With my work on CMX I've had the privilege of meeting hundreds of inspiring community professionals.

It's clear to me that the community industry is growing quickly and it's been energizing to see more and more professionals reach the point where they've been working on this stuff for 5 or even 10 years.

For those of you who don't have the chance to constantly meet community professionals, I wanted to put the spotlight on some of the amazing people I've had a chance to meet just to give you an idea of the amount of people who are building community on a truly professional level.

1. Morgan Brady at The YEC
2. Libby Brittain at Branch (startup)
3. Justin Isaf at Communl and previously at Change.org, Startup Bus and Huffington Post
4. Danya Cheskis-Gold at Spark Capital
5. Tim McDonald at
6. Evan Hamilton at Zozi.
7. Nievh at Shutterstock
8. Emily Castor at Lyft
9. Britney Laughlin at Union Square Ventures
10. Ana Hevesi at StackOverflow
11. Laura Gluhanich at Signal Camp (previously at About.me)
12. Brittney Riley at Snapguide
13. David Noël at SoundCloud
14. Megan Berry at RebelMouse
15. Karen Baker at the Feast Conference
16. Ed Casabian at Uber
17. Karen Schoellkopf at
18. Erik Martin at Reddit
19. Rachel Happe and Jim Storer at http://community-roundtable.com/ have been working for years to educate and motivate up and coming community managers.  Their research reports about the world of community management provides some of the most valuable data that exists in the space today.  They're both the type of people who would help anyone who needed it.
20. Cindy Au at Kickstarter
21. Ligaya Tichy previously at Yelp and Airbnb
22. Lauren Cucinotta at TEDx
23. Carrie Jones
24. Rich Millington at Feverbee
25. Andrea Murphy at Meetup
26. Camille Rickettes and Lucy at First Round Capital
27. at Andreesen Horowitz
28. Doug Atkins at Airbnb
29. Coralie at Kitchensurfing
30. Natalia at Shapeways
31. Sarah Judd Welch at Loyal
32. Jack Shepherd at Buzzfeed
33. Michael Giannii Calvert at Disqus