Senem got her PhD in Organizational Communication & Technology at UT-Austin. She developed the concept of NarrativeDx during her dissertation research and her consultancy work at IBM. She was a faculty member at SUNY, Albany and a Fellow at the Center for Technology in Government, a SUNY-Albany affiliated think tank. Her research and consultancy experience spans across healthcare, technology development, and state government organizations.

Kyle previously founded and was the CEO of iCare, the first mobile crowd-funding platform for charitable causes and disaster relief. He was an Intellectual Property Attorney for WilmerHale in Boston, where he assisted on cases for Intel, Cisco, and Facebook as well as the landmark cell phone wars as defense counsel for Apple. Before attending Boston College Law School, he worked as a Software Engineer at National Instruments in Austin, Texas.