Kerry Bennett is the SVP of Marketing, for DogVacay, a leading online and mobile community that has more than 20,000 vetted and insured dog sitters across the country ready to care for your dog like a member of their family. Bennett brings a wealth of experience in consumer marketing, most recently as the SVP of Marketing for HauteLook, a leading flash-sale e-commerce site owned by Nordstrom. While at HauteLook, she oversaw advertising and promotional marketing, customer acquisition, marketing communication, relationship marketing, and brand/creative and helped grow the company from early stage through acquisition to a base of more than16 million members across web, mobile and social platforms. Previously, she was the Director of Consumer Insights and Marketing Strategy at Helio, a joint wireless venture between EarthLink and SK Telecom. Bennett also held advertising planning roles at Grey Worldwide and Leo Burnett. Bennett is a graduate of Princeton University.

Sarah Kessler is an associate editor at Fast Company, where she covers technology companies. Prior to this, Sarah wrote about entrepreneurs as well as emerging technology trends in education, activism and social media for Mashable. She joined Mashable as a features writer in August 2010. Sarah started her career in journalism at a local paper when she was 16 and continued to freelance for a handful of local publications throughout college. At Northwestern University, she was the editor-in-chief of a nationally distributed global education magazine called Abroad View, wrote for the Chicago endurance sports magazine Windy City Sportsand co-created a radio documentary that aired on WBEZ Chicago. She also participated in the Medill Innocence Project, which investigates wrongful convictions. Sarah has written for Sierra Magazine, where she had the opportunity to explore her existing passion for the outdoors, and for Inc Magazine, where she developed a passion for startups.