Gary Spirer

Gary holds a bachelor’s degree in Literature from New York University graduating magna cum laude, and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.

Gary began his career at the prestigious investment banking firm Lazard Freres, where he worked at their real estate affiliate.

Subsequently, Gary founded his own real estate company, Capital Hill Realty. In real estate Gary has developed, syndicated and invested in properties that in today’s value, aggregate over $500 million. Gary has raised over $60 million dollars from individuals and small funds.

Gary founded Capital Hill Group, Inc, a boutique investment banking firm, in 1981. Capital Hill Group, Inc. is a member of FINRA and is governed by the SEC. Gary continues to provide investment banking services for emerging growth companies, and is one of the leading experts in raising capital, building businesses, real estate and marketing, especially on the Internet.

Gary has been involved in the entertainment world, film, and is currently finishing a Wall Street thriller.

Tim Stallard

Mr. Stallard founded ProLink in 1996. He has produced more than 50 professional ATP/USTA events. His original productions include Grand Slam Jam, co-founded with tennis legend Jim Courier, and the Willie Nelson Hill Country Challenge, co-founded with music legend Willie Nelson.

ProLink Sports & Entertainment (PSE) is a special event, promotion and management company. Established in 1996 in Austin, Texas, PSE has produced more than fifty professional tennis events throughout the United States featuring such players Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, Michael Chang, Andy Roddick, John McEnroe and Anna Kournikova. ProLink’s original music productions include concert series featuring Willie Nelson, Elton John, Kelly Pickler, Clint Black, Jerry Jeff Walker, Gavin DeGraw, Tracy Lawrence, Los Lonely Boys, Chris Robinson, Soul Asylum and Kenny Wayne Shepard. www.prolinkplanet.com

In Spring of 2005, Tim co-produced the Serving for Tsunami Relief event in Houston, TX, which raised $518,000 for the Bush-Clinton Relief Fund.

Rick Frishman

Rick Frishman, the founder of Planned Television Arts, www.plannedtvarts.com, has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 33 years. Working with many of the top book editors, literary agents and publishers in America, including Simon and Schuster, Random House, Wiley, Harper Collins, Pocket Books, Penguin Putnam, and Hyperion Books, he has worked with best-selling authors including Mitch Albom, Bill Moyers, Stephen King, Caroline Kennedy, Howard Stern, President Jimmy Carter, Mark Victor Hansen, Nelson DeMille, John Grisham, Hugh Downs, Henry Kissinger, Jack Canfield, Alan Deshowitz, Arnold Palmer, and Harvey Mackay.

Rick is publisher at Morgan James Publishing in New York. In 2009 “MJ” published over 190 books. Morgan James only publishes non fiction books and looks for authors with a platform who believe in giving back. Morgan James gives a portion of every book sold to Habitat for Humanity.
www.morganjamespublishing.com

Rick has also appeared on hundreds of radio shows and more than a dozen TV shows nationwide including OPRAH and Bloomberg TV. He has also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Selling Power Magazine, New York Post and scores of publications.

He is the co-author of eleven books, including national best-sellers GUERRILLA PUBLICITY, NETWORKING MAGIC, and WHERE’S YOU WOW. “GUERRILLA MARKETING FOR WRITERS”- 2nd edition is being published in January of 2010.

He is the co-host (with attorney Richard Solomon) of the radio show Taking Care of Business, which airs every Thursday from 2:00-3:00 pm on WCWP-Radio in Long Island, New York. ( www.tcbradio.com ) Rick has a B.F.A. in acting and directing and a B.S. from Ithaca College School of Communications and is a sought after lecturer on publishing and public relations and a member of PRSA and the National Speakers Association.

Rick and his wife Robbi live in Long Island with their three children, Adam, Rachel and Stephanie, and two Havanese puppies Cody and Cooper.

Go to www.rickfrishman.com for more information and to get Rick’s “Million Dollar Rolodex.”

Justin Christianson

Justin grew up in rural North Dakota where a strong work ethic was instilled upon him at an early age. Back in 2001 he started his online marketing career, taking his business full time in mid 2005. He transplanted to Texas in early 2007 with his beautiful wife Jodi.

They both love living in Texas and couldn’t think of living anyplace else. In his spare time, if he ever has any, Justin enjoys boating, playing golf, eating at many of the fine restaurants in Austin, playing guitar, traveling, and spending time with friends.

During his online marketing career Justin has achieved some great result. He is most notably known for being CFO and managing partner at Magnetic Sponsoring LLC. He left his position and partnership in late 2009 to be one of the co-found Wealth Club LLC and to found Monster Ventures LLC under which Justin does consulting and coaching for people who are looking to take their businesses to the next level with a personal touch.

His true passion is helping people realize their potential and help them get the most out of their internet marketing experience no matter what industry or skill level.

With over 7 years marketing online, Justin has pretty much seen or done most things in the internet marketing world. He specializes in business growth, business operations, lead generation, keeping more customers, and increasing online conversions, just to name a few.

Some of the most notable accomplishments include…

- Helping grow a companies’ revenue 470% in one year
– Being part of generating $1.2 Million in 7 days
– Generating $540,000 in a single day
– Bringing in as many as 600 high quality leads per day
– Generating over 18,000 leads in a month
– Growing and managing a team of over 10 employees
– This is just the tip of the iceberg

Justin’s skills are unmatched, and he is a driving force that is truly passionate about helping people leverage the internet and he will stop at nothing to share all of his past experiences and knowledge gained.

Sam Cawthorn

Life after death is a subject most of us will never live to tell, except in the case of the remarkable Sam Cawthorn.

In October 2006 Sam’s life changed forever when he was involved in a major car accident, where he was pronounced dead. He was thankfully resuscitated, but left with an amputated right arm and a permanent disability in his right leg.

Sam was hospitalized for over 5 months and was told that he may not survive and best case was that if he was to survive he would never walk again. A year later he defied all odds taking his first steps into a new life, where his story would continue to inspire and change the lives of Australians and people all over the world.

It was Sam’s difficult journey that enabled him to develop a mental resilience and strength that gave him the tools to miraculously recover from an accident that could have taken his life.

Sam’s story is simple, yet his message demonstrates the awesome power and strength found within the human spirit when faced with the choice to continue living as a victim of a tragic accident, or to make a choice to seize the opportunity of ‘life’.

Forever the opportunist Sam chose life, and is now a hugely successful keynote speaker, reaching thousands of people in Australia and the world.

Sam has a diverse background within the Australian Federal Government as a Youth Futurist and is also a highly skilled musician, and one of the only people in the world that plays the guitar with an above elbow amputation.

Sam is at the forefront of global trends and has the unique ability to transform impossibilities into possible realities. 

Sam has been nominated for many awards, and recently won the 2009 Young Australian of the Year for Tasmania.

His powerful message will challenge his listeners to be truly who they are and to believe in all that they have to give. He provides the skills to be resilient, overcome fears, and to achieve goals and dreams that we that we may think are unachievable.

Sam walks his talk, and it is through his experience that his authentic message is heard. After all we only have one life…

Dr. Alexander Cavalli

Dr. Alexander Cavalli is a thought leader and authority on the Physics of Business and other strategic principles. Dr. Cavalli is a founding board member of the Digital Convergence Initiative, an evolving regional commerce model.

Prior to the creation of DCI, Dr. Alexander Cavalli was the deputy director of the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. He was responsible for the day to day operations and, in collaboration with the Institute’s Director Dr. John S. Butler and Founder Dr. George Kozmetstky, helped to set its strategic direction.

Before 2002, Dr. Cavalli was co-director of the E–Learning and Training Labs at IC2. The mission he carried out included the research, development and deployment of workforce training and development systems and tools that utilized the latest multi-media technologies and educational pedagogies.

Dr. Cavalli has been in the Austin high-tech community since 1984. In the late nineties he founded Face to Face Communications, a consulting firm dedicated to helping professionals and organizations become better communicators. The practice specialized in individual and corporate communications, presentation work, vocal training and long-term strategic planning.

In the early nineties, while leading architectural design of MCC’s Enterprise Integration Project, Dr. Cavalli and his staff created the foundation for much of what is now recognized as the Internet. Working with leading universities and corporations and supported by U.S. government funding, the EINet project was designed to demonstrate how electronic commerce would work and what network infrastructure was necessary to support it.

This seminal work included the creation of the first Internet search engine, introduced in January 1994. Called EINet Galaxy, it became the model for every search engine (Yahoo, Infoseek, Excite, etc.) that followed. Dr. Cavalli’s team also developed the first commercial quality web browsers that introduced many of the features found today in Netscape and Microsoft browsers. The team also developed the first Virtual Private Network that operated as the Internet’s first Certification Authority, a function now embodied by companies such as VeriSign and GTE CyberTrust. In addition, Dr. Cavalli and his team, in collaboration with CitiCorp, devised new electronic payment mechanisms for use by businesses engaged in electronic commerce.

Dr. Cavalli speaks regularly on a wide range of universal topics that encompass technology, leadership and strategic outlook. As a leading authority, he frequently speaks on emerging market trends, product launch timing and business development strategy, and the creation of key communications. He is also an accomplished, professional actor who performs one-man shows around the world.

Dr. Alexander Cavalli holds a PhD in Physics from Dartmouth College and a BS from Dickinson College.