Today's Featured Guest for our Weekly Virtual Happy Hour, 11/15/2021, 5:30 PM ET
Joy Schoffler, Principal, Distinctive Edge Partners
Join us today, 11/15/2021, for another virtual happy hour and interactive discussion around everything #natsec innovation. With featured guest, Joy Schoffler, Principal, Distinctive Edge Partners
A little about Joy
Joy Schoffler serves as Principal of Distinctive Edge Partners, a strategic communications and marketing firm dedicated to helping organizations build and maximize value, improve operations and turn risks and threats into opportunities.
Joy brings decades of experience building and scaling technology and financial brands, with specialized expertise educating customers, media and investors about the applicability of new technology. She has devised strategies that informed global markets on blockchain’s applicability outside of bitcoin, worked across hardware, IOT, cybersecurity, financial technology and extensively within the artificial intelligence space spanning robotics and process automation.
Joy's clients have raised billions in capital; executed profitable M&As; built, scaled and exited thriving international brands; and created massive shareholder value.
From M&A and capital raise preparation, international launches, rebrands, executive transitions, and reorganizations to shaping national policy and advising foreign economic ministries, Joy has spent her career devising data-driven communication strategies that enable exceptional outcomes.
Past and current board positions include SXSW & AARP Accelerator, FinTech Professionals Association and four years working with CFIRA and the SEC and FINRA on the JOBS Act implementation, enabling online investing as we know it today. Joy has also served as a public affairs and finance officer in the Army Reserve and the Texas Army National Guard.
During the session, Joy will provide insights into how to tell better stories within deeply technical environments. Come armed with questions!
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LATER THIS WEEK: Nov 17 in-Person Happy Hour - discuss #natsec tech and more!, 6-9pm, at the Hawthorne in Washington D.C.
Come and mingle at our first in-person Happy Hour in quite a while, on the rooftop deck of the Hawthorne (Their rooftop has been named one of the best in DC by the Washington Post, Zagat, Conde Nast, DC Modern Luxury and Eater.!)
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There’s still room to sponsor the event at two levels.
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Date and time
Wed, November 17, 2021
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Location
Hawthorne Rooftop Tavern
1336 U St NW
Washington, DC, DC 20009