BIOGRAPHY OF GUEST SPEAKER, MARC GUNTHER

Marc Gunther writes about the impact of business on society, with

a focus on issues of sustainability. He is a senior writer at FORTUNE magazine, a columnist at CNNMoney.com and the author of Faith

and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming

American Business (Crown Business, 2004).

Marc has written cover stories for FORTUNE about the greening of

Wal-Mart and spirituality in the workplace. He has also written about CEO Jeff Immelt’s efforts to reshape the values of General Electric,

the rise of corporate social responsibility, globalization, the environmental movement, corporate governance, AIDS and gay

rights in corporate America. He has profiled media mogul Sumner Redstone, shareholder activist Bob Monks, evangelical minister

Rick Warren and talk-show host Jay Leno in FORTUNE.

Before joining FORTUNE in 1996, Marc worked for more than 20

years for newspapers including The Paterson (N.J.) News, The

Hartford Courant, The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press.

He is the author or co-author of three previous books: Basepaths: From the Minor Leagues to the Majors and Beyond (Scribners,

1984), Monday Night Mayhem: The Inside Story of Monday Night Football (William Morrow, 1988) with Bill Carter, and The House

That Roone Built: The Inside Story of ABC News (Little Brown,

1994). Monday Night Mayhem became a movie starring John

Turturro as Howard Cosell that was shown on TNT.

Marc has contributed to The New York Times and The Washington

Post, among other publications. He has appeared on NBC, ABC,

PBS, CNN and NPR. He speaks at conferences, corporate events

and colleges.

Marc is a 1973 graduate of Yale, where he majored in English. He

grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

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