SERGE MATULICH

Dr. Serge Matulich is Professor Emeritus of Accounting at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He earned his BS in Accounting from California State University at Sacramento and his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. He is licensed in Florida as a Certified Public Accountant. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, American Accounting Association, World Future Society, and Fulbright Association.

Prior to coming to Florida in 1984 Dr. Matulich held teaching positions at Indiana University and Texas Christian University. He held visiting positions at University of California at Berkley and University of Texas at Denton, and was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Pula in Croatia. Dr. Matulich taught at the Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida for 18 years and retired in 2001. He has received awards for teaching excellence, service, and scholarship. Dr. Matulich is author of several textbooks and numerous publications in academic and trade journals. He has served as director of public and private corporations, and currently is a director and treasurer of the Mid Florida Chapter Fulbright Association.

DAVID M. CURRIE

David M. Currie is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. He has won awards from national organizations for teaching innovations and from students for the quality of the educational experience. After receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Florida, Dr. Currie attended the University of Southern California, where he received a PhD. Dr. Currie has published articles and cases in the fields of finance, international education, business management and ethics. He has been a visiting professor at Groupe HEC in France and a Fulbright Scholar in Croatia. Dr. Currie has been an elected official, co-owner of a chain of retail perfume stores, and an examiner for the Georgia Oglethorpe Award Process.

Carrie Menkel-Meadow is a member of the founding law school faculty law at UCI. She is the author of Dispute Processing and Conflict Resolution: Theory, Policy and Practice (2003), and co-author of What's Fair: Ethics for Negotiators (2004, with Michael Wheeler), Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (2005, with Lela Love, Andrea Schneider and Jean Sternlight), Negotiation: Beyond the Adversarial Model (with Andrea Schneider and Lela Love, 2006); Mediation: Beyond the Adversarial Model (with Lela Love and Andrea Schneider, 2006) and editor of Mediation Theory, Policy and Practice (2000); the author of several other books and over 100 articles on subjects ranging from dispute and conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation, legal procedure, legal theory, legal ethics, feminist theory, law and popular culture and legal education.

She has won the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution First Prize for Scholarship in ADR three times, (1983, 1991, 1998) and the Rutter Prize for Excellence in Teaching at UCLA Law School (1992) and the Frank Flegal Award for Teaching at Georgetown (2006). In addition to her scholarship and teaching, Professor Menkel-Meadow has trained lawyers, judges, diplomats, government officials, and mediators on five continents and is herself an active arbitrator and mediator. She has served as a mediator or arbitrator in the Wellington Asbestos Claims Facility, the Dalkon Shield Trust, the Merrill Lynch Settlement Program, ICANN domain names disputes, United Educators education disputes and a wide variety of other public and private matters.

She has taught at the law schools of Georgetown University (1992-present), Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Los Angeles (1979-98), Temple University, the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall, York University, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago) and Catolica Universidad (Temuco) Chile, and has lectured throughout the world. She served as a Fulbright Scholar in Chile in 2007 where she taught mediation, arbitration, deliberative democracy and civil engagement in a variety of academic and practical settings, while researching topics related to restorative justice. She currently serves as co-editor in chief of the Journal of Legal Education, the International Journal of Law in Context and Associate Editor of the Negotiation Journal, published by the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

Professor Menkel-Meadow holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University (1971), a J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania (1974), where she also served on the Law Review and as an Arthur Littleton Legal Writing Fellow, and an LL.D. (Hon.) (1995) from Quinnipiac College of Law. She served on the Board of Directors and as Secretary of the American Bar Foundation, on the Executive Committee of the Center for Public Resources and is a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators.

Professor Menkel-Meadow began her career as a legal services attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, was briefly an associate at Dechert, Price and Rhoads, and was a founding faculty member of the clinical program at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She continues to consult for the federal courts on issues involving ADR, especially on issues of program design and ethics.

Robert P. Des Jardins has practiced law in Orange County, specializing in Family Law, for over thirty three years. He received his Bachelors Degree from the University of Connecticut and his law degree from Pepperdine University. Robert is recognized as one of the best lawyers in America and California in a number of independent publications, including Best Lawyers in America. He received the Orange County Trial Layers designation as trial lawyer of the year in 2000. Robert is a past president of the Family Law Section of the Orange County Bar Association. He has served as an editorial consultant of California Family Law Monthly (published by Matthew Bender), a private judge, and as a Judge Pro Tem. Robert published his first novel, The Mistral, in 2007. His new novel is entitled A Darker Shade of Orange.

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As one of America's most versatile psychics, Annette Martin can seemingly do it all. One of the Bay Area's premier psychic's and personalities, Annette Martin has been featured on a variety of national and international TV and Radio programs and specials highlighting her astounding work as a psychic detective, medical intuitive and ghost buster!

Since 1975, Annette Martin has worked as a law enforcement crime detective assistant personally involved in numerous homicide, intelligence and serial killer investigations, many high profile cases drawing media attention. She has worked with over 60 different law enforcement agencies including the FBI. Annette has been called upon by private investigators as well as individuals to help locate missing property.

For over 37 years, Annette Martin has used her psychic ability, to help thousands of people answer questions concerning heart, career, health, emotional issues, departed loved ones.

She has been termed the Radio Psychic due to the many radio programs and appearances around the country and has received national television exposure for her psychic police work and ghost hunting. Martin has been featured on Court TV's Psychic Detective, Entertainment Tonight, The Nancy Grace Show, Catherine Crier Show, 48 Hours, View From The Bay, ABC, CBS, NBC, The Discovery Channel, BBC Discovery, The History Channel, The Travel Channel, Montel Williams, Coast to Coast Radio and many other television and radio shows.

Martin's predictions are uncannily accurate. In a reading requested by John Denver, she said she saw him flying a small craft that would tumble into the ocean. Fifteen years later he would die exactly that way.

Annette is being featured in the San Jose Mercury on Oct. 25th, 2008. There have been many articles in magazines and newspapers, about her work, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury, Honolulu Star- Bulletin, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Enquirer, Fate Magazine, Peninsula Magazine, California Today, Valley Living, Radio & Records, Unicom-Guide, Noi, Blanco Y Negro, VSD, Manchett, Sacramento Bee and Psychic World Magazine.

Annette also possesses a remarkable singing voice which, along with a dramatic flair, led her into an early operatic and musical comedy career. At age 14 she found herself appearing on a weekly television show, The Del Courtney Show. By 17 she was singing small roles and understudying lead roles with the Sacramento Music Circus and the San Francisco and Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Company. She appeared in numerous lead roles in operas and musical comedies around the world. Her operatic career culminated with roles in La Boheme and Manon Lescout in Mexico City, where she became the first North American in 25 years to perform with the Mexico City National Opera. To this day she is still singing concerts and performing with a woman's group, Ladyesong, in California.

This biography, "Gift of the White Light," published May, 2008, about Annette Martin begins when she first discovered her psychic gift at age seven. James N. Frey brings you an in-depth look at the personal and psychic life of a genuine psychic.

Researched, accurate, and interesting, the book gives this 'engaging' account of a woman with special psychic abilities and the mysterious adventures she encounters.

Gift of the White Light," is full of medical and murder mysteries, a rich and interesting circle of friends, celebrities, law enforcement, FBI, genius engineers, travel, ghosts and her singing career . There are readings with incredible feedback with various people, healing and her career of 37 years with 9 actual cases that she has helped solve working as a psychic detective.

Author: James N. Frey, author of nine novels including Edgar-nominated A Long Way to Die, Literary Guild selection Winter of the Wolves, and four internationally acclaimed creative writing manuals: How to Write a Damn Good Novel, How to Write a Damn Good Novel: Advanced Techniques, The Key, and How to Write a Damn Good Mystery.

"Gift of the White Light," is up on Amazon.com with 24 - 5 star reviews. It is also being carried in Costco's across the country as well.

Ms. Allred is an attorney and a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Allred, Maroko & Goldberg. She has been practicing law for approximately 32 years. Her law firm, Allred, Maroko & Goldberg, represents plaintiffs in cases involving employment discrimination, including sex, race, age, physical handicap, sexual orientation discrimination, Aids discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination. They are also well-known for their work on behalf of victims in civil rights, rape, child sexual abuse and murder cases.

She has won countless honors for her pioneering legal work on behalf of women's rights and rights for minorities, including the President's Volunteer Action Award for Outstanding Volunteerism presented to her by President Ronald Reagan at the White House.

An active feminist, Ms. Allred founded and is currently serving as President of the Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund (WERLDEF).

Allred was also a host on KABC TalkRadio for 14 years. She was selected by USA Today as one of the 25 most important radio talk show hosts in America. She was also nominated for an Emmy three times for her television commentaries on KABC-TV.

Articles by or about Ms. Allred have appeared in publications such as Time Magazine, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, The American Lawyer, The Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The London Times.

Most recently, Ms. Allred was named a 2007 Southern California "SuperLawyer" by Law and Media and Los Angeles Magazine. Time magazine called her "One of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes" and the National Law Journal selected her in 1998 as one of "The Most Influential Women Lawyers in America".

Ms. Allred was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and earned her B.A. with honors in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her M.A. from New York University and her J.D. cum laude from Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles. She was also awarded an Honorary J.D. from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law. In addition to being an attorney, Ms. Allred holds California life credentials in secondary school education and supervision. She taught in public schools for six and one half years, and was also a lecturer at the University of Southern California for several years.

Ms. Allred has two grandchildren, Sarah and Sam. Her daughter, Lisa Bloom, is an attorney who appears as an anchor on Court TV.

Ms. Allred is the author of her book "Fight Back And Win - My Thirty-Year Fight Against Injustice And How You Can Win Your Own Battles".

Laura Wilson will be discussing finding and fixing information security and other compliance gaps in the financial services industry. Despite the great concern expressed by consumers, shareholders, and regulators, significant gaps and bypasses of controls remain. An information security breach has implications for consumers, investors, and the larger market, and may compromise national and global security, so it's important to know that many of these bypasses can readily be fixed.

The companies for which Laura has negotiated and managed complex outsourcing and vendor relationships include:

A publicly-traded global credit card company that co-authored the PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards.

One of the largest publicly-traded mortgage companies in the U.S.

A publicly-traded international investment advisory firm.

Laura works in governance / risk / compliance, deal analysis, and problem resolution related to highly-sensitive systems and data. Her experience encompasses business and legal roles for highly-regulated organizations, including publicly-traded international financial services (banking / payment card industry / mortgages / insurance / investment advisors), venture capital portfolio companies, and numerous software and services projects involving regulated systems and sensitive data.

Laura has trained colleagues on industry standards, gap analysis and risk mitigation. She writes training materials to help stakeholders identify and remedy compliance and security gaps, and verify appropriate due diligence. She volunteers with professional groups and not-for-profits interested in the regulatory, governance, information security and national security implications of financial systems and regulated data.

Laura holds a Juris Doctor, (licensed as an attorney in California), and is a CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) candidate (passed CISA exam; certification pending). She is pursuing security certifications including CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner), and CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT).

Laura served on active duty for over 8 years in the United States Army. She was a Staff Sergeant, paratrooper, TV / radio broadcaster; served in Military Intelligence, Psychological Operations, Communications, and Public Relations positions; and won several Soldier of the Year awards.

Kevin G. Connell is President & Chief Executive Officer of Accu-Screen, Inc. (1994-Present), and is responsible for the overall growth, development, and management of the organization. The company was founded on his belief that corporations and governmental organizations are in dire need of accurate employment screening and cost containment programs, especially in light of the ever escalating costs of negligent hiring lawsuits, employee theft and worker?s compensation fraud. Accu-Screen, Inc. specializes in pre-employment background screening and drug testing services.

Mr. Connell recently served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS); where he was elected by his peers to serve on the board from 2003-2005. NAPBS exists to promote ethical business practices, promote compliance with the fair Credit reporting Act and foster awareness of issues related to consumer protection and privacy rights within the background screening industry. The association provides relevant programs and training aimed at empowering members to better serve clients and to maintain standards of excellence in the background screening industry.

Mr. Connell is a nationally known speaker, author and consultant, and is recognized as an expert on effective employment screening practices that prevent negligent hiring and resume fraud in the workplace. He has been on the adjunct faculty of the University of South Florida for the past decade, where he teaches the course Effective Employee Screening. Mr. Connell also conducts keynotes and seminars for companies, his keynotes and seminars educates and motivates business owners, managers and human resource professionals on the most effective pre-employment screening techniques available today and how companies may legally obtain the information they need to make informed hiring decisions. His expertise extends to the development of policies and procedures to assure a more productive and safe workplace.

He received his Bachelor?s Degree in Economics Management from Ohio Wesleyan University, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He was a First-Team selection to GTE?s Academic All-American Football Team. After graduation, the Procter and Gamble Company employed Mr. Connell as a Regional Manager, where he worked in both the Food Service and Commercial Products Division. At P&G, he won the prestigious Five-Star Award three consecutive years. This National Award recognizes Procter and Gamble?s Top Sales Managers throughout North America.

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Since 2002, Ms. Stewart has served as Chief Deputy City Attorney under San Francisco City Attorney, Dennis J. Herrera, overseeing the City and County's civil litigation and representing San Francisco and its officials in key cases. Previously, she was a partner at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, where she handled complex business litigation in state and federal courts.

From February 2004 through May 2008, Ms. Stewart headed a team of deputy city attorneys and private firm lawyers representing Plaintiff City and County of San Francisco in the Marriage Cases, which were litigated in the state trial and appellate courts. She presented oral argument to the California Supreme Court on March 4, 2008, and the high court decision was issued on May 15, 2008. The Marriage Cases consisted of six coordinated cases involving state constitutional challenges to California's laws excluding same-sex couples from marriage. These cases are the first in the nation in which a local government body has joined with lesbian and gay couples to challenge a state's marriage laws. The City and the couples raised claims under the California Constitution's equal protection, liberty, privacy and free association clauses. They prevailed in the Superior Court, lost on appeal, and ultimately won in the California Supreme Court. The May 15, 2008 decision held that the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage unjustifiably discriminates against lesbians and gay men and denies them of fundamental liberty and autonomy privacy interests in entering into a state-sanctioned family relationship equal in dignity to other state-sanctioned family relationships.

Ms. Stewart and the City Attorney team also defended Mayor Newsom when his decision to issue marriage licenses to thousands of same-sex couples was challenged in 2004. The California Supreme Court ruled that the Mayor and other City officials lacked the power to refuse to enforce the limitation of marriage to opposite sex couples based on their belief that such limitation violated the Constitution.

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Ms. Stewart has long represented parties and amicus curiae in LGBT civil rights cases, including the airlines' challenge to San Francisco's Equal Benefits Ordinance, a lesbian police officer discrimination suit against the City of Sacramento, an early equal protection challenge to the State's denial of equal benefits to partners of lesbian and gay employees, and a case challenging the Defense Department's denial of security clearances to lesbians and gay men.

In the 1990's, Ms. Stewart served as the first Co-Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Committee on Sexual Orientation, which developed guidelines for legal employers on eliminating sexual orientation discrimination. In the 1980's, she served on the Board of the Lesbian Rights Project (currently known as the National Center for Lesbian Rights), and her firm later assisted NCLR in changing its name and obtaining non-profit status. She also served on the Board of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, San Francisco's lesbian and gay bar association.

In 1999, Ms. Stewart served as the first openly gay President of the Bar Association of San Francisco. In that capacity, she co-founded BASF's School-To-College Program, which provides mentoring and guidance to inner city high school students to help them prepare for, select, and apply to college.

Ms. Stewart currently serves on a Task Force of the California Judicial Council's Commission on Judicial Independence, and the Boards of the Northern District of California Historical Society and the Legal Aid Society/Employment Law Center. She is also a member of the American Bar Association's recently established Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Commission. She has previously been a lawyer delegate for Northern District of California to the Ninth Circuit and a State Bar delegate to the American Bar Association.

Ms. Stewart was recognized as a California Superlawyer in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Ms. Stewart received her B.A. with Distinction from Cornell University in 1978 and her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law in 1981, where she was awarded Order of the Coif and received Am Jur awards in Constitutional and Criminal Law. Ms. Stewart was Editor-in-Chief of Ecology Law Quarterly and a research assistant to Professors Paul Mishkin and William Fletcher. From 1981-1982, she was a law clerk to Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Michael Ford is a seven time author including the following recently published books and video programs:

Don't Bid On It: Until I tell you How eBay really works ?2007, Publisher Elite Minds Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0977476015 You can find more information at www.DontBidOnIt.com

Scams and Scoundrels: Protect yourself from the dark side of eBay and PayPal ?2007, Publisher Elite Minds Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0977476022

Don't Bid On It: Video Classroom ?2007, Publisher Elite Minds Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0977476039

Michael Ford began his eBay career in 1998 and first became an eBay Power Seller in 2001. His software business has expanded beyond eBay, but he still enjoys buying and selling on eBay as a collector of antique arcade games. Michael has authored a number of books on antique arcade games, game restoration, and computer security as well as two eBay books and an eBay video. He is a regular contributor to collector magazines and he is a well known business writer.

Michael has always been an entrepreneur and eBay has helped develop those independent business drives into several full-fledged commercial ventures.

Michael is known for 'telling it like it is' and has a no nonsense approach to business and writing. He focuses on details which led him to document and analyze eBay auctions in a hard hitting way in order to determine what works and what does not. Michael's continued his quest for knowledge by monitoring the unsavory side of eBay which resulted in protection measures that are commonly used to identify fraudulent buyers and sellers.

Michael knows both the good and bad sides of eBay and has shared his experiences and techniques to help eBay members gain the most from eBay without losing their shirt to scammers.

Michael is also a widely known collector of antique arcade games, mostly from the 1940's to the 1970's. He regularly uses eBay to fill out his collection and always looks for an opportunity to promote the arcade game restoration hobby.

Michael has founded a number of companies including Elite Minds Inc, a software development firm specializing in educational and game software, an arcade game restoration company which has published a number of books on antique arcade games, produced specialized circuit boards and other restoration items, and he has created various other specialty companies.

Amy Alkon is an award-winning syndicated columnist whose funny but reason and data-based weekly advice column, The Advice Goddess, appears in over 100 newspapers. Alkon has made numerous TV and radio appearances, including Good Morning America, CNN, MTV, Nightline, Politically Incorrect and Dennis Miller. She is completing a book for McGraw-Hill on the collapse of public manners, called REVENGERELLA: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society. Alkon considers identity theft the height of bad manners, and sees financial institutions with apparently lax security measures in a similar light.