Dr. Eric Cole has worked in cybersecurity for over 30 years, helping organizations of all shapes and sizes properly protect and secure their information. He began his career as a professional hacker with the CIA and learned that he could break into any computer that is accessible from the internet. He then used his expertise and knowledge to build companies focused on defensive solutions. Dr. Cole has done work for Lockheed Martin and McAfee and has consulted clients all around the world, including Saudi Aramco, Nouryon, electrical utility companies, nuclear reactors, financial organizations, and healthcare providers. He performs security for the Gates family and was a commissioner for President Obama, for whom Dr. Cole continues to provide security advice.
Dr. Cole is a sought-after expert who has received many recognitions and has been inducted into the InfoSec Hall of Fame. He has written several books on cybersecurity, and he’s often featured on many news channels including CNN, Fox, CBS, and NBC. He was one of the authors of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s cybersecurity guide, and he received a cyber wingman award from the Air Force and was pinned with his Cyber Wings for building out and developing their entire cybersecurity program.
Britta Coleman writes the column “Practically Parenting” and is the author of Potter Springs, a novel from Warner Books (June 2005). She lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband, two children and a fussy Chihuahua.
Tom Z. Collina is the Director of Policy at Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation in Washington, DC. He has 30 years of nuclear weapons policy experience and has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was closely involved with successful efforts to end U.S. nuclear testing in 1992, extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1995, ratify the New START Treaty in 2010, and enact the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. Collina has published hundreds of articles, op-eds, and reports and appears frequently in major media.
Paul Collins is a writer specializing in history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature. His eight books have been translated into eleven languages, and include Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey Into the Lost History of Autism (2004), and The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars (2011). He is a 2009 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction.
James Como is a professor of rhetoric and public communication at York College of the City University of New York and a founding member (1969) of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, the oldest and still the largest of such societies. He has published “C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table” and Other Reminiscences and Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis. Parts of this essay have appeared in the latter and in CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society.
Kasey Compton, a tenured mental health counselor turned entrepreneur and author of Fix This Next for Healthcare Providers, quickly became a southern staple in business systems and operations. Her knack for systems-thinking with a relationally driven approach contributed to the successful curation of many multi-million-dollar businesses. By thirty-five years old, her businesses turned million-dollar profits because of the lean infrastructures she is able to create and her ability to sell sell sell.
After years of creating and scaling businesses, she realized that business is so much more than the hustle and grind. Though Don Corleone might disagree, business is personal. When Kasey embraced this fact, she found so much more satisfaction and heart-felt fulfillment from her businesses. Now she wants to help fem-preneurs everywhere experience the same joy she now feels walking into the office every Monday morning.
She has been called the Fannie Flagg of business by some of the industry’s finest authors and editors, thanks to her artful use of playful stories and good old fashioned fun. Kasey’s straight-up, sassy-pants approach to business has a way of painting word-pictures, making it easy for readers to conceptualize big truths. Much like a gourmet filet mignon on Lennox china—served with a side of fried green tomatoes and a shot of bourbon.
Cole Conkling is a Managing Director at Inscription Capital, a registered investment advisor located in Houston, Texas, which has over $1.4 Billion in assets under management. Cole also serves as a Partner and Managing Director of Quantor Capital, an asset manager, in Houston, Texas. Cole was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He received his B.A. in Biology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005, and his J.D. from The University of Houston Law Center in 2010, where he graduated cum laude, served as the Energy Editor of The Houston Journal of International Law, and was a member of the Order of the Barons. Cole joined Quantor Capital in April 2019, and Inscription Capital in March 2020. He currently holds a Series 65 license (investment advisor). He is an avid writer of blogs and papers for his two investment firms and is also a co-host of the podcast Now Know This, which covers investing, economics, and investor behavior. Cole lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and two daughters.
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Ryan Conner is a writer and stand-up comedian. He was born and raised in Virginia and now lives in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, his dog, and four million other people. He has performed on and written for several television shows. The Washington Post called him “probably the most singular comedian in America.” On NBC’s Last Comic Standing, judge Norm Macdonald called one of his sets “the best [he’s] seen in five years.”
Trevor Connor, MS, is the CEO of The Paleo Diet, LLC, which owns and operates The Paleo Diet® program, The Paleo Diet website, two industry-leading food certification standards, a full branding and cobranded licensing program, and all related intellectual property rights affiliated. Connor was Dr. Cordain’s final graduate student and his research focused on the field of bioenergetics and how inflammation effects the gut-brain axis. A graduate of Cornell University, Connor is a former bike racer and cycling team manager. He is also cofounder and CEO of Fast Talk Laboratories (FastTalkLabs.com).
Ed Connor, Ph.D., is an associate professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his Ph.D. He lives in Baltimore with his wife Amy and their fiercely independent 2-year-old son Malcolm.
