Joel Katz is the founder and chief executive officer of Addison Search, and he has a total of 14 years experience in the staffing industry.  Since Addison’s inception in 1999, Joel has successfully expanded the business from a one office, one service line operation to an organization providing temporary and permanent placement of finance and accounting, information technology and clerical personnel through offices in Boston, Chicago, Houston and Schaumburg, IL.

Prior to founding Addison, Joel spent seven years with AccountPros, a leading national provider of temporary and permanent placement staffing services, overseeing the opening of a Los Angeles office, which attained profitability ten months after opening and became its most profitable office in its second year of operations, an Orange County, CA office, and managing two existing Chicago-area offices.

Joel is a CPA, and holds a BS/BA in accounting from Boston University.

Todd Lavieri is the president and chief executive officer of Archstone Consulting. Todd focuses on working with blue-chip clients in the consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, consumer, and business services sectors, attracting key industry talent, and expanding the firm's geographic footprint and global reach.

Todd has extensive experience helping clients design and implement major enterprise transformations with particular focus on supply chain strategy and operations improvement, post merger integration, financial transformation and globalization of enterprises, dealing with organizational effectiveness.

Todd's insights and expertise are often called upon by leading national business outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine.  He has also provided expert commentary as a guest on broadcast outlets, including CNBC and Bloomberg News.  Most recently, Consulting magazine featured Archstone as their April 2007 cover story entitled, "The Age of Archstone."

Todd joined Archstone from Deloitte Consulting, where he was a partner for approximately half of his 13-year tenure and served as Global Lead Partner for Deloitte's manufacturing and consumer products practice.

He holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a BA from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Vince Willis has more than 20 years of experience in the merchandising industry. He held several positions with Driveline before becoming the company's chairman and CEO in 1996.

Vince has been very active in the industry, including serving as the founding director and treasurer of the National Association of Retail Marketing Services (NARMS), as well as its chairman in 1997 and 1998. He is widely recognized as an authority on merchandising services and has served as an expert witness on the industry. Today, his primary responsibilities include managing the company's relationship with its top customers and developing new accounts.

In addition to an MBA from Harvard Business School, Vince earned a BBA from the University of Notre Dame and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

As chief executive officer, Mark Irion leads the executive management team in building out the vision to create the first truly integrated global public policy strategy and management firm. Drawing on years of experience in public and private life, he has led the team of managing principals at Dutko since 1996, affecting and positively contributing to public policy making around the world.

Mark began his political career in the mid 1980s with U.S. Senator Alan Dixon (D-IL), whom he served as a legislative assistant for energy and environmental issues, and for whom he worked extensively on the reauthorization of the Clean Air Act and other environmental legislation. After joining Dutko Worldwide, Mark helped build and manage Dutko's Energy and Environment practice, which remains a significant core practice area of the firm. Mark has devoted time and served in leadership roles on the Democratic Leadership Council, the New Democrat Network and the Third Way -- and continues to work with individual political leaders that share a dedication to the politics of community, opportunity and personal responsibility.

Mark has a degree in theology from St. John's University, and an MA in public affairs from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Gary Fish is president and CEO of FishNet Security, Inc., headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Fish founded FishNet Security in 1996 and, since its inception, has led the organization to be one of the fastest growing and most respected information security firms in the United States.

In 2005, Fish positioned FishNet Security to obtain $12 million in private equity investments, helping to perpetuate his vision of continued growth and stability.

Today, Fish continues to show his strengths as both a leader and strategist, by leading the company through the successful acquisition of SiegeWorks LLC and True North Solutions Commercial Operations, officially making FishNet Security the largest private Information Security Solutions Provider in the country.

Fish has a degree in electronics from DeVry University, served in the Army National Guard, and is certified in many areas of technological and business expertise. He actively serves on the advisory boards for numerous national and global technology companies. In 1999, Fish was named as one of the Top 25 Executives for the new millennium, in computer related fields. In 2001, Ernst & Young honored Fish as the Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for the state of Kansas and Western Missouri. Gary Fish is a serial entrepreneur, involved in many business endeavors; including a successful Information Security application development company, Secure Passage.

Jeff Haggin is CEO and president of Haggin Marketing, and has been at the forefront of the direct marketing industry for 20 years. He brings a wealth of experience based on strategic marketing and creative development work for hundreds of companies -- from kitchen table start-ups to some of the nation's most recognized brands. Jeff is the author of the popular How to Create a Better Catalog, a compilation of over 50 articles written for Catalog Age, DIRECT, DM News, and other periodicals. As an agency founder, author and frequent speaker for the Direct Marketing Association and other trade association events, Jeff is a well-respected contributor in the retail and direct marketing industry at large.

Jeff received a BA in mass communications from the University of California at Berkeley.

Deryl Brown is a proven business executive with a track record of value and wealth creation in the competitive retail energy industry. He has broad experience in retail energy including strategy development, operations, customer service, technology, marketing, and sales. Prior to joining Hudson in April of 2006, he was vice president and general manager of the South region for Direct Energy Business Services, a leading retail energy provider in North America. Prior to Direct Energy, Deryl played a leadership role in establishing the retail energy business of TXU, one of the largest retail energy companies in the United States. Prior to building TXU's retail energy division, Deryl held a variety of senior positions in TXU's regulated utility business.

Deryl received his MBA from the University of North Texas and a BS with high honors in electrical engineering from the University of Texas.

Leading MedErgy's growth and development, Julia Ralston brings a world of experience to her role as President and CEO. After a lengthy career that includes on the ground experience in the Asia-Pacific and EU markets, and creating and successfully growing two global agencies in the United States, she continues to constantly lend her experience to energizing both internal and client teams.

Jonathan Shapiro joined the company in 2007 and has over 15 years of professional experience developing leading online solutions companies. Jonathan was the chief strategy officer for DoubleClick, where he was responsible for setting strategy and overseeing M&A. As senior vice president of DoubleClick’s Abacus division, he created DoubleClick’s data strategy and oversaw development of new online targeting products and solutions. Originally, Jonathan joined DoubleClick as a vice president responsible for managing the company’s Internet Advertising Network. Earlier in his career, he ran United Media’s Internet business, which was launched in 1996 and became one of the Internet’s first profitable businesses. Recently, Jonathan served as president of Lillian Vernon Corp., where he was responsible for management of the company and its subsidiaries. Jonathan began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

Doug Witt, president and CEO of NAL Worldwide, brings more than fifteen years of logistics and supply chain leadership experience to the organization.  His strategic vision builds on the customer-centric focus that has differentiated NAL as a leading provider of tailored supply chain solutions and value-added services.  Prior to joining NAL Worldwide, Doug was president and chief executive officer of FedEx Supply Chain Services, Inc.  During his tenure, he focused the business and its associates on quality of service to and innovative solutions for its clients and their supply chain needs, all while adding service offerings and positioning the business for growth and profitability.  Earlier in his career, he held senior management positions with Newark Electronics and W.W. Grainger.  Doug holds an AB from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Bill Strang is president and chief executive officer of NetStar-1, a company he established to deliver and support business-critical solutions for government and commercial clients. Using a collaborative approach that integrates client objectives with world class engineering expertise, NetStar-1 is focused on the technologies that drive communications convergence integrated with security and scalability.

Prior to NetStar-1, Bill was CEO of Dimension Data North America, which provides networking and multi-channel e-business solutions to global customers. At Dimension Data, Bill oversaw 1,100 employees in North America and had annual revenue responsibilities of $600 million. Dimension Data acquired TimeBridge Technologies, a $150 million company created to provide commercial enterprises with consulting, design, integration, and support services. Bill took over TimeBridge Technologies in June 1997, when it spun off from Sylvest Management Systems Corporation, a company he co-founded in 1987.

Bill served for ten years as executive vice president of Sylvest, an open-systems integrator providing complete turn-key solutions support primarily to Federal government customers. Sylvest was purchased by FDC Technologies in June 1997.

Chief executive officer Jim Harris founded OMN with chief financial officer Tim Donmoyer, who was CFO of an earlier, successful Lake Capital investment and, previously, CFO of Eller Media, and Paul Simon, who was general counsel at Universal Outdoor Media.

Jim has held advertising, marketing and consulting executive roles for almost 20 years. After beginning his career in account management with DDB Needham and brand management at Miller Brewing Co., Jim became a consultant in 1992, leading marketing and strategy engagements for clients including Audible, Citibank, Excite, FOX, Gillette, Google, Hyatt Hotels, Miller Brewing, the National Football League, and Sam Zell's Equity Group Investments. In 1998, Jim was founding EVP of sales and marketing for Allied Riser Communications, a commercial office property and venture backed data-communications services provider, with Equity Office Properties and 12 other major real estate companies as investors. The company went public in 1999 and was acquired by Cogent in 2002. Later, Jim became a founding partner of management consultancy Z Group (now Zyman Group) and CEO of ThoughtStep, Inc.

Jim received a BA (high honors/history) from the University of Michigan and Masters of Management from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Troy Henikoff is an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University. He is also piloting the “Entrepreneur in Residence” program at the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center. He spent most of the last two years as the President of Amacai, a consumer and business data to company, that is known in the industry as the premier source of telephone intelligence.

Previously, Troy co-founded SurePayroll.com, an Internet based payroll service bureau focusing on companies with under 100 employees. Under his leadership as President, SurePayroll grew from an idea on paper to a nationally recognized payroll service bureau in less than three years. Today, SurePayroll is the largest Internet payroll provider and the fifth largest payroll company in the country, managing billions of payroll dollars annually. A two time Inc. 500 honoree, SurePayroll is one of the fastest-growing companies in the country.
Prior to SurePayroll, Troy was at Jellyvision, Inc., recruited specifically to build a software development capability from scratch. Within 18 months, Troy managed to build a team and set of tools for quickly creating highly interactive multimedia experiences. Troy’s team used these tools to build products like “You Don't Know Jack®” for Jellyvision, and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire®” for Disney Interactive.

In addition to his “day job,” Troy serves as a board member at Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center and Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago.

Mark Smith is President and CEO of Soil Safe, a leading environmental service provider focusing on the treatment and recycling of contaminated soil. For the past two decades, cleaning up our environment has been a welcomed challenge for Mark. From remediation and closure of large Superfund sites to award-winning management of major DOE, DOD and EPA environmental programs, he brings over twenty years of environmental and construction industry experience to the Soil Safe team.

Prior to joining Soil Safe in 2005, Mark worked with Kiewit Construction, Westinghouse Environmental, and WRS Infrastructure & Environment, where he served in numerous capacities including Project Engineer, Project and Program Manager, Business Line Manager and Chief Operating Officer. Over the course of his career, Mark has been responsible for the successful management and performance of hundreds of environmental and construction projects and major government cleanup programs across the country. Mark holds a BS in Geological Engineering from the University of Utah.

Stuart Rhea is the founder and CEO of Tolt Service Group, a company he started in 2002. Rhea and his team have organically built Tolt into one of the nation’s leading outsourced field service providers. Prior to founding Tolt, Stu spent more than thirty years in the Information Technology field, the last fifteen in the retail sector. His most recent position was Group VP of Information Technology for Safeway. Prior experience includes positions with IBM Global Services, American Stores and Citigroup.

Rick Eiserman is the new CEO of Trailer Park Inc. Prior to joining Trailer Park, Rick was North America managing partner at Young & Rubicam Brands Southern California and YRB’s Global Client Partner on both the Land Rover and Mattel businesses.

In his role of managing partner of YRB SoCal, Rick ran a 200+ employee agency spanning digital, direct, events, promotions, advertising and viral. After overhauling the operation in early 2006, the office went on to exceed forecast by over 30% and serve as the lead growth engine for Y&R Advertising in the US. Under Rick’s leadership, the agency won over $150 million in new billings for 2007 alone, adding Toshiba Computers, Jenny Craig and Accenture Global / Digital.

Prior to moving to Irvine in February of 2006, Rick was CEO and a founding member of BrandBuzz in New York City. BrandBuzz, launched in 1999 as a standalone division within Y&R Inc., grew to a 65-person full service agency delivering a full range of discipline expertise. After overhauling the creative and strategic planning resources of the company in mid 2004, Rick led BrandBuzz on a path of explosive growth -- delivering 35% YOY growth behind multiple new business wins including the US consolidation of LG Mobile/Appliances/Electronics, MSN, NBA, Pella Windows, Green Mountain Coffee and Burt’s Bees.

During his career, Rick has had the pleasure of leading multiple client businesses, most notably Land Rover Global, LG North America and the NBA. Rick has also been a guest speaker on CNN”s Showbiz Tonight and CNBC’s Kudlow & Cramer.

A creative at heart and a practicing painter, Rick received his Bachelor of Science in advertising from the Art Institute in Southern California. Rick is married with two children in Laguna Hills, CA.

Steve Bardwell founded and served as president and CEO of Electronic Imaging Services (EIS) from 1985 to 1997, at which point EIS became a part of Vestcom. From 1997 to 2003, Bardwell served as COO of Vestcom's Retail Solutions division, and since 2003, Bardwell has served as Vestcom's president and CEO. Prior to joining EIS in 1985, Bardwell worked at Affiliated Foods Southwest.

Paolo Boni joined VFM in October 2001 and is responsible for setting the Company’s vision and strategic direction, as well as evangelizing VFM’s unique value proposition to the world. Under Paolo’s leadership, VFM has become the leading provider of rich media content production and distribution solutions to the hotel and travel industry, with over 10,000 hotels and tens of thousands of travel and travel related website partners worldwide. Paolo is a frequent public speaker and panelist at major travel conferences on subjects relating to online travel marketing and rich media in travel. Paolo is a former Partner with Davies, Ward & Beck (now, Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP), a leading Canadian business law firm, practicing primarily in the areas of securities and corporate law with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions. Paolo holds an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (1993) and a B.A. Economics from McGill University (1989).