Jason Clay, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Market Transformation, World Wildlife Fund
Jason Clay is Senior Vice President, Market Transformation, at the World Wildlife Fund. Dr. Clay has spent more than 20 years working with human rights and environmental organizations. In the 1980s, he was one of the inventors of green marketing and established a trading company that developed markets for rainforest products with nearly 200 companies in the US and Europe (including such products as Rainforest Crunch with Ben & Jerry’s).

More recently, he has been engaged in detailed examinations of the social and environmental impacts of commodity production. In 1999, he created the Shrimp Aquaculture and the Environment Consortium (WWF, World Bank, FAO and NACA), to identify and analyze better management practices that address the environmental and social impacts of shrimp aquaculture. Clay was founder and editor of the award-winning Cultural Survival Quarterly, the largest circulation anthropology and human rights publication in the world. He studied anthropology and Latin American studies at Harvard University, economics and geography at the London School of Economics, and anthropology and international agriculture at Cornell University where he received his Ph.D. in 1979.

The World Wildlife Fund operates in more than 100 countries, employs 4,000 people and advocates “a future in which humans live in harmony with nature”.

David Houle, Futurist, David Houle & Associates

David Houle is a futurist, strategist and speaker. Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He has worked at NBC, CBS and was part of the senior executive team that launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. He helped to create television series on A&E for his client Bill Kurtis, "Investigative Reports" and "American Justice", introducing single subject documentaries and legal programming to prime time before those programming concepts became common place. Both series were award winning and ran for more than ten years.

Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys as Co-Executive Producer for a nationally syndicated kids program, "Energy Express". He won the prestigious George Foster Peabody award and the Heartland award for "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream" and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Houle is consistently ranked as one of the top futurists and futurist keynote speakers on the major search engines. He has keynoted numerous conferences both across the country and internationally. He is regularly invited to speak at corporate management retreats.

Houle is regarded as an emerging, influential voice of future thought. He is regarded as one of the thought shapers in the arena of alternative energy. He has met with some of the greatest energy and space scientists in the country and has discussed the future of energy and Space Solar Power in particular with them.

He writes the highly regarded futurist blog, www.evolutionshift.com, with the tag line "A Future Look At Today". He is also a regular columnist for www.scientificblogging.com the well respected and rapidly growing site of science news and opinion. He has been speaking about the future for a number of years and his first book "The Shift Age" has just been published. His second book, "Evolution Shift" will be out in early 2009.

Michael W. Masters, Managing Member / Portfolio Manager, Masters Capital Management, LLC

Mike Masters is a long /short equity hedge fund portfolio manager and the founder of Masters Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Masters is a 1989 graduate of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) with a B.S. in Finance. While at the University, Mr. Masters was a student athlete (Swimming) and was awarded All-American honors. Mr. Masters was employed as a salesman by both J.C. Bradford & Co. and Oppenheimer and Co. (both since acquired). In 1994, Mr. Masters founded Masters Capital Management, Inc. (later merged into Masters Capital Management, LLC) and remains the managing member of the successor company today. Masters Capital Management is a global investment management firm that trades and invests in public and private domestic and international bonds and equities. In March of 2005, Mr. Masters and Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. formed a partnership that focused on investments in early-, mid- and late-stage companies employing nanotechnology- enabled products and solutions. Masters Capital currently manages a family of alternative assets, and is based in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Mr. Masters was profiled in the book "Stock Market Wizards" (Copyright 2001, 2003 by Jack D. Schwager, HarperCollins, Inc.) and was the winner of the "Open Your Heart" award in 2004 (Atlanta) from the organization Hedge Funds Care. Mr. Masters has founded several foundations including St. Croix Mission Outreach and the Atlanta Men's Enterprise Network. Mr. Masters currently serves on the boards of several charitable and private organizations.

Mr. Masters lives in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands with his wife (Suzanne) and 3 children.