Anne Ahola Ward is a published Author and above all, Futurist. Known as the Mother of Startups, Ward was named as one of Entrepreneur's "27 Top Masters of Marketing that everyone can learn from" in 2014, and again in "Top 50 Inspirational Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017". Anne sometimes tours as an IoT Influencer with the elite IBM Futurist Program. Her list of clients include Apple, Dr. Phil, Samsung, Heroku, Twilio, Inc. magazine, Farmer's Insurance, A&E Intervention's Ken Seeley and Rikki Rockett from Poison. Anne has thrived in most areas of technology, having mastered almost every role in web development; DBA, webmaster, developer, graphic designer, and video editor. She was an early entrant into the field of search engine optimization as the field was forming.