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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.

Dr. Elinor Robin is a mediator, columnist, and trainer specializing in professional and personal relationship matters. As a recognized expert in the field of conflict management, Robin has a background in small business, a PhD in psychology with a specialization in conflict management and a wide range of experiences from within the public and private sectors. Robin's areas of expertise include small business, professional practice, business partnership, and workplace disputes. She has taught mediation to over 5,000 students nationally and internationally. She has also mediated thousands of commercial and workplace disputes, successfully assisting in conflict management and transformation. Dr. Robin was born and raised in New York City and has lived in South Florida for more than 20 years. While in a fulfilling marriage with her husband David, she is involved with a wide variety of community and professional activities. To learn more, please feel free to contact Elinor at 561-394-9226 or elinorobin@aol.com or visit her website www.elinorrobin.com to sign up for her free monthly E-zine.

Pam Newman is a Certified Management Accountant, author and Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor for Financial and Point-of-Sale software. She is also president of RPPC, Inc., which offers customized business development services. Newman provides financial coaching to entrepreneurs through a variety of mediums, including a weekly talk show, newsletters, books, articles, presentations and personalized consulting.

Paige Arnof-Fenn is the founder and CEO of Mavens & Moguls, a strategic-marketing consulting firm whose clients include Fortune 500 companies, as well as early-stage and emerging businesses. Previously, she was a key member of the IPO team at Launch Media, which was later sold to Yahoo!, and was the director of the 1996 Olympic Commemorative Coin Program at the Department of Treasury, U.S. Mint. Arnof-Fenn also is an advisor to several early-stage companies and nonprofit organizations.

Kim Gordon is the owner of National Marketing Federation and is a multifaceted marketing expert, speaker, author and media spokesperson. She has served as the national spokesperson and consultant for companies such as Visa, eBay, Sprint and Office Depot. Gordon's latest book is Maximum Marketing, Minimum Dollars.

Bonnie Price is founder of Silver Vixen Enterprises, a consulting company that helps businesses reach women aged 55 to 70. She also helps "women of a certain age" proactively plan the next phase of their lives through her workshop, IT'S REINVENTION. Price has been a financial counselor with a major brokerage firm and co-owner of a nationwide direct sales company, among other ventures.

Viral activist and communications guru Pattie Simone is a nationally known business speaker, writer and consultant. Simone is president and chief success strategist at Write-Communications.com and Marketing-Advantage.net, founder of WomenCentric, a sassy women's speaking bureau and a columnist for WomenEntrepreneur.com. Simone has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs and is publishing her first e-book, Penny-Pinching Marketing Secrets: BIG Results for Small Business Success. For more info on Simone, e-mail profit@marketing-advantage.net or call (845) 362-7880.

Penny is a seasoned human resources executive and consultant with over 25 years of diverse business experience in advising enterprise leaders on employment-related matters. Most recently, she established RemarkAbleHR, Inc., a consulting/services company focused on helping business owners/managers to find -- and keep -- the best talent available in their markets. In addition to recruiting, RemarkAbleHR identifies how clients can be competitive in the challenging employment arenas of 2007 and beyond. Morey has also served as the director of administration and human resources for Mazda Motor Manufacturing throughout its first 5 years in the U.S and as vice president of administration and human resources for TelePlace, an international telecommunications collocation and managed services company.

Zeke Camusio is a serial entrepreneur. The Outsourcing Company, his sixth endeavor, is an online marketing agency that helps businesses make money online.Camusio also pens the blog "Let's Do It!" a down-to-earth approach to online business and entrepreneurship. If you have an Internet marketing question, ask Zeke. He'll be happy to help you.

Ryan Himmel, CPA and registered securities analyst, is the founder and CEO of BIDaWIZ.com, an online reverse auction marketplace where business owners and consumers alike can obtain trusted answers to finance and accounting questions from licensed business professionals. Contact Ryan at ryan@bidawiz.com or on Twitter @BIDaWIZ.