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Senior Vice President Marc Cutler is the manager of the Cambridge Systematics's Travel Demand Forecasting business line. Mr. Cutler specializes in managing large multimodal transportation planning and policy projects. He has managed numerous studies in transportation planning, traffic engineering, traffic management, and travel demand modeling and forecasting. Mr. Cutler recently has led several large studies for the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation. For the Georgia Department of Transportation, he led both the Interstate Highway System Plan and the Statewide Transportation Plan. Additionally, he served as manager of transportation planning for the Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston, and conducted numerous development-related traffic studies throughout Boston. Mr. Cutler received a Master's degree in Urban Planning from Tufts University, a Master's degree in Education from Harvard University, and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Tufts University.

Gray was provincial for the Detroit Province, and executive director of the Detroit Province Spirituality Team. He was an associate professor of Spiritual Theology at Weston School of Theology, served as dean and an adjunct professor in Spiritual Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif. During his time at Weston, he lectured occasionally at Boston College. He also has taught at Fordham and John Carroll universities, Loyola University of New Orleans and the University of Detroit Mercy. Fr. Gray's publications include *An Experience In Ignatian Government*, *Studies In the Spirituality of the Jesuits* and numerous articles. He earned a bachelor's degree in English and classics, a licentiate in philosophy and a licentiate in sacred theology from Loyola University of Chicago, and a doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin.

Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer, historian, and chronicler of exploration. His books have been translated into over 20 languages worldwide. In October 2007, Alfred A. Knopf published *Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu*, a groundbreaking biography of the iconic traveler. Warner Brothers is developing a feature film based on this book starring Matt Damon and written by William Monahan, who won an Oscar for The Departed. He has written for many national publications including *Esquire*, *Newsweek*, *TV Guide*, *Details*, *Prologue*, *The Chicago Tribune*, and *Military History Quarterly*. He has taught at the New School for Social Research and served as Assistant to the President of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. In 1995, he served as a judge for the National Book Awards and in 1991 as a judge for the PEN/Albrand Nonfiction Award. A frequent lecturer at major universities and symposiums, he also serves as a Featured Historian for the History Channel. Mr. Bergreen graduated from Harvard University in 1972. He is a member of PEN American Center, The Explorers Club, the Authors Guild, and the board of the New York Society Library. He lives in New York City and is represented by Suzanne Gluck of the William Morris Agency.

As president and CEO of The Minneapolis Foundation, Emmett D. Carson provides overall vision, leadership and motivation for one of the largest, oldest and most complex community foundations in the country. He oversees the Foundations grantmaking, loan making, communications, fund development and investment management activities. As external spokesperson, he is responsible for developing collaborative relationships with all sectors and segments of the community as well as with other organizations nationwide. Since his arrival in 1994, the Foundation has embarked on a ten-year $20 million initiative to improve the lives of children and families in poverty, raised record annual gifts ($46 million in fiscal year 1999) and increased total assets under management from $186 million to over $400 million. Carson came to The Minneapolis Foundation from the Ford Foundation in New York, where he spent 5 years as program officer, first in the area of social justice and then in governance and public policy. Responsible for the Foundations domestic and international support of community foundations and the nonprofit sector, Carson managed a $10 million grantmaking budget that reached across the country and as far as Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to that he served as project director of the Study on Black Philanthropy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC, where he designed and directed the first national study of the charitable giving and volunteer behavior of black and white Americans. Earlier in his career, Carson taught research and public policy courses as an adjunct professor in the Afro-American Studies program at the University of Maryland and served as a legislative research analyst at The Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Carson received a Phi Beta Kappa bachelors degree in economics from Morehouse College and MPA and PhD degrees in public and international affairs from Princeton University. He is the author of several books and dozens of articles on American philanthropy.

Norman E. Bowie is the Elmer L Andersen Chair in Corporate Responsibility at the University of Minnesota where he holds a joint appointment in the departments of strategic management and philosophy. He is an Academic Advisor with the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. His most recent books are *Guide to Business Ethics *(2002) and *Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective* (1999). In addition his text *Ethical Theory and Business* (with Tom Beauchamp) went into its seventh edition in 2003. Professor Bowie has been a Fellow at Harvards Program for Ethics and the Professions and has served as Dixons Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at the London Business School. He is past president of The Society for Business Ethics, The American Society of Value Inquiry and former Executive Director of the American Philosophical Association. He serves on the editorial boards of *Business Ethics Quarterly* and *Business and Professional Ethics Journal* and is a senior contributing editor of the new *Journal of Business Ethics Education*. He teaches the required business ethics course in the Minnesota Carlson Executive MBA course as well as sections in the regular MBA program. In 2003 he initiated an international business ethics course that takes MBA students to Europe. He teaches the required ethics course in Minnesota's joint MBA with the Warsaw School of Economics.

Peter Goldberg is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance for Children and Families and its parent holding company, Families International, Inc. As president and CEO of Families International, Inc., Goldberg oversees a unique corporate structure that allows four organizations to operate under one parent company. This allows for the financial independence of each of the organizations while creating an environment that encourages collaboration. Goldberg also serves as chief executive officer of Ways to Work, Inc. and United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA). Prior to joining the Families International group of companies in 1994, Goldberg held a variety of positions in the corporate and philanthropic field and in the public sector. He was President of the Prudential Foundation (1990-94) and head of Primerica's social responsibility programs (1982-88). He was Project Director of the New York State Heroin and Alcohol Abuse Study (1981-82) and Special Assistant to the Director of the U.S. government's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (1979-81). Goldberg is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Immediate Past Chair of the Board of The Children's Institute (Oregon), and a Board Trustee of The Bridgespan Group. He is also Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Listening Post Project at the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Convening Chair of Leadership 18.

Recognized by former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley as "one of the outstanding education leaders in the country," Chad Wick leads KnowledgeWorks Foundation in its mission to increase the number and diversity of people who value and access public education. As the founding president and CEO, he has led the Foundation to achieve this mission by providing not only seed grants and operating funds, extensive technical assistance and training, but policy and advocacy projects that promote and support sustainable, system-wide changes. Prior to leading KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Chad was president and CEO of Rise Learning Solutions. He has also served as president of Mayerson Company, executive vice president of the PNC Bank, and CEO of Southern Ohio Bank.

Ellen Band creates sound and music pieces for performance and concert settings, installation, sculpture, and tape. Deeply inspired by the infinitely complex textures, rhythms, and colours within the so-called ordinary sounds of everyday life, she uses the time-honoured technique of field recording to collect the source material she uses for her pieces. She then fashions works which reflect the imagistic, mnemonic (memory), and psychoacoustic properties of sound. Having a strong background in both the 20th Century experimental music and sound art traditions, she crafts sound works which transform familiar sounds into new contexts and forms for listening to, perceiving, and experiencing sound.