Michael Hess is Co-Founder and CEO at Emporia. Founded in 2021, Emporia is a premiere B2B audience activation company, enabling organizations to find, qualify, and engage hard‑to‑reach decision‑makers worldwide. Unlike others in the sample and insights space, Emporia unifies programmatic recruitment, automated LinkedIn credentialing, and real‑time activation, allowing clients to launch studies, refine marketing campaigns, and surface actionable intelligence without wrangling multiple vendors.

Before Emporia Michael was an Information Systems Consultant at Baker Tilly before starting a small digital content agency for travel brands, mostly boutique hotels, which led to an opportunity within global marketing at Marriott International as a Manager with Global Creative and Content Marketing supporting social content strategy for the company's 3 ...