KEY-NOTE, FACULTY, AND GUEST SPEAKERS

A crucial component of every NHC is the opportunity for participants to learn from and interact with leading professionals.  Our speakers & faculty are seasoned veterans in their respective professions.  Here is a sampling of

NHC guest speakers and faculty.

I am proud to endorse the NHC and I have great faith that attending NHC will leave a profound and lasting impression on your life plan. Claes Nobel, Senior Member of the Nobel Family Which Established the Nobel Prize and NHC Speaker

Sample of NHC Faculty and Guest Speakers

Frederick Ahlholm, CPA - Chief Financial Officer of Acusphere Inc.

Jeffrey K. Ahlholm, MFA - Executive Producer/Writer/Financial Analyst

Adam Beechen - Television Writer (Rugrats, Savannah, X-Men: Revolution)

Simon R. Bababeygy, M.D.

Ray Bigelow - Partner in Deloitte & Touche LLP

Richard Boryk, M.D. - Senior Prothetist/Orthotist, UCLA

Cameron Brain - President of Open Box Technologies 

Dana Bromley - Raleigh Studios

Yasmine Cader - Deputy Federal Public Defender

Jamille Claiborne - U.S. Pretrial Services

Daniel Creasy - Admissions Officer Johns Hopkins University

Jennifer A. Daskevich, J.D.

Jennifer Farmer - Script Supervisor, Producer

Marc Goldin - Senior Vice President of Aon Risk Services

Colin Goldman, MBA - Management Consultant/Screenwriter

Dan Goodman - Assistant U.S. Attorney

Clifford J. Green - Screenwriter (Spacecamp, The Seventh Sign)

Sylvia Torres-Guillen - Deputy Federal Public Defender
Derek Haas – screenwriter (3:10 to Yuma, Wanted, 2 Fast 2 Furious)

Judge Terry J. Hatter - U.S. District Court, Central District of Calif.

Houman Hemmati, M.D., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University Medical Center

Greg Jbara – BFA from Juliard, acting for TV, Film and Broadway

Rick Lashbrook – Film producer (Kissing a Fool, Do Me a Favor, Knowing, Powder Blue)

Cynthia A. Lock, J.D.

Keith Lupton, CPA - Partner, Ernst & Young

Michael Masterman-Smith - Stem Cell Researcher, UCLA

Jonathan Managan - Deputy U.S. Probation Officer

Matthew Minkin - CEO of BIG! Entertainment

Jake Neuberg - Co-Founder and CEO of Revolution Prep

Olu K. Orange - J.D., Howard University, Head Coach USC Mock Trial, Litigator

Darby Parker –Film Producer (Unknown. Turn the River, How to Rob a Bank)

Dr. Earnest Rasyidi - UCLA Student Doctor

Beth Schacter – Film Director (Havoc II, Normal Adolescent Behavior)

Judge George P. Schiavelli - U.S. District Court, Central District of Calif.

Josh Shipp - Leadership Speaker

Don Spielvogel - Corporate Executive/Animation Producer

Andrew Toma, M.D.

John Turman – Screenwriter (Hulk, Fantastic Four II)

Alicia Villarreal - Assistant U.S. Attorney

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KEY-NOTE SPEAKER

Claes Nobel

Mr. Nobel, a renowned champion of environmental stewardship, earth ethics, and youth leadership, has continued his family's legacy of recognizing and rewarding outstanding achievement. Mr. Nobel is a native of Sweden and member of the Nobel Prize family. A passionate proponent of humanitarian and environmental causes, he has worked tirelessly in his mission to help save the planet and its people. In 1974 he drafted The Nobel Laureates Declaration on the Survival of Mankind, signed by 78 Nobel Laureates advocating support for environmental protection and humanitarian leadership. He advises spiritual, political, and economic leaders on preserving the earth and preserving peace, as well as working to help instill these ideals in youth through education and example. Mr. Nobel has received a number of honors and awards, including the Clifford Messinger Memorial Award granted by the Nature Conservancy for outstanding and continued commitment to environmental stewardship. This commitment to life and to the earth exemplifies his faith that one person can and must make a difference.

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ACADEMIC DIRECTORS

Jeffrey K. Ahlholm, M.F.A. in Producing, UCLA
Executive Producer/Writer/Financial Analyst

Mr. Ahlholm has 20 years of finance and management experience in the fields of educational services, consumer products, media/entertainment and corporate finance.  Specific experience includes being the financial advisor to clients that range from the $200 million takeover of a publicly traded education services company to the $8 million private placement investment for an emerging Hollywood studio.  Previously, Jeff served as both the West Region Academic Director and Southern California Area Director for Kaplan Educational Services, the multi-billion dollar educational subsidiary of the Washington Post.  Jeff also has a strong entrepreneurial track record, having co-founded and served as COO of Living Toyz, a licensed merchandise company that grew from start-up to $60 million in worldwide sales in two years, as well as co-Founder and CEO of The Stronghold Group, an entertainment brand management firm that counted such artists as Nelly, The Dave Matthews Band and KISS as clients.  Jeff began his professional career as a Financial Analyst in Smith Barney’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group in New York. As a screenwriter, Jeff’s credits include the comedy feature spec sale of “Dickey Slaughter, Truant Officer” to Wolfgang Peterson (TROY, A PEFECT STORM) and Redcliffe Productions, the writing assignment for  “Lion King III” with Disney Animation and the sale of “Schooled” to one-time powerhouse Deep River Productions and producers David Friendly and Marc Turtletaub (BIG MOMMA’S HOUSE, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE).  As a writer-producer, Jeff is currently working on his first feature, animated film “The Ornaments’ Tale” with an international production studio.  Jeff graduated Beta Gamma Sigma with a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MFA in Producing from the UCLA Graduate Film School.

Jennifer A. Daskevich, J.D.

Ever since winning the High School Mock Trial State Championship in Utah, Ms. Daskevich has ardently pursued her love of advocacy. She graduated cum laude from Boston University School of Law and received the Book Award (Top Grade) in Trial Advocacy. Her team received Best Brief and advanced to the Semi-Final Round of the Albers National Moot Court Competition. She began her legal career in the Bronx District Attorney’s office where she argued before state and federal appellate court and conducted every phase of a criminal trial, from taking the initial complaint to interviewing witnesses, to making final presentations to the jury. She was a commercial litigator for the Ross Hardy firm in New York City including the areas of banking, lender liability, and fraud. She has taught trial advocacy, litigation procedure, and civil procedure at the law school level and has coached hundreds of students in Mock Trial. She is a judge for the Yale Mock Trial Invitational Tournament which hosts hundreds of college Mock Trial competitors.  She is licensed in New York and California and is a member of the American Bar Association and the California Bar Association.

Houman Hemmati, M.D., PhD.

Houman Hemmati received his degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University where he worked on bone marrow stem cells. He received his MD from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and his PhD from the California Institute of Technology. Currently Dr. Hemmati is completing his residency at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.   Mr. Hemmati is a former student member of a medical school admissions committee. He is a reviewing editor of the medical school admissions guidebook entitled Get Into Medical School: A Strategic Approach. His honors include: 2005 Ophthalmology Letter of Distinction; 2005 Second Place Prize Winner, Stanford Biotechnology Competition; 2005 National Academic Excellence Award, APSIH; 2004 Everhard Distinguished Lecturer, California Institute of Technology; 2004 Inaugural National Brain Tumor Research Award, Baldoceda Memorial Foundation; 1999 McCallum Fund Fellowship, California Institute of Technology; 1999 Developmental Biology Research Award, WSMRF; 1998 Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship.

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