Bruce Herschensohn

Bruce Herschensohn has been a television and radio political commentator for the more than two decades. After service in the United States Air Force, he began his own motion picture company and was appointed Director of Motion Pictures and Television for the United States Information Agency (USIA). During his tenure, the USIA received more awards for film and television productions than all other departments and agencies of the United States government combined, including the Oscar from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

He is currently teaching "The World Leadership Role of the United States" at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, and is a non-resident associate fellow of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, as well as a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Individual Freedom.

Diane Harkey

Diane Harkey is the Mayor of Dana Point and is a Republican candidate for the 73rd Assembly District, currently held by Assemblywoman Mimi Walters who has announced her intention to run for the State Senate.

Harkey, who holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, has enjoyed a successful career spanning 30 years in Banking and Corporate Finance. Diane has been actively involved with political issues throughout most of her adult life. Appointed by the County to the Architectural Review Board in 1987, she began working actively with the County for Dana Point's incorporation in 1989. Since then, Diane has been a part of countless campaigns for city, county, state and national candidates and initiatives.

In 2006, due to a vacancy created by former State Senator John Campbell's successful bid for Congress, Diane, a first-term councilwoman, ran an aggressive campaign in a special election open primary against a sitting State Legislator. Despite a narrow loss of 225 votes, Harkey earned the respect of Republican leaders across Orange County.

As Mayor and member of the Dana Point City Council, Diane has worked to implement a balanced budget and a reserve policy for the City. She has also championed efforts to reform government by promoting business development, encouraging regional cooperation and joint-use options to save taxpayer dollars, increasing citizen involvement by promoting new candidates for political office, and working towards common sense solutions to growth and development.

Diane is presently involved in bringing awareness to Orange County regarding the potential for Tribal Gaming Casinos, working to promote transportation and completion of the Foothill South Tollroad, and regionalizing Dana Point's approach to how it conducts business.

In addition to her duties as Mayor, Diane also serves on many Boards and Commissions including, but not limited to:

• League of California Cities
• South Orange County Major Investment Study Group
• San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency
• Chairman, Investment Review Committee
• Orange County Council of Governments
• Ocean Institute
• Liaison, Capistrano Unified School District

Diane currently serves as an active Member of Ocean Institute's Sand Dollar Guild, a Trustee for the Capistrano Valley Symphony, and Member of the Chamber of Commerce. Diane has been married to her husband, Dan, for twenty-four years. Together they have a daughter, Jaclyn, a senior at USC's Marshall School of Business.

Jose Piñera

Jose Piñera is the master architect of Chile's socio-economic transformation. While Labor Minister of Chile, from 1978-1980, Piñera won a victory for capitalism and freedom when he devised and implemented what Investor's Business Daily calls "the world's most successful privatized pension system." A reformer with results, Piñera has been called upon for his expertise by President George W. Bush and the United States Congress. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Economist.

As founder and President of the International Center for Pension Reform, Piñera has advised many governments on the process of economic liberalization. Piñera's economic initiatives have commenced a worldwide paradigm shift, with seven other Latin American countries and three European countries, including Sweden, following his Chilean pension model. Bipartisan American interest has been shown for Piñera's valuable reforms. Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Milton Friedman, one of the world's best-known economists, are among those who have expressed support for Piñera's reforms.

Full of passion, and the need to share the success of his country's economic rebirth, Piñera reveals his solution for the United States. With the coming retirement of the baby boom generation and the issues raised by the Enron debacle, Piñera's message of individual responsibility and transparency is more important than ever. From the podium, Piñera's animated presence and international experience give vigor and diversity to complex economic issues, while demonstrating that solutions do exist.

As Minister of Labor and Social Security for Chile, Piñera set up a funded pension system to replace his country's bankrupt pay-as-you-go scheme. This action laid the groundwork for the country's economic revitalization and political opening. As Minister of Mining (1981), he introduced the mining reform that established property rights in this key sector of the Chilean economy.

Piñera is a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute, a non-profit public policy research foundation, where he is also co-chair of the organization's Project on Social Security Choice and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Trade Policy Center.

Piñera holds a masters and doctorate in Economics from Harvard University. He has published numerous articles and is the author of six books.

Dr. Liam Fox MP

Liam was born in 1961. He was educated at St Bride's High School, East Kilbride and University of Glasgow where he studied medicine. As a keen university debater he won national and international prizes.

Liam is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He worked as a Civilian Army Medical Officer and also worked in the voluntary sector as a divisional surgeon for St Johns before working as a GP in Buckinghamshire and Somerset.

He has a large number of interests outside of politics including skiing, tennis, and diving.

Liam's Experience

Liam contested Roxburgh and Berwickshire in the 1987 General Election, and was elected as the Member of Parliament for Woodspring in April 1992.

In June 1993, Liam was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Michael Howard, then Home Secretary. In July 1994, he was appointed an Assistant Government Whip, and promoted to the position of Senior Government Whip the following year. He was a Minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1996 until the 1997 General Election.

In June 1997, Liam was appointed Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Constitutional Affairs. For four years from May 1999 to November 2003 he served as Shadow Secretary of State for Heath before being appointed Co-Chairman of the Party in 2003. Subsequently, from May 2005 to December 2005, he served as Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Since December 2005, he has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.

Sir Eldon Griffiths
Sir Eldon Griffiths has spent 40 years traveling in and out of the Middle East. His latest book, Turbulent Iran, looks back on his encounters with the Shah and Mossadegh, reveals details of U.S. support for Iran’s nuclear power program and offers suggestions for an end to the cold war between America and the country he describes as “once our closest friend, now our greatest enemy" in the Middle East.

A true “Citizen of the World,” Sir Eldon has engaged in world affairs as a foreign correspondent and editor for Time, Life and Newsweek magazines; as a member of the British Parliament and later a minister in Her Majesty’s government; director and consultant to multinational companies; commentator on London radio and television; and later as chairman and now national chairman emeritus of the 450,000 member World Affairs Councils of America.

Born in England and educated at Cambridge and Yale universities, Sir Eldon Griffiths helped set up the U.N.’s environmental agency in Nairobi, Kenya; participated in planning the Channel Tunnel between England and France; and represented his government at international conferences in Brussels, Washington and Moscow. Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appointed him her party’s spokesman on European and NATO issues. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.

Chuck DeVore
Chuck DeVore represents California's 70th Assembly District, an area that includes about 450,000 people in the Orange County communities of Aliso Viejo, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Newport Beach, and Tustin. His legislative committee assignments are: Vice Chairman of Veterans Affairs; Revenue and Taxation; and, Budget. He was elected in 2004 and reelected in 2006.

Before his election Chuck worked for SM&A, a $75 million per year aerospace engineering and management services firm as the Vice President for Research and for Communications.

Chuck currently serves in the California Army National Guard. He holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His Army service has taken him to Korea and Panama. He supported Operation Desert Storm from Ft. Irwin, CA, and he patrolled the streets of Los Angeles during the riots in 1992. His awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Army Achievement Medal with two bronze oak leaf clusters, and several others. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and the Combined Arms Staff Services School.

Chuck served as a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon from 1986 to 1988. As Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs his duties included working with Congress to advance the President’s foreign and military policy. Chuck’s official travels took him to Asia, Europe, Africa, and Central America. His initiative helped develop the Arrow Anti-Ballistic Missile program.

His opinion pieces have appeared in Human Events, the Orange County Register, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Taipei Times, the Jamestown Review, the U.S. Army’s Red Thrust Star, and many others.

Chuck moved to Orange County in 1980 and has lived in the 70th Assembly District since 1988. Married in 1988, Chuck and his wife Diane have two daughters, Jennie, born in 1991, and Amy, born in 1997.

Ed Royce

Ed Royce was elected to the U.S. House of representatives in 1992. He immediately became an activist crusading on behalf of crime victims, taxpayers, and veterans. Royce has worked hard to cut government waste, fraud and abuse while fighting hard to make the tax cuts permanent for all hard-working Americans.

The California congressman has consistently received honors and awards from the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, National Federation of Independent Businesses, Watchdogs of the Treasury, Americans for Tax Reform, and the Small Business Survival Committee.

Royce began his public service as a state senator, where he was known for his tireless work on behalf of victims rights. He wrote the nation's first anti-stalker legislation which made the act a felony, and which was used as a model for anti-stalking legislation in other states. He passed a federal version of his bill which was signed into law in 1996 that makes stalking across state lines a federal crime and enables enforcement to intervene before violence occurs. He also authored California's Proposition 115 - the Crime Victims Speedy Trial Initiative, approved by voters in 1990.

Royce sits on the International Relations Committee, where he chairs the International Terrorism and Nonproliferation Subcommittee and is Vice-Chair of the Africa, Global Human Rights and Operations Subcommittee. In addition, he is a member of the House Financial Services Committee where he continues to fight against corporate corruption and fight for the rights of American taxpayers.

A California native, Royce graduated from Cal State Fullerton's School of Business Administration. He and his wife Marie live in Fullerton.  

Doug DeCinces

Doug DeCinces, former California Angeles third baseman and the developer of Irvine’s Strawberry Farms Golf Club, is scheduled to appear at a breakfast meeting sponsored by Young Executives of America (YEA) on Tuesday, March 29th, 7:30 a.m., at The Pacific Club in Newport Beach, Calif. DeCinces’ topic will be “Turning Your Dreams into a Reality.”

Dreams into a Reality.” DeCinces is President and CEO of DeCinces Properties, an Orange County-based real estate development and business entrepreneur firm. In addition to being the developer and majority owner of Strawberry Farms, he heads many investment partnerships, including one for Ruby’s restaurants. Prior to entering the business world, he spent 19 years playing professional baseball, including 11 years with the Baltimore Orioles, five years with the California Angeles and one year for a team in Japan. In 1979 he became the 15th player in the history of Major League Baseball to hit a home run in his first at-bat in a World Series.

Paul Mlotok:

Formerly Wall Street’s top-ranked oil industry analyst, Paul Mlotok is now CEO of The Janaka Group, a company dedicated to helping companies and executives succeed through the practical use of values in business. On Wednesday, May 19, Mr. Mlotok will discuss:

• Defining your company’s Value Set
• Employing this Values Set in a realistic way to increase business and avoid costly errors
• Maintaining a calm and clear inner state in the midst of the chaos and uncertainty of everyday events.

Mr. Mlotok has served as an advisor to the U.S. State Department and to several OPEC oil ministers, as well as serving as president of the Oil Analysts Group of New York. He has made frequent appearances on the business programs of CNN and CNBC and has been a featured guest on Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser.

Stephen Carley:

Young Executives of America hosted a breakfast meeting with Stephen Carley on August 6, 2003 at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach. An influential brand leader with more than 20 years of marketing and operations expertise, Steve Carley is currently president and CEO of El Pollo Loco, Inc., the popular California-based chain of Mexican-style chicken restaurants.

Carley’s leadership experience covers a wide range of industries. Prior to joining El Pollo Loco in April of 2001, Carley was president of PhotoPoint Corp., a company specializing in online consumer digital photography. From 1996 to 1998, Carley was president and COO of Universal City Hollywood where he directed all components of the Universal Studios/City Walk entertainment complex. During his 12 years at PepsiCo in the 1980s and 1990s, Carley held numerous positions with both PepsiCo and Taco Bell Corp. As vice president of development for Taco Bell, he achieved significant improvements in new unit performance through enhanced site selection and aggressive cost optimization. Other positions Carley held at Taco Bell include vice president of operations and vice president of field marketing. At PepsiCo International, he served as director of operations for the Arabian Gulf and director of marketing for the Mid-East region.