CEO, The National Research Exchange,
Former Vice Chairman of Nasdaq

Mr. Weild is the founder of The National Research Exchange. He was formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market with line responsibility for NASDAQ's four thousand listed companies. Mr. Weild was the visionary behind NASDAQ's Market Intelligence Desk and Corporate Services Network. Prior to NASDAQ, Mr. Weild spent 14 years at Prudential and Prudential Securities in a number of senior management roles, including President of eCommerce, Head of Corporate Finance, Head of Technology Investment Banking and Head of Equity Transactions. Weild is a member of Kappa Beta Phi, The New York Economic Club and The Bond Club of New York, where he served as a past treasurer. He currently serves as an advisor to a number of private companies and to Ascend Ventures, a minority-owned venture capital fund. Weild received his BA from Wesleyan University and spent a year studying abroad at La Sorbonne. He received an M.B.A. from The Stern School of Business and studied abroad at L' Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and The Stockholm School of Economics. Weild also did graduate work in molecular genetics at Wesleyan and New York University and has held Series 7, 63, and 24 licenses.

 Head of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting, and Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. S.P. Kothari is Head of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting and Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Kothari has broad-ranging interests and expertise in accounting and finance, and he is an editor of the Journal of Accounting & Economics, a world-renowned academic research journal in accounting. His research focuses on financial reporting and valuation, explaining the diversity in international accounting practices, use of employee stock options for compensating executives and accounting for stock options, evaluating investment performance, and corporate uses of derivatives for hedging and speculation. In addition, Professor Kothari is an expert on economic policy issues in India. Professor Kothari serves on the Board of Directors of Vicarious Visions (www.vvisions.com) and he is a Senior Consultant at Charles River Associates (www.crai.com). Recent published research includes: Capital market research in accounting, Journal of Accounting & Economics 2001; The Effect of International Institutional Factors on Properties of Accounting Earnings (with Ray Ball and Ashok Robin), Journal of Accounting & Economics 2000; How much do corporations hedge with derivatives? with Wayne Guay, in the Journal of Financial Economics 2003; and The Relation Between Earnings and Cash Flows (with Patty Dechow and Ross Watts), Journal of Accounting & Economics 1998. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, BE 79, Chemical Engineering; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, MBA 82, Accounting and Finance; University of Iowa, PhD 86, Accounting.

CEO of Bateleur Media Inc. and publisher of ValueNewsNetwork.com

Laurance is the CEO of Bateleur Media Inc. and publisher of ValueNewsNetwork.com. He has experience of over fifteen years as CEO in international publishing. He launched the Financial Times in North America and is the former publisher of the Harvard Business Review. Laurance also is the founding publisher of Strategy & Business. Laurance holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of Westminster, London, England and an Advanced Management Degree from Harvard Graduate School of Business.