Drapeau's permission, the AeA Los Angeles Council is furnishing this insightful speech below: I'm sure that all of you understand that what I'm going to talk about today is my own informed opinion, and not the official position nor policy of the U.S. One, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has an office called the Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, which heads up the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) ( [link] ). Second, Congress has passed the related America COMPETES Act of 2007, where COMPETES is (believe it or not) an acronym for Creating

technology companies have been emerging at a rapid pace, there are three other sectors worth mentioning: Biotech Cleantech Nano Technology Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted saying, “California’s economy stands to greatly benefit from the wave of new businesses and jobs created by the emerging technologies and different approaches to fighting climate change.� The state’s emphasis on promoting cleantech has opened a wide array of opportunities for companies with the technical expertise to tackle the challenges of “going green,� and interest in cleantech

Perhaps this explains why in 2007 we saw an all time high of CEOs leaving their posts. And globally, 32% of CEO’s were forced to leave their organizations “against their will� -- statistically shortening the average term of a “global chief� to just 6-years. ( See Forbes article ) Is it just harder to be a CEO today than it was in yester-year? The AeA Los Angeles Council proudly brings Bob Fox to the table tonight to examine not only that question, but to identify the common traits and characteristics of what turns a CEO from savior to barbarian. ( See keynote