Just after earning his MBA in entrepreneurial finance from San Diego State University in 2001, Mr. Gantz co-founded 1-800-LAS VEGAS, a premier travel management company dedicated to the city of Las Vegas. While Mr. Gantz was the Chief Executive Officer of 1-800-LAS-VEGAS, the company recruited Mr. Las Vegas, Wayne Newton as its celebrity spokesperson and went public in 2006.  The company later changed its name to VegasNow.com.  In 2007, Mr. Gantz formed Seed Capital with partner Kevin Alan Tussy.  Seed Capital specializes in assisting entrepreneurs and small companies with raising start-up and expansion capital.  In 2009, in the midst of the most devastating credit crisis since the Great Depression, Seed Capital raised over $40 million in financing for its clients, in the process helping hundreds of new businesses and products become a reality.

Terry Whipple is the Executive Director of Juneau County Economic Development Corporation (JCEDC) and President of the 7 Rivers Region.  He has an extensive background in business development and was the founder of the Inventors & Entrepreneurs Club model which is responsible for inventor groups in over 6 states, totaling over 10,000 members attending their respective groups. Terry received the Small Business Administration’s Region Five and Wisconsin 2005 Home-Based Business Champion of the Year Award. He also received the Wisconsin 2005 Innovation Champion Award for the development of innovative new programs as well as the 2008 - 7 Rivers Region Pyramid Award. Terry recently was presented with the 2009 International Economic Development Council Award for Innovative entrepreneurial programs. 

He has served as an independent business consultant specializing in work with distressed small businesses and currently maintains his own private consulting business.  He lives in rural Tomah, WI with his wife and 3 daughters.

Cooper is an internationally renowned expert on technology and innovation and its impact on business and society.  He is widely regarded as one of the leading inventors of our time and has spent most of the past 5 decades creating some of the world’s most important business and technological concepts and offerings. He is an activist who seeks to shape public policy in the US and globally having testified before various committees, and been featured in national publications and news shows.  He is passionate about the revolution in health care and commerce that wireless technology will engender when networks are finally opened and new technology adopted. Cooper is also an accomplished entrepreneur and futurist.

Martin Cooper is Chairman and Co-Founder of DYNA, LLC and Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of ArrayComm, LLC, based in San Jose, CA.  Cooper is also Co-Founder and director of GreatCall, Inc. the innovator of the Jitterbug cell phone and service. Cooper has been involved in and contributed to virtually every major innovation in personal wireless communications in his over 50-year career.  He conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973 and is widely recognized as an innovator in spectrum management.  For 29 years, he led a number of major businesses at Motorola, including high-capacity paging, trunked mobile radio, cellular radio telephone, quartz crystals and oscillators, liquid crystal displays, piezo-electric components, Motorola A.M. Stereo technology, and various mobile and portable two-way radio product lines. Following Motorola, Cooper co-founded Cellular Business Systems, Inc., a cellular billing system company.  Cooper has numerous patents in the communications field.  He is widely published and continues to write and lecture around the world about wireless communications, technological innovation, the Internet, and R&D management.

**With all us inventors go through during the invention process, its time for a mental timeout!

 Featured in the blockbuster hit, The Secret, Bob Proctor is widely regarded as one of the living masters and teachers of The Law of Attraction and has worked in the area of mind potential for over 40 years.  He is the best-selling author of You Were Born Rich, and has transformed the lives of millions through his books, seminars, courses and personal coaching. 

Proctor is a direct link to the modern science of success, stretching back to Andrew Carnegie, the great financier and philanthropist.  Carnegie's secrets inspired and enthused Napoleon Hill, whose book, Think and Grow Rich, in turn inspired a whole genre of success philosophy books.  Napoleon Hill, in turn, passed the baton on to Earl Nightingale who has since placed it in Bob Proctor's capable hands.  

Proctor’s wide-ranging work with business and industries around the world extends far beyond the pep rally syndrome. Instead, it encompasses working with business entities and individuals to develop strategies that will assist individuals at all levels to grow, improve and adapt to the ever-changing nature in today's world. 

His company, LifeSuccess Productions is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ and operates globally.  www.bobproctor.com

Forbes Riley is an award winning TV host, author and a 2010 inductee into the National Fitness Hall of Fame for her lifetime commitment to selling quality in-home fitness and wellness products. To date, Forbes has sold more than $2 billion dollars worth of products in this category. She is known worldwide for promoting the Jack Lalanne Juicer, the Living Well Health Master and for starring in the feature film about raw food called “Super Charge Me!” Forbes is on a continuing mission to promote health, vitality and fitness as a lifestyle and not a fad. She can be seen on television with a variety of health and fitness products on HSN, Ideal World-UK, Canadian Home Shopping and soon on QVC Germany and Japan because as Forbes says, “It seems living well and getting fit has no cultural barriers!” The mother of 7 year-old twins, she and her husband live between Los Angeles, California and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Gary Seehoff founded EVRIHOLDER PRODUCTS after inventing its first two products, Twirl A Tieâ and Twirl A Beltâ. Gary built Evriholder Products into one of the largest housewares impulse product providers and in 2008 sold a 70% interest to a Private Equity consortium, and to the present day continues to grow the company. Evriholder distributes both nationally and internationally to the who’s who of retail. Evriholder focuses its distribution of Impulse items in the Kitchen, Barware, Cleaning, Storage and Bath & Personal Care categories, and distributes to well over 50,000 retail doors.  Prior to founding Evriholder Products, Gary was a Partner, and for several years, Managing Partner of accounting and consulting firm Duitch Franklin & Co. (at the time a 90 person CPA and consulting firm). Prior to Duitch & Franklin, Gary worked at Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche) as a Manager. Gary has invented and developed several products for various segments of the housewares industry and has several patents in his name.

Carl Dietrich Terrafugia’s CEO/CTO, Co-Founder, received his BS, MS and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shortly after being selected as the 2006 winner of the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Innovation. Carl was additionally recognized by the Aero/Astro Department at MIT as one of sixteen exceptional graduates under the
age of 35. Carl has also been named as one of the Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40" in 2009. He has been a private pilot since the age of seventeen.

Terrafugia (ter-ra-FOO-gee-ah) was founded in 2006 by award-winning MIT-trained aeronautical engineers and MBA's – who also happen to be passionate private pilots. The company’s mission is to provide innovative solutions to the challenges facing personal aviation. The result: the Transition® Roadable Aircraft. Taking advantage of new FAA regulations in the Light Sport Aircraft category, Terrafugia developed the Transition® to provide pilots the convenience of a dual-purpose vehicle. Its unique design allows the Transition® to fold its wings and drive on any surface road with a modern personal airplane platform. Once at the airport, the wings extend and the aircraft is ready for take-off. Both folding and extending the wings is done from inside the cockpit.The Transition® addresses head-on the issues private and sports pilots face: cost, weather sensitivity, high overall door-to-door travel time and a lack of mobility at destination. In July of 2008 Terrafugia returned to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI with a completed Proof of Concept Transition® vehicle. Powered testing of the Proof of Concept has began in the second half of 2008. After safely achieving speeds around 100 miles per hour on the ground, the Transition® Proof of Concept successfully completed its flight test program in Plattsburgh, New York. Lessons learned from testing, optimization, aesthetic design and design for manufacturing have been ongoing from the completion of flight testing in Summer of 2009.                                              

Construction, testing and certification of the next generation Prototype are now underway. First customer delivery of a Transition® Roadable Aircraft is expected to occur in 2011.

For those familiar with the television direct response mega-hit Smart Spin, Warren was the person behind the scenes helping orchestrate its overnight success. Teaming with a Boston based inventor, Tuttle selected an explosive path to market. With almost 10 million units sold to date, Smart Spin continues to be prominently featured at major retailers throughout America. Warren also helped to initiate the market launch of several other innovative kitchen products including MISTO, The Gourmet Olive Oil Sprayer, which has sales of 5 million units around the world to date, as well as The Toss and Turn Pan, one of the best selling cookware frypans in the US in 2005. Warren has also assisted numerous housewares product patent holders to obtain licensing agreements with major U.S. manufacturers and counseled several inventors who went on to start their own small businesses.  Warren is also the President of the United Inventors Association and leads the product development program for several companies for licensing opportunitites.