Professor Kotler, who began teaching at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management over 50 years ago, is a global expert on marketing and has been called “The Father of Modern Marketing.” He has authored over 150 articles, written 57 books, founded the first ever Museum of Marketing, and became the first marketer in the world to appear on a postage stamp. Professor Kotler was selected by the Financial Times as the most influential writer/management guru and by the Wall Street Journal as the 6th most influential person in the world on business thinking.

Paula is the Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo Travel. She is also the New York Times best-selling author of the novel, “Mercury In Retrograde”. For ten years Paula was the Deputy Editor of the New York Post’s gossip column, Page Six. In January 2012 she won a Gold Medal award from the North American Travel Journalists Association for her piece in Playboy on Iraq, “Down And Out In Baghdad.” Paula is originally from Ohio and Kentucky and loves to travel to places where the USD still means something.