Advisory Board.

James M. Clash

Jim Clash covers extreme adventure and mutual funds for Forbes. His column, The Adventurer, appears in the Life section of the magazine and on-line (www.forbes.com/adventurer). Clash also hosts a weekly show on the Forbes.com Video Network where he interviews individuals who push their lives to the limits (guests have included two-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves, former world heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier, moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin, Olympic silver medal figure skater Sasha Cohen, motor-sports legend Sir Jackie Stewart, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Frank Wilczek and tennis great Martina Navratilova).

Clash started at Forbes in 1993 as a Reporter, and was promoted to Staff Writer in 1996. In 1998, he wrote a pivotal story on hedge funds warning investors of the risks and high expenses. When Long Term Capital Management collapsed six months later, Forbes ran a national advertising campaign (“Business Reporting as Tough as Business Itself”) themed around Clash's story, and he was promoted to Associate Editor. In 2003, he authored the book: “To the Limits, Pushing Yourself to the Edge in Adventure and in Business” (John Wiley & Sons).

Clash, an avid adventure enthusiast, is a Fellow at the Explorers Club. His own experiences include climbing the Matterhorn; skiing to the South Pole; weightlessness and a MiG ride at Mach 2.6 to the edge of space; driving Indy cars at more than 200 mph; climbing virgin peaks in Greenland and Antarctica; and two visits to the North Pole. He has profiled Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Roger Bannister, Rick Mears and the late Dr. Edward Teller, among others.

Before coming to Forbes, Clash worked as an account director at New York agencies including Grey Advertising, Ally & Gargano and FCB-Leber Katz. He has an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Maryland.
 

Pierce Hoover 

Pierce is an adventures sports journalist and publisher who has worked with and promoting the efforts of Mad Dog Expeditions for more than a decade. As the founder of Sport Diver magazine, he has provided documentation of team projects ranging from forays under Arctic ice to pushes deep into the fresh-water tributaries of the Amazon. A diver and mariner since high school, he is active in underwater cave exploration, the development of advanced diving technologies and the promotion of conservation initiatives in the diving and marine fields. He has been awarded SSI’s Platinum Pro Award for lifetime diving achievement, is a member of the National Speleological Society, a Fellow in the Explorers Club, and has worked with the Cousteau family to promote educational initiatives at the grade and high school levels. After created six national magazine titles over the past two decades, Pierce is now devoting a increasing portion of his time to digital media, with plans to use future Mad Dog projects as platforms for the dissemination of educational and inspirational content.

Tim Taylor