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For the last 30 years, Jeff Raz has performed nationally and internationally with circuses and theaters including Cirque du Soleil, The Pickle Circus, Song Circus, Lincoln Center Theater, Vaudeville Nouveau, Dell’Arte Players, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Marin and S.F. Shakespeare Festivals, TheatreWorks and Marin Theater Company. He has written 11 plays, directed many others and is the founder and director of the Clown Conservatory, a program that has trained some of the top young clowns who are currently performing around the world.

Website: www.JeffRaz.com
Email: jeffraz@aol.com

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TIME magazine named Dean Karnazes as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World.” Men’s Fitness hailed him as the fittest man on the planet. An internationally recognized endurance athlete and bestselling author, Dean has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Among his many accomplishments, he has run 350 continuous miles, foregoing sleep for three nights. He’s run across Death Valley in 120 degree temperatures, and he’s run a marathon to the South Pole in negative 40 degrees. On ten different occasions, he’s run a 200-mile relay race solo, racing alongside teams of twelve. Dean has swum the San Francisco Bay, scaled mountains, bike raced for 24-hours straight, and surfed the gigantic waves off the coast of Hawaii and California. His long list of competitive achievements include winning the world’s toughest footrace, the Badwater Ultramarathon, running 135 miles nonstop across Death Valley during the middle of summer.

Website: Ultramarathon Man
Blog: Dean’s Blog on Runner’s World

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• Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
• 50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days — and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!
• Ultramarathon Man: 50 Marathons – 50 States – 50 Days (DVD)

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Michael McGinnis is an artist and craftsperson who has a wide range of interests. These include making sculpture, drawing with pastel, creating art installations, building furniture, and creative problem solving in general. Working on Superplexus and its derivatives is a lifelong passion. Michael has an MFA in sculpture and teaches at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is also the Art Gallery Exhibits Specialist. He lives with his wife, Becky, and their two children, in Santa Rosa, CA. The entire family is of the same creative cloth. Michael has 11 siblings and 33 nieces and nephews.

Contact: mmcginnis@santarosa.edu

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Jon Gillespie-Brown is a United Kingdom-born entrepreneur, business mentor and author (So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur) who now lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. A lifelong entrepreneur, he has established and grown more than a half dozen businesses, and remains the active CEO of two of those companies – Nalpeiron, Inc. – the leader in hosted software licensing solutions that maximize revenue for developers and publishers and Digital Ventures, a band of entrepreneurs and angel investors that mentors, advises and provides seed investment to emerging companies. Furthering his commitment to help the next generation of entrepreneurs, Jon is donating all profits from the book to the Grameen Foundation, a non-profit that provides micro-loans to disadvantaged entrepreneurs around the globe.

Contact: via LinkedIn

Nalpeiron
2225 E. Bayshore Road #200
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Phone: 1-888-800-8818

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John Ogden manages marketing, sales and business operations for Olson Ogden Wines. Ogden was an early employee of America Online in Dulles, VA and worked in a variety of business development, sales, marketing and management positions for the company during its critical growth period. After America Online, Ogden worked with entrepreneurial companies to develop their business development, brand and sales strategies. Ogden’s career includes work in the public sector as a legislative aide in the United States Senate and a staff assistant for the United States Senate Financial Committee.

Website: Olson Ogden Wines
Email: John@OlsonOgdenWines.com
Phone: (707) 823-6127

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Neal Gottlieb, started Three Twins Ice Cream in 2005 with $75,000 in lieu of returning to business school. The company started with one small shop in a tucked away San Rafael, California shopping center that Neal manned himself, without the luxury of any employees for the first few months. The company has grown rapidly from its humble beginning and now includes 2 stores, a farmers’ market business, bulk ice cream for restaurants and cafes and packaged ice cream for supermarkets. Three Twins will soon open a dedicated organic ice cream factory in downtown Petaluma that will allow the company to produce exponentially more ice cream and gave Neal a good excuse to buy a forklift. Rumors about a San Francisco location that is in the works can neither be confirmed nor denied, but you should look for it in Spring 2009 (at 254 Fillmore Street, San Francisco). When not plotting and scheming, Neal enjoys reading, travel, spending time with his adorable nieces and cozying up with a nice glass of red wine.

Website: Three Twins Ice Cream
Phone: (415) 577-0144
Email: threetwins@gmail.com

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Joe Grand (aka Kingpin) is an electrical engineer, hardware hacker, and president of Grand Idea Studio, Inc., where he specializes in the invention, design, and licensing of consumer products, video game accessories, and modules for electronics hobbyists. He has also spent many years finding security flaws in hardware devices and educating engineers on how to increase security of their designs.

Involved in computers and electronics since the age of 7, Joe is a former member of the legendary hacker collective L0pht Heavy Industries and has testified before the United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee regarding government and homeland computer security. He’s written a few books, holds a few patents, and is a co-host of Prototype This on Discovery Channel. Joe is also the sole proprietor of Kingpin Empire, a hacker-inspired apparel project that gives back to the technology and health communities through charitable donations.

Website: Grand Idea Studio
Email: Contact Form

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• Joe Grand’s Best of Hardware, Wireless, & Game Console Hacking: Includes DVD with 20 Hacks in High-Res Color
• Game Console Hacking: Having Fun While Voiding Your Warranty
• Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent (Cyber-Fiction)
• Hardware Hacking
• Hardware Hacking: Have Fun while Voiding your Warranty
• Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box
• Hack Proofing Your Network

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Valerie Baadh, CLM is a movement consultant to schools and organizations, a movement trainer and mentor to teachers, and a movement artist. She is a licensed Lebed Method instructor and a certified Spacial Dynamics practitioner. Valerie has been performing, choreographing, directing and teaching movement and dance in San Francisco since 1973. As a certified Spacial Dynamics practitioner trained by Jaimen McMillan, Valerie Baadh was the Movement Education instructor at San Francisco Waldorf School from 1990 through 2006. She helped develop and taught a comprehensive developmental movement program for grades one through twelve and led workshops for parents, teachers and the community.

Website: San Francisco Movement For Health and Healing
Phone: (415) 218-7088
Email: valerie@sfMovement.com

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Jane Straus (1954-2011) was a relationship coach, bestselling author (Blue Book of Grammar and Enough is Enough!), judge for the Grammar Bee, radio host (Ask Jane on S.F.’s Green960 AM), and provider of pro bono “On The Couch” services.

Websites: www.GrammarBook.com and www.JaneStraus.com

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• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, a perennial #1 bestseller on Amazon in 4 categories with over 150,000 copies sold. Also available free, online: www.GrammarBook.com
• Enough Is Enough! Stop Enduring and Start Living Your Extraordinary Life

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Jay Harman, President and CEO, has developed a number of successful companies. As founder and CEO of ERG Australia Ltd, he took the company to a highly successful IPO. ERG went on to become one of Australia’s most successful technology companies. Jay has extensive experience in technology licensing and is the author of numerous patents. His designs have won numerous design awards and his products have been featured on the international television series “Discovery.” Jay is also CEO of PAX Water Technologies and Chief Inventor of PAX Streamline.

Website: PAX Scientific
Phone: (415) 256-9900
Email: info@PAXScientific.com