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Dr. Jacques Dallaire (born September 2, 1953), is a performance scientist and consultant in professional sport and business. He predominantly works with occupational professionals and auto racing drivers on mental and physical testing and performance. His list of clients in sport include many auto racing stars from Nascar, Indy Racing League, Champ Car and many sports car series. Dr. Dallaire is the President of both and Human Performance International (HPI) Inc, and is based in Concord, North Carolina. In 2007, Dallaire Consulting LLC was rebranded as , to include performance programs and services for North American businesses. Dr. Jacques Dallaire, together with his longtime research partner Dr. Dan Marisi, have been honored as 2006 inductees into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame.

Research and career
Over the past 30 years, Dr. Dallaire has been exposed to the application of a great many sport science and medicine strategies and techniques within the high-performance sport world and has been in an excellent position to monitor what has been effective and what has not. Over this time, he has refined his understanding of what is missing in the performance enhancement equation and continues to focus on addressing these perceived needs. Dr. Dallaire is a Founding Member of the International Council of Motorsport Sciences (ICMS) and has been an ongoing member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP).

Throughout his five year tenure as a graduate student in exercise science in the late seventies, Dr. Jacques Dallaire assisted his academic advisors by serving as a technician. He participated in performance evaluation and consulting projects for firefighters and law enforcement professionals as well as professional and Olympic-level amateur athletes from a cross-section of the sport world. Following graduation in 1979, Dr. Dallaire relocated to Montreal (Quebec, Canada) to take on a teaching/research position in the Department of Physical Education at McGill University. In this capacity, he continued to be involved as a principal consultant in the development of performance programs addressing the needs of a variety of high-performance athletes and occupational professionals.

In 1983, as part of his teaching assignment, Dr. Dallaire was tasked to teach a final-year course within the department, entitled “Scientific Principles of Training and Conditioning”. He designed the course requirements to challenge students to integrate the various disciplines of exercise science in meeting the needs of individuals who sought to improve their personal performance. One of his students, a young man by the name of René Fagnan (presently, an automotive journalist and motorsport magazine editor), selected the motor racing driver as his ‘subject’ for the comprehensive training program that was a requirement for the course. Through a series of odd twists and turns, Dr. Dallaire soon found himself at the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula 1 in June 1983, measuring in-car heart rate response levels during practice and qualifying with Formula 1 drivers. While data collection met with some technical difficulties due to the extreme environment of the Formula 1 race car, the experience launched Dr. Dallaire down a path that would see him work directly with hundreds of high-performance racers from 35 countries and just about every form of racing.

In early 1984, Dr. Dallaire was joined in his efforts by colleague and friend Dr. Dan Marisi, a sport and educational psychology specialist, and the program the two scientists developed over the years expanded to include mental skills evaluation and training in addition to the physiology component. Until his untimely death in 1999, Dr. Marisi played a key role with Dr. Dallaire in the development and delivery of the performance enhancement activities that ultimately became known around the world as the (HPI) program. Dr. Dallaire continues to serve as President of HPI to this day.

In late 1984, Dr. Dallaire was recruited by the then Director General of Sport Canada, Ms. Abby Hoffman, and the President of the Canadian Association of Sport Sciences to become the Manager of Science and Medicine Programs at Sport Canada (a major department within the Canadian Government’s Ministry of Fitness and Amateur Sport). This was a newly-created position that he maintained until mid-1992. In this post, Dr. Dallaire served as the primary coordinator of the science and medicine support initiatives aimed at the more than 70 Canadian National Sport Governing Bodies as well as the direct liaison between the Canadian Federal Government and the Sport Medicine Council of Canada and its member agencies. During the eight years he fulfilled the demanding obligations of his government position, Dr. Dallaire also maintained an active role on evenings and weekends as Co-Founder of the Motor Sport Research Group at McGill University and as a consultant working directly with a variety of high-performance athletes and racing drivers.

In 1992, Drs. Dallaire and Marisi relocated to the Daytona Beach area to tackle the continued development and delivery of their performance programs on a full-time basis. While the sport of motor racing represented the lion’s share of their early clientele, the HPI program also welcomed athletes from other sports as well as various high-performance occupational professionals. The program continued to evolve and in late 1998, the duo decided to move the company to the Charlotte (NC) area where it continues to operate today.

Since the death of Dr. Marisi in 1999, the primary responsibility for program development and delivery has fallen to Dr. Dallaire. In 2005, he became the primary consultant and chief scientist for Dallaire Consulting LLC, an organization that was founded to further expand his performance enhancement activities in the corporate environment. The company’s mission has broadened and today, Dr. Dallaire’s activities include program and product development that extends beyond the world of sport to include high-performance corporate and occupational domains, as well as the field of rehabilitation.

Notable auto racing alumni
*Adrian Fernandez - Racing driver and co-owner of the Super Aguri Fernandez Racing IRL team
*Ayrton Senna - Formula One triple world champion
*Cristiano da Matta - 2002 Champ Car champion and former Toyota Formula One driver
*Eddie Cheever Jr. - Racing driver for almost thirty years in Formula One, Sports cars, CART and the Indy Racing League, and current owner of an IRL team
*Helio Castroneves - Indianapolis 500 2-time winner
*Jack Sprague - NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series 3-time champion
*Jeff Gordon - NASCAR Nextel Cup Series 4-time champion
*Ron Fellows - 24 Hour of LeMans 3-time winner, 24 Hours of Daytona winner, American LeMans Series 2-time champion
*Sam Hornish Jr. - Indy Racing League 2-time champion and 2006 Indianapolis 500 winner
*Scott Pruett - SCCA Trans-Am 3-time champion, 24 Hours of Daytona winner
*Tony Kanaan - Indy Racing League 2004 champion
*Ward Burton - NASCAR Nextel Cup 5-time winner

Dr. M.R. Sreenath is a Professor in the General Management Area at the Indian Institute of Management Indore since June 2006.
He is currently a member of Board of Governors at IIM Indore.

He has 30 years of diverse work experiences-7 years of entrepreneurial experience as the proprietor of his family printing press; 2 years of civil service experience as Assistant Security Commissioner in the Ministry of Railways, Government of India; 15 years of professional experience as an independent practising lawyer and corporate legal consultant; 3 years of general management experience as the Head of a Newspaper Publishing Centre; and 2+ years of academic experience as a Professor at T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal, Karnataka, India.

He holds a bachelor's degree in law and a master's degree in economics from the University of Indore and a Ph.D. Degree in Management from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. His doctoral thesis was titled "Performance Evaluation of Regulatory Authorities with special reference to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction".

He has presented papers in national and international seminars and conferences and published articles in legal journals. He has co-authored, along with Prof. Lalitha Sreenath, a leading treatise on the law relating to compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act.

His current interest is in the area of intellectual property rights. He has successfully completed the General Course on Intellectual Property, and the Advanced Courses on (i) Copyright and Related Rights, (ii) Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property, and (iii) Biotechnology and Intellectual Property conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization Worldwide Academy, Geneva through distance learning.

In the last two years, he has, jointly with wife Prof. Lalitha Sreenath, successfully designed, developed and delivered MBA courses on (i) legal aspects of business, (ii) legal aspects of employee relations, (iii) business ethics, (iv) society, business and management and (v) managing intellectual property. Currently, he is in the process of developing courses on (i)
doing business with India, (ii) strategic stakeholder management and (iii) the thinking manager.

Born on March 21,1955 in Anantapur to the then famous communist leader M.P.Ranaganayakulu and Parvathamma couple. M.P.Ranganayakulu who was a close friend of Tarimala Nagi Reddy and Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy (6th president of India) belongs to Kapu community.

Melvin Ezell Gorham (1911- 12 April 1994) was an American author, publisher, and philosopher who operated out of the mainstream.

In a series of self-published books he articulated an idiosyncratic world view, the essence of which was that advanced civilization alienates individuals from their actual selves (and their natural connection with nature as a whole) primarily by means of verbal programming, in which entities which Gorham regarded as mere abstractions (like the State, the Nation, or Society) were taken to be substantial existents. Gorham upheld what he regarded as the superior civilizations of pre-Christian Northern Europeans, whom he believed lived in small voluntary tribes without elaborate superstructures of government or law, and recommended a return to that mode of existence.

Although his thinking bears similarities to nominalism and to the thought of Korzybski, Alan W. Watts, and Robert M. Pirsig, Gorham made no impression on academic thinkers whatsoever, likely due to his non-mainstream venues, methods (his books contain next to no citations and are not based on academic thought), and views. He made no evident impact on popular culture, although his book The Pagan Bible is cited now and then in discussions of Asatru, and his writing and thought occasionally in dicussions of individual self-ownership.

Publishing Activities and Associated Authors
His publishing company, Sovereign Press, operated out of Rochester, Washington and as of November 2007 was still engaged in bookselling if not publishing.

From publisher's notes in the backs of some Sovereign Press books, it appears Gorham and at least some of his credited writers had some connection with the controversial Institute for Historical Review, and with such book titles as Censorship in the U.S: I Accuse the Jews (1978) by apparently otherwise-unknown author Marguerite Pedersen and Erik Holden's claim to have founded the American Christian Church, there seems little doubt that Gorham and his group had anti-Semitic leanings. The title of Bowman's Sexual Being Versus Governments That Promote Homosexuality further suggests a leaning, of presently undetermined extent, toward homophobia.

Among authors affiliated with Sovereign (not to be confused with the publisher of the same name involved in Dragonlance publishing) besides Gorham, were:

* John Harland, (author of Word Controlled Humans: A Brief History (Sovereign Press, 1981 - ISBN 978-0914752127), Brave New World: A Different Projection (Sovereign Press, rev. ed. 1984 - ISBN 978-0914752172), and The Life and Crucifixion of Julian and the Threat of Group-Entities (Sovereign Press, 1994 - ISBN 978-0914752332).
* Jill von Konen, author of the memoir Camp 38 (Sovereign Press, 1984 - ISBN 9780914752196) and possibly the co-protagonist Jill in memoir sections of Harland's Brave New World: A Different Projection.
* Marguerite Pedersen, author of Censorship in the U.S: I accuse the Jews (Sovereign Press, 1978 - ASIN B0006X5ZXS) The Cruise of the Skuld (Sovereign Press, 1987 - ISBN 978-0914752257), and Life's Meaning (Sovereign Press, 1989 - ISBN 978-0914752271).
* possibly pseudonymous author Erik Holden, author of An American Christian Bible, Extracted by Thomas Jefferson, Together with a New Declaration of Independence for Today's Americans (1982).
* possibly pseudonymous author Karl Bowman, author of Sexual Being Versus Governments That Promote Homosexuality (1983).

Associated Groups
An inspection of Sovereign Press books suggests that Gorham was the guiding spirit of the Valorian Society, who appears as author of the Sovereign Press books Human History Viewed As Sovereign Individuals Versus Manipulated Masses (1986 - ASIN B000O3PF9E) and Gangs and Governments: The Human Predicament (1991 - ISBN 978-0914752318). As noted above, Erik Holden claims to have been founder of the American Christian Church, and at least one Sovereign Press book contains an endorsement from the Institute for Historical Review.

Bibliography of Gorham's Books and Booklets


(probably not complete, does not include possible pseudonymous works)

The Culture of Individual Integrity - Metropolitan Press (1951) - ASIN B0007FA288

The Pagan Bible - Binfords & Mort (1962) - B0007E6RVU

Sovereign Manifesto - Sovereign Press (1968) - ASIN B0007EVMT2

Pagan Reality - Sovereign Press (1970) - ASIN B000NVG3FM

The Ancient Story of Selentag - Sovereign Press (1970) - ASIN B000G9FFW8

The Six Disciplines of Man's Being and Man's Relation to Government - Sovereign Press (1974) - ASIN B0006WBI8K

Curse of the Ring: An Archetypal Translation of Richard Wagner's the Rhinegold - Sovereign Press (1975) - ISBN 978-0914752066

Melvin Gorham's Interpretation of Richard Wagner's The Valkyrie: A Play in Three Acts - Sovereign Press (1976) - ISBN 978-0914752073

The Ring Cycle - Sovereign Press (1979) - ISBN 978-0914752110

Atomic War And You: As An individual - Sovereign Press (1982) - ASIN B00073CNP0

Melvin Gorhan's Interpretation of Richard Wagner's The Rhinegold - Sovereign Press (rev. ed. 1990) - illus. Sanghuine - ISBN 978-0914752240

Kris Krinkle and the Moon Princess - Sovereign Press (1991) - ISBN 978-0914752295 (rev ed. of The Ancient Story of Selentag (1970), above)

Web References

http://www.worldtrans.org/sov/stepsovereign.txt - Sexual Being and Human History cited in 1994 email list posting as as eccentric but useful books on matters of individual sovereignity. (Set text search string "Sovereign Press.")

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.asatru/browse_thread/thread/3730f51ec5987885/e3fe43b8630f99ce?hlen&lnkst&q=%22valorian+society%22#e3fe43b8630f99ce - 1996 discussion on alt.religion.asatru regarding Valorian Society. One writer mentions as associated group Individual Sovereignty Society.