R.I.S.E. VII

Jessica M. Bibliowicz

Chairman & CEO, National Financial Partners. Bibliowicz is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of National Financial Partners. National Financial Partners (NYSE:NFP) is a leading independent distributor of financial services products to the high net worth and growing entrepreneurial corporate markets. More...

Roel C. Campos

Former Commissioner, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Currently Partner-in-Charge, Cooley Godward Cornish. Former Commissioner Campos was first sworn in as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on August 22, 2002. More...

Mark S. Casady

Chairman & CEO, LPL Financial Services. Casady is Chairman and CEO of LPL Financial Services, the nation’s leading independent brokerage firm. Before joining the firm in 2002 as Chief Operating Officer, Casady was Managing Director, Mutual Fund Group, for Deutsche Asset Management, Americas More...

Daniel Clifton

Director, Head of Policy Research . Daniel Clifton serves as the director of Strategas Research Partners Washington, DC office and directs the firms legislative and public policy research efforts. More...

Harry S. Dent, Jr.

Founder & President, HS Dent Foundation. Dent is the Founder and President of the HS Dent Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is “Helping People Understand Change.” Using exciting new research developed from years of hands-on business experience More...

Jeffrey J. Diermeier, CFA

President & CEO, CFA Institute. Diermeier, has served on the Board of Governors of CFA Institute since 2002 and became its full-time President and CEO January 1, 2005. CFA Institute is the global, professional association that administers the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) More...

Patrick Dorsey, CFA

Director of Stock Analysis, Morningstar, Inc.. Dorsey is the Director of Stock Analysis for Morningstar, a leading provider of independent investment research in the United States and major international markets. Dorsey leads Morningstar's equity research initiative and manages a team of 90 equity analysts More...

Dr. Bob Froehlich

Chairman, Investor Strategy Committee, Deutsche Asset Management. Froehlich has an illustrious professional career that includes both the public and private sectors. When he was the Director of Investment Research, he was selected to several “All-American” Institutional Research Teams. More...

Christopher Gardner

Owner & CEO, Christopher Gardner International Holdings. Gardner is the owner and CEO of Christopher Gardner International Holdings with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Surmounting acute obstacles on his road to success, Gardner is an avid motivational speaker More...

Dr. Frank M. Hatheway

CFA, Chief Economist, The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.. Hatheway is Chief Economist of the The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., and is responsible for a variety of projects and initiatives to support the NASDAQ market and improve its market structure. Prior to joining NASDAQ, Hatheway was a finance professor at Penn State University More...

Dr. Boyan Christov Ivantchev

Econmoic Advisor, Republic of Bulgaria. Ivantchev is Economic Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Bulgaria, H.E. Ivailo Kalfin. He began his academic career in 1993 and earned the Doctor of Economics in 2001 in Warsaw. In 1993, Ivantchev also launched his professional life in the banking sector. More...

Thomas R. Keene, CFA

Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg News. Keene is the Editor-at-Large providing economic and investment perspective to all of Bloomberg News: print, radio and television. He writes the Chart-Of-The-Day story, available on the Bloomberg Professional service, and also presents it on Bloomberg Television. More...

Georg Kell

Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact. Kell is the Executive Head of the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative, with more than 2,400 participants from more than 80 countries. Following extensive experiences in Africa and Asia as a financial analyst, More...

Dr. Finn E. Kydland

2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara. Kydland is the Jeffrey Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and 2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Professor Kydland received his B.A. in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, More...

Ronald H. Muhlenkamp, CFA

Founder, President & Portfolio Manager, Muhlenkamp & Company, Inc.. Muhlenkamp is Founder, President, and Portfolio Manager of Muhlenkamp & Company, Inc., established in 1977 to manage private accounts for individuals and institutions. In 1988, Muhlenkamp & Company launched a no-load mutual fund More...

Charles V. Payne

CEO & Principal Analyst, Wall Street Strategies, Inc.. Payne is the Principal Analyst and CEO of Wall Street Strategies (WSS). WSS has been in business since 1991 and offers a slate of independent research products to help clients create wealth through the stock market. The clients of WSS range from individual investors to money managers More...

Sandra Pianalto

President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. As president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Sandra Pianalto has both national and local leadership responsibilities. She participates in the formulation of U.S. monetary policy More...

David Rosenberg

Chief North American Economist, Merrill Lynch. Rosenberg is Merrill Lynch’s Chief North American Economist, responsible for formulating and communicating North America economic, interest-rate and earnings outlooks to clients. Rosenberg joined Merrill Lynch in May 2000 as the Canadian Chief Economist and Strategist. More...

Tobin Smith

Founder & Chief Investment Strategist, ChangeWave Research. Smith, author of New York Times best-seller ChangeWave Investing, is Founder and Chief Investment Strategist for ChangeWave Research (CWR). A division of Phillips Investment Resources – the world’s largest consumer investment advisory publisher More...

John P. Surma

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, United States Steel Corporation. Surma began his career with Price Waterhouse LLP in 1976, and in 1981 he served in the Manchester, England office of the Price Waterhouse United Kingdom firm. In 1987, he was admitted to the partnership. More...

Bob Taft

Former Governor, State of Ohio, Currently Distinguished Research Associate, University of Dayton. Former Governor Taft began his career in public service as a Peace Corps Volunteer, working as a schoolteacher in Tanzania, East Africa, right after graduating from college. More...