R. William (Bill) Ayres has a career spanning over a dozen years as a university professor and administrator. As a scholar of international politics and foreign policy, Bill has published in several scholarly journals and edited books, and he has penned dozens of opinion articles and papers for local and national outlets as disparate as USA Today and The Progressive Christian. He has given numerous TV and radio interviews on politics and foreign policy, and hosted a current events radio show in Indianapolis for two years. During his career on the faculties of four different colleges and universities, Bill has worked extensively on international education and bridge-building. He has traveled professionally to numerous countries including Austria, Cyprus, Canada, Switzerland, Great Britain, and South Africa. He developed international exchange and cooperation programs and negotiated partnerships across continents. He served as a political consultant to one of the major political parties in the South African parliament, where his research has been featured in parliamentary debate. Bill received his BA in political science from Williams College, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to earn his Masters and Doctoral degrees, also in political science, at The Ohio State University. He has given guest lectures and keynote addresses at dozens of conferences and events, with audiences ranging from undergraduate students to CEOs and high-level corporate managers.

Bruce Alan Johnson has run his own businesses worldwide since 1985. His models for international business development thinking have been adopted by several companies. Bruce has traveled in 76 countries over the past 40 years and lived in Europe, Turkey, and Africa. He is fluent in German, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish, conversant in French, Bulgarian, Afrikaans, and Swahili, and reads Greek and Latin. He is a former senior US intelligence officer, having worked for a number of years with non-American intelligence organizations on special projects in the Middle East and the former Soviet bloc. Bruce has served as a delegate for the U.S. Government in global telecommunications conferences in Nairobi and Geneva; as a White House Speaker for the President's Commission for the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution; and as special advisor to the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Hon. Dr. Zhelyu Zhelev. Aside from having served part time in the White House in 1985-88, his former positions include: Senior Fellow for the Hudson Institute (a leading world think tank); Vice President of Worldwide Affairs for Hill & Knowlton (the world's largest public relations firm); Director of Business Development for ITT-Telecommunications; Director of International Marketing & Operations for Schlumberger's data communications division Rixon (a leading French petro-technology firm); Manager of International Marketing for RACAL (the British electronics and telecommunications conglomerate). Having lived off and on in Africa across 30 years, Bruce began teaching entrepreneurism to South African blacks in 1978. He returned in 1999, and over the next ten years served as director of entrepreneurism in one township for a South African political party, advisor to several members of Parliament and government ministers, and was a widely sought-after speaker by businesses. Bruce has been a guest and keynote speaker in more than 25 countries, and on several radio and television programs in North America, Europe, and South Africa.