2015 - General Wesley Clark & Robert Bryce

For the first time in the ten-year history of MPMG’s Speaker Series event, two guest speakers shared the stage. Because of the complexity of the issues facing investors, MPMG felt that attacking these issues from two distinct viewpoints with the insights of two of the world’s leading authorities would yield the greatest insights.

General Wesley Clark capped a 38-year military career by rising to the rank of four-star general and serving as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. Since retiring from the military in 2000, he has taken on the roles of investment banker, alternative energy leader, author, network television military analyst and businessman. He sought the 2004 Democratic nomination for President and was victorious in the state of Oklahoma before he returned to the private sector. Mr. Clark has chaired several public and private companies and is a progressive leader in pursuing energy solutions. He graduated first in his class at West Point and was a Rhodes Scholar, completing degrees in philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford.

Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has nearly three decades of experience as a professional journalist. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, National Review and the Washington Post. His first book, Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego and the Death of Enron, received rave reviews and was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2002 by Publisher’s Weekly. His newest book, Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong, focuses on how continuing innovation fosters unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty and better environmental protection.

MPMG moderated a discussion between Mr. Clark and Mr. Bryce that focused on what it believes are key pillars for our future: the economy, cybersecurity and terrorism, energy, and global warming.