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Kelley Jones is the founding partner of both Leverage Hospitality Group and Hospitality Alliance and is also the principal of Kelley Jones Hospitality with offices in New York City, Dallas and Las Vegas. Kelley and his Hospitality Alliance partners are creating, curating and master planned Food Halls in Dallas, Las Vegas and Fort Worth. He recently opened Emmitt’s Vegas with Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith on the Las Vegas Strip and is opening Social Station in Henderson, Nevada. Jones launched Gaku Ramen, loosely translated in Japanese to “educated noodle”, in Burlington Vermont, Boulder and Fort Collins Colorado with a planned expansion into college towns across North America.

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Cullen Jones is a world champion swimmer, world record holder and Olympic gold medalist who has made it his mission to spread the important message of water safety and drowning prevention. After a near-drowning experience as a child, Cullen was immediately put in swim lessons, where it became clear very quickly that he had a natural talent as a swimmer. Cullen worked tirelessly to shatter stereotypes and to help promote diversity and inclusion in the sport. He became the first African American man to win a gold medal at the World University Games in 2005, and the first Black swimmer to hold a World Record. In his Olympic swimming career, Cullen won 4 medals - earning a gold medal in 2008 in the 4x100 Freestyle Relay - also known as the Greatest Relay in Olympic History - then 2 silvers (4x100m freestyle relay and 50m freestyle) and a gold medal in 4x100 medley relay the 2012 games. Now retired from competitive swimming, Cullen continues to make waves for water safety, advocating for access to life-saving swim lessons for ALL children. Cullen serves as an ambassador and board member of the USA Swimming Foundation, the philanthropic arm of USA Swimming, and works with Goldfish Swim School to advocate for water safety and enjoy being a Goldfish Dad to his son Ayvn.

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Patrick Lahey is the co-founder of Triton Submarines in Sebastian, Florida. Born in Canada, Patrick began diving in 1975 and started work as a commercial diver in 1982. During a 39- year long career in the underwater business, Patrick has participated in the manufacture, testing and operation of numerous underwater vehicles and diving systems including over 60 human occupied submersibles. In his role at Triton Submarines, Patrick has overseen the development of their entire range of submersibles, including the Triton 36,000/2 (named LF by the client), which is the first and only fully accredited submersible intended for daily use at any depth. Patrick has made five dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench and during the certification dive of the LF in 2019, Patrick and DNV surveyor, Jonathan Struwe, completed a salvage operation at the deepest point in the ocean (35,853 feet or 10,928 meters).

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James Burnett, a seasoned voice actor with over two decades of experience, began his journey at the age of 16, honing his craft through impressions before developing his unique vocal style. A lifelong passion for music and performance, James credits his time in school choirs with further shaping his voice and versatility.

Initially pursuing voice acting as a secondary endeavor, James recently embraced it as a primary focus, bringing a fresh perspective and creative freedom to his work. He chooses projects that align with his passions, ensuring his craft remains both fulfilling and fun. With a rich history and dedication to his art, James continues to make his mark in the voice acting industry.

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JJ Kavelaars, is a Canadian astronomer who was part of a team that discovered several moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. He is also a discoverer of minor planets and an investigator on the extended New Horizons mission, having aided in the discovery of 486958 Arrokoth.

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Vernon Schmidt enlisted in the Air Corps to avoid being drafted. As a sophomore in high school at the time, Schmidt began receiving military training from national guard officers at his school. He was trained to march, performed battle movements, understand the rank decorum, send and receive signals in Morse Code, and was given a brief weapons orientation. At the junior college on his high school's campus, the military build-up and training program could not be avoided. Many training flights flew over his school during the day. As a result of this training and experience, joining the military was not a big adjustment for him physically or in terms of accepting order and discipline. Upon graduating high school in 1943, Schmidt went to Hammer Field to enlist in the Air Corps like his brother.

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As a young girl she was raised in a determinedly anti-Fascist family who suffered some deprivations because of this opposition. In her teen years she and her family, as with all Italians, suffered and were witness to the horrors of bombings, executions, and other brutalities perpetrated by home-grown and foreign aggressors. She became a member of the “Resistenza” as a partisan, belonging to a group called the Garibaldi Brigade around her home city of Turin and participated in dangerous missions to support the fighters in the underground for several years. More than once, she put herself in harm’s way for the good of others and for her country. Fortunately, she lived to tell about her experiences even though she is still emotionally distraught over memories of this horrific time. In 1946 she came to America as a War Bride, marrying a man she had briefly met only a year earlier. He promised to return to Italy to marry her, which he did. Her early years as a young woman and mother in a foreign land, married to a deeply flawed man she really didn’t know at all, were unhappy and presented her with many challenges that might have subdued a lesser person. Thanks in part to the strengths from her upbringing and experiences in Italy, she endured and is contented living in Scottsdale, Arizona — except for the fact that her story had remained untold.

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Mykel Hawke (born November 29, 1965) is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, author, and television and film personality. He is perhaps best known for the television programs he created on Discovery Channel called Man, Woman, Wild and One Man Army. He left Discovery to work on two new programs: Lost Survivors for Travel Channel and Elite Tactical Unit for Outdoor Channel.

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Daniel has been featured on national TV dozens of times, being interviewed in Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, Newsmax, NTD News, and many other TV channels and radio stations discussing everything from what’s happening in Venezuela, to the impact of socialist policies in America, economics, foreign policy, and immigration. He has written op-eds and articles for outlets such as the USA Today, National Review, City Journal, and The Daily Wire. Daniel is also a sought-after public speaker who lays out the problems of socialism using his story and knowledge to connect with diverse audiences. He speaks at college campuses through Young America’s Foundation, and he is a board member at their Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise.

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Experienced Director of Operations and Senior VP of several business ventures in NV. Freelance Live Pro & College Sports.

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