Taylor Tricarico has a passion for helping teams and organizations become efficient, well-oiled machines in pursuit of a common goal. Taylor believes wholeheartedly that the key to a successful organization lies within its people. She has experienced and understands the challenges of building, growing, and maintaining a world-class team in a competitive market, while simultaneously tackling ever-changing customer requirements. Taylor believes there are great opportunities in growth, and works diligently to ensure success through positive changes to HR, company processes, customer satisfaction and employee relations. Additionally, Taylor excels at data analysis and establishing successful customer feedback systems. This led her to a role with Open-i Advisors as a lead consultant, with a focus on employee relations and process improvement.
Prior to joining the team, Taylor served in a Director of Operations role for a customer-centric technology firm. During her tenure, she was a key component in doubling the company’s staff size in under two years, as well as establishing an HR and Project Management function. She has a degree in Journalism from Temple University.

Kiran is an internet infrastructure and governance specialist who designs strategic advocacy, industry engagement, thought leadership and government affairs plans for her clients to help them achieve and improve policies that facilitate business and community goals. Kiran helps clients improve functionality, market presence and customer service.

Kiran has worked with industry organizations, internet infrastructure groups, governments, chambers of commerce, trade agencies, IGOs and more to achieve the goals of her clients. Kiran has attended dozens of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) meetings where she designs specific engagement and policy strategies for some of the world’s top internet-facing brands. In addition to her expertise and involvement at ICANN, Kiran has worked with and advised the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the White House Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), the European Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the United States Chamber of Commerce Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC), and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Kiran has held leadership positions within ICANN, the International Trademark Association (INTA), the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) and the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA).

Brandon J. Roy brings to Open-i Advisors his rich experience in luxury brand management in the consumer goods industry, advertising account management in the health sector and fund development in the not-for-profit sector.

The majority of his career to date has been spent at the L’Oréal Group where he held the title of Marketing Manager for a portfolio of luxury cosmetics brands in the Canadian market, developing a breadth of expertise in 360-strategy development and deployment alongside digital and marketing executions within a fast-paced, dynamic industry. Brandon's marketing management role within a marketing-driven organization offered exposure to a wide-array of business functions, from top-line strategy, to marketing, public relations, logistics, finance (P&L), local sub-contracting & product development, sales, merchandising and business intelligence.

In addition to his brand management experience, Brandon brings to Open-i Advisors his passion for connecting and problem-solving with people, his intuitive creative mindset, design-eye and detail sensitivity, making for a combination that exceeds expectations and a real pleasure to work with.

With a background in media and economics, David Hamilton has made a career of communicating complex internet topics to both general and niche audiences. He witnessed the growth of cloud computing as a tech journalist for various media outlets and as a contributing editor for industry publication The WHIR. His attention to detail and analytical eye caught the attention of major tech brands needing both in-depth expertise and the ability to communicate simply and effectively. He’s produced creative content for HP, Intel, Lenovo, Bell Canada, and others. He’s an active member of the tech and startup community in Toronto where he founded a coworking space called Lab T.O. His current focus is on exploring how data and statistics can be applied to the big problems of our era to produce important new insights.

Stacey Servo is the Founder of New2Lou, a social resource for newcomers and founding member of Wild Accelerator, a micro-accelerator and idea & early-stage startup initiative geared towards female entrepreneurs. She is an engineer by trade and natural problem solver specializing in marketing & growth strategy, community & brand engagement, thought leadership, social impact optimization, stakeholder engagement and partnership strategy. Never afraid of a new challenge, she dives deep into her work to discover not only solutions for her client’s toughest challenges, but also new opportunities.

Matt Kennedy has been involved with analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, and marketing automation over the span of his career. His experience encompasses a variety of diverse roles across numerous industries including consulting, pre-sales, and management across diverse industries, consumer loyalty, retail, financial, and web hosting.

Ellie Puckett is an Innovator, Entrepreneur, and Startup Expert. She has been a founder or early employee in three Tech startups, a consulting business and a video production business. She specializes in Innovation and Strategy consulting; helping established businesses become more agile and innovative and aiding young companies in stabilizing operational strategy for growth and scaling. She also coaches individual founders in their pursuit of success. Previously, Ellie coached hundreds of startups and founders, ran a tech startup accelerator, and managed many programs/workshops aimed at helping startup companies with mentorship, marketing, sales, and more. Ellie received her Bachelors in Business Administration: Entrepreneurship from Morehead State University where she was a Division 1 All-American Athlete.

Bree Dodd brings extensive experience and expertise in the field of technical and operational project management for many notable organizations across multiple industries. When not guiding projects towards successful completion, Bree operates a yoga studio in Richmond, VA.

Ms. Davis earned her BA (Management) and her MBA (Finance) from Baker College. Professionally, she spent 15 years as the Controller for a $14 million service company before starting her own business in 2009. She has nearly 25 years of experience working with companies in many different business sectors.

Nicole Howley is a data and policy nerd with a passion for making data accessible for decision makers. Nicole has built Business Intelligence dashboards for organizations ranging from homeless service providers to rock climbing companies to ecommerce retailers. She also has extensive expertise in qualitative and quantitative research practices that she has put to use measuring the impact of business decisions and tracking grant progress for nonprofits. Additionally, she has published over 100 magazine articles and blog posts, planned multiple large scale events, and helped companies develop policies and programs to make long term improvements to organizational efficiency. She has a Master of Science Degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Dmitri Adler is the co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of Data Society. He has a deep background in machine learning and predictive analytics, and has worked with many businesses and government agencies to help them find predictive insights in their data and train their workforce. Dmitri is a former J.P. Morgan investment banker and hedge fund analyst who used data to improve investment outcomes. Since its start in 2014, Data Society has received numerous awards for its professional programs, federal work, and online education platform. Data Society was highlighted in Forbes as one of the top 10 EdTech companies to watch for 2017.

Data Society’s clients include the U.S. Army, Department of Commerce, Northrop Grumman corporation, the International Monetary Fund, and many others.

Elisabeth Klughardt gathered her logistics/operations expertise in a wide array of industries: nonprofit sector, SaaS, User Interface and Trademark/Patent services in Virginia and Europe.
Elisabeth brings understanding, communication and organization to her role as consultant at Open-i Advisors. With a heavy focus on project management, relationship management, vendor management and event management.