Geoffrey G. Parker is a professor of engineering at Dartmouth College (effective July 2016) and has been a professor of management science at Tulane University since 1998. He is also a visiting scholar and research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Before joining academia, he held positions in engineering and finance at General Electric. He has made significant contributions to the economics of network effects as codedeveloper of the theory of two-sided networks. Parker’s work has been supported by the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and numerous corporations. Parker advises senior leaders in government and business and is a frequent speaker at conferences and industry events. He received his BS from Princeton and his MS and PhD from MIT.
Marshall W. Van Alstyne is a professor at Boston University and a visiting scholar and research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Van Alstyne is a world expert on information economics and has made fundamental contributions to IT productivity and to theories of network effects. His coauthored work on two-sided networks is taught in business schools worldwide. In addition, he holds patents in information privacy protection and on spam-prevention methods. Van Alstyne has been honored with six best paper awards and National Science Foundation IOC, SGER, iCORPS, SBIR and Career Awards. He is an advisor to leading executives, a frequent keynote speaker, a former entrepreneur, and a consultant to startups and to Global 100 companies. He received his BA from Yale and his MS and PhD from MIT. Reach him at @InfoEcon.
Sangeet Paul Choudary is the founder of Platform Thinking Labs and a C-level advisor to executives globally on platform business models. He is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the INSEAD Business School and a Fellow at the Centre for Global Enterprise. He also writes the popular blog Platform Thinking (platformed.info), recommended as a must-read by the Wall Street Journal, and his work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, and Wired. He is a frequent keynote speaker at leading conferences, including the G20 World Summit 2014 events.