Josh Tolley is the founder and chairman of Tolley & Company, an organization that buys, builds, operates and sells companies in multiple industries including finance, spirits, birthing centers, professional sports and many others. Josh has built multiple multi-million-dollar companies over his career and has helped many other people do the same. He has appeared on national and international television, been featured in two documentaries, has conducted over 1,000 interviews, 2,000+ radio broadcasts and is regarded by many as the Global Voice on Business.
Chairman and general manager of Serigraph Inc., John Torinus Jr. has studied and practiced management for more than 50 years. His company had $40 million in sales annually when he bought it in 1987; it now generates $120 million and has more than 1,000 employees in plants in the United States, Mexico, China and India. Torinus graduated magna cum laude from Yale and was a company commander in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Torinus has served as business editor and columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Ronn Torossian is the CEO of 5WPR, 1 of the 25 largest US PR firms. He has overseen the NY PR agency’s growth and expansion to the Inc. 500 list, as well as provided counsel to hundreds of companies, including members of the Fortune 500, Inc. 500, and Forbes 400. Torossian’s work spans global interests, corporate entities, high-profile individuals, regional business entities, government agencies, and academic institutions.
A semi-finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Ronn Torossian was named to PR Week’s “40 Under 40” list, Advertising Age’s “40 Under 40” list, and is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO). He lives in NYC with his family.
Jason Towne is research fellow at Harvard University where he focuses on motivation, learning, and technology. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Conversations with America’s Best Teachers, in which he interviewed 18 National of the Year Award winners and nominees about what they do differently. Towne received his BS degree in Public Policy and graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of Southern California in 2009. He earned his Masters degree in Education from Harvard in 2015 where he studied motivational psychology and education technology, co-directed the prestigious Harvard Innovative Ventures in Education (HIVE) program, and won the coveted Harvard Leadership in Education Award. Prior to Harvard, he was an executive for the YMCA overseeing youth development.
Kelly Trach is a 4x entrepreneur and six-figure business coach who helps visionaries find their genius and monetize it. She hosts The Kelly Trach Show podcast, which has had more than 100K+ downloads, and is the creator of Your Conscious Empire™, a course that teaches people how to build a business based on their genius. Kelly has a bachelor of commerce honors degree from the University of British Columbia where she studied on scholarship. Kelly previously worked at Tesla Motors, studied at Sciences Po in Paris, France, and was accepted in a pre-accelerator program taught by a billionaire venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. After her first three tech start-ups failed in San Francisco, Kelly built a fourth business centered around her genius and grew it to six figures. Now, she teaches others how to do the same. You can find her at kellytrach.com.
Kathleen Tracy is an entertainment journalist for such magazines as Film News International, Globe and TV Week and is the author of The Girl’s Got Bite, The Real Story of Ellen DeGeneres and The Secret Story of Polygamy. She lives in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Karen Traviss is a New York Times bestselling author of military science fiction whose critically acclaimed Wess’har novels have been nominated for the Philip K. Dick and Campbell awards. She also writes Star Wars novels for Lucasfilm, where she explores the same themes of identity, species, and political and personal corruption. A former defense correspondent, and TV and newspaper journalist, she has also served in the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and the Territorial Army. She lives in Wiltshire, England. You can visit her Web site at www.karentraviss.com.
Bijal P. Trivedi is an award-winning freelance writer specializing in medicine and health. Her work has taken her from the hidden vaults of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Serengeti Plains to Moscow’s Star City, where she blasted off with space tourism entrepreneurs on the “Vomit Comet” for astronaut training. Her work has appeared in Discover, Scientific American, New Scientist, Wired, The Economist, National Geographic, Science, Self, Nature, among others. Her feature “The Wipeout Gene” was anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing: 2012. Trivedi is the former editor of the NIH Director’s Blog, which shares compelling, cutting edge biomedical research with the general public. Trivedi also worked as a writer and editor for the National Geographic News Service, a wire service she helped launch in partnership with the New York Times Syndicate.
Robert Tuchman is the founder and president of New York-based TSE Sports & Entertainment, a global leader in sports and entertainment promotion. He is a contributing writer for ESPN.com and has been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur and Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine. A frequent guest on “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” Tuchman has appeared on CNN, BET and on the “CBS Morning News.” He resides with his wife Amy in the Upper West Side in Manhattan.
Catharine Tunnacliffe grew up in Ottawa, was educated at Cambridge University in England and currently resides in Toronto, Canada. She is a freelance film and culture critic for various publications, and is heard regularly on CBC radio. She is also the associate publisher of the alternative newspaper Eye Weekly.
