Jeremy Gutsche, MBA, CFA, is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning innovation expert, “one of the most sought-after keynote speakers on the planet” (The Sun Newspaper) and the CEO of Trend Hunter – the world’s #1 trend website and innovation consultancy with over 3 Billion views and more than 10,000 innovation projects completed. His team is relied on by 700 brands, billionaires and CEOs to predict and create the future, including Google, Sony, Disney, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, IBM and Adidas. He’s even helped NASA prototype the Journey to Mars!

As a top innovation keynote speaker, Jeremy has the #1 most-watched innovation keynote videos on the internet, inspiring over 20,000,000 people online and 482,000 people at 642 live events. Prior to Trend Hunter, Jeremy grew a $1 billion portfolio for a bank, studied innovation at Stanford, completed an MBA from Queen’s University, and an honours degree from U of C, where he was awarded Graduate of the Decade. Routinely sourced by the media, Jeremy’s broad appeal ranges from The Economist and CNN to WIRED and The New York Times. He has been described as “a new breed of trend spotter” by The Guardian, “an eagle eye” by Global TV, an “Oracle” by the Globe and Mail, an “intellectual can of Red Bull” by Association Week, “the rockstar of keynote speakers” by Meetings Professional International and “on the forefront of cool” by MTV.

Jeremy was one of Capital One’s youngest business directors and innovation leaders. Prior to Capital One, Jeremy spent several years as a management consultant at Monitor Deloitte.

Social Good – Jeremy and his team believe in a future made better by education, eco-awareness and social business. To date, the team has donated 1,000,000 trees (!) and contributed roughly 30,000 articles about social good, generating 300,000,000 views of exposure through three Trend Hunter channels: Trend Hunter Eco, SocialBusiness.org, and Keynotes.org. On a personal note, he drives an electric car and rocks solar panels on his roof.