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Brad Sugars is the founder of ActionCOACH, the world's number one business coaching firm. As a world-renowned entrepreneur, author and Business Coach, he has helped more than a million clients around the world find business and personal success. Sugars has owned and operated more than two dozen companies including his main company, ActionCOACH, which has nearly 1,000 offices in 26 countries.

Tim Berry is the president of Palo Alto Software Inc., which produces the industry's leading business planning software, Business Plan Pro, as well as other popular planning applications for businesses. He also is an author and an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon, where he teaches a course on entrepreneurship. In January 2007, Berry received the Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Nina L. Kaufman is an award-winning business attorney, author and speaker. For more than 15 years, she has successfully navigated thousands of small businesses through the legal hurdles they face in starting and running their companies. Under her AskTheBusinessLawyer.com brand, she reaches thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners with her legal services, professional speaking, information products, and LexAppeal weekly ezine. With skills honed from stand-up comedy, Nina is a sought-after professional speaker. She has given seminars, workshops, teleclasses and presentations for numerous organizations in the New York City area, with hot topics that include protecting your business on the internet, building business partnerships and collaborative alliances that work, and training clients to pay on time.

Lena West is the CEO and Chief Strategist of xynoMedia Technology , a New York-based firm that helps high-growth companies leverage the power of social media, blogs, podcasts and online communities.

Greg Digneo is the founder of More Caffeine Please, a marketing consulting firm that specializes in helping small businesses to generate revenue on the Web.
Greg established the business based on the notion that a successful internet marketing campaign is based on three principles: knowing who your target market is, building a relationship with them and converting leads to sales. By mastering these three principals, Greg says, a company can increase traffic to its site and have repeat customers.
Prior to founding the business, Greg worked for a midsize business to business technology company and successfully launched products on an international scale.

Steve Adams is vice president of marketing for Protus, a provider of Web-based services for small- to medium-size businesses. The company's offerings include the Internet fax service MyFax, a feature-rich virtual PBX phone service that travels with the user from phone to web called my1voice, and the email marketing solution with advanced automation features called Campaigner. He is a seasoned industry speaker having spoken at a variety of telecommunication trade shows and conferences. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and the Ivey School of Business. Before joining Protus, Adams was with Spotwave Wireless, a provider of in-building wireless coverage solutions

Michael H Kaleikini is a business development consultant and VP of marketing and business development with Corporate Rain Makers, LLC in Las Vegas, Nev. Kaleikini has been in consulting for many years working within different businesses and different industries, through which he has been able to learn the ups and downs of market trends, and positioning to internet marketing where his research is now focused. His experience in start up companies has spanned the eighties through to today. He has seen the same challenges and has been able to help many clients through the maze of creating everything from resumes to business plans. Being a certified Business Etiquette Trainer with the American Business Etiquette Trainers Association, Kaleikini has had the pleasure of working with people from diverse backgrounds and helping them understand the finer points of doing business abroad and here at home.

Bunmi Zalob is founder and president of MommysCompany.com, an online magazine for entrepreneurial moms; BusinessMom.net, a network for business-oriented moms; and UnbusyMom.com, where she offers a workshop that teaches peaceful living and rehabilitates hectic women. She also is an accomplished freelance writer and public speaker on the topic of family and business and is working on her first book, The Art of UnBusy for the Modern Mom.