GBN : Our Practice

Strategist, global/local brand equity assessment and positioning; restaurateur (Obiko, Los Angeles); founder, Boggia Partners, Milan and Los Angeles; former vice president, Fiat Group; author, Time of Uncertainty

Doug Carlston

Technology entrepreneur and philanthropist; cofounder, ICPlanet and Broderbund Software; trustee, Santa Fe Institute; board chair, Public Radio International, the Carlston Family Foundation; board member, MoveOn Political Action Committee, the Ploughshares Fund, the Albanian American Enterprise Fund,the Long Now Foundation

Chip Conley

Marketing and management innovator; founder and executive chairman, Joie de Vivre Hospitality; philanthropist; author, Emotional Equations, Peak, Marketing that Matters, The Rebel Rules

Esther Dyson

Journalist and blogger; entrepreneur; evangelist and venture capitalist for emerging technology and healthcare; trained cosmonaut; founding publisher/editor, Release 1.0; former chair, ICANN; and author, Release 2.0

Peter Gabriel

Award-winning singer, song-writer, composer, and world music advocate and producer; human rights activist; cofounder, WOMAD, On Demand Distribution (OD2), and the WITNESS Project

John Gage

Computer scientist; venture capitalist focused on green technologies, formerly with Kleiner Perkins; cofounder and former director of the science office, Sun Microsystems

Lisa Gansky

Technology entrepreneur and investor pioneering sustainable business models; founder Ofoto and GNN; cofounder, Dos Margaritas, an environmental foundation focused on Latin America; author, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing and cofounder, the Mesh Directory

Saul Griffith

Inventor, materials scientist and engineer; founder of Squid Labs, Potenco, Makani Power; columnist, Make magazine; co-author, HowToons comic book for young inventors

Paul Hawken

Environmentalist and entrepreneur; cofounder, The Natural Capital Institute, WiserEarth, Metacode, Groxis, and Smith & Hawken; chair, The Natural Step; coauthor, Natural Capitalism; author, Growing a Business, The Ecology of Commerce, and Blessed Unrest

Charles House

Authority on innovation and technology-enabled collaboration, communications, and community; chancellor, Cogswell College; former executive director, Media X, Stanford University; former executive at technology startups, Intel and, for 28 years, HP; author, The HP Phenomenon

Joel Hyatt

CEO and cofounder, Current TV; founder, Hyatt Legal Plans and Hyatt Legal Services; Stanford entrepreneurship professor; coauthor, The Long Boom

William Joy

Venture partner, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byer, concentrating on green technlogy; cofounder and former chief scientist, Sun Microsystems; software architect and technology futurist; author, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"

John Kao

Serial innovator, entrepreneur, and advisor on corporate innovation and transformation; director, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium; chair, the Institute for Large Scale Innovation; film and Broadway producer; former director, executive innovation programs at Harvard and Stanford; author, Innovation Nation and Jamming

Mia de Kuijper

Advisor on corporate strategy, finance, and international business; co-dean, Duisenberg School of Finance, Amsterdam; former executive at AT&T, PepsiCo, Royal Dutch Shell, and investment banker at Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley; author, Profit Power Economics

Kaiser Kuo

Digital media blogger, journalist, and rock musician; director, international communications, Chinese search engine Baidu; former director, digital media, Ogilvy China; former Beijing bureau chief, Red Herring; founding lead guitarist, Tang Dynasty

David Liddle

Founding partner, US Ventures; cofounder, Interval Research; former computer science professor at Stanford University and chair, Santa Fe Institute board of trustees

Thomas Malone

Professor, management, MIT Sloan School; director, MIT Center for Coordination Science and the Inventing the Organzations of the 21st Century Initiative; author, The Future of Work

Pierre Omidyar

Philanthropist and entrepreneur; chair and CEO, Omidyar Network; chair, eBay

Michael Porter

Professor, Harvard Business School, specializing in the competitive advantage of companies, nations, and regions, and the application of competitive principles to social problems such as health care, the environment, and corporate responsibility; cofounder, Monitor Consulting; author of 18 books including Competitive Strategy and The Competitive Advantage of Nations; coauthor, Can Japan Compete?

Nancy Ramsey

Writer, futurist, entrepreneur; president, Morning Star Imports; former legislative assistant; coauthor, Nuclear Weapons Decision Making and The Futures of Women

Paul Saffo

Strategist, forecaster, and essayist on long term technological change; lecturer, Stanford University; member, national and corporate science advisory boards

Brian Sager

Entrepreneur; bio- and nano-tech venture, technical, and management adviser; biochemist; founder, Nanosolar, a nanotechnology-based solar energy company; new classical music composer

AnnaLee Saxenian

Political scientist specializing in regional economic development and information technology; dean, School of Information and professor, city and regional planning, U.C. Berkeley; author, Regional Advantage and Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Ed Schein

Organizational psychologist and author; professor emeritus and senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; author, Organizational Culture and Leadership, Career Anchors, and Corporate Culture Survival Guide

Michael Schrage

Writer and consultant on digital innovation, collaboration, and risk management; fellow, Sloan School of Management's Center for Digital Business; author, Shared Minds and Serious Play

Hirotaka Takeuchi

Strategy professor, Harvard Business School; former founding dean, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo; coauthor, The Knowledge Creating Company, Can Japan Compete? and Extreme Toyota

Fons Trompenaars

World authority on cross-cultural management; cofounder, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group; author/coauthor of 14 books,including Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Riding the Waves of Culture, Riding the Waves of Innovation, Twenty-One Leaders and The Global M and A Tango: Cross-cultural Dimensions of Mergers and Acquisitions

Lawrence Wilkinson

Founder, Heminge & Condell, an investment and advisory firm; cofounder and vice chair, Oxygen Media; film and television producer; cofounder and former president, GBN

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