Amanda Lang is a business news presenter for CBC Newsworld.  She was part of the team that helped launch BNN (formerly Report on Business Television) in 1999, and covered the U.S. markets from Manhattan. At that time, Lang was also the New York correspondent for the Financial Post. In 2000, Lang left the network for CNN where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange as anchor and correspondent for it and its business network, CNNfn. During her years as a business reporter, she has covered stock markets, the economy, financial instruments, the technology beat, Wall Street, U.S. politics, and more. Lang began her career in journalism at The Globe and Mail where she edited the Classroom Edition.

Kevin O'Leary co-founded SoftKey Software Products in 1983. With O'Leary as its president, SoftKey was the first software company to apply the principles of consumer goods marketing to the software industry. In early May 1999 -- three years after changing its name from SoftKey to The Learning Company, the Mattel Toy Company acquired it for $3.7 billion. O’Leary has developed a cult following among financial professionals and smart investors with his pull-no-punches look at the good, the bad and the ugly on Bay and Wall Streets.