John Coleman, Ph.D., has been a Professor of Economics at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University since 1992. During this time he has taught extensively on issues of corporate finance, multinational firms, and global business. He has taught in Fuqua’s Global Executive MBA program, Fuqua’s flagship Executive MBA program marketed to high level executives from around the world, since its inception in 1996. He has written numerous articles on issues of financial markets, technology adoption, emerging economies, and economic development. From 1987 to 1992 he was an economist in the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board, and from 1986 to 1987 he was managing partner of Ibbotson Associates, a Chicago-based financial consulting firm. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1987 and his Bachelor of Science in economics and political science from the University of Wisconsin in 1980.

In 1996 Ms. Shikowitz started Prodgenious to begin the development of a miniature location device. Ms. Shikowitz continued the development of a miniature location device as part of eWatchDogs, which acquired Prodgenious in 2000. A patent for an intelligent remote location system was granted in 2003, and the patent was purchased by On Track Technologies Incorporated in 2007. In 1990 Ms. Shikowitz co-founded PBT Technologies, which created a tape-emulation-based Image Archive System for medical imaging scanners. PBT Technologies grew to 3 million dollars in annual revenue, and was sold to Reel Emulation. In 1989 Ms. Shikowitz worked with Thacker Engineering to design all ASIC, RISC, and memory hardware for the Pegasys workstation, which provided over 30 million dollars of revenue for ADAC. From 1987 to 1990 Ms. Shikowitz worked with Virtual Imaging to prototype all of the ASIC devices and printed circuit boards for the VIEW 2000 workstation, the first window based medical imaging workstation, which generated over 10 million dollars of revenue between 1987 and 1991.

Euseekers “Zeke” Williams, Jr. is a retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel and pilot. Zeke has over 20 years of experience garnered from a variety of assignments which include: Director of Operations and Deputy Director of Operations of a 5000+ person organization whose missions were to ensure the security of America’s embassies and consulates in over 170 countries and sensitive U.S. Naval installations worldwide; Director of Maintenance for a fleet of 34 aircraft and 200 personnel; Special Assistant to Director of Personnel Programs, Secretary of the Navy Staff; Director of Logistics; Deputy Director of Safety and Standardization; Quality Assurance Manager; and Intelligence Officer. He has received numerous awards for his accomplishments. Zeke received a BA in 1987 from Southern University and A&M College and an MBA in 2005 from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.