Age: 28
Year: 2nd
Hometown: Stephanie is from Miami, Fla. and Shereen is from Warren, Ohio
Undergrad: Stephanie went to Harvard and Shereen, to the University of Michigan
After graduating from Harvard at twenty, Stephanie spent more than seven years at the crossroads of entertainment, digital media and technology at both NBCUniversal and Google, where she realized the current talent discovery model is in need of a major overhaul. Born in the Dominican Republic, she has strong roots in Latin dance and music.
Shereen spent over four years working in tech at Intel and CoffeeTable. She's also been a dancer for over 20 years on stages big and small, including "America’s Got Talent," experiencing first-hand the difficulties emerging talent face in effectively marketing themselves outside of their existing networks.
Their love for the arts and their personal experiences inspired them to join up to connect people looking to find work in entertainment with people looking to hire them. The two girls met while rehearsing for an on-campus dance performance, and realized they both wanted to create a resource to empower artists.
The two co-founded Hypeli, an online destination for all things entertainment. Their website supplies people looking to hire talent with all the information and tools they need to book them, and is run right out of Harvard's Innovation Lab. The two won a Rock Accelerator Award to prove out their model