J. Mark Munoz is a tenured Full Professor of International Business at Millikin University in Illinois, and former Advisor to the AI Initiative (The Future Society) at Harvard University. He was also a former Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of the Routledge books The Economics of Cryptocurrencies (2020), Global Business Intelligence (2017) and Advances in Geoeconomics (2017).

Orestis Terzidis heads the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Technology Management and Innovation (EnTechnon) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). After receiving his PhD in physics, he worked at SAP from 1998-2011, first as an application developer, later as assistant to CEO Henning Kagermann and director and vice president of the SAP Research Center in Karlsruhe. In 2011, he joined KIT as a full professor.