Joy is the Founder and CEO at The Prowess Group. She’s launched 13 startups, had 2 IPOs and 9 acquisitions, raising over $300M seeing the hard work pay off and experiencing failure. Joy is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship, security, and mobile. New Market Partners helps emerging tech companies create scalable businesses, performs due diligence for capital raises and M&A. Joy is extremely knowledgeable in the enterprise software space having built numerous global companies ranging from FinTech to mobile, cybersecurity and enterprise infrastructure. She is also the co-founder of Applied G2, and Invision Communications. Joy serves on several board of directors including two non-profits which are dedicated to helping startups succeed. She’s an active angel investor and an organizer of Startup Grind, Startup Weekend, Ignite Tampa Bay and Barcamp. Bottom line, she wants to see Startups ROCK!