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About Our Authors
| We plan to add two more author/experts in 2010, and another three to five in 2011. If you believe you are qualified to be one of them, please go to the submission guidelines. |
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Accomplished Writer and Author, DEZ BARTELT, has scoured the globe, not only to discover its riches, but to write about her adventures–the sights, the culture, the food, and wine. She has sampled the best New York restaurants and dined at Rome’s most unsurpassed, aged trattorias. She has enjoyed wine from the vineyards of Burgundy, France and walked through the cellars of Champagne.
A contributor to such publications such as The New York Times, her writings are regularly published in the top food destinations for The Associated Press, Examiner, CaribbeanTravelMag.com, Matador Travel, National Post, Woman’s Day, Woman’s Outside Magazine and Reader’s Digest. She’ made numerous media appearances and featured-guest appearances on travel shows.
Dez seeks out the world’s best travel destinations. She has chronicled everything from nouvelle cuisine to New American cuisine, discovered the best pizza Naples has to offer, and tasted the best barbecue in Korea.
Reading any of Dez’s top travel layover books, or her articles that evoke the beauty and excitement of places all over the world, will make you immediately want to visit a Paris bistro or an Icelandic glacier. Her writing makes it easier for them to do exactly that. Her goal is, as it has always been, to create an interactive atmosphere with her readers. |
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MICHAEL SINGER DOBSON is an internationally known project management consultant, author, and lecturer. He is the author of 21 books on various aspects of project management, office politics, organizational dynamics, and personal growth. Creative Project Management was released by McGraw-Hill in Summer 2010. Enlightened Office Politics (with Deborah Dobson) was named one ofLibrary Journal's Top 100 Business Books for 2001. His novels Fox on the Rhine andMacArthur's War (both with Douglas Niles) were selections of the Military Book Club. His simulation game Battlesystem won the H. G. Wells Award.
A popular seminar leader and keynote speaker, Michael brings a practical real-world background, good humor, and a dynamic personal style to make his topics come alive. |
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WILLIAM D. HUGHES is president of HughsFaction.com, a sales, marketing, Internet, and program management company. His team consists of some of the nation's finest copywriters, website and Internet marketing specialists, program managers, and investor relations specialists.
Since 1990 he has worked with more than 50 small to medium size corporations to increase revenues, profits, and corporate valuation through time-efficient, innovative business strategies, coupled with results-driven sales and marketing programs.
He brings to GamePlan Press readers his extensive experience and record of success in consumer, business-to-business, and business-to-governmentmarkets—selling both product and services directly, through reseller channels, and over the Internet. |
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IRA NEIMARK is a legendary retail executive whose career spans several decades. As Chairman and CEO of Bergdorf Goodman, he set records for the company over the 17 years of his masterful leadership.
He also distinguished himself in top management/merchandising posts at the Neiman Marcus Group, B. Altman, G. Fox, Gladdings, and Bonwit Teller.
Ira is a Director of both The Fashion Institute of Technology Foundation and Hermes of Paris and was Adjunct Professor of Retail Marketing at the Columbia University Business School.
The governments of Italy and France awarded him the prestigious Cavaliere Della Republica and the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, respectively, as well as the Medal of the City of Paris. |
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JIM McCORMICK is an expert in performance improvement through intelligent risk-taking and creating a culture the yields innovation. He is an accomplished business executive, the author ofBusiness Lessons from the Edge (McGraw-Hill) and a world-class skydiver. Jim has been retained by organizations including AFLAC, Accenture, Bank of America, CDW, FedEx, Hewlett-Packard, PepsiCo, Rutgers University, The Clorox Company, Siemens, Unilever, Verizon, and Wells Fargo.
Jim's corporate experience includes three executive level positions in the real estate and construction industry including Chief Operating Officer of the fifth largest architectural firm in the United States. He has taught executive level management courses at San Jose State University and holds an MBA from UC Irvine.
Jim has more than 3,000 skydives and holds five skydiving World Records. He was also a member of an international expedition that skydived to the North Pole. He is one of 400 Professional Exhibition Skydivers in the world. |
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