Founder of Open Assembly. Domi is an educator, architect and a passionate open education advocate. She previously taught in the SUNY college system while running an architecture firm for 15 years as managing partner. Her background building high performance, technology-intensive architecture projects makes her an effective product developer and team leader. Domi holds degrees from Yale, The Cooper Union and Parsons the New School of Design.

Mary Elizabeth Sun (University of Pennsylvania), has formed over $325 million in strategic partnerships for early stage companies leading to growth and exits. She has been a founding team member or angel investor for a number of companies including Rajant, Third Wire, Airclic, Millenium Bank and World Wide Packets. She serves as president of MS Capital Tech LLC and holds a BS and an M.Arch from the University of Pennsylvania.

Experienced, creative and talented senior developer and platform architect. Since 2013, has led the platform through total redesign in Ruby, using NoSQL database (currently Neo4j) and AngularJS, authoring the majority of 60,000+ lines of code. Also has a B.A. from Syracuse University in English Textual Studies, with emphases on Political Science, Visual Arts, Computer Science, Medicine.

Paula Bastos is a business consultant with 8 years experience in business modeling and finance management. She has a unique ability to translate the business strategy into an action plan and keep the whole team accountable. Paula holds a B.A. in Business Administration from University of São Paulo and an International MBA from FIA/Vanderbilt University.

Susana helps organizations drive business development and create marketing strategies using a range of methodologies including business model canvas, lean startup and design thinking. Previously she was Cloud Marketing Manager for Cisco Systems, where she developed go-to-market strategies for the largest Latin American telecoms and as an industry analyst, conducted qualitative and quantitative market research in the US and Asia Pacific.