Con Chapman’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor, and his writings on jazz have appeared in The American Bystander, The Boston Herald and Brilliant Corners. He is the author of two novels, thirty-two stage plays, fifty books of humor, and The Year of the Gerbil, a history

Diane Stelfox Cook is an author and attorney based in MA. She currently practices with Heaney and Small, in Milford, MA. A Boston native, Cook is a proud graduate of Boston Latin School, Clark University, Framingham State University and Suffolk University Law School. An avid reader, she finds herself gripped to legal thrillers — both

William Reese Hamilton, author of Wonks (Eclectica Publishing Intl LLC, 2019), spent his childhood in North China and the Philippines, where he and his family were captured and imprisoned by the Japanese Army for over three years in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila. His education includes bachelor and master of arts degrees in literature, and

David Weitzner (PhD, MBA) is at heart a philosopher who briefly became a music industry executive and has now spent nearly two decades as a professor of strategy. He is the author of Connected Capitalism: How Jewish Wisdom Can Transform Work and Fifteen Paths: How to Tune Out Noise, Turn On Imagination and Find Wisdom.

Harris “Hershey” Rosen, author of My Family Record Book, has focused on controlling chaos since 1954. A graduate of Harvard, he became a Financial Control Officer in the U.S. Army, where he received a Letter of Commendation for improvement to its worldwide accounting system. He ran a candy company for 40 years, developing a system

Raméz Baassiri is a global authority on entrepreneurship and family business.  For the past two decades, he has served as a board member of AHB Group Investments in Dubai, a multi-generational family office invested in a wide range of sectors including real estate, construction, manufacturing and trading, healthcare and food and beverage, among others. He