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.

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.

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.
Melanie Guinn Buchanan Alan Hald

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.

Dudley Lynch Giovanni Vescovo

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.

Hemanth Rao, MD Bob Alexander

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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