Gerry Tsoukalas is a Full Professor of Information Systems at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School and Alibaba's Luohan Academy. He has also taught at Columbia Business School and at IMD in Switzerland. Before academia, he traded structured products at Morgan Stanley through the 2007–2009 financial crisis, and later worked as a quant at Weiss Asset Management. His research focuses on AI, digital platforms, and the economics of crypto and blockchain, and has appeared in journals including Management Science, Harvard Business Review, and Operations Research, earning multiple Best Paper awards.

In 2025, he was selected for the Thinkers50 Radar, recognizing thirty emerging global thinkers shaping the future of management. He co-founded the Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research Forum, and has worked with Andreessen Horowitz, PayPal, and a number of AI and Web3 ventures. He holds a PhD from Stanford, and earlier degrees from MIT and from Paris.

Brett Hemenway Falk is a Research Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Alongside his academic work, served as adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation, where he developed cryptographic protocols for satellite collision avoidance, and over a decade building secure-computation systems for government and industry through Stealth Software. His research sits at the intersection of cryptography, algorithm design, and the economics of AI, blockchain, and digital platforms. He has served as an expert witness in federal court. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from UCLA.