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• Melissa Abbott

  Senior Trendspotter and Analyst

  The Hartman Group, Inc.

• Alexis Abramson

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• Gretchen Addi

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  IDEO

• Jess Aguirre

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• Majd Alwan

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  Center for Aging Services Technologies

• June Amori

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  Prudential Annuities

• Corinne Asturias

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  Iconoculture

• Bill Bass

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Fair Indigo

• Graceann Bennett

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  Ogilvy Chicago

• Andrew Bienkowski

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  Kimberly-Clark

• Lori Bitter

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• Jonathan Boehman

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• Jim Bremer

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• Geoff Brooks

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  HSBC Bank USA

• Linda Caliri

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• Mike Caprio

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  Visible World

• Chiqui Cartagena

  Managing Director, Integrated Marketing

  Meredith Hispanic Ventures

• Terry Clark

  Chief Marketing Officer – Enterprise Services for Ovations

  UnitedHealth Group

• Kit Cody

  General Manager Web Strategy

  AARP Services Inc.

• Andy Cohen

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Caring.com

• Arthur Cresce

  Housing and Household Economic and Statistics Division

  Census Bureau

• Kierstin DeWest

  CEO, Co-Founder

  Ci

• Mark Dolliver

  Editor at Large

  Ad Week

• Matthew J. Doyle

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  The Procter & Gamble Company

• Peter Drake

  Vice-President, Retirement & Economic Research

  Fidelity Investments Canada

• Richard Dugas

  CEO

  Pulte Homes, Inc.

• John Forsyth

  Partner

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• Nan-Kirsten Forte

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• Jeffrey Glueck

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  Travelocity

• Kelly Greene

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  The Wall Street Journal

• Arlene Harris

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• Michael J. Hewitt

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• Nigel Hollis

  Chief Global Analyst

  Millward Brown

• Marc Hottenroth

  Industrial Design Leader

  GE Appliances

• Larry Jones

  President

  TV Land

• Skip Kodak

  VP Direct-to-Consumer

  LEGO Brand Retail, Inc.

• Susan Lee

  EVP Marketing

  Nederlander Organization

• Julia Lennox

  Vice President, Marketing

  MetLife Retirement Strategies

• Jack Lett

  Executive Vice President

  Focalyst

• Nancy Lewin

  Director, The Caregiver Initiative

  Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company

• Rene Huey Lipton

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  GSD&M's Idea City

• Ladan Manteghi

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• Nadine McHugh

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• Chris Murphy

  Chief Strategy Officer

  Focalyst & Millward Brown

• Christian Oestlien

  Senior Product Manager

  Google

• Mary Ann Packo

  CEO

  Millward Brown North America

• Mark Pope

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  The Wall Street Journal

• Jeff Renaud

  Director, Ecomagination

  GE

• Rosemary Riley

  Section Manager

  Abbott Nutrition

• Greg Rivera

  Senior Business Development Manager

  Microsoft

• Stephen Roop

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  Beacon Hill Village

• Jerry Shereshewsky

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• J Walker Smith

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  Yankelovich

• Claire Spofford

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  Appleseeds

• Reuben Steiger

  CEO and Founder

  Millions of Us

• Donna Sturgess

  Head of Global Innovation

  GlaxoSmithKline

• Sandra Timmerman

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• Bill Topf

  Vice President Scotch and Irish Whiskey Marketing

  Diageo North America

• Justin Townsend

  CEO and Co-Founder

  IGA Worldwide

• Bart Turner

  VP of Marketing Strategy, Advertising and Media

  Ameriprise Financial

• Craig Vogel

  Professor, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)

  University of Cincinnati

• Susan Ayers Walker

  Journalist and Director

  SmartSilvers Alliance

• David Weigelt

  Marketing Strategist & Partner

  Immersion Active

• Timothy Wirth

  President

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• Andrew Zolli

  Renowned Futurist

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Bill Bass

Co-Founder and CEO

Fair Indigo

Bill Bass is CEO of Fair Indigo, a multichannel retailer of its own brand of fair trade apparel, and chairman of its corporate parent Black Wolf Group.  Prior to co-founding Fair Indigo in 2005, Bill ran both Sears’ direct-to-customer business and Lands’ End’s ecommerce business.  Before the sale of Lands’ End to Sears in 2002, he was also responsible for Lands’ End’s international business unit with catalog operations in Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom.  

Prior to joining Lands' End in 1999, Bill served as a group director at Forrester Research.  Before that, he co-founded and co-managed the Boston.com Web site, the online subsidiary of the Boston Globe newspaper.  Bill’s business career also includes work as a strategic initiatives manager with Knight Ridder.  Bill currently serves as a director of Tractor Supply Company, is an Army veteran, and received his B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University.

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