Thomas Giacomaro was the owner and president of dozens of million-dollar companies, as well as M&A consulting firms that acquired, consolidated, and sold privately held companies in the fuel, energy, trucking, transportation, commercial and residential, recycling, and waste industries. Sporting a genius-level IQ and a near-perfect score on his college boards, he attended and graduated from William Paterson University with a degree in Business Administration. 

Natasha Stoynoff is a two-time New York Times bestselling author with 13 books to her credit. She graduated with a BA in English from York University in Toronto and studied journalism at Ryerson University. She began her career as a newspaper reporter/photographer for The Toronto Star and columnist/feature writer for The Toronto Sun. After working freelance for TIME magazine, she became a staff writer at People for more than a decade. She lives in Manhattan, where she writes books and screenplays.