Mark Perry resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a full professor at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan, where he teaches graduate MBA classes in economics and finance. He is best known as the creator and editor of one of the world’s most popular economics blog -- Carpe Diem. At AEI, Perry writes about a wide variety economic and financial issues for American.com and the AEIdeas blog

Andrew Schade board certified Financial Planner and owner of Phoenix Advisors LLC a Michigan based financial planning firm. Andrew holds a myriad of designations in the tax and financial planning arena and has over a decades experience in the financial industry. He is coauthor of the best-selling book Successonomics with Steve Forbes and was featured in the book Americas Select Financial Advisors for 2013

Joseph Ricard runs a publicly traded company called Development Capital Group, which seeks out to acquire innovative technology that focus on changing industries which is completely scalable for application or enterprise use

Anthony Ford young, cutting edge, accomplished entrepreneur, having owned several successful businesses throughout the greater Houston Metropolitan area, a highly sought after motivational speaker & now National Best Selling Author