TIMOTHY BOONE is the business editor of The Advocate. He has nearly 25 years of experience covering a variety of industries, including real estate, retail, casinos, economic development and shipbuilding. He has worked for daily newspapers, business magazines and online publications in Louisiana and Mississippi. Boone earned a bachelor's in mass communications-news editorial from LSU. He lives with his wife, four small dogs and four large cats.

TERESA RIVAS is a reporter who has covered financial markets for Barron's since 2007. Her work has also appeared in other publications including The Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

B.L. OCHMAN contributes to AdAge, MediaVillage, YPO Impact, Social Media Today, Verticals Collective and many others. Since 2012, she has been producer and co-host of the award-winning Beyond Social Media Show Podcast. She is a long-time social media star with 11,000 Twitter followers. A multi-faceted marketing professional skilled in development of high-yield, innovative programs that drive visibility and sales, Ochman is also a member of the Advisory Board of Teens for Food Justice and volunteer advisor to AmanacerLA.org which empowers underserved children, adults and domestic abuse victims with comprehensive mental health and case management services. She has produced more than 500 podcasts, video interviews and live-streamed events.

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CHRIS MACDONALD is a professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto, where he teaches business ethics and critical thinking. He is director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre. A philosopher by training, his scholarly work ranges across corporate ethics, professional ethics, healthcare ethics, and philosophical moral theory. He is the author of two textbooks, and makes frequent media appearances.

CRAIG BETTENHAUSEN is a business reporter on staff at Chemical & Engineering News and the host of the podcast C&EN Uncovered. He has worked in scientific journalism for more than a decade covering industrial decarbonization, specialty chemicals, consumer product science, energy, and industrial gas. He also leads and writes for C&EN's Chemistry in Pictures, showcasing the beauty of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences. Craig is based in Baltimore and travels widely to report and speak on chemistry and it's translation into world-changing enterprises.

THORNTON MAY is a futurist, a cognitive scientist and an anthropologist studying the value-producing behaviors of the various “tribes” comprising the modern enterprise. His book, The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics analyzes what organizations know; how they come to know and how they act upon what they know and don’t know. Passionate about obliterating digital ignorance from the executive suite he currently serves as Co-Director of the Innovation Lab at the Olin College of Engineering; Executive Director of the CIO Solutions Gallery at the Ohio State University College of Engineering. The editors at eWeek honored Thornton, including him on their list of ‘Top 100 Most Influential People in IT.’ The editors at Fast Company labeled him ‘one of the top 50 brains in technology today.’ www.thorntonamay.com