Paul is a senior data strategist at Oracle who leads Oracle's work on data capital. Data is now a kind of capital, on par with financial capital for creating new digital products and services. This has big implications for both competitive strategy and the future of enterprise computing. Paul's main focus is helping executives apply these ideas to gain competitive advantage, and government officials to serve citizens better.

Charles is currently editorial director for The Economist's industry and management research business, where he covers a territory spanning from Australia to India and China. His team works with many Western multinationals from the Fortune 500 but increasingly with Asian multinationals, governments, SMEs and high-growth technology firms as well.

Andrei is a leading expert on platform strategy and business models and currently based at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, where he serves as associate professor of information systems, and associate director for the platforms initiative (digital sector). He uses the insights drawn from his research to advise and angel invest in start-ups building platform businesses, as well as to consult for large companies seeking to turn their products into platforms (e.g. ADP, Equifax, Intuit).