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Relationships are the lifeblood of Chinese business and market success. Often familiar to those with even a rudimentary knowledge of China business, the term guanxi (pronounced “guan-tsee”) is a crucial element of doing business in China. Guanxi describes a personal connection between two people or a network of people in which one person or group is able to prevail upon another person or group to perform a favor or service, and vice versa.

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Corporate Wellness: Certified Creating Wellness Coach for Workplace Wellness, Constance consults with CEO’s and HR Directors who want effective and engaging wellness programs for their employees. This includes consulting and award winning-Team Adrenaline -onsite group fitness. No gym required!

The “Business Leader Edition” in collaboration with Howard Behar, the former President of Starbucks International, was released in September 2010. The “Healthcare Leader Edition”, in collaboration with Dr. Chip Souba, Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School, was released in 2011. And now the “Education Edition” in collaboration with Education Consultant, Christian Long, will be released in Fall 2011.

Prior to sleeping in airports and observing human behavior, Barger led over 1700 people to construct 125 houses internationally for families living in poverty as well as implemented the Streets Mission Project to serve the homeless on the streets of Columbus, Ohio. As the former Director of First Community Church’s Camp Akita, he designed programming focused on living with joy, love, compassion, faith, and service for over 1900 campers a summer.

Jason is a graduate of Denison University, where he served as Captain of the men’s basketball team, and also received certification from Georgetown University in Nonprofit Executive Management. In 2004, he was one of five people in Columbus, Ohio to receive a Jefferson Award, a national award given to “Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things”.

Today, Jason and his wife, Amy, and their three children, Will, Benton and Brooke, live in Columbus, Ohio. Jason is an Author, Consultant, Angel Advocate Coach, Servant-Leader, Creative Think-Tanker, and sought after Keynote Speaker. As founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting LLC, he works with organizations that are passionate about Culture Change, Leadership Development, Innovation, Service, Social Responsibility, and bringing their Mission to life everyday.

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Through a profound and practical diagnosis, business & life strategy, quantum physics, and psychology Robert achieves the alchemist’s goal by transforming the lead in people and organizations into gold. His process is called Business & Life Alchemy©

He’s is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of international management and consulting experience and has appeared on CNN, ABC, NBC, Oprah & Friends and has is own TV show in Europe (Netherlands and UK) Clients call him “the real deal”.

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She’s the co author of the 2008 published book Sustainable Fashion: Why Now?

1. For those of us listening that may not have hear of this…what is Sustainable Fashion?
2. How has the sustainable fashion movement grown and changed since you co-authored Sustainable Fashion in 2008?
3. What are you seeing in terms of entrepreneurship in the green fashion movement?
4. How is e factor providing the platform for you to connect green fashion entrepreneurs?
5. Tell us about your activities at San Francisco State

Ralph has been an executive at both large and small high-tech companies and the CEO of a start-up. Since he left corporate life about a dozen years ago, he has been the President of his consulting company. For the last six years, he has focused exclusively on helping start-ups get funded. His clients have ranged from venture capital firms, Fortune 500 companies, to small companies and start-ups. As a consultant to Technology Ventures Corp, a government-funded company that successfully helped start-ups get funding, he evaluated over 300 investor pitches and over 1500 executive summaries.

Recently he has started a new effort, Bay Area Entrepreneurs Workshop, to help more entrepreneurs get funded.
Ralph frequently gives talks around the Bay Area; one of the more popular being“13 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make.”

That talk is serialized on his blog http://www.baeworkshop.com/baeblog. It examines mistakes drawn from Ralph’s consulting experience in which fundable companies were made un-fundable by naive and often dumbfounding mistakes made by their CEOs.

Recently, Ralph has joined with eFactor to branch out geographically, agreeing to speak at eFactor venues in Dallas March 28, Los Angeles April 18 and Miami May 24. His topic in each city will be “Investibility,” a discussion of what it takes to get funding from a venture capitalist or angel group.

Ralph has a Doctorate of EE from Washington University in St. Louis and is a member of three engineering honor societies. He has been the General Chairman of the International Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials in Washington DC, the Program Chairman of Intermag, and the Reviews Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Magnetics.

Phone Number (land line): 925-461-1258

Blog: http://www.baeworkshop.com/baeblog
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Questions:
Will supply questions tomorrow.

Dan Schawbel, Founder
Dan Schawbel, recognized as a “personal branding guru” by The New York Times, is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, and the leading authority on personal branding. He is the author of the #1 international bestselling career book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan Publishing). Me 2.0 made the New York Times summer reading list for job seekers, was the #1 career book of 2009 by The New York Post, is a #1 bestseller in Japan, and is also being translated into Chinese, Korean, and French. In 2010, Dan was named to the prestigious Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list. With over one million results for his name in Google, 103,000 Twitter followers, and a maxed out Facebook account (5,000 friends), Fast Company calls Dan a “personal branding force of nature.” BusinessWeek named Dan as one of twenty people entrepreneurs should follow on twitter and Details Magazine cited him as one of five internet guru’s that can make you rich.

He is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog®, which was the #1 job blog by Careerbuilder in 2008 & 2009, is an AdAge top marketing blog and is syndicated by Reuters, Forbes, Fox Business and other major networks. Dan is also the publisher of Personal Branding Magazine®. As a brand futurist, Dan was one of the first seven bloggers to have their own iPhone application. In 2007, Dan co-created one of the first social media positions in a Fortune 200 company, EMC Corp. He is a syndicated columnist for Metro US, reaching over 1.2 million reader’s bi-weekly. Dan is a columnist at BusinessWeek and a blogger at Forbes. He has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, BrandWeek Magazine, Mashable, AOL Jobs, Yahoo! Shine, MediaPost, BNET, and Advertising Age. He’s been featured in over 350 media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ELLE Magazine, The Washington Post, CBS, ABC News, MSNBC, NPR, USA Today, Forbes, and The Boston Globe. As a national speaker, Dan has spoken to IBM, CitiGroup, Time Warner, Harvard Business School, and MIT.

Current/Past Clients
IBM, Time Warner, EMC, CitiGroup, Symantec, CareerBuilder, BrazenCareerist.com, Bloomberg, Virtual Inc., UC Berkeley HAAS School of Business, The Art Institutes, PRSSA, The Bozzuto Group, Keller Williams Realty, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Boston, MIT, Computer Associates (CA), Boston University, Bentley University, Boston College, Tufts University, Greater Boston Association of Realtors, New England Cable Telecommunications Association.

Here are some of the discussion questions:

• What was the genesis for the creation of Adroll…what market gap were you trying to solve?
• What are Adroll ‘s core principles?
• Who are typical clients or customers for Adroll?
• What is the process for a user of the platform to use the Adroll System?
• You have 4 product or service groups…let’s take a tour of them….
  1. Retargeting
  2. Site Targeting
  3. Behavioral Targeting
  4. Creative Services
• What is the pricing model?

1. Why backup data?
2. Do I need online backup if I already save my data to an external hard drive?
3. How did the company get started?
4. How does online backup work?
5. How do you recover your data in the event of a crash?
6. What is the Backblaze offering?
8. How is it different than others in the space?
9. How does Backblaze create a secure environment for the data on its servers?

His company provides management-consulting services and assists entrepreneurs to deliver results in the fields of strategy, organization, operations, corporate finance and investments.

Startup Best Practices contains in-depth conversations with Silicon Valley serial entrepreneurs who share a wealth of business experience and lessons learned that help newbie entrepreneurs focus on the important issues.

The book offers practical guidance in business fields such as finance, marketing and sales, and management and organization. In other words: the key challenges that start-ups typically face.
The book can be downloaded free of charge by members of EFactor.

Key Questions guiding our discussion

1. You were born and raised in Holland…How did a Dutch national end up in Silicon Valley and decide to write a book about start-ups?
2. Why did you write this book-what was the driver for you?
3. Tell us about the process of the interviews…how did you select the entrepreneurs to include in this project?
4. There are quite a few books written on start-ups, how did you want to make this book different from the rest of the pack?
5. As you interviewed the start up business owners…what common themes seemed to come up in the lessons learned?

6. Why give the book away for free? / How can you get it?

Fast forward 12 years, I attended the University of Texas at Austin and began my career as an entrepreneur in college. A long with a friend we founded Personal Wine. Part of the trials and tribulations of owning a business is loneliness. I felt isolated for many years from many of my peers as the majority of them worked for larger corporations and here I was in a tiny incubator office looking for every possible way to succeed. Associating with like minded people who have created their own business and to help people in early stage development has been a tremendous asset to me. My only regret is that I felt so isolated for so long that I only wish that I opened up my Entrepreneur network sooner.

A few months ago I spoke with Patrick Stern at EFactor about the organization. He explained to me that EFactor was not a round table referral source for more business, but rather a way for business owners to mix, mingle and participate in presentations and panel discussions which was something I felt very strongly about. Thru EFactor I have met some really incredible people who I feel will be lifelong contacts and friends.

Recognized by Inc. Magazine, Inc. 5000 List and the U S Chamber of Commerce-who named him the National Young Entrepreneur of the Year… he’s a frequent contributor to CNBC, Fortune Magazine, Entrepreneur, CNN and Wall Street Journal.

Here are some of the questions guiding our discussion:

• When you set out in 2003 to start Guidant…what problem did you want to solve?

• As we’re sitting together at the very end of 2010, your company has helped nearly 4,000 individuals invest nearly $2 billion into small business or franchising…. creating more than 50,000 American jobs. How did you do that?
• What does Guidant do?
• What are the benefits of investing retirement funds into a business as opposed to getting a loan?
• Who is your target demographic?
• What does the IRS think about this?
• How does someone get more information…

Today, CSI is now targeting to attract a much wider audience-and now provides the ability to let smaller size organizations experience the same powerful diagnostic capabilities of the methodology previously available and affordable for larger size organizations.

Jerry Tarasofsky joined us on the line from their offices in Montreal, Canada.

Take a look at our Portfolio page to see the results!

We are a young, growing IT outsourcing company begun in June 2009 by a Dutch entrepreneur on a mission to provide high-quality web development at competitive pricing.

Clients can manage the website or webshop with the open source CMS solutions Joomla or Magento; we can also create a custom CMS.

Mr. Robins us from his offices at in London to talk about Non Disclosure Agreements-what they are and how they work.

THE FIRM
Keystone Law is a leading full service commercial law firm that helps clients achieve, grow and prosper. Keystone is also a law firm like no other, structured in a unique way to provide a level of service and value that is second to none.
SERVICE AND VALUE

Keystone lawyers are all senior solicitors who have worked for at least 10 years in the country’s top commercial law firms. Their experience allows our clients to benefit from a responsive, commercial and accurate legal service delivered by specialists who have come across similar issues in the past.
Keystone solicitors work from their own satellite offices, our clients’ offices or a combination of the two, allowing them to provide a personal and client-focused service. A central office in London handles the firm’s administration, compliance and invoicing. Keystone uses technology and modern working practices to remove the need for junior lawyers, many back office personnel and all unnecessary overhead. This is how Keystone delivers both excellent service and truly unbeatable value.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Keystone is a full service law firm with a team of 97 solicitors operating across ten practice areas:
§ Corporate and Finance

• Dispute Resolution
• Corporate Recovery and Insolvency
• Commercial Property
• Corporate Tax
• Employment
• General Commercial
• IP, Technology and Media
• Private Client
• Sports

• URL/website info for company is http://www.keystonelaw.co.uk
The key talking points will be about how Non Disclosure Agreements rather than about Keystone, though I am happy to tell you why Keystone offers entrepreneurs an unbeatable package of quality and value.

William Robins
Partner-Keystone Law
dd: 020 7152 6550
m: 07720 836 636
f: 0845 458 9398
e: william.robins@keystonelaw.co.uk
twitter: KeystoneWill
skype: william_robins

August Turak has integrated his life-long passion for personal and organizational transformation with a highly successful career as an entrepreneur, consultant, and executive with a variety of companies like MTV Networks, A&E Networks, United Press International, and Bell Atlantic.

Often described as a “worldly monk,” Turak combines the hard-edged discipline of a bottom-line leader with a passionate commitment to putting people first.

Turak has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Selling Magazine, The New York Times, Forbes.com, Business Week and in many other publications and media.

Within EFactor Eva is focusing on the investment / finance pillar. We are keen to expand this area because we feel that there is an increasing need for both (informal) investors and entrepreneurs to connect. We help entrepreneurs finding capital both online but also through personal assistance. In addition, we launch our new website 16 September, which marks the beginning of a new era for EFactor. Maybe it is a good idea to focus a little bit on these two areas.

Mr. Fok is an online and on-campus Adjunct Faculty Professor at University of Phoenix, and Capella for the undergraduate and graduate M.B.A. program. He is also a facilitator/lecturer for undergraduate and graduate courses in strategic management, global marketing, and technology management courses at Benedictine University.
He has successfully developed global product strategy and launched profitable products with over $100M accumulative sales through comprehensive product delivery life cycle process. He has served as a Senior Strategic Product Manager for many companies including Kana Software Inc., Siebel Inc., Lucent Technologies, and IBM in Bay Area, CA.
Mr. Fok has earned his M.B.A. in International Marketing and Finance from the University of San Francisco, McLaren School of Business. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State, San Luis Obispo, and Marketing Training, Strategic Planning, Competitive Analysis, & Strategy from IBM- Professional Marketing School.
Mr. Fok is also the founder, CEO of eLearningZoom, http://www.eLearningZoom.com, a high-tech startup firm based in San Francisco Silicon Valley, California that develops the next generation of online training solutions for small to medium-sized companies.

Here are some of the questions guiding our discussion:

1. You’ve worked for some major corporations in the supply chain management area-What can entrepreneurs learn from your experience in this environment?
2. How does the idea of “risk“fold into creating an entrepreneurial culture?
3. Dee, what do you mean by reinvention?
4. Why should entrepreneurs care about reinventing themselves and their business?
5. What types of business reinventions are you seeing in response to this Great Recession?
6. What practical steps can entrepreneurs take to reinvent themselves?

Jaynie L. Smith is the CEO of Smart Advantage, Inc., a marketing/management consultancy whose clients range from mid-sized companies to Fortune 500 companies.

She consults nationally and internationally with many CEOs and high level executives in helping businesses define their competitive advantages. She has served as a keynote speaker for numerous associations.

• Author of the best-selling Creating Competitive Advantage, published by Doubleday
  Currency (2006) – now in its 10th printing

• 17 Top Performer Awards for CEO coaching

• Featured in Entrepreneur, Industry Week, Investors Business Daily & Business
  Strategies Magazine among many other magazines and newspapers

• 20 years experience working with Fortune 500 companies

• Appeared on several TV business shows including ABC World News This Morning &
  MSNBC

• Selected by TEC/Vistage, an organization of 14,000 CEO’s worldwide, as one of the 50
  most influential people of their first 50 years

• Her Competitive Advantage proprietary workshop was selected as a new course for the
  curriculum for the American Management Association

• Selected to deliver Microsoft Office Live Seminars 2007 with speakers such as
  Michael Gerber, Stephen Covey, Marshall Goldsmith, Jack Canfield & Jim Kouzes

• Guest on Bloomberg Radio, WABC Radio “Brinker Show” & NPR affiliate WLRN
  among scores of other radio shows

• Featured in telecast with Jay Conrad Levinson of Guerrilla Marketing Association

• Contributing Business Expert Columnist to Affluent Magazine

• Undergraduate and Maste’s degrees from the New York Institute of Technology,
  Graduated top of class 4.0

1. What’s at the core of this model and mission and how did it come to be?
2. What do CEO’s miss most often-the genesis of your creating your company, in a sense?
3. Who is your target audience for this the change-the-world CEO idea?
4. Why these leaders need our services (they are in the trenches and hitting the “wall” that must be scaled for further growth)
5. What is the members-only forum?
6. This model includes do-it-yourself online information, such as free lessons and informational video interviews and blogs, and also offerspaid online courses that go deeper on a particular topic, such as human resources or operational excellence.
7. You offer one-on-one coaching, strategic retreats and virtual CSO positions. Talk us through, give us a sense of each of these activities and how they work.
8. This is a menu-based approach so a CEO can find what they are looking for as they reach/enter each new stage of your business.

Here are the key points guiding our discussion:

Theme: Lean Launching in a Tight Economy

• the 4M’s of start-up success
• winning the small-business mind game
• adopting “creativity, not cash” as your mantra
• reframing your marketing mindset
• pitfalls to avoid

How did you get interested in the world of home office, teleworking and the like-wha’s your connection to all of this?

Give us a sense of the history of teleworking and telecommuting for companies and organizations-this is more than a trend-but a pretty well evolved alternative approach to productivity, right?

What are some of the key factors driving his movement-the desire for employees and workforce members to work at home rather than coming to an office?

What do you find that most companies or organizations misunderstand about teleworking and alternative officing and how it can serve them and their employees?

There’s a cliché that some people are wired to work at home and some are not. When is it NOT a good idea to set up an office at home?

For solo-prenuers, there are many executive offices across the country that furnish some of the common needs-receptionist, coffee, conference rooms, data connectivity and so forth. What has been your experience with entrepreneurs that choose this route?

OK, so I decide to set up a workspace at home-where do I start in terms of the physical set and flows, setting up communications and data, creating a professional environment for myself to be as productive as possible?

This is about integrating vocation and life in a new way. But, how do you suggest home based business entrepreneurs or employees manage the balance between the “family-chaos factor” and the work at hand?

There are some the tax implications of setting up a home-office. What are the key line items to be aware of?

Jeff’s Books include:

• Teleworking & Telecommuting: Strategies for Remote Workers & Their Managers (Made E-Z Products, Inc., 2002);
• Safe @ Home: Seven Keys to Home Office Security (FirstPublish),
• Home Office Success Stories (Goin’ SOHO!, 1997),
• Home Office Know-How (Upstart, 1998), and Your Profitable Home Business Made E-Z (on CD-ROM, from Made E-Z Products, Inc., 2000).

1. Why is sustained innovation really a matter of survival for a business? Why not simply create 1 product, do it well, grow sales, and be done with it!

2. Take us back to an earlier time in your career—the story of Airspray. What did the beginnings look and feel like, and how do you take a small, Dutch dispensing company and grow it with a promise of new product innovations every year, ultimately shaping it into a large, multi-national public organization?

3. Let’s walk some of the KEY through Robert’s Rules of Innovation-this is a guide with imperatives that you have created and applied through your own management journeys…
1. Inspire, lead, and drive the process
2. Manage risk, without letting fear of failure kill innovation
3. Create a formalized New Product Development (NPD) process—an absolute must
4. Convince others to work outside their comfort zone
5. Build value for your Innovation
6. Instill accountability-one of the most important of Robert’s Rules of Innovation
7. Properly hire, train, and coach-to create, reinforce, and enhance your company’s culture and mindset
8. Stay open to new ideas

1. Tell us about the work you were each doing before lightning struck and Out of Office was born…
2. Where did the idea come from?
3. What problem or “market need” were you looking to solve with this innovation?
4. So, do you miss designing (Sam) and engineering (Kirsten) at all or does this new creative universe satisfy the innovative artists in you each?
5. Give us a tour of Out of Office-how does the platform work?
6. What is your business revenue model?
7. When did you initially launch and how is user adoption?-Can you quantify the growth of the model so far.
8. Who are your idea clients or users of the platform?
9. What are your plans for expansion or enhancements?

More Information from Out of Office:

Out_Of_Office___For_E-Factor.pdf

Naeem founded Concordia Ventures in early 2007. Naeem is also a part of the faculty of Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the MBA program. Naeem focuses on educating and advising entrepreneurs in all aspects of starting and running a company. Naeem has been a team member in six startups and has extensive experience with mentoring and coaching founders and CEOs. Until 2007, he was the president and CEO of Pyxis Technology Inc., a company specializing in advanced chip design software for nanometer technology. Naeem has been president and CEO of two other high-tech startups (Silicon Design Systems and Veridicom, a Bell Labs spinoff that invented the silicon fingerprint sensors today found on many laptops). Naeem has held senior marketing and engineering positions at several companies, including Quickturn Design Systems, which had an IPO in 1993 and grew to $125M in revenues.

Naeem holds a Bachelor of Science degree (magna cum laude) in electrical engineering from Brown University and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Minnesota. Naeem was a Presidential Gold Medalist and a recipient of the National Talent Scholarship with first-class designation.

Naeem is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs,www.TiE.org) and president of OPEN (http://www.OPENSiliconValley.com). Naeem is also the president of Bay Area Council for Brown University Entrepreneurship Program. He also serves on the boards of Numetrics Ltd., Brainstorm Pvt. Ltd, and Auxo.net Inc., and is a member of the advisory boards of several other companies.

Contact Naeem Zafar at

Naeem@ConcordiaVentures.com

Naeem did six business startups and has extensive experience in mentoring and coaching entrepreneurs. He was the president and CEO and has held senior marketing and engineering positions at several technology focused firms over the years.He’s also the author of 3 books on entrepreneurship. Here are the questions guiding our discussion:

1. Your career has been very rich in terms of growing companies and developing innovative products. What were your key “drivers“or ingredients that you think made your particular ventures successful?
2. Are there any big missteps or mistakes you learned from that would be beneficial for our entrepreneurial listeners of E Factor Radio?
3. You’re the founder of Concordia Ventures. What was the genesis of the creation of this company?
4. When you talk about creating a start up, what do entrepreneurs seem to under-estimate or “get wrong” about the road that’s in front of them?
5. What are some of the external challenges new start ups face right now-give us a temperature reading on the flow of capital into new business ventures. Has the velocity of new capital or the chemistry in therms of the way companies are considered for funding changed?
6. Tell us about the primary activities you’re engaged in at Concordia? How do you work with entrepreneurs-what is the format for educating them?
7. As you speak to and with entrepreneurs and students across the world, what are some of the key points you communicate to them.
8. What is Tiecon, and what role do you play in that endeavor?
9. Where can listeners get more information?

During his career, Gary Bernstein has designed and produced photography, commercials and marketing campaigns for clients all over the world.

Mr. Bernstein’s clients include more than 200 international celebrities and Fortune 500 companies among them Revlon, Avon, NBC, American Express, Cartier, Ford, Nikon, SwatchWatch, NuSkin, HP, Kodak, Bill Blass, Pierre Cardin and WalMart.

With a background in infomercial production and multi-media marketing, Bernstein’s still photographs have appeared on the covers or pages of most major magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Hello, Black Elegance, Paris Match, Hola, GQ, Architectural Digest and Popular Photography.

Bernstein has created numerous iconic celebrity marketing campaigns including Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion Perfume (for Elizabeth Arden and Unilever), Sophia Loren Jewelry (for The Franklin Mint), Joan Collin’s Perfume (for Parlux Fragrances), Johnny Carson Clothing (for HartMarx Corporation), Farrah Fawcett for The American Cancer Society, the “Moonlighting” Campaign with Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd (for ABC Television), the Jay Leno Doritos Campaign (for Frito Lay), and the multiple year campaigns for Sasson, and Jean-Paul Germain (the global “Winners” Campaign which included such celebrated individuals as Rock Hudson and Natalie Wood).

Mr. Bernstein received a degree in Architecture from Penn State University, a Masters in Film from Brooks Institute, a Masters in Contemporary Art from The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., The Photographic Craftsman Degree from The Professional Photographers of America, The Gold Award from The Advertising Festival of New York City, has been featured in ZOOM Magazine, has been featured on many television shows, and in Kodak commercials. He has had his own photography show on The QVC Network, and is an 8th Year Black Belt in the art of Kung Fu San Soo.

With more than one million copies of his photography books, tapes, and DVDs in the worldwide market, Gary currently divides his time between writing, and production projects that include photography, film and aniimation for corporate marketing solutions.

Gary is a marketing consultant to several major corporations, among them Hewlett Packard. He is on the Board of Directors of efactor.com-the world’s largest social networking website for entrepreneurs; and is a strategic advisor and consultant to fortalent.com -the world’s only social networking platform dedicated to arts and entertainment. Additionally, Gary has been actively involved in providing state-of-the-art streaming video technology and other cutting-edge online revenue, marketing and training solutions to many of the world’s largest corporations since 1998.

Gary lives in Southern California with his wife and children.

Currently, Lee is the CEO of The Candlegate Group, the world’s premier lifestyle provider. The company focuses its resources on supporting athletes and artists with transitioning into successful entrepreneurs. The Candlegate Group also provides services ranging from real estate, wealth preservation, family care, luxury, as well as brand and foundation management for high net worth individuals. Under his leadership, The Candlegate Group received accolades and endorsements from companies like CURTCO Media, the publisher’s of The Robb Report, Global Traveler Magazine, and The Art of Living. Lee is an adept fundraiser for charities like the 2nd Harvest Food Bank. On his off time, Lee enjoys golfing, skiing, fishing, and is an avid sailor and free diver; in 1998, he sailed single-handedly from Hawaii to San Diego in 39 days. Lee holds a Bachelor of Science in Government from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a Master in Public Administration from California State University East Bay.

Isaiah Stanback is an American football quarterback and wide receiver for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL Draft and the New England Patriots signed Isaiah to the 53-man roster from the practice squad on Nov.14, 2009.

Isaiah began his collegiate career at Washington as a receiver in his freshman season, but went on to become one of the more prolific quarterbacks in school history! Ranked 11th in school history with 3,868 yards, second with 14.38 career yards per completion, third among quarterbacks with 794 career rushing yards, and fourth with 226 total offensive yards per game.

Isaiah is also the principal spokesperson for The Candlegate Group and is the Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing. Isaiah is expanding his marketing prowess through endorsements and private equity business ownership. Isaiah is an active fundraiser for numerous charities and will launch his own foundation in 2010 focusing on homes for single parents. Isaiah enjoys traveling and is an avid bowler.Isaiah holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Ethnic Studies with a minor in Business Marketing from the University of Washington.