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Lauren Chung is a New York City Personal Fashion Consultant that broke out of corporate America to launch her own business styling busy executives. She's trained at New York's Fashion Institute, moonlighted as a Personal Shopper, and has now built quite a reputation with an A-list of clients. Lauren believes "you can use your image to empower yourself in whatever you do, with whomever you meet, and wherever you go."

Australian-born Lincoln Mayne plays a major role in the new school of design and the constantly changing downtown NY art and fashion scene. His designs can be described as a melange of textures, and colors with a strong emphasis on botanical mark making. Mayne has become a multi-media artist with a fine arts approach to design.

His unconventional approach and his status as an underground anomaly resulted in numerous collaborations with high profile names such as VH1, Bumble and Bumble, and Sony. Mayne's success inspired him to form a more mature, self-titled menswear line which subsequently attracted the attention of Onward Kashiyama and others including Mick Jagger, Green Day, Angie Stone, and Calvin Klein.

Interview of Liz Cohen at The Gender Turntable

Lorien is an entrepreneur and lawyer who was born in Malaysia while his dad was curing tropical diseases with the Peace Corps. Off to a cool start, he spent the next few years of his life in Hawaii, San Diego, India…before settling into the much more exciting, colorful and exceedingly polite land of Canada.

In 1994, at the age of 24, when Lorien’s younger brother Matt asked him to run his bourgeoning internet company, Lorien did what any self-respecting lawyer of 6 months would do--he quit. He moved the company from their parent’s basement and over the next four years managed the growth of Interlog, one of Canada’s first commercial ISP’s, to over 150 employees, 65,000 customers and annualized revenue exceeding $12M. The company was then acquired by a large multinational telecommunications provider. Determined not to be one hit wonders.

Lorien and Matt teamed up again and co-founded Bird on a Wire Networks - a managed web hosting and data-center provider which was one of the first of its kind in Canada. Within two years, the company was acquired by AT&T Canada.

In 2003, Lorien moved to New York City. When not snowboarding or surfing, Lorien has been known to run divisions of Fortune 500 companies (Micron), spearhead the exponential U.S. growth of a UK based tech company (MessageLabs) as Global VP, Business Development, serve on the advisory board of a number of start-ups (including Canada Web Hosting) and whip up a mean breakfast of Spanish eggs.

Lorien has a LLB from Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School and is a member in good standing with the Ontario Bar. He resides in NYC where he can be seen running along the west side highway listening to the latest DJ mix or a CBC Canada political podcast.

I began my advertising career in 1994 at Leagas Delaney where I spent seven years, based both in the UK and Europe. After two years running key accounts at the London hotshop, HHCL + Partners, I co-founded a headhunting business and focussed on sourcing and managing the best creative talent worldwide. I've been with the company in London since early 2006 as global Head of Creative and I'm now based in New York as CEO of The Talent Business. When I'm not working, I'm a voracious reader with a secret penchant for late 18th and early 19th century fiction.

(From Wikipedia, 7/15/07)