Michael Brooks is the CEO and founder of goLance, an award-winning online freelance marketplace that's used to recruit, screen, hire, manage, and pay global talent. He runs this company, which has more than 545,000 users and $81+ million in payouts, entirely with freelancers. And he does this from his home or anywhere--without the expense and office overhead of a traditional business. In addition, he is the founder of ResponseCRM, a direct marketing automation and subscription billing company.

Brooks is also the author of two books focused on digital currency and the credit card industry and has been a speaker at major global conferences on freelancing, remote work, digital currency, ecommerce, customer relationship management automation, and other topics.