James Cardie is from Brainerd, a small town in central Minnesota. He attended Catholic grade school in Brainerd and a boarding high school in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.

James earned an undergraduate degree at Holy Cross in western Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He did research (physical experiments and numerical modeling) at St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, created a computer program that was used in the design of many large storm sewer systems

Rabbi Mel Hecht was born July 8, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of five, his family moved to Miami, Florida where they had a large, extended Jewish family, complete with relatives who were hazzans and mohels. Soon after moving to Florida, his parents bought a hotel in Hialeah, a city 10 miles outside of Miami, where Hecht spent the remainder of his childhood.

Frederick (Freddie) Glusman was born in 1937. Glusman grew up near Vancouver, Canada and moved to Los Angeles, California with his family when he was thirteen. He moved to Las Vegas in 1957 and had a variety of jobs. He sold carpeting and drapes to the Dunes, and owned retail stores at the Tropicana, International, Flamingo, and Stardust during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1974 he became business partners with Allen Glick and later took over his athletic club, The Sporting House.

Daniel "Danny" A. Greenspun is the founder of Vegas.Com, a Las Vegas, Nevada tourism website. The son of Hank and Barbara Greenspun, Danny Greenspun was involved with the family's company, Greenspun Media Group (GMG), until 2014 when his brother Brian Greenspun took full ownership. Danny Greenspun previously served as chairman of GMG, vice chairman of the Greenspun Corporation, and vice president of the Las Vegas Sun, the newspaper established by his parents.