Howard Wolk is an experienced entrepreneur, company builder, and investor. He is co‐president of The Cross Country Group, a privately held business group, and a former senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar‐Rahmani Center for Business and Government. He received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from the Wharton School. He also holds a law degree from Columbia and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and two children.

John Landry is an independent business historian and writer. He has written or co‐authored histories of several companies, including Mylan Inc. and the New England Electric System. He earned a BA from the University of Chicago and a PhD in history from Brown University. Formerly an editor at the Harvard Business Review, he lives in Providence with his wife along with two sons away at college.