Jordan Cole

Jordan is an analyst at Deloitte Consulting where he focuses on technology adoption. He graduated magna cum laude from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University with a degree in accounting in 2009. His interests include investigating the process and strategy of innovation. Currently, he is researching commercializing university innovation through entrepreneurship. He can be reached on Twitter at @jordan_cole.

Shipra Agarwal

Shipra is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Material Science and Metallurgy Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She researches entrepreneurial activity in India’s education sector and has been involved with an NGO that teaches underpriviliged children. Her other interests include alternatives to energy resources.

Praneetha Manthravadi

Praneetha is a senior hardware engineer in the flagship Ethernet Switching Technology Group (ESTG) at Cisco. She is currently working on the cutting edge Next Generation Wiring Closet technology ASICs. She is also pursuing her MBA at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA, focusing on marketing and entrepreneurship. She is interested in studying about micro-franchising as a way to reduce global poverty. In particular, she is focusing on ways to develop successful micro-franchise business models and getting people involved to make an impact on poverty.

John F. Wasik

John F. Wasik is the author of “The Audacity of Help: Obama’s Economic Plan and the Remaking of America” (www.audacityofhelp.net) and “The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable Dream” (www.culdesacsyndrome.com). He also writes a column for Bloomberg News that reaches readers on five continents and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. For more information on him, see www.johnwasik.com.

Leslie Scott

Leslie Scott is the creator of the blockbuster game Jenga, and the co-founder of Oxford Games Ltd. Born and raised in Africa, and educated in Kenya, Sierra Leone and England, Scott is now one of the world’s few professional game designers, having devised and published almost forty games in a career spanning twenty six years. She is the author of “About Jenga’ The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game that Became a Household Name.” www.aboutjenga.com

Narayanan Raman

Narayanan Raman is a graduate student at Boston University School of Management. He previously worked with Wipro Technologies both in India and in the United States on information systems analysis and development roles. His interests include IT strategy and IT business analysis and development.

Shailesh Otari

Shailesh Otari is an MBA student at Boston University. Prior to his MBA, he worked as a project lead at Syntel Consulting Inc. His expertise include systems and business analysis. Shailesh is passionate about new IT ventures and entrepreneurship in emerging economies.

Joshua Fisher

Joshua Fisher has worked for fifteen years in K-12 mathematics education as an editor, writer, researcher, presenter, and project manager. He currently works as managing editor for a middle-school publisher and professional development company serving school districts throughout the United States. In his spare time, he writes about education at his blog Text Savvy (www.textsavvyblog.net). Josh lives with his wife, Vicki, and his three children, Ryan, Corinne, and Benjamin in Cedar Park, Texas. Contact:textsavvyblog@gmail.com.

Moshe Gavrielov

Moshe Gavrielov, CEO of Xilinx, has 30 years of executive management and engineering experience with semiconductor and software companies. He served as executive vice president and general manager of the verification division at Cadence Design Systems. Before that, Gavrielov was CEO of Verisity, Ltd., where he grew the company from a $4 million startup through to a $70 million publicly-traded company that was acquired by Cadence in 2005. He also held management positions at LSI Logic Corp and National Semiconductor and Digital Equipment. Gavrielov earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in computer science from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa, Israel. He possesses five patents.

Jeff Saperstein

Jeff Saperstein is an author, teacher, consultant, and enabler in how technology can be used to create growth in regional economic development and success for organizations. His just-released book with co-author Hunter Hastings is Bust the Silos: Opening Your Organization for Growth.

His books and case studies are focused upon best practices for innovation. “Toyota: Driving the Mainstream Market to Purchase Hybrid Electronic Vehicles” is one of  the top ten most popular case studies published by Ivey Business Cases for Business Schools. He has worked with governments, corporations, and NGOs to use marketing to increase growth. Jeff teaches writing and speaking at San Francisco State University College of Business and on-site at Cisco and other corporations. He teaches seminars on tech clusters and innovation at the European School of Management in Paris.