Top 10 Entrepreneurs Disrupting Their Industries In 2023

Robert Wensley

Robert Wensley is an accomplished entrepreneur and real estate investment expert. He is the co-founder of InvestorLift, which is a leading real estate marketplace that caters exclusively to distressed single-family homes. Wensley and his partner Dmitry Shirokov founded the company to help investors buy and wholesalers sell homes on the brink of foreclosure or sitting in lenders’ portfolios.

InvestorLift boasts over 4.2 million registered investors who complete multiple billions of dollars in purchases each year. The platform’s unique offering is its investor scoring metric, which helps REO holders vet and match likely buyers based on the properties’ location, price, and other variables. This feature speeds up deals and makes the buying and selling process much more efficient.

Wensley plans to expand InvestorLift’s offerings to include a similar service for multifamily and commercial real estate in 2023. The company also plans to integrate into Canada, Europe, and Puerto Rico. His expertise, opinions, and accomplishments have been recognized by major media outlets, making him a respected figure in the industry. To learn more about Robert Wensley and InvestorLift, click here.

Andre Corbert

The industrial services industry is not always known for its stellar customer service, but STT Logistics Group is not like most companies in the industry. Founder Andre Corbert and Executive Vice President Stelios Vergitsis are growing not only one of the largest transportation and logistics companies in the country but also one of the most customer-centric. And at STT, “customer” is not limited to the construction, processing, and other large equipment owners who call on the company to safely, securely and efficiently move their massive machines from point A to point B. Corbert, who launched the company in 2015, makes it his mission to support STT employees with competitive wages, holistic support, and a challenging, fulfilling workplace where they can fully develop their skills and achieve their dreams.

Vergitsis joined the business in 2018 and quickly ascended through the ranks to become vice president in 2020. A sales and marketing guru with a knack for giving customers exactly what they want, he is executing an aggressive, comprehensive growth strategy founded on delighting clients, streamlining processes, and maximizing revenue needed to scale the company. Under his guidance, STT now assigns two logistics contacts and a customer experience representative for each transportation project. It is now SOP for the company to document each assignment, sending photos to clients when their equipment is securely loaded and on its way to its new home.

It’s all part of Corbert’s vision to deliver comprehensive service to businesses who need to move over-dimensional, cumbersome, and delicate equipment via ground, rail, air, and ocean transportation. Whether they’re sending their machinery across town or across the globe, STT’s customers know they will receive personalized attention and the peace of mind that comes with end-to-end accommodation. STT not only transports heavy loads, it can also store them, arrange for repairs, and arrange permits, pilot cars, and customs agents.

Ben Ganz

Ben Ganz is a serial entrepreneur who started his career as an Entertainment Digital Executive and now has several successful businesses under his belt. He is currently focused on VEGO Social, a media marketing firm that provides short form video production and strategy for Fortune 1,000 companies.

Recognized by InTouch Weekly as “The First TikTok Agency to Exist,” Vego Social helps brands build goodwill, create a community, and ultimately drive sales. The firm works with companies interested in utilizing the power of social media through short videos on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. 

Ben has experienced and skilled creators in his team coming up with creative ways to create viral content and generate buzz for his clients. He aims to make Vego Social the go-to agency for short-form video strategy and production with a strong local presence with plans to open more offices and include more platforms. 

Go here to read more about VEGO Social and how it has helped go from a few thousand views to millions of views.

Brendan Ryan

Brendan Ryan helps businesses sell more and inspire others to do better. He left his boring and unrewarding job as a pharmacist to become a lead generation master and has helped businesses generate millions. Brendan believes that the future lies in entrepreneurship because the world already has ‘enough employees’.

His company mainly works with service providers such as remodeling companies and swimming pool contractors. Also, he caters to software companies. When not helping companies directly, he can be seen on social media sharing great insights and tips with followers. Moreover, Brendan is a high ticket closer and has worked with companies in a variety of niches, including SaaS, solar, and digital marketing.

Brendan wishes to continue to help more people and has plans to write a book. Furthermore, he’s currently mentoring young entrepreneurs. Go here to know more about his future plans and how he’s disrupting the lead generation space with unique marketing tricks and techniques.

Sean Torbati

The natural supplements formulated by Sean Torbati are a major component in thousands of customers’ healthy lifestyles. He ensures High Performance Nutrition remains lean and strong through meticulous adherence to designing, manufacturing, testing, and distributing innovative dietary supplement formulas. Sean has achieved success and growth over the past decade by partnering with impactful individuals in founding a portfolio of incredible brands, spreading the message of health and wellness.

He attributes his company’s success to laying the groundwork before launch, creating educational content around each product, and maintaining strong oversight of all operations. In establishing a go-to-market strategy, he urges owners to analyze expected cash flow, startup, fixed, and variable costs. This strategy has worked wonders for High Performance Nutrition, with its NAD(3) anti-aging product gaining substantial notoriety.

Sean is responsible for the formulation of multiple high-profile brands, including the Ambrosia Collective line of products. Ambrosia’s Planta plant protein is the top-seller in plant protein at Vitamin Shoppe stores across the United States. His newest brands, One Sol and Xeela, are among the fastest-growing direct-to-consumer brands in their verticals, focused on helping young individuals maintain a health and fitness-oriented lifestyle for the long term.

He does not compromise on manufacturing processes, product quality, or finished product testing. The company’s supplements use all-natural and often patented formulas. By meeting the demand for safe, effective supplements, Sean helps those intent on maximizing their wellness achieve their goals while extending High Performance Nutrition’s impact through partnerships with influential personalities. Over the next few years, he expects to expand into several countries, giving millions more access to the supplements they desire.

Kaia Roman

Kaia Roman leverages her skills as a communicator and business visionary to expand the efficacy, safety, acceptance, and accessibility of psychedelic medicines. After leaving her highly successful marketing and public relations agency career working with Google, Twilio, and other major brands, Roman now exerts her considerable influence on virtually every aspect of psychedelics in healthcare. 

As vice president of strategy and communications with Psycheceutical Bioscience, Roman promotes the mental health benefits of psychedelics while helping develop effective ways to administer them. The cofounder of KetaMD, a ketamine treatment organization acquired by Braxia Scientific in 2022, she established a secure and compliant telemedicine platform for delivering effective ketamine treatments to patients dealing with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and other mental health conditions. She is also CEO of Ellipsis Communications, a marketing and public relations firm based in Silicon Valley that creates content, audience, and media strategies for brands operating at the nexus of psychedelic medicine, health & wellness, and technology.

Her work on behalf of psychedelic medicine and the millions of people who can find relief from these treatments has not gone unnoticed. Roman was earned the 2023 Entheo Award as “Psychedelic CEO of the Year.”  As if that weren’t enough, Roman is the author of The Joy Plan, a guide for overcoming disappointment and creating happiness that endures, the host of the Psyched podcast, and a documentary producer. She invests in projects that empower female entrepreneurs as a venture partner at SeedFund Capital and can frequently be found presenting on wellness and women’s empowerment topics. Roman encourages aspiring entrepreneurs to find their “flow state and harness the quantum nature of reality” by using their talents to serve others and make the world a better place. 

Leo  Climaco

Leo Climaco is a philanthropist, author, lecturer, and business adviser. A businessman from Brazil who immigrated to the United States at an early age and grew up in Queens, New York, with high goals. He now resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is the owner of two very distinct companies: Behaviors of NYC, a therapy agency for children with autism, and Green Lion Solutions LLC, an IT firm (GLS).

While Behaviors of NYC provides at-home and in-school behaviour modification, GLS primarily focuses on government contracts with a concentration on service-based work, infrastructure development, and software development.

Leo began his entrepreneurial journey in 2015, when he and his wife – a behavioral therapist with experience in behavior modification – launched Behaviors of NYC. The business has grown into a leader in its field, and its success encouraged Leo to start GLS a year later. This company is winning clients and providing dependable services. Leo is passionate about understanding people and their issues; as such, not only does he offer exemplary service to customers, but he establishes a thriving work environment as well.

Leo also has a degree in computer networking. His story has been featured in the likes of Success Magazine & has dedicated his life to supporting individuals to raise their potential. He is a 1st-degree black belt in Kyokushin Karate & loves to travel to exotic destinations with his beautiful wife and children. Leo’s greatest passion is to elevate leaders to achieve their goals faster and maximize their impact in the world. To learn more about Leo & to keep up with this life, click here.

Lauren Taylor

Lauren Taylor does not believe you have to spend money to make money. That’s the concept behind Altum Impact, her business coaching and strategy agency dedicated to building clients’ online presence through data-driven social media content. The key when it comes to organic social growth for the average business owner is high value content paired with low cost and low energy production. “This approach makes it easier for the average business owner to distribute content at scale and then get back to what they do best, serving their clients”, Lauren says.

Altum Impact’s Amplified program teaches clients how to capture “authentic moments of brilliance” without the cost of a production and camera crew. By capturing the everyday activities and conversations business owners are already having we give their audience a deeper understanding of the brand’s mission, vision, values and beliefs that build a stronger relationship with their ideal clients. 

Slick production, rigorous scripting, and paid positioning can distract from a founder’s authentic vision and often creates unneeded obstacles between business owners, content strategy and creation, Lauren contends.

Lauren and her business partners founded Altum Impact to address the gap they discovered in social media strategy. While they found plenty of advocates for paid marketing, few experts spoke to getting results organically via value based content. They knew that with the right data-based approach they could help businesses forge deep online relationships with clients and prospects without investing a ton of money. When you use analytics to guide your strategy it takes out the guesswork of content creation. 

As an experienced entrepreneur she has over a decade of experience in organic social lead generation. It is this experience that has created the framework for success that Altum Impact client’s are now seeing. Lauren says, “It has taken years of experimenting, failing, fixing and repeating to find the content formula that works and now we are excited to guide other business owners in the same journey.”