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Kevin Harrington, CEO of
TVGoods.com,
LLC is widely acknowledged as the pioneer and principal architect of
the “infomercial” industry. Since producing the industry’s first infomercial in
the 1980s, Harrington has financed more than 500 product launches resulting in
sales of more than $4 billion worldwide with 20 products reaching individual
sales of over $100 million each, and creating dozens of millionaires. In his
latest venture, Harrington is an investor on a new ABC show called “Shark Tank”, in
which budding entrepreneurs compete in pitching their potentially moneymaking
ideas to business experts in hopes of securing investment financing.
Harrington’s book, ACT NOW!, explains how he innovatively turns ideas into
million-dollar products. Examples of popular products available through
TVGoods.com currently are: Tony Little fitness, George Foreman cleaning, Jay
“the Juice Daddy” Kordich Health, Flying Lure fishing, Wolfman Jack music, and
the Dual Saw, marketed by the late legendary pitchman Billy Mays. One
TVGoods.com product, the Air-Cutter, a precision vacuum haircutting system, will
be featured in the upcoming film Father of Invention starring Kevin Spacey.
See Kevin's interview with program founder Anna Hopen
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Bill Green is a veteran television host at
HSN. Bill, a
native of Miami, has been on-air at HSN for 16 years. He
began his career in radio at the age 16 and went on to
produce and direct at several radio stations. He has
presented thousands of products on-air at HSN and helped
make hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. In
preparing to sell new and innovative products Bill conducts
substantial hands-on research and practice. He is
widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic, energetic
and successful on-air hosts in his ability to convey the
value of a product to a customer. See Bill's interview
with program founder Anna Hopen
here. You can learn more about Bill Green at his
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Karen Holbrook, Ph.D. Dr. Holbrook is Senior Vice President for Research, Innovation & Global Affairs at the University of South Florida, one of the nations
top public research universities and one of the public universities designated
by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Prior to her
appointment at the University of South Florida, Dr. Holbrook retired from the
Presidency of Ohio State, the largest university in the nation, after serving
from 2002 to June 2007. Before joining Ohio State, Holbrook held executive-level
positions at the University of Georgia and the University of Florida. She spent
the majority of her academic career as a professor of biological structure and
medicine at the University of Washington, School of Medicine. For more
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Jen Holloway, former Bay News 9 anchor, is also an accomplished
inventor and finalist on Every Edisons with her innovative exercise product
Workout 180.
Jen graduated with a degree in Journalism from Kennesaw State University in
Atlanta. She also started her broadcast career in Atlanta at WTLK TV-14 as host
of the city's only week night, live, entertainment program. After Atlanta, Jen
worked at KPRC Channel 2 in Houston, TX for a couple of years.....then on to
Tampa Bay. Jen is an active volunteer and fund-raiser for The American Cancer
Society, The Red Cross, The Leukemia Society and Junior Achievement here in the
Bay Area. See Jen's interview with program founder
Anna Hopen
here. For more information on Jen, see
www.jenniferholloway.com
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Paul R. Sanberg, Ph.D., D.Sc. is Senior
Associate Vice President for Research & Innovation, Distinguished University
Professor, and Executive Director of the Center of Excellence for Aging and
Brain Repair at the University of South Florida. Dr. Sanberg trained at York
University, the University of British Columbia, the Australian National
University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, among others. Dr.
Sanberg is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National
Institute of Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, and serves on
numerous advisory boards for health-related foundations and companies. He is the
co-editor-in-chief of Cell Transplantation, and serves on editorial boards for
more than 25 scientific journals. Dr. Sanberg is the Executive Director of the
American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair. He is the author of more
than 500 scientific articles, and thirteen books, with over 10,000 citations to
his work. Dr. Sanberg is an inventor on approximately 30 health-related patents
issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and numerous foreign
patents. His co-discovery of a novel antidepressant drug is currently being
developed by AstraZeneca. Dr. Sanberg's early work was pioneering in
understanding why brain cells die in neurological disorders and in drug abuse
research. His recent work has been instrumental in translating new
pharmaceutical and stem cell therapeutics to clinical trials for Tourette
syndrome, depression, stroke, Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease.
He is president of the
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Sebastian Dewhurst, Ph.D. In 2000, Dr.
Dewhurst developed the concept of a new Rapid Application Development software
product, later to become EASA. He recruited the EASA team, closed the first
sales of the newly released EASA product, and obtained a US Patent covering the
EASA concept. In 2008, Seb oversaw a management buy-out of EASA, which continues
to grow, and to serve customers such as Procter & Gamble, General Electric,
Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Zurich Financial, and Canon. Dr. Dewhurst obtained a
First Class degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oxford in
1988, with an internship at NASA’s Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center in
Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Dewhurst authored six papers
which were accepted at various international conferences, as well as obtaining
his Doctorate from Oxford. His doctoral thesis, entitled “The Application of
Three Dimensional Laser Doppler Anemometry”, covered subjects such as fluid
mechanics, turbo-machinery, heat and mass transfer, computational fluid dynamics
and data visualization, and was relevant to industrial applications such as
aircraft engines and nuclear reactors. He also held lectureships in Mathematics,
Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at the University of Oxford. For more
information, see
www.easasoftware.com
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Valerie McDevitt is Assistant Vice President for Research in the
Division of Patents & Licensing for the University of South Florida. In April
2008, Ms. McDevitt was appointed by Governor Charlie Crist to the Governor’s
Task Force for the Study of Biotech Competitiveness. As a Congressional Science
Fellow with the American Chemical Society in Washington, DC, Ms. McDevitt worked
as a subcommittee professional staff on a variety of topics including Superfund
Reauthorization and Clean Water Act issues. A graduate of Emory University
School of Law, Ms. McDevitt also has an MST in Analytical Chemistry from the
University of Florida and a BS in Chemistry from Siena College. For more
information on Valerie, see http://www.research.usf.edu/pl/
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Israel Morejon is CEO and President of LEDNovation, a developer
and manufacturer of environmentally-friendly, state-of-the-art LED lighting
technology. He founded Integrated Engineering Technology (IET) designing
technology for lighting, hearing aids, kidney dialysis systems, robots and the
core waveguide technology used in speed guns. At Johnson & Johnson he designed
acute care patient monitoring products. At Jabil Circuit, he architected a
diverse group of products including automotive, wireless, storage, computing
devices, laptop docking stations, camera modules, PDAs, smart phones. wireless
modem technology and optical tomography cancer systems in addition to
architecting LED-based technology. A prolific innovator, Mr. Morejon has
numerous pending and granted patents in a variety of technology areas. Mr.
Morejon is an engineering graduate from the University of South Florida. For
more information, see
www.lednovation.com
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