Riders
Cairn Cross
Co-Founder and Managing Director
FreshTracks Capital
Website
"One foot in the pasture, one foot in the future."
John Mandeville
Executive Director
Lamoille Economic Development Corporation
Website
Entrepreneurs are the backbone of job creation in this state as well as the country as a whole. My job is to support them in any and every way I can.
Debby Pearson
Owner/Demo Rider
Green Mountain Harley-Davidson
Website
Man is the only animal who creates his own cage
David Pearson
Chief, Cook, Bottle Washer
Green Mountain Harley-Davidson
Website
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room
Tom Myers
Chair and Associate Professor, Stiller School of Business
Champlain College
Website
"We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage."
--Theodore Roosevelt
Cabot Orton
Proprietor
The Vermont Country Store
"It was never fast enough for me."
Gwen Pokalo
Director
Center for Women & Enterprise Vermont
Website
You can't go to jail on your thinking alone. Nor can you start something awesome.
Joshua Kenyon
Founder, President
Modular Fitness Solutions Inc.
"If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life."
Gary Margolis
Founder & CEO
Social Sentinel, Inc.
Website
Hire intelligent and committed people, and then get out of their way so they can do their jobs.
Robert Bloch
Director, BYOBiz
Champlain College
I am looking forward to another Road Pitch.
Rick Leete
Coordinator
Community College of Vermont
Website
There are no ugly roads in Vermont. Some bad roads, but they're not ugly.
Heidi Clute
Founder, Managing partner
Clute Wealth Management, LLC
Website
Roadpitch is a fun, unique way of connecting entrepreneurs, sharing ideas, & strategies, to foster business growth.
Arrigo Bodda
Associate
Walnut Ventures Group
Website
Like any journey, it's not what you carry but what you leave behind
(from the movie Tracks, 2013, AUS)
Chris Sharpe
Manager
AAR Capital
He who risks nothing, gains nothing.
James Hathaway
President & CEO
Make-A-Wish Vermont
Website
Love is the feeling you get when you like someone as much as your motorcycle.” - Hunter S. Thompson
Rebecca Roose
Director of Marketing & Digital Products
Mamava
Website
Ask me about Happy Breasts!
Born to be mild.
Dave Despres
Principal
Spruce Creek Partners, LLC
Website
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Norm Laviolette
Founder/CEO
Improv Asylum/Laugh Boston/Asylum Gaming and Esports
Website
"The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us"-from Phil Knight's "Shoe Dog"
Phil Lapp
Co-Managing Partner
Gallagher Flynn and Company
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Dave Schmidt
Entrepreneur/Consultant/Photographer
45 North, LLC
Website
It's about the journey, not the destination
Steven Mason
COO
NEKTI Consulting
Website
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." (attributed to Teddy Roosevelt-Original Rough Rider)
Colin Owyang
Vice President, General Counsel & Company Secretary
Vermont Electric Power Company, Inc.
Keep life in balance.
Basil Stetson
Serial Entrepreneur
Retired, looking for my next gig.
Such an awesome vehicle to encourage entrepreneurial activity in the State of Vermont.
Sivan Cotel
Co Founder
Stonecutter Spirits LLC
Website
Road Pitch is the best and only way to combine a love of riding in Vermont with a dedication to entrepreneurship!
Leigh & Chris Cole
Leigh - Attorney/Shareholder/Director at Dinse, Knapp, & McAndrew, PC Chris - Commisioner of VT Department of Buildings and General Services
Charley Ininger
Business Advisor
Vt. Small Business Development Center
"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains." ~Steve Jobs
Deb Sachs
Co-Founder
Net Zero Vermont Ventures
Julie Perlmutter
Multi faced entrepreneur, Real Estate Property Manager, Thriving Air BNB Business
Earl Katon
Owner
Peppers BBQ
God created BBQ to keep men with chainsaws from clearcutting the earth.
Alan Newman
Serial Entrepreneur and Raconteur Master of Ceremonies, LaunchVT Competition
Peter Curless
Chairman of Booom!
Green Mountain Harley-Davidson
Website
when in doubt... burn out...
Nathan Sanel
Owner
National Powersports Distributors
Website
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Andrew Stickney
CEO
Burlington Bytes
Website
“The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Mark Galle
Retired
Vermont State Police
Never give up!
David & Sandra Werner
Founder, President
Third Eye Design, Inc.
Website
Increasing rider visibility, making motorcyclists safer, saving lives!
Gibson LaFountaine
Project Manager
Inntopia
Website
Riding a bike is an art, a thing you do because you feel something inside. - Valentino Rossi
Jim Black
Chair, Business/Economics Department
Johnson State College
Website
Nothing better than riding with good friends and listening to good pitches.
Keith Koehler
Business Development Manager
Manufacturing Solutions, Inc. (MSI)
Website
Motorcycling accelerates one’s senses beyond the commonplace. What better platform is there for launching dreams?
Gary Jacobs
Senior Director - Private Equity Operations
Alvarez & Marsal
Website
Some Call it Luck, However, Preparation + Persistence + Opportunity = Success
Stephen Trenholm
Tax Director
Gallagher Flynn & Co. LLP, CPAs
Website
Thrilled to be part of Road Pitch again this year and thanks to my employer Gallagher Flynn for being a sponsor!
Charles Graham
President
Volume8 Creative, Inc
Website
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Charles Palahniuk
Eli Lesser-Goldsmith
Owner
Healthy Living Market
Website
Let's carve up some VT roads and find some amazing VT businesses!
George Ewins, Jr.
Senior Vice President, Investments
Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Member New York Stock Exchange/SIPC, Raymond James is not affiliated with Road Pitch
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mike Pelchar
Retired
Keurig Green Mountain
Perseverance