CHRISTINE COMAFORD is CEO of Mighty Ventures (www.MightyVentures.com), an innovation accelerator which helps startups and established businesses to gain traction at rapid speed. She has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and hundreds of small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market
acceptance. Christine's popular column on www.BusinessWeek.com/SmallBiz launched in January 2007. Her highly anticipated book, Rules for Renegades, is now available for pre-order.

Christine has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford
Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her, and CNET
has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success
as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree. She
believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for
personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.