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Elaine Y. Fry is Group Director of Manufacturing & Production for Forbes, Forbes Life, Forbes Asia and soon, Forbes Life Executive Woman. Elaine has over 25 years experience in publishing production, working at The New York Times during and after graduating from Hunter College in New York City. She entered the magazine world with Ziff Davis as Production Editor for Cycle Magazine. She joined Time Inc. in Editorial Operations at Pine Street when that operation was relocated from Chicago, ultimately serving as Time Magazine's Worldwide Operations Manager.

Mr. Ghosh holds an MS from the University of Massachusetts with a concentration in marketing management and research methods. He has over sixteen years of marketing research experience, serving in a variety of positions including data analyst, research manager and project manager. Mr. Ghosh has also trained extensively in statistical and tabulation methods and technology with SPSS, Sawtooth Software, and The Burke Institute. He has been with the Forbes group for the past 14 years.

Christina Valhouli wrote and co-produced Curve. She is a travel writer for Forbes.com. As a former staff writer at George magazine, she interviewed celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bo Derek, Queen Latifah and Alicia Silverstone. Prior to George, she was an editorial assistant at Town & Country magazine and interned at The New York Times and London's Press Association, England's national news agency.

Mr. Dreman is the founder, and Chairman of Dreman Value Management, L.L.C. and also the firm's Chief Investment Officer. Dreman Value Management, L.L.C., focuses on the assets of mutual funds, pension, foundation and endowment funds, as well as high net-worth individuals. The Scudder-Dreman High Return Equity Fund, managed by Mr. Dreman, has been ranked as number one in the Equity-Income group by Lipper Analytical Services since the fund's inception in March 18, 1988.Mr. Dreman founded his first investment firm, Dreman Value Management, Inc., in 1977 and served as its President and then Chairman to 1995, followed by a similar role at Dreman Value Advisors, Inc. from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Dreman's recent best selling book, Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation, was published in the spring of 1998 by Simon & Schuster. His previous widely acclaimed books include Psychology and the Stock Market, (1977); Contrarian Investment Strategy: The Psychology of Stock Market Success, (1980); and The New Contrarian Investment Strategy, (1982). Articles dealing with the success of Mr. Dreman's methods have appeared in many national publications, including Forbes, Barron's, Institutional Investor, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, Money and Fortune magazines. A regular columnist for Forbes for over 25 years, he has made numerous presentations before groups such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Society of Quantitative Analysts, the Harvard Medical School, the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, the Institute of Psychology and Markets, the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR), the National Financial Analysts Seminar, and numerous other academic and professional groups. Mr. Dreman's research findings have also been published in the Financial Analysts Journal, and the Journal of Investing. Mr. Dreman is also the co-editor of the academic journal, The Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets, a Director of the IFREE Foundation, whose founder Vernon Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics this year, and President of the Dreman Foundation. Mr. Dreman was awarded a Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Manitoba in 1999 and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Manitoba.

As chief investment officer and one of the founders of Westcore Properties, E. Owen Frost is responsible for analyzing and determining the return of risk on alternative and traditional investments, ensuring quality control, managing the investment process, structuring equity and debt for each investment, and oversees asset management and accounting functions. Owen has more than 27 years of experience in portfolio acquisitions, finance, asset repositioning and one-off dispositions. Prior to the formation of Westcore, Owen served as chief investment officer for The Shidler Group on the West Coast from 1995 2000 where he facilitated the structuring of debt and equity optimization and oversaw asset management. Owen's experience before that includes his position as investment manager at Koll Investment Management, a pension fund investment advisor, and at Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, a national real estate office and industrial developer. A resident of Santa Monica, CA, Owen is a graduate of Stanford University with distinction and departmental honors in Mechanical Engineering, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Owen is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and is actively involved in volunteer organizations including serving as a referee with American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO), co-director of Boy Scouts of America Eagle program, Assistant Leader for both the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of America, regional supporter of Little League in Santa Monica and has been on the board of St Martins Church and the House Ear Institute.

Jay is a sales veteran with an amazing wealth of experience and a real enjoyment of client service and sales. He simply loves what he does. His career has been built by collaborating with others, ultimately developing great ideas into great sales - and most important, results for his clients. For roughly 30 years, before his joining the Mediacentric team, Jay worked in media sales at Newsweek as San Francisco Sales Manager, Time as West Coast Technology Manager, and Mutual Funds Magazine as West Coast Sales Director. Now, he represents Technology Review at Mediacentric. Jay has been married for 35 years to Sharyn, and is the father of two advertising children (Mark, an online sales representative at Forbes.com, and Jordanna, a Media Supervisor at Grey Advertising). He is an avid reader, traveler, frustrated golfer and photographer.

Former SIU Saluki Quarterback Joel Sambursky serves as Born Athletic's Vice President of Business Development and also heads up training for football as an Athletic Development Specialist. The Liberty, Missouri native is no stranger to SIU gridiron fans, having manned the helm for the Dawgs for four seasons and leading the team to three consecutive Gateway championships and NCAA playoff berths. Prior to his arrival in Carbondale, Joel was second-team all-state, first team all-metro, all-area, all-district and all-conference in football with a gaudy 27-5 record as a starting quarterback. Sambursky passed for 1,200 yards and rushed for an additional 600 yards as a starter and was also a four-year letter winner in track. During his time under center fot the Salukis, he played in an unprecedented 49 straight games, was voted the "Toughest Saluki" for four straight years by his teammates, and set many Saluki quarterback records. Sambursky received his bachelors' degree in Finance in 2005 and his Masters degree in Business Administration in 2007, both from SIUC. Currently a financial consultant with Forbes Financial Group in Carbondale, Joel continues to serve his community both on and off the football field. Joel holds his Series 7 and 66 licenses and enjoys helping clients reach their financial goals and objectives. In addition to his work with Forbes, Joel remains active by serving as a sideline reporter for Saluki football broadcasts and also contributing a monthly column to the Southern Illinois Sports Connection. Sambursky resides in Carbondale and is married to past Saluki women's golfer, the former Samantha Sutzer.

John J. Nestor, Jr., Ph.D. Dr. Nestor is the founding CEO of TheraPei Pharmaceuticals, Inc.. He has more than 25 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in drug discovery and scientific management, much of that time at the VP level in major pharma, including 8 years as Vice President, Syntex Discovery Research and Director of the Syntex Institute of Bio-Organic Chemistry. Following the acquisition of Syntex by Roche, he served as Distinguished Scientist in the Roche Bioscience organization (Roche Research Vice President level), where he worked until co-founding a chemistry-focused, drug discovery company, Helios Pharmaceuticals. He is co-inventor of 10 compounds that have reached the clinical development stage, including three that are now marketed drugs (Synarel , Antagon , Valcyte ). Immediately prior to founding TheraPei Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Nestor was Executive Vice President, Drug Discovery at Sequenom.

A co-founder of ICx, Peter W. Huber is a partner in the law firm of Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel based in Washington, DC, and was a co-founding partner of Digital Power Capital. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for then Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He earned his law degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Mr. Stovall joined E. F. Hutton in 1953 where he was Research Partner from 1961-1967. He was a partner in Reynolds and of Dean Witter. He was President of Stovall Twenty First Advisors from 1985 through 1999 when he joined Prudential Financial as Senior Market Strategist. He has been a regular on the Louis Rukeyser show and on both CNN and CNBC. Since 1968 he has been a regular columnist for both Forbes and Financial World. Bob graduated from Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. degree in Economics and from New York University with an M.B.A. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1965. Since 1985 he has been a Professor of Finance at NYU's Stern Graduate School of Business, and has been a regular lecturer at Stetson University since 1988.

Steve joined Forbes as reporter in 1962, when the magazine was small and relatively unknown. Rising to Staff Writer, Associate Editor and Senior Editor, he wrote thousands of articles, including more than fifty cover stories, on all aspects of business and finance. His specialty was critiquing publicly traded companies and their managements. He started Forbes' first bureau in 1967 in Los Angeles, oversaw the expansion its worldwide bureau network until 1977 and frequently served as the magazine's interim Managing Editor from the late 1960s onward.

Tim is a partner in Reason inc. He serves on two boards, one public and one private, and he is co-author of Unsolicited Advice, a weekly marketing column appearing at Forbes.com and of Being Reasonable, a quarterly column in Media magazine. After graduating with a B.A. from Dartmouth and an M.B.A. from Columbia, Tim began his career in advertising in 1968 with Doyle Dane Bernbach, where he learned from arguably the greatest creative director of them all, Bill Bernbach. Four years later, looking for new and different challenges, he went into political campaign consulting, again choosing to work directly with one of the acknowledged masters, David Garth. It was a heady and exhausting six-year experience, culminating in the against-all-odds victory by Ed Koch for Mayor of New York City. Tim then went back into consumer advertising, joining Young & Rubicam. There, his career took a number of interesting turns, from domestic account management to head of new business to general agency management to worldwide director of client services. Constantly traveling, he became a specialist in global accounts, leading Y&R's efforts to consolidate both the Colgate-Palmolive and Citibank accounts net incremental annual revenues of $75 MM. He served as CEO of Y&R's flagship New York office and of HDM Worldwide, an agency network jointly owned by Y&R, Dentsu and Havas. He was a director of Y&R Inc. for ten years, a vice-chairman for six years, and a member of the corporate executive committee. After 30 years, Tim had enough of corporate life, and he became a consultant, a writer and an entrepreneur. He has advised domestic and international consumer product and media companies, advertising agencies, sports agents and private equity investors. He is an active co-founder of a company that creates business products, processes and systems utilizing digital communications. Tim and his family divide their time between the Upper West Side and the East End of Long Island.

Wil Schroter is a serial entrepreneur. In 1994 at age 19, while a still a student at the Ohio State University, he began his first company, Blue Diesel, an interactive marketing agency serving clients such as Best Buy, BMW, and Eli Lilly. As CEO of the company, Wil grew Blue Diesel from his dorm room beginnings to over $60 million in capitalized billings in just over 5 years. Wil sold Blue Diesel to inChord Communications which was then sold to Ventiv Health, a publicly traded company. In addition to starting companies, Wil also writes about them. He is a nationally syndicated columnist for American City Business Journals where his entrepreneurial advice appears in over 40 major markets. He is a contributing columnist for Forbes as well as the author of three books, including "Go BIG or Go HOME" which details how to grow startup companies as quickly as possible. Wil has been named Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Association and is has also been recognized by the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year program. He has also been named the Ohio Businessperson of the Year as well as Business First's Top 40 Under 40. He is frequently featured in national media including NBC, The Wall Street Journal and Red Herring.

Bruce Janicke has worked as an editor at newspapers in Westchester County, N.Y., and Connecticut, was copy chief at Billboard magazine, and is currently a news editor at Forbes.com. He was the arts and entertainment editor at a Connecticut weekly newspaper and wrote movie reviews for both that paper and later for Billboard. At Forbes.com he has also written book reviews. All material on this page is copyrighted by offoffonline, 2004-2009. All rights reserved.

Indrajit Gupta, 40 years, is the Editor of Network18's forthcoming premium business magazine, which will be launched in alliance with Forbes. Before joining the group, he was the Resident Editor of the flagship edition of The Economic Times in Mumbai. He served as National Business Editor at The Times of India during the big newspaper war in Mumbai in 2005.In 1994, he switched from a career in advertising at HTA (now JWT) to join Business Standard, where he edited The Strategist, a prestigious management and marketing weekly as its Deputy Features Editor. He then joined Businessworld as part of its leadership team and played a key role in transforming BW into the country's leading business magazine. Indrajit was nominated for the British Chevening Fellowship for Print Journalists awarded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1999. He is an alumnus of the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai and also holds a B.Com (Honours) degree from St Xavier's College, Calcutta.