Mark Levine

Joseph J. Grano, Jr. is chairman and CEO of CenturionHoldings LLC, a company that advises private and public companies.From 2001-2004, Grano was chairman of UBS Financial Services, Inc.(formerly UBS PaineWebber). Having joined the company in 1988,Grano is credited for turning PaineWebber around and shepherdingits merger with Swiss banking giant UBS. Grano began his career asa stock broker at Merrill Lynch, where he rose to various seniormanagement positions over sixteen years. He was also chairman ofthe Board of Governors of the NASD. A decorated war hero, Grano waschosen by the White House to be chairman of the President'sHomeland Security Advisory Council after 9/11, a position he heldfrom 2002-2005. The recipient of countless awards for leadership,civic contributions, as well as honorary degrees, he is involved ina wide range of educational and philanthropic endeavors. Grano isalso a producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway smash JerseyBoys. For more information, please visitwww.Joe-Grano.com. Mark Levine has written and collaborated on more thanthirty books, including the bestsellers Second Acts, DieBroke, and Lifescripts, as well as hundreds of magazinearticles. He lives in Ithaca, New York.