Tom Campbell has a 20 year track record of promoting less government and individual liberty. Tom has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and a JD from Harvard University. At the University of Chicago, Tom's faculty advisor was Milton Friedman. Tom's free market economics training cemented a life-long commitment to limited government and greater individual liberty.

After serving in the Reagan Administration and becoming a tenured Professor at Stanford Law School, Tom was elected five times to the U.S. Congress, representing districts in the Silicon Valley. He was also elected a California State Senator, and served as Director of Finance for the State of California. During Tom's tenure as State Finance Director, California's budget was balanced with no tax increases, no new borrowing, and no accounting gimmicks.

The National Taxpayers Union Foundation named Tom the most frugal member of the 102nd Congress, and the California Journal named Tom the "State Senate's best problem-solver"

A much in-demand communication and leadership coach, Peggy Klaus has spent more than a decade advising America's top Fortune 500 executives. She reaches thousands of professionals a year through speaking, coaching, and workshops at leading corporations and organizations. Her client list includes JP Morgan Chase, Levi Strauss, Chevron Texaco, American Express, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Pharmacia Upjohn, General Mills, Cisco Systems, UNICEF, and Booz Allen Hamilton, among others. Klaus's colorful and frank advice is frequently sought out by journalists. She has been featured and quoted extensively in a wide range of media including ABC 20/20, NBC Today, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Newsweek, Fortune, and O Magazine. Well regarded in higher education, Klaus has lectured on communication to students and faculty at the University of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Boalt School of Law and the School of Public Health & Sciences. She has also served as lecturer at Wharton's Executive MBA Program, Pepperdine University School of Law, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Additionally, Klaus sits on the Kennedy School of Government's Women's Leadership Board.

With advanced degrees in Drama, Speech, and Theatre from the London-based Royal Academy of Music and the Drama Studio, Klaus started off in Hollywood coaching entertainers for The Tonight Show and Cosby. Her screen credits include shows for Paramount Studios, Warner Brothers, ABC, CBS, and NBC TV. Klaus's reputation for getting the best out of performers spread to the corporate world when friends on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley called for help with their speeches and press conferences. In 1993 she left Hollywood to start her consulting firm Klaus & Associates-based in Berkeley, California-which offers a wide variety of workshops and individual training programs in corporate communication and leadership skills.

Author of BRAG! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It (Warner Books, Hardcover,2003; Paperback,2004), Klaus offers BRAG! workshops for both professional development (promoting yourself and your agenda) and business development (promoting your company and its products). To-date she has led 100+ BRAG! events for organizations, including General Mills, SC Johnson, Credit Suisse, American Express, Freddie Mac, The Harvard Business School Alumni Association, and The National Association of Female Executives. Also the author of The Hard Truth About Soft Skills-Workplace Lessons Smart People Wish They'd Learned Sooner (Collins, Jan 2008), Klaus provides a variety of programs for increasing soft skills mastery.

In 2004 Klaus expanded the line of up BRAG! programs into the realm of corporate outreach with BRAG! Connections. These interactive, meet-and-greet affairs allow participants to network and fearlessly practice tooting their own horns while Klaus reveals key self-promotion techniques interspersed with fun, experiential exercises. A variety of companies, schools, and non-profits have participated in or sponsored these events, including JP Morgan Chase, The Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem, Training Inc., Linkage, Merrill Lynch, 100 Women in Hedge Funds

A popular speaker at conferences, Klaus has keynoted presentations for such organizations as the Women in Leadership Summit, San Francisco Trial Lawyers, Pharmacia-Upjohn, and the Financial Women's Association.

Tony Seba is a serial entrepreneur and the author of the upcoming book "Solar Trillions". He is a lecturer at Stanford University in clean energy, entrepreneurship, high tech strategy and finance.

Seba was the award-winning founder and CEO of PrintNation.com where he raised more than $30 million in venture capital and established the B2B web company as the leader in its market segment.

He is an internationally known public speaker who also teaches at leading institutions around the world such as The Auckland University (New Zealand) Business School and in-company at some of the world's top high tech companies such as Google and Cisco. Tony Seba holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Peter Childers has 18 years experience leading advanced technology companies and business lines in a career that spans microelectronics manufacturing, telecommunications, systems management software, open source, and clean energy. Pete has played key roles leading innovation, operations and growth at high tech companies from early stage thru IPO to NYSE listing. Pete specializes in developing opportunities in fully commoditized or new and disruptive fields where experts are saying, "that can't be done." The teams he develops create globally competitive offerings and flexible business mechanisms that deliver overwhelmingly better customer value than competitors. In 1998, Pete joined open source software pioneer Red Hat, Inc. [NYSE: RHT] as employee 41, where he founded and grew the company's second largest line of business to $60 million, attracting over 500,000 paying customers worldwide and changing the game in software, IT training, and technical certification in an arena where everyone was saying "that can't be done." Pete also developed online strategy and online business for this highly successful publicly traded company, ranked #1 for customer value five years in a row by CIO magazine. In 2007, Pete moved to Silicon Valley where he has been advising open source companies and developing new technology and ventures on the energy and clean-tech frontier. Pete speaks and participates in industry panels on comparative renewable energy and economic analysis of solar formats. Pete is co-inventor of the Megahelion™ drive, the lead inventor on the Company's first patent-pending and a named inventor on two additional patents-pending for the Company. Pete holds B.A. from Yale University and a M.A. from Duke University.

Having created and led a series of innovations throughout his career, Lex excels at identifying and communicating new concepts, strategic coaching, driving growth, and building strategic relationships.

Lex designed and evangelized one of the world's original electronic procurement services, the first integrated distance learning/coaching method, and a new subscription-based agile/iterative software development model, as well as the leading affiliate marketing network, Commission Junction. With Lex as CEO and Chairman, the latter grew to become the world's largest company of its type and was acquired in 2003. Lex's latest innovation is Current Analytics, Inc., a systems integration company specializing in enterprise energy and environmental management. Lex also coaches other entrepreneurs who want to accelerate business growth and have greater peace of mind.

Dr.Ravi is the Chief Technology Officer of Crystal Solar where he is responsible for the development of technology for the manufacture of low cost silicon wafers, solar cells and modules. Prior to Crystal Solar Dr. Ravi was Director, Business Development for the Solar Business Group at Applied Materials where his responsibilities included identifying new business opportunities for Applied Materials in the solar space, supporting investments, mergers and acquisitions and in advance solar cell development. He has also worked in the Photovoltaics field for over 13 years at Mobil Solar Energy Corporation, leading the development of silicon ribbon based technologies. His other affiliations have been in the Semiconductor area with over 15 years at Intel, Motorola and Texas Instruments. He is the author of over 100 technical publications in the fields of metals, semiconductors, photovoltaics and CVD diamond technology and the author of the book "Imperfections and Impurities in Semiconductor Silicon". He holds over 40 issued patents. He has a Ph.D in Materials Science from Case Western University, an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of California, Berkeley, a B.S in Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Science and a B.Sc in Chemistry from the University of Madras, India.

Cliff March joined Cost Plus World Market over 10 years ago and is currently the Vice President - Applications. March is responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of enterprise wide applications. His recent focus has been on delivering customer facing applications including Explorer - the new CPWM Loyalty program. He has more than 20 years of IT and finance experience with all of his retail industry experience coming at Cost Plus.

Prior to joining Cost Plus World Market, March served in various positions at companies within the food processing and financial services sectors. March is a graduate of California State University at Hayward with a B.S. in Physical Education and holds an M.B.A. in Finance from St. Mary's.

As vice president and chief information officer, Palm, Inc., Naresh has management responsibility for IT strategy and all of the company's IT assets. This includes all application development, data management, technology infrastructure, data-center operations and telecommunication networks worldwide. Naresh also has responsibility for palm.com operations.

Naresh has been in the information-technology business for 20 years supporting a wide range of industries, including high-technology manufacturing, semiconductor, medical, life sciences and software businesses. He has led and executed large-scale initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, and establishing of offshore IT and manufacturing operations.

Prior to joining the company, Naresh was responsible for managing Agilent Technologies' internal enterprise business solutions organization, delivering customer-facing and supply-chain solutions worldwide, resulting in significant savings to the company. He also was instrumental in establishing offshore IT operations and outsourcing services in India.

Naresh started his career at Hewlett-Packard Company, Medical Products Group. He was responsible for delivering applications and infrastructure solutions and services worldwide, and integrating acquisitions into the business. He also was instrumental in establishing a joint venture manufacturing center in China.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science (BSCS) and master's in business administration (MBA) from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Since 1998, he has been with Sun IT. In his current role he is responsible for arriving at optimal solutions for the internal customer requests, which often involves evaluating SaaS as an option. In addition, he ensures that Sun's security and data privacy are not compromised by providing a structured framework to implement Web 2.0.

He has been instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, EvoStor, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Krillion, Scalent, SyncVoice, Tizor and Voltage Security. He also observes a number of these boards. In addition, Prashant is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley (www.tiesv.org), where he is Chair of the Software SIG; and a member of the Board of Trustees for Astia (www.astia.org).

Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack with product management roles at enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. Prashant received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Prashant currently sits on the Board of EvoStor.