Whitney Webb

Whitney is the co-founder of Launch Generation

which produces unique summer programs for

teenagers focused on financial literacy, leadership, and

entrepreneurship. She is also the founder of Launch

Education which provides private education and

coaching for families in regards to wealth transfer and

financial education. She has been working with teens

and young adults since 2012 in the areas of financial,

philanthropic, and entrepreneurial education. Whitney

was the Director of Operations at Independent Means,

a private company educating and preparing families

for the responsibilities and challenges of wealth

transfer. She was the lead trainer with 30+ families

and the director of global programs including Camp Start-Up and Fashion and Finance.

Prior to her work in financial education, Whitney was a Kiva Fellow in Kigali, Rwanda where

she worked to strengthen partnerships and increase the reach of microfinance through employee

training and industry research. Whitney graduated from the University of Florida and began her

career with Porter Orlin hedge fund in New York City, where she performed investment research

for the managing director, Alex Porter.

Whitney has led several volunteer educational programs including financial literacy training in

Cambodia and Rwanda and led and developed a parallel conference track for teens and kids of

delegates at Opportunity Collaboration, an international convening of leaders in social change

and innovation. She is currently a board member and volunteer business mentor at Youth

Interactive, a non-profit teen center in Santa Barbara working to promote leadership and

entrepreneurial skills. Whitney is an advisor for the Ruth and Hal Launders charitable trust

located in Herndon, Virginia. She has been a speaker and panelist at the FOX Wealth Advisor

Forum, Youth Philanthropy Connect Conference, and the Hawaii Tax Institute.

Alexis Woodford Demko

Alexis has a reputation as a passionate and innovative leader in the

business space and earned a spot in Inc. Magazine’s Top 30 under

30 Entrepreneurs.

By the age of 24, Alexis had launched and sold her first company, a

lucrative, globally-renowned children’s apparel company. It wasn’t

long before she launched a second company, Lights Out Disposal,

dedicated to keeping hazardous materials out of landfills, that she ran for nearly a decade until it

was sold in 2015.

For the past five years, she has been dedicated to co-directing and mentoring at

exclusive, entrepreneurially-driven camps for teenagers around the world, most recently Queen’s

College in Oxford, UK, and Menlo College in Silicon Valley, California.

ERIC HOFFER

"The learners will inherit the future.

The learned will be prepared for a world that no longer exists."