Samanta K. Guerra

Samanta Guerra is a certified public accountant with more than 18 years’ experience and is a shareholder with the firm Sol Schwartz & Associates.

Samanta has worked at local and regional top-tier firms providing tax services to businesses in manufacturing, retail, oil, gas, construction, real estate, hospitality, U.S. international tax, nonprofit, estate and gift tax. 

Prior to moving to San Antonio, she worked for nine years in the banking industry in Mexico.

In addition to her work as a CPA, Samantha has served as the treasurer of disABILITYsa, a non-profit whose mission is to provide programs, resources, and volunteer opportunities to improve the lives of people with disabilities. 

She speaks on tax issues at major events including the San Antonio Bar Association, International Law Section, the San Antonio Board of Realtors, the San Antonio Restaurant Association, San Antonio Startup Week, The How to do Business in Texas Bootcamps, The Association of Mexican Entrepreneurs, and the San Diego School of Law-Chamberlain International Tax Institute.

Samanta graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.

Alberto is a TEDx and DisruptHR speaker and coach, and pioneer on Intercultural and Collaborative Intelligence. He has developed breakthrough models in the field of Team Building and Intercultural Understanding that have helped hundreds of global teams effectively and permanently achieve the highest levels of integration, performance and engagement while significantly reducing stress and bias. 

He is the author of the books “Culture and Globalization”, “Cultural Intelligence for the 21st Century” and his most recent E-Book “True Collaboration: Beyond Culture”.

Alberto is CEO of InZync™ the world's first Collaboration System management firm, Lead Organizer for DisruptHR Houston, and served for six years as President of the Gulf Chapter of the United States - Mexico Chamber of Commerce. 

He has served as advisor and coach on enhancing their teambuilding and collaborative effectiveness for multiple corporations, non-profit organizations, associations, and chambers.

Alberto is a sought-after speaker that delivers innovative insights and solutions to 21st century human system challenges, AI and Technology deployment, leadership, global workforce, and accelerated intercultural understanding.

(Tony) Lindbergh A. Arzu is a Director of the Belize Business Process Outsourcing Association, and co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of ABC Marketing Services, a full-service technology BPO and call center company operating from Belize, CA for the last 13 years.  Initially, Tony was asked by the Belizean Government to assist in furthering the government’s employment goals by expanding the call center industry in the country. Since then, ABC has launched hundreds of successful campaigns for Customer Care, Technical Support, Help Desk, Surveys, Appointment-setting, Outbound Sales, and Lead Gen in many verticals including Travel, Healthcare, US Tax Relief, Technology, Hospitality, Home Renovations, Energy, Insurance, Financial, etc. Tony started his IT career in the Military and at the Los Angeles City College. After that he worked as an IT specialist in the Los Angeles area for 25 years, setting up Help Desks, Customer service and Technical support units for a range of Fortune 500 US clients.

 Emma Faye went profoundly deaf at the age of three and has

spent her life turning a disability into an ability. Emma Faye is an

internationally-known role model and public speaker for the (D)deaf

and hard-of-hearing (HOH) community and founder of Aid the Silent.

She was crowned Miss San Antonio 2015 & 2017 and placed Top 4 in

Miss Texas 2017. She was named 2018 San Antonio’s Woman of the

Year by the San Antonio Business Journal (SABJ) and appointed by

Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the Texas Governor’s Committee

on people with Disabilities for two terms. Aid the Silent and Emma

Faye were honored by the SABJ and The Najim Family Foundation

Corporate Philanthropy & Nonprofit Awards for Nonprofit CEO &

Senior Manager two years in row as well as Nonprofit of the Year

for small to midsize. Aid the Silent’s Good Vibrations Music & Arts

Festival, a completely deaf accessible festival, won Best of Fest for

Charity Music Festival in Santa Barbara, CA presented by Jeff Bridges,

Kenny Loggins, TBone Burnett and the Coen Brothers. Morgan’s

Wonderland placed Emma Faye on their Wall of Fame as an individual

who has gone above and beyond to do great things for people with

special needs.

Today, Emma Faye travels all around the country speaking at business

conventions, ministries, churches and deaf conferences sharing her

story and letting others know about the programs Aid the Silent offers

to the deaf/hard-of-hearing community. It is because of her ability to

communicate via sign language and orally that she is able to unify the

Deaf community with the hearing world. Emma Faye is the primary

fundraiser and spokesperson for Aid the Silent as well as Executive

Director. She also serves as Mission Staff for Deaf Young Life. Emma

Faye graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio Honors

College with Highest Honors (1 of 5) and Cum Laude with a BA in

Communications and a minor in Non-profit Management.