On Monday May 2, 2014, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the inaugural run of the Entrepreneur in Residence Program. The program lasts for one year and the entrepreneurs chosen will focus on building the economy and creating jobs in the in the city of Los Angeles.

This year's entrepreneurs are Krisztina "Z" Holly and Amir Tehrani. Holly is the creator of the very first TEDx in 2009 entitled TEDxUSC, the founding executive director of Deschpande Center for Technological Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an advisor to the Obama administration and the world economic forum. Tehrani served as a US Delegate to the G20Y summit in France, co-chair of the G20 Summit in Washington DC, a founding board member of HUB Los Angeles and Co-Founder of the Legacy Foundation. We can't wait to see what these dynamic entrepreneurs will bring to the city of Los Angeles.