Conference Chair:

Richie Hecker, Bootstrapper.com Richie is a serial entrepreneur in New York City, who has been in the digital media and marketing industry for a decade. He founded his first company, ClickZen Worldwide, an interactive advertising network and managed it profitably through the first dot com bust. In 2002, Mr. Hecker founded Zen Financial, a leading outsourcing company based in India catering to Fortune 1000 financial services firms. Since selling it in 2005, Richie has produced a TV pilot, and consulted to and invested in various marketing services companies. Mr. Hecker is also known for running Bootstrapper.com, the popular blog and the BootStrapper Summit Conference series. Richie recently co-founded and is Chairman of Apparition Ads, a revolutionary rich media advertising platform that in beta outperformed all competition and is an advisor to Strike Interactive, a web boutique specializing in driving exponential revenue growth for clients such as Trump, the NFL & Morgans Hotel Group.

Henry Weingarten, Astrologers Fund Henry is a producer of the BootStrapper Summit conferences and also produces several events each year for market professionals in NYC. In 1971 he founded ASI Computers a company he ran for 20 years. As one of NYC's first Apple dealers, he set up ITT's first microcomputer division and NYC's Board of Education Apple program, with a client roster from blue chips such as ATT to many individual small businesses. He began his career as a computer industry analyst with a recommendation of a start up called APPLE and has developed a long term track record in distinguishing winning and losing high-technology strategies and stocks. Since 1988, he has been Managing Director of the Astrologers Fund, Inc., which employs Astrology as the primary analysis tool to manage investment funds and advise money managers worldwide. Over 20 publications including Barron's have documented his prediction accuracy and results.