TRAVELS FROM: Arizona

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5 to 15k)

TRAVELS FROM: Washington

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5 to 15k)

TRAVELS FROM: California

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5 to 15k)

Dr. James Canton is a renowned global futurist, social scientist, author, and sought-after business advisor. For the past twenty-five years, he has been insightfully forecasting the impact of future trends and innovations on business, customers and society.

TRAVELS FROM: California

FEE CATEGORY: E ($20.5 to 25k)

John A. Caslione is founder, President & CEO of GCS Business Capital, Inc. (GCS), a middle-market mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm with offices in Chicago (USA), Frankfurt (Germany), Milan, Padua (Italy) and Shanghai (China). GCS assists companies to globalize their businesses, with a special focus on linking US and European businesses with China.

TRAVELS FROM: Chicago

FEE CATEGORY: E ($20.5 to 25k)

TRAVELS FROM: Oregon

FEE CATEGORY: B ($5.5k to $10k)

Robert G. Dederick is Economic Consultant to The Northern Trust Company, Chicago, where he previously was Executive Vice President and Chief Economist. Mr. Dederick served in the first Reagan Administration as Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs.

TRAVELS FROM: Illinois

FEE CATEGORY: A ($5k or less)

Harry S. Dent, Jr. is the Founder and President of the H. S. Foundation whose mission is Helping People Understand Change. Using exciting new research developed from years of hands-on business experience, Harry offers a refreshingly positive and understandable view of the future. He is a well-known author and is the Chief Economist of High Street Financial, an investment management firm headquartered in Tampa, FL.

TRAVELS FROM: Florida

FEE CATEGORY: F ($25.5k and higher)

John diFrances is a professional motivational and inspirational keynote speaker, business conference speaker, seminar leader, and corporate retreat facilitator. He is also a senior executive advisor, consultant, popular author, and successful businessman. John's 30 years of International business experience in corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors, provide a vast wealth of information and experience.

TRAVELS FROM: Wisconsin

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5 to 15k)

TRAVELS FROM: Utah

FEE CATEGORY: A ($5k or less)

Over the past twenty years, Maddy Dychtwald has emerged as a nationally recognized author, public speaker, marketing executive and entrepreneur. One of the nation's leading authorities on the "age wave," she has been actively involved in analyzing and forecasting lifestyle and consumer marketing trends pertaining to the different generations.

TRAVELS FROM: California

FEE CATEGORY: E ($20.5-$25k)

Robert Stowe England is an author and financial journalist who has specialized in writing about retirement income issues, financial institutions, financial markets and aging. From 1999 to 2003 he has served as director of research for the Global Aging Initiative.

TRAVELS FROM: Virginia

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5 to 15k)

TRAVELS FROM: Arizona

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5 to 15k)

Robert Genetski is a popular speaker who entertains thousands of people at conferences and investor meetings around the world each year. He is one of the nation's premier interest rate forecasters and investment advisors, providing insights to economic, financial and investment matters through his own consulting firm.

TRAVELS FROM: Illinois

FEE CATEGORY: B ($5.5-10k)

James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, A Washington public policy think tank, where he specializes in issues involving economics, technology and financial markets. Mr. Glassman has given frequent congressional testimony on subjects as varied as telecommunications policy, Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, Social Security reform and personal investing.

TRAVELS FROM: Washington DC

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5 to 15k)

Jordan E. Goodman is "America's Money Answers Man" and a nationally-recognized expert on personal finance. He is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's The Marketplace Morning Report and is a daily guest on radio and television call-in shows across the country, answering questions on personal financial topics. He appears frequently on NBC's The Today Show, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, and Nightline.

TRAVELS FROM: New York

FEE CATEGORY: B ($5.5-10k)

Jim Jorgensen can address a wide range of topics and deliver your message in a humorous and motivating way. Nationally known author, host of a nationwide radio show, and radio and television personality he can keep your audience on the edge of their seat. His humor and motivation of how he grew up poor in Omaha with Warren Buffett and how anyone can get rich with a few bucks a day while they take out the garbage has made Jim one of the most sought after speakers in America.

TRAVELS FROM: California

FEE CATEGORY: B ($5.5-10k)

TRAVELS FROM: California

FEE CATEGORY: A ($5k or less)

TRAVELS FROM: Texas

FEE CATEGORY: A ($5k or less)

Arthur B. Laffer, PhD has been widely acknowledged for his economic achievements. He was noted in Time Magazines March 29, 1999, cover story The Centurys Greatest Minds for inventing the Laffer Curve, which it deemed one of a few of the advances that powered this extraordinary century. He was listed in A Dozen Who Shaped the 80s, in the Los Angeles Times on Jan. 1, 1990, and in A Gallery of the Greatest People Who Influenced Our Daily Business, in the Wall Street Journal on June 23, 1989.

TRAVELS FROM: California

FEE CATEGORY: E ($20.5 to 25k)

TRAVELS FROM: Texas

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5-15k)

TRAVELS FROM: Maryland

FEE CATEGORY: D ($15.5 to 20k)

Marci Rossell electrifies audiences nationwide, speaking on the nexus of economics, politics, culture and the media. Her animated style was honed when she served as the popular, lively Chief Economist for CNBC in the months immediately following September 11th. She takes complex economic issues, often dull in the button-down business press, and makes them relevant to people's lives, families and careers.

TRAVELS FROM: Illinois

FEE CATEGORY: D ($15.5 to 20k)

Terry Savage is a nationally known expert on personal finance and a regular television commentator on CNN, CNBC, PBS, and NBC on issues related to investing and financial markets. She is the nationally syndicated Chicago Sun-Times personal finance columnist, and author of three best-selling books.

TRAVELS FROM: Illinois

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5 to 15k)

Dr. Roger Selbert is one of the country's best-known and most respected trend analysts. He is:
- Principal of the Growth Strategies Group, a trend research consulting firm
- Editor & Publisher of Growth Strategies, a trend letter formerly known as Future Scan
- Resident Scholar at the La Jolla Institute, an independent research organization and think tank.

TRAVELS FROM: California

FEE CATEGORY: D ($15.5 to 20k)

Dr. Jeremy Siegel is an articulate and knowledgeable economist and has broad experience consulting on financial markets and appearing as a keynote speaker at seminars and conferences throughout the financial services industry. He is the Russell E. Palmer professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

TRAVELS FROM: Pennsylvania

FEE CATEGORY: F ($25.5k and higher)

David L. Smith is a Dartmouth- and Stanford-trained economist, futurist and market strategist whose views have intrigued audiences in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Japan over the past 20 years. A seasoned, compelling speaker, his informative and entertaining presentations combine a broad range of disciplines -- economics, future studies, finance, history, politics, science, philosophy.

TRAVELS FROM: Texas

FEE CATEGORY: B ($5.5-10k)

Dr. Gene Stanaland has been called the "Will Rogers of Economics." He has the uncanny ability to take complex subjects and make them understandable and entertaining. Through his wit and style he makes the "dreary science" exciting, leaving audiences laughing and informed

TRAVELS FROM: Alabama

FEE CATEGORY: B ($5.5-10k)

Ben Stein is probably the closest any man comes these days to being a true renaissance man. His financial and economics work was cited in the efforts of the recent Nobel prize winner in Economics, George Akerlof. He is also the host of the long running comedy quiz show on Comedy Central, Win Ben Stein's Money, a show that has won seven Emmies. He has written hundreds of thousands of words about financial fraud and investment policy.

TRAVELS FROM: California

FEE CATEGORY: F ($25.5k and higher)

John G. Stoessinger (Ph.D., Harvard) is Distinguished Professor of Global Diplomacy at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California. Dr. Stoessinger's most current book, Why Nations Go To War, currently in its 9th Edition, was published in 2005. The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Why Nations Go To War was published in early 2007.

TRAVELS FROM: California

FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5 to 15k)

TRAVELS FROM: Utah

FEE CATEGORY: B ($5.5-10k)

Michael’s distinguished career has transformed businesses around the world by aiding senior management with their greatest strategic challenges. His first book, The Discipline of Market Leaders, was a New York Times bestseller; it outlines the principles of leadership in a competitive marketplace- focusing on an unmatched customer value proposition delivered through a unique operating model design.

TRAVELS FROM: Massachusetts

FEE CATEGORY: F ($25.5 and up)

Clare Zempel is a leading business economist and top investment strategist. He honed his smart, nimble approach to making sense of complex economic and financial issues over more than 30 years as an economist for major national firms. Through Zempel Strategic, Clare brings seasoned common sense to bear on these issues for corporate business clients and major investors. He specializes in customizing applied economics and financial market analysis to meet each client's unique needs.

TRAVELS FROM: Wisconsin

FEE CATEGORY: B ($5.5-10k)