Rod Trump is the founder and chairman of High Point Golf Club but worked as a caddy at Caves Valley early in his career.

Rod successfully started, built, and sold two companies in distinctly different industries - both to publicly traded companies, all prior to age 40. In each instance, he identified an opportunity and leveraged innovative technology to disrupt the marketplace. His first company, Integrated Group Benefits, combined employee benefits and payroll into a streamlined, single source platform, creating significant administrative and financial efficiencies. The second venture, Converge, was a well-timed entrant into the enterprise social software space. Enterprise-level companies and colleges and universities utilized the technology to connect, communicate and collaborate.

Now Rod has embarked on what he calls, “his life’s work.” Long passionate about the great game of golf, he has partnered with renowned golf architect Tom Doak, whose resume includes having designed seven of the Top 100 ranked golf courses in the world, bringing back to life Tom’s first design, High Pointe, as a national golf club in the Traverse City, Michigan area. The revival of High Pointe has captured national attention and demand among golfers near and far has been tremendous. The reclamation project has been covered by The Golf Channel, Golf Magazine, Golfweek, Forbes, Links Magazine, The Golfers Journal, Golfwrx.com, Detroit Business Magazine, and many other outlets.

Rod is active in charitable endeavors throughout his community and the great game of golf. He is a founding donor for the West Palm Golf Park; involved in the formation of The Scotty Foundation, Pine Tree Golf Club’s Charitable Foundation; and plans for High Pointe to partner with the Western Golf Association’s Evans Scholar program. He has also established the High Pointe Golf Club FORE Foundation to support veterans and children in his communities. “FORE,” spelled like the well-known golf term, stands for Friends of Rod & Eileen, in honor of his deceased parents.

Hoyt was a stand-out collegiate golfer at Lynn University and played competitively on various professional tours. He co-founded Modern Golf in 2011, a Canadian club fitting company, then became CEO of True Spec Golf in 2014, a brand agnostic club fitting company. In 2017, Hoyt assumed the role of President and CEO of Miura Golf. Soon after, Howard Milstein acquired True Spec and GOLF and consolidated his golf investments into a holding company, 8AM Golf, where Hoyt became President. His role includes creating, communicating, and implementing 8AM’s vision, mission and direction. Hoyt has created synergies and efficiencies throughout 8AM and pursues the highest quality everywhere.

Tom Hammer is a partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in its People practice, where he provides guidance and coaching to portfolio startup founders and leaders on a host of topics around talent management, organizational design, and company scaling. Prior to a16z, he held various positions at Bird, Riot Games, and P&G. He holds an MBA/MA and BSBA from Ohio State University, and has served for the last few years on the Board of Directors for Goodwill of the San Francisco Bay. While currently residing in San Francisco with his wife and young daughter, he grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago, where he caddied at Wynstone Golf Club for a decade.

Sheila is the Managing Director of Edelman's corporate brand and reputation practice in Chicago. She leads a team of over 50 specialists across Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Austin. She oversees a dynamic portfolio of clients centered on delivering solutions that promote, protect and evolve their corporate brand; while earning trust and engagement across a multistakeholder universe.

Before joining Edelman, she worked for Chicago-based public affairs firm Jasculca/Terman & Associates (JT). Her political- event work with JT, includes the Clinton Presidential Library Opening, the American Democracy Institute Chicago and Philadelphia Summits and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s campaign launch.