Andre Hill is the Chief Operating Officer of Mint Market Agency, where he leads operations and innovative strategy development. He has over 10 years of experience in digital media marketing, promotional and cross-functional marketing partnerships, retail merchandising, negotiations planning, cost/spend operations analysis, and performance management. At the age of 23, he founded and operated an internet retail store and leveraged a $30K marketing initiative to generate over $150K in revenue, providing the foundation for understanding how to influence, engage and educate online consumers. Since then, Andre has worked with several clients such as Ford Motor Company, ChemicoMays, General Motors and is currently a McDonald’s Owner Operator, providing him the skills for corporate level decision-making processes like product research and development, evaluation and iteration strategy, and client delivery and satisfaction.

Andre’s experience has provided him with an innate ability to connect with potential and existing customers, develop new and build upon existing business relationships, consistently exceed expectations and set targets and provide client satisfaction that is unmatched.

Andre has a Masters of Business Administration from Clark Atlanta University and a Bachelors degree in Management from Michigan State University.

Chris Jackson is a software engineer, technical consultant and architect with over 10 years of technical and management experience in software development, delivery, and methodology implementation.

Chris has helped several companies, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, design, develop and maintain scalable production-quality software. He has worked in a wide array of industries including healthcare, banking, education, retail, energy and cybersecurity. He also consults with companies on agile architecture and processes, continuous delivery practices, object-oriented design, test-driven design, architectural patterns and automated testing.

Chris has extensive experience leading distributed teams to implement large-scale applications from design to deployment. He has developed systems using several technologies and has a strong passion for developing technical solutions to solve complicated problems.

Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Michigan.

Clinton Benard III is the Lead Technologist at Atlanta Intelligence and Director of Business Development at Tekniti.com. Prior to working at these firms Clinton developed software systems for Cooley Law School, four State of Michigan Senators, Michigan National Guard and Duckett Enterprises. Clinton is currently a mentor to multiple startups in Atlanta, GA that are in diversified emerging markets. With over 15 years experience from coding to social media strategy, he is well versed in technical needs and agile methodologies that build company growth. Clinton also built and sold Miami Dade Intel a web development company in Miami to the larger Intel corporation in 2015. Clinton is currently partnering with four incubators in Atlanta to build the largest monthly startup pitch event with Regus.com