Praveen received a PhD in Computer Science from U.Wisconsin. He was an Asst Professor on the Cornell computer science faculty from 1996-1999. His work on mobile database technology was acquired by Microsoft as the basis for SQLServer mobile edition. Praveen spent 12 years at Microsoft as a partner-level engineer, architect and manager working on SQLServer and Bing search advertising. He left Microsoft at the end of 2011.

After completing his M.Eng in Computer Science, Brian joined Microsoft and focused on mobility and cloud data. After six years he left Microsoft to co-found a startup in the crowd funding / social incentives space. He was one of the first engineers at Hulu. More recently, Brian co-founded a startup focused on iOS app referral and tracking.

Susan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard and at the Stanford School of Business. Since 2007, she has been the Microsoft chief economist focusing on online services.