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Natarajan Balasubramanian is on the faculty of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. His research interests are primarily in strategic management, specifically in issues relating to competition and innovation in business. His prior experience includes several years in consulting at Andersen and Infosys. He earned a PhD in management and an MA in economics from UCLA, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and a bachelor's from IIT-Madras.

Bharat Kapoor is a management consultant advising businesses on technology and strategy. He was previously strategy manager of open-source technologies and software operations manager within Motorola's Mobile Devices division. He also serves as an advisor to the Gnome Foundation and on the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum's architecture board. His prior experience includes e-commerce software development. Bharat has a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, a Master’s in computer engineering form the University of Central Florida, and an MBA in strategy and organizational behavior from the Chicago Booth School of Business.

Doug Monieson has been involved in the financial trading community for more than twenty years. Since 1994, he has been an active member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He is a founding member of the NASDAQ100 futures pit, and served as the Vice Chairman of the Pit Committee from the pits inception until 2001. He is also an active member of Chicago's angel investment community. He serves on the board of directors of Hyde Park Angels and also co-chairs its investment screening committee. Doug has made regular appearances as a financial commentator on Bloomberg TV and has made guest appearances on CNBC, CNNFN, and Canada’s Report on Business TV. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in economics and earned an MBA in finance from the Chicago Booth School of Business.

Srinivasan "Vishy" Viswanathan has had a distinguished thirty-year career in IT consulting and offshore software development. He is the former managing director of resource and location strategy for JPMorganChase and the former CEO of COSL, Citibank's offshore delivery arm. Having lived and worked in the USA, India, U.K, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Jamaica, and Barbados and traveled to over 60 countries, he also has a finger on the pulse of the Indian diaspora. Vishy holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Jon Morris is the founder and CEO of Rise Interactive and has 15 years of digital-marketing experience. Prior to the inception of Rise, he managed the Internet marketing department for Ketchum Directory Advertising, an Omnicom Company. He had previously founded and run Net Traffic, which was recognized by ChannelSeven.com, an industry watch group, as one of the top interactive agencies in the U.S. in 2000. He completed his MBA with high honors from Chicago Booth and was the recipient of the Outstanding Academic Award for graduating first in his class.