David Owens, PhD.
Professor Owens serves on the faculty at Vanderbilt University’s Graduate School of Management in the area of organizational behavior. Specializing in strategic innovation in business, Owens delivers executive education programs and consulting services to a wide range of clients in the U.S. and Europe. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Guardian and San Jose Mercury News, as well as on NPR’s Marketplace.

Kay Tipton
Kay Tipton has served as math department chair of Vestavia Hills High School, a public high school in Birmingham, Alabama, since 1989. A three-time winner of the White House Commission of Presidential Scholars Distinguished Teacher Award, as well as recipient of both the Golden Apple Teacher of the Year Award and Cornell University's Outstanding High School Educator Award, Mrs. Tipton simply sets the standard for excellence among high school mathematics educators.

Charley Long
Charley Long serves as Vice President of Fleet Operations and Trading for Southern Company, a super-regional energy company in the southeast and a leading U.S. producer of electricity.  Mr. Long is responsible for ensuring a reliable and economic supply of electric generation on a real time basis for more than four million customers while increasing net income from wholesale electricity trading activities.
 
Mr. Long's electric utility background includes having management responsibilities for long term planning and economic evaluations of investments in new electric generating plants.  These investments in a diverse, economic, and reliable mix of generating resources have contributed to Southern Company's prices being 15% below the national average.