President, ITR Economics
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Former General and Secretary of State
Alfred A. Piergallini
Chairman, Gerber Products Company
Ambassador Paul Bremmer
Former Presidential Envoy to Iraq
Ann McLaughlin
Secretary of Labor
U.S. Department of Labor
Arthur C. Brooks
President, AEI
Dr. Bob Arnot
Special Foreign Correspondent, NBC
Bob Beckel / Cal Thomas
USA’s Today’s, “Common Ground” Column
Bo Burlingham
Best-selling author, Small Giants
Bob Woodward
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Columnist
Brian Sheth,
President, Vista Equity Partners
Brian Walker
Chief Executive Officer
Herman Miller, Inc.
C.K. Prahalad
Professor, University of Michigan
Calvin Johnson, Jr.
Retired, Detroit Lions
Carlos Guttierez
Chairman & CEO, Kellogg Company
Catherine Crier
Legal Journalist, Court TV Anchor
Charles Krauthammer
Pulitzer Prize Winning Columnist
Chris Illitch
Illitich Holdings
Chris Wallace
Host, FOX News Sunday
Christie Todd Whitman
Administrator
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Clarence Page
Pulitzer-prize winner for commentary
Clarence Thomas
U.S. Court of Appeals
Cokie Roberts
ABC News Analyst, Co-anchor and author
Daniel Pink
Author, Thought Leader
David Broder
Political Analyst
David Brooks
New York Times
David Wessel
Economics Editor, Wall Street Journal
David R. Whitwam
Chairman, Whirlpool Corporation
Debbie Stabenow
U.S. Senator
Dick Cheney
Former Vice President, United States
The Honorable Dick Thornburgh
U.S. Attorney General
Major Dan Rooney,
Retired, USAF, Founder, Folds of Honor
Donald Rumsfeld
Former White House Chief of Staff &
Secretary of Defense
Don Miller,
CEO, StoryBrand
Doug DeVos
President, Amway Corp.
Edsel Ford
Board Director, Ford Motor Co.
Eugene Robinson,
Pulitzer Prize Winning Columnist, The Washington Post
F. Danforth Quayle
Vice President of the U.S.
Frank Abagnale
Author, Lecturer and Consultant
“Catch Me If You Can”
Frank Luntz
Pollster, American Political Consultant
Frank Popoff
Chairman, Dow Chemical
Frederik G.H. Meijer
Chairman of the Board, Meijer, Inc.
Gail Buckner
Vice President, Putnam Investments
Gretchen Carlson
Journalist, Author, News Anchor
Gretchen Whitmer,
Governor, State of Michigan
Hamilton Jordan
Former White House, Chief of Staff
Dr. Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State, 1973-1977
General Hugh Shelton
Former Chairman Joint Chief’s of Staff
Bush and Clinton Administrations
Indra Nooyi
CEO, PepsiCo
J.C. Watts
Former U.S. Representative
JJ Ramberg
Host, MSNBC’s Your Business
Jacques Panis
President, Shinola
James Bradley
Author “Flags of our Fathers” & “Fly Boys”
James P. Hackett
President & CEO, Ford Motor Co.
Jane Bryant Quinn
Financial Author, Columnist
Jane Garvey
Federal Aviation Administration
Jay Van Andel
Chairman of the Board, Amway Corp.
Jerry Greenfield
Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry’s
John Hockenberry
Correspondent, Dateline NBC
Josh Linkner
ePrize Founder & Best-selling Author
Juan Enriquez
Author, Chairman & CEO, Biotechonomy
Juan Williams
Political Analyist, Fox News
Karl Rove
Former Deputy Chief of Staff
Political Strategist
Kevin Colleran
Executive, Facebook
Kirk Gibson,
Retired, MLB Player
L. William Seidman
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance
Lou Anna K. Simon
President, MSU
Louis A. Weil, III
Publisher, Time, Inc.
Lynn Martin
Former Secretary of Labor
Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.
President & CEO, Forbes, Inc.
Mark Halperin
Managing Editor, Bloomberg Politics
Dr. Mark Schlissel,
President, U of M
Marsha Evans
President & CEO, American Red Cross
Martha Seger, Governor
Federal Reserve System
Mary Robinson
Former President of Ireland
Matt Stinchcomb
Co-founder, Etsy.com
Max DePree
President, Herman Miller, Inc.
Mitch Albom
Best-selling author
Neil Pasricha,
Best-selling Author, The Book of Awesome
Owen Bieber
President, United Auto Workers
Patti Poppe,
President & CEO, Consumers Energy
Patrick Kennedy
Founder, One Mind 4 Research
Paul H. O’Neill
Secretary of the Treasury
Paul Hense, CPA
Founder, Money Talks
Peter, Diamandis
Founder, XPRIZE
Peter F. Secchia
U.S. Ambassador to Italy
Platon
World Renowned Photographer
Rana Foroohar
Time Columnist
The Curious Capitalist
Richard Barton
Founder, Expedia and Zillow
Richard M. DeVos
President, Amway Corp.
Rick Snyder
Governor, State of Michigan
Robert Eaton
Chairman, Chrysler Corp.
Robert J. Schultz
Vice Chairman, General Motors Corp.
Ron Insana
Senior Analyst, CNBC
Shawn Achor,
Best-selling Author, The Happiness Advantage
Stephen Dubner,
Freakonomics Series
Dr. Steven Levitt
Economist, Author, Freakonomics
Stuart Eizenstat
Former Deputy Secretary, US Treasury
Teresa Weatherall Neal
Superintendent, GRPS
Tim O’Donovan
President & CEO, Wolverine World Wide
Tom Gardner
Co-creator, The Motley Fool
Tom Izzo
Head Coach, MSU Basketball
Tom Ricketts
Chairman, The Chicago Cubs
Tommy Lasorda
Sr. V.P., Dodger Organization
Tony Hsieh
CEO, Zappos
Tucker Carlson
Journalist, Political Commentator
Verne Harnish,
Best-selling Author, Rockefeller Habits
Vincent Stanley,
Executive, Patagonia
William H. Gray, III
President, UNCF
William U. Parfet
President, The Upjohn Company
William Taylor
Founding Editor, Fast Company
(All positions and companies noted were at the time of the Econ event)
