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Erika Andersen

Erika Andersen
CEO of Proteus International
Author of Being Strategic: Plan for Success; Out-think Your Competitors; and Stay Ahead of Change and Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers
Norm Brodsky Norm Brodsky
Founder of Perfect Courier, CitiStorage, and U.S. Document Security  
Inc. columnist
Co-author of The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up
Bo Burlingham Bo Burlingham
Inc.
editor-at-large
Author of Small Giants
Co-author of The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up
Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi
Author of Who's Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone
Bill Fotsch Bill Fotsch
Head coach at The Great Game of Business

Meg Hirschberg
Inc. Columnist

Keith McFarland

Keith McFarland
Founder of McFarland Strategy Partners
Author of The Breakthrough Company
Michael Sheehan Michael Sheehan
President of Sheehan Associates
Joel Spolsky Joel Spolsky
Inc. columnist
Founder of Fog Creek Software
Jack Stack Jack Stack
Inc.
contributing editor
President and CEO of
SRC Holdings
Doug Tatum Doug Tatum
Founding chairman of Tatum
Author of No Man's Land
Ari Weinzweig Ari Weinzweig
Co-founder and CEO of Zingerman's Community of Businesses

 

Ray Anderson
Chairman and founder of Interface
Read about Ray Anderson in Inc. November 2006:
"The Industrialist" 

 

Herman Chinery-Hesse
Founder of theSOFTtribe and BSL
Read about Herman Chinery-Hesse in Inc. October 2008:
"Meet the Bill Gates of Ghana" 

 

Jim Collins
Author of Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall
Read an interview with Jim Collins in Inc. April 2009:
"How to Thrive in These Crazy Times" 

 

Randall Grahm
Founder of
Bonny Doon Vineyard
Read Randall Grahm's story in Inc. July 2008:
"The Do Over"

 

Scott Griffith
CEO of Zipcar
Read the Zipcar story in Inc. March 2008:
"How Fast Can This Thing Go, Anyway?" 

  J. Barry Griswell
Retired Chairman and CEO, of The Principal Financial Group, president of the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines, and co-author of The Adversity Paradox, An Unconventional Guide to Achieving Unusual Business Success
 

Tony Hsieh
CEO of Zappos.com
Read the Zappos.com story in Inc. May 2009:
"Everybody Loves Zappos"

 

Robert L. Johnson
Founder and chairman of RLJ Companies and
founder of BET: Black Entertainment Television

Gary Locke  Gary Locke
Secretary of U.S. Department of Commerce

 

Cal McAllister and Ian Cohen
Co-founders of Wexley School for Girls
Read the Wexley story in Inc. March 2009:
"The Wexley Way"
 

David Neeleman
Founder of JetBlue Airways Corp. and founder, chairman and CEO of Azul 
Read an interview with David Neeleman in Inc. June 2008:
"David Neeleman's Return Trip"

 

Jill Blashack Strahan
Founder and CEO of Tastefully Simple
Author of Simply Shine: Stories That Stirred the Fire

 

Bob Williamson
Founder and former chairman and CEO of Horizon Software International

Mainstage Speakers
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Breakout Speakers
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Staff not included on this page but appearing at the Inc. 500|5000 Conference in the role of speaker introduction:
Jane Berentson, editor; Dan Ferrara, deputy editor; Mike Hofman, deputy editor, Inc.com; Larry Kanter, executive editor; Bobbie Gossage, senior editor; Eric Schine, senior editor; Nicole Richardson, senior editor, Inc.com; Leigh Buchanan, editor-at-large; Max Chafkin, senior writer
John Baackes David Giuliani David Steinberg
John Baackes
CEO of Senior Whole Health
David Giuliani
CEO and co-founder of Pacific Bioscience Laboratories and co-founder and former CEO of Optiva Corporation
David Steinberg
CEO and founder of CAIVIS Acquisitions Corp. and chairman of XL Education Corp.

 

Rob Adams Lexy Funk Jeffrey Kalmikoff Eric Ryan
Rob Adams:
Director of
Moot Corp
Author of A Good Hard Kick in the Ass: Basic Training for Entrepreneurs
Lexy Funk
Co-founder of Brooklyn Industries
Jeffrey Kalmikoff
Co-owner of Threadless
Eric Ryan
Co-founder of Method
  

Dr. Rodney Brooks
Co-founder of iRobot
Founder, chairman, and CTO of Heartland Robotics
Panasonic professor of robotics at MIT
Author of Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us

Nolan Bushnell
Founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's
CEO of uWink
Blogger on Inc.com

David Freedman
Inc.
contributing editor
Author of A Perfect Mess and Wrong
Tan Le
Co-founder of Emotiv
Breakout Panelists
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