Rob Benson (Wharton MBA, Stanford MSME, UC Berkeley BSME) is an expert at developing and commercializing technology and products. He served on the teams that brought neural network science to a commercial reality at HNC Software, Fair Isaac, ID Analytics, and LifeLock. He operated a start-up business that manufactured parts in the powersports industry. At SAIC, he ran the Commercial Products Division manufacturing products for the power industry.

Dr. Olivier JMD Coenen (UCSD PhD Physics/Biophysics, McGill) has over 20 years of experience in brain-inspired processing, machine learning, deep networks, control, and robotics. Dr. Coenen trained at The Salk Institute in Brain Science. He directed the Neuroscience Group at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory and developed artificial nervous systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) at Brain Corporation in a joint venture with Qualcomm.