PROGRAM GUESTS

Phillip F. Anschutz
is Chairman of the Board of Qwest Communications International Inc., and owner of The Anschutz Corporation, a holding company with interests in natural resources, railroads, real estate, and communications. Beginning in the early 1960s, Anschutz parlayed a few family drilling rigs into one of America's largest oil empires, then diversified into railroads, commercial real estate development, and ownership in various public companies. Starting in 1973, his Oxford-AnsCo Development Corp. became one of the biggest real estate operations in downtown Denver, investing in skyscrapers like the Fairmont Hotel, the Anaconda Tower, the Great West Plaza twin towers and the $250 million, 56-story Republic Plaza. Anschutz made good use of his railroad connections when he founded Qwest Communications, which offers phone service and is developing the next-generation Internet. The company laid its fiber-optic network along railroad right-of-ways Anschutz had acquired from Southern Pacific among others. His investments have made him a billionaire, and enabled him to participate in numerous philanthropic activities, including his own charitable institution, the Anschutz Foundation. He is also the owner of the L.A. Kings hockey team.

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Douglas G. Carlston
is the founder a of Broderbund Software., Inc., the nation's leader in developing software programs that educate children through entertainment. An honors graduate of Harvard Law School, Carlston founded Broderbund in 1980 and quit his law practice following the success of its first two games. At Broderbund, he fostered a culture of creativity that led to the development of many innovative products, including the best-selling Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? series that teaches geography and history, the Myst adventure game, Kid Pix Studio and Print Shop that teaches art and design skills, and the Living Books animated versions of childrenŐs classlics. His company has utilized interactive eleclronics, state-of-the-art graphics, animation, and sound to bring the adventure and joy of learning to millions of young people each day. "Kids want to learn, but they want to do it themselves," says Carlston, who created Carmen Sandiego based on childhood games he played. "They play for fun and learn without realizing it."

James Q. Crowe
is President and Chief Executive Officer of Level 3 Communications, a telecommunications company for the Internet age, built around a single, continuously upgradable, high-speed, fiber-optic network using Internet protocol (IP) technology to provide high-speed transmission of voice, data, fax and video. James Crowe earned a BS in mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, New York, and an MBA at Pepperdine University. He was Group Vice President of construction giant Morrison Knudsen before moving to Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. in 1986. At Kiewit, Crowe built one of the first networks to compete with the regional Bells, MFS Communications. Under Crowe's leadership MFS garnered a strategic position in the burgeoning Internet by acquiring Uunet Technologies. MFS was sold to WorldCom Inc. at the end of 1996, and Crowe became Chairman of WorldCom, but soon returned to Kiewit, where he was given control of Kiewit Diversified Group, Inc., soon spun off to become Level 3. With Level 3, Crowe is poised to build the first commercial communications network to be based entirely on packet switching, without the older phone companies' burden of supporting an existing single-circuit system. "Helping people communicate is what gets me up early in the morning and keeps me up late at night," he says.

Michael S. Dell
is the founder of Dell Computer Corporation. A child prodigy from Austin, Texas, Michael Dell applied for a high school equivalency diploma at age eight. By 13 he was speculating profitably in gold, silver and stocks. In his freshman year at the University of Texas, he saw an irresistible opportunity; he bought surplus PCs at cost from overstocked retailers, added memory and disk drives, and sold them to local businesses at 10 to 15 percent under the retail price. By spring break he was selling more than $50,000 a month. At age 18 he formed Dell Computers with $1,000 of his own savings. Running the business out of his dorm room, he recorded sales of more than $180,000 in the first month. Within a decade, he was Chairman and CEO of an international computer giant with more than $12 billion in annual revenues.

Craig O. McCaw
is the founder of Cellular One and Chairman of Teledesic. When Craig McCaw's father died, his mother was forced to liquidate the family businesses one by one to pay his debts and taxes. All that was left was one tiny cable system in Centralia, Washington. While only a sophomore in college, Craig McCaw took the helm of the business. He expanded the cable business and gradually switched into the new and untested field of cellular telephone service. He borrowed astronomic sums, gambling that the portable phone, a standard feature of the millionaire's limousine, would become a fixture in the workman's pick-up truck. By the end of the 1980s, McCaw's Cellular One was the best known brand in the business, and McCaw Cellular had built a national network that dwarfed its competitors. McCaw sold the cellular business to AT&T for $11.5 billion. Before selling his company, McCaw personally took over one of its subsidiaries: Teledesic. Teledesic is now preparing to build a global network of 840 low-altitude satellites to provide Internet-like transmission of digital data to the farthest corners of the Earth.

Mario Morino, Ph.D.
is Chairman of the Morino Institute, a nonprofit organization he founded in 1994 to help people and communities find ways to use the Internet to achieve positive economic and social change. Key activities of the Institute include youth development initiatives that provide enriched learning opportunities through the Internet to children in low-income communities; and the Institute's own Netpreneur Program, which supports and nurtures the growing community of the Greater Washington Area's digital age entrepreneurs. Mario Morino's career spans some 30 years as a business leader, social entrepreneur, and authority on information technology. He is best known for his contributions in the area of information technology. In 1973, he co-founded Morino Associates, one of the earliest computer software firms. Morino Associates merged with another firm to create Legent Corporation in 1989, which grew to be one of 10 largest software firms in the world. Morino retired from Legent in 1992, and in 1995, Legent was acquired by Computer Associates in one of the largest transactions the computer software and services industry had seen up to that time. Morino is also Founder and Chairman of the Potomac Knowledge Way Project, an initiative to prepare and educate the Greater Washington region to compete in the information and communications industries of the 21st century.


Nathan P. Myhrvold, Ph.D.
is Director of Technology at Microsoft Corporation and one of the most influential leaders in American technology. A precocious student, he graduated from high school at age 14 and earned his college degree in mathematics and a masters in geophysics and space sciences at UCLA. Myhrvold then added a masters in economics and a doctorate in theoretical physics from Princeton. Meantime he taught himself programming and began tinkering with computers. He won a postdoctoral fellowship with physicist Stephen Hawking at Cambridge, then took a leave of absence and, with $10,000 from savings and friends, moved to Berkeley to start a software company. In 1986 his venture was acquired by Microsoft, and three years later, he was selected as their chief "technologist." He is now guiding the software giant's charge into the multimedia future.


Catherine B. Reynolds
helped to create the private education loan market that provides funds for millions of students to attend the schools of their choice. She brought entrepreneurial flair to a business defined by government regulation and revolutionized the entire student loan industry. Mrs. Reynolds introduced the first asset-backed securitization structure for consumer education loans, which resulted in more than $3 billion in AAA bond offerings and a multi-billion-dollar annual capital market. In an effort to provide financial products to help produce an educated citizenry, her companies developed a state-of-the-art loan origination system and creative programs that work within the financial rhythm of the family. Additionally, Mrs. Reynolds founded Servus Financial Corporation, a unique and innovative financial services company dedicated to providing a wide array of "private labeled" financial products for many of America's largest companies, including Microsoft, Bank One, and Apple Computer. After Wells Fargo & Company acquired Servus in March 2000, The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation was established as one of the largest foundations in the nation. Known for her passion and belief that education is still the best avenue to the "American Dream," Mrs. Reynolds devotes a substantial amount of time and resources toward this mission.

Michael J. Saylor
is the Founder, President, and CEO of MicroStrategy. One of the leading visionaries of high technology, Micahel Saylor saw that retailers, banks, credit card companies, even fast-food chains, had all compiled massive warehouses of data, but had no way of extracting the information they needed, when they needed it. Just two years out of college, after working at DuPont for only 18 months, he garnered a grant of $100,000 from his former employer and used it to build a $53 million company. Saylor pioneered what he calls ROLAP (Relational On-Line Analytical Processing), which enables businesses and individuals answer very specific questions by processing very large sets of data. Today MicroStrategy, quartered in a 17-story Philip Johnson building in Vienna, Virginia, has more than 750 employees. Its stock price rose over 225% within months of its issue. Out of more than 500 corporate customers (including Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Sprint, MCI, AT&T, American Express and United Airlines) over 100 pay $250,000 a year for MicroStrategy software and services like DSS Suite (Decision Support Software). And Michael Saylor is just getting started. "We think we've found the next great market," he says, "...the ability to provide information to everybody, everywhere, anytime." In March 2000, he announced the foundation of a new online university to provide a first-rate college education over the Internet, free of charge.