Lowman S. Henry, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc., a non-profit educational foundation based in Harrisburg, PA. He serves as host of the Lincoln Radio Journal, a weekly public affairs radio program syndicated on 86 Pennsylvania radio stations; and is host of American Radio Journal heard on radio stations nationwide.

Lowman began his career as a broadcast and print journalist, served as Political Director of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania, President of the Pennsylvania Leadership Council, Chief of Staff to State Senator Earl Baker, and as Executive Assistant to the Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He has served in elective office as a Dauphin County Commissioner and a Lower Paxton Township Supervisor. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Pennsylvania State Treasurer in 1992.

Lowman serves on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (PMA), the Keystone Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Pennsylvania Association of Non-Profit Organizations (PANO), and on the advisory board of the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy in Pittsburgh. Mr. Henry is a member of the Charlton United Methodist Church and of the Colonial Park Rotary Club. He is a graduate of Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is married to Carol Lynn Henry and they have three sons.

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Albert Paschall is president and chief executive officer of the King Of Prussia Chamber Of Commerce at Valley Forge, a business advocacy organization of 850 members that he co-founded in 1986. He also serves as president of the Montgomery County Chambers Of Commerce, a joint venture of the King Of Prussia and MONTCO Chambers Of Commerce for programming and public policy development.

In addition to his duties with the Chambers of Commerce, Mr. Paschall is senior commentator and chief operating officer for The Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, a non-profit educational foundation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His commentary series entitled "Somedays" is featured on 84 of Pennsylvania's leading radio stations and syndicated to 89 newspapers in the state with over 2.1 million readers. His work has also been published as an Associate Scholar for the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy in Pittsburgh. In January of 2003 he published his first book "I haven't found Laura, yet" an anthology of his columns edited by Jodi L. Brandon.

He also serves as president of the King Of Prussia Historical Society. In 1996 he created "A Home For The Inn" a 4 year drive to relocate the historic King Of Prussia Inn to make way for a $300 million regional highway and transportation improvement initiative. The Inn was successfully relocated in 2000 and opened to the public in October 2002.

He serves as a director of a number of non-profit organizations including the Children's Aide Society of Montgomery County and The Montgomery County Small Business Micro-Loan Fund and he was recently named Associate Director of Kingofprussia.com, a web development company. He also is a trustee of the Gibbs School in Valley Forge.

His work has also been recognized with awards and honors from Upper Merion Township, The Borough of Bridgeport, The House and Senate of Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Business Journal, Suburban Newspapers of America, The IBM Foundation, The National Child Care Institute, The Sons of Italy, The Catholic War Veterans, The Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, The NIA Political Action Committee, The Governor's Commission on Workplace and Family Policy, The US Army's Special Forces Operations Command and the Freedoms Foundation At Valley Forge.

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Joseph M. Geiger is Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations (PANO). Prior to joining PANO, he was Executive Director of the Keystone State Head Injury Foundation, and was a consultant with the Organizational Effectiveness Group of Princeton, New Jersey and Campaign Associates in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. He recently additionally has taken on the management responsibilities for the Alliance for Association Advancement.

Mr. Geiger has served on the boards of directors of the National Head Injury Foundation, the American Trauma Society - PA Division, Penn State University's Rehabilitation Department, and on the Governor's Rehabilitation Advisory Committee.

He was designated a Certified Association Executive by the Pennsylvania Association of Association Executives.

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David N. Taylor is Executive Director the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (PMA), a statewide trade organization representing the interests of manufacturers in the state's public policy process since 1909.

In addition to overseeing the association's daily operations, he is editor of the PMA Legislative Bulletin, Webmaster of www.pamanufacturers.org, association spokesman, legislative lobbyist, and liaison to PMA members and allied organizations. He is also a columnist for the Pocono Business Journal and host of "Capitol Watch" on Lincoln Radio Journal.

A 1990 graduate of Dickinson College, Taylor previously worked for the Research Department of the Republican National Committee in Washington DC, state Sen. John J. Shumaker (R-Dauphin), and the Pennsylvania Leadership Council.

Immediately prior to joining PMA, he worked in the Washington DC office of U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Allegheny), where he served as the staff writer for issues before the U.S. Senate Armed Services, Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Veterans' Affairs committees.

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Kevin Shivers is state director of the National Federation of Independent Business - Pennsylvania's leading small-business advocacy organization. Kevin leads NFIB's grassroots and political activities. He is regularly quoted in Pennsylvania's major newspapers, business journals and trade magazines, and is a frequent guest on a variety of statewide television and radio programs.

Kevin directed NFIB's efforts that made health savings accounts a permanent and tax-free way for Pennsylvanians to save money to pay for medical expenses, protected the rights of private property owners by enacting the nation's toughest eminent domain reforms and strengthening zoning notification requirements, ratified critical changes to make Pennsylvania's unemployment and workers' compensation systems more fair and consistent with other states. Kevin also worked to make landmark changes to the state's procurement process ensuring that small-business owners have an opportunity to compete for government contracts.

Kevin has nearly 20 years of experience in the state's legislative and political process. Before joining NFIB, Kevinwas a spokesman for Pennsylvania governors Tom Ridge and Mark Schweiker, served as press secretary in the Pennsylvania Department of State and worked in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

A longtime community volunteer, Kevin serves on a variety of government and community boards, including the Foundation for Free Enterprise Education, the Workers Compensation Advisory Council, the Pennsylvania Food Employee Certification Board and the board of advisors for the Harrisburg Young Professionals. Kevin also is a member of the Pennsylvania Association for Government Relations.  Kevin earned a bachelor's degree from Allegheny College in Meadville, Crawford County. He enjoys golf, running, fly-fishing and reading.

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