Sean Moriarty is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Ticketmaster, the world's leading ticketing company. He is responsible for operational leadership of all aspects of Ticketmaster's worldwide business as well as global product and technology strategy and distribution channels across all business units.

Mr. Moriarty was an early member of the original Citysearch technology team and served Ticketmaster's predecessor, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, as Director of Internet Systems for Citysearch and Vice President of Internet Systems for both Citysearch and Ticketmaster.com. Since 1997, Mr. Moriarty has held progressive roles in the two companies including, Executive Vice President, Technology for Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and President and Chief Operating Officer, Ticketmaster.

Sean Moriarty serves on the Board of Directors of iLike.com as well as several technology advisory boards. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina, was an Exchange Fellow at the University of Warwick, Coventry UK, and attended graduate school at Boston University and the University of South Carolina.

The "Growth Guy" columnist for several publications and a contributing editor for Fortune Small Business magazine, Verne is the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm, which has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Named one of the "Top 10 Minds in Small Business" by Fortune Small Business Magazine (FSB), he appeared on the cover of the Dec/Jan 2002 issue of the magazine. www.gazelles.com

Dr. Stephen Happel is a Professor of Economics at the Arizona State University W.P Carey School of Business. He grew up in Quincy, Illinois, received a B.A. (1969) in mathematics and economics from the University of Missouri and an M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) in economics from Duke University. In addition to visiting appointments at North Carolina State University, the Australian National University and the University of Waikato in New Zealand, Dr. Happel was founding director of the ASU School of Business Honors Program in 1989 and served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies from 1991 to 1999.

His research focuses on applied microeconomics and population issues. He has written two textbooks and over 60 articles in professional journals and popular outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. This work covers arguments for free-market ticket scalping, defense of tenure, the rationale for slotting fees in supermarkets, and the snowbird lifestyle among retirees.

Dr. Happel has received the ASU Distinguished Teaching Award, been a Ford Honors Fellow, and has been chosen the Arizona Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. He teaches freshman classes in macroeconomics, honors seminars, and MBA classes in managerial economics. He is also a long-time instructor for the Arizona Society of CPA's Tax Institute, the Pacific Coast Banking School in Seattle, and he speaks to many different groups and organizations on the U.S. economy with attention directed at key generational-demographic trends and recent Federal Reserve policy.

Professor Marianne Jennings is a member of the Department of Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and is a professor of legal and ethical studies in business. At ASU she teaches graduate courses in the MBA program in business ethics and the legal environment of business. She served as director of the Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics from 1995-1999. From 2006-2007, she served as the faculty director for the MBA Executive Program. Professor Jennings earned her undergraduate degree in finance and her J. D. from Brigham Young University. Her internships were with the Federal Public Defender and U.S. Attorney in Nevada, and she has done consulting work for law firms, businesses and professional groups including AES, Boeing, Dial Corporation, Mattel, Motorola, CFA Institute, Southern California Edison, the Arizona Auditor General, the Cities of Phoenix, Mesa, and Tucson, the Institute of Internal Auditors, AIMR, Boeing, Coca-Cola, DuPont, AES, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Motorola, Hy-Vee Foods, IBM, Bell Helicopter, Amgen, Raytheon, and VIAD.

Professor Jennings has authored hundreds of articles in academic, professional and trade journals. Currently she has six textbooks and monographs in circulation. The sixth edition of her textbook, Case Studies in Business Ethics, is in production and the eighth editions of her textbooks, Real Estate Law and Business: lts Legal, Ethical and Global Environment are also in production. She was added as a co-author to Anderson's Business and the Legal Environment in 1997, a text published in its 20th edition in March 2007. Her book, Business Strategy for the Political Arena, was selected in 1985 by Library Journal as one of its recommended books in business/government relations. Her book, A Business Tale: A Story of Ethics, Choices, Success, and a Very Large Rabbit, a fable about business ethics, was chosen by Library Journal in 2004 as its business book of the year. A Business Tale was also a finalist for two other literary awards for 2004. In 2000 her book on corporate governance was published by the New York Times MBA Pocket Series. Her book on long-term success, Building a Business Through Good Times and Bad: Lessons from Fifteen Companies, Each With a Century of Dividends, was published in October 2002 and has been used by Booz, Allen, Hamilton for its work on business longevity. Her latest book, The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse was published by St. Martin's Press in July 2006. Her books have been translated into five languages.

Her columns have been syndicated around the country, and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Reader's Digest. A collection of her essays, Nobody Fixes Real Carrot Sticks Anymore, first published in 1994 is still being published. She was given an Arizona Press Club award in 1994 for her work as a feature columnist. She has been a commentator on business issues on All Things Considered for National Public Radio.

She has conducted more than 300 workshops and seminars in the areas of business, personal, government, legal, academic and professional ethics. She has been named professor of the year in the College of Business in 1981, 1987 and 2000 and was the recipient of a Burlington Northern teaching excellence award in 1985. In 1999, she was given best article awards by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and the Association for Government Accountants. She was given best article awards by the institute of Internal Auditors and Association of Government Accountants in 2001 and 2004. She has been a Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar since 1995. In 2000, the Association of Government Accountants inducted her into its Speakers Hall of Fame. In 2005, she was named an All-Star Speaker by the Institute of Internal Auditors. In 2006, her article, "Ethics and Investment Management: True Reform," was selected by the United Kingdom's Emerald Management Review from 15,000 articles in 400 journals as one of the top 50 articles in 2005.

She is a member of twelve professional organizations, including the State Bar of Arizona, and has served on four boards of directors, including Arizona Public Service (1987-2000), Zealous Capital Corporation, and the Center for Children with Chronic Illness and Disability at the University of Minnesota. She served as chair of the Bonneville International Advisory Board for KHTC/KIDR from 1994-1997 and was a weekly commentator on KGLE during 1998. She was appointed to the board of advisors for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators in 2004. She has appeared on CNBC, CBS This Morning, the Today Show, and CBS Evening News.

Personal: Married since 1976 to Terry H. Jennings, Maricopa County Attorney's Office Deputy County Attorney; five children: Sarah, Sam, and John, and the late Claire and Hannah Jennings.