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Andrew H. Orgel	Andrew H. Orgel is Chairman & CEO, Global Media Group, a holding company with a select portfolio of high-growth opportunity media, entertainment and technology businesses. His career is anchored in the startup and management of innovative media and entertainment brands, the launch of some of the most successful global television networks and the creative development of consumer-driven interactive media. One of the industry’s most strategic and creative marketers and programmers, Orgel has been a senior executive at six television network startups, helped complete three corporate turnarounds and advised media, telecommunications and technology companies on their conception, financing, development, management, business models and market entry. Following programming, operations and advertising sales positions at CBS, Orgel was part of the start-up team at the CBS FM Radio Division, where he led the New York Office, overseeing advertising sales. He left CBS after 6 years to start-up MTV Networks where he served as Vice President, Sales & Marketing of MTV, Nickelodeon and The Movie Channel. Following that, Orgel was recruited to join the start-up team at Arts & Entertainment Network where he originally served as Vice President, Affiliate Sales & Marketing and later the network’s Senior Vice President, Programming & Production. In 1988, Orgel was asked to establish and lead the world’s first interactive television network.  As President & CEO of Video Jukebox Network (“the Box”), he directed the national launch of the youth market music television service and its growth to 14 million U.S. and U.K. households, via 170 viewer-programmed, interactive channels. Forbes featured The BOX as an “Up and Comer” and Fortune called the company “one of the most fascinating ideas” for the ‘90s. Orgel was labeled by Success Magazine as the man who “made TV interactive.” After Orgel’s departure, the company was purchased by Viacom’s MTV Networks. In 1992, Orgel co-founded Interactive Enterprises to create interactive television properties with leading media, telecommunications and technology companies throughout the world including Philips Media, Sony Pictures Television, JskyB [Newscorp], Wink Communications [now Open TV] and Netcom Online Communications [now Earthlink]. Interactive Enterprises joined with U.S. West [now Qwest] to create Interactive Video Enterprises where Orgel developed a suite of interactive television services for digital broadband delivery. He is a graduate of Ithaca College where he received his B.S. in Television & Radio. Orgel has served as a keynote speaker at major media and entertainment industry events around the world. In addition to Channel G, Orgel currently serves on the boards of QOL (Quality of Life) Media Inc., GLife, Inc., Channel Lab, LLC and the emerging global music brand, passportM. He is the newly appointed Chairman of the Ithaca College Park School of Communications Advisory Board.
Lenedra Carroll	Lenedra J. Carroll is an accomplished businesswoman, singer, artist, and author. She is also the manager and the mother of recording artist Jewel. She is a compelling speaker, teacher, and performer. Her unique story, engaging wisdom, and consummate philosophy of life leave audiences deeply satisfied and renewed and with a clearer vision for their lives. She has been a performer most of her adult life, including recent performances at the Vatican, the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, and Christmas in Rockefeller Center. Her recent television appearances include Oprah Winfrey, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Regis & Kathy Lee, CBS This Morning, The View ,and Lifetime's Applause. She has also been featured in USA Weekend, Reader's Digest, Us, People Magazine, and other publications. Lenedra is part of an expanding group of entrepreneurs who have built prosperous, principled careers and businesses as a platform for helping others and promoting humanitarian and spiritual values. For more information on Higher Ground for Humanity visit www.highergroundhumanity.org
Hazel Henderson	Hazel Henderson, Author, Futurist - Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. Her editorials appear in 27 languages and more than 400 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington DC.  Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including (in USA) Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Challenge, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), World Economic Herald (China), and Australian Financial Review.  Her books are translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese, and Chinese.    She sits on several editorial boards, including Futures Research Quarterly, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence and Futures (UK), and WorldPaper (a Boston-based monthly insert in 25 major newspapers in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America).   She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, the Report the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations.  She also serves on several boards, including Worldwatch Institute (1975-2001), Calvert Social Investment Fund, Cousteau Society, The New Economics Foundation (London, UK), and WETV (Ottawa, Canada).  The first version of her Country Futures Indicators (CFI©), an alternative to the Gross National Product (GNP), is a co-venture with Calvert Group, Inc.:  the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators. (See Related Links)    In addition, she has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara), held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley), and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980.  She is an active member of the National Press Club (Washington DC), the Social Venture Network, and the World Futures Society (USA).  Henderson also shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina