- Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos loves being on the move. He sits in the back of a white van, beaming as usual, surrounded by an entourage of lanky young lieutenants from Amazon.com, the Web's biggest retail store and, someday, if Bezos gets it right, Earth's Biggest Store. The early-morning landscape of southeast Kansas hustles by: wood-frame houses, trailers, motels with lots of pickup trucks in their parking lots, a Kum & Go convenience store, cow pastures and the dull, forever flatness of the prairie. - Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice". - Mike Papantonio
James Michael Papantonio (born October 24, 1953), popularly known as Mike Papantonio, is an American attorney and radio talk show host. A prominent trial lawyer, he co-hosts "Ring of Fire", a national-syndicated weekly program on Air America Radio, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a fellow attorney. Papantonio graduated from the University of Florida and received his law degree from Cumberland School of Law. - Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama . He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago . - Ron Gunzburger
Ronald M. "Ron" Gunzburger (b. 1963) is a Florida attorney, communications consultant, and publisher of the Politics1.com website. Born in New England, Gunzburger grew up in South Florida. He earned his B.A. degree in Political Science from George Washington University in 1984, and then worked as a legislative assistant in two Congressional offices on Capitol Hill. He then went to Vermont Law School, where he earned the J.D. degree cum laude in 1987. - Christopher A. Sinclair
Christopher A. Sinclair (b. September 5 1950, Hong Kong) is an American businessman. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Cambridge Solutions Ltd., the second largest BPO/IT company in the world. He is also the founder and chairman of Scandent Group, the privately owned holding company which owns Cambridge Solutions Ltd. Scandent Group owners and investors include: Sinclair, Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (fmr. - Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt (July 12, 1886 - June 2, 1956) was a Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning Danish actor who lived in the United States. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark to a stage family, Hersholt went on to become a well-known actor in the United States. According to the Internet Movie Database, he appeared in 140 films and directed four. His first two films were made in Germany in 1906. - Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from 1968-1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first African American candidate for President of the United States. She won 162 delegates. - Josh Linkner
Josh Linkner is founder and CEO of ePrize, an interactive promotion agency that develops and carries out online promotions, incorporating online sweepstakes, instant-win games, interactive loyalty programs, online trivia games and other promotions that directly connect individual consumers with company Web sites. As a pioneer in interactive marketing, he's been involved in the development of thousands of digital marketing strategies and e-commerce solutions over the last 15 years. - Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7 1890 - May 14 1998) was an eminent American conservationist and writer. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she was a descendant of one of the founders of the Underground Railroad. After the divorce of her parents, she was raised in Taunton, Massachusetts and educated at Wellesley College. She married a newspaper editor, Kenneth Douglas, in 1914. The marriage failed, and she moved to Miami in the Fall of 1915. - Lyor Cohen
Behind-the-scenes music executive Lyor Cohen is a mover and shaker of modern music. During the 1980s he popularized "street rap" music, also called "gangsta' rap," by taking the genre from an underground art form to a legitimate mainstream music style. - Malcolm Bricklin
Malcolm Bricklin born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an automotive entrepreneur from Phoenix, Arizona. In 1958, Bricklin dropped out of the University of Florida and built his father's Orlando, Florida, building supply business into a franchised chain of Handyman stores. A number of lawsuits from the franchises arose and Bricklin left the business having become a millionaire in the process. Handyman America Inc. soon went bankrupt. - Wally Amos
I'am Entrepreneur and founder of Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies.I was born on July 1, 1936, in Tallahassee, Florida. Following my parents - Chris Rix
Chris Rix (born May 1, 1981) is a former National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) American football quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles (FSU). Rix was the first four year starter at quarterback in the school's history under coach Bobby Bowden. Rix graduated from Santa Margarita Catholic High School in 2000, the same high school as National Football League (NFL) Pro Bowl quarterback Carson Palmer. - Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2 1830 - May 20 1913) was an American tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer and Rockefeller partner in Standard Oil. He was a key figure in the development of the eastern coast of Florida along the Atlantic Ocean and was founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway. He is known as the father of Miami, Florida. - Al Goldstein
Alvin "Al" Goldstein (b. January 10 1936, New York City) is an American publisher and pornographer. Goldstein founded the tabloid "Screw" magazine. He was also the host and producer (with radio personality Alex Bennett) of "Midnight Blue", a New York leased-public access cable television series. His company, Milky Way Productions, home of "Screw" and his long-running cable show, "Midnight Blue", went into bankruptcy in 2004. - John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 - May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. Rockefeller had always believed since he was a child that his purpose in life was to make as much money as possible, and then use it wisely to improve the lot of mankind. - Anna Kingsley
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley was a West African slave turned slaveholder and plantation owner in early 19th century Florida. She was married to Zephaniah Kingsley, her former master, and owned and managed many plantations in East Florida, including Kingsley Plantation (Florida's only surviving colonial plantation) in what is now Jacksonville. - Yvette Gamet
- Charles H. Chapman
Charles Henry Chapman was one of the seven founders ("commonly referred to as Jewels") of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Cornell University in 1906. During the organization stages of Alpha chapter, he was the first chairman of the "Committees on Initiation and Organization". Chapman entered the field of higher education and eventually became Professor of Agriculture at what is now Florida A&M University (FAMU). - Shawn Wildermuth
I am a computer geek...My professional bio is: I am a Microsoft C# MVP and the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering software and training solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area. I am also a speaker on the INEA Speakerâs Bureau and have appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects. - Christian-Adam Ribeiraud
- J Gerry Purdy
J. Gerry Purdy , Ph.D. Vice President & Chief Analyst J. Gerry Purdy , Ph.D., is the VP and Chief Analyst with the Frost & Sullivan North American Information & Communication Technologies Practice. As a nationally recognized industry authority, he focuses on monitoring and analyzing emerging trends, technologies and market behavior in the mobile computing and wireless data communications industry in North America. - Kenneth Udut
offers Naples Online Marketing, Collier County's Electronic Village at http://free.naplesplus.us also animal trapping company, Excel guru, researcher, composer, fascinated by the interconnected nature of all things, amateur scientist. - Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee - Terry Grossman
TERRY GROSSMAN , M.D. Terry Grossman , M.D., M.D.(H) is the founder and medical director of Frontier Medical Institute in Denver, Colorado. His longevity medical practice attracts patients, including many VIPs, from around the country and the world. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1968 and the University of Florida School of Medicine in 1979. He spent 15 years (from 1980-1995) working as a community family doctor in the Colorado mountains. - Kenneth Haase
Dr. Kenneth Haase is a Senior Research Scientist in Media Lab Europe, the MIT Media Laboratory's European Research Partner. Haase is the founder of beingmeta, inc. , a Boston-based startup which continues his academic work on knowledge description and natural language processing. Haase is working to solve the genuinely hard problems of content and knowledge description in the short-term, while also proposing solutions that are long-lived and sustainable. - Dan Rua
Managing Partner, Inflexion PartnersAuthor, http://www.FloridaVentureBlog.com/ - Todd Sampson
Todd Sampson is a professional entrepreneur andtechnology strategist with more than a dozen years experience in the online sector. Through Cloudspace - an online consultancy he co-founded in 1996 with his brother John Sampson & wife Elisabeth - and related ventures, Todd has helped hundreds of companies succeed online. - Michael Vandervort
HR Open Networker - Mike
Mike’s client list includes a blend of global (Apple, IBM, Holiday Inn, McDonald’s), national (Val-Pak, Wingate Inns, BellSouth, US Mint) and local (Department of Education, Turner, Aperio, e-Release) companies. Prior to Pull Thinking, he served as IBM Global Service’s e-visionary, and also co-founded and led Galileo, one of the nation’s first interactive media agencies. - Bill Sanford
Bill R. Sanford Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board Bill R. Sanford is Founder and Chairman of SYMARK LLC, a technology commercialization and business development organization with offices in Naples, Florida and Mentor, Ohio. He is also Executive Founder and retired Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of STERIS Corporation, a global leader in infection and contamination prevention systems, products, services, and technologies. - Paul Trowe
Paul Trowe President and Founder Paul has devoted his entire working career to the interactive entertainment industry. His previous affiliations include Sierra On-Line, Activision, Atari, and Greenleaf Technologies. In the last three years, he founded Evolution Consulting, a video game sales agency and Pulse Interactive. Paul's assignments have ranged from Producer, to Director of Sales, to VP of business development and content acquisition. - Ambassador Richard M. Fairbanks III
Richard Fairbanks CSIS Counselor and Trustee Richard Fairbanks joined CSIS in 1992 as senior counsel and assumed the role of managing director for domestic and international issues in 1994. He was named president and CEO in May 1999 and counselor in April 2000. His government service includes appointments as ambassador-at-large under President Ronald Reagan, chief U.S. negotiator for the Middle East peace process, and assistant secretary of state for congressional relations. - Julianna Baggott
- Benjamin Gordon
Benjamin Gordon ben@bgsa.com Benjamin Gordon is founder and Managing Director of BG Strategic Advisors. Clients include a range of leading companies from Wall Street, venture capital, and the supply chain industry. Benjamin is responsible for leading key client engagements and setting the direction of the firm. Prior to founding BG Strategic Advisors, Benjamin founded 3PLex, the Internet solution enabling third-party logistics companies to automate their business. - Wayne T. Hockmeyer
Wayne T. Hockmeyer , Ph.D. Chairman of the Board of Directors of MedImmune, Inc. Wayne T. Hockmeyer , Ph.D. has served as a director since February 2002. Dr. Hockmeyer founded MedImmune, Inc., a biotechnology company, in April 1988 and served until October 2000 as the chief executive officer of MedImmune. - James A. Whittaker
James A. Whittaker is a professor of computer science at the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) and is founder of Security Innovation. In 1992, he earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tennessee. His research interests are software testing, software security, software vulnerability testing, and anticyber warfare technology. James is the author of How to Break Software (Addison-Wesley, … - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, was a sixteenth century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter, known most notably for his founding of St. Augustine, Florida and his subsequent destruction of the French settlement of Fort Caroline in 1565. The first Spanish governor of Spanish Florida, he founded St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement and oldest port city in the United States, on August 28, 1565. - Joseph D. Ambersley
Joseph D. Ambersley Executive Vice President, Strategic Development Timothy J. Bancroft Executive Vice President and Treasurer Chris Bantoft Executive Vice President, Alternate Channels Jeffrey L. Burke Executive Vice President, Strategic Operations Mario DeRiggi Executive Vice President, Direct Sales James Hvisdas Executive Vice President, Operations Sharon LaMantia Executive Vice President, Service Delivery
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