Cheng, Co-Founder & Chairman, APL Software, ‍‍‍‍is a successful serial entrepreneur and well-acclaimed industry veteran, having founded and led numerous businesses spanning a range of different industries.

Cheng Wu was CEO and co-founder at Azuki Systems, responsible for the company’s vision, corporate strategy and setting the overall direction in the marketplace.  Azuki was sold to Ericsson in February, 2014.

Before that, Cheng served as Founder and Chairman of Acopia Networks, a leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization solutions in December, 2001.  Acopia was acquired by F5 Networks for $210M in September, 2007.

Cheng  joined Cisco Systems in June 2000 through Cisco’s $5.7B acquisition of ArrowPoint Communications, where he held various executive positions, including Group VP and General Manager of the Content and Multiservice Edge Group (CME).

Mary Adams is an expert in integrated thinking and sustainable value creation.  She is the founder of Smarter-Companies which provides open tools, training and a proprietary platform for stakeholder evaluation of the diverse capitals that drive value creation. These tools are used to make the connection between sustainability, innovation and financial results. Her company's network includes consulting firms on five continents. Mary is also the co-author of Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization.Taskforce.
 

Natty Hoffman is the Chief Operating Officer of Prattle, a text analytics firm that provides decision-making solutions for investors. Previously, she worked for IBM as a project executive at State Street Corporation, leading various teams to modernize State Street’s IT operations, and as a financial systems consultant. Natty holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management – University of Toronto, and undergraduate degrees in finance and journalism from the University of Massachusetts.  She holds B.S in Industrial Engineering and International Business and M.A. in Economics.

Mr. Albert Ma is the Chief Innovation Officer of Insigma Hengtian Software, Ltd. He has over 25 years of IT management and software development experience. Before joining Hengtian, Mr. Ma was the Chief Information Officer of the State Street Technology Center for several years in Hangzhou, China. He was the core team member in setting up the IT operation locally and migration of strategic applications to the Hangzhou office.
Mr. Ma graduated from the University of Queensland with a Masters Degree in Technology Management and an MBA from the Univeristy of Hull. He is a certified Project Management Professional and Certified IT Professional. As the company’s Chief Innovation Officer, Mr. Ma manages the R&D and innovation activities of the company. He makes leading research efforts in technical solutions in Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Mobile, Machine Learning and Software Engineering Automation.

Mitchell Dong AB ‘75 is a serial entrepreneur who has started a dozen businesses over the last 40 years.  He started selling toads at age five and performed magic tricks for children’s birthdays as a preteen.    In college he started an energy and environmental consulting business.  For most of his career he was a developer of independent power plants, including solar, hydro and cogeneration facilities in the USA, China and Africa.   He also developed ammonia fertilizer plants.  As he hedge fund manager, he developed quant models for trading mutual funds, electric power and uranium.   Today he is developing algorithmic models for trading bitcoin.  Having sold several of his companies, he invests the sales proceeds through his family’s investment office and is an active private investor.  He advises many students on their startup ventures.
Mitchell is a graduated from Harvard College in 1975 and from the OPM program at Harvard Business School in 1997.  In college he started as a chemistry major butafter receiving only mediocre grades, he switched to economics where he did much better.

David Saul is senior vice president and chief scientist at State Street Corporation, reporting to the chief information officer.  In this role, he is responsible for proposing and assessing new advanced technologies for the organization as well as evaluating technologies already in use at State Street and their likely evolution in order to reinforce the organization’s leadership position in financial services.
Mr. Saul previously was chief information security officer, where he oversaw State Street’s corporate information security program, controls and technology. Prior to that, he managed State Street’s Office of Architecture, where he was responsible for the overall enterprise technology, data and security architecture of the corporation. Mr. Saul joined State Street in 1992 after 15 years with IBM’s Cambridge Scientific Center, where he managed innovations in operating systems virtualization, multiprocessing, networking and personal computers. Mr. Saul serves as a trustee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 2007 he was honored with a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader Award.  American Banker named Mr. Saul as one of its Top Innovators of 2013 for his work on data semantics and standards. Mr. Saul holds bachelors and master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.