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Nathan graced the cover of GQ Magazine as “Most Imaginative Bartender” in 2012, and has worked at multiple bars throughout Portland, most notably Kask and Hale Pele. He now spends his time training and educating the best bartenders in the Northwest as the Portfolio Ambassador for Bond and Royal Spirits Company. He is the President of the Oregon Bartenders Guild, and holds multiple accreditations including Certified Spirits Specialist (CSS), Sommelier (level 1), and the USBG Spirits Professional Certification.

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri received his bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College in Religious Studies and his master’s and doctoral degrees in the Study of Religion from Harvard University.  He is currently Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His scholarship and teaching focus on the study of religion, the social and intellectual history of early (8th-11th   centuries) and modern (19th-20th centuries) Islam in the Middle East, and American religious history. In his work he bridges these areas by inquiring into how Islamic beliefs and practices interact with specific historical contexts to shape both individual and communal lives.
GhaneaBassiri’s most recent book is A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order (Cambridge, 2010). In 2006, he was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.  He is currently a national scholar for the National Endowment for Humanities’ Bridging Cultures project on "Muslim Journeys."

From 1995 to 2002 Dr. Bruce Gilley lived in and reported from China for the Far Eastern Economic Review He is a frequent advisor to governments and non-profits on matters of democracy and human rights in Asia. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and as a program evaluator for Radio Free Asia's Mandarin Service. Dr. Gilley received his B.A. in International Relations at the University of Toronto and a Masters of Economics at Oxford. After working in China for ten years, he earned a PhD at Princeton as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar. In addition to China's Democratic Future (2004), Dr. Gilley is the author most recently of The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy (2009). His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Comparative Political Studies, and the European Journal of Political Research as well as the Wall Street Journal and The International Herald Tribune.

David Grawrock is a Senior Principal Engineer and Security Architect for the Intel Security Center of Excellence which is part of the Intel Architecture Group. David's role in the group is to help ensure the security of Intel products. David was the lead security architect for Trusted Execution Technology and helped bring that technology to market. Outside of Intel David was the Chair of the Trusted Computing Group TPM workgroup and vice chair on the technical committee. David has worked in the computer industry for 30 years holding positions with Symantec, Central Point Software, and Lotus. David is the holder of 41 patents with many more pending.