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Helios is working with the industry’s top professionals to bring you a well rounded group of speakers. We will continue to add featured speakers in this area as they become available.

Matt Russell
International Smart Tan Network
Matt Russell is CEO of the International Smart Tan Network and publisher of Tanning Trends Magazine. Matt has been involved in the indoor tanning industry since 1981 and is most noted for the creation of advanced indoor tanning education and training along with market growth campaign materials. Matt continues to educate salons and their customers about the power of vitamin D and the money behind the “sunscare” industry.
James Bowers
Berman & Company
James Bowers is the Creative Director and Senior Vice President of Berman and Company, a research, communications, and advertising firm based in Washington, DC. Bowers oversees the group’s award-winning creative and messaging departments which are known for their humorous and aggressive advertising. A veteran of multiple state ballot initiatives and federal public policy fights, Bowers brings a creative and thoughtful touch to messaging and audience targeting.
John Hurley
Helios, LLC.
John has been with Helios for over three years. He oversees all client interaction including new business, marketing collateral, customer service and Helios training. John brings with him over 10 years of Internet marketing and software related sales experience. He has worked with such companies as NCAA, Delco, and Mitsubishi on their Internet strategies. John graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a degree in business.
Gary Timpe
TIMPE - CPAs | ATTORNEYS | WEALTH MANAGERS
Timpe CPAs, LLC, Timpe Legal Services, LLC, and Timpe Investment Advisory Services, LLC are three separate professional disciplines working together to provide consistency, quality and simplicity that their clients have come to expect. Each company is uniquely positioned to provide the highest value of service and the utmost integrity in their respective disciplines. Gary Timpe is a practicing attorney and CPA, as well as an adjunct professor of accounting at Marian University in Indianapolis.
Bryan Wade
ExactTarget
As the Director of the Embedded Product at ExactTarget, Bryan oversees the integrations built by software companies to ExactTarget to enable email marketing within their applications. Bryan is also responsible for helping his customers implement best practices within their email programs. Bryan is marketing technologist with an unwavering focus on database marketing, email marketing, and empowering developers to build one to one permission based applications. Before working for ExactTarget, Bryan was a IT consultant and database developer for 7 years in the pharmaceutical industry. Bryan has been with ExactTarget for 3 years now and has implemented over 100 of the worlds largest email programs for Retail, Enterprise and B2B companies.
Stacy Stephens
ADP
Stacy Stephens is the Indianapolis Major Accounts Sales Executive for ADP Employer Services. She is responsible for leading sales and marketing for the Region. She has been consulting with organizations for over 16 years to help them focus on their core business. ADP is one of the nation’s largest providers of payroll, tax filing and HR services.
Scott Edgers
Australian Gold
A veteran of nearly 12 years in indoor tanning, Scott Eggers has become one of the most requested and respected speaker/trainers in the industry. His style combines easy-to-understand and remember sales stories, humor, and inspiration with product feature and benefit information and practical sales skills. His trainings have produced results that range from 30%-200% same-store sales increases for a measured two-week period after the completion of his training session. He has been the featured and keynote speaker at many distributor seminars and has been a key presenter for the new product introductions for Australian Gold, Swedish Beauty and Caribbean Gold at the ITA World Expo for the past four years. Scott has also played a key role in the creation of two of the industrys most successful and innovative training modules, “Train the Trainer Boot Camp” and the new “Training on Demand” system. Scott’s background, including a degree in Psychology and extensive experience in theater and television, has fueled his success in the indoor tanning training world.
Jeremy Herring
Helios, LLC
Jeremy joined Helios in 2004 as a technical support representative and quickly moved into join Helios’ newly-formed training program. Jeremy currently maintains a balance of responsibilities between conducting regular training events, developing documentation for new products and representing Helios at various public trade events. Prior to joining Helios, Jeremy has provided similar technical expertise in several industries, most recently for a leading Tier-2 Education technology supplier. Jeremy is a Computer Science graduate of Delaware Tech and is A+ certified by the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). He is also C.T.C. certified by the National Tanning Training Institute.