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Dr. Nadeem Afridi chaired Pakistan’s first Non-communicable Disease (NCD) Commission in May 2009 with the Government of Pakistan, an NCD survey in Pakistan with impact on cost effectiveness in low income population area centers of Pakistan. He is the founding president of Public Health Foundation of Pakistan and is also the President-Elect 2011 for the Association of Pakistani Descent Cardiologists of North America (APCNA). Currently Dr. Afridi is an instructor in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Afridi earned his MBA in Entrepreneurship at Babson College and a PhD at Boston University.

Todd Millay is the Managing Director of Choate Investment Advisors. In connection with overseeing the investment strategy and day-to-day operations of Choate Investment Advisors, the firm's registered investment advisor subsidiary, Todd works closely with Choate's wealth management team of lawyers, tax preparers and trusts and estates administrators to provide clients with objective, integrated solutions to their wealth management needs. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at CCC Alliance, a consortium of family offices, where he was responsible for managing alliances, leading strategic projects and delivering member services. During this time, Todd also served as the founding Executive Director of the Wharton Global Family Alliance, the research center on family wealth and family business at the Wharton School. As consultant in the Boston and Madrid offices of McKinsey & Company for five years, Todd specialized in serving financial institutions. During his tenure at McKinsey, he worked with senior management at major financial services companies in both the United States and Europe, providing strategic advice on a range of investment opportunities and operational improvements. After graduating from Yale Law School, he served as Managing Clerk for the Honorable Sandra L. Lynch on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Todd was chosen as one of 40 emerging business leaders for the Boston Business Journal's 2008 "40 Under 40" award. He is a frequent speaker at investment conferences and has written for various publications on business and investing.

Esmond Harmsworth is a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. Born in London, he was educated in England before graduating magna cum laude from Brown University and cum laude from Harvard Law School. As a literary agent, Harmsworth represents fiction and nonfiction. He is one of the leading US agents for business books, and regularly places major titles on management, leadership, finance, marketing and entrepreneurship with the leading publishers. Recent titles include the #1 Wall Street Journal business bestseller and New York Times bestseller *Breakthrough: Secrets of America's Fastest Growing Companies* by Keith McFarland (Crown Business); *Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing* by Dave Balter and John Butman (Portfolio); *Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack* by Donna Fenn (Collins); and, *Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success* by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel (Wharton School Publishing).

Roger Lowenstein is a former reporter with *The Wall Street Journal*, currently a contributing writer for *The New York Times Magazine* and a columnist for *Bloomberg*, as well as the author of five books, *Buffett*, *When Genius Failed*, *Origins of the Crash*, *While America Aged*, and the forthcoming, *The End of Wall Street*--out this April from The Penguin Press. He lives in Newton, MA.

My name is Jenny Attiyeh, and I began my career in 1987 in London as a freelance reporter on the arts for the BBC World Service Radio. I remember my first interview for “Meridian”, as the program I worked for was called. It was with Placido Domingo, and I’ve never been so nervous since. After my work permit ran out, I returned to Los Angeles, my home city, and continued as an arts reporter for KCRW, an NPR station in Santa Monica. While there, I reported and produced an award-winning documentary on Japanese-American internment during World War II. Shortly after, I was accepted to a National Public Radio residency, which brought me to Washington, D.C. and to WBUR, an NPR station in Boston to report stories for NPR’s Performance Today. I later attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. After that, I remained in New York City for 9 years, during which time I worked primarily as a reporter on television and radio. I hosted and produced a weekly arts and culture segment for WNYC TV, a PBS station, until it went out of business (thanks to then Mayor Giuliani, who sold the station). Before the lights went out, I managed to produce a mini-documentary on the making of a Philip Glass opera, “Les Enfants Terribles.” I worked next as a correspondent for a nationally televised PBS program called “Freedom Speaks” which focused on the media, until it too was taken off the air. (I detect a pattern here…) In between gigs, I also worked as a reporter for WBAI radio, a Pacifica station, and WNYC radio, an NPR station, covering local politics and the arts. I then moved to Maine, where I lived by the harbor in Kittery, and worked as a reporter for New Hampshire Public Television. There, I covered the ‘99/2000 New Hampshire presidential primary season, and interviewed the major presidential candidates. I also participated as a panelist in nationally televised presidential debates, hosted by Peter Jennings and Tim Russert. Following the conclusion of the New Hampshire primary season, I moved to Boston, where I did freelance writing on academics, the 2004 presidential campaign and the single life, among other subjects. From this base, in early 2005, I launched ThoughtCast.

Charles Skillas is a board certified hypnotherapist practicing in Atlanta, GA. He is also a National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) certified hypnotherapy instructor. He has practiced energy healing and hypnotherapy since 1981 and is a member of the business and metaphysical teaching faculty of St. Johns University. He has a PhD in engineering and a doctor of divinity degree in spiritual healing arts.

Bruce Feiler is the *New York Times * best-selling author of seven books, an award-winning journalist, and the writer-presenter of the PBS miniseries *Walking the Bible*. He has traveled to more than 60 countries on five continents, immersing himself in different cultures. Born in Savannah, GA, he lives in New York with wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their twin daughters.

Michael Maso has served as the Huntington's managing director since 1982, overseeing all fiscal and administrative operations, producing more than 125 plays, and leading the Huntington's 10-year drive to build the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which opened in September, 2004. Mr. Maso is the immediate past president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of 70 of the country's major not-for-profit professional theatres. Last year, Mr. Maso was named as one of a dozen members of the inaugural class of the Barr Fellows Program. He received the 2005 Commonwealth Award, the state's highest arts honor, in the category of Catalyst, and was honored by *The Boston Herald* as 2004 Theatre Man of the Year. He has served as a member of the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit theatre, and as a site visitor, panelist, and panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. Locally, Mr. Maso is a member of the board of directors of ArtsBoston. He previously served as chairman of the Cultural and Scientific Directors Group, as a member of Mayor Menino's Advisory Task Force for Cultural Planning, as a trustee of the Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (MAASH) and StageSource, as a member of the Boston Foundation's Cultural Task Force, and as Program Consultant for the Arts Leadership Initiative of Business Volunteers for the Arts. In 2000, Mr. Maso was honored with the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence at Boston's Elliot Norton Awards. Prior to coming to the Huntington, Mr. Maso spent three seasons as the managing director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He has also been the general manager of New York's Roundabout Theatre Company, business manager for PAF Playhouse on Long Island, and an independent arts management consultant based in Taos, New Mexico. Mr. Maso is an associate professor of theatre at Boston University.

Byron Pitts is a multiple Emmy award winning reporter. As chief national correspondent for the *CBS Evening News With Katie Couric*, Pitts was an embedded reporter covering the Iraq war and was recognized for his work under fire. Pitts was also CBS' lead correspondent at Ground Zero immediately following the September 11th attacks. A news veteran with more than 20 years of experience, other major stories he covered include the war in Afghanistan, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the military buildup in Kuwait and the refugee crisis in Kosovo. Pitts realized a life-long goal when he was named a contributing correspondent to CBS' *60 Minutes* in 2009.

San San Wong has over 20 years of working in the arts. Prior to joining the Arts Commission, she was a consultant focused on the exploration of new aesthetics, the impact of changing demographics and increased internationalism on arts and cultural practice, and strengthening support systems for bringing artists and communities together. Her clients have included: the Ford Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Leveraging Investments in Creativity, the Fund for Folk Culture, and the Asia Society, among others. She has worked throughout the United States, and in the Asia Pacifica region. Wong has also served as Executive Director of the National Performance Network, and before that, as Director of Development and Special Initiatives at Theater Artaud (San Francisco).

Eva Herr does private mentoring and counseling, and occasionally travels to conduct workshops, consultations, individual and group mentoring, and satsangs. She is also a radio show host and public speaker. Herr is based in Atlanta.

Timothy Milner is a DeKalb Medical vascular and endovascular surgeon. He received his medical degree 11 years ago.