Marram, is founder, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of GEO- CENTERS, INC. Additionally, he is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Babson College and an adjunct professor at INSEAD College, Fontainbleau, France. He has authored a number of publications and has developed a series of cases, which are currently being used in entrepreneurial classes at Babson College, INSEAD, and several executive education programs. Dr. Marram's honors and board memberships include the Board of Directors of The Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE); Board of Directors -, Professional Services Council; The College Advisory , Council of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst; The Chemistry Advisory Group - Tufts University Steering Committee; The New England American Technion Society; Wrentham Steel Products Co., Inc.; DriverSide, Inc. and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Morris, an Independent Sales Consultant, has almost 30 years of progressive sales and business development management experience gained in the IT and Telecommunications industries. His experience in these industries spans hardware, software and services. Within this arena Tony has repeatedly generated rapid growth in sales and expanded into international markets. For the past several years Tony has been an independent sales consultant, initially focussing on the business development side of several "dot coms". He is currently the leading certified instructor in EMEA for Siebel Systems' internationally acclaimed Target Account Selling program. In this capacity he has trained in excess of 1,000 salespeople from CA, CSC, Microsoft, Nortel Networks and Schlumberger. Prior to this Tony worked for companies such as IBM, Paradyne, GPT and Gandalf.

Muzyka is Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia where he is also Professor of Management. He teaches and conducts research in both entrepreneurship and corporate strategy, especially as it applies to growing businesses. In addition, Dr. Muzyka has acted as a consultant and educator for a number of corporations and on-going Executive Education Programs. He was previously the IAF Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD (France), where he was also the Associate Dean responsible for the MBA program, and Babson College. He has been a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School. Dr. Muzyka has previous experience in finance and corporate strategy at the General Electric Company, and spent five years as a strategy consultant, primarily with Braxton Associates (Boston). Dr. Muzyka has a BA from Williams College (Astrophysics), and an MBA from the Wharton School (Corporate Strategy), and a DBA from the Harvard Business School.

Neale is the John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution. In 2000-2001, she was the Graduate School of Business Trust Faculty Fellow. From 1997-2000, she was the Academic Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford’s faculty in 1995, she was the J.L. and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She received her Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from Northeast Louisiana University, her Master's degrees from the Medical College of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University and her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Texas. She began her academic career as a member of the faculty at the Eller School of Management of the University of Arizona. Neale's major research interests include bargaining and negotiation, distributed work groups, and team composition, learning, and performance. She is the author of over 70 articles on these topics and is a coauthor of three books: Organizational Behavior: A Management Challenge (third edition) (with L. Stroh and G. Northcraft) (Erlbaum Press, 2002); Cognition and Rationality in Negotiation (with M.H. Bazerman) (Free Press, 1991); Negotiating Rationally (with M.H. Bazerman) (Free Press, 1992); and one research series Research on Managing in Groups and Teams (with Elizabeth Mannix) (Elsevier Press). She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, International Journal of Conflict Management, and Human Resource Management Review.

Neubauer is Professor Emeritus of Multinational Corporate Strategy and Planning at IMD, and Director of the International Program for Board Members at IMD. Prof. Neubauer is noted for his expertise on the development and implementation of vision, as expressed in the effectiveness of boards, the role of intuition in strategic management, and non-American management models.

Nordfors is presently adviser and project manager at the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems. In parallel, he works as a private consultant. The major part of his present work concerns professional contacts between Sweden and Israel. The countries signed a high-tech collaboration MOU, which Nordfors is developing for the Swedish part, the Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). Nordfors was the first non-Israeli to study the Israeli technological incubator system from the inside. His study was supported by the Swedish ministry of industry, the Royal Swedish Academy for Engineering Sciences, the National Agency for Integration and the Blekinge Institute of Technology. He hosted several Swedish high-level delegations to Israel, the first one headed by the Chancellor of Swedish Universities and Colleges, Prof. Stig Hagstr'm. He suggested a Swedish incubator system that was promoted in bills to the Swedish parliament by the conservative and the socialist parties. Nordfors was previously director of research funding at the Swedish Foundation for Knowledge and Competence Development (the KK Foundation). He was also the initial CIO of the KK Foundation. He has been the science editor of a major Swedish computer magazine. He was the first editor of the Internet Societal Task Force (ISTF), appointed by the founding chairman Dr. Vinton Cerf, also known as the founding father of the Internet.

Paz is a consultant and trainer in all areas of Cross Cultural Business interaction.  This involves seminars, workshops, courses and consultancy in understanding of cross cultural issues and their impact on the business world, global management, working in multicultural teams, cross cultural communication, VCT’s (Virtual Global Teams), international business behavior and international customer care. She earned her BA in languages, and her MA in English Literature. Post Graduate Teaching Diploma, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously, Margot Paz was the Founder and Manager of Intercultural Center at Amdocs Israel. Her work involved training of employees to live and work in 29 cultures of the world, cultural preparation for employees and spouses before relocation, conducting workshops on “Doing business and working with Israelis” at 16 customer sites around the world, training of managers at Amdocs Business School in all matters related to doing business with other cultures.

Prestowitz is the founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. His leadership has propelled ESI into an important role in the public policy process, influencing and often defining the terms of the debate in the areas of international trade policy, economic competitiveness, and the effects of globalization. Prestowitz has played key roles in achieving congressional passage of NAFTA and in shaping the final content of the Uruguay Round, as well as providing the intellectual basis for current U.S. trade policies toward Japan, China and Korea. Prior to founding ESI, Prestowitz served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. There, he led many U.S. trade and investment negotiations with Japan, China, Latin America and Europe. Before joining the Commerce Department, he was a senior businessman in the United States, Europe, Japan, and throughout Asia and Latin America. He has served as vice chairman of the President's Committee on Trade and Investment in the Pacific and sits on the Intel Policy Advisory Board and the U.S. Export-Import Bank Advisory Board. Prestowitz regularly writes for leading publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Fortune, and Foreign Affairs. He is the author of the best-selling book on U.S.-Japan relations, Trading Places, and co-author and editor of several other books on international trade and business strategy including Asia After the Miracle, Powernomics, Bit by Bit, The New North American Trade Order, and Rogue Nation. Prestowitz holds a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in East-West Policies and Economics from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He also studied at Keio University in Tokyo.

Rothberg has been the principal consultant for HNR Associates "a network of knowledge" since 1987. HNR Associates represents a group of skilled and talented people who contribute their knowledge to projects when needed. They pride themselves in creating relevant, interesting training products and cutting edge analysis. Dr. Rothberg's expertise spans strategic planning and behavioral science. She customizes team building, strategic planning seminars and strategic change programs for Fortune 500, tech start-ups and non-profit firms. Her noted specialty is in the fields of knowledge management and competitive intelligence where she builds "shadow teams" and assists firms with strategic change. Her early work with the competitive intelligence guru Dr. Ben Gilad further extends her capabilities to running war games and developing knowledge and competitive intelligence architectures. Rothberg is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management, School of Management, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY.

Stacey, PhD, is one of the world's foremost scholars and teachers on organizational management and complexity science. Throughout his career, he has addressed the theoretical foundations of how complexity sciences are used to understand sources of stability and change in organizations. Highly regarded for his many publications on strategy and complexity science in the area of management, Stacey is most known for his work on complex responsive processes - which promotes a view that shifts our understanding of complexity from adaptive systems to responsive processes of relating. Stacey is a frequently sought after consultant for managers at many levels across a wide range of organizations. He is Professor of Management and Director of the Complexity and Management Center at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire (UK) where an innovative Masters and Doctoral program in complexity and organizational change has been established. Some of his books and articles include: Managing the Unknowable, Chaos Frontier, Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics, and Complexity and Creativity in Organizations.

Uzzi's research focuses on how social networks and relationships create unique information and leadership benefits for individuals and organizations. His research has appeared in numerous leadings journals including the American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, American Behavioral Scientist, and Science and his book on gender differences in university science, Athena Unbound, was published on Cambridge University Press. He has been a consulting editor for Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Journal of Sociology, and the American Sociological Review. Read the Kellogg World story, "Bowling for Dollars," on some of Uzzi's research. Brian advises and speaks at major firms worldwide, including Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), Baker and McKenzie, Anderson Consulting, Frito-lay, Takada Pharmaceuticals, UNITE (formerly ILGWU), Total Quality Schools, Hearst Media Worldwide, and the World Bank. Brian earned his MS in social psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in sociology from The State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Vollmann is Professor (Emeritus) of Manufacturing Management at IMD. His areas of special interest are manufacturing planning and control, performance measurement, supply chain management and enterprise transformation. He is a consultant to numerous companies in manufacturing, benchmarking, and supply/demand chain management and is a lecturer in executive development programs throughout the world. He has been actively involved in executive education, notably as Professor of Business Administration at Indiana University, as Professor at INSEAD, as Professor of Operations Management at Boston University, and as Professor at the University of Rhode Island and Dartmouth College. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he later gained his MBA, and Ph.D.

Weiss is the President & CEO of Weiss International Ltd. an international business strategy and leadership consulting firm. For the past 20 years, Weiss has specialized in the fields of: facilitating innovative leadership development learning processes, facilitating executive strategic planning and team development, coaching executives and facilitating their development and facilitating succession planning and talent management processes. Weiss' doctorate is from the University of Toronto. He also has three Masters degrees in Psychology, Education and Philosophy. He is also affiliate Professor of the Rotman School of Business, senior research fellow of Queen’s University, faculty member of the Technion Institute of Management, lifetime honored member of the “Global Directory of Who’s Who”, honoured as a life-time “Fellow CHRP Member”, past President of the Organizational Psychology Division of the OPA and certified health services provider in Canada. Weiss is a sought after executive facilitator, trainer and conference keynote presenter. He has published over 30 professional articles in his fields of expertise and he has written three best selling business books. His fourth book is named "Leadership Solutions". 

Yogev is the founder and co-managing director of Yissum Applied Management Systems (1987) - a management and business consulting firm. The company specializes in experiential training, owning an exclusive license in Israel to "The game of Income Outcome" - a business financial simulation, and "Pumping the Colors" - a team development simulation. In the last four years Yogev trained more than 3,000 managers on financial principals and tools.

Zif is a member of the faculty of Management at Tel-Aviv University. He holds B.S. and Dipl. Eng. degrees from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and MBA and Ph.D from New York University. He founded and directed the Executive MBA program at Tel-Aviv University. His areas of teaching and research are: International Marketing, New Product Development, Marketing Strategy, Hi-Tech Marketing and Business Policy. During a period of seventeen years Professor Zif has lectured on marketing and management to executives at the summer worksh