Satish Jha’s career has spanned academic, journalistic, executive and entrepreneurial roles. He started out as one of the youngest national editors with The Indian Express followed by an Editorship with The Times of India Group.

Satish led the global information management for the chemicals division of Hoffmann-La Roche, after which he cofounded James Martin & Co (now Genpact), META Group India, Digital Partners (now Grameen Technology). He seeded, advised and mentored a couple of dozen social enterprises including Tarahaat.com and Drishtee.com, founded One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) India and serves as Chairman of Ecco Electronics. He was invited to chair and mentor Solvytech (owners of Zopper) which has gone through rounds of funding, raising $20 Million in 2014 and is currently valued at over $100 Million. He has also established Ashcroft Sullivan Jha with Ashcroft Sullivan EDC, a firm founded by former US Attorney General John Ashcroft.

An alumnus of The Fletcher School, ISS at The Hague, the Kennedy School and EDHEC, France Satish is an active commentator on political and economic concerns in various media platforms in India.

Dr. Tom Snyder is the founder of Emotion Mining Company. Dr. Snyder practiced psychiatry for more than a decade while conceiving and inventing the Emotion Mining communication and research platform.

Leveraging his background in psychiatry, neuroscience and chemistry, Dr. Snyder developed algorithms which reveal that what people consciously say is not what they subconsciously truly seek. His innovation isolates the 'soft' factors under the surface of awareness and is configured to how the brain is hypothesized to work. Dr. Snyder's method and system are the engine of the company's technology platform used to measure and prioritize insights and understandings to drive behavior.

Dr. Snyder's research and consulting has enabled diverse product and service organizations to competitively increase productivity and growth. His speeches to hundreds of leaders of Fortune 500 companies have helped them rethink, reinvent and reengineer the way they engage their customers, collaborators and other stakeholders.

Dr. Snyder received his BS, PhD and MD degrees from Stanford University.

Jim has thirty years of experience in marketing, research, consulting, and team leadership. His career in B2B and B2C marketing has focused on software technology and financial services. At Emotion Mining he works with clients to ensure they derive strong value from Emotion Mining’s patented research technology and processes.

Jim started his career at global ad agency Ogilvy & Mather in NY and San Francisco, working with Microsoft, American Express, Ameriprise, and CSX Rail followed by an SVP role with Arnold Worldwide in Boston leading client services for Fidelity, Bose, Ford Motor Credit and CSX Rail. Jim then joined Fleet Financial (now Bank of America) as SVP Marketing and as a chief marketing officer at two technology companies, Foliage Software and FundQuest/BNP Paribas. He headed up financial and high technology industry marketing, a $400 million business, at Akamai Technologies with revenue growth of 30+%, three years in a row.

Jim received his MBA at the Darden School at the University of Virginia, and his BA in English from the University of Virginia.

Mary-Katherine has twenty year's experience helping companies go to market strategically and tactically while achieving marketing excellence. Her expertise includes international marketing, product marketing, lead generation, brand management and social media. Throughout her career, she has led cross-functional teams to develop brands, content and tools to win mindshare and drive double-digit growth for leading technology companies.

She started her career at IBM and the launch of IBM Global Services Division worldwide where she received Golden Circle Award. Moving into publishing as VP Marketing at Thomson Reuters she helped drive the Thomson brand and web presence across 6 divisions with an acute focus on Thomson Learning. She was recruited to lead global marketing at CA Technologies and built a high performance team to drive global campaigns, manage CRM closed-loop lead process, sales development tools, website, market research, customer references and channel relationships for $4B company. More recently, she has provided marketing leadership and consulting to SMB companies with a focus on Beacons, Mobile, Cloud, SaaS and disk backup.

Mary-Katherine has has a proven track record delivering results across the marketing mix in dynamic and challenging business environments. Mary-Katherine holds an MBA in International Business from Babson College.

Schorr Berman is a seasoned executive and investor. He was President, CEO and CIO of Memorial Drive Trust, the entity that held the profit sharing assets for Arthur D. Little, Inc. employees. At MDT, Mr. Berman ran the Venture Investments Group and served on the Boards of Directors of many public and private companies such as Mercury Computer Systems, Helix, Arch Communications Group, Arthur D. Little, Keurig, Wright Express and IVS.

In 1990, Mr. Berman initiated the development of the Optimum Q domestic equity quantitative model that beat the S&P 500 by more than 450 basis points compounded over fifteen years, and was one of 30 products included in Smith Barney's top tier investment platform. The firm was acquired by Harris Bretall Sullivan & Smith L.L.C. in 2002, bringing Mr. Berman to Harris Bretall's Board of Directors, Management Committee and Strategy Team. Mr Berman retired in 2005, when Harris Bretall was sold to Federated, Inc.

He then co-founded a development company in Lincoln, New Hampshire and currently serves as a director on several private company boards. Prior to joining MDT Advisers, Inc., Mr. Berman had co-founded the Mariposa School in 1970, a private elementary and high school, and in 1974, the Mendocino County Recycling Center, both located in Ukiah, California. The Recycling Center was noted as the first in the country to offer residential curbside pick-up. In 1978, Mr. Berman was the General Manager and Publisher of Solar Age Magazine. He co-founded Helio Construction in 1979, a passive solar design and construction company, which he owned and operated until its sale in 1982.

Mr. Berman received his BA in English from Stanford University in 1970, and his MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1984, with the distinction of being a Baker Scholar.