Nicholas Carr

Author, Utopia is Creepy and Other Provocations

Nicholas Carr is a bestselling writer on technology and culture. He is the author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, as well as other influential books such as The Glass Cage: Automation and Us and The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. He has been a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, and other periodicals. He was formerly executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and a principal at a management consulting firm. He holds a B.A from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Harvard University.

 

Marilyn Fedak is vice chair emeritus for investment services at AllianceBernstein & the founder of the Marilyn G. Fedak Capitalism Project.

Ms. Fedak joined Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. (a predecessor company of AllianceBernstein) in 1984 as a senior portfolio manager. She was chief investment officer for U.S. Large-Cap Value Equities from 1993 to 2009. In 2003, she also became the business head of Bernstein Global Value Equities. In 2009, she was named vice chair of investment services. Ms. Fedak also created and headed the firm's talent development team and was president of the Sanford C. Bernstein Mutual Funds. She was a partner at AllianceBernstein and served on Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.'s board of directors.  She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Prior to joining Bernstein, Ms. Fedak was a portfolio manager and research analyst at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (1972 to 1983) and a systems programmer at IBM (1968-1970).  She has a B.A. from Smith College and an MBA from Harvard University.

Ms. Fedak is the founder of the Marilyn G. Fedak Capitalism Project that, in partnership with the Manhattan Institute started the Adam Smith Society. She is also a member of the Dean's Council of the Weil Cornell Medical College.

David Goldhill

Author, Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care is Wrong

David Goldhill is the author of "Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care is Wrong" (Knopf, January 2013), an original investigation on healthcare in America, why it is failing, and how it can be transformed.  Goldhill regularly speaks on health care topics, having recently appeared at events sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Rand, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, the Institute of Medicine, Manhattan Institute, World Health Care Congress and the Association of Healthcare Journalists. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Leapfrog Group, an employer-sponsored organization dedicated to hospital safety and transparency.

From 2007 through 2017, Goldhill was president and CEO of GSN. Prior to joining GSN, Goldhill was chairman and CEO of Independent Network Holdings, Ltd. (INTH). He also served as president and COO of Universal Television Group, a division of Universal Studios.  Goldhill was also the CFO of Act III Communications. He began his career as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Leapfrog Group, an employer-sponsored organization dedicated to hospital safety and transparency. Goldhill graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. degree in history and holds an M.A. degree in history from New York University.

Jared Lindzon

Freelance Journalist

Jared Lindzon is a freelance journalist and speaker based in Toronto, Canada, writing about technology, entrepreneurship, politics, and the future of work. His writing is regularly featured in major publications in Canada, the United States and around the world, including Fast Company, Fortune, Rolling Stone, Politico, the Guardian, the Globe & Mail, and more.

Daniel Mangiero

Managing Director & Head of Global Trade Operations, Oz Management

Daniel Mangiero is a Managing Director and Head of Global Trade Operations for Oz Management. He is responsible for the implementation and management of Global Trade Operations which includes trade capture, trade settlement, confirmations, and collateral management for all asset classes globally.

Mr. Mangiero has over 10 years of experience in finance. Prior to joining Oz Management in 2006, he held various roles within the Equity Derivatives Middle Office Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Mangiero holds a B.A. in Criminal Law/Justice from the University of Richmond and a Dual M.B.A. in Management and Finance from Wagner College.

Mark Mills

Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; CEO, Digital Power Group

Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, CEO of the Digital Power Group (a tech-centric capital advisory group), faculty fellow at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and an advisory board member of Notre Dame University's Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. Previously, he cofounded and was chief tech strategist of Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. Mills is a contributor to Forbes.com and coauthor of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (2005; Number One on Amazon's science and math rankings). Mills served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan and subsequently provided science and technology policy counsel to numerous private-sector firms, the Department of Energy, and U.S. research laboratories.

Early in his career, Mills was an experimental physicist and development engineer at Bell Northern Research (Canada's Bell Labs) and at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center on microprocessors, fiber optics, missile guidance, nuclear energy, and nonproliferation, earning several patents for his work. He holds a degree in physics from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.

 

Nico Perrino

Director of Communications, FIRE

Nico Perrino is director of communications for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonpartisan organization devoted to defending and sustaining civil liberties in higher education. He is also the host of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast. His writing has been featured in Politico, USA Today, and The Guardian, and he regularly travels the country to speak with students about their free speech rights. Nico lives and works in New York City.

James Taranto edits the Journal’s op-ed pages. Until January 2017 he wrote the popular Best of the Web column for WSJ.com. In August 2007 he was named a member of the Journal’s editorial board.

From 2000 through 2008, his column appeared at OpinionJournal.com, of which he was editor. He previously served as the Journal’s deputy editorial features editor. He joined the Journal in 1996 as an assistant editorial features editor after spending five years as an editor at City Journal, the Manhattan Institute’s quarterly of urban public policy. He has also worked for the Heritage Foundation, United Press International, Reason magazine and KNX News Radio in Los Angeles. He is co-editor of “Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House” (Wall Street Journal Books, 2004). He attended California State University, Northridge.