We both moved to Northville, Michigan in 1986. Now retired, Mark was a successful restaurant owner and operator. He owned five Arby's restaurants in metro Detroit. He also offered authentic barbecue at the Kensington Grill in Lyon Township.

We share a love of food and music, and frequently go on food crawls together. Mark also likes to play golf and racquetball, go fishing, work on his collection of old cars, cook, travel spontaneously, and spend time with friends in South Haven, Michigan.

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* Facebook

* Kensington Grill closes after a decade serving customers in New Hudson

* A new restaurant in the area - by Norm Werner (who once worked for me at DEC)

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Lee has deep expertise in knowledge management (KM) technologies, including search, content management, taxonomy, and artificial intelligence. We collaborated at Deloitte and continue to do so in local and global KM communities. His interests include running, trivia, and music.

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* LinkedIn

* Blog

* Profiles in Knowledge

* Facebook

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Marc and I have been connected for many years through the SIKM Leaders Community and the SIKM Boston local chapter. We met up at KMWorld 2025 in Washington, DC in November and had some interesting conversations. We share an interest in baseball history.

Marc describes himself as a consummate designer of human/AI alignments to deliver standards-based ESG reporting solutions. For Generative AI Modeling, he focuses on the importance of selectivity in determining business outcomes, the collaboration model between AI and human inputs, and the need for accuracy in spotting and correcting default programming biases. His specialties are prompt engineering; data normalization; entity extraction; competitive benchmarking; knowledge management; business analysis; taxonomy and metadata capture; competitive intelligence; enterprise search; content management; training and development; professional investigations; and curriculum design.

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* LinkedIn

* Searching Out Loud Blog

* KMWorld

* SIKM Leaders Community Presentation: Content Supply? Meet Knowledge Demand! The Case for Knowledge Planners

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Joan loves traveling, cooking, reading, hiking, running, swimming, yoga, and spending time with her friends and family in Minneapolis. We share a love of books, food, music, humor, statistics, writing, walking, travel, socializing, and grandchildren. Joan had a huge influence on my musical taste and often recommends good books to read. We are fortunate to be able to spend time together each summer at The Homestead Resort on Lake Michigan in Glen Arbor, Michigan.

In 2001 Joan was recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She was first elected a Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2002. In 2005 the American Statistical Association gave her their Founder’s Award for distinguished service to the association. The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education gave her their lifetime achievement award in 2007.

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* University of Minnesota

* Wikipedia

* Facebook

* Blog

* Research

* Retiree Interview

* ASA Interview

* Tribute

* My Tribute

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Tom now lives in South Pasadena after many years in San Francisco. He was the winner of the first (and only) Clayton Invitational Table Tennis Tournament. Tom was one of four Clayton classmates to attend Yale, two of whom have been previous podcast guests, Gingy Scharff and Peter Krentz.

Tom loves to reminisce about the American Basketball Association. He convinced me to attend my first Final Four with him in St. Louis in 1978, and I have now been to 21 more (and counting).

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* LinkedIn

* Facebook

* Spirits of St. Louis

* Remember the ABA

* The night Freddie Lewis of the Spirits made the shot heard 'round the world

* High School Classmates at Hotel Cafe Stage

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I met Peggy through her husband, John Bommarito, who was my guest on the third episode of the podcast. Peggy and I share a love of food and playing games, especially euchre. She is an avid golfer.

Links for this episode

* The Guncle by Steven Rowley (mentioned by Peggy)

* #1 UNLV 95, #21 Michigan State 75 on December 15, 1990 in Auburn Hills, MI

* Air and Air Quality (Michigan State University Master’s Thesis)

* Outstanding Biology Teacher Award (OBTA)

* Using Play-Doh to Demonstrate the Development of Endochondral Bone

* Superintendent Honors Teachers

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I met Sierra at Knowledge Summit Dublin in 2025, the KM conference for which she leads marketing, branding, and social media. I currently serve as her mentor.

Links for this episode

* Sierra’s LinkedIn Profile

* Parascape Consulting Ltd.

* Rend Collective (Irish band Sierra mentioned)

* Mike Birbiglia (comedian Sierra mentioned)

* Knowledge Summit Dublin

* Humans in the Loop Podcast

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I met Cheyenne (then known as John) in 1965 in the seventh grade at Tenafly Junior School in New Jersey. He now lives in the Los Angeles area where I get to see him at least once during the winter. We also meet regularly via Zoom.

His latest book is Grace Notes. As an actor, he is known for The Rules of Attraction (2002), True Blood (2008) and Desperate Housewives (2004).

Links for this episode

* Grace Notes

* The Black List

* IMDb

* The Movie Database (TMDB)

* True Blood Wiki

* Wilbur Real Estate

* Real Estate Agent - Compass

* Instagram

* Nate Bergatze (the comedian who hosted the Emmys mentioned by Cheyenne)

* The Stand (the burger place across from the Pasadena Playhouse mentioned by Cheyenne).

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