David van Toor is the General Manager for Sage CRM Solutions North America, part of the Sage Group plc, a global supplier of business software and services. David has transformed the way his organization is talking with its CRM customers, all 3.1 million of them. During his career – spanning leadership positions in USA, New Zealand, Australia, and South East Asia – David has developed a unique and engaging perspective on the ways in which customer experience, technology, and innovation intersect. His presentations prepare audience members to apply these same success principles. David is quoted frequently on customer relationship management trends and best practices in industry publications, and is a frequent blogger on the ACT! customer community at http://community.act.com/ business initiatives focusing on CRM.

Prior to joining Sage Software, Mr. van Toor was Managing Director of a leading Australian business software company where he was an early promoter of integrated operational and CRM systems. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Judith Glaser, Board Member of Liminal Group, is one of the most innovative and pioneering change agents and executive coaches in the consulting industry. Her two books Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking & Build a Healthy Thriving Organization and The DNA of Leadership (Platinum Press, an imprint of Adams Media), made Amazon Business Book Best Seller Lists in 2005 and 2006, and were also selected by both Forbes and Business Book Review as two of the top business books of 2005 and 2006. She has appeared on the NBC Today Show, ABC World News, Fox TV, Channel 12, NY 1, Martha Stewart Show and the Family Network talking about We-Centric Leadership, Bully Bosses and Culture Transformation. She has been quoted many times in the NY Times, WSJ, Crain's, Newsday, Star Ledger, Harvard Management Review, AMA World and other print media talking about her Revolutionary Workplace Approaches. She is contributing Editor of Executive Excellence Magazine and is listed in the Excellence 100 Consultants. She served as an Adjunct Professor at Wharton, and was awarded the Benno Curtis Entrepreneur of the Year and Quality Consultant Award. She is the Founder and CEO of Benchmark Communications and is currently on the boards of The We Are Family Foundation, WITH (Woman in Transition Helping and Healing), State of the World Address, Positive Media Workshop, and was a founding member of The Executive Woman's Business Forum. She was awarded Business Woman of the Year in New York City in 2004.

David S Rose, described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering entrepreneur” and by Red Herring magazine as “patriarch of Silicon Alley”, is a technology visionary and investor who has founded or funded over 60 pioneering companies that are helping to define the future. An Inc. 500 CEO heralded by Crain’s New York Business as a “Top Dog in Tech”, he is well known in the technology community for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs who are breaking new ground in technology-enabled businesses. He is a regular speaker at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and NYU business schools, and was a founding member of the New York New Media Association.

Mr. Rose is one of the country’s most active early stage technology investors. He is the founder and Chairman of New York Angels, one of the country’s leading technology investment groups; Managing Principal of Rose Tech Ventures, specializing in highly scalable, Internet-based business; and Chairman of Egret Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm. He founded and runs the SparkSpace technology incubator in New York’s Silicon Alley and serves as an expert consultant to corporations, not-for-profit institutions, venture capital funds and government agencies.

From his initial involvement with the first online communities in the 1970s, through founding one of the first personal computer training companies in the 1980s, one of the first wireless data information networks in the 1990s, and the first global angel investing platform in the 2000s, Mr. Rose has consistently been at the forefront of innovation in both business and technology. Among the fields in which he has been actively involved as an executive, board member or investor are: wireless communications, technology-enhanced real estate, consumer electronics, international finance, social networking, space tourism, user-generated content, robotic pets, online video, mobile network security, biological testing, electronic music, citizen journalism, out-of-home advertising, fiber-optic networking, concierge medicine, online marketing, interactive voice response, and many others.

Mr. Rose is Chairman and CEO of Angelsoft, which operates the international standard collaboration platform for early stage angel investing, and a member of the boards of directors of KoolSpan, Inc., CE Interactive, Panjiva, Pond5, Comixology and Magnify Networks. He also serves as an active early stage investor in companies including Ambient Devices, BioScale, DropIO, eJamming, Goodmail, Now Public, Mashery, Metaphor Solutions, Space Adventures, Storm Exchange, and over four dozen other early stage ventures.

A native New Yorker, Mr. Rose has a BA from Yale and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and is a graduate of the New York City public school system and Horace Mann High School. He is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University, a member of the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board of Columbia Business School, a Lifetime Professional Member of the World Future Society, and an Advisory Board member of the Liminal Group. He is profiled in Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Business and Industry.

Bob Rice is a successful entrepreneur and early-stage investor, former public company CEO, and long-time Wall Street veteran. He began his career at the US Department of Justice as a trial attorney, and then became a partner at the prestigious international firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. During his law career, he was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. He left his law practice to establish a technology company in the mid-90s. After the purchase by a public company, he became the acquirer’s CEO when the tech bubble burst, and successfully transitioned its business model from desktop software to interactive advertising. Along the way of his business endeavors, Bob founded the Wall Street Chess Club and co-founded the Professional Chess Association with Garry Kasparov. In role of each club he ran many international chess events, created a “speed chess” a series for ESPN, and produced “Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess”, an award-winning chess software program for children. His latest book, Three Moves Ahead: What Chess Can Teach You about Business Even if You’ve Never Played, written for non-players, is packed with scores of real-world examples showing how top CEOs use Grandmaster techniques to win on Wall Street.

W. Stanton Smith is currently National Director, Next Generation Initiatives (NGI) at Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. Mr. Smith joined Deloitte as a principal in 1998. Since then he has served in a number of senior HR roles. In early 2001 Mr. Smith was asked by Deloitte’s CEO to study generational differences then beginning to manifest in the workplace. With a strong commitment from Deloitte leadership, Mr. Smith has grown NGI into a key strategic initiative with tangible positive business impact over the past seven years. Mr. Smith’s charge is to research demographic and workforce attitudes with the intention of creating and implementing innovative initiatives that foster an environment to which the best talent is attracted and will want to stay and grow. The key innovations that have emerged from NGI are Deloitte Career Connections, the Talent Market Series and the Deloitte Pre-College Outreach program. His views have appeared in major publications such as Business Week, Forbes and Time Magazine. In December, 2006 he was interviewed on the Jim Lehrer Report on PBS. In June, 2007 he received a Work/Life Legacy Award sponsored by the Families and Work Institute for his pioneering work and leadership in generational studies and flexibility in the workplace. Mr. Smith received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Allan Schweyer is President and Executive Director of the Human Capital Institute, editor of Leadership Excellence: The Journal of Human Capital Management and author of "Talent Management Systems" (Wiley&Sons, 2004). He is an internationally respected analyst and speaker on the topic of transformational human capital management for individuals, organizations, regions and nations. Trained as a labor market economist, Schweyer's contributions include the development of the award-winning National Graduate Register, Campus WorkLink and SkillNet.ca programs with Industry Canada and the World Bank, which connected university and college career centers across Canada and later, in Latin America and Eastern Europe. In 1999, Allan co-founded the On-line Recruiters' Association of Canada. In 2000 and 2001, he worked as a management consultant to Reed Business Information in Boston while attending graduate school at Harvard University. Directly prior to joining HCI, Allan was a senior researcher, analyst and consultant with HR.com servicing large private and public sector clients worldwide. Allan's articles and white papers appear in dozens of popular media and industry specific publications worldwide.

Penelope Trunk the author of the book Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success. She is a career columnist at the Boston Globe. Her syndicated column has run in more than 200 publications. Earlier, she was a software executive, and then she founded three companies. She has been through an IPO, an acquisition and a bankruptcy. Before that she played professional beach volleyball.

David Hauslaib is the founder of Jossip Initiatives, the leading blog publisher he started in his college dorm room in between classes and bar crawls. Profitable since Day 1, Jossip's network of sites reaches 7 million readers every month. David Hauslaib is the guy to call for the best “media covering media” gossip in the US, the #1 site of its kind. What your listeners will love about him is that he doesn’t hold back. He has created a major online presence with a half dozen websites valued in the millions because of this. He dishes on the worlds of advertising, marketing, TV and celebrity with a unique NY focus. David also publishes Mollygood (the scathing pop culture and celebrity gossip rag), Queerty (the Internet's most-read gay lifestyle title), and Stereohyped (the award-winning black lifestyle blog). David has been profiled by New York magazine and Playboy, was named to Out magazine's Hot 100, appears on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR, and E!, and has been interviewed by the New York Times and the Washington Post . He lives in New York and Los Angeles, and thinks being bi-coastal is a terrible way to live.

Lawrence Greenberg has been chief legal officer of The Motley Fool since 1996. Before joining the Fool, he practiced securities and intellectual property law at the Palo Alto firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati and helped found the Project on Information Technology and National Security at the Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control. He clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Houston, and has served as an attorney at the National Security Agency and as a graduate fellow analyst for counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency. Lawrence attended Harvard College and Stanford Law School, and received a master's in political science from Stanford University. The author (with Seymour Goodman and Kevin Soo Hoo) of Information Warfare and International Law (National Defense University Press, 1998), Lawrence has served as a non-resident fellow of the Stanford Center for Internet & Society and a member of the 2000 Defense Science Board Defensive Information Operations Task Force Legal Panel. He is currently an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on Internet privacy, and the American University Washington College of Law, where he lectures on business associations.

Laurel Touby, Founder & Senior Vice President of mediabistro.com, started her career at Young & Rubicam, in the Media Planning department, back when there was one! After three years trying to break into the Creative Department at Y&R, she busted out of the Ad Agency business for good. After a long "stint" as a journalist (working for everyone from Working Woman Magazine to Business Week to New York Magazine), she launched her business, mediabistro.com.

The original idea for mediabistro.com was cooked up in 1994, when Touby – who was still contributing to Glamour magazine at the time – and a friend decided to host a mixer for media people. About 10 editors, writers, and other content creators came to that original cocktail party at Jules Bistro in the East Village. Attendees bought their own drinks and enjoyed casual after-work bonding in the company of like-minded people. The parties quickly grew, and soon Touby had 4,000 of New York's top media talent on her email list. After creating a web site in 1996 and adding features such as job listings, bulletin boards, classes, e-classes, and a freelance marketplace, Touby's business began to take off. Today, 800,000 media professionals have registered for various mediabistro.com services around the world. Users log upwards of 7 million page views a month.

Born in Oahu, Hawaii, Laurel grew up in Miami (before South Beach was hot) and graduated from Smith College with a degree in economics. Promptly after marrying Jon Fine, the Media Centric columnist at Business Week, she moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn (long after it was cool).