The strategic advisory board is currently being formed with some of the brightest minds in music, in science and in business.

2005/2006 marks the 50th anniversary of Lorin Hollander's Carnegie Hall debut at the age of eleven, the beginning of his continuous professional career spanning five decades. He was an infant child prodigy who composed music at age three and performed the Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach at five. He has performed with virtually every major symphony orchestra in the world and is a veteran of nearly 2,500 performances: with orchestra, in recital, lecture/recital, chamber ensemble as pianist, symphony and choral conductor. He has collaborated with Bernstein, Mehta, Ozawa, Monteux, Szell, Leinsdorf, Slatkin, Previn, Schwarz, Levine, Kirchner, Haitink, Fleisher, and Ormandy among many others. He had his own national recital series on PBS and performed in the soundtrack of "Sophie's Choice." His mentors were Steuermann, Rudolf and Fleisher and he spent two summers at Marlboro performing with Serkin and Casals. Over the years he has appeared repeatedly with the symphony orchestras of New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Seattle, Dallas, San Antonio and the National Symphony of Washington DC. His international performances have included the London Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Warsaw Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, ORTF of Paris, New Tokyo Philharmonic and Seoul Philharmonic among many others. He appears often on Ocean Cruise Ships as pianist, conductor, lecturer, mentor for University Study Abroad programs; he serves as festival coordinator and even as on-shore tour guide exploring the historical perspectives of Art, Science and Religion. He has recorded for RCA Victor, Columbia, Angel and Delos and PianoDisc.

For over 30 years he has led community outreach and university residencies giving master classes, conducting youth orchestras, counseling students, guiding the gifted, holding seminars on stagefright and training mentors for the arts and sciences. He performs in the workplace, for lifelong learners, in hospitals, prisons, for hospice and with people at risk. Hollander also lectures on, and leads explorations of, human consciousness and creativity, transpersonal psychology, transformational education and mentoring, spiritual and personal growth and integral health. He investigates how we may end and prevent the violent, criminal and suicidal dysfunctions of our children, (Columbine High) while empowering our senior citizens to become true mentors and Elders. He sheds new light on the relevance of sacred and ancient knowledge. He works with corporate leaders on the process of transformation in the workplace and explores in depth a multi-cultural understanding of the nature of being human.

In 2003 Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, entered into an exclusive venture with Thomas D. Mottola to launch Casablanca Records.

As one of the most highly regarded and influential executives in the worldwide entertainment business, Mr. Mottola most recently served as Chairman and CEO Sony Music Entertainment. During his tenure, he transformed Sony into one of the most successful global music companies in history, expanding its businesses in over 60 countries, while creating one of the strongest management teams in the industry. Along the way, he developed and nurtured many of contemporary music's top icons, from Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Gloria Estefan and Aerosmith, to Destiny's Child, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Nas, the Dixie Chicks, Shakira and Marc Anthony, among many others.

A renowned trendsetter, Mr. Mottola has also been at the forefront of driving popular culture, creating a number of highly successful strategic co-branding initiatives, including superstar Celine Dion's marketing partnership with Chrysler and an unprecedented and multifaceted global marketing campaign with Pepsi. Moreover, he revitalized Sony Music's publishing division by securing the much sought after acquisition of Sony Tree and enabled Sony to become the first major music company to make available commercial digital downloads.

Mr. Mottola joined Sony (then CBS Records) in 1988 at age 37 as President of CBS Records, making him the youngest President in CBS history. A year later, after a restructuring of the company, he was named President of Sony Music. And in 1993, he was named Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment. Prior to joining CBS, Mr. Mottola was one of music's most prominent artist managers, who successfully launched the careers of such chart-toppers as Hall & Oates, Carly Simon and John Mellencamp.

Most recently, Mr. Mottola branched out into television production when leading music channel VH-1 approached him about developing a reality based television program centered around his unprecedented track record for discovering, nurturing and transforming female artists into worldwide superstar divas. Serving as Executive Producer, Mr. Mottola and VH-1 debuted Born to Diva earlier this year and enjoyed immediate success. Detailing an intercontinental musical search for the next diva, the program quickly garnered critical acclaim and launched its own dedicated following of fans through thousands of pieces of mail and hundreds of web sites from around the world.

Known also for his many philanthropic activities, Mr. Mottola serves on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Police Athletic League, T.J. Martell Foundation for Cancer, Leukemia and AIDS Research, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and Museum, and the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation.

In an industry that has its fair share of multi-talented multi-hyphenates, it's worth noting the career of Ric Wake. Ric presides over a vast musical empire: one that encompasses The W&R Group, a thriving production company, Notation Music, a publishing division which oversees the work of 30 songwriters and whose success include covers by Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, and Celine Dion, and two state of the art recording studios.

Yet it's not just his keen business savvy that has helped secure Ric's reputation in the music industry. He has been a highly successful producer and remixer since the late 80s, when he first hooked up with newcomer Taylor Dayne and masterminded a string of Top 10 and number one hits for her, among them "Tell It To My Heart", "I'll Always Love You" and "Love Will Lead You Back".

Since that auspicious beginning, Ric has showed little signs of slowing down or, more importantly, losing his platinum creative touch. Among the lengthy list of projects that Ric has been involved with are Mariah Carey's #1 pop single "Someday" (from her Grammy winning debut) and both production and remix work on the last four multi-platinum Celine Dion CDs, including Grammy winner "Falling Into You" and her last blockbuster "Let's Talk About Love".

These days, when Ric's not running his companies, or hitting clubs to scout out new talent, he can be found in the studio working with Grammy winning country star Ginuwine, Marc Anthony, and Anastacia. His work on Jennifer Lopez's multi-platinum debut "On the 6" earned him a Grammy nomination in the "Best Dance Song" category for the Top-10 hit "Waiting For Tonight". Their collaboration proved successful again when the song "Love Don't Cost A Thing" which Ric produced, topped the charts in the U.S. and abroad, and became the most requested video on the MTV show "TRL" for several weeks. The single's amazing strength helped Jennifer's sophomore album "J-Lo" enter the charts at #1 in 16 countries, including the U.S.

Last year, Ric scored his second Grammy Award for "Best Compilation Soundtrack Album" for producing the multi-platinum selling soundtrack to the Academy Award winning Miramax film "Chicago: The Musical". Ric traveled to London, Canada and even Romania to record with the actors (Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta Jones, Queen Latifah and John C. Reilly), many of who were first time singers.

For this former musician turned mixer and producer, the notion of taking on all of these varied projects is both daunting but ultimately satisfying. "I'm definitely wearing a lot of different hats," admits Ric, "The publisher hat, the record company hat, the producer hat, you name it. But the cool thing is that I think a lot of them really do work well together. The synergy between all those disparate jobs was why my partner and I decided to form [parent company] W&R Group because we both had ears for what make a good song and a hit record and we wanted to see that creative process through from the inception to the completion. "Plus," Ric smiles, "it's great to be able to find new talent and watch that career take off. We are looking to sign the next Babyface or Diane Warren - that's something we're shooting for."

It is his dedicated vision that motivated NARAS to honor Ric in 1998 for his production work, a honor that Ric is characteristically embarrassed and flattered by. "I feel it's a little soon in my career be honored", Ric says humbly, "but I'm very happy."

Peter Swartling is internationally renowned for his A&R talent and has enjoyed more than a decade of major success nurturing and developing superstar talent. He is known as one of Scandinavia's greatest trendsetters; by changing the mass market appeal, the sounds in vogue and music marketing methods, Peter has gained a reputation as the most influential A&R of the last decade in Scandinavia and is responsible for the acceptance of Soul/R&B and Hip-Hop/Rap music in Sweden. In 1996 Peter, together with Max Martin and Denniz Pop, created the Swedish R&B/Pop sound that has since ruled the worldwide charts. The release "Robyn is Here" was the team's first US hit, with a string of #1s to follow.

Peter Swartling has spent his career finding, developing, nurturing and impacting talent worldwide. His revolutionary thinking and marketing helped break borders with artists like Robyn, who continues to enjoy significant worldwide success today. He has also been instrumental in guiding the careers of songwriters/producers Gerry DeVaux, Anders Bagge of Murlyn Music, Nicole Renee, Billy York and founded DZI Works Inc. DZI has an A&R consulting contract with Sony Music and is currently representing the following producers: Supa'flyas, Ghost, Dalos, Webb & Collén, Blaö, Tromberg and Dickie Klein. DZI is also developing recording artists Tori London, Lala, C-Rayz Walz, Vera Brown, Dunderhoney, Adjovi, Shirley Haim, Tantra and Bloodline.

Antoni has a Degree in Physics from the the Universidad de Barcelona where he graduated with high honors and also a Ph.D. in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona where he graduated Cum Laude. Antoni is the creator of much of the core technology that drives Polyphonic HMI's music analysis technology.

As an academic he was a visiting postdoctoral research fellow from 1974 to 1976 at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California. He then moved to Venezuela, where he held a teaching position in Theoretical Physics at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas until 1985, teaching numerous courses in Physics and Mathematics. During this period he was promoted to full professor and was responsible for the design of the Ph.D. Program in Physics. He has been invited in several occasions as a visiting member of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, invited by the Nobel Prize Professor C.N. Yang, as well as a visiting professor of the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and the Instituto de Física of Montevideo (Uruguay).

In 1985 he returned to his home country of Spain, where he taught at the Theoretical Physics Department of the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. A year later he won a Professor tenure position in the Applied Mathematics Department of the Telecommunications Engineering School in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

He is the author of more than thirty research papers published in international journals and has directed several Ph.D., Master and Graduating Thesis.

In business he was a founding partner of Aplicaciones en Informática Avanzada (AIA), and Vice-Chairman and R&D Director. AIA is a Software and Consulting Company specialized in business and industrial applications of Innovative Software Technology. AIA is also Polyphonic HMI's parent company.

Under his direction the Innovation division has produced a series of algorithms suited to solve a broad variety of technical problems of great complexity. The key for this success has been his ability to combine the mathematical techniques and models from the theoretical physics field with optimization algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques.

Among his main achievements we may cite:

• First and second generation Expert Systems used to solve a variety of problems in the railway business (incidence solving, intelligent electrical network editor with on-line connectivity analysis, intelligent review and maintenance planning)
• A non iterative, convergent load-flow algorithm, suited to develop black-out recovery strategies in electric transport and distribution networks.
• A solution for the hydraulic energy generation optimization problem that takes into account all relevant elements.
• A supervised learning algorithm (EVA) that learns expert classification criteria through binary comparisons.
• An unsupervised learning algorithm (ADAN) that is able to perform hierarchical conceptual clustering detecting non linear structures using a model derived from classical field theory
• The conceptual development and implementation of Intelligent Observation Systems (SIO), a successful paradigm for the observation and intelligent interpretation of data.
• A Game theoretical model for the Spanish electric daily market with high prediction capability

Vic Sarjoo is a money manager, investment banker and business consultant. His financial market opinion can be heard quoted by Bloomberg, CNN Financial and CNN Headline News. A Wall Street career spanning employment with Merrill Lynch, Chase and Citicorp, he founded VSAM Global Asset Management, a private investment management and investment banking boutique, in 1998. VSAM's money management model has outperformed the U.S. Equities markets every year since 1998 while also avoiding most of post-bubble bear market. He is also very active as a volunteer teacher in his former high school in New York, as well as The Future Business Leaders of America youth group and New York Cares, an organization which cleans up parks and schools in New York City. Mr. Sarjoo is based out of New York, New Orleans and San Francisco.