Tom Peters was born in Baltimore in 1942. He is a civil engineering graduate of Cornell and earned an MBA and PhD at Stanford; he holds honorary doctorates from institutions that range from the University of San Francisco to the State University of Management in Moscow. He has worked as a White House drug-abuse advisor, and a Partner and co-founder of Organization Effectiveness practice. Tom and his wife Susan Sargent now live on a 1,600-acre working farm, in Vermont. Adrian Mulraney is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Along with being a top voice artist, he has appeared in over 70 theatre shows in four Australian states and has appeared in Stingers, Neighbours, MDA and many other TV shows and feature films.