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George Hu is the chief operating officer of Salesforce.com in charge of global marketing, information technology, strategic alliances and more. Hu joined salesforce.com in 2002 and has served in a variety of management roles including vice president of product marketing, senior vice president of applications, executive vice president of products, and chief marketing officer. Prior to joining salesforce.com, Hu held product management and strategic consulting roles at North Point Communications and Boston Consulting Group. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College and a master's degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Hu was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010.
Graham Page leads Millward Brown’s innovation centre and directs the global team responsible for developing new solutions and approaches to help marketers drive their brands and services forward. He has worked for Millward Brown since 1992 providing brand owners in many different industries with answers to their marketing questions. A frequent writer and speaker on brand issues, Graham has written and presented on a wide range of topics including the drivers of brand success, consumer segmentation, brand elasticity and corporate reputation. Most recently he has undertaken pioneering research into how neuroscience techniques might be used to better understand consumers’ responses to brands and marketing. He holds a B.A. in experimental psychology from Oxford University.
John Ross is the CEO of Shopper Sciences, a retail marketing and shopper insights unit of IPG’s Mediabrands. Shopper Sciences has the ability to pinpoint the media sources that move a shopper from indecision to decision and to evaluate the barriers to purchase at different points within the purchase cycle. Formerly VP of advertising and marketing at Home Depot, John oversaw the brand expansion as the company grew to the second largest retailer in the United States. He led the company's first foray into e-commerce and international expansion Mexico and China. John holds an MBA from Tulane University's Freeman School of Business, and is a graduate of the Executive Advanced Leadership Program at Atlanta's Emory School of Business. He has also been an adjunct instructor with several national business schools.
Eric S. Yuan is corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco Systems responsible for collaboration software development. He was one of the founding engineers of WebEx and developed the first several generations of WebEx products. Founded in 1996, WebEx executed a high successful IPO in Nasdaq and was subsequently acquired by Cisco in 2007 for US$3.2 billion, when Mr. Yuan was VP of Engineering who led the product development of the $500 million of annual revenue of products. Mr. Yuan is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program and holds 6 patents, plus a dozen pending patents in the pipeline.
Dr. Matthew S. Goodwin is an assistant professor at Northeastern University with joint appointments in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and College of Computer & Information Science. He is a visiting assistant professor and the former director of clinical research at the MIT Media Lab, and he continues to co-direct the Media Lab Autism & Communication Technology Initiative. Goodwin serves on the executive board of the International Society for Autism Research, is co-chair of the Autism Speaks-Innovative Technology for Autism Initiative, and has adjunct associate research scientist appointments at Brown University. Goodwin has over 15 years of research and clinical experience working with children and adults on the autism spectrum and developing and evaluating innovative technologies for behavioral assessment and intervention, including telemetric physiological monitors, accelerometry sensors, and digital video/facial recognition systems. He received his B.A. in psychology from Wheaton College and his MA and PhD, both in experimental psychology, from the University of Rhode Island. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Affective Computing in the Media Lab in 2010.
Jeffrey Cohn is professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He has led broad efforts to develop advanced methods of automatic analysis of facial expression and prosody. He also has led efforts to apply those tools to research in human emotion, social development, non-verbal communication, psychopathology and biomedicine. Dr. Cohn co-chaired the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition and the 2009 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. He has co-edited two special issues of the Journal of Image and Vision Computing. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Autism Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Technical Support Working Group.
