2026 Convention Speaker Bios

Jeff Allen – Keynote Speaker

Jeff Allen’s rapid-fire humor, which centers on marriage and family, is a hit with all ages. A live comedy favorite, Jeff, has appeared on Dry Bar Comedy (seven comedy specials), America’s Got Talent, Netflix, Amazon, Huckabee, PureFlix, Showtime, Comedy Central, VH1, and more. He starred in the critically acclaimed films, Apostles of Comedy and Onwards & Upwards, the syndicated comedy series, Bananas, his own one-hour comedy special, Happy Wife, Happy Life, and the Warner Bros. comedy film, Thou Shalt Laugh. Jeff has also been featured at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and HBO’s Aspen Comedy Arts Festival. His Dry Bar Comedy videos have amassed almost a billion views on social media and other platforms. At times both gut-wrenching and hilarious, Jeff’s Love & Laughter Tour offers a unique glimpse into his crazy world.

Jason Sullivan – Sunday Seminar Speaker

Jason Sullivan is the founder and CEO of Distro, the Agentic AI Sales Platform purpose-built for wholesale distributors and manufacturers’ reps. He holds a master’s in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence from Stanford and an undergraduate degree in cognitive science from Yale. This rare pairing gives him both deep technical mastery and a sharp understanding of how people actually adopt and use technology.
Before building Distro, Jason spent months on the ground in distribution, visiting distributors and rep agencies across the country, standing at counters, sitting in on sales calls, and studying how inside sales teams, outside reps, and operations actually work. What he found was an industry powered by extraordinary human expertise, running on tools that had fallen far behind the people using them.
What sets Jason apart is that he doesn’t just lead the company. He’s deeply hands-on in shaping the product vision, working alongside his engineering team every day to ensure Distro sets the standard for the industry. Having co-founded a fintech startup, led data and engineering at hedge funds, and served as CTO of multiple startups, he brings a rare combination of technical depth and firsthand understanding of distribution to everything Distro builds. As AI evolves, Distro evolves with it, and that advantage goes directly to every distributor and rep on the platform.
Today, Distro powers sales teams across the industry, from family-owned distributors to global enterprises, proving that world-class AI belongs in distribution, not just Silicon Valley.
Distro is backed by Y Combinator and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.