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Brad Sugars is the founder of ActionCOACH, a business coaching franchise. 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, and his main company, ActionCOACH, has nearly 1,000 offices in 22 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.

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.

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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.

Nina L. Kaufman, Esq., 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 issues they face in starting and running their companies. Under her The Business Lawyer umbrella, Nina has launched her business law resource company, providing information products to entrepreneurs. A prolific writer, columnist and blogger, Nina is a media resource and frequent contributor to other publications. With skills honed on the stand-up comedy stage, Nina is also a sought-after professional speaker. Her hot topics include doing business on the Internet, business partnerships and collaborative alliances, and contracts and client relations.

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.

Karen Axelton has been with Entrepreneur Media for 20 years in various editorial capacities. Currently executive editor of Entrepreneur magazine, she oversees the magazine's upfront, sales/marketing, management, financial and startup content.

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.