William J. Bratton

Bill Bratton is known as one of America's premier police chiefs. As head of the nation's two largest police forces, those of New York City and Los Angeles, he led two decades of crime declines while revitalizing departmental morale, reducing corruption and abuse, and improving relations with minority communities. In New York, he spearheaded the development of a police management system known as CompStat, which is now used by forces around the world. CompStat employs real-time intelligence, rapid deployment of resources, and relentless follow-up to focus the work of officers on the prevention of crime.

A US Army veteran who served in Vietnam, Bratton began his police career in 1970 with the Boston Police Department, where he earned the department's highest honor for valor. He later served as chief of the New York City Transit Police and Boston police commissioner. Bratton is currently chairman of Altegrity Risk International, which provides investigative, analytic, consulting, and security services to businesses around the world. He is a senior executive fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Eric Cahill

With more than 15 years' experience directing complex technology-intense enterprises, Eric Cahill has dedicated his career to bringing clean tech to the automotive industry.

After serving in the Navy, Cahill researched technology uptake in the auto industry and assessed market readiness for alternative fuel and advanced-technology vehicles at GM Powertrain. After several years at Boeing, Cahill joined Quantum Technologies where, as program manager of a hybrid electric vehicle program, he led the team responsible for developing the electric drivetrain technology for the forthcoming Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid sports car.

Before taking the reins of the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE in 2009, Cahill served as COO of an Internet startup and consulted on alternative energy, product strategy, and project management.

Steve Case

As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of America Online, Steve Case played an important role in the development of the Internet. AOL brought millions of Americans their first connection to the Internet and helped drive adoption of the new medium. After a decade of rapid growth, AOL acquired media giant Time Warner in 2000; Case served as chairman of the combined company until 2003.

In 2005, he launched the private investment firm Revolution. The company aims to build consumer-oriented businesses that provide people with more choice, control, and convenience in their lives. Revolution's activities are focused in the health and wellness, resort, and digital sectors. Case is also chairman of Exclusive Resorts, a luxury destination club financed by Revolution. He chairs two nonprofit organizations, the Case Foundation and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. He was a founding organizer of Business Strengthening America, has served as vice chair of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy, and was honored with the National Mentoring Partnership Leadership Award.

caterina Fake

Caterina Fake cofounded Flickr, the wildly popular photo-sharing service that launched in 2004. Flickr was one of the first websites to incorporate Web 2.0 features like social networking, open APIs, and tagging. After it was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, Fake took over Yahoo's Technology Development Group, where she ran the Hack Yahoo program and created the new-product incubator Brickhouse.

In 2009, Fake cofounded Hunch, a website that uses algorithms and machine learning to offer personalized recommendations on potentially any topic. She also serves on the board of Creative Commons, is board chairman of Etsy, and is an active angel investor and adviser to many startups and new businesses. Before Flickr, she was art director of Salon.com. In 2005, Fake was named to BusinessWeek's Best Leaders list, Fast Company's Fast 50, and Red Herring's 20 Entrepreneurs Under 35. In 2006, she was included in Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.

bre pettis

Bre Pettis makes things that make things. Passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY, Pettis builds infrastructure for creativity. He is a founder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things, and a founder of NYCResistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn. Besides being a TV host and video podcast producer, he has created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make's podcast Weekend Projects, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer.

mark pincus

Mark Pincus is a leading Internet entrepreneur who has created four successful companies. He founded the online game developer Zynga in 2007 and has led it to success as a provider of casual games for social networking sites. The company currently has more than 700 employees. Its popular titles, including FarmVille, Cafe World, Zynga Poker, FishVille, Mafia Wars, PetVille, and YoVille, are enjoyed by some 235 million active players per month.

Before that, Pincus founded Tribe Networks in 2003, establishing one of the Web's first social networking sites, Tribe.net. In 1997 he cofounded SupportSoft (originally Support.com), a provider of online tech services and support automation software, and he served as the company's chairman and CEO. He had his initial entrepreneurial success in 1995 with Freeloader, the first Web-based push information service for consumers. Pincus regularly speaks at events such as the Game Developers Conference, Web 2.0, and the SNAP Summit. In 2009, he was named CEO of the Year at the Crunchies. He recently established Zynga.org, which facilitates charitable giving through online gameplay.

vivian schiller

As president and CEO, Vivian Schiller heads NPR's worldwide media operations, including its partnerships with more than 900 public radio stations and their service to nearly 30 million listeners. Under her leadership, NPR has continued its commitment to journalistic excellence while embracing digital and mobile technologies to extend the reach of public media. NPR was recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of the World's Most Innovative Media Companies in 2009 and 2010 and was named an Innovation All-Star for 2010.

Prior to joining NPR in January 2009, Schiller was senior vice president at The New York Times Company and general manager of NYTimes.com, where she led day-to-day operations of the largest newspaper website on the Internet. Before that, she served as senior vice president and general manager of the Discovery Times Channel and senior vice president of CNN Productions, where she oversaw long-form programming efforts. Documentaries and series produced under her executive leadership earned numerous honors, including three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys.

howard schultz

Howard Schultz first joined Starbucks in 1982 as director of operations and marketing; at the time, the Seattle company had four stores. After leaving to start his own Il Giornale coffeehouses, he purchased Starbucks in 1987. Inspired by a trip to Italy, Schultz's vision was to create neighborhood cafes where people could meet-a "third place" between work and home that would foster a sense of community. Today, Starbucks has more than 16,000 stores in over 50 countries.

The company's rapid growth and success were made possible in part by its policy of investing in people. Starbucks was among the first retail companies to offer comprehensive health coverage for both full- and part-time workers. Schultz has received Columbia University's Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics, Notre Dame's Hesburgh Award for Business Ethics, and First magazine's International Award for Responsible Capitalism. He was named one of the top 25 managers by Business Week magazine and in 2004 was recognized by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He coauthored the best seller Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. In 1997, Schultz created the Starbucks Foundation, which encourages young people to create change in their communities.

Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky lectures, writes and consults on the social and economic effects of the Internet. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, Web services, and wireless networks – alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. At NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program he teaches how networks shape culture and vice-versa. In one course, Shirky examines the cues we use to understand group dynamics in online spaces and how social software may be redesigned to better reflect the emergent properties of groups. Shirky has written extensively about the Internet since 1996, regularly appearing in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and WIRED. His books include Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. The Library of Congress and the BBC are among his clients.

Mick McCabe

With more than 10 years in strategy positions at major ad agencies, Mick McCabe has forged the identity of many of the world's top brands. Before joining kbs+p this year, McCabe was at Deutsch, Leo Burnett, ant TBWA/Chiat/Day. His work for such household names as IKEA, Kenneth Cole, Tylenol, United Airlines, and Altoids has led him to win multiple awards, including two Effie Grand Prix. McCabe lectures widely on advertising.

Miles S. Nadal

Miles Nadal is an International Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, as well as the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of MDC Partners, one of the world's largest marketing communications networks whose many holdings include Crispin Porter + Bogusky, kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners, Zig, Bruce Mau Design, henderson bas, Redscout, Attention, Sloane & Company, Colle + McVoy, TEAM, HL Group, Adrenalina, Hello Design, Allison & Partners, mono and Vitro Robertson.

Nadal is involved in a number of additional highly successful businesses, and was the Founder of First Asset Management Inc., one of Canada's largest independent asset management firms with more than $35 billion under management. He is a frequent guest lecturer on the subject of entrepreneurship at schools and universities across North America. He was a recent keynote lecturer at a joint event at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, as well as the April 2010 "Executive in Residence" for The University of Miami's School of Business Administration. Nadal is an active member of the Marketing 50, Global 50 and G100.

A noted philanthropist, he has also made commitment to the community a personal goal, bestowing significant gifts in the areas of health care, education and children's welfare. Nadal's contributions to both business and society have been recognized with numerous awards. In recent years he has been named Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year", as well as the Association of Fundraising Professionals "Volunteer of the Year".

Lori Senecal

Under Lori Senecal's leadership, kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners has evolved in every direction.

She has led the multiple-agency company to create new ideation techniques and even launched an initiative to align employee rewards with client performance. These enable kbs+p to deliver superior creativity in a shorter period of time. Lori also initiated kbs+p's belief system, 'Do Things That Matter', which focuses energy on the small as well as the big things that ultimately affect a company's success. She has also attracted top executive talent from other leading companies.

Through her experience with international accounts, Senecal has transformed such brands as Coca-Cola, Sprint, Xbox, Nestle, Nabisco, and Staples. Before joining kbs+p in 2009, Senecal was president of McCann Erickson's flagship New York office.