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.

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Brent de Jong is founder and Vice Chairman of AEI. AEI owns, manages and operates power generation plants and delivers electric power and gas to over 6.1 million people in emerging market countries and has 11,800 employees. Brent founded AEI in 2005 with the acquisition of several emerging markets energy infrastructure companies. For his achievements at AEI, Brent was selected as one of the final nominees in the Texas area for Ernst and Young's prestigious "Entrepreneur of the Year" award. Prior to AEI, Mr.

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Cyrus is an investment management company based in NYC with $1.25 Billion under management, and Stephen is the head of the company and its majority owner. Stephen has worked on Wall St. since graduating from Yale in 1986.

Stephen has completed 8 triathlons - mostly Olympic distance, and some sprints. He took part in the 2007 CEO Challenge in St. Croix, finishing in 6:28.   Stephen is back again this year, and taking part in the CEO Challenge because of the "additional competitive challenge."

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Wilfred is President of the Alaska Milk Corporation which is the leading publicly listed consumer foods company in the Philippines. It is the brand leader in the liquid mik category and a "strong second" in the powdered division. Forbes magazine has selected the Alaska Milk Corp as one of the "top 200 small cap companies in the world" twice in the last 5 years. Alaska has recently acquired three liquid milk brands from Nestle, and is the exclusive disributor of the Kellogg's line of ready-to-eat cereals in the Phillipines.

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John Schlagenhauf is a co-owner and CFO of Badger Truck Center Inc. located in Milwaukee and Madison Wisconsin. The Badger Truck Center family of companies, which is ranked as one of the largest 75 Privately held companies in Wisconsin, is made of three truck dealerships, a truck rental and leasing company, a truck equipment division, a rebuild division, a government division and a driver leasing company.

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Rick is the Chief Financial Officer for Monolithic Power Systems (MPS), whose symbol is MPWR on the NASDAQ exchange. MPS is a manufacturer of high performance analog semiconductor chips, the core business of "Silicon Valley" where the company is headquartered. The company focuses on power management chips, and is one of the fastest growing and most profitable companies in the high performance analog market segment with a market capitalization of over $700 million.

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Dave Brule II is Co-Owner and Executive Vice President of Northern Star Industries, Inc. (NSI). NSI, located in Iron Mountain, MI has two business units, Systems Control and Boss Snowplow. Systems Control designs, manufactures and markets electrical relay and control panels to the utility industry. It also manufactures metal buildings that house the panels. Boss Snowplow manufactures a complete line of snow removal equipment for pickup trucks and utility vehicles (UTV's).

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Kforce Government Holdings is a subsidiary of the professional staffing firm, Kforce Inc, and specializes in IT, Data Confidence and financial services to the US government. Patrick spent 30 years in the US Navy as a naval aviator, retiring with the rank of Rear Admiral, and 8 years as an executive in high tech firms focused on high tech government services. As CEO of Kforce Government Holdings, he feels he has the greatest job in the world, and leads three promising companies in the holding company portfolio.

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Dan Rigby is President and CEO of Human Resource Management Systems, LLC, an employee benefits and human resources advisory firm based in Naperville, Illinois. HRMS focuses on the benefits, hr and training needs of mid-size employers. HRMS has been in the forefront of the current wellness trend in healthcare. The company has produced weekly healthy tips and a monthly wellness newsletter for the employees of its clients since 2003.

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BD's Mongolian Barbeque is a chain of 31 restaurants based out of Detroit, with locations in 10 States and Mongolia. Billy is founder and CEO of the company, and established the business in 1992. He has worked in the restaurant business for the last 28 years, since age 14. Billy is a graduate of the Hospitality Business Program at Michigan State University.

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