Rinaldo S. Brutoco, J.D., Founder and President, World Business Academy

A leading international executive, writer and keynote speaker for over 25 years, Mr. Brutoco is widely recognized as a practical visionary, change agent and futurist. He uniquely combines theory and practice to assist executives and organizations in adapting to change through the analysis and application of "breakthrough" ideas.

An expert in emerging technologies and industries, Mr. Brutoco was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of the nation's first pay cable television operation, Optical Systems Corporation, as well as Chief Executive Officer of one of the first companies to offer over-the-air television transmissions of major motion pictures, Universal Subscription Television. For 13 years, Mr. Brutoco also served as the Chairman of Logical Data Management, which pioneered distributed data processing transfers.

Mr. Brutoco has served on the board of The Men's Wearhouse, a company with $1.3 billion in retail sales (traded on the New York Stock Exchange), for over a decade from its initial IPO to the present time. During that same period, Mr. Brutoco was CEO and Chairman of the Red Rose Collection, which was named for three consecutive years to INC Magazine's 500 fastest-growing privately held companies. Among many other distinctions garnered by the company, Red Rose served, for the last 12 years of Mother Teresa's life, as the sole distributor of her personally endorsed biographical motion picture.

In 1986 Mr. Brutoco founded, and currently serves as President and CEO of the World Business Academy, a collaborative network of mindful individuals collectively exploring the leading edge of business, and a pre-eminent publisher of new paradigm business literature. He has also served on numerous non-profit boards including The Gorbachev Foundation, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, State of the World Forum, the Center for Earth Concerns, Omega Point Institute and the Brutoco Family Foundation, adding to his ability to transform companies through a multi-disciplinary approach.

He is the co-author of a book on nuclear energy, Profiles in Power, published by Simon & Schuster, and has been the contributor to, or principal author resource for, several other books including Winning the Innovation Game and New Paradigms in Business. He has also been the author of numerous articles and a featured speaker at senior-level executive meetings throughout the world for more than two decades.

Mr. Brutoco graduated Economics and Philosophy from Santa Clara University and received a Juris Doctorate, Order of the Coif, from UCLA School of Law in 1971.

Mr. Brutoco enjoys sailing, swimming, scuba diving, organic farming, walking, the simple pleasures of great conversation, and reading as much as time allows on a broad range of subjects. He and his wife Lalla Shanna share three daughters, one son, and two grandchildren as they shuttle between their homes on the Big Island of Hawaii and Ojai, California.