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Francis Greenburger is both the CEO and Founder of Time Equities Inc., a multi-billion dollar real estate investment and development company, as well as the Chairman of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, a literary agency representing some of the most successful writers of our time.
He is the founder of two important not for profit organizations, including the Omi International Arts Center and The Greenburger Center for Social & Criminal Justice. He has served on the boards of over 15 not for profit organizations active in the arts, education, and criminal justice reform. He is an active tennis player and skier, political cheerleader, and loving father of four children.
Eric Greene is a graduate of the Religious Studies department at Wesleyan University and of Stanford Law School. Hailed as “groundbreaking,” his first book was the critically acclaimed Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics and Popular Culture. Eric recently examined “Star Trek” and Cold War politics in BenBella’s Boarding the Enterprise and wrote about “Battlestar Galactica’s” treatment of September 11/Iraq War anxieties in BenBella’s So Say We All. Greene works as a civil rights activist in Los Angeles, where his professional hats have also included actor and commentator on politics and the arts.
John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist but makes his living writing science books for non-scientists. His best known is In Search of Schroedinger’s Cat, and his latest is Deep Simplicity. His science fiction books are less well known and mostly out of print, but older readers may have come across The Sixth Winter (co-written with Douglas Orgill). Gribbin lives in his county of East Sussex, in England, and has an honorary post at the University of Sussex, which provides him with agreeable company and involves no duties at all.
Nick Grono has decades of experience leading and chairing nonprofits. He is the CEO of the Freedom Fund, a highly successful charity dedicated to ending modern slavery around the world, and he serves on a number of nonprofit boards and acts as advisor to many nonprofit CEOs.
Tagged by Success Magazine as a "One-Woman Brand," Jen Groover's name has quickly become synonymous with innovation, entrepreneurship and evolution. She has gone from guest-hosting spots on QVC to inking deals with some of the industry’s biggest heavyweights.
Jen’s innovative handbag company is the award-winning Butler Bag Company, which launched just under three years ago and is now being tracked as one of the fastest growing handbag brands in history. She has become a regularly featured business and lifestyle expert for such programs as Fox News’ “Strategy Room”, ABC’s “Money Matters”, CBS’ “Early Show”, CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch”, and Meredith Corporation’s “Better TV” and a business contributor to the Huffington Post. Jen and her products have been featured in hundreds of media outlets such as O, The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Us Weekly, People, Success and Entrepreneur.
Jen has recently created and hosts Launchers Café – a cutting-edge entrepreneurial, multimedia, and interactive brand with tens of thousands of members that is changing the way entrepreneurs/launchers learn, share information, do business and accelerate business growth.
Josh Gross is considered a pioneer of mixed martial arts journalism. His reporting spans MMA's shift from an underground, counterculture free-for-all to a multibillion dollar industry regarded as one of the world's fastest growing sports today. During 15 years in the business, Gross can claim to be the only reporter who covered MMA full-time for Sports Illustrated and ESPN. Josh is known for investigative works, and he hosts a popular podcast, Gross Point Blank.
Jordan Gross believes that personal development is a never-ending process of imagining who you want to be, interpreting why you want to be that person, creating a plan to get there, and then implementing that plan in the most enjoyable and fulfilling way possible. Through his platform, imagitivetation (imagination + interpretation + creativity + implementation), he helps guide people to think differently and make daring changes in their lives. Jordan is trailblazing in the personal development field by using creative storytelling to allow people to gather their own insights from the characters he creates and the stories he shares.
Jordan is a Northwestern and Kellogg School of Management graduate, where he studied absolutely nothing to do with writing. He’s a former startup founder, restaurant manager, and soccer goalie. A solopreneur, podcast host, 2x TEDx speaker, editor, and coach, he is the bestselling author of Getting COMFY: Your Morning Guide to Daily Happiness and The Journey to Cloud Nine.
Elena Grotto (pictured right) is an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an executive vice president and head of the Chicago business transformation practice at Edelman. She works with senior decision makers at Fortune 500 companies as they stabilize the workforce during periods of significant change. Elena manages culture and change programs that impact all phases of the employee journey—from attraction and onboarding to leadership development and retention. She earned an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MA from the Art Institute of Chicago and a BS from Skidmore College. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their daughter, Gigi.
Steven Gulie is a writer, poet and photographer. He lives in Oakland, Calif., with his angelic wife and two enchanting daughters, two and a half cats, tanks full of fish, a couple of snakes and some crickets and preying mantises. Some of the animals eat each other; he tries not to worry about it. He works for Apple, where his job is to take very complex things and explain them simply. He still rides his bike and occasionally body surfs.
James Gunn is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Kansas, and director of its Center for the Study of Science Fiction. He is the author of a dozen novels, half a dozen collections of stories and a dozen books about science fiction, as well as the editor of nearly a dozen anthologies.
