Mr. Esperti is a member of the Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, and Montana Bars. He attended Michigan State University and received a Bachelor of Arts, in 1964. He received his Juris Doctorate from Wayne State University in 1969.

Mr. Esperti is the co-author of several texts for professionals and books for the professionals and the public including: Irrevocable Trusts; Analysis & Forms, An Estate Planning Compendium, The Charitable Trust Compendium, Funding a Revocable Living Trust, The Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust, The Loving Trust Guidebook. Generations: Planning Your Legacy, Legacy: Plan, Protect and Preserve Your Estate, The Living Trust Workbook: How to Initiate, Create, Design, and Fund Your Living Trust, The Christian's Guide to Designing a Loving Trust Plan.

Renno L. Peterson, JD
Renno L. Peterson is a Cofounder and CO-Chancellor of The Academy of Multidisciplinary Practice, Inc. He is Cofounder, Chancellor and Dean of the Esperti Peterson Institute for Wealth-Strategies Planning. Mr. Peterson is a partner in Esperti, Peterson & Cahoone, a National Law Firm and Partnership of Professional Corporations; CO-chair, Esperti Peterson & Cahoone Consulting, Inc., a firm providing individualized Wealth Strategies planning for high net worth families. He is also a contributing editor to Cutting-Edge Current. Mr. Peterson has CO-chaired both the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys, and the National Association of Estate Planning Advisors He was a Senior Partner of Esperti, Elrod, Katz, Peterson, Schmidt & Preeo, P.C. (an estate and tax planning firm of 49 lawyers) from 1972-1982.

Mr. Peterson is a member of the Colorado and Florida Bars. He attended Colorado State University and received a B.S. in Business Administration, in 1970. He received his Juris Doctorate from University of Colorado in 1973.

Mr. Peterson is the co-author of several texts for professionals and books for the professionals and the public including: Irrevocable Trusts; Analysis & Forms, An Estate Planning Compendium, The Charitable Trust Compendium, Funding a Revocable Living Trust, The Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust, The Loving Trust Guidebook. Generations: Planning Your Legacy, Legacy: Plan, Protect and Preserve Your Estate, The Living Trust Workbook: How to Initiate, Create, Design, and Fund Your Living Trust, The Christian's Guide to Designing a Loving Trust Plan.

David K. Cahoone, JD, LLM
David K. Cahoone is a partner in the law firm of Esperti Peterson & Cahoone and a member of the Wealth Design firm of Esperti Peterson & Cahoone. He is a professor of both The Academy of Multidisciplinary Practice and the Estate and Wealth Strategies Institute at Michigan State University, and the Director of Curriculum for The Academy of Multidisciplinary Practice. He is the coauthor of a major text on business planning, Strictly Business, with Larry Gibbs, and a frequent lecturer and author or co-author of numerous articles on estate and wealth strategies planning.

Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., is assistant provost for university outreach and engagement and university distinguished professor of psychology at Michigan State University. He is chairperson of the Committee on Engagement, which is part of a multi-university HYPERLINK "http://www.cic.uiuc.edu" \o "CIC, opens in new window" \t "_blank" Committee on Institutional Cooperation. He is also a member of the Council on Extension, Continuing Education, and Public Service Task Force on Engagement. Fitzgerald is co-director of the Michigan Longitudinal Study of Family Risk for Alcoholism over the Life Course (now in its twentieth year), and is principal investigator of the Michigan local site component of the 17-site national evaluation of Early Head Start (now in its ninth year). He is also a member of a variety of interdisciplinary research teams focusing on evaluation of community-based prevention programs. His major areas of research include the study of infant and family development in community contexts, the impact of fathers on early child development, implementation of systemic models of organizational process and change, the etiology of alcoholism, and broad issues related to the scholarship of engagement. Since 1992, Fitzgerald has also served as the executive director of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. Fitzgerald holds a Ph.D. in experimental child psychology (1967) from the University of Denver.

Robert Duncan, Ph.D.
In addition to serving as the Eli and Edythe L. Broad dean of business for Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business, Robert Duncan has a faculty appointment in the college's Department of Management. Previously, Duncan served as the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Change at Northwestern University. He has extensive administrative experience, has received numerous awards for teaching excellence and is a widely acclaimed researcher and speaker. Duncan is also a former provost at Northwestern.

David A. Gift, Ph.D.
David Gift is vice provost for libraries, computing and technology, and adjunct assistant professor of radiology, at Michigan State University. An alumnus of MSU, with degrees in physics and computer science, Dave also is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow of the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has served MSU most recently as assistant vice president for integrative management, and prior to that as assistant chairperson of radiology, and interim director of strategy and implementation for MSU's Faculty Group Practice. Dave has taught and contributed to curriculum development in MSU's Colleges of Human Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, and Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, has performed research in clinical decision-making, patient management and healthcare economics, and has designed and facilitated curriculum-related regional professional focus group events for the MSU College of Law. He has served as a founder and member of the board of directors of four University medical joint venture corporations, and is currently a member and past chair of the board of directors of Merit Network, the multi-university consortium for Michigan educational and research data networking services.

Lou Anna K. Simon, Ph.D.
Lou Anna K. Simon is the 20th President of Michigan State University. Prior to assuming the role of president, Simon was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Michigan State University , a position to which she was appointed in 1993. At the time of her appointment, she was among the youngest to achieve such a position in the Association of American Universities (AAU), and was one of only 11 women to hold the position of chief academic officer among the 62 leading research institutions that compose the organization. Currently, Simon is one of only nine women holding the position of chief executive officer among these AAU institutions.

In May 2003, the MSU Board of Trustees appointed Simon as interim president of Michigan State when then-President Peter McPherson accepted the position of financial coordinator for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq . She served in the dual role of both interim president and provost through September 2003 when President McPherson returned.

Simon has a distinguished history with MSU. After earning her doctorate in administration and higher education here in 1974, she became a member of the MSU faculty and assistant director of the Office of Institutional Research (now the Office of Planning and Budgets). From there, she moved into a variety of administrative roles, including assistant provost for general academic administration during the eighties and associate provost in the early nineties.
Simon has taught graduate seminars in the College of Education on evaluation, planning, and budgeting. She is a committed advocate and participant in the Academic Governance of the institution that provides for major, fundamental faculty and student participation in deliberations of departments, schools, colleges, and at the all-university level. Simon has detailed, comprehensive knowledge of university budgets and financial management as a result of the years of experience and responsibility as associate provost, acting provost, and provost. She understands and supports the essential role of diversity in all areas of MSU and its endeavors both on and off campus.

With her extensive administrative experience, active involvement in development activities, and her leadership and participation in a variety of innovative initiatives across the mission, Simon as provost has been responsible for the full range of academic and academic support programs at MSU. She is regarded nationally as a powerful advocate of a research-active, student-centered university that is an engaged partner with society, in the land grant tradition.

Since 1999, Simon has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), an academic consortium of twelve major teaching and research universities in the Midwest including the eleven institutions that compose the Big Ten, along with the University of Chicago. She was elected chairperson of the CIC in 2000, a position traditionally filled by a provost, and served until she was named MSU president.

Her publications, in texts such as "Serving Children and Families through Community-University Partnerships and Universities and Communities : Remaking Professional and Interprofessional Education for the Next Century ," demonstrate continuing commitment to the promotion of university outreach ventures, especially those related to serving youth and families.

Most recently, she co-edited with Maureen Kenny, Karen Kiley-Brabeck and Richard Lerner the book "Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society Through Service Learning," published in 2002 by Kluwer Academic Publishers.