Andrew Ellul is Professor of Finance and Fred T. Greene Chair in Finance at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

He joined Indiana University after completing his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests focus on institutional investors’ trading and risk management, empirical corporate finance, labor and finance and market microstructure. He is an Editor of the Review of Finance, the journal of the European Finance Association, a Research Associate of Centre for Economic Policy Research, Center for Studies of Economics and Finance, European Corporate Governance Institute, Systemic Risk Centre and Financial Markets Group and serves on the organization committees of the leading finance conferences. His research has been accepted for publication by the leading finance and economics journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and the American Economic Review, and presented at the top finance conferences in the US and internationally. Andrew has received awards for both teaching and research, specifically the Morgan Stanley Equity Market Microstructure Award, the European Finance Association’s Best Paper Award, the Best Paper Award at the Financial Management Association’s Annual Meeting, and the Europlace Institute of Finance Award. Andrew is also a member of the European Central Bank’s Task Force for the implementation of IFRS 9 by European banks. He teaches courses in corporate finance and investment analysis at the undergraduate, graduate (MBA) and PhD levels and has won several teaching awards.

Michele Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School and Professor of Psychology by Courtesy.

Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture and its multilevel consequences. She has published in Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, among other outlets. Her work has been cited over 60,000 times (H index= 94) and has been discussed on CNN, the NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe. Her book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World was published by Scribner in 2018. She is the Past President of the International Association for Conflict Management and Division Chair of the Conflict Division of the Academy of Management. Gelfand is a fellow of AOM, SESP, IACCP, and IACM, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She lives in Palo Alto with her husband Todd Betke and has 2 daughters, Jeanette and Hannah. 

Avi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, and Professor of Marketing at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Avi is also Site Lead at the Creative Destruction Lab-Toronto, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Distinguished Fellow at the School of Business Administration at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a research lead at Acceleration Consortium.

A former Senior Editor at Marketing Science, his research focuses on the economics of digital technology and artificial intelligence. He has published academic articles in marketing, computing, law, management, medicine, physics, political science, public health, statistics, and economics. His work on online advertising won the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award, and he testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on competition and privacy in digital advertising. Avi received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. He co-authored the bestselling books Prediction Machines and Power and Prediction, both on the economics of artificial intelligence.