Dr. Neil Siegel is the IBM Professor of Engineering Management in the department of industrial and systems engineering, at the University of Southern California.  He was formerly the vice-president and chief technology officer for both Northrop Grumman's Information Systems and Mission Systems sectors, and vice-president and general ...

Jon Magnusson, PE, SE, is Senior Principal at Magnusson Klemencic Associates consulting structural/civil engineers with offices in Seattle and Chicago. The 185-person firm has provided engineering services for projects in 48 states and 61 countries.  He served as CEO of the firm for 25 years. 

His whole career has been focused on the ...

Dr. George T. Ligler (NAE) is Professor and Dean’s Excellence Chair of Multidisciplinary Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Texas A&M in March 2022, he was the proprietor of GTL Associates, a consultancy which has provided interdisciplinary systems integration/engineering and product management services ...

James O. Ellis, Jr. is an Annenberg Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, focusing on energy and national security policy. He retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), a commercial nuclear power industry self-regulatory non-profit located in Atlanta, ...

Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs of the National Academy of Engineering, where he is also founding director of the Forum on Complex Unifiable Systems (FOCUS) program. He has served as a technical advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the European Union Malaria Fund. ...