Ellen Spencer Susman is creator and moderator of www.LeadersForum.com, a monthly live Internet conference focusing on leadership development.  She began her broadcast career at CBS, was one of the original hosts of Group W's.Evening/PM Magazine and had a successful career as a television reporter and anchor.  For more than 20 years, Susman has produced seminars and conferences, leading her to projects such as "The Aspen Institute Television Show" and others.  Her firm, The Spencer Connection, Inc., specializes in creating, moderating and facilitating programs and seminars for the corporate marketplace.  She is a member of the National Speakers Association and co-author of a book The Leadership Path.

A graduate of Briarcliff College, she is married and has two children.

Melanie Gray joined Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP in 1985 and became a partner in 1989.  Trained as a commercial litigator, she has concentrated in complex commercial disputes and bankruptcy litigation.  She has served as a faculty member for the Advanced Trial Advocacy Program of the University of Houston Law Center, the National Insitute of Trial Attorneys and the National Business Institute. She also serves on the board of Girls Incorporated, Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, Society of Performing Arts, Bo's Place, Texas ACLU and Post Oak School.  She was named one of the ten Women on the Move for 2001 by Texas Executive Women.

She holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany and a J.D. with honors from Syracuse University College of Law.  She is married and has three children.