Brian M Carney Author

Bob Davids started his first business at the age of 12. At 20, he entered the highly prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Bob has headed six successful companies and is now building a high-end resort in Indonesia. In ten years he built Radica Games from nothing to the third most profitable toy maker globally. Starting with land that was horse pasture, Bob built Sea Smoke Cellars into “America’s best new winery” (Food & Wine) in just five years.

Brian M. Carney is Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications of Rivada Networks, an American wireless-technology start up. Brian was a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board from 2004-2014 and editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe’s editorial page from 2004-2005 (in Brussels) and 2009-2014 (in London). He received the Gerald R. Loeb award for Commentary in 2009 for his coverage of the financial crisis.

Isaac Getz is Professor at the top-ranked ESCP Europe Business School. He was also Visiting Professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities. Isaac has studied over 300 companies in 30 countries and published research on diverse topics related to innovation, leadership, and freedom and responsibility culture. He co-authored with Brian Carney the award-winning international best-seller Freedom, Inc. translated into a dozen languages.