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David Breashears is a filmmaker and mountaineer.
He has worked on more than two dozen films, including Seven Years in Tibet and Cliffhanger; he has directed and
produced IMAX films Everest and Kilimanjaro; and he is the recipient of four National Emmy Awards for achievement
in cinematography. In the Spring of 2004, David reached the
summit of Mt. Everest for the fifth time.
Roberto Canessa is a pediatric cardiologist based in Montevideo, Uruguay. In October, 1972 he was with his
rugby team aboard an ill-fated flight from Argentina to Chile that crashed in the Andes. He and a companion
reached civilization more than two months later, and their survival and rescue were later featured in a well
known book and film entitled Alive.
Jim Collins is a
management educator
based in Boulder, Colorado. He is co-author of Built to Last
(1994), and author of Good to Great (2001) and Good to Great and the Social Sectors (2005).
He has served on the faculty of the Graduate Business School of Stanford University, and he lectures
widely on business leadership and company performance.
Peter M. Dawkins is Vice Chairman of Citigroup Private Bank and Former Chairman/CEO of Primerica Financial
Services, Inc. He received the Heisman Trophy as a halfback for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he was a
Rhodes Scholar and White House Fellow, and he rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the U.S. Army.
Helen Greiner is co-founder and board chair of iRobot, a provider of robots to the industrial,
consumer and military markets, and maker of the world's best selling robot. She was previously with NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and she has served as a Global Leader of Tomorrow with the World Economic Forum.
Sylvia M. Montero is Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Pfizer Inc., and is responsible for
the overall strategy and development of company-wide HR policies, plans and practices. She also oversees the
leadership development, compensation and benefits and HR services that reach the company's 120,000 worldwide employees.
David Pottruck is CEO of Red Eagle Ventures, a private equity firm based in San Francisco.
He is former CEO of Charles Schwab, a director of Intel, and a member of the Wharton School's Leadership Advisory Board.
Michael Useem is professor of management and director of the Wharton Center for Leadership and
Change at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-author and co-editor of Upward Bound (2003),
and author of The Leadership Moment (1998), Leading Up (2001), and the forthcoming book,
The Go Point (2006).
