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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. 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.

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The founder and CEO of LeaderSource, Kevin is known for the creative design and implementation of leadership development and career management programs. He has served as Vice President of a major vocational services firm and as a Regional Director of an international human development organization. His educational background includes a Psychology Degree from St. John's University. Kevin has served as Chapter President and Board Member of the International Association of Career Management Professionals and is a Fellow of the International Board for Career Management. Kevin is a frequent speaker at conferences and special corporate events, has been featured in national media and trade publications, and is a Contributing Editor of Executive Excellence magazine. He was recently featured, along with Stephen Covey, Warren Bennis and Peter Senge, in the books A New Paradigm of Leadership (1997) and Partnering: The New Face of Leadership (2002). He is also the author of three books on leadership development and career management, the latest of which is Leadership from the Inside Out.

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.

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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.

Todd Buchholz "lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit," says the Associated Press. He recently jousted with James Carville and Ben Stein, and Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the "21 Top Speakers for the Twentieth Century." His editorials in the Wall Street Journal correctly forecast the 2001 slowdown in the U.S., and the New York Times has turned to him to decipher terrorist threats and the job market. "Witty, iconoclastic and engaging" says the Wall Street Journal of Buchholz, while BusinessWeek raved about his book Market Shock, which warned of quicksand facing the stock market. He entertains audiences, showing them how to thrive in a chaotic economy, while gearing up for prosperity. A former director of economic policy at the White House, a managing director of the $15 billion Tiger hedge fund, and an award-winning economics teacher at Harvard, Buchholz targets his entertaining remarks to the cutting edge of economics, finance, and business strategy. He has been a senior economic adviser to President Bush and is a frequent commentator on ABC News, PBS, and CBS, and recently hosted his own special on CNBC. Buchholz has debated such luminaries as Lester Thurow, Robert Reich and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. He is the Co-Founder of Enso Capital and Managing Director of Two Oceans Fund, a real estate fund. He has authored numerous books that have been translated into a dozen languages and are used in universities nationwide, the likes of which include Harvard, Brigham Young and Princeton. His latest books, New Ideas from Dead CEOs: Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office (HarperCollins) and a financial thriller The Castro Gene were released to wide acclaim in 2007. New Ideas from Dead CEOs was named a "best book of the year" by Entrepreneur. Market Shock: 9 Economic and Social Upheavals that Will Shake Our Financial Future, received rave reviews and was dubbed "outstanding" by the Wall Street Journal. Buchholz is also author of the best-selling New Ideas from Dead Economists, From Here To Economy, and Bringing the Jobs Home, which were lavishly praised by The New York Times and Financial Times. New Ideas from Dead Economists has been named a "classic" by the American Economic Association. Buchholz is a co-producer of the Broadway smash hit Jersey Boys, and he has penned articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Reader's Digest. He delivered a lecture at the White House entitled "Clarity, Honesty and Modesty in Economics," and has been a keynote speaker before IBM, Citibank and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Before joining Tiger in 1996, Buchholz was President of the G7 Group, an international consulting firm, whose clientele included many of the top securities firms, investment banks and money managers in New York, London, and Tokyo. From 1989 to 1992 he served at the White House as a Director for Economic Policy. Buchholz won the Allyn Young Teaching Prize at Harvard and holds advanced degrees in economics and law from Cambridge and Harvard. He also holds several engineering and design patents.

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.

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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.