Raja Velu is a professor of Finance and Analytics in Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. He served as a Technical Architect at Yahoo! in the Sponsored Search Division and was a visiting scientist at IBM-Almaden, Microsoft Research, Google and JPMC. He has also held visiting positions at Stanford's Statistics department, Indian School of Business, the National University of Singapore, and Singapore Management University.

Maxence Hardy is a Managing Director and the Head of eTrading Quantitative Research for Equities and Futures at J.P.Morgan, based in New York. Mr. Hardy is responsible for the development of agency algorithmic trading strategies for the Equities and Futures divisions globally.

Daniel Nehren is a Managing Director and the Head of Statistical Modelling and Development for Equities at Barclays. Based in New York, Mr. Nehren is responsible for the development of algorithmic trading and analytics products. Mr. Nehren has more than 19 years of experience in equity trading working for some of the most prestigious financial firms including Citadel, J.P Morgan, and Goldman Sachs.