Lacy has been a business reporter for 10 years, most recently covering technology for BusinessWeek. Her book, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, was published by Gotham Books in May 2008. She is also Silicon Valley host of Yahoo Finance's Tech Ticker and beginning mid-February is blogging temporarily for tech blog TechCrunch.
Lara Lee is a directing associate of Jump Associates and former VP of Enthusiast Services at Harley-Davidson.
Alaina Love is a consultant, writer, speaker, and the president of Purpose Linked Consulting, a leadership and organization development firm. Prior to founding PLC, Love spent more than twelve years at Merck & Co., Inc. where she was executive director of human resources (worldwide), a research scientist and clinical researcher. Love now provides a broad range of leadership, team and organization development services to clients around the world, including The Passion Profile, a comprehensive tool used by PLC to assess individuals' work-related passions. She is co-author of the McGraw-Hill book, The Purpose Linked Organization: How Passionate Leaders Inspire Winning Teams and Great Results. The book identifies and explores the impact of the 'passion archetypes' of great leaders, provides a process for leaders to maximize the individual passions on their teams, and offers free access to the Passion Profile, online tool, where readers can discover their own passions and how to apply them to their roles at work.