Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and technology executive. He has produced 18 #1 singles, with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies, among them the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever and the hit theme song from Grease. He’s worked with artists like the Bee Gees, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin and the Eagles. In recent years he has worked at Universal Music Group and now Sony as a top technology executive and visionary charged with charting the future course of the recording industry.
Linda Ronstadt is a musical legend who began her career in the mid-1960s with the folk-rock group the Stone Poneys. By the 1970’s she’d become the top-selling female vocalist for that decade, and was widely referred to as “The Queen of Rock”. She has earned 11 Grammys, released numerous gold, platinum and multiplatinum records, and lent her voice to over 120 albums. Over the years she has collaborated with such diverse artists as Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle. Christopher Loudon of Jazz Times hailed Ronstadt as “a chameleon who can blend into any background yet remain boldly distinctive.” Her autobiography, entitled Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, was released in September of 2013 and reached Top 10 on The New York Times Best Sellers List in its first week out. You can hear Kelli Richards’ entire interview series on her website at http://AllAccessGroup.com under the Resources Tab / BlogTalkRadio.
Steve Hayden is one of the most important figures of the late twentieth century advertising, leading creative teams at both Chiat/Day and BBDO on the Apple Computer account, where he and Lee Clow made advertising history as co-creators of the breakthrough 1984 Orwellian take-off campaign for Apple Inc. He has won hundreds of awards for creative excellence and dozens more for effectiveness (including the Grand Effie for the launch of the Apple Powerbook.) After helping Apple reclaim the industry lead from IBM and Microsoft, in 1994, Hayden moved to Ogilvy to head the IBM account and change the puclib perception of a brand many considered extinct, eventually propelling Ogilvy to a decade of growth and prosperity. Steve has contributed to award-winning work for such diverse clients as American Express, Kodak, Motorola, Dove, Cisco and SAP.
Eren Niazi has been a serial entrepreneur involved in over 30 technology start-ups. He is a co-founder of Open Source Systems, Inc. and Open Source Storage, Inc. (2001), which pioneered the Open Source movement and has led scale-up systems development teams for notable Bay Area technology start-ups, including Facebook, Friendster and Ebay. Eren holds several US patents in technology, has built government supercomputers, and designed core software systems for the main operations & applications for Shutterfly, the USGS and Lockheed Martin. Eren is truly an innovator, leader and visionary constantly pushing the boundaries of technology innovation and creativity. Eren is currently the CEO of Open Source Storage.
Randy Haykin is Chief Innovator at Haykin Capital and a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist with a career that spans thirty years in Consumer, Enterprise and Infrastructure businesses in both technology and consumer service areas. He was the founding VP of Sales and Marketing at Yahoo and in 1995 founded Interactive Minds (later Outlook Ventures), a San Francisco-based software venture capital family of funds that has funded over 30 early-stage technology firms since inception. Randy currently assists 2-3 startups at a time using an innovative “mentor capitalist” model. He is also a husband, father, author, artist, educator, wine enthusiast and philanthropist.