Meet the
Speakers.

Breakout Session · Founders Panel

Gabrielle Solange

Billboard-charting recording artist, songwriter, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and creative educator with 20+ years in entertainment. Music featured on Netflix. Voiced a character for Mattel's American Girl. Performed at the U.S. Women's National Team's SheBelieves Cup. Founder of RunSong and Unstoppable Dreamer Academy. Awarded the Key to the City of Columbus.

Afternoon Credit Masterclass · Dublin HS Football Coach

Irv White

Known as Coach Irv — Dublin High School football coach, twenty years in mortgage and lending, and founder of a nonprofit dedicated to credit education. Both of his sons graduated high school with credit scores above 720. Coach Irv isn't teaching theory. He's teaching what actually works.

Breakout Session · Founders Panel · Business Coach

Theresa Barron

Thirty years in real estate. Broker, investor, mentor, and business coach — and co-founder of Wobizfam. Theresa has never stopped being a student of the game — she's invested in her own coaches at every stage of her career to keep leveling up, and now she coaches others to do the same. If you want to know what "never stop learning" actually looks like in practice, watch Theresa.

Breakout Session: Sales, Systems & Soft Skills

Amir Salem-Naraghi

Thirty-seven years in sales and marketing, starting at age three selling at a flea market in Germany. Rose to the top ranks of every organization he's worked for. Built his own sales system that he now teaches to others. Investor. Natural networker. Because the real edge in business isn't the pitch — it's the relationship.

Founders Panel

George Essilfie Jr.

Started in bench chemistry at Boehringer Ingelheim, then spent seven years at Veeva Systems scaling a product line into a multi-million-dollar business and managing a $600M+ software portfolio for 800+ customers. He took that same playbook and co-founded Cleanly — bringing modern software and AI to an industry that had been overlooked for too long.

Founders Panel

Paris Miles

Founder of For The Love of Dance. Salon owner. Real estate agent. Paris trained under a Dance Theatre of Harlem alum for 25 years and performed in Annie, The Wiz, and The Lion King before turning that same discipline into three businesses of her own. She knows exactly what it takes to build — and juggle — more than one dream at a time.

Summit Founder & Director

Joe Holland

Twenty-five years in sales, marketing, and building things from scratch. Top-producing real estate agent in Columbus and founding head of sales at Cleanly, a local software startup. Launched multiple networking communities from the ground up — and now he's pouring that same energy into YG26, because he believes every teenager in this room has the same shot he did.

Founders Panel

Musab Mahmood

Twenty-one years old. Real estate agent at TALRE — where he started as an intern. Accounting student at Otterbein University. Musab is the closest thing YG26 has to a peer mentor: living proof you don't have to wait until you're "grown up" to start building your future.