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A Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, speaker and computer security expert, Dave Asprey spent 15 years and $300,000 to hack his own biology. Along the way, he created an early cloud computing service at the first web hosting company and ran strategic planning for two public companies. He splits his time between helping others upgrade themselves with coaching and on The Bulletproof Executive, and serving as Trend Micro\u2019s head cloud computing tech evangelist.

The Financial Times calls him a \u201cbio-hacker who takes self-quantification to the extreme of self-experimentation\u201d because Asprey upgraded his brain by 20 IQ points, lowered his biological age, and lost 100 lbs without using calories or exercise. He can be see in Men\u2019s Health, Rolling Stone, Vogue, or Forbes.

A sought-after public speaker and executive coach with thousands of hours on stage globally, he has presented at Wharton, Kellogg, the Univ. of California, and Singularity University, as well as 100\u2032s of private companies and conferences. Published in both the NY Times and Fortune, his core industries are cloud, virtualization, security, software, & networking (Trend Micro, Citrix, Blue Coat, Zeus, 3Com, Exodus) and consumer medtech/anti-aging (Corventis, Basis, Bulletproof Executive).


Mario Del Pero is the founder of Mendocino Farms Sandwich Market. Mendocino Farms restaurants are some of the highest grossing sales per foot restaurants in the city, while also being some of the most loved.

Mario started in the restaurant business when he was still a student at USC. He helped grow Baja Sharkeez from an idea to a dominant Beach Lifestyle concept with units in a number of Southern California beach communities.

After Sharkeez, Mario created one of the first Fast Casual Asian concepts, called Skew's Teriyaki. He grew Skew's to three units in Los Angeles, selling the company in 2001.

Mario created Mendocino Farms with his partner and wife Ellen Chen in 2003, opening their first unit in a failed Starbucks on Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles in 2004. Most recently, Mendocino Farms received an investment from private equity firm Catterton Partners and is now preparing to grow to 30 units in the Southern California market by 2018.