Dan Stein is the owner and operator of the famous Stein's Deli on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Formerly a lawyer, Dan became involved in the foodservice industry while working in Philadelphia.

Keith Urbahn is president and founding partner of Javelin. In his 14 years leading the company, he has helped negotiate hundreds of book, film television deals totaling more than $110 million, overseen the publication more than 60 New York Times bestsellers, and assembled one of the most effective and results-driven public relations teams in America. For five years Keith worked for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, most recently serving as his chief of staff. He helped oversee the publication of Rumsfeld’s No. 1 New York Times-bestselling memoir.

Constance Jackson is the President and CEO of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.

Richard and Danielle Sutton’s interest in cheese began as a children when they both, separately, visited Europe with their parents. However, on the way to becoming New Orleans’ premier cheesemongers, they were waylaid into banking and public relations. On a whim, and with Danielle’s fresh British passport in hand, they moved to London in 2002 to see what adventures would find them. What found both of them was Paxton & Whitfield, the over 200-year-old cheese shop in the St. James neighborhood, and supplier of cheese to the royal household and Parliament.

A Crescent City native from the famed Lower Ninth Ward, Robin Barnes is New Orleans. Barnes, declared “The Songbird of New Orleans,” in an official proclamation by a past New Orleans mayor, has throughout her career brought the sounds of the city to a global audience.

Barnes first broke through in the jazz world: her 2016 EP Songbird Sessions debuted at #5 on Billboard’s Traditional Jazz Chart. She’s opened for GRAMMY-winning trumpeter Chris Botti and the jazz duo Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Maratinez, the former of whom studied under the iconic Quincy Jones.