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Horace Julian Bond was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in January 1940. His father, Dr. Horace Mann Bond, was the first president of Fort Valley State College, and in 1945 became the first black president of the country's oldest black private college, Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. The Bond family lived at Lincoln until 1957, when Dr. Bond became dean of the School of Education at Atlanta University. His mother, Julia Washington Bond, retired in her 90s after working for decades as a librarian. Julian Bond graduated from the George School, a coeducational Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1957, and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta that same year. While still a student, Bond was a founder of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), a student civil rights organization that helped win integration of Atlanta's movie theaters, lunch counters, and parks. Bond was also one of several hundred students from across the South who helped to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He later became SNCC's communications director, responsible for its printing and publicity departments and editing the SNCC newsletter, The Student Voice. Bond also worked in voter registration drives in the rural South. Bond left Morehouse one semester short of graduation in 1961 to join the staff of a new protest newspaper, The Atlanta Inquirer. He later became the paper's managing editor. Bond returned to Morehouse in 1971 and graduated with a B.A. in English. Turning his attentions to the political sphere, Bond was first elected in 1965 to a one year term in the Georgia House of Representatives. Members of the House voted not to seat him because of his outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam. Bond was elected two more times before the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Georgia House had violated Bond's rights in refusing him his seat. During his service in the Georgia General Assembly, Bond was sponsor or co sponsor of more than 60 bills that became law, and he organized the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, then the largest such group in the nation. He was elected to the Georgia Senate in 1974. When he left the state senate in January 1987, Bond had been elected to public office more times than any other black Georgian, living or dead, ending his tenure only when an unsuccessful congressional race in 1986 prevented him from seeking re election to the Senate. In 1968, Bond was co chairman of the Georgia Loyal National Delegation to the Democratic Convention. The Loyalists, an insurgent group, were successful in unseating the hand picked regulars. Bond was nominated for Vice President of the United States, the first black person to be so nominated by a major political party, though he withdrew his name because he was too young to serve. Bond holds numerous honorary degrees and has served on the boards of many organizations working for social change. He is currently a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C., and a professor in the history department at the University of Virginia. In 1995, Bond was elected to his fourth term on the National Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Bond has served as chairman of the NAACP since his election in February 1998. A collection of Bond's essays has been published under the title A Time To Speak, A Time To Act. His poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times, American Negro Poetry, the Los Angeles Times, and several other national publications.

Phil joined Columbia Capital in 1992 and focuses primarily on communication technologies investments. Phil is currently a member of the Board of Directors of CoManage, Hatteras Networks, Hillcrest Communications, Mangrove Systems, and Vibrant Solutions and is actively involved with Broadsoft, Megisto Systems, Rivermine, and Sandbridge Technologies. Former Columbia Capital portfolio companies that Phil managed include Altiga Networks (purchased by Cisco Systems), Call Technologies (purchased by 3-Com), Columbia Spectrum Management (purchased by P-Com) , NMP (purchased by Commerce One), Ocular Networks (purchased by Tellabs), Riverbed Technologies (purchased by Aether Systems), Saville Systems (SAVLY subsequently purchased by ADC Communications), Taqua (purchased by Tekelec), Telular (WRLS), and Torrent Networking Technologies (purchased by Ericsson). In 1993, Phil joined Telular Corporation as its Chief Financial Officer where he led the company through an initial public offering, returning to Columbia in 1994. Prior to joining Columbia Capital, he served in various financial management positions for Energy Service Company, Energy Insurance International, Marsh & McLennan, and Lloyd's of London broker C.T. Bowring & Co. in London, England. Phil received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his M.B.A. from Kenan-Flager Business School at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Harold T. Brown Jr. is employed as a Senior Computer Systems Engineer at the University of Virginia, having worked at UVA in various positions since 1989. H.T. retired from the United States Naval Reserve after 28 years of service, including a final postion as Command Senior Chief of the reserve component of Fleet Information Warfare Center in Norfolk, VA and a final active duty deployment in war torn Yugoslavia in 1996, where he was Chief-in-Charge to establish AM/FM emergency broadcasts. H. T. Brown earned an Associate of Science in Business Administration from Ferrum Collge as well as an Associate of Applied Science in Data Process from Central Virginia College, before being awarded a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the School of Engineering at the University of Virginia. Mr. Brown is active in his church and with the Ruritans. He has also held various leaderships positions witht the Boys Scouts of America, serving as Scoutmaster of Troop 32 in Piney River for ten years, as Council Advancement Chairman for the Blue Ridge Mountain Council and as a leader at the BSA National Jamboree.

Tony Hobson was appointed as Chairman to the Board on 24 May 2007. Tony is also a Director of Cenkos Securities plc which is admitted to AIM. He was previously Group Finance Director of Legal & General Group plc for fourteen years retiring in 2001 ; and the Senior Independent Director of Thames Water plc, prior to its acquisition by RWE in 2000. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.

Dr. Taylor is presently a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Virginia and the primary inventor of the Heteropolymer-mediated system to remove blood-borne pathogens. He has been actively engaged in research studies in the field of immunology, complement fixation, and autoimmune diseases for the past 20 years. Dr. Taylor received his BS in Chemistry from City College and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Princeton University.

Edward Elson served as the US Ambassador to Denmark from 1993-1998. Mr. Elson is a Charter Trustee of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He is a Director of Hampton Investments and Atlantic-American Corp. He is a Trustee of Hampton University and serves on the Dean's Advisory Committee of Columbia University's School of International Affairs. He is a Trustee of The Game Conservancy, USA. He was Rector of the University of Virginia, First Chairman of National Public Radio and the National Public Radio Foundation, Chairman of the Jewish Publication Society, Chairman of Commentary Magazine and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Jewish Committee. He was a Director of NationsBank of Georgia; W.H. Smith Group plc; Atlantic American Corp.; Genesco, among others. Mr. Elson was Chairman of the Board of the following: Bank of Gordon County; Elson's; Atlanta News Agency, Inc.; W.H. Smith Holdings (USA); and, The Majestic Wine Corp. A faculty and Board member of the University of Virginia, he was also a Trustee of Brown, Talladega College, Hebrew Union College, Spelman College, and Brenau University where he was the Secretary. He was a Director of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. He was Chairman of the Jeffersonian Restoration Advisory Board of the University of Virginia and a Trustee of the American Federation of the Arts and The National Peace Garden Foundation, among others. He is a member of the Council of St. George's House Windsor Castle, a Trustee of the American Friends of the British Museum and a Trustee of the American Friends of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Currently, he is a Trustee of the Asia Society, Vice Chairman of The American Scandinavian Foundation and Co-Chair of the Institute for European Studies at Columbia University. He is on the faculty of Aalborg University in Denmark. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Talladega College and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Brenau University. He was awarded the Grand Cross, Denmark's highest order for a non-head of state or a member of the Danish Royal Family, by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe and the Merkonom Award as the individual who contributed most to Danish economic life in 1997.

Mr. Fontham is an active teacher, author and lecturer. He was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, 1982-83. He currently teaches as an adjunct professor of law at the Tulane University and Louisiana State University Schools of Law and has three times received the Monte Lemann Award at Tulane for distinguished teaching. Mr. Fontham is an instructor in the Trial Advocacy Institute at the University of Virginia and has been an instructor in the Trial Clinical Program at Tulane, skills courses at Loyola University School of Law, and the LSU Bar Review. Mr. Fontham is the author of Trial Technique and Evidence (2d ed., Lexis Nexis, 2002) (3d ed., NITA, 2008) and is the lead author of Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy: In Trial and Appellate Courts (Aspen, 2007), an extensive revision and expansion of his Written and Oral Advocacy (Wiley, 1985). He has written a number of articles and delivered numerous lectures on trial and appellate advocacy, evidence, utility regulation and civil rights issues. Mr. Fontham has been named to The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers U.S.A. America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the field of public utility law.

He is active in a number of local organizations, and currently is Trustee and Chairman of the Development Board of the College of William & Mary School of Education, a member of the President's Council of William & Mary, Chairman of the University of Virginia George Graham Lectures, and an Advisory Board member of the Virginia International University.

Dr. Gwaltney is Chief of the Division of Epidemiology and Virology at the University of Virginia, Director of the Center for Prevention Disease and Injury, and Professor Emeritus. Dr. Gwaltney's clinical interest include infectious diseases, clinical virology and acute respiratory disease. Over the past three decades, his research interests have been in the common cold, upper respiratory infections and influenza. Dr. Gwaltney in internationally recognized for more than 30 years of research on rhinoviruses and is author of more than 300 published articles, book chapters and books. He is the recipient of a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and is co-editor of the textbook "Infectious Disease and Antimicrobial Therapy of the Ears, Nose,and Throat."

Carl L. Berg, M.D., is interim chief and professor in medicine for the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville. For more than 10 years, Dr. Berg has served numerous terms on various OPTN/UNOS committees. He is a member and vice-chair of the OPTN/UNOS membership and professional standards (MPSC) committee as well as its policy compliance subcommittee and performance and certification work group; he previous served as chair the MPSC's data subcommittee. He has been a member of the review board (liver) for his region since 1997. In addition, he serves as co-chair for the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant cohort study (A2ALL), funded by the National Institutes of Health. He recently directed the review course for transplant hepatology board certification through the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Dr. Berg earned his medical degree at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., completed his medical residency at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and his fellowship training at Brigham and Womena s Hospital.

C. Ray Smith, CPA Professor Smith is Executive Director of the Darden School Foundation at the University of Virginia and the Tipton R. Snavely Professor of Business Administration. His areas of expertise include real estate development and finance as well as entrepreneurship, and he has acted as Darden's interim Dean on three occasions. Professor Smith is the author of Cases in Management Accounting and Control Systems.

Andy Mink is Director of Outreach and Education for the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia. He leads professional development workshops for K-12 and university educators around the country to design, implement, and evaluate learning expeditions that use digitized primary resources in the classroom to meet American History curriculum standards. Digital archives provide teachers with the opportunity to create a hands-on classroom environment in which academic, emotional, and physical instruction are emphasized.

Dr. Owen serves as Research Director for the Center for the Advancement of Generalist Medicine at the University of Virginia. An accomplished educator and administrator, he has been published and has presented on a wide range of medical education subjects. He earned his doctorate degree in education and masters degrees in Epidemiology, Educational Administration and Supervision, and English Education from the University of Virginia.

John P. DiMarco, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Electrophysiology Service at the University of Virginia. After receiving an undergraduate degree from Fordham University in New York, he completed an MD-PhD program in pharmacology and medicine at Case Western Reserve University. He then went on to complete an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a year of fellowship training in clinical pharmacology at Case Western, after which he returned to Massachusetts General for training in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. In 1981 he came to the University of Virginia to establish the clinical electrophysiology lab. Dr. DiMarco is on numerous editorial boards, and he served 10 years, including 4 as chairman, on the EP test committee of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He remains active on committees of the ABIM, AHA, ACC, and NASPE. He has published extensively on cardiac arrhythmias and antiarrhythmic therapy. The second edition of the general cardiology textbook, Cardiology, which he co-edited with Drs. Michael Crawford and Walter Paulus, was released at the AHA meeting in November 2005.

Karen S. Rheuban, MD currently serves as Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Senior Associate Dean for External Affairs and Continuing Medical Education and Medical Director of the Office of Telemedicine at UVA. She is Vice President of the American Telemedicine Association, and a board member of the Center for Telehealth and E-Health Law. She has presented Congressional testimony re telehealth, she has worked with Virginia Medicaid to provide coverage of telehealth services for all eligible Virginia children regardless of geographic location.

Goldstein is serving his second term as CSVA President where he facilitates the daily activities of the organization. A 1994 graduate of Syracuse University, Goldstein is in his 8th year as the Director of Video Operations for Football at the University of Virginia. Prior to his arrival at Virginia, Goldstein spent the previous years as a support representative with Pinnacle Sports, Director of Video Operations with the XFL, Video Director of USC and Assistant Video Director with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Michael Wormington is Associate Professor of Biology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Biology at the University of Virginia. He received a BA with honors in Biology from the University of Kansas in 1975 and his PhD in Biochemistry also from Kansas in 1979. From 1979-1982 he was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institution's Dept. of Embryology. In 1989 he joined the Biology faculty of the University of Virginia. In 1998, Prof. Wormington was an Overseas Visiting Scholar in the Dept. of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. His lab has a longstanding interest in investigating the regulation of gene expression during oogenesis and embryogenesis and has recently initiated new studies characterizing the biogenesis of microRNAs and their function in silencing maternal mRNAs. He has authored or co-authored 40 peer-reviewed publications and his research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. He has given many invited presentations at institutions and conferences throughout the UK and Europe. Prof. Wormington has taught both introductory and advanced courses integrating aspects of cellular, molecular and developmental biology. Since 1992 he has taught the core Cell Biology course for which he has received two departmental distinguished teaching awards, and the 2004 All-University Teaching Awar

Patrick Dorsey is the Legislative Director of the Roosevelt Institution. He is also the Policy Director of the Roosevelt Institution at The University of Virginia, where he has worked in the past as the Chair of the Center on Campaigns and Elections. Outside of Roosevelt, he's worked on the staff of a central virginia office of the Jim Webb for Senate Campaign, John Kerry's Presidential Campaign, and for the campaigns of US Representative Tom Davis and VA Del. Chap Petersen. He worked for Senator John Warner in the winter of 2006, and in the Summer of 2006 was a Campaign Coordinator and Field Manager for the Washington, DC Regional Office of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. During the school year he is a research assistant at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee of Student Council.

Stewart Gamage joined the University of Virginia in 2008 as the Director of the Morven Project. She is the former Vice President for Public Affairs at the College of William and Mary, where she was responsible for university relations, publications, state and federal government relations and economic development. The Office of Public Affairs is charged with positioning William and Mary in the national marketplace and with its external constituents. She held this post beginning in 1994. Her experience draws from a wide range of assignments. She has served as Chief Operating Officer of APCO Associates, one of the largest public affairs firms in Washington, D.C.; Policy Director to former House Majority Leader, Dick Gephardt; Director of the Virginia Liaison Office and Senior Assistant to Governors Charles Robb and Gerald Baliles; and Associate Deputy of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House during the Carter Administration. Stewart has also worked as Staff Assistant for the Select Committee on Ethics and Commission on Administrative Review for the U.S. House of Representatives and as Assistant to the Chair of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. She was appointed in 1999 by President Bill Clinton to serve on the Commission for Presidential Scholars. She graduated summa cum laude from William and Mary in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts, and earned her MPA from the Washington Public Affairs Center at the University of Southern California in 1979. In addition to her government experience, Stewart is a founding director of the Phoenix Project, an initiative to prepare Virginia's next generation of nonprofit leaders while building partnerships between higher education and distressed communities. She serves on the state board of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. At the national level, Stewart was a founding member for Women Executives in State Government and the Democratic Leadership Council. At William and Mary, Stewart has served on the Board of the Society of the Alumni and was Vice Rector of the Board of Visitors. She is a former W&M Alumni Medallion award recipient and was presented with the Governor's Award for Community Service by Governor Mark Warner in 2005. Stewart has two children, Graves and Forbes Tompkins, is married to Joe Stettinius and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Lori is the manager for Corporate Compliance at the University of Virginia. She is an RN, has a master's in health care administration, and has been in health care roles for 26 years. Lori is certified through the AAPC in physician and hospital coding and is certified in health care compliance through the HCCB. Her current responsibilities include conducting hospital billing and documentation reviews, and developing and presenting education programs. Previously, Lori managed an ED, a CCU, an education department, an ophthalmology division, established an urgent care facility, and was a critical care educator. Other accomplishments include accreditation surveys, legal reviews, and publishing.

Amy Cheng is a second year Echols Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, where she plans to major in Chemistry and Psychology and work toward a health-related career. Amy graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in 2007. She was the historian and an active member of Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science (GEMS), the school?s organization devoted to mentoring and increasing the interest of Glasgow Middle School girls in the three subjects. At UVA, she tutors students through the Madison House volunteer program. Throughout high school she also volunteered in Patient Support Services at INOVA Fairfax Hospital, and she continues to volunteer there during her breaks from college. Amy took ballet and tap classes from the age of three to eighteen at Swan Ballet Dance Schools, where she participated in annual productions of The Nutcracker and the Spring Recital. She continues to pursue her love for dancing and performing as a member of the University Dance Club. Amy has previously attended many of the Fairfax Collegiate courses, and this will be her first time teaching Mathematics during the Summer Program.

Russian literature and language expert, author, and actor Professor Andy Kaufman has been bringing alive the Russian language and classics to Americans for over 10 years. He holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Stanford University, and he has recognized success as both a published scholar and an innovative, award-winning teacher of Russian language, literature, and culture at some of the country's top universities. Co-author of the renowned Russian for Dummies, Professor Kaufman has discussed Russian literature and culture on the national television show "Democracy Now!," and he has been heard as a featured guest on Pacifica Radio, Talk America Radio, and on Silver Rain Radio in Russia. In 2005, Professor Kaufman was a featured Russian Literature Expert for Oprah's Book Club, where he became known to a national American audience as a passionate, down-to-earth, and inspirational teacher of the Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy. A fluent speaker of Russian, Professor Kaufman has lived extensively in Russia, where he studied at Moscow State University and also worked as an interpreter, translator, and management consultant. Professor Kaufman trained and worked as a professional actor for five years. He helps students appreciate the rich tradition of Russian theater, and he draws on his acting skills to create captivating and enlightening talks and inspirational readings from the Russian classics. Professor Kaufman is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia, where he is also writing a book about the universal relevance of Tolstoy's major novels.

Up Close Audio was founded in 2006 with the goal of providing high-quality audio features for clients living in central and northern Virginia. Producer Andrew Witmer has worked for National Public Radio in Washington, DC, and Mars Hill Audio in Charlottesville, Virginia. He lives in Charlottesville, where he is a doctoral student in American History at the University of Virginia.

Elected 1998 Dr. Jones is the Quarles professor of engineering at the University of Virginia, where she has taught since 1989. From 1993 to 1997, Jones was on leave of absence from the university to serve as director of defense research and engineering in the U.S. Department of Defense. Jones also served as a director of our company from 1987 to 1993.

Anne Kinney is Full Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She specializes in the literature and social history of early China. Her books include Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China, Chinese Views of Childhood, and The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China. She studied Chinese language and literature in Taiwan from 1976-1979 and did graduate work at Peking University from 1982-1984. She is currently chair of East Asian languages, Literatures and Cultures.

Dr. Spellman is associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. She is also the current Secretary of the American Psychological Society and is a member of the governing board for the Psychonomic Society. She is currently associate editor of the journal Psychological Science.

Ben Schildkraut is a second-year student at the University of Virginia, double-majoring in Politics and Music. He is particularly interested in the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well as other Middle East issues, and different theoretical approaches to international relations. Aside from academics, Ben plays in a band and enjoys playing tennis. He is from Tenafly, New Jersey.

A board certified psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Griffeth is in active practice at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, VA. Dr. Griffeth is a regional authority on disaster psychiatry and Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder (PTSD), and has published several articles in addition to being an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth School of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Griffeth pledged Mu Beta Psi in Spring 1989 and was a charter member of Kappa Chapter (Wofford College), where he served as Chapter President. He was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1996, and has served multiple terms as its chairman. After graduating from Wofford College in 1991 and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 1996, Dr. Griffeth was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy in 1998. In 2002, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. His tours of duty have included Bethesda Naval Hospital, San Diego CA, Camp Lejeune NC, and contingency operations at Guantanomo Bay, Cuba. In addition, he served aboard the hospital ship USNS COMFORT in Manhattan following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and was deployed in the northern Persian Gulf during the initial portion of Operation Iraqi Freedom. However, Dr. Griffeth reports his greatest accomplishments are his marriage to fellow Kappa Alumna Amanda Pickelsimer Griffeth, and their two beautiful children, Aletha and Owen.

has been involved with inFluxdance for the past 3 years. He has served as lighting and scenic designer for the past two shows including An Absence of Fences and This Fairytale is not Working Out, which made it's international debut at the Montreal Fringe Festival this past June. Prior to that, Benoit's lighting was seen in the premiere of the Center for New Theater's production of Macbeth with Stephen Dillane. The work was shown at REDCAT in Los Angeles, the Almeida Theatre in London, and at the Sydney Theater in Australia. Originally from Quebec, he received a BFA with a specialization in Theatre Design from Concordia University. While attending Concordia, he spent most of his time designing for various projects. A few of these include The Mary Project (2001) at the infinitheatre and Faith, Hope and Charity (2000). From 1995-1997 he served as lighting technician and designer for Club Med in the Bahamas, Mexico, and Switzerland. Benoit received his MFA in Lighting Design at California Institute of the Arts where he also worked on Spit Shine Glisten, produced in collaboration with the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the workshop production of Brain People, a new play by Jose Rivera. His extensive credits in lighting design for dance include This is Not My Beautiful House, choreographed by Rose Pasquarello, and Sleeping with the Ambassador, a site specific piece at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, choreographed by Heidi Duckler. He has also collaborated with many dance artists including the GreatFruit Collective, Ella Ben-Aharon, Lauren Gordon, Sumi Kim and many more.

Bernard Frischer, PhD, is Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and Professor of Classics and Art History at the University of Virginia. Frischer is a leading scholar in the application of digital technologies to humanities research and education. He is the founder and director of the Cultural Virtual Reality Lab at UCLA, which uses three-dimensional computer modeling to reconstruct cultural heritage sites. Frischer has overseen many significant projects, including virtual recreations of the Roman Colosseum and the Roman Forum. The works of Frischer and the Lab have received international acclaim and have been featured on the Discovery Channel and in Newsweek and the New York Times.

Bruce Greyson, M.D., is the Bonner-Lowry Professor of Personality Studies in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia, where his research focuses on near-death experiences and related phenomena relevant to the question of survival. He is the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, and co-editor of The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives.

Dr. Cohen is an Associate Professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at University of Virginia. He is board-certified in both General Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He directs the Forensic Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

George provides senior pricing leadership on consulting engagements and is a faculty member of SPG's education services. With over 28 years of industry experience, he has held senior business, sales, and marketing positions at DuPont, Monsanto, and Union Carbide. A frequent speaker and writer on pricing strategy, George is also a regular lecturer at executive education programs at University of Minnesota, University of Chicago, and Columbia University. His insights and articles have appeared in leading publications such as The Economist, Marketing Management Magazine, Journal of Pricing Management, and the Chemical Marketing Review. George is a member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for the Study of Business Markets and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia. He holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering, an M.B.A., and has done doctoral work in marketing.