Rajesh Setty is an entrepreneur, author, and teacher. Setty currently serves as the chairman of CIGNEX Technologies, a company he co-founded in late 2000. He wrote his first novel when he was nine and published it at the age of thirteen. His latest book, Beyond Code (foreword by Tom Peters), is published in the U.S. and India. Setty maintains a blog at http://blog.lifebeyondcode.com".

Priya David joined the KTVU Channel 2 News team in February 2005 where she is a reporter for "The KTVU Channel 2 Morning News" and "Mornings On 2". She was born in southern India, but spent only a few short months there before coming to the States. Her family lived in Virginia, Orange County, then finally on to Europe where she spent 10 years split between Brussels and London--all enrolled in International Schools.

Richard Fiedotin switched from medicine to business and co-founded Epocrates Inc, a leading provider of medical reference software, in 1998. Previously, Richard was a Senior Clinical Systems Consultant at HBO & Co., where he provided development and psales services for one of the industry's leading electronic medical records. Richard also founded American Medical Forms, where he designed a miniaturized patient record, subsequently licensed to Merck, Pfizer, and Warner-Lambert.

Brian Lehnen (right), founded Village Enterprise Fund (VEF) in 1987. VEF was started to help relieve poverty by helping the very poor start or expand their own small businesses. VEF small business grants helps the poor break out of the cycle of poverty. With the $100 seed grant and mentoring, a group of five peers can start a business. VEF works in very rural areas, where there are few or no jobs, but entrepreneurs start their own ventures all the time.

Sanjay Patel (self potrait), is an animator with Pixar, where he has worked since the production of A Bug's Life. In his book Ghee Happy he provides an illustrated guide to Hindu Mythology. Patel came up with its name, Ghee Happy, via obscure analogy: reducing the rich strokes of Hindu iconography to their essence is like clarifying butter into ghee.