George Hedley owns a $50 million construction and real estate development business as well as HARDHAT Presentations. Over the last five years, as a much-requested popular professional speaker, George speaks 50 times per year to business audiences, conventions, associations and at company meetings. As many as 25,000 people see him present keynote speeches or seminars every year. George is based in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Richard Heimann is Chief AI Officer at Cybraics Inc. Cybraics is a VC-backed cybersecurity company and the first fully-managed AI cybersecurity company. Founded in 2014, Cybraics commercialized many years of DARPA research on the Network Defense program. Richard is also an inventor and patent owner of Cybraics’ core technology.
Heimann also consults at the Pentagon on various AI projects and on AI strategy. He is a former Chief Data Scientist and Technical Fellow at L-3 National Security Solutions (NSS) (NYSE: LLL), former Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland where he taught computational statistics and statistical reasoning, and an Instructor at George Mason University, where he taught computational social science. He continues to be an advisor at George Mason University’s DataLab and several early-stage artificial intelligence ventures. Heimann has also performed on DARPA’s Nexus 7 program, the Naval Research Laboratory, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Military Command Center, and formerly JIEDDO COIC.
Stu Heinecke is a Wall Street Journal cartoonist, Hall of Fame-nominated marketer and author. Heinecke discovered the magic of “Contact Marketing” early in his career, when he launched a Contact Campaign to just two dozen Vice Presidents and Directors of Circulation at the big Manhattan-based magazine publishers. That tiny $100 investment resulted in a 100% response rate, launched his enterprise and brought in millions of dollars worth of business.
Heinecke is the host and author of the How To Get A Meeting with Anyone podcast and blog, and founder and president of Contact, a Contact Marketing agency, and cofounder of Cartoonists.org, a coalition of famed cartoonists dedicated to raising funds for charity, while raising the profile of the cartooning art form. He lives on an island in the pristine Pacific Northwest with his wife, Charlotte, and their dog, Bo.
John G. Hemry also writes under the name Jack Campbell and is the author of several novels, including the first and so far only legal thriller military SF series (a.k.a. “JAG” in space), which includes A Just Determination, Burden of Proof, Rule of Evidence and Against All Enemies. His latest space opera is The Lost Fleet: Dauntless (August 2006) under the Jack Campbell pen name. John loves the first Star Wars trilogy but wishes George had stopped there. He wanted to marry a woman like Leia and ended up with one who’s pretty darn close but even better. He’s also the author of the Stark’s War series and numerous short fiction stories, as well as nonfiction articles on topics like interstellar navigation. A retired U.S. Navy officer, he lives in Maryland with his wife “S” and three children.
Amy Hendel, R-PA, IDEA, ACSM, is a family lifestyle therapist, registered physician assistant and well-known TV personality, health expert, reporter, correspondent, producer and writer for a wide variety of television and radio shows and print publications. She reaches millions of people through a broad spectrum of media outlets including guest spots on NBC’s “Today,” Fox News and Rachael Ray, as a traveling expert/correspondent for NBC Health Fairs where she speaks to audiences throughout the country, as “Healthy Home” segment host on “Housesmarts” and as a regular coach and mentor for iVillage.com, a Web site with more than 16 million subscribers. As CEO of healthgal.com, her daily newsletter hits thousands of homes.
Hendel’s master’s level R-PA degree followed her Bachelor of Science degree. She is a personal trainer, fitness instructor and nutritionist; and her professional affiliations include the California Association of Physician Assistants, the American Association of Physician Assistants, the American College of Sports Medicine and the International Association of Fitness Professionals (IDEA).
Nancy Henderson is an award-winning writer who enjoys pursuing stories that break societal stereotypes and challenge readers to look at human issues in a new light. She has published hundreds of articles in major periodicals ranging from Parade and the New York Times to Smithsonian, Woman’s Day and Southwest Airlines Spirit. In recent years, two of her primary areas of expertise—human interest and business—have “accidentally” meshed into a specialty that focuses on people who are making a difference through their work. Nancy is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Authors Guild. She has won two Print Journalism EDI (Equality, Dignity and Independence) awards from Easter Seals for “raising awareness of disability issues and encouraging realistic portrayals of people with disabilities.” One of the honors was for “An Enabling Workforce,” a story she wrote about Habitat International, Inc. for Nation’s Business in 1998. Nancy’s magazine articles about Habitat have also prompted numerous calls and letters from socially conscious entrepreneurs, disability groups and parents with disabled children, as well as many unsolicited invitations for Habitat owner, David Morris, to share his message at workshops for business, education, healthcare and disability groups throughout the U.S. Nancy lives in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Debby Herbenick, PhD, is an award-winning, internationally recognized sexuality researcher and an AASECT-certified sexuality educator. She is a professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health and the author of five bestselling books about human sexuality. Dr. Herbenick is the lead investigator of the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, which has tracked sexual trends in the United States since 2009. Dr. Herbenick has been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, Men’s Health magazine, and Glamour, among others, and she has provided expert opinions about sex on television shows such as Tyra, Katie, The Doctors, and The Tamron Hall Show. She was born and raised in Miami, Florida, and now lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Nancy Herkness is the author of two award-winning novels: A Bridge to Love and Shower of Stars. She learned how to “deconstruct” at Princeton University, where she studied English literature and creative writing. Born and raised in the mountains of West Virginia, Nancy now lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and a golden retriever. She was shocked to discover that, according to the Desperate Housewives Quiz, she most resembles the character of Gabrielle. Of course, she wouldn’t mind having Gabby’s figure or her shoes.
Juan Carlos Herrera is a managing director of Inscription Capital and co-host of an upcoming iHeartRadio series on Latinx financial literacy. After graduating from the University of Texas in Austin, Juan Carlos began his financial career in Madrid, Spain, working for a boutique consulting firm. In 2006, Juan Carlos came back to the United States and joined Citigroup, where he held positions in wealth management and private banking for affluent families. In 2008, Juan Carlos left Citi to start a quantitative hedge fund, QL Capital Management. While there, Juan Carlos helped design, develop, and trade unique short-term trading strategies that invested in over eighty markets. Juan Carlos has a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and currently holds a Series 65 license and three FINRA licenses.
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Katie Herzog is a journalist living in the Pacific Northwest. She is the host of the podcast Blocked and Reported and a former staff writer at the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger.