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Keynote Speakers
ART COLLINS 
Art Collins assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic, Inc. in April, 2001 and became Chairman of the Board in April, 2002. He was elected Chief Operating Officer and member of the Board of Directors in 1994 and President in 1996. He joined the company in 1992 as Corporate Executive Vice President and President of Medtronic International with responsibility for all Medtronic operations outside the United States. More 
W. Frank Fountain
W. Frank Fountain is senior vice president of External Affairs and Public Policy (Auburn Hills) for DaimlerChrysler Corporation and president of the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund. Mr. Fountain is the highest-ranking African-American within DaimlerChrysler, one of the world’s largest automotive, transportation, and service enterprises, with more than 362,000 employees, manufacturing facilities in 34 countries and product sales in 200 countries. More
Rajat Gupta
Rajat Kumar Gupta is the senior partner worldwide of McKinsey & Company. He joined the firm's New York office in 1973, assumed leadership of its Scandinavian offices in 1981, and joined the Chicago office in 1987. He assumed the role of Chicago office manager in 1989. Mr. Gupta served as the managing director worldwide of McKinsey from 1994 to 2003. More
Jon M. Huntsman
Born in Blackfoot, Idaho and raised in the rural West, Jon M. Huntsman has lived a remarkable and fascinating life. At the conclusion of the Twentieth Century, he was selected as one of ten Utahns who most influenced the state during the Twentieth Century. (Only two of those individuals are currently living.) More
MICHAEL MILKEN - download presentation
In 1972, three years after Michael Milken began a legendary career on Wall Street, his wife told him her mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer. That was when Milken began a search for medical solutions that has played as large a role in his life as his better-known innovations in finance. Three decades later, under the headline “The Man Who Changed Medicine,” Fortune magazine said, "No one had ever really pulled together the full picture of how — and how much — [Milken] has shaken up the medical establishment and saved lives." More
Stan O'Neal
As chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Stan O’Neal heads one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies with offices in 37 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.6 trillion. More
John Resnick
John Resnick is the creator and host of the nationally syndicated radio program, Legends of Success with John Resnick. The show includes rare one-hour interviews with America’s top CEO’s and business leaders including Jack Welch of General Electric; Jon Huntsman, Founder & Chairman of Huntsman Corporation; Steve Forbes, President & CEO of Forbes, Inc.; Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks; Evelyn H. Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of The Estee Lauder Companies; William Randolph Hearst, III, and many others. More
JEREMY SIEGEL - download presentation
Jeremy Siegel, Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance, is a world-renowned expert on the economy and financial markets. The author of the award-winning investment classic Stocks for the Long Run, now in its third edition, he recently expanded that book's ideas in The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New. More