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Matthew Pustz is the author of Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers, published in 2000 by the University Press of Mississippi. He received his doctorate in American studies from the University of Iowa, and he has taught there and at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He currently lives in the Boston area.
Rod Pyle is a space author, historian and journalist who works with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and previously at the Johnson Space Center. He has written 13 books on the history and technology of space exploration and science for major publishers in the US, UK and Asia. As a journalist, Rod’s work has appeared in Space.com, LiveScience.com, WIRED, Futurity, The Huffington Post, Popular Science, and many other print and online venues, and is the senior editor of the quarterly print magazine Ad Astra. Rod has also produced documentary programming on spaceflight for The History Channel as well as Discovery Communications. He has written on spaceflight and science for NASA/JPL and Caltech, and authored a guide to executive education for the Johnson Space Center/The Conference Board’s Apollo Leadership Experience. Rod speaks frequently on spaceflight and executive development, and has is a regularly scheduled radio guest on WGN/Chicago, KFI/Los Angeles and numerous syndicated radio programs, and hosts a weekly podcast on iHeart radio. He worked in visual effects on the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the new Battlestar Galactica, and spent a decade at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Rod is a graduate of Stanford University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a member of the National Space Society, the Author’s Guild, the National Association of Science Writers and a former member of the Director’s Guild of America, the Writer’s Guild of America and the Producer’s Guild of America.
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga holds a Research Chair at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at the University of Leicester. He graduated in Physics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Luebeck, Germany. Before joining the University of Leicester in 2004, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Research Center Juelich, Germany, a Sloan fellow at the California Institute of Technology, USA and had short stays at RIKEN, Japan and the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has held visiting positions at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, the University of California Los Angeles, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Buenos Aires, and CONICET. He obtained a young investigator award by the American Epilepsy Society, in 2010 a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and in 2014 he was selected as one of the 10 UK RISE Leaders in Science and Engineering.
His main research interest is on the study of the principles of visual perception and memory. He discovered what has been named “Concept cells” or “Jennifer Aniston neurons”—neurons in the human brain that play a key role in memory formation— a finding that was selected as one of the top 100 scientific stories of 2005 by Discover Magazine. His work has been published in more than 100 research articles and has received world-wide media attention, including articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Scientific American, New Scientist, The Independent, and others. He is also the author of Borges and Memory, linking the thoughts of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges with memory research in Neuroscience.
Jean Rabe is the author of 15 fantasy novels and more three dozen fantasy, science fiction and military short stories. Her latest work is the Finest series from Tor Books, and the upcoming Return to Quag Keep with Andre Norton. Her hobbies include visiting museums (particularly ones filled with old planes and military gear), playing an assortment of games, pretending to garden and participating in fantasy football leagues. She shares her Wisconsin home with her husband, two dogs that wrap themselves around her feet while she works at the computer and a parrot named Trouble, who chatters incessantly.
Anton Rabie is the cofounder and chair of Spin Master Corp, a global leader in children’s toys and entertainment. Renowned for its innovation, Spin Master quickly grew into one of the largest children’s companies in the world, with more than $2 billion in annual revenues and award-winning brands like PAW Patrol, Bakugan, Hatchimals, and Toca Boca that delight millions of children every day. Over the past three decades, Anton has played a foundational role in every aspect of Spin Master’s business, driving sales and marketing, global expansion, and its biggest acquisitions, including Tech Deck, GUND, Rubik’s Cube, and Melissa & Doug. Described as an “energy force” and known for his leadership by colleagues, Anton is passionate about people, and remains relentlessly committed to helping others achieve greatness. He shares his knowledge through mentoring others, speaking to students and entrepreneurs, and engaging in a wide range of community organizations and charitable causes. Anton enjoys spending time with his family, travelling to new destinations and living a healthy lifestyle, which includes his love of tennis. He currently mentors several Top 50 tennis players, providing coaching on a range of topics. Anton was a founder of the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) and currently serves as an advisory board member. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
Marissa Rachel is a Brazilian American content creator and host from Los Angeles and the creator of her own wildly popular beauty, fashion, and lifestyle YouTube channel, @MarissaRachel. With over a quarter of a billion YouTube video views, and collectively over 2 million social media followers (from millennials through Gen Z), Marissa delivers a mix of fashion and beauty tips, martial arts content, and humorous skits for her audience.
Marissa hosted four seasons of a fashion competition TV show Ready, Set, Style which aired on the ITV2 Network in the United Kingdom. She has enjoyed partnerships with many of the world’s most recognizable brands, including Disney, Amazon, Twentieth Century Fox, Marvel, Victoria’s Secret Pink, Olay, Always & Tampax, Toyota, Office Depot, and Procter & Gamble. She has also spoken on the TEDx stage and at the United Nations General Assembly, USC School of Cinematic Arts, as well as numerous panels with Google and YouTube.
Douglas Raggio is experienced in nearly every aspect of the $150 billion specialty food industry. He is the founder of a thriving food company, Pass the Honey. He also founded the slow-cooked meal company, Stews & Such, cultivating a network of manufacturers, vendors, distributors, co-packers and retailers in/around the packaged food space.
Concurrently, he was the founder and managing director of early-stage venture capital fund Gastronome Ventures, one of the first fully-dedicated VCs in the healthier-for-you-food/beverage industry. He is the founder of the private equity fund Bias & Blinds Spots, also focused on emerging healthy food and beverage branded companies, with transactions currently totaling more than $150M.
He’s been an advisor to more than a hundred startups and is a sought-after speaker at North America’s largest specialty food trade shows. His tenure in the space has given him the opportunity to vet 12,000+ investment opportunities spanning more than a decade, including companies going from zero to multi-millions and those going in reverse to bankruptcy.
Previous to his work in the food and beverage industry, he managed $100M+ marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 companies including Nike, Motorola, DirecTV, and Discovery Channel. Douglas received a BS in Organizational Communication from Cal Poly Pomona.
Steven Raichlen is an author, journalist, lecturer, TV host, and the man who launched the barbecue revolution. He has hosted popular cooking shows like Planet Barbecue, Project Fire, Project Smoke, and Primal Grill. Steven has written 34 books, including the international blockbusters The Barbecue Bible and How to Grill, and the New York Times bestselling Planet Barbecue and Project Smoke. Raichlen’s books have won five James Beard Awards and three IACP Julia Child Awards, and have been translated into 17 languages. He is a member of the Barbecue Hall of Fame and Taste Awards Hall of Fame.
Also an award-winning journalist, Raichlen has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, GQ, and all the major food magazines. He has appeared on numerous major TV and radio shows in the US and abroad, from Oprah and The Today Show to Fresh Air with Terry Gross and Howard Stern. He also battled—and defeated—the Iron Chef in a Battle of the Barbecue Gods on Japanese television.
David Rakison is an associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the development of cognition and perception in infancy as well as evolutionary developmental psychology. He has edited two books, Early Category and Concept Development: Making Sense of the Blooming Buzzing Confusion and Building Object Categories in Developmental Time.
