The DreamTank Council and Board are dedicated to      fostering innovative solutions and transformative ideas that address the pressing challenges of our time. Comprising a diverse group of visionary leaders, experts, and community advocates, the Council serves as an advisory body, facilitating collaboration and discussion to shape impactful initiatives. Meanwhile, the Board provides strategic oversight and governance, ensuring that our mission aligns with our values and objectives. Together, the DreamTank Council and Board work synergistically to inspire creativity, drive positive change, and empower communities to realize their fullest potential.

Jeff Hoffman
Global Board Chair + Chief Mentor

Jeff Hoffman is a successful entrepreneur, proven CEO, worldwide motivational speaker, bestselling author, Hollywood film producer, a producer of a Grammy winning jazz album, and executive producer of an Emmy Award winning television show. In his career, he has been the founder of multiple startups, he has been the CEO of both public and private companies, and he has served as a senior executive in many capacities. Jeff has been part of a number of well-known successful startups, including Priceline.com/Booking.com, uBid.com and more.

Jeff serves on the boards of companies in the US, Europe, the Middle East, South America, Africa, and Asia. He supports entrepreneurs and small businesses on a worldwide basis. He is the Chairman of the Global Entrepreneurship Network, which works with entrepreneurs in 180 countries, as well as being a founding board member of The Unreasonable Group. He supports the White House, the State Department, the United Nations, and similar organizations internationally on economic growth initiatives and entrepreneurship programs.

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Heidi Cuppari

Co-Founder + Executive Director

Heidi is a pioneer in social change finance and business, and a mother of two children. After serving as a wealth manager at UBS Wealth Management, in 2014 she began serving as an impact investing guide/concierge to women, millennials and their families and help activate global systemic change.

When imagining what would be needed to achieve moonshots such as the SDGs by 2030, she realized that we needed people with the best imaginations in the world: kids. Thus, she started Dream Tank with Ashley Kulik in July of 2016. Heidi believes the power and creative genius of kids can innovate a better future for all. She thrives in building in mentorship and community connection to this end. Her dream is to grow Dream Tank globally to further amplify the voices of youth and their participation in meaningful and bold community change.

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Ashley Kulik

Advisory Board

Ashley is a millennial catalyst of intergenerational education. She currently assists as the Creative Director at the Studio WLV, a marketing, design, and full-service production agency outside of LA working with a team of creatives to serve social businesses. Over the past seven years, Ashley has dedicated her career to mentoring young people. In 2013, she was an inaugural scholar at Watson University, where she studied Social Entrepreneurship & Transformative Action. This led to organizing a Global Youth Wisdom Council initiative in partnership with Earth Guardians. In 2014, Ashley and a group of environmental educators founded the Kiva Center, an outdoor educational program designed to nurture the potential of youth in becoming ecological stewards. In 2016, Ashley became a co-founder of Dream Tank, where her experiences in nature with kids and entrepreneurship education led to the foundational curriculum development. Ashley specializes in working with children with Special Needs as she holds a BA in Speech Language Hearing & Communication Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

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Alice Bromage
Advisor + Resilience Specialist

There is more in you than you think: Lets unlock that potential.

A hybrid of 20+ years in the Army, mixed with a family background of entrepreneurial business owners. I bring a practical, output driven approach to growing you and your business.
– Whether in the City of London, the wilds of Africa, or the Middle East – the more challenging the better.

Business reviews, 1-2-1 coaching, team development and motivational speaking. I also take a lucky few to swim with the Orcas in Arctic Norway each year- the ultimate leadership development arena. Next stop lions in Africa & Tigers in India… or bespoke trips to suit your needs.

In my ‘spare’ time, I am the UK Ambassador & motivational trainer for the world’s first female anti-poaching unit, am on the Advisory Council for International Disaster Response Expo, and on the board of TinyG – a group specialising in CT response advice. I am also a coach & mentor for Supporting Wounded Veterans. 

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Emerson Gale
Mentor + Advisor

Emerson Gale is an international education entrepreneur focused on growing intergenerational youth mentoring tech charities. Emerson co-founded and directed the pioneering Camp Greenwoods in Hangzhou, China – one of the first large-scale youth skills camps in the country. He facilitates a children’s artistic empowerment network between Beijing/Hangzhou, China, San Francisco Bay Area/New York/Vermont, U.S.A and London/Scotland, U.K.. His international youth coaching expertise includes The Experiment In International Living (World Learning,) City Year London, Syracuse University Abroad, Bay Area Wilderness Training, Global Works Student Travel, The Open Fields School and Bold Paths. Emerson enjoys co-directing children’s arts entrepreneurship projects such Storytree, an interactive storytelling climate justice youth authorship program. Emerson is conversationally comfortable in Mandarin Chinese.

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Navroop Sahdev
Digital Economy Advisor and Board Member

Navroop Sahdev is the founder and CEO of Rethink Markets, a global think tank focused on the Economics of Emerging Technologies, with the mission to bridge the gap between scholarly economics and business applications. A pioneering economist and technology futurist, Navroop’s work lies at the intersection of emerging technologies, economic science and business strategy. Along with the world’s most respected digital economists, in 2019 she co-authored “Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers: Markets, Communications Networks, and Algorithmic Reality”, the first book on the economics of blockchain.

Navroop is currently a Connection Science Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, part of a curated group of top scholars and entrepreneurs in emerging technologies with a track record of outstanding achievement, who are building the future of Distributed Ledger Technologies, Digital Identity and Digital Networks. She was listed as one of the Top Blockchain Influencers in 2018 by Media Shower.

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Jewels Rossallini-Coker

Board of Advisors & Operating Partner

Jewels Rossallini-Coker is CEO of TeslaFintech, a Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IIoT and Cryptocurrency technology company that provides Strategic Advisory Services to Fortune 500 companies, non-profits and NGOs. TeslaFintech builds dApps using Fourth Generation Blockchain protocols for the Financial Services, Supply Chain and Cybersecurity verticals.  She is a sought-after speaker on the topics of Identity Management, Digital Privacy and the Human Trafficking.

In 2018, Jewels was named a Woman Thought Leader in Blockchain for her work advocating for gender equity and purpose-driven initiatives. In her role as founder of TelsaFintech, she was recognized as a Top 200 Thought Leader for 2018 Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.  As a delegate with the SDG Frontier Finance Forum in partnership with the United Nations, she’s contributing her omni-win mindset to form incentivized collaboration systems utilizing blockchain, Cryptocurrency and AI to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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Valerie B Love

Dream Jockey and Operating Advisor

Valerie is an Inspirational DJ “Dream Jockey” and Big DREAM Coach who believes music is the medicine and the DJ is the Doctor. Between her globetrotting DJ sets (on the Nile River in Egypt, at Burning Man or at a beach in Hawaii) and making the best-grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for her two kiddos, Valerie is producing her podcast and online school for creative bad-@ss changemakers called Dance our Dreams. 

Valerie is a co-founder of two multi-million-dollar real estate companies, is a USCG certified charter boat captain, Kundalini yoga teacher and blessed mama of two earth angels.  Valerie’s mission is to fuse music, art, science, and soul to help people rock their dreams! DJ Valerie is on a mission to smash the shame and stigma around mental health so that we can SNAP! Back to rocking our Big DREAMS and co-create a planet where all life co-thrives in delicious harmony! Valerie believes that we have the power to remodel our planet at our fingertips.

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Angela Abshier
Board of Advisors: Legal, Gaming & Finance

Jewels Rossallini-Coker is CEO of TeslaFintech, a Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IIoT and Cryptocurrency technology company that provides Strategic Advisory Services to Fortune 500 companies, non-profits and NGOs. TeslaFintech builds dApps using Fourth Generation Blockchain protocols for the Financial Services, Supply Chain and Cybersecurity verticals.  She is a sought-after speaker on the topics of Identity Management, Digital Privacy and the Human Trafficking.

In 2018, Jewels was named a Woman Thought Leader in Blockchain for her work advocating for gender equity and purpose-driven initiatives. In her role as founder of TelsaFintech, she was recognized as a Top 200 Thought Leader for 2018 Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.  As a delegate with the SDG Frontier Finance Forum in partnership with the United Nations, she’s contributing her omni-win mindset to form incentivized collaboration systems utilizing blockchain, Cryptocurrency and AI to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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