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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cindy Weng

Cindy Weng is a full-time student studying Information Systems at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her interests and areas of expertise lay in the internet sector, particularly social networking and media. In 2008, she wrote an e-book titled “The Web: Hidden Games”, which discusses how social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, and Digg can be looked at from a gaming perspective that helps maximize user experience and influence. She is currently researching viral media and social games through an internship with Sramana Mitra. You can reach her on Twitter at @cxweng.

Nalini Kumar Muppala

Nalini is currently a staff member at Communication Systems Solutions and helps with embedded software development.

Nalini previously worked as a DSP Engineer in the audio division of Ingenient Technologies, Inc. (he originally worked for Imagine Technology LLC before it was acquired by Ingenient). Previously, Nalini was with Adaptive Digital Technologies, Inc.

He holds an MS in electrical engineering from Villanova University and a BS from the University of Madras, India.

For additional details, you can view Nalini’s LinkedIn profile here.

Rohit P. Singh

Rohit is an undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and is doing his graduate work in material science and metallurgical engineering. He is an intern at Sramanamitra.com, where he focuses on water scarcity, water conflicts and water management in India. He has been a part of business development teams with firms in Mumbai and also conducted campaigns to educate students about global warming and its effects.