- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …
- Richard Fidler
Richard Fidler (born November 13, 1964) is a well-known Australian Republican and Australian ABC TV and radio presenter. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of the Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS), an Australian musical comedy group also comprising Tim Ferguson and Paul McDermott. The group split in 1994. Richard Fidler has since presented various TV shows, including "Race Around the World", "Aftershock", …
- Brad Grey
Brad Alan Grey (born December 29, 1957) is an American film, television producer, and former talent manager currently working as the CEO of Paramount Pictures. Grey was born in the Bronx, the youngest child of a garment district salesman. He majored in business and communications at the State University of New York at Buffalo. While attending the university, he became a gofer for a young Harvey Weinstein who was then a concert promoter.
- Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (January 6 1914 - February 6 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom "Make Room for Daddy", later retitled "The Danny Thomas Show" to capitalize on Thomas's popularity. Danny Thomas was born Amos Alphonsus Muzyad Yaqoob in Deerfield, Michigan, to Charles and Margaret Jacobs. He was of Lebanese descent, of Maronite Catholic belief.
- Freddy Adu
Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu (born 2 June 1989 in Tema, Ghana) is a Ghanaian-American soccer player for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer. At the age of 14, Adu became the youngest professional athlete in modern American team sports history when he signed a professional contract with Major League Soccer, the top league of the United States soccer pyramid.
- Kim Komando
Currently America's most popular computer/digital lifestyle expert, her weekly talk radio show is heard (via her own network) on over 450 stations. In addition, she does a daily "tip of the day" radio feature heard five days a week; has written seven successful books about life in the digital age; and still authors a widely syndicated newspaper column. Some 4.6 million people receive her tips by e-mail weekly.
- Earl Weaver
Earl Sidney Weaver (born August 14, 1930 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball manager. He spent his entire managerial career with the Baltimore Orioles, managing the club from 1968-1982 and 1985-1986. Between his stints as manager Weaver served as a color commentator for ABC television, calling the 1983 World Series (which included the Orioles) along with Al Michaels and Howard Cosell.
- Howard K. Smith
Howard Kingsbury Smith was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman and commentator, and one of the original Murrow boys. Born in Ferriday (Concordia Parish) in eastern Louisiana, Smith graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1936, with both a bachelor's degree and an L.L.D. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (Merton College) from which he graduated in September 1939.
- Ron Glass
Ron Glass (born July 10, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as the witty Detective Ron Harris in the television sitcom "Barney Miller" (1975-1982), and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the science fiction series "Firefly" and its sequel film "Serenity".
- Jeffrey Ross
Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz (born September 13, 1965) is a stand-up comedian, insult comic, actor & director who currently provides the voice for the beagle Buddy in the MTV2 Sic'emation animated satire program that he created "Where My Dogs At?" As a stand-up comic, Ross has appeared TV shows like "The Late Show with David Letterman", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "Jimmy Kimmel Live", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", …
- Paul Morley
Paul Morley (born 26 March 1957 in Stockport, Cheshire) is an English journalist, who wrote for the "New Musical Express" from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful and relatively notorious periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications. He pioneered a distinctive style of post-punk, post-modernist music writing which drew on the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe, the gonzo style of Hunter S Thompson, …
- Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is also Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
- Diana Nyad
In 1979, Diana Nyad stroked her way to the longest swim in history, for both men and women. The distance was 102.5 miles--from the island of Bimini to the Florida shore--and that incredible record still stands today. Diana was front page news throughout the Western world, the lead story for Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News, and many times guest of The Tonight Show. For ten years (1969-1979) Diana was the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world.
- Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes (born November 3, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz double bassist. After completely disappearing from the jazz music scene in 1965, he was rediscovered over 30 years later in 2002. Grimes trained at The Juilliard School, and established a reputation as a versatile bassist in the mid 1950s. He recorded or performed with Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Benny Goodman and many others.
- C.C. Chapman
Charles "C.C." Chapman is a prominent figure in the community of podcasting and podsafe music. From a home studio in the Boston area, Chapman hosts the independent music-focused podcasts "Accident Hash" and "U-Turn Cafe", and contributes to PodShow Music Rewind, a weekly digest of music shows on the PodShow network. He also promotes PodShow's Podsafe Music Network, a major archive of music licensed for free use in podcasts.
- Doug Parkinson
"DOUG PARKINSON IN FOCUS" *May 1968 Advice / I Had a Dream (Festival) (Australia #-) *May 1969 Dear Prudence / This Must Be the End ( Columbia/EMI) (Australia#5-19, Melbourne#2, Sydney#9, Brisbane#2, Adelaide#1) *Aug 1969 Today (I Feel No Pain) / Theme From 12th House (Columbia/EMI) (Withdrawn From Sale) *Oct 1969 Without You / Hair (Columbia/EMI) (Australia#4-17, Melbourne#3, Sydney#7, …
- Bill Stern
Bill Stern (July 1, 1907 - November 19, 1971) was a U.S. actor and sportscaster who announced the nation's first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame (1988) and has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- George Shapiro
George Shapiro is an American Talent Manager and multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winning television producer. He represented the late Andy Kaufman and is among the most succesfull managers in showbusiness. He currently represents Jerry Seinfeld. Shapiro graduated from New York University. He then went to work in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency in New York. He advanced rapidly within the company and soon became an agent.
- Ken Harrelson
Kenneth Smith Harrelson (born September 4, 1941 in Woodruff, South Carolina), nicknamed "The Hawk" due to his distinctive profile, is a former first baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball who currently serves as a television broadcast announcer for the Chicago White Sox.
- Jerry Ver Dorn
Jerry ver Dorn (born November 23 1949 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American actor. Ver Dorn is best known for his role as Ross Marler on the popular soap opera "Guiding Light". He became one of the longest-running cast members, debuting in the role on March 23, 1979 and portraying the character of Ross for over 26 years. He won Daytime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in 1995 and again in 1996. ver Dorn also portrayed Ross in a television movie, …
- Eugene Cernan
Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a former American astronaut of Czech and Slovak ancestry. He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972. In that final lunar landing mission, Cernan became "the last man on the moon" since he was the last to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module during its third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA).
- Michael Burger
Michael Burger is an American television personality. Burger’s professional showbiz career began when an agent caught his stand-up act at a local comedy club and booked him on a Royal Caribbean three-day cruise to Mexico. During one of the ocean voyages, a television producer caught his performance and hired him, on the spot, as the warm up comic for the program Dance Fever. Burger quickly became one of Hollywood's most sought-after warm-up comics, …
- Buzz Cason
Buzz Cason (born James E. Cason, 27 November 1939, in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) is an American rock singer, songwriter and producer. He was among the founding members of The Casuals, Nashville's first rock and roll band. Together with Richard Williams and Hugh Jarrett of The Jordanaires he recorded as The Statues for Liberty. In 1960, Cason started a solo career under the pseudonym Garry Miles, and had a #16 hit in 1960 with "Look For A Star".
- Charley Casserly
Charley Casserly is an NFL football analyst for CBS Sports, who has previously served as General Manager for the Washington Redskins and the Houston Texans. He is known in Houston as the decisionmaker in choosing Mario Williams in the 2006 NFL Draft over Vince Young or Reggie Bush. The Houston Texans only won 23 games in 5 years during his term as General Manager. Previously, he was very successful with 3 Super Bowl wins.
- John Grochowski
John Grochowski is a gambling columnist and author. His weekly newspaper column began at the "Chicago Sun-Times" and is now syndicated nationally. He published his first gambling book in 1996 entitled "Gaming: Cruising the Casino with a Syndicated Gambling Columnist". He then began a series of books all aimed at answering questions about a specific topic or game.
- Billy Martin
Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball who was best known as the manager of the New York Yankees five different times. He won two American League championships taking the Yankees to the World Series in 1976, getting swept by the Cinncinati Reds, and winning the 1977 as their manager, and led four different AL teams to division championships. Martin was known for his ability to win with any team, …
- Heikki Mikkola
Heikki Mikkola (Born July 6, 1945 in Mikkeli, Finland) was a four time World Champion motocross racer. Known as the "Flying Finn", and characterized by a fierce, determined style, he was the first Finn to win a motocross world championship. He won his first 500 cc Motocross World Championship on a Husqvarna in 1974, defeating the defending World Champion Roger DeCoster in what would be remembered as one of the tightest battles in motocross history.
- Connie Yu-Hwa Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist who has appeared on many USA television news networks.
- Tom Skilling
Emmy-winning journalist Tom Negovan joined WGN News in June 2005 as co-anchor of WGN News at Noon . Tom arrived in Chicago from Philadelphia, where he served as weekend anchor and investigative reporter at CBS-owned KYW-TV. While there, Tom anchored anniversary coverage of the 9/11 attacks from Ground Zero, reported around-the-clock on the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy from the Johnson Space Center in Houston and covered the war in Iraq live from Baghdad.
- Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm is a native Washingtonian who began her radio career in 1973 as an assistant producer for talk shows at WAMU. She became host and producer of two health-oriented programs, and in 1979 was selected to host WAMU's local morning talk show, Kaleidoscope , which was renamed The Diane Rehm Show in 1984. Since 1995, National Public Radio has distributed the program to stations across the nation.
- Tommy Lasorda
I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. Tommy Lasorda I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky. Tommy Lasorda I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer. Tommy Lasorda I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
- Tom Harris
Thomas "Tom" Harris (born February 20 1964) is a Scottish politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Glasgow South. Tom Harris is Ayrshire-born and was brought up in Beith, Scotland and was educated at the Garnock Academy in Kilbirnie and Napier College, Edinburgh where he was awarded a Higher National Diploma in journalism in 1986.
- Darren Frankel
Darren Frankel Vice President of Post Production As Stargate's VP of post production, Mr. Frankel manages day-to-day activities within the facility ensuring that all work is completed on schedule. Prior to joining Stargate, worked as a freelance associate producer on several movies and mini-series in addition to his tenure as the head of Post Production at ABC Pictures - the ABC Network's movie and mini-series division.
- Nicolas Emiliani
Nicolas Emiliani Producer Nicolas grew up in Colombia, South America before moving to Virginia. He has worked in many commercials, music videos, and films starting as a Production Assistant and moving up to Production Coordinator with production companies including HSI, RSA, Mars Media, Radical Media, Disney, Fox, Telemundo, Universal, ABC, and Sony.
- Jeff Crum
Hi!! My name is Jeff, and I am 20 years old. I graduated from Axtell High School. I am currently a Junior @ Baylor University (SIC EM' BEARS") and I am loving the Bayor Life. I thank the Lord everyday for everything that he has blessed me with. I am the only child, and of course i am spolied to death because of that. Yea!!! I have a wonderful family that means everthing to me and I am also truly blessed to have all the amazing friends that I have!
- Graham Crow
Graham Crow Account Director Graham Crow , an account director on the T-Mobile USA account team at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, has seven years of experience in conducting consumer PR and marketing for a variety of clients. Before joining Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, Graham served as vice president of the Microsoft Xbox account with Edelman Public Relations, where he was involved in the launch of the Xbox gaming console.
- Marc Prager
Marc Prager Vice President, Creative Services & Strategy Before joining Turnhere, Marc Prager was a producer on two History Channel TV series, “Man Moment Machine” and “Tactical To Practical.” Prior to that, he served as a broadcast producer for LinkTV in San Francisco. At Pixar Animation Stuidos he was an editorial manager where he worked on the Academy Award-winning film “Finding Nemo.”
- Ben Pyne
Mr. Pyne has a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was also Orchestra Manager of the New Jersey Symphony from 1985-90, just prior to attending Business School, and has experience with other nonprofit associations prior to that. Maintaining a strong interest in music, Mr. Pyne continues to play the classical guitar. He currently resides in New York City with his wife and two sons.
- Mark A. Raitor
Mark A. Raitor Executive Vice President / Chief Operating Officer / Corporate Secretary mark.raitor@icba.org Mark A. Raitor joined ICBA in 1980. He became executive director in 1995, corporate secretary in 1997, and chief operating officer in 2005. Before joining ICBA, he worked for an ABC television affiliate and at Dakota National Bank in Fargo, ND. Mark is a graduate of Minnesota State University Moorhead.
- Gloria Tsang
Gloria enjoys spreading the goodness of nutrition. She is an accomplished registered dietitian, committed to helping people lead healthier lifestyles through nutrition education and awareness. Gloria does not preach the ABCs of Nutrition, because she believes that in order for nutrition to have a positive impact on people, it needs to be fun and practical. She debunks diet myths and makes sense of breaking nutrition news so that readers will learn the essence of healthy eating.