Chris Kattan began his comedic career as a member of several improv/sketch comedy troupes, including The Groundlings in Los Angeles. His father was an original member of the troupe. Kattan also did some minor roles on TV, including an episode of NewsRadio. He moved to New York City to work on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2003. His recurring characters included Mr. Peepers, Mango, Azrael Abyss, Kyle DeMarco from The DeMarco Brothers, Gay Hitler, Suel Forrester (known for the term “dagitybo”) and, most notably, one half of the Butabi Brothers with fellow SNL (and Groundlings) cast member Will Ferrell, known for their trademark head-bobbing. Kattan and Ferrell continued the characters in 1998’s A Night at the Roxbury. Kattan has made one appearance on Broadway, playing Xanthias in a production of Aristophanes’ The Frogs. Kattan appeared in a Diet Pepsi MAX commercial during Super Bowl XLII that featured the song “What Is Love” and had many actors in the commercial performing the Butabi head bob. In August 2009, Kattan starred in the IFC miniseries Bollywood Hero, where he portrays himself and the difficulties he faces after a career as a comic actor, trying to attain leading man status. Starting in fall of 2009, Kattan appeared in a supporting role in The Middle. He also appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother as a star in a fictional movie within the show. In December 2011, Kattan made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live‘s Christmas show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon.
USA Today bestselling author Donna Kauffman has seen her books reviewed in venues ranging from Kirkus to Library Journal to Entertainment Weekly. A past RITA finalist, National Readers Choice, Maggie and PRISM award winner, she lives in Virginia with her teenage sons and a growing menagerie of animals. Donna loves to hear from her readers. You can contact her through her Web site at donnakauffman.com.
Dr. Henry Kaufman is the most famous economist Wall Street has ever seen. As senior partner, chief economist, and director of research at Salomon Brothers, then the most profitable investment bank in the world, his fame extended well beyond the financial industry and into popular culture. He was the subject of New Yorker cartoons, had cameos in Bonfire of the Vanities and Liar’s Poker, two seminal literary works of the 1980s, was subject to death threats and featured in drama productions, and enjoyed the nickname “Dr. Doom.”
Edouard Kayihura is a human rights activist and survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, during which, he spent 100 days as a refugee in the Hotel des Mille Collines a.k.a. ”Hotel Rwanda.” Before he moved to the United States, he was the prosecutor in charge of the department of the prosecutions of the genocide crime and crimes against humanity before the Tribunal of the First Instance of Kigali. He was also executive secretary and legal representative of Kanyarwanda Human Rights. He speaks at different schools and universities in the states about his experience; Transitional Justice and Reconciliation; and Genocide denial. He is the member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Books by Edouard Kayihura
Jason Kayser is an illustrator and designer.
Frank C. Keil received a B.S. in biology from M.I.T. in 1973, an M.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1975, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. He was a faculty member in the Psychology Department at Cornell University from 1977 to 1998. Since 1998 he has been professor of psychology and linguistics at Yale University, where he is also Master of Morse College. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and has received national awards from the American Psychological Association and NIH for his work in cognition and cognitive development.
Tim Keiningham is a world-renowned authority in the field of loyalty measurement and management. He is chief strategy officer and executive vice president for Ipsos Loyalty, one of the world’s largest research organizations. A prolific author, Tim has co-authored numerous books on loyalty and service: Loyalty Myths, The Customer Delight Principle, Service Marketing and Return on Quality.
Tim is also an acclaimed scientific researcher, having won numerous awards for his research. He is one of only a very small number of scientific researchers to have twice won best paper from the Journal of Marketing, the most prestigious scientific journal all of management and economics (as measured by the citation index).
Kevin Ervin Kelley, AIA, is a principal of Shook Kelley, a strategic design firm he and Terry Shook, FAIA, cofounded in 1992 in Charlotte, NC. Since 2002, Kevin has headed up the Los Angeles office of the firm and works with a team of Perception Managers and Experience Designers. Kevin holds two degrees in architecture from the University of NC at Charlotte and has spent much of his career developing a process that combines business, science, and design into one integrated approach he calls perception design. Kevin’s specialty is getting inside the minds of consumers to determine how the physical environment affects their behaviors, perceptions, and purchase decisions.
Kevin has worked closely with the executive leaders of many well-known companies, such as Harley-Davidson, Whole Foods, Kraft, Cadbury, The J.M. Smucker Company, The Cleveland Orchestra, and USAA, in their efforts to develop new kinds of immersive brand experiences that have the power to convene people in places. He has also taught courses at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is a sought-after speaker on the lecture circuit in the United States and Asia.
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Karen Kendall is the award-winning author of 14 romantic comedies and many disasters. She grew up in central Texas, has a B.A. from Smith College in Northampton, Mass., and now lives in South Florida with her husband, where she writes full time. The books of the Stephanie Plum series are among her most treasured possessions.
As the owner of three wild and crazy dogs, Beth Kendrick was a big fan of McVet. (Finn, we hardly knew ye!) Her novels include Nearlyweds, Fashionably Late, Exes and Ohs and My Favorite Mistake. You can visit her Web site at www.bethkendrick.com.
