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Kenneth Kahn |
Philipp Johner |
Kenny Kahn is an
entrepreneurial pioneer with front line experience building businesses and
re-energizing companies – even in the face of the most complex problems. As
the President and Founder of Black Label Advisory, Kenny challenges
organizations to think differently about what’s possible and dares business
leaders to ask the question, “What if...?”
Prior to forming Black Label Advisory, Kenny served as Chief Strategic
Officer for Iverify. Under Kenny’s direction, the innovative security
services company grew its recurring revenues by 40% in 2009 and was named
one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing privately-held companies in the
United States.
In 1997, Kenny was selected by Muzak’s Chairman and CEO to lead the
revitalization of the company’s embattled brand. As Executive Vice President
of Sales, Product & Marketing, Kenny was the principal architect for the
re-branding. The business turnaround grew the company from $80MM in revenue
to $250MM in just four years. Ten years later, the success of the world’s
leading provider of business music became the subject of a Harvard Business
School case study entitled, “Kenny Kahn at Muzak”.
Kenny is the past Founder and Chairman of the Muzak Heart and Soul
Foundation and has served on the Board of Directors of the Sandra and Leon
Levine Jewish Community Center. |

Philipp
Johner,
is founder and CEO of Manres AG in Zurich, Switzerland.
He coaches
CEOs of leading companies, is head trainer of large corporate
transformations, author ("Freundschaft", 2009 and “Transforming Leaders”,
2010). As a psychologist he is a pioneer in developing and testing
numerous instruments and concepts of positive psychology.
Within the
scope of the university's executive education he received the Best Teacher
Award of the
School for Entrepreneurs of the
University
of St. Gallen in 2008 and 2009.
He studied
psychology, philosophy (University of Zurich) and astrophysics (Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) and is also a certified
psychotherapist.
He holds
national and international titles in various martial arts:
Swiss
champion and on 5th place in the world championship in kick boxing. Swiss
vice-champion in Taek Won Do
He is
married with five children and is deeply engaged in theology, music and
martial arts. |
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Steve Sullivan |
Robert Mazzucchelli |

Steve Sullivan
began his career as an
Army Ranger and served as a platoon leader, company commander and operations
officer. After leaving the military, he entered the business world and spent
twenty-one years in a variety of executive positions in corporate America.
He is responsible for generating in excess of 1.2 billion in sales growth.
He is an
internationally recognized authority on Sales, Leadership, and Performance
issues. He is the author of seven books. Two of which, Selling At Mach 1
and Leading At Mach 2 were business bestsellers. Leading At Mach 2
was a Business Book of the Year Selection.
His videos on Selling and
Leadership are Vision Award winners. His most recent book Remember This
Titan is the acclaimed biography of celebrated coach Bill Yoast.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International
Relations from the University of Florida and a Masters in Systems Management
from the University of Southern California.
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Robert Mazzucchelli,
senior marketing executive and entrepreneur for over 20 years.
Chairman, Crosscourt Advisors, Inc.
Chief Strategy Officer, PowerPact Holdings, LLC
In 1987, he founded his first marketing company, Pinnacle Promotions. After
selling Pinnacle in 1993, he co-founded and was President of the 141
Worldwide marketing company for Cordiant Communications Group (now owned by
WPP), which achieved annual revenue of $115 million in 40 countries by 1999.
In 2000, he joined SFX Entertainment (now Live Nation) as Executive Vice
President responsible for global marketing alliances. His marketing clients
have included Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon, Hennessy, Jose Cuervo, Perrier,
Miller, Visa, Kodak, Carling, BAT, AIG and other global brands.
Robert entered the men’s luxury apparel business in 2003, and until May of
2009 was CEO of 2M Apparel Ventures, an award-winning men’s luxury apparel
design, manufacturing, wholesale and retail company that sold the Roberto da
Carrara and Niformis brands to over fifty of the best men’s specialty stores
in the United States. Robert and 2M also owned and operated stores in
Westport,CT and New York City..
Robert received a BA in Economics and Communication from the University of
Richmond, where he also was captain of the tennis team. He has written
articles on marketing for both marketing and fashion trade publications. |
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Melanie Guinn Buchanan |
Alan Hald |
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Zander Guinn Millan
Founding Partner and Senior Strategist, Melanie Guinn Buchanan has guided
the global branding efforts of several international clients throughout
seven countries and three continents. Her commitment to brand strategy began
in the early 1990’s when assessing brand equity and strength were becoming
main areas of focus for companies worldwide. She began her career in
Northern Europe before returning to the U.S. to work in international
branding.
In
2006 she co-founded Zander Guinn Millan (ZGM) and has since focused on
positioning ZGM as one of the region’s most successful boutique branding
firms. A Morehead Nominee, Melanie earned her B.S. in International Business
at The George Washington
University.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a double concentration in Economics and
French.
She
has previously served on the Kennedy Center Youth Foundation Committee, The
Elliott School International Affairs Society, L’Alliance Francaise and the
Swis-Ital Foundation for Children. Her current activities include NAWBO, the
Charlotte DreamCatcher Society, Charlotte Concerts, Business Innovation and
Growth, SHSMD, CHPRMS, NESHCo, Forum for Healthcare Strategists and The Duke
Mansion Preservation Society. |
Alan Hald, M.B.A. is a strategic business consultant to the company.
He was one of the founders of MicroAge Inc., a fortune 500 company. Alan has
been referred to as "the single most influential advocate for high-tech
industries in the state." This is reflected in Alan's roles as chair of the
board of the Arizona Technology Incubator, leader of the Governor's New
Economy Task Force, leader of the Governor's Strategic Partnership for
Economic Development (GSPED), and chair of the public policy committee of
the Computing Technology Industry Association.
As a
business leader, Ernst & Young and Inc Magazine recognized Alan as the 1995
National Master Entrepreneur of the Year. For his commitment to improving
Arizona‘s business climate for technology companies he was recognized as
Arizona's "Entrepreneur of the Year" for supporting entrepreneurship.
In
1998, Alan was inducted into the Arizona Business Hall of Fame. In the
recently published Grassroots Leader For A New Economy, the author Doug Henton, described Alan as a classic example of business entrepreneur turned
civic entrepreneur. |
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Dudley Lynch |
Giovanni Vescovo |
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Dudley Lynch,
president of Brain Technologies Corporation, is often viewed as the leading
popular interpreter of Dr. Clare Graves and his Gravesian conceptual model
of how the people work within the worlds of society, culture and technology.
Mr. Lynch has written more books on Graves' ideas and models than anyone
else, and no one's Gravesian books have enjoyed more marketplace success.
Three of Mr. Lynch's Graves-based titles are available both in English and
German. One of these, Strategy of the Dolphin®: Scoring a Win in a
Chaotic World (with Paul Kordis), was a Literary Guild alternative
selection in the U.S. It ranked as high as the No. 3 bestselling business
book in French, the No. 5 bestselling business book in German and was a No.
1 bestseller in German, Swiss and Austrian self-help bookstores. His latest
book is "The Mother of All Minds." Newport
University of Newport Beach, Calif., awarded Mr. Lynch the title of Doctor
Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters) in 1994 for his
contributions to the fields of personal and business thinking skills
development. The honor was bestowed at the university’s St. Gallen,
Switzerland, campus. |
President
and CEO of Promostudio, Venice, Italy - a Management Consulting Company
established by Giovanni Battista Vescovo in 1987, which now is the Italian
Representative for leading international Business Economy personalities in
its commitment to provide Customised Consultancy and Executive Management
Training.
The Company's mission is to introduce the best international Management,
Economics and Finance practices and develop innovative ideas, methodologies
and management tools to support Operating Enterprises in
implementing their own Corporate culture.
Among the world-renowned personalities represented by
Promostudio are: Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking creator, Renato Tagiuri,
Emeritus Professor at the Harvard Business School and Michael J. Spendolini,
Benchmarking guru.
Promostudio is in touch with many leading speakers of the world of
economics, including Nobel Laureates in Economics as a special category
other than experts in Economics and Finance, and is unique in numbers and
specialties. Another group includes international Management experts at the
very top of their fields, such as Marketing, Benchmarking, Business
Administration or Strategy. |
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Hemanth Rao, MD |
Bob Alexander |
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Dr
Rao was born in Madras (Chennai), India and received his
medical degree from Madras University.
He completed his post-graduate medicine from the Mt Sinai School of Medicine
in NY, his Neurology/Epilepsy/Sleep training from LIJMC (Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in NY) and his NeuroMuscular fellowship from Washington
University in St Louis. Dr Rao is board certified in Neurology and
subspecialty board certified in ElectroDiagnostic medicine. He became
President and CEO of United Sleep Medicine in 2004 and is also president of
Neurology Consultants of the Carolinas. Dr Rao has extensive business experience working with
corporations in various stages of development. |
Bob Alexander is a
senior project manager for Forsythe Solutions Group currently serving as a
project executive for a disaster recovery infrastructure upgrade project for
a global shipping conglomerate. Bob specializes in helping organizations
realize business objectives through project implementations. Highlights of
Bob's career include the management of the data processing aspects of the US
Air Force's Strategic Air Command's Command Center Upgrade Project and of US
Army Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Surveillance Systems supporting the
soldiers in the field. Bob has led organizations focused on the advancement
of systems from both the hardware infrastructure and software engineering
perspectives. |
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