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Daniel Pink, NY Times Bestselling Author of “A Whole New Mind” and “Drive” Auction Link: eBay listing Bidding Begins-Ends: Feb. 2 – 11, 2010 Bio: Daniel H. Pink is the author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work. His latest is “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, which uses 40 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation and offer a more effective path to high performance. “A Whole New Mind: Why Right–Brainers Will Rule the Future” |
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Caterina Fake, Co-founder of Flickr and Hunch Auction Link: eBay listing Bidding Begins-Ends: Feb. 11-21, 2010 Mentoring Session Winner: David Park, NY Bio: Caterina is best known as the co-founder, with Steward Butterfield, of Flickr, a photo-sharing service developed by Ludicorp and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Prior to founding Ludicorp she was Art Director at Salon.com. She joined the board of directors of Creative Commons in Aug. 2008. 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. She is currently working on Hunch. |
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Fernando Aguirre, CEO and Chairman of Chiquita Brands International Auction Link: eBay listing Bidding Begins-Ends: Feb. 21-26, 2010 Mentoring Session Winner: Suneet Bhatt Bio: Fernando Aguirre became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chiquita Brands International, Inc. in January 2004. Prior to Chiquita, Mr. Aguirre spent more than 23 years in brand and general management and turnarounds at Proctor and Gamble (P&G). He began with P&G in Mexico in 1980, rising through the corporation in positions which included the leader of P&G’s first Hispanic Marketing Group, President and GM of P&G Brazil, Vice-President of P&G’s global and U.S. snacks and food products, and President of global feminine care. In July 2002, Fernando Aguirre was named President of special projects, reporting directly to P&G’s Chairman and CEO. Mr. Aguirre is a member of the International Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization. He serves on the board of directors for Chiquita Brands International and the board of Coca Cola Enterprises. He was also the first chairman of the corporate advisory board he helped form at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He was inducted into the SIUE Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007 for his outstanding career as a Cougar pitcher. |
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Lawler Kang, author of “Passion at Work” Auction Link: eBay listing Bidding Begins-Ends: Feb. 26 – Mar. 5, 2010 Bio: After 15 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership, Lawler was on vacation and (being a recovering consultant) started doodling a process that became the genesis of his current work. Soon thereafter, he walked away from empire building, wrote Passion at Work (Pearson Prentice Hall), and founded Ingage, Inc., (www.ingageinc.com) whose mission is aligning leaders, their teams, and their talent to emotionally engage with their work. |
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Dave Logan, author of “Tribal Leadership” Auction Link: eBay listing Bidding Begins-Ends: Mar. 5 – 12, 2010 Bio: Dave Logan is co-founder and senior partner of CultureSync, a management consulting firm specializing in cultural change, strategy, and negotiation. Dave is also a professor at the Marshall School of Business at USC. From 2001-2004, he served as Associate Dean of Executive Education. He has written two books in addition to Tribal Leadership and is currently at work on a 2009 release recently selected for the “Warren Bennis” line of books at Wiley. His work has also been published numerous academic and professional journals, including a 2006 “agenda” in MIT-Sloan Management Review. |
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Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine Auction Link: eBay listing Bio: As editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson is one of the most knowledgeable, insightful and articulate voices at the center of the new economy. In a series of groundbreaking articles and books, he has identified important new trends in the economy and described new business models. He is the author of, “The Long Tail”, and “Free: the Past and Future of Radical Price”. Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine. He worked at The Economist for seven years in various positions and served as an editor at the two premier science journals, Science and Nature. Education background in physics, including research at Los Alamos.
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Charlene Li, founder of Altimeter Group and co-author of Groundswell Auction Link: eBay listing Bio: Charlene Li is an influential thought leader and guide on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. She is the co-author of the business best-seller, Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies, published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008. Named “One of the Most Influential Women in Technology” by Fast Company magazine, Charlene is the founder of Altimeter Group which provides speaking and consulting services to organizations looking to understand and thrive in a new economy driven by social media tools and techniques.
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Stephen Roche, CEO of Kapitall Auction Link: eBay listing Bio: Mr. Roche came to Kapitall after serving as CEO of Guidant Financial Group, a pioneer in providing alternative sources of capital to entrepreneurs. Prior to Guidant, he was an executive at ShareBuilder, the innovative online investing firm for young, novice investors that was acquired by ING DIRECT in late 2007. Before joining ShareBuilder, Roche spent eight years at Bain & Company, the leading strategy consulting firm. In addition to being a 2006 Puget Sound Business Journal “40 under 40″ honoree, Roche graduated cum laude from Princeton University and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School..
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Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, author of the Culture Code and founder of Archetype Discoveries Worldwide Bidding Ended: April 22, 2010 Bio: Dr. Clotaire Rapaille is the chairman of Archetype Discoveries Worldwide and has used this decoding approach for thirty years. He is the personal adviser to ten high-ranking CEOs and is kept on retainer by fifty Fortune 100 companies. He has been profiled in many national media outlets, including 60 Minutes II and on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Styles section. He lives in Tuxedo Park, New York.
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Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor, FORTUNE and author of Talent is Overrated Auction Link: eBay listing Bio: As a longtime editor and columnist for Fortune Magazine, he has become one of America’s sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership and management, the shareholder value imperative, corporate governance, the infotech revolution, and related issues. As co-anchor of Wall Street Week with Fortune on PBS, he speaks each week to the largest audience reached by any business television program in America.
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Robbie Vitrano, CEO of Trumpet Group Bio: Robbie Vitrano is CEO/Director Brand Design/co-founder of Trumpet, a new kind of full-service communications company designed to identify business opportunities in complex situations. The business model has been honed in Post-Katrina New Orleans with the city as a start-up laboratory of global significance. Issues such as social justice, the environment and capitalism are compressed and in hard focus. Trumpet has grown 300% since 2005, earning a place on the 2007 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in the U.S. Vitrano also co-founded New Orleans leading entrepreneurial advocate, the Idea Village, teaches branding at Loyola University, and serves on the boards of the Downtown Development District, the Crescent City Farmers Market/ECOnomic Institute, N.O. Center for the Creative Arts, Unity for the Homeless, New Orleans Film Festival, and Langston Hughes Charter School.
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Jeff Hayzlett, CMO of Kodak Bio: Jeffrey Hayzlett serves as the Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company, reporting to Kodak Chairman and CEO Antonio M. Perez. As CMO, Mr. Hayzlett is responsible for the company’s worldwide marketing operations including the design and implementation of all marketing strategies, investments, policies, and processes. He leads the company’s efforts for Strategy and Planning, Marketing Programs, Marketing Network Operations, Brand Development and Management, Business Development, and Corporate Sponsorships. He is also responsible for the company’s Corporate Communications, Public Relations and Public Affairs organizations.
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Jeffrey Veen, web design and development guru and co-founder of Adaptive Path Bio: Jeffrey Veen is one of the founding partners of Adaptive Path and project lead for Measure Map, the well-received web analytics tool acquired by Google in 2006. After five years with Adaptive Path, Jeff moved on to Google, where he lead the redesign of their Analytics product and managed their web apps UX team. He left Google in May, 2008, to work on personal projects.
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Aaron Magness, Director of Brand Marketing, Zappos Bio: Aaron Magness has worked in Business Development in retail for over 8 years. His career has taken him through sales, operations and all the grunt work it takes to make his team successful. He joined Zappos.com with a primary focus in business development. However, his role has grown to include oversight of Brand Marketing, PR and Social Media as well as Business Development. He received his BBA from University of Wisconsin – Madison with a double major of Marketing and Management & Human Resources.
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Rafe Furst, entrepreneur, investor and business leader Bio: Rafe began his career as an artificial intelligence researcher at Kestrel Institute. After seeing the first web browser (xmosaic) in the early 90s, Rafe left academia to co-found his first company, Pick’em Sports in 1996, which was sold to a public company in 1999. Rafe has helped launch and run several other successful ventures including Expert Insight, BugleMe, iTripTV, and a “black swan” venture fund. Rafe also sits on the Board of Directors of, or strategically advises, both non-profit and for-profit companies including the Prevent Cancer Foundation, the Decision Education Foundation, All Day Buffet and LA Idea Project. Rafe currently works on many projects that involve technology and social entrepreneurship, and is an active blogger on complex systems at EmergentFool.com. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Symbolic Systems, both from Stanford University.
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Guy Kawasaki, managing director of Garage Technology Ventures Bio: Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
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Aaron Patzer, founder & CEO of Mint Bio: Aaron Patzer Founded Mint Software, Inc., in 2006 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Patzer served as President of Mint Software, Inc. He served as an Architect and Technical Lead for the San Jose division of Nascentric. Before Nascentric, he worked for IBM and founded two web development and online marketing companies: PWeb and International. He serves as Director of Mint Software, Inc. He has 10 patents filed or pending. Mr. Patzer holds an MSEE from Princeton University and a BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering from Duke University.
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Glen Meakem, founder of Free Markets, Inc. and Meakem Becker Venture Capital Bio: Glen Meakem has earned a national reputation as a new economy innovator and leader – first as co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FreeMarkets, Inc., and more recently as co-founder and Managing Director of Meakem Becker Venture Capital. FreeMarkets was a leading business-to-business Internet company which helped Global 2000 companies save money by automating and improving their purchasing functions. Glen co-founded the company in 1995, took it public in 1999, and sold it to Ariba, Inc. in 2004. Meakem Becker Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm which was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in the Pittsburgh area. The firm focuses on helping to build new, technology-enabled product and service companies. Glen gained early business experience working in professional positions for Kraft Foods, McKinsey & Company, and General Electric. Early in his career, Glen also served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve, volunteering and serving as a combat engineer platoon leader in the 1991 Gulf War. Glen graduated A.B. cum laude from Harvard University in 1986 and later earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Joseph Grenny, three-time NY Times Bestselling author of Influencer, Crucial Conversations, and Crucial Confrontations Bio: Joseph Grenny is a three-time, New York Times bestselling author whose bestseller, Crucial Conversations, has sold more than one million copies. A dynamic and captivating speaker, Joseph Grenny draws upon a wealth of accredited research and real-life experience, including content featured in current bestsellers and award-winning training products of the same titles: Influencer, Crucial Conversations, and Crucial Confrontations. His services have helped leaders from 300 of the Fortune 500 companies identify and improve key areas that many credit with significantly advancing their careers and revamping their organizations.
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David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue Airways and now Azul Bio: Mr. David Neeleman is the Founder of JetBlue Airways Corporation. He is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of a start-up Brazilian airline. Mr. Neeleman was a Co-Founder of WestJet and from 1996 to 1999, served as its Member of WestJet’s Board of Directors. From October 1995 to October 1998, he served as the Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors of Open Skies. From 1988 to 1994, Mr. Neeleman also served as a Founder, President, and a Member of the Board of Directors of Morris Air Corporation. For a brief period, in connection with the acquisition, he served on the Executive Planning Committee at Southwest Airlines.
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Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach and author of “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” and “MOJO” Bio: Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better – by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There is a New York Times best-seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman award for Best Business Book of the Year. It has been translated into 23 languages and is a listed best seller in six different countries. The American Management Association named Dr. Goldsmith as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. Major business press acknowledgments include: Business Week – most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development, The Times (UK) – 50 greatest living business thinkers, Wall Street Journal – top ten executive educators, Forbes – five most-respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence – top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India) – five rajgurus of America, Economist (UK) – most credible executive advisors in the new era of business and Fast Company – America’s preeminent executive coach.
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