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Presenters & Advisors

Eric A. Adolphe, Esq, Former CEO, Optimus Corporation

The Honorable Akbar Ahmed, former Pakistani High Commissioner to the UK; anthropologist; Muslim scholar

David Aikman, former Bureau Chief, Beijing & Jerusalem, TIME Magazine; award-winning author

Dennis W. Bakke, co-Founder, former President and CEO, The AES Corporation; President and CEO, Imagine Schools

James C. Bly, Jr., Founder, Chairman and President, Source Companies, LLC; Co-Chairman, Business Growth Alliance, LLC

The Honorable Bill Brock, former US Senator, US Trade Representative and
Secretary of Labor
; The Brock Offices
Annapolis, Maryland

Robert Brown, Chairman and CEO, B&C Associates, Inc.

Bob Buford* Chairman, The Buford Foundation; best-selling author, Halftime and Finishing Well

Howard E. Butt, Jr. President, H. E. Butt Foundation and Laity Lodge Foundation; Vice Chairman of the Board, H. E. Butt Grocery Company

James E. Burke, former Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson

Dr. Nigel Cameron, President, Center for Policy on Emerging Technology

Jean Case, CEO and Co-founder, The Case Foundation

Steve Case, former Chairman and CEO, AOL Time Warner; Chairman and CEO, Revolution

Raymond G. Chambers, Founder, Amelior Foundation; co- Founder, Westray Capital Corporation

The Honorable Daniel R. Coats, former U.S. Senator; former Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany

The Honorable John H. Dalton, former U.S. Secretary of the Navy

Francois M. de Visscher, Founder, de Visscher & Co.; Director, Global Leadership Institute

Roger Dow, President and CEO, Travel Industry Association of America

Ben duPont, Founder and President, yet2.com

Dave Ferguson, former President and CEO, Wal-Mart Europe and Wal-Mart Canada

Eugene Fife,  former Chairman Worldwide, Goldman Sachs

Rick Goings, Chairman and CEO, Tupperware Corporation

Joseph Gregory, President and CEO, Gregory Management Co., LLC

Dr. Os Guinness, Oxford sociologist; author; speaker

William B. Harrison, Jr., Chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Rome Hartman, former Executive Producer, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric; Executive Producer, BBC News

The Honorable J. Douglas Holladay, co-Founder, Park Avenue Equity Partners, L.P.; former Ambassador

H.Wayne Huizenga, Jr., President, Huizenga Holdings, Inc.

Thomas Hutchison, former Chairman and CEO, CNL Hospitality and Resorts, Inc., Orlando, Florida

Honorable Kay Coles James, Founder and President, The Gloucester Institute

Dr. Timothy Johnson, Medical Editor, ABC News

Dale E. Jones, CEO, Play Pumps International

Dirk Junge, Chairman and CEO, Pitcairn

Mike Kane, Kane Warehousing Inc.

Peter Karoff, Author, Founder and Chairman, The Philanthropic Initiative

Teresa M. Klaassen, Founder and Chief Cultural Officer, Sunrise Senior Living, Inc.

 

Dr. C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General of the United States

Margery Kraus, President and CEO, APCO Worldwide

The Honorable Philip Lader, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James (UK); Chairman, WPP

Ralph S. Larsen, former Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson; Independent Director, GE

Jerome A. Lewis, former Chairman and CEO, Petro-Lewis Corporation

William E. Mayer, former President and CEO, The First Boston Corporation; Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute

The Honorable Alonzo L. McDonald, former CEO, McKinsey and Company; former Ambassador; Chairman and CEO, Avenir Group, Inc.

The Honorable Edwin Meese III, Ronald Reagan Chair, The Heritage Foundation; former U.S. Attorney General

Thomas I. Morgan, former President and CEO, Hughes Supply, Inc.

Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Russell F. Peppet, Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners, L.P.; former Vice Chairman, Management Consulting, KPMG Peat Marwick

C. William Pollard, former Chairman and CEO, The ServiceMaster Company

Honorable Franklin D. Raines, former CEO, Fannie Mae; Co-founder, Vice-Chairman, Revolution

Richard E. Rainwater* Investor

Steven S. Reinemund, former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.

Gerry Roche, Senior Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles

David Rogers, Vice-President, H.E. Butt Foundation

Deen Day Sanders, former Chairman of the board, Days Inn; Chairman, Cecil B. Day Foundation

Richard L. Scott, Founder, former Chairman and CEO, Columbia/HCA; Chairman and CEO, Richard L. Scott Investments, LLC

Timothy J. Seneff, Presdient, CNL Financial Group Inc.

James M. Seneff, Jr., CEO, CNL Financial Group Inc.

Timothy Shriver, CEO, The Special Olympics

Bob Slocum, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Polatomic, Inc.

Stan Smith, former Wimbledon and U.S. Open Champion

Thomas J. Starnes, former President, Hughes Supply, Inc.

The Honorable Kenneth W. Starr, Dean, Pepperdine University School of Law; former Federal Judge; former U.S. Solicitor General

John H. Tyson, Chairman and CEO, Tyson Foods, Inc.

Debra S. Waller, Chairman and CEO, Jockey International, Inc.

Dr. Rick Warren, pastor; author, The Purpose Driven Life

The Honorable J. C. Watts, Jr., former U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma; Founder and Chairman, J.C. Watts Companies

The Honorable William H. Webster, former Director, FBI; former Director, CIA; former Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

John C. Whitehead, Chairman, Goldman Sachs Foundation; former co-Chairman, Goldman, Sachs & Co.; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

J. McDonald Williams, Chairman Emeritus, Trammell Crow Company

Vincent A. Wolfington, Founder, Chairman, Global Alliance Advisors LLC

Robert J. Woody, Founder, Elgin Energy, LLC