Craig Nathanson is the author of "P is for Perfect", he is also on the faculty at Cal State Hayward, Keller School of Management, Corinthian Colleges and San Joaquin Valley College.

Craig runs his website at The Vocational Coach. A relevant article - What Do You Prize Most in Mid-life talks the reader through how to find your passion.

He has been an executive, senior manager, trainer, counselor and internal consultant for 25 years working in large Fortune 100 companies as well as several internet start-ups, one of which he was an original founder.
Craig is also working on his second book due out in late 2006 called, Don't JUST retire and die.

Gautam Godhwani runs the show at Simply Hired, and the buck stops in his cube. And if he keeps us headed in the right direction, it may even become two bucks. In the meantime, he encourages us to do a lot with a little, and to be creative with our ideas and our energy (translation: free popcorn, unlimited O'Reilly books, but no aeron chairs). Gautam has lots of experience starting startups, and finding great people to help grow them.

Prior to Simply Hired, he co-founded the India Community Center to help bring the SF bay area community closer together. Before that, he was CEO and co-founder of AtWeb, an Internet 1.0 company acquired by Netscape/AOL in 1998.

Before he invented the Internet, Gautam worked for several small businesses including HP, IBM, and Microsoft.

Tina Shah,is an entrepreneurial executive with over 10 years of business building experience. She has developed growth strategies, led top line growth, and built organizations through the sourcing and recruitment of talent. Tina began her career at McKinsey & Company where she advised retail clients on organizational growth strategies and workforce planning needs. As Co-Founder & CEO of zBox Company, she created an organization structure for a high growth consumer technology company, developed a performance management system, and recruited and managed 40 FTEs. After selling zBox Company’s product lines to Whirlpool and a subsidiary of GE, Tina served as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Whirlpool Corporation. She worked with several Fortune 500 companies to conduct a best practices study on how companies organize and reward talent to maximize innovation. Tina also developed channel strategies and secured bus iness development partnerships for an online HR software company. She is currently a Senior Director in the consulting arm of the Corporate Executive Board, where she advises senior human resource executives on the use of employee research to inform human capital attraction, retention and engagement strategies. Tina began her career in sales and marketing at Procter & Gamble and The Clorox Company.

In addition to building businesses within corporations, Tina has built and led social purpose enterprises. She has co-founded and led Indus Women Leaders and the Network of Indian Professionals . Both are membership based organizations that are focused on professional and leadership development. Tina has been instrumental in creating organization structures, recruiting talented volunteer based teams, and leading those teams to build nationwide memberships. Tina is also a Business Advisor for Pacific Community Ventures social venture fund and a Charter Member of TiE, the Indus Entrepreneurs. She serves as an Alumni Interviewer for the Admissions Office of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and on the Scholarship Selection Committee for the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Through her work in these organizations as well as recruiting and hiring at McKinsey, zBox Company and the Corporate Executive Board, Tina has developed extensive experience in sourcing and developing talent.

Ritu Primlani, is the founder, and Executive Director of Thimmakka's Resources for Environmental Education, a California based environmental non-profit. Ms. Primlani is among the most prominent Indian environmentalists in the United States. She has designed and implemented a program of comprehensive environmental outreach to ethnic restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, called Thimmakka Certified Green Restaurants (TCGR), or Greening Ethnic Restaurants [GER]. She is the recipient of the national Environmental Leadership Fellowship 2003,

She has held various positions from Tech Consultant, Cartographer, GIS Specialist and has written and spoken extensively on the environment and culture.