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Paul Tiffany is a Senior Lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses competitive strategy, business, and public policy, leadership and management, the global economy, and global strategy and management. He has taught previously at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School. His book The Decline of American Steel was published by Oxford University Press and later offered in a Japanese edition. His book Business Plans for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons), co-authored with Steven Peterson, was a worldwide top-five finalist in the annual Booz Allen/Financial Times “Best Business Book of the Year” award. Professor Tiffany is the recipient of awards for both his research and teaching, including the Anvil Award, presented annually to the outstanding professor in Wharton’s graduate program, the Lindback Award as the outstanding professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Cheit Award as the outstanding professor in the Executive MBA program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Josh Tonies is an artist who works with drawing and the moving image. His work centers around temporary ecological studies that take form as animation, drawing, works on paper and book arts. He is a lecturer on record at University of San Diego and UC San Diego, teaching courses in film, video art, animation and studio arts. He has exhibited his work most recently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, The Center for Fiction in NYC, Comfort Station in Chicago Illinois and the San Diego Museum of Art.

Mohammad Soltanieh-ha, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Information Systems department at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Prof. Soltanieh-ha obtained his Ph.D. in computational physics in 2015 from Northeastern University and his research interest revolves around computer vision applications of deep learning in automating histopathological diagnosis in cancer research as well as large scale computing and data science. His teaching experience involves data science programming, big data analytics, and applications of data science in business.

Nathaniel Chapman is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of California San Diego. He has experience treating various populations, including spinal cord injuries, substance abuse patients, veterans and adolescents, and children. He specializes in couple’s therapy utilizing empirically supported Gottman Method treatment. At UCSD, Dr. Chapman will be developing co-curricular community outreach programming for undergraduates who are interested in clinical psychology.