Patrick Adams- Patrick Adams was born to American parents in Beirut, Lebanon. His love of travel likely started on his first flight when he was four days old. He grew up in exotic locations like Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Las Palmas, Canary Islands in his early formative years. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in
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Scott Gurian- Scott Gurian is a Peabody award-winning reporter who’s spent nearly two decades working in radio and online journalism. Between 2012 and 2015, he investigated New Jersey’s long-term recovery from Superstorm Sandy for NJ Spotlight and WNYC, the public radio station in New York. Before that he was a producer on a daily, national
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Michael Hainsworth – Michael Hainsworth is the senior anchor of The Business News Network, and BNN’s longest-serving on-air personality. A talented broadcaster and journalist, Hainsworth is often called on to anchor special coverage on BNN, such as the Federal Budget or fast-moving news stories like the 2014 Parliament Hill shootings. In addition to hosting
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Margie Singleton- Margaret Louis Ebey (born October 5, 1935), known professionally as Margie Singleton, is an American country music singer and songwriter. In the 1960s, she was a popular duet and solo recording artist, working with country stars George Jones and Faron Young. Singleton had her biggest hit with Young called “Keeping Up With The
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Jeff Spencer- Jeff Spencer: At just nine years old, I used to wake up at 4:30 a.m. to practice hitting a baseball up and down our street. That competitive spirit led to winning a national championship at just ten years old and then becoming an Olympian at twenty-one. For the past forty years, I’ve been
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Janice Lawrence-Clarke- Janice Lawrence-Clarke is the President and Creative Director of JLC PRoductions, and Founder of CAFE – Caribbean American Fashion ExchangeTM, a program aimed at joining fashion design talent and U.S. markets, and through which she has established the CAFETM Scholarship Fund at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). The CAFETM Scholarship is to
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About Kenneth KunkenIn 1970, while playing lightweight football for Cornell University, Ken Kunken sustained a spinal cord injury during a game against Columbia University, resulting in quadriplegia at the C4-5 level. Despite being left almost completely paralyzed from the shoulders down, Ken’s resilience and determination shaped a groundbreaking career in law, rehabilitation counseling, and disability
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Vincent Pugliese- Vincent Pugliese is husband to his beautiful wife of 14 years, Elizabeth, and the father of their three awesome sons, Andrew, Nolan and Dylan. Most days, you will find them together searching for bugs, playing baseball and getting caught up in all sorts of silliness. Other times, you might find him on the
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Zach Hughes- Zach Hughes is the Director of IT Development & Operations at CHS and a technology leadership blogger at zachonleadership.com. He has 18 years of experience in enterprise technology in a variety of disciplines including DevOps, cloud computing, mobile computing, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and IT leadership. He is passionate about leading innovative technical teams that
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Dave Wakeman-Dave Wakeman is a globally recognized expert in the areas of management and leadership. His consulting firm, Wakeman Consulting Group, has attracted clients like Odwalla, Yahoo!, Google, the US Department of State, SAIC, American Express, and the Seattle Times. He has served on the board of directors of organizations like Sela Public Charter School
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Jim Akers- Jim Akers earned his B.B.A. from Washington State University, an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and a graduate certificate from Stanford University. He has earned sales leadership and performance awards with Northwestern Mutual Life, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Kirk Paper Company, International Paper and xpedx. Jim was named Vice President of Sales for Kirk Paper Company at the age
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Sarah Williams- Sarah Williams: After working in finance for 8 years, I quit my city job and spent 18 months traveling the world, climbing Kilimanjaro, backpacking around South America and doing a ski season. I used this time to help me decide what I wanted to do with my life. I set up Tough Girl Challenges as a way of motivating and inspiring women
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