Jake Shipley, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SchoolDuels

Jake is the ideal team player. From being bred in that structure throughout his life, he continued to learn this quality playing lacrosse at Denver University under hall of fame lacrosse coach Bill Tierney. Pursuing his passion for sports, he coached high school lacrosse at Baltimore Lutheran and St. Paul’s School at the varsity and junior varsity levels, respectively. Hungry to make his scratch on this world, he achieved his undergraduate degree in economics and began his career in the technology sector. He quickly worked his way up at a large produce distributor into a management role providing guidance and leadership for the technology department. Taking this knowledge of management and fast growth, he spearheaded SchoolDuels to lead the initiative of creating a vehicle to support high schools through the fun and excitement of sports.

SchoolDuels is a community building, online playground for high school sports. Fueled by the passion that comes with sports, SchoolDuels is building a place to hold the conversation, enthusiasm, and desired content for your local high school sports. It is a place to network, share, play, trade, research, highlight, and much more. 

As the founder of Eco Gym, Michael works with personal trainers, health club professionals, and customers to help them reach their fullest potential along their health and fitness journey. He believes “The Journey in Life is a mindset, set it right”!

Along with the software companies, Vaazu and Buzops, Michael developed a platform that would help manage his first successful personal training business, Fitness Management Group, which eventually became a well known business program for many national fitness brands. He grew his personal training brand while developing his next business venture, Eco Gym.

Michael is a certified personal trainer with American College of Sport Medicine and has attended several seminars in his relevant field. He has developed and trained more than one-thousand personal training clients, and apprentice personal trainers throughout his career.

Michael holds a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Petrena Schell is a millennial woman passionate about travel, adventure, health, and living a high vibe life. She is here to share, inspire and motivate you to live the happiest, healthiest, most adventurous life of your dreams. See the best places and do the most amazing things. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and reaching the summit is one of many adventures an helped build her mindset of accomplishment - and fun.



Originating from a small town with a very bullied upbringing, to taking on the world and leading volunteer projects in the jungles of Central and South America, crossing the Amazon in Brazil, completing a solo trip across Africa with her portable massage table, managing super-yachts for the world's elite and sailing across the Atlantic ocean 3 times. She knows that with determination and the right mindset, you can achieve your biggest dreams.  Petrena helps those with a desire for a lifestyle and mindset shift step into A Pursuit of Life!



Her book is due out in fall 2019.

Holistic and Integrative Physician and Surgeon, Gastón Cornu-Labat, MD  graduated from Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1991. He obtained his specialty title in general surgery from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Youngstown, Ohio in 2001 to then specialize in liver and pancreatic surgery at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington and became a member of the Pancreas Club, Inc.

Licensed over the past decades in the states of Ohio, Nebraska, Washington, and Texas, after years in academic surgery leading research, numerous publications and international presentations in diverse fields pertaining to his specialty, Dr. Gaston shifted in his career into the study and understanding of the human experience as a whole in all that relates to health and disease, and practiced as a rural surgeon in the US mid-west. He incorporated this understanding into his medical and surgical practice.

As a Holistic and Integrative medical practitioner, he later apprenticed to Jonathan V. Wright, MD and his team at the Tahoma Clinic in Seattle, WA building extensive expertise in natural, nutritional and antiaging medicine, to then serve as a practitioner at said clinic for 5 years. He also participated in numerous seminars for non-pharmacological pain management based on the technique discovered and developed by Dr. Stephen Kaufman, DC, Pain Neutralization Technique (PNT). Dr. Gastón authored with Dr. Kaufman’s contributions the book “PNT, An Unprecedented Revolution in Pain Management.” With this extensive knowledge base and experience he focused his practice in Integrative Oncology.

One of the featured experts at the documentary series “The Truth About Cancer: A Global Quest” in 2015, Dr. Gastón was also a featured speaker at the TTAC Live Symposium in 2016. He has participated in other documentaries, radio shows and media productions educating the public.

In February 2017 he joined the Hope 4 Cancer family as Chief Medical Advisor, bringing to the table a unique combination of knowledge and experience ranging from traditional medicines to conventional allopathic, and alternative and complementary healing modalities to the Tijuana and Cancun clinics in Mexico. As an integral part of the executive team, he contributed to develop and monitor success of treatment protocols and the educational programs for H4C staff doctors and nurses. He also supervised and managed complex patient cases.

At present, Dr Gaston is focused on research and development of cutting edge natural oncologic protocols for effective management of cancers.

Delegate Mark L. Keam is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, which is considered the oldest law-making body in the New World, meeting continuously since 1619.

His legislative district is entirely within Fairfax County, and includes 85,000 residents living in the neighborhoods of McLean, Tysons, Dunn Loring, Town of Vienna, Oakton, Penderbrook, and Fair Oaks.

In 2009, Mark became the first Asian-born immigrant and the first Korean American elected to any state-level office in Virginia. Since then, voters in the 35th District have returned Mark to Richmond for additional two-year terms.

Over the past decade, Mark has authored dozens of state laws that impact the quality of life for Virginians, such as improving public education and healthcare, creating innovative tech sector and environmental jobs, supporting military veterans and public safety, reforming tax codes and business regulations, and providing more government transparency, accountability, and efficiency.

A recognized leader on technology and innovation issues in the General Assembly, Mark serves on the House Commerce & Labor Committee, Finance Committee, Education Committee, and Agriculture, Chesapeake & Natural Resources Committee.

He is a member of the special Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding and the Joint Subcommittee to Evaluate Tax Preferences. As a co-chair of the Virginia Legislative Tourism Caucus, Mark also works with the Fairfax County Sports Tourism Task Force.

Mark maintains a reputation as an effective bipartisan policymaker and has received awards and recognitions from a wide spectrum of organizations, including Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce, Virginia Education Association, League of Conservation Voters, The Sierra Club, Humane Society, and Commissioners of the Revenue Association of Virginia.

Professionally, Mark has three decades of experiences in both the private and public sectors. On the commercial side, Mark has been an entrepreneur, an in-house counsel with a Fortune 15 technology company, the head of a national Asian American chamber of commerce, and an independent business consultant.

As a member of the bar in two states, he has practiced law in the executive and legislative branches of federal and local governments, including serving as chief counsel to a United States Senate Assistant Leader.

Active in the community, Mark has helped start or worked with dozens of nonprofit organizations that focus on his passions, including civic engagement, serving immigrants and minorities, developing youth leadership, and promoting literacy and lifelong learning.

He currently serves on the boards of Virginia Literacy Foundation, University of Virginia’s Thomas C. Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, George Mason University’s Virginia Serious Game Institute, Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation, New American Leaders, Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice AAJC.

Mark is a member of Rotary Club of Vienna, Optimist Club of Greater Vienna, Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce, Vienna Business Association, McLean Citizens Association, Leadership Greater Washington, Vienna Arts Society, Historic Vienna, Inc., and Vienna Presbyterian Church.

He is also active with the NewDEAL Leaders and BMW Foundation World Responsible Leaders programs.

Mark was born in Korea and lived in Vietnam and Australia before moving to America as a teenager. He received a political science degree from the University of California at Irvine and a law degree from U.C. Hastings College of the Law.

Mark and his wife Alex reside in Vienna and have two children in public schools.