Richard Torrenzano is chief executive of The Torrenzano Group, a New York strategic communications and high-stakes issues management firm that helps organizations “take control of how they are perceived.” For almost a decade he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange’s Management and Executive committees. He has managed some of the most visible global corporate crises in our lifetime.

Mark Davis is a former White House speechwriter and a senior director of the Washington-based White House Writers Group, where he has consulted with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as well as with some of the nation’s leading telecommunications, information technology and defense-aerospace companies. He is a frequent lecturer, writer, and blogger on politics, technology, and the future.