CONRAD PLIMPTON is Chairman of Plimpton and Company, and founder of the Healthy Communities and Wellness Alliance, focused on dramatically expanding collaboration, innovation, and access to behavioral healthcare in Southern Arizona. He is Chair of the Whole Brain Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developing a groundbreaking advanced learning system for diagnosing, treating, and managing behavioral health issues associated with lifestyle and chronic diseases. He is the Chair of Sustainable Botanicals International, a  specialty ingredient company providing natural, sustainable, safe, and effective fair-trade organic ingredients for beauty, personal care, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical applications. Conrad was raised in the Middle East and  Latin America and returned to his Boston roots to attend boarding school and subsequently received a Harvard AB in elementary particle physics. He continued his studies at the University of Chicago and received an M.S. in astrophysics and MBA in finance and marketing. He worked for McKinsey and Company, went to Wall Street, and bought his first company in 1972 at age 29, followed by many others. Conrad lives in Tucson and has been active in Desert Angels for 20 years. For the last 16 years, he has been involved with in-home care at Taylor Circle of Friends as a founding client.

EGILS MILBERGS  is the Center for Accelerating Innovation CEO and a founding director of the Healthy Communities and Wellness Alliance. Heis an experienced public sector, entrepreneurial, and nonprofit leader. He has served as Executive Director of the Washington Economic Development Commission, implementing an innovation strategy to recover from the Great Recession, including recruiting 30 university-based entrepreneurs in residence and designating 18 Innovation Partnerships Zones across the state. He has been president/CEO of the National Council for Advanced Manufacturing and the Institute for Illinois. He worked for the Reagan administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Productivity and Technology Innovation (U.S. Commerce Department), implementing the Bayh-Dole technology transfer act across all federal agencies. He was appointed executive director of the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, which brought to national attention the critical importance of investing in workforce skills, emerging technologies, manufacturing infrastructure, and fair trade agreements. His career started with the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, and as a research director in futures studies, information technology, and the national R&D system at SRI International, Menlo Park, California. He is a graduate of Harvard College in economics