The Pulse | CityBox Index Roundtable | Where Leadership Meets Meaningful Conversation
Inside the CityBox Index Executive Roundtable™ on the Gulf Coast
Leadership moves forward through meaningful conversation—when the right people gather around one table, exchange ideas openly, and build relationships with intention.
The CityBox Index Executive Roundtable™ is an invitation-only leadership gathering created by CityBox Index™. Each roundtable brings together a carefully curated group of founders, CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, and business leaders for substantive conversation in an intimate and trusted setting.
The Gulf Coast roundtable is part of a much broader vision: building a national and global leadership ecosystem that discovers, documents, and connects influential leaders across cities, industries, the United States, and international markets.
A Different Kind of Leadership Gathering
The CityBox Index Executive Roundtable™ is not a traditional networking event.
There are no crowded rooms, hurried introductions, or transactional exchanges. Instead, a select group of leaders gathers around one table to speak openly about leadership, business growth, innovation, industry challenges, strategic relationships, and the ideas shaping the future.
The intimate format creates space for thoughtful dialogue, authentic engagement, and a deeper understanding of the people behind the titles, companies, and accomplishments.
Every leader arrives with a distinct perspective. Every conversation creates the possibility for greater insight, stronger relationships, and opportunities that can extend far beyond the table.
Our Vision
The vision of the CityBox Index Executive Roundtable™ is to create a trusted environment where accomplished and emerging leaders can be seen, heard, understood, and meaningfully connected.
CityBox Index™ believes leadership should not be defined solely by professional titles, public visibility, or business achievements. Leadership should also be understood through the values, experiences, decisions, ideas, and relationships that shape a person’s influence.
Through these conversations, CityBox Index™ identifies the individuals moving industries, organizations, and communities forward while preserving their perspectives as part of a broader leadership intelligence ecosystem.
Our Mission
The mission of the CityBox Index Executive Roundtable™ is to bring select leaders together for conversations that create greater understanding, stronger relationship capital, and meaningful possibilities for collaboration.
Through the roundtable experience, CityBox Index™ works to discover influential and emerging leaders across industries, document the experiences and perspectives shaping business and society, and connect leaders across cities, markets, industries, and international borders.
The roundtable also creates an environment where relationships are formed through substance, trust, generosity, and shared value.
Important leadership insights and connections can then extend beyond a single gathering through CityBox Index™, CityBox Magazine, executive editorial storytelling, strategic introductions, and future private convenings.
The Gulf Coast serves as an important meeting point within this expanding ecosystem—connecting leaders throughout Florida and Alabama to a much broader national and global leadership network.
Leaders We Have Had the Pleasure of Welcoming
Niels K. Andersen
Founder and CEO
Kontact Intelligence and VetCV
Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Workforce Intelligence
Niels brings a forward-thinking perspective on artificial intelligence, workforce innovation, technology, and the future of how organizations identify, understand, and support talent.
Brandyn Ulmer
Founder and CEO
Atlas Industrial Outsourcing
Industry: Industrial Cleaning and Specialized Temporary Staffing
Brandyn contributes valuable insight into industrial operations, workforce solutions, business growth, and the leadership required to serve highly specialized industries.
Hailey Vavao
Founder
The Will Well
Industry: Wellness and Fitness Services
Hailey brings a thoughtful perspective on wellness, personal development, intentional living, and the important relationship between leadership, purpose, and well-being.
J.R. Sartaguda
Founder
Superior Insurance Brokerage
Industry: Insurance and Professional Services
J.R. contributes experience in insurance, risk management, client relationships, and the importance of trusted professional guidance.
Donald Shelton
Founder and Owner
CLS Enterprise Inc.
Industry: Construction and General Contracting
Donald brings extensive knowledge of construction, contracting, entrepreneurship, project leadership, and building a business grounded in service, accountability, and execution.
Charlotte Bergman
Account Executive
Tier One Media
Industry: Media, Marketing, and Communications
Charlotte contributes insight into media strategy, brand visibility, communications, audience engagement, and the evolving ways organizations connect with the communities they serve.
Dave Nelson
Partner and Business Development Manager
Cyclone 365
Industry: Cybersecurity and Information Technology
Dave brings a relationship-centered perspective to cybersecurity, technology, and business development, with an emphasis on educating and supporting organizations before asking them to make critical technology decisions.
Maryan Aiken
Founder and CEO
CityBox Index™, CityBox Magazine, CityBox Media, and ARENCON GLOBAL
Industry: Leadership Intelligence, Media, Artificial Intelligence, and Global Business Strategy
Under Maryan Aiken’s leadership, CityBox Index™ is building an AI-native leadership intelligence ecosystem that fuses technology with humanity.
Her vision brings together structured leadership intelligence, editorial storytelling, executive visibility, strategic relationships, and global business development to ensure that influential leaders are not only discovered, but thoughtfully documented, understood, and connected.
By combining the intelligence and scale of technology with the insight, trust, and authenticity of human relationships, Maryan is advancing a platform designed to preserve leadership legacies and create meaningful connections across cities, industries, the United States, and the world.
The Power of One Table
Each leader brought a distinct perspective to the roundtable, creating a powerful exchange of ideas, experiences, strategic insights, and meaningful connections.
The value of the CityBox Index Executive Roundtable™ does not end when the conversation concludes.
The relationships, ideas, and leadership stories discovered around the table become part of a wider ecosystem—one designed to connect people across industries and geographies while preserving the leadership legacies of those helping shape the future.
This is the purpose of CityBox Index™: to create spaces where leadership is not simply introduced, but thoughtfully discovered, meaningfully documented, and strategically connected.
One Table. Select Leaders. Conversations With Greater Reach.
The CityBox Index Executive Roundtable™ is where meaningful conversation becomes relationship capital and where leadership has the opportunity to reach far beyond the room.
JR Sartaguda. Founder. Superior Insurance Brokerage. Brandyn Ulmer. Founder and CEO. Atlas Industrial Outsourcing. Dave Nelson. Partner and Business Development Manager
Cyclone 365. Niels K. Andersen. Founder and CEO. Kontact Intelligence and VetCV