Chief Executive Officer since October 2013, Sandra L. Fenwick joined Boston Children's Hospital, the top pediatric hospital in the nation, in June of 1999 as Senior Vice President for Business Development, Strategy and Ambulatory Care Operations. She was appointed COO in 1999 and President in 2008. As CEO of the nation's preeminent pediatric hospital and research center, Fenwick has continued to b..

President and CEO of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) since 2015, Madeline Bell had served as COO since 2007, managing over 13,000 employees for the $2-billion-a-year health system. During her tenure, she has led significant growth while maintaining the financial strength and clinical excellence of the organization. Bell began her career as a pediatric nurse at CHOP, the top ranked ..

Carolyn Miles is President and Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children, an organization that gives children in the United States and around the world a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. The global Save the Children movement currently serves over 143 million children in more than 120 countries including the US. Carolyn joined the Westport, Connecticut-based ..

Growing up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 12-year-old Presley Barker developed a respect and appreciation for bluegrass, country, old time, folk and gospel music by listening to Doc Watson on the radio. Influenced and mentored by Steve Lewis, Wayne Henderson and Bryan Sutton, he started his own music career at the age of seven, and quickly emerged as an astonishingly gifted flat pic..

Nick Lowery and Rachel Randall are Duo Straight Up. They first started crafting their Chinese Pole duo act in the fall of 2013, but prior to that they had both spent many years as circus coaches for SANCA (School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts). SANCA is the largest circus school in the United States, recognized nationally as a leader in youth circus arts education, safety, and instructor trainin..

Financier, entrepreneur and author, Anthony Scaramucci, is the founder and a co-managing partner of the investment firm SkyBridge Capital, founder of the SALT Conference and host of Wall Street Week, an investment news show airing on the Fox Business Network. Born in Long Island, New York, Scaramucci earned a BA in economics from Tufts University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and, in 1989, beg..

Steve Clemons serves as editor-at-large for The Hill, a role he previously held at The Atlantic. Clemons is also founder and senior fellow of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a centrist think tank in Washington, D.C., where he previously served as executive vice president. Clemons characterizes himself as a progressiverealist. Clemons is the former executive vice pr..

Elise Jordan is a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a contributor to TIME. Elise is an advisor to the Ashcroft in America research project studying voter attitudes during the midterm elections. She was a policy advisor to Senator Rand Paul’s 2016 presidential campaign. During the Bush administration, Elise worked in the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting and at the State..

Margaret Carlson is a columnist for the Daily Beast. A former Bloomberg View columnist, Margaret Carlson was TIME magazine's first female columnist where she penned her popular column, Public Eye, for over a decade. As a former White House correspondent for TIME, Carlson covered four presidential elections. She appeared on CNN's Capital Gang for 15 years. Prior to joining TIME, Carlson was mana..

An Executive Producer with the BBC, Mike Gunton is the first Creative Director of the BBC Natural History Unit, the world's largest production unit dedicated to wildlife filmmaking. Also Creative Director of Factual, Gunton occupies the dual role of creating new content for the BBC and working with BBC Worldwide to develop new commercial ventures while operating closely with the BBC Earth team. ..

Janet Wasko is the Knight Chair for Communication Research at University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Her research and teaching focuses on the political economy of media, especially the political economy of film, as well as issues relating to democracy and media. She currently serves as the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Wasko is the author, co-au..

Vanessa Garrison is a passionate advocate of social justice issues and has focused her work on improving health outcomes and quality of life for black women and girls. Prior to co-founding GirlTrek, a national health movement, Vanessa worked as a Program Coordinator for Our Place DC, a nonprofit organization that provides services to currently and formerly incarcerated women. Vanessa began her car..

Gerald has been a relentless advocate for From the Top, the preeminent showcase for young musicians, since he and Jennifer Hurley-Wales first conceived the idea in 1995. From the Top is America's largest national platform dedicated to celebrating the stories, talents, and character of classically trained young musicians. Through live events, NPR and YouTube broadcasts, scholarships, and leadership..

Katherine E. Liu began her musical journey at the age of three with her mother Dr. Huang, a music educator. Only a year later, Katherine performed publicly at Boston's Steinway Hall. She has taken top honors in numerous piano competitions since then. At the age of 9, Katherine won both Steinway Society Piano competition and Bay State Piano Competition. In the same year, she made her first appearan..

One of the first woman photographers to work for National Geographic, Annie Griffiths has photographed in nearly 150 countries during her illustrious career. She has worked on dozens of magazine and book projects for National Geographic Society, including stories on Lawrence of Arabia, Baja California, Galilee, Petra, Sydney, New Zealand and Jerusalem. In addition to her magazine work, Griffiths i..

When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon at the head of his legions and marched on Rome, it marked a point of no return. The phrase crossing the Rubicon has since survived in reference to any group committing itself to a risky course of action. Jake Wood co-founded Team Rubicon alongside William McNulty following the Haiti earthquake in 2010. Prior to Team Rubicon, Wood served in the Marine Corps..

Executive Editor of The Economist since 2003, Daniel Franklin has also been editor of The Economist's annual publication, The World in... which focuses on the year ahead. His book on long-term trends, Megachange: The World in 2050 was published in 2012, and its successor, Megatech: Technology in 2050, followed in 2017. Daniel joined The Economist in 1983 to write about Soviet and East Europea..

Luke Dormehl is a freelance journalist, author, public speaker and filmmaker, who writes primarily on the subject of technology, particularly emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, VR and 3D printing. His writing has appeared in publications including Digital Trends, Fast Company, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Wired, Politico, Huffington Post, SFX, and the Apple blog, Cult of Mac. D..

Recognized as a leading authority on cyber threats, information operations, and intelligence analysis, Laura Galante founded Galante Strategies in 2017 to equip governments and corporations to respond effectively to cyber and information threats. Recent work has included: developing an operational cybersecurity framework for the Ukrainian government; briefing the US experience combating advanced c..

As an attorney, president of a NASDAQ-listed company and agent at a top Hollywood agency, Keith Boesky has been defining the intersection of the content and technology communities for over twenty-five years. Over the years his clients ranged from Morgan Stanley and Apple Computer to very early stage venture backed startups. He is on the board of directors of Osterhout Design Group and an advisor t..