Kym McNicholas is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and entrepreneur with nearly 20 years of experience on national television and online. She helped to revolutionize online video journalism as a pioneer of digital video content at the turn of the century as one of the first web-centric video financial/tech reporters. She also continued to break ground in television becoming the first female sports director/main sports anchor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout her tenure as a journalist, she has acquired breadth and depth that transcends across many genres, making her one of the most diverse reporters of her time. She has experience as an assigned beat reporter, covering sports, business, energy, politics, finance, technology, weather, sports, healthcare, and technology, all in-depth, at various points in her career from Comcast Sports to Forbes Magazine to Fox News Channel as a Weekly contributor, weighing in on current event issues impacting the world. Her diverse background and extensive experience in Silicon Valley covering innovation at key inflection points in the innovation cycle in since 1998, led her to recruitment as the Competition and Community Director for what she helped shape into the world’s largest global startup competition, the Extreme Tech Challenge, with Sir Richard Branson as the anchor judge. She helped evaluate more than 4,000 startups over the course of three years, identifying the next big trends and highlighting entrepreneurs on the cutting edge. Kym now uses her passion and expertise for bringing the future to the forefront, as a radio show host for “Kym McNicholas On Innovation,” syndicated through TheInnovators.Network. She is also a sought-after emcee, traveling the world to share her insight and expertise as keynote speaker, master of ceremonies, fireside chat interviewer, and panel moderator. She runs a new nonprofit, The Way To My Heart, tackling one of the most debilitating diseases most have never heard of yet impacts 3 in 5 heart attack sufferers, known as Peripheral Artery Disease, which is restricted blood flow in the legs due to plaque build-up, that left untreated can lead to heart attack, stroke, and amputation.