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We’re excited to announce an awesome auction of Fernando Aguirre, CEO of Chiquita Brands.  He’s an exciting, innovative leader who brings high-impact and great experience to all the work he does.

Check out his bio from Forbes.com below:

Mr. Aguirre has been Chiquita’s President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2004 and its Chairman since May 2004. From July 2002 to January 2004 he served as President, Special Projects for The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), a manufacturer and distributor of consumer products. Prior to that, Mr. Aguirre had served P&G in various capacities from 1980 to 2002, including in an executive capacity with P&G’s Global Snacks and U.S. Food Products business units. Mr. Aguirre is also a director of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.

Join the auction and win the opportunity to speak directly to this legend of business!

Caterina Fake, one of the top thought leaders in the business world today, is offering up 30-minutes with her to the top bidder.  Her resume is filled with world-class recognitions and successes.  Check out the below directly from wikipedia:

Caterina Fake is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur.

Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall, attended Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991.

Fake is the co-founder of Hunch, a collective intelligence decision-making system that uses decision trees to make decisions based on users’ interests. It launched in June 2009.

Prior to Hunch, Fake co-founded Flickr, the popular photo-sharing service developed by Ludicorp in Vancouver, with her former spouse and partner Stewart Butterfield. Flickr was later acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Flickr ushered in the so-called Web 2.0 integrating features such as social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that surfaced the best, or more interesting content. At Yahoo! she ran the Technology Development group, known for its Hack Yahoo! program, a stimulus to innovation and creativity, and Brickhouse, a rapid development environment for new products. Fake resigned from Yahoo on June 13, 2008.

Prior to Flickr, she was Art Director at Salon.com and heavily involved in the development of online community, social software and personal publishing.

She joined the board of directors of Creative Commons in August 2008 and in May 2009 received an Honorary Doctorate from RISD.

Fake has won many awards, including BusinessWeek’s Best Leaders of 2005, Forbes 2005 eGang, Fast Company’s Fast 50, and Red Herring’s 20 Entrepreneurs under 35. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. She sits on the board of Etsy, and advises many startups and new businesses.

Fake currently lives in San Francisco, California and New York.

Upstarts! by Donna Fenn

Today, we’re interviewing Donna Fenn.  She’s an innovative author and thought leader with brilliant experience.  Feel free to join us, or to post any questions for her.  Below is her bio.

Donna Fenn is an internationally recognized author and journalist who has been writing about entrepreneurship and small business trends for more than 20 years. In 2005, she wrote Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack, which was translated into Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, and Vietnamese. She is a contributing editor at Inc. magazine, a blogger on Inc.com, a featured expert on SBTV.com, and a community leader on Work.com. In 2001, she was a co-recipient of the Women’s Economic Round Table Entrepreneurship Prize, sponsored by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. From 1988 to 1992, she lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she was a correspondent for The Associated Press covering a variety of issues including business, culture, the economy, and The Gulf War. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Monthly, Working Woman, Working Mother, Family Money, CFO, Corporate Finance, Pink, Parents, and New England Monthly. She lives in Pelham, NY with her husband and three dogs.  She is also the proud mom of two amazing GenYers.

THE book

Do you know someone who defined the new movement in social media marketing and influencing (the same movement that contributed to things like the success of web 2.0 products and presidential elections)? We do! And we’re interviewing her today, at 2pm EST. Her name is Charlene Li. What would you ask her if you had 30 minutes with her? Tell us, and we’ll ask her, or join us on the call! Her impressive bio is below (from http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell/authors.html).

Charlene Li is an independent thought leader and analyst on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. She discusses these topics on her blog, The Altimeter. Charlene is one of the most frequently-quoted industry analysts and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil News Hour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, and Associated Press. She is a much-sought-after public speaker and has presented frequently at top technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo, SXSW, and ad:tech. Most recently, Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. She joined Forrester in 1999, after spending five years in online and newspaper publishing with the San Jose Mercury News and Community Newspaper Company. She was also a consultant with Monitor Group in Boston and Amsterdam. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College. Charlene is the mother of two kids and blogs about that experience on her personal blog, Midnight Musings and at Silicon Valley Moms Blog (svmoms.com). She lives in the Bay Area with her family.