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Don Morrison - Research in Motion (RIM-Blackberry) (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

http://www.rim.com

Don Morrison is the COO for Research in Motion, the fast growing company behind Blackberry. He travels around the world to help grow RIM's business with more than 300 carrier partners in several different countries primarily in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. RIM is currently the second largest (in terms of market cap) traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and this from relatively humble beginnings just a few short years ago. Don previously held executive positions at AT&T and Bell Canada.

Andrew Duggan - LPL Financial Services (San Diego, CA)

LPL has been America's number one independant brokerage firm for the past 11 years, with more than 6,500 financial advisors in over 4,000 branch offices nationwide. The company has annual revenue of $2.3 Billion and 1,300 staff located in it's dual headquarters in San Diego and Boston. LPL manages over $105 billion in investments annually, has over $37 billion in assets in it's fee-based program, and conducts over 5 million trades per year. Andrew is the CIO of the company.

Muhammad afzal Khan - ENS (Peshawar, Pakistan)

Muhammad afzal Khan is the Business Development Director for ENS.

James Bennett - Bennett Automotive Sales (London, Ontario, Canada)

James Bennett is the President of Bennett Automotive Sales.

Eamonn Quinn - Peloton Capital (Dublin, Ireland)

Eamonn Quinn is the chairman of Peloton Capital Ltd, a relatively new company that seeks to identify and fund new companies with high potential. Eamonn's current role at Peloton Capital involves a number of functions identifying high potential companies and then helping those companies focus on delivering on the targets as well as articulating a strategy that will enable small companies to achieve the necessary scale to break through.

Neil Goodhue - Sandringham Trust

Neil Goodhue is the President of Sandringham Trust.

William Karam - Living Technology (Ottawa, ON)

William Karam is the President and Owner of Living Technologies.

Randall Good - Edwards Business Systems (Reading, PA)

Randall Good is the CFO of Edwards Business Systems

Richard Brady - Richard Brady & Associates (San Diego, CA)

http://www.richardbrady.com/

Richard Brady & Associates is an environmental engineering consulting and construction business servicing the Federal Government and some of the largest municipal agencies in the USA. The corporate office is in San Diego, and they have offices in Huntington Beach CA, Temecula CA, Honolulu HI, Washington DC, and Charlotte NC. The company was awarded the Engineering Firm of the Year Award in 2001 by the San Diego Chapter of the AGC.

Brent Taylor - Drilling and Blasting Systems Inc (Conyers, GA)

Drilling and Blasting Systems (DBS) is a contract drilling company that serves the mining industry. The company has seen strong growth since Brent took over in 1998, growing from $2.4 million in sales to $10.5 million. Brent is sole owner and CEO of the company. He started in the drilling industry when he was 14 by maintaing the property of Venture Drilling in his hometown of Tahlequah, OK. In 1993 he transferred to Georgia to manage a division of Venture, and went to work for DBS when the company pulled out of Georgia.

Tiberio Esparza - EW Corporation (Westmorland, CA)

Tiberio Esparza is the President of EW Corporation. EW Corporation has been in business for over 30 years providing metal fabrication, machine shop, and industrial construction to the heavy civil, process, and material handling industries. Tooling methods within our welding plant are continually updated to maintain complete capability for the fabricating, machining, and assembling of equipment utilizing current technology and tooling.

Martin Rosenberg - Ethos Partners Healthcare Management Group (Charlotte, NC)

Martin Rosenberg is a Partner at Ethos Partners Healthcare Management Group. He has been working in healthcare administration for 20 years in various senior management and executive positions. Ethos Partners was created three years ago as a vehicle for the founding partners to establish an organization that reflected our personal and professional values while returning high value to our health care clients.

Ben Willis - Willis Furniture Company (Virginia Beach, VA)

Ben Willis is the President of Willis Furniture Company. From its modest Norfolk beginnings, the Willis family's uncompromising dedication to quality, customer service and satisfaction have so impressed the public, that today it is the standard by which other local furniture stores are compared. Over a century of measured expansion has brought the company to its present location, nestled in the pines at the heart of Virginia Beach.

Marcus Gordon - Lifestyle Media Group, LLC (Dunwoody, GA)

Marcus Gordon is the CMO of Lifestyle Media Group, LLC.

David Vasquez - Grupo PTL - Quortek (Guatemala)

David Vasquez is the COO of Grupo PTL - Quortek.

Mike Weirich - Coast Title (Longwood, FL)

http://www.coasttitle.com

Coast Title was founded by Mike Weirich in 1991. Coast Title provides real estate colsings and title insurance services throughout central florida.Since its inception in 1991 Coast Title has grown into one of the largest independent title insurers in central Florida.

Mike is a native Floridian and graduated fron the university of Central Florida.

Nick Baughan - Marks Baughan & Co

Nick Baughan has 15 years of investment banking experience with a focus on raising capital and providing advisory services to emerging growth companies, primarily in the technology and business services sectors. Currently a Managing Member of Marks Baughan, Mr. Baughan has been engaged on over 50 transactions totaling over $12 billion.

Carri Bennet - Bennet & Bennet PLLC, Bethesda, MD

http://www.bennetlaw.com/

Bennet & Bennet is a boutique communications lawfirm primarily representing rural telecom companies throughout the United States. Carri is CEO and Managing Principal of the firm, and has represented rural wireless carriers, telephone companies, cellular carriers, PCS providers, and CLECs before the FCC, state regulatory agencies, the courts and Congress since 1987. Carri's husband, Michael, is also a partner in the firm, and an avid runner and cyclist who totally supports her passion for triathlon. They have two children, ages 13 and 10.

Bill Beyer - Deloitte and Touche, D.C.

www.deloitte.com

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of 120,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas — audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services — and serves more than one-half of the world’s largest companies.

John Carlesso - Apogee Minerals

Ironman CDA will be John's first Ironman! A Toronto, Canada native, he has competed in sprint and Olympic distance triathlons since 1999 and decided to race an Ironman event to bring awareness to a local charity he supports - Regesh Family and Child Services.

Chuck Chokel - White Mountains Insurance Group

http://www.onebeacon.com/

White Mountains, formerly known as Fund American Enterprises Holdings, Inc., is an insurance holding company with business interests in insurance operations through its subsidiaries and unconsolidated affiliates in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance.

Robert Delmonico - RAD Sports (Hingham, MA)

http://www.radsports.com

Robert Delmonico is the President of RAD Sports, a company that specializes in the construction of high-quality athletic facilities. Robert started the company in 1994 with his brother Derek. Robert handles all the business aspects of the company including estimating and sales while his brother handles the construction side of things. RAD Sports is the largest athletic field installer on the East Coast having built over 65 synthetic turf athletic fields and countless natural turf fields and running tracks.

Maximiliaan Hoes - CFR Line, San Clemente, California

http://www.cfrline.com/

This will be Max's first Ironman! He competed and finished Ralph's ½ Ironman in 2004. He loves and challenge and visited Kona last year and the decided to enter the CEO Ironman Challenge in Coeur d' Alene.

CFR Line is an international transportation company specializing in ocean export of automobiles. The company was started in 1994 and Max is one of the owners. He runs the day today operations and negotiates contracts with the steamship lines.

Gary Holt - Comfort Dental, Highland Ranch, CO

In the triathlon world, there are three steps leading up to an Ironman: sprint, Olympic, and Half Ironman. Gary, having completed each of those distances only once, in order, completed his first Ironman in April of this year in Arizona in a remarkable time of 10:09! Taking a second shot at the Ironman distance, Gary hopes to use this race to raise money for the Colorado Special Olympics Team.

Ronnie Joyce - RHJ Trucking

Ronnie has never competed in an Ironman and his goal is to finish his first one in Couer d' Alene in 2005. He is President and owner of RHJ Trucking based in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.

RHJ Trucking is a long haul, coast to coast transportation company that Ronnie started in 1997. A former marine, Ronnie is a single father with a five year old son.

Frank Karbe - Exelixis, San Francisco, CA

Exelixis, a San Francisco based public biotech company with about 600 employees and one of the most productive drug discovery engines in the industry, develops novel drugs for cancer and metabolism and is aiming to become one of the top five biotech companies in the world. As CFO of Exelixis since 2004, Frank overlooks all the financial and operational activities of the company.

Whitney Lynn - RWBC Inc, Lake Sherwood, CA

Whitney is a retired CEO, having founded and run a number of companies in Silicon Valley. He worked in the high tech industry for 30 years, and lent his expertise to help start-ups get off the ground, and turn around under performing companies. He was CEO of Borland Corp prior to retirement. Whitney now manages RWBC Inc, a holding company that manages money and adminsters and manages partnerships for family members.

William (Bill) McKinley - Lineage Capital, LLC

http://www.lineagecap.com/

Bill McKinley is a partner at Lineage Capital, LLC a private equity firm focused on investing in privately held businesses. At Lineage Capital, he is responsible for executing investments and working with the management team to grow the business. He founded the business with two partners in 2003. Prior to founding Lineage , Bill was a Principal at Heritage Partners, Inc., where he executed and managed investments in middle market closely-held businesses from 1996 to 2003. Previously, he spent four years at Ernst & Young, LLC. Bill earned a B.A. from Williams College and an M.B.A.

Andrew Menter - Highland Campus Health Group, San Diego, CA

http://www.hchealthgroup.com/

Highland conducts a full turnkey medical billing service for college health centers. As CEO, Andrew flew 125,000 miles last year visiting colleges across the USA. As he says, "Fortunately, my transitions between planes are better than they are race day!" Before founding Highland in 2003, Andrew was in investment banking in NYC for 5 years.

Michel Moulin - SK Hand Tool

http://www.skhandtool.com/

SK Hand Tool is an American based company that has been in business since 1921 making quality Handtools for professionals. They have three manufacturing facilities - two in the Chicago, Ill and the third in Defiance, Ohio.

Before becoming CEO of SK Hand Tool, Michel was the president of Hutchinson, a Asian company with six facilities in Malaysia and Sri Lanka. His athletic background in France included Judo, Soccer and Rowing in which he was a National Champion several times.

Ernie Parr - Parr Insurance, Princeton, IL

http://www.parrinsurance.net/

As the President and CEO of Parr Insurance, an insurance company that represents various national and regional companies, such as Ironman sponsor Philadelphia Insurance, it’s a surprise that Ernie can have the impressive running and triathlon history he does.

Finishing almost 100 tri’s, 43 Half-Ironman distance races, 50 marathons, and an impressive 14 Ironman races, his competitive nature has taken him racing to 23 countries around the world.

Ted Philip - Decision Matrix Group, Wayland, MA

http://www.decisionmatrixgroup.com/

A three time Ironman finisher with a PR of 10:36 in Germany, Ted spent most of his pre-triathlon athletics competing in the martial arts and in marathons.

Bill Ulmer - E.W. Bowman Inc, Uniontown, PA

http://www.ewbowman.com/

E.W. Bowman is a family business that makes glass annealing ovens (lehrs). Their customers are large glass container producers that make bottles for beer, liquor, food, sodas, and pharmaceutical and specialty glass products around the world. The company employees 80 people, and it has been the world leader in lehrs since 1959. Bill works alongside his father, brother, and brother-in-law.

David Varwig - The Citadel Group

http://www.citadel-group.com/

David has competed in the CEO Ironman Challenge in Lake Placid twice - 2002 and 2003, and has finished four Ironmans, including one in Kona. His best time is 11:11 from Lake Placid in 2003. He was also the first Master athlete (40+) to finish the world's largest triathlon - Mrs. T's Chicago Triathlon in 2002.