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Mark Gottfredson is a director of Bain & Company’s office in Dallas, Texas, which he founded in 1990. Over the past 24 years, he has advised Chief Executives and top-level managers in a wide range of industries. Currently, he is serving as the Global Head of Bain’s Performance Improvement Practice. He is also a leader in the firm’s business strategy, airline, manufacturing, and retailing practices.

In 2005, Mr. Gottfredson was named to Consulting Magazine’s list of Top 25 Consultants globally. He has been published extensively in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, European Strategy and the World Business review. In addition, he is frequently sought out and quoted in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Business Week.

Mark obtained his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1983, where he graduated with high distinction and was named a Baker Scholar. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University in Japanese (magna cum laude, honors). Prior to joining Bain, he worked in the financial services and real estate industries.

He is the co-author of The Breakthrough Imperative published by HarperCollins.

Wendy Williams is a resident of Cape Cod and a longtime science and environmental journalist. Her work has appeared in many major news publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The Providence Journal and The Baltimore Sun.

Ms. Williams has been journalist-in-residence at Duke University; journalist-in-residence at the Hasting Center, an independent bioethics research institute; a fellow at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado; and a Marine Biological Laboratory fellow.

She has received many awards, including several prizes for investigative journalism. She is also the wauthor of several books, including The Power Within, a book about people living with cancer, published by Harper/Collins. With Robert Whitcomb, she is the author of Cape Wind: Celebrity, Energy, Class, Politics, and a Valiant Battle for Unobstructed Ocean Views on Nantucket Sound, published by Public Affairs.

Robert Whitcomb Robert Whitcomb is a Providence-based editor and writer. He blogs at (www.newenglanddiary.com) and at www.cmg625.com

Before joining The Providence Journal, he was the financial editor of the International Herald Tribune, based in Paris; an editor and writer for The Wall Street Journal, based in New York; and a writer for The Boston Herald Traveler and the News Journal, in Wilmington, Del. He has also contributed to Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, the New York Times, and Cape Business Magazine, among many other publications. Bob has twice won the first prize from the Associated Press in the AP’s annual press awards for New England for editorial writing.

Bob is the co-author of Cape Wind: Celebrity, Energy, Class, Politics, and a Valiant Battle for Unobstructed Ocean Views on Nantucket Sound published by Public Affairs.

Professor of political science David Welch is the George Ignatieff Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. An expert on international crisis and war, his research focuses on national and international security, decision making, intelligence and moral psychology.

His book, Justice and the Genesis of War was the winner of the 1994 Edgar S. Furniss Award for an Outstanding Contribution to National Security Studies. Decisions, Decisions: The Art of Effective Decision Making was published in 2001 and Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change was published in 2005

David Welch is co-author of On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis and Cuba on the Brink: Castro, The Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse.

He earned his PhD at Harvard University in 1990, and has since held fellowships at Brown and Princeton universities.