Sports broadcaster Scott Zolak was a quarterback with the NFL for nine seasons. Throughout his professional football career, Zolak played in 55 games for the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins, completed 124 of 248 passes for 1,314 yards, threw eight touchdowns and seven interceptions, and finished his career with a passer rating of 64.8. Following his retirement, Zolak became... read full bio
Senator Mitchell has served as Chairman of the Board of the Walt Disney since March 2004 and is Chairman of the law firm of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP and senior counsel to Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios in Portland, Maine. He served as a United States Senator from 1980 to 1995, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1989... read full bio
Stansfield Turner is a former United States Navy admiral and former Director of Central Intelligence and President of the Naval War College. He was formerly a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy. Under Turner's direction, the CIA emphasized technical intelligence and signal intelligence. Reform and simplification of the intelligence community's multilayered secrecy... read full bio
Considered the marketing guru of Silicon Valley, Regis McKenna is a well-known technology marketing consultant, advisor to entrepreneurs, venture capitalist and author. McKenna advised a number of entrepreneurial start-ups and their founders during their formation years including: America Online, Apple, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, Linear Technology, Lotus, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, Silicon Graphics, 3COM, and many others. He helped launch... read full bio
Apollo Robbins, otherwise known as The Gentleman Thief, is a performer, speaker, consultant and one of the world's leading experts on pickpockets, confidence crimes and deception. A pioneer in the application of deception to operational environments, Robbins uses pick-pocketing and sleight-of-hand to demonstrate perception management, diversion techniques and self-deception. Drawing from his twenty-plus years of experience as an entertainer and... read full bio
Former Congressman Ron Paul of Texas enjoys a national reputation as the premier advocate for liberty in politics today. Dr. Paul is the leading spokesman for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He is known among both his colleagues in Congress and his constituents for his consistent voting... read full bio
Canadian Home Improvement Contractor and TV Host- TV shows “Holmes on Holmes” and “Holmes Inspection”- Beginning with Holmes on Homes and subsequent shows, he rescues Toronto, Ontario, area homeowners from renovations gone wrong. He continued in his successor TV series, Holmes Inspection. He is also a judge on HGTV's show Handyman Superstar Challenge and its American counterpart All American Handyman... read full bio
Mark PIncus is the visionary behind Zynga and Zynga.org. He founded the company in 2007 to enable users to build social connections through games. On his way to Zynga, Mark started three companies. In 2003 he launched Tribe.net, one of he first social networks in the industry. Before that he founded Support.com and built the company... read full bio
Bob Parsons is the CEO and Founder of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. Parsons was a U.S. Marine during the Vietnam War and received the Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and a Purple Heart Medal. An entrepreneur, he started a software company, Parsons Technology. When Parsons Technology was sold to Intuit, Inc. in 1994 for $64 million dollars,... read full bio
As a busy mother of three, Jessica Seinfeld knows firsthand the challenges of getting kids to eat right in this day of processed, prepared foods. She started creating recipes from pureed vegetables, incorporating them into meals that were quick and easy, and her kids loved the food. Her first cookbook, Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good... read full bio
Ali Landry was the first former Miss Teen USA delegate to win the Miss USA crown, as well as the first to compete at Miss Universe. Her most recognized moment in her modeling career was her three year run as the Doritos Girl in the Super Bowl commercial. Also an actress, Landry portrayed the character Rita Lefleur on the UPN... read full bio
Mats Jansson is a Swedish businessperson. He was Chief Executive Officer of SAS Group from 2007 to 2010. Jansson was educated in economics and sociology at the University College of _rebro, before he started a career in ICA, where he held a range of senior positions from 1973 to 1994. He then worked as CEO of Catena until 1999 when... read full bio
In 2007, Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham, served as the UK Minister of State for Trade & Investment accepting a lifetime peerage in the House of Lords. Forthright and as ever loyal to British business he spent his 15 months in the position promoting Britain across the world, making 45 overseas visits, travelling to 31 different countries and meeting with... read full bio
Many people consider sports speaker Joan Laporta to be the best FC Barcelona president in history. A lot of people believe that Joan was the one who improved the club. He managed the team's victories in four Spanish leagues, a FIFA Club World Cup, and two UEFA Champions Leagues. In addition, the team won three Spanish Super Cups, a UEFA... read full bio
She gained notoriety for her work on E! Entertainment, where she hosted a number of network specials and contributed to E! News, E! News Weekend, Daily Pop, and Live From E! for over ten years. She has also become a mainstay on the red carpet, interviewing celebrities and covering events of the highest class during awards season. For the... read full bio
Sickly as a boy growing up in India, Vijay Amritaj was urged to take up a sport to improve his health. He chose tennis and went on to become one of the worlds premier tennis players. Amritajs life has been a series of firsts and triumphs in new fields of endeavor. A very successful businessman, Amritaj has been at the... read full bio
Vali Nasr is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and the Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In addition to serving as the seventh Dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS, he was the Senior Advisor to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the U.S.... read full bio
Tim Flannery is the chief councilor of the Australian Climate Council and a well-known scientist, explorer, and conservationist. He was the head commissioner of the Climate Commission under the Rudd administration and played a significant role in shaping Australian climate policy. Flannery is the author of The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change (2005). He has... read full bio
Brian Littrell is most known as a member the ultra popular boy band The Backstreet Boys. He reached heartthrob status in the mid to late ‘90s during the band’s peek. The band released four majorly successful albums before the boy band movement began to give way. Littrell then turned his attention to producing Christian music – a dream he’d always... read full bio
Pierre serves as chairman of eBay, a trustee of Tufts University, Santa Fe Institute and Punahou School; and as a commissioner for President Barack Obamas Commission on White House Fellowships. Pierre is also CEO and publisher of Honolulu Civil Beat, a local news service in Hawaii that encourages greater civic participation through media. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, with his... read full bio
