scientist at Calico working on extending human lifespan
Building GenAi solutions in healthcare and spending time outside.
CEO OF RIDGE.COM
Very cool and popular (on x.com)
Republican; business owner; father of three
Tech entrepreneur. Co-Founder of Telos
Writer, creator @ 5bigideas.com
Founder of Gemelo AI, ex NVIDIA