Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world's largest business networking organization. BNI was founded in 1985. The organization has thousands of chapters throughout every populated continent of the world. Each year, BNI generates millions of referrals resulting in billions of U.S. dollars worth of business for its members.

Dr. Misner's Ph.D. is from the University of Southern California. He has written over 24 books, including many Amazon and New York Times Bestsellers. He is a monthly columnist for Entrepreneur.com and has taught business management and social capital courses at several universities throughout the United States.

Called the "Father of Modern Networking" by CNN and the "Networking Guru" by Entrepreneur magazine, Dr. Misner is considered to be one of the world's leading experts on business networking and has been a keynote speaker for major corporations and associations throughout the world. He has been featured in the L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York. Times, as well as numerous TV and radio shows including CNN, CNBC, and the BBC in London.

Dr. Misner has been named "Humanitarian of the Year" by the Red Cross and was awarded the John C. Maxwell Award for Leadership. In his spare time!!! he is also an amateur magician and a black belt in karate.

Julian Lewis is Passionate about personal and business success; Julian is a portfolio entrepreneur with businesses interests in companies as diverse as IT Support to Film Making. He is a Founding Partner of the business coaching company Integrus Global and an Executive Director of BNI in the UK.

In 1997 he started his first business and has gone on to start and grow businesses ever since. He continues to coach, mentor and consults to businesses globally.

He still owns the IT company he started in 1999 as well as being Non-Executive Director of Bad Blood Films Limited. Since starting his first business he has always had the goal to own 5 profitable businesses at any one time personally and to influence the success of 1000’s of others. He achieved his goal of 5 profitable companies in 2018.

Julian believes that everyone achieves more when they are surrounded by the right people. He works with others to grow and unlocking their true potential.

He is mad about rugby union and volunteers to help his local Rugby Club; in his time, he had held many management positions at the club including being Charmian for 3 years. These days to relax he watches live rugby, cycles with friends and drinks real ale always brewed locally to where he is. Julian is a big fan of France and the French culture, food and wine, he visits France at least twice a year.

Greg knows he has the very best job in the world, in fact he feels slightly embarrassed about calling it a job.

Known as the Storyfella, he uses his passion for telling stories to help businesses and communities thrive, and people overcome limiting beliefs and avoidance behaviours.

After working in both large corporations and owning his own small business, he understands that working hard is sometimes unavoidable and necessary, but says "that’s ok, as long as we understand why we are doing it, and we surround ourselves with those people who inspire us to be better, every single day."

A bestselling author, multi-award winning director of BNI, President of the Founder’s Circle, corporate trainer, and international inspirational speaker, Greg still finds time to drum with the mighty Goat Patrol and is a not so secret Disney fan, citing the first as the ultimate stress relief, and the second as his, Franky’s, and his two daughters’ happy place.