Greg has visited over 180 breweries in North America, South America, Asia & Europe,

has attended over 50 beer festivals, 5 national beer conferences and has tasted well

over 2500 beers. Greg has formally studied Beer Sensory Evaluation, has judged in

numerous beer competitions, and is a voracious reader of beer periodicals. Greg is a

member of the Institute of Brewing Studies, the California Small Brewers Guild and is

the co-Founder and former President of the San Diego Brewers Guild.

Greg has appeared on numerous national and local television stations, including ABC,

NBC, FOX and CNN, and has been a featured guest on numerous national and local

radio programs and talk shows.

Along with President & Brewmaster Steve Wagner, Greg opened the doors to the Stone

Brewing Co., a small brewery located in San Marcos, CA, in July of 1996. Since its

introduction, Stone Pale Ale has been the fastest growing beer in Southern California,

with over 400 bars and restaurants now carrying Stone on tap. In addition, Stone's

bottles can be found in over 900 markets and grocery stores, including Vons, Ralphs,

Albertsons, Sam's Club, Costco and Beverages, & more, stores in San Diego County.

Stone Brewing produces the best selling locally brewed and bottled beers in Southern

California.

The Stone Brewing Co. grew over 100% in 1998, over 65% in 1999, 70% in 2000, 52%

in 2001, 50% in 2002, 43% in 2003, and 31% in 2004. Stone Brewing was honored with

a placement on the 2002 “Inc. 500” list of the fastest growing companies in the US.

Stone Brewing beers are currently distributed in CA, AZ, NV, NM, OR, WA, AK, ID, OH,

KY, TN, PA, MA, NY and VA.

Stone Brewing was voted as Corporation of the Year for 2000 by the San Marcos

Chamber of Commerce in San Marcos. Greg was voted Entrepreneur of the Year.

Graduated from the University of Southern California w/a BA in Business

 

Founded Jazzercise in 1969. Today, as president and CEO of the world's leading

dance-fitness program, Judi oversees 160 staff members and 7,200 franchisees

worldwide teaching 32,000 classes weekly, leading the company to its most successful

year ever in 2006/2007, with system wide sales topping $85 million. Judi also

spearheads activities to give back to the community and has collaboratively raised more

than $26 million for various charities. Her passion for bringing the joy of fitness to

people has led to great success and numerous honors, including induction into the

Enterprising Women Hall of Fame, San Diego Business Journal's "Women Who Mean

Business Award," the President's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports Lifetime

Achievement Award, and most recently the "Empowered Woman Award" from Women

Presidents' Organization.

Through her franchise business, which consistently appears as one of the top franchise

investment opportunities in Entrepreneur magazine's annual Franchise 500 ranking,

Judi has empowered thousands of people around the world to succeed economically as

independent business owners. With her passion, innovative creativity, and strong

business acumen in full drive, Judi continues to keep the company on the cutting edge

of fitness and business.

 

After receiving his BS in mechanical engineering from Cornell University where he was

co-captain of the swim team and school record holder (for one short year) in the 200

yard freestyle, Andy worked as the Snowboard Product Manager for Burton

Snowboards. At Burton, he was responsible for the development of all snowboard

product from 1990-1994 and general hardgoods development for the 1995 and 1996

seasons. Andy left Burton to get an MBA from Stanford University and upon graduation

co-founded Nixon.

Nixon shipped its first product in August of 1998 and since that time has grown to sell

Nixon branded watches and other accessories in over 30 countries, employ 75 people

in their Encinitas, CA headquarters and Hossegor, France and Hong Kong subsidiaries,

and sponsor professional snow, surf and skateboarders such as Tony Hawk, Danny

Way, Rob Machado, Bruce Irons, and JP Walker among others. Nixon watches have

been seen on Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), James Hetfield (Metallica), Bruce

Springsteen, Mos Def, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, and The Red

Hot Chili Peppers.

After 7 years of fast independent growth, Nixon merged with Billabong in January 2006

in order to join Billabong’s portfolio of global brands and aggressively explore growth

opportunities for Nixon.

And although Nixon was started to address a need for fashion oriented sports

accessories for the action sports minded consumer, Andy is not personally fashion

forward nor the best action sports athlete. He lives in Encinitas with his wife Liz and

A partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP, a certified public accounting firm. She has over

25 years of experience with Deloitte and has served in many leadership roles both

within and outside of the Firm. Helen was an inaugural member of Deloitte's Initiative

for the Advancement and Retention of Women in 1991, attended the first invitational

Forum for the Development of High Talent Women Partners (through the Simmons

College graduate management program in Boston) and taught the Firm’s national

training in Real Estate and Construction for several years.

Helen's experience and background with Deloitte is particularly focused on Alternative

Energy, including wind energy, solar, and other forms of clean technology. She is

considered a national expert in the field and is consulted often regarding complex

issues facing companies in the independent power production industry. Throughout her

career, Helen has been a champion of process improvement within the accounting

profession and currently serves on Deloitte’s National Steering Committee for the

Assurance and Advisory Services Group.

Helen also has a passion for continuing advancement of organizations in the San Diego

not-for-profit community. She has served in executive positions on the boards of

directors of the Senior Community Centers, Make-A-Wish of San Diego, and the YWCA,

and in professional organizations such as the Chairmen's RoundTable and the

American Wind Energy Association. Helen is currently the Chairman of the Board-Elect

for Athena - San Diego, a professional organization for executive women in science

and technology with more than 600 members.

Her passion for mentoring younger staff members has lead to her reputation as a most

requested mentor and counselor within Deloitte as well as within Athena, where she

currently serves as the Mentoring Chair, providing executive mentors for that entity's

Forum for Executive Women ("FEW") groups.

Helen has 5 daughters, all of whom are grown and live in the San Diego area.

 

Ron rejoined Heidrick & Struggles in 1998. In his previous position with the firm, he

served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1987 until 1991. Before rejoining,

Ron was Vice Chairman and West Coast Managing Partner for another major global

executive search firm.

Ron's 20-plus years of executive search experience include conducting senior-level

searches in a variety of industries, such as industrial products, technology, energy,

consumer goods and services, entertainment and professional services. He has served

as a consultant and thought partner to the senior management and boards of both

multibillion dollar companies and emerging growth startup organizations.

In addition to his leadership roles in executive search, Ron also served as President

and Chief Operating Officer of Jenny Craig International, during the time that

organization went public on the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to entering executive

search, Ron spent five years in Washington, DC, where he was a Presidential

Appointee of the Ford Administration, serving as a Director of federally funded volunteer

programs, including the Peace Corps, VISTA and Foster Grandparents.

Ron began his career in advertising with the J. Walter Thompson Company in New York

and Los Angeles, where he spent eight years in various roles, including Director of

Training, Personnel Manager and Account Manager. Ron is a graduate of San Jose

State University, where he earned a master's degree in business administration and a

bachelor's degree in public administration.


 

Neal E. Schmale is president, chief operating officer and a member of the board of

directors for Sempra Energy, a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services holding

company whose subsidiaries provide electricity, natural gas and energy products and

services. The Sempra Energy companies' 14,000 employees serve more than 29

million consumers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America and

Asia.

In his current position Schmale is responsible for the overall operational and

management of the Sempra Energy companies. He has been a member of the board of

directors since 2005.

Schmale formerly was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Sempra

Energy.

Before his career at Sempra Energy, Schmale was chief financial officer and a member

of the board of directors of Unocal Corporation and had earlier served as Unocal's

senior vice president and president of its petroleum products and chemical division.

Throughout his 29-year career at Unocal, Schmale held a variety of positions in the

operations, legal and finance functions.

Schmale, a native of Nebraska, holds a law degree from Loyola University of Los

Angeles' Law School and a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the

Colorado School of Mines. He is a member of the board of directors of Murphy Oil

Corporation and serves on its audit and compensation committees. He is the nonexecutive

chairman of the board of directors of the WD-40 company, and was

previously a chairman of its audit committee. Schmale is a member of the California

Bar.


 

Oversee corporate training, marketing, finance, operations, and compliance for 30 year

old San Diego based franchisor

Leading high growth nationwide expansion through franchise sales and Area Developer

programs

Founded a school fundraising program offering a unique memory book compilation of a

child's original school work

Designed and implemented the marketing, training and operating guidelines and

procedures

Key member of executive management team reporting directly to CEO

Responsible for nationwide operations and purchasing/distribution of $1.5B franchisor

with 3400 locations

Negotiated 60 national agreements with companies such as Xerox, Konica and Pitney

Bowes

Implemented operational workflow for major strategic alliance platforms

Key advisory role in new product development and management process

Franchise application approval

Interim Senior Vice President of Marketing overseeing $17M national advertising budget

Supervised nationwide consumer market research for new product/concept

development while working at the world headquarters in Michigan

Operations director for 725 stores in 8 western states generating $375M annually

Assisted franchisees in successful business operations (sales, cash flow, marketing,

operations and training)

Monitored royalty accounts receivable

Implemented the roll-out of new products to the field

Rolex watch award recipient for outstanding operations performance


 

Ms. Green has more than 20 years of executive level and operations experience in

Fortune 100, entrepreneurial, and management consulting organizations. She was

previously President of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global consulting and training

organization as well as LumMed, Inc. a biotech start up.

She has a broad background in strategic planning, organization design and

development, process improvement, leadership assessment and development, and the

integration and alignment of business strategies. She has been responsible for and

successfully designed and built the necessary infrastructure in several organizations.

Experiences include working as both an internal and an external resource for

multinational corporations including The Coca-Cola Company, AT&T, Del Computer,

Bass Hotels & Resorts, QUALCOMM, Expedia, Inc., RealNetworks, Inc., Microsoft and

Google. Holly is known as someone who gets things done and has led turnarounds as

well as hyper growth organizations.

With a proven track record of value-added delivery and as a sought-after speaker and

consultant, she has received national recognition. Her current book, More Than a

Minute: Today's Manager & Leader is due to be published in late 2007. In addition to

her corporate experience, she also has extensive experience in political strategy at the

local, state and Presidential levels.

Holly graduated Summa cum laude with her Bachelor's degree in behavioral science

and with Distinction with her Master of Science degree in organizational development

from American University in Washington, D.C. She also has her Senior Professional

Human Resources (SPHR), Change Management and Total Quality Management

certifications. She is currently on the staff of Webster University and teaches courses in

the graduate program. Holly is a board member of the San Diego Performing Arts

League as well as Total Training, Inc. She has served on numerous other company

and not for profit organizations and is an active member of the Chairmen’s Roundtable,

a non profit organization of senior executives providing pro bono consulting to mid-sized

businesses.

 

Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1958. Came to the US in 1978 and graduated with a degree

of Automotive design and technology in 1983. Married Abeer Risheq in 1984.

Have 3 children, Chuck born in 1985, Tina born in 1987 and Chad born in 1994.

Joined Hitron Systems, Korea in 1986 and Started Hitron USA in 1990. Hitron systems,

Korea went public in 1998 which was the only company that went public in 1998 during

the Economic collapse in Korea. Today, the Hitron group is the largest manufacturer of

CCTV/Security equipment in the world with factories in Korea, China, Japan and

offices/warehouses in the USA, Europe and the Middle East occupying more than

2,000,000sqf. Total group has more than 1700 employees including 450engineers with

a turnover in excess of $400M annually. IDIS which is one of the Hitron Family of

companies was ranked number 62 in the world in Forbes Magazine in 2004 as one of

the fastest growing companies under a $Billion.

Board Member in many Public and private companies as well as non profit

organizations, Honorary Commander in the Honorary Sheriff Deputy Association,

Board Member of the Holy Spirit University Foundation since 2001 and Chairman of the

Holy Spirit University Foundation in 2004. Holy Spirit has more than 9000 students and

the fastest growing private University in Lebanon. Elected Member of the Board at the

Digipen Institute in Seattle, Washington since 2005. Digipen is the leading University in

Computer Science, Animation and Game development with more than 2000 students..


 

Jim graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1975, and served onboard

USS Wichita (AOR-1) as a shipboard officer and then as an instructor at the Surface

Warfare Officers School. He left the Navy in 1981 to join Merrill Lynch. In 1984 he was

named the Resident Manager of the then newly opened Rancho Bernardo office,

becoming one of the youngest managers in the securities firm’s history. He left Merrill

Lynch in 1996 after an assignment as the branch manager of the La Jolla office to start

his current business.

Diego's most forward thinking and progressive companies. In addition to chairing the

meetings, Jim has assisted groups of middle management and employees in industries

ranging from landscaping and manufacturing to accounting and legal services. He sits

on a number of boards, including the College of Business Administration Advisory

Board for California State University San Marcos.

He is also a published author. His book Blood Atonement, the first of the Dahlgren

Wallace mystery series, has won the San Diego Book Award for best mystery and

France's .38 Caliber Award for best first mystery novel.

He and his wife, Lynn, will celebrate their 30th anniversary in August, 2008. His son,

Justin, plays bass in the indie rock band, Birdmonster and his daughter, Liz, is breaking

into the modern dance scene in San Francisco. He has no idea where his children's

artistic talents came from…



 

Ted Waitt, 45, co-founded Gateway, Inc in 1985 with a $10,000 loan guarantee from his

grandmother and a revolutionary idea to deal directly with customers and build

computers to individual specifications, Ted set up shop in his family's Sioux City, Iowa

farm house and helped to forever changed the computer industry. The build-to-order,

direct-to-consumer model was born.

Built on the belief that technology holds the power to improve people's lives, Gateway

set out to take the fear and intimidation out of the computer-buying experience. With

Ted at the helm, Gateway rose quickly to become a Fortune 500 company and the

world's third-largest vendor of PCs.

True to Ted's innovative and risk-taking leadership style, Gateway continued to lead the

computer industry by becoming the first PC manufacturer to sell its own consumer

electronics with the launch of the Gateway Plasma TV and over 75 other Gatewaybranded

CE products in 2002. Along the way, Ted and Gateway became known for

something just as important: honesty, integrity, and unmatched customer service.

Gateway has received awards as one of America’s most admired companies and

continually ranks at the top of the industry in customer loyalty.

Ted served as Chairman and CEO of Gateway from 1985 to 1999 and then again from

2001 until March 2004. In March 2004, Gateway acquired eMachines and Ted chose to

serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors. He retired once and for all from Gateway

in May 2005.

Today, Ted is a full time entrepreneur and philanthropist. On the business front, Ted is

Chairman and CEO of the Avalon Capital Group, his private equity company that

invests in companies and ventures in numerous sectors of the economy from

entertainment to energy to real estate.

His Waitt Family Foundation, started in 1993, is built in the image of its founder:

innovative, compassionate, revolutionary. It seeks to support causes that help us

understand our past, improve the present, and prepare for the future. The Foundation

has supported efforts to bring technology to underserved communities, schools and

non-profit organizations in an effort to help bridge the "digital divide", amongst other

organizations, as noted below.

Ted has donated almost $100 million to non-profit and charitable organizations, mainly

through the Foundation since its inception. His key interests have focused on four

areas: community building, violence prevention, and historical and scientific

breakthroughs.

Provided millions of dollars in support to future scenario planning and major community

projects in cities such as Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Oakland,

New York, and Newport, Tennessee.

In 2000, he created the "Digital Divide Fund," a $10 million effort that funded

"PowerUP," a network of hundreds of computer labs with over 30,000 computers

serving children and youth in low-income neighborhoods nationwide.

Internationally, his most recent support of "Rwanda Gift for Life" is helping the women of

Rwanda become economically self sufficient through training and support for small

business start-ups selling to the global marketplace.

San Diego, CA, where Ted calls home, has received over $12 million in support of

projects and programs such as the development of a long-term convalescent facility at

Children’s Hospital, the renovation of Torrey Pines Golf Course in order to host the US

Open in 2008, the Monarch School for the Homeless, YWCA, American Red Cross,

United Way, PBS, the San Diego Regional Technology Alliance, Hope in the City, and

the Center for Community Solutions.

The Siouxland region of Iowa, where Ted was born, has received over $13 million in

support of 228 projects, including a $2 million grant for the renovation of the historic

Orpheum Theater; the "Success by Six" early childhood initiative, the United Way, the

free music festival "Saturday in the Park" which draws over 35,000 people each year,

school gymnasiums, athletic facilities, bike trails, and more. Ted was named

Philanthropist of the Year in Sioux City in 1997 and 2001.

384 at-risk students have received full or partial college scholarships from the Waitt

Family Foundation.

Sponsored the Gateway Pro Am charity golf classic, raising $4 million in support of

dozens of Siouxland projects, chief among them the Boys and Girls Home of Siouxland.

$10 million gift established the Waitt Institute for Violence prevention (WIVP) in 2005.

The WIVP, a private operating foundation, has as its core mission the reduction of

domestic and community violence. It is the largest single private funder of violence

prevention programs working with men and boys in the U.S. The Institute is the leading

partner in "The Sioux City Project," a multi-million dollar community-based violence

prevention effort based in the tri-state Sioux City area of Iowa, Nebraska and South

Dakota. Sioux City has the most concentrated Mentors in Violence Prevention MVP

presence program in the country given Ted’s early support of the program.

In addition, Ted has served numerous times as national spokesman and Chairman of

the Founding Fathers Campaign of the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF). In

this role, his support has meant millions of dollars in aid to the FVPF to gather cutting

edge research and create three years of Ad Council advertising campaign activities

called "Coaching Boys to Men," geared to educating men in their role in the prevention

of domestic violence. Over 1 million related playbooks have been sent to student

athletes through coaches nationwide.

In San Diego, Ted's financial support has helped launch several groundbreaking

programs such as San Diego's Family Justice Center, nationally recognized as an

exceptional model in treating victims of domestic violence, as well as "Becky’s House,"

a model program for the sheltering of victims of domestic violence.

Founded the Waitt Institute for Historical Discovery in 2005, a $12 million operating

institute dedicated to facilitating major discoveries that will improve the understanding of

our past.

Largest living donor to the National Geographic Society (NGS) and a member of its

Council of Advisors. In this role, his contribution of $5 million has helped create the The

Genographic Project, a five-year research partnership using sophisticated laboratory

and computer analysis of DNA contributed by hundreds of thousands of people,

including indigenous peoples and members of the general public, to map global human

migratory history. In addition, a $1 million gift to the NGS made possible the financing,

authentification, translation, and publication of the lost "Gospel of Judas," part of an

ancient codex of historical and religious significance. Waitt’s personal efforts have

ensured these documents and their contents will be available for scholars and people of

faith to review and study for generations to come.

Has contributed substantially to the conservation and display of the Dead Sea Scrolls,

as well as made possible the efforts of archaeologist Mark Lehner to establish a

permanent field school in Egypt near the pyramids to uncover a city where the pyramid

builders were thought to have lived in search of the answer to the question: who built

the pyramids?

On the oceanographic front, Ted's Institute undertook the largest and most ambitious

underwater oceanographic search in history in March, 2006, mapping some of the

deepest depths in the South Pacific. His institute’s Advisory Committee enjoys the

membership of some of the most preeminent oceanographic scientists in the world,

including Sylvia Earle, Dr. George F. Bass, Dr. David Gallo, Dr. Bruce H. Robison, and

Dr. Wes Tunnell.

Vice Chairman of the board of trustees and Chair of the governance committee for The

Salk Institute, a leading biological research institution. In this area, he has convened a

"biophotonics" symposium, an expert panel of Biologists, Chemists, Physicists, and

Engineers to accelerate the development of imaging technologies and microscopy to

enable massive breakthroughs in biotechnology.

Major financial force behind the funding of the Nanotechnology Roadmap, a

private/pubic sector effort to accelerate the development and promise of

nanotechnology materials and products for the benefit of mankind.

Major donor and supporter of the X Prize Foundation, a supporter of the Cancer

Research program at UCSD, a member of the Board of the San Diego Center for

Regenerative Medicine (SDCIRM), and received an Honorary Doctorate of Science

from the University of South Dakota.

As the founder and former Chairman/CEO of Gateway, Inc., he also donates substantial

time and travel each year speaking to students at colleges and universities on the

lessons of entrepreneurism.

Over the years, Ted has earned a number of prestigious honors, including: the Young

Entrepreneur of the Year award from the U.S. Small Business Association, an honorary

doctorate of science degree from the University of South Dakota, and the Ten

Outstanding Young Americans (TOYA) award from the United States Junior Chamber of

Commerce. He was appointed by Congress to serve on the Advisory Commission on

Electronic Commerce and has served on numerous other corporate and philanthropic

Boards of Directors.
 

Daniel G. Amen, MD is a child and adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, and a

Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the founder, CEO

and medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc. in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California,

Tacoma, Washington and Reston, Virginia. Amen Clinics, Inc have the world’s largest

database of functional brain scans relating to psychiatric medicine, totaling now more

than 41,000 scans, and the clinics have seen patients from 68 countries.

Dr. Amen is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the

University of California, Irvine School of Medicine where he teaches seminars on brain

imaging, brain injury, behavioral neuroanatomy, Adult ADD, hypnosis, biofeedback, and

the use of supplements in psychiatry.

A small sample of the organizations Dr. Amen has spoken for include: the National

Security Agency, the National Science Foundation, Harvard's Learning and the Brain

Conference, and the Supreme Courts of Delaware, Ohio and Wyoming. Dr. Amen has

been featured in Parade Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street

Journal, Newsweek, Newsweek Japan, and Cosmopolitan. In addition, Dr. Amen has

appeared on the Today Show, 48 Hours, the Discovery Channel, The View, and HBO's

show America Undercover.

Dr. Amen is the author of 22 books and a number of audio and video programs. Dr.

Amen, together with The United Paramount Network and Leeza Gibbons, produced a

show called The Truth About Drinking, on alcohol education for teenagers, which won

an Emmy Award for the Best Educational Television Show. In 1999, Random House

published Dr. Amen's book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, which has been on

the New York Times bestseller list and is translated into 13 languages. He is also the

author of Healing ADD, Healing The Hardware of the Soul, Making A Good Brain Great,

Sex On The Brain, and the co-author of Healing Anxiety and Depression and Preventing

Alzheimer's. The audiobook for Making A Good Brain Great received Audiofile

Magazine's Earphone Award, the audiobook industry equivalent to the Grammy

Awards. In Spring 2009, Harmony Books will publish Dr. Amen’s upcoming book, Wired

for Success.