A Delaware native since the age of 12 and father of three, Don graduated from WVU with a degree in Political Science in '86.

He is the creator of the multi-award-winning board game “You've been Sentenced!” and has owned part or all of: Cann Printing, McNeill Inc. Hot Sauces, McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds, BOD Properties, Walton McNeill Real Estate Team and Catering Stone.

He has been fortunate to work with many brilliant minds, cook with some extraordinarily creative chefs, travel 49 out of 50 states, and 13 countries while dining at thousands of great restaurants over the years. He enjoys dining out, spending time with friends and family, discussing currency, real estate, business models, and playing disc golf and board games.

University of Delaware Graduate, '92, Celebrity Chef Dana Herbert is the owner of the multi award winning Desserts by Dana in Newark, Delaware and Host for DATE NIGHT with Chef Dana. Chef is highly sought after by many celebrities, actors, athletes, and political figures including Oprah, President Biden, Ice Cube, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Dick Vermeil to name a few. Chef Dana is an entrepreneur, educator, author, speaker, and spokesperson.

Chef racks up numerous awards and honors being named Top Ten Cake Designers in America, many Best of Awards, participating on the James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour, member of the MACYS National Culinary Council, and cooking at the James Beard House.

Dana is unique in that he trained in both the culinary arts and pastry arts.

Chef Dana has attracted massive attention for his big win on TLC's hit show Cake Boss: Next Great Baker. Chef was also the winner of the Rachael Ray Celebrity Cake Off and has been seen on many networks: TLC; Food Network; The Cooking Channel; and more. Chef has also been featured in Essence, Huffington Post and countless other national magazines and websites.

Michael Heard is a graduate of Texas Christian University where he ran track and earned an accounting degree.

Upon graduating, he went to work for Ernst and Young in Los Angeles where he spent the next two years becoming CPA certified with a primary focus on the banking sector. In that role, he performed extensive valuation analysis in association with the largest bank merger in California history.

He left public accounting to join Twentieth Century Fox in 1994 where he quickly rose through the ranks to become Vice President, Finance.

Originally from Southern California born and raised and now on the east coast living in Philadelphia suburbs, Kim has 25 years of marketing experience .

After college Kim started a female sports video production company and ran it successfully for 15 years creating and shooting all print ads and doing all forms of marketing for her company. She closed her company to focus on her children and took a five year break focusing on the boys school, sports, volunteering at the school and school event planning.

She then decided to start a new marketing career at Dixie Land Energy. Kim has 10 years marketing experience as the Director of marketing for Dixie Land Energy where she has done all social media, marketing as well as write and record all radio commercials, design billboards and create campaigns for all print advertising. Cultivate business relationships and sponsorships as well as dual marketing projects. She has had a very successful record in marketing and advertising. In 2014 at the start of her promotion of Dixie Land Energy the gross income was under 6MM and now the reported gross as of last year was over 130MM

A Temple University Graduate '05, he is currently the Co-Founder and CTO for Bazla Corp.

Matthew has over 18 years of experience as a systems architect and data engineer. His focus has been supporting start-ups across many fields including gaming, independent film and publishing. He has designed and managed multiple ecommerce and inventory systems.

Currently, he has been designing and developing an ecommerce platform built for creator-driven collaborations.

Previously, Matthew served as the CTO of Zola Books Inc where he developed an internationally utilized product management and sales platform, and before that, he served as the CTO of The Independent Film Development Group where he launched a ticketing system and a film-streaming platform. He also served as a technical consultant for McNeill Designs For Brighter Minds, where he was first introduced to Don McNeill, founder of Dinner at 8 Live. After building an online presence for the gaming company Matthew expanded the product into a phone and tablet application.

Matthew began his career as a data architect in the development of an online music streaming platform for a small technology start-up, which led to his first appointment as manager of technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Information Sciences from Temple University.

It's all about connecting with an audience for Chris.

As a MASCOT, Chris performed collegiately as the University of Delaware mascot, YoUDee, bringing home the Mascot National Championship, professionally as Swoop for the Philadelphia Eagles and G-Wiz for the Washington Wizards, and independently with his character Reggy the Purple Party Dude entertaining millions of fans in stadiums and arenas while touring North America. .

As an ACTOR, Chris performed in numerous stage productions with local theaters, as well as appearing in various web series, short films, regional TV commercials and more. As a PRODUCER, Chris is known for bringing a natural and creative approach to content development, having worked on feature films, documentaries, music videos, commercials, stage productions, live events, touring shows, school assemblies and Internet shows.

As a WRITER, Chris's works have been seen or heard on stage, TV, web, radio, and live outlets ranging from short commercial scripts to full length stage productions. As a HOST, Chris loves getting lost in the moment, whether he's leading a crowd at a festival, cueing up the next big moment at a corporate event, or sitting down with a guest making genuine connections and sharing their story.

As a CREATOR and the owner of King Creative, Chris leverages his wide range of experiences to develop new, fresh and thoughtful ideas geared toward making an impact with the target audience identified on each project.

Rich has a BS in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, an AS in Business and Accounting from Delaware Technical College, and a Certificate of Financial Planning from The American College. He grew up north of Philadelphia and moved to Delaware in 1982. His first career was flying 5 different model corporate aircraft for 6 different companies spread from NYC to DC.

During slow and/or uncertain times in his corporate career he looked to branch into possible alternatives. During those searches he discovered that he enjoyed and fortunately was talented at computers and, much to his surprise, accounting.

As he continued his aviation career, he looked for outlets for his accounting avocation. This search led him to be treasurer for Drummond Hill Pool, a large neighborhood pool of 230+ families. During his tenure of 13 seasons, his services spanned several periods of economic turmoil and hard times for the 1960's style neighborhood pool. It was this Treasurer's position that gave him the opportunity to learn and enjoy his accounting skills and also kept the pool in operation. He recently retired as a Gulfstream 550 pilot for a private firm in Australia.

Matthew started his career with Sheraton before attending the Culinary Institute of America, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management in '90. After graduation, he went onto manage kitchen operations at some of the most prestigious golf courses and country clubs in the US.

After the club and resort industry, he decided to join contract food service in the senior living and healthcare dining sectors. He worked on companywide dining programs, standardized service training, and operated a R&D center dedicated to program and product development. Matthew was an integral part of elevating healthcare dining through culinary products, programs, and operations.

HomeKook'd is the result of Matthew's aspiration to strengthen quality and efficiency in food operations. The name comes from his desire to show everyone how to do it themselves. "Bringing them some home-cooking," as Matt likes to say. He knows food business owners and operators can benefit from his knowledge, experience, and network of advisors.