Rhoda Makoff, Ph.D., a biochemist by training, cofounded Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, a leading Los Angeles preparatory school. At forty-five, Dr. Makoff started her own successful pharmaceutical company and, seventeen years later, sold it to a New York Stock Exchange company. Jeffrey Makoff, Esq., has practiced law for over fifteen years and is the chairman and chief executive officer of Poetic Media, Inc., a media production company, and DigitalCustom Group, Inc., an international digital art business.