Bryan Burdick

Bryan Burdick is chief operating officer of Zoom Information, a search engine focused on the business-to-business marketplace. Previously, he was with Monster as senior vice president of core segments for Monster North America and then chief marketing officer for the Monster AdComms division. He served earlier as senior vice president of global portal services with TerraLycos. Bryan has also served as the managing director of consumer products for Go2Net (acquired by InfoSpace) and as senior vice president of marketing for Reality Online, a Reuters company that designs and builds web sites for brokerage firms. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business.

Jaime Carbonell

Jaime Carbonell is the Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science and director of the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He was a co-founder of Carnegie Group, which went public and was later acquired by Logica, is chairman of Wisdom Technologies and is on the technical advisory board of Powerloom.

Thomas Detre, M.D.

Thomas Detre is professor of psychiatry and medical director for international programs and senior advisor to the president of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). He was formerly senior vice chancellor for health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and president of UPMC. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2003 he was appointed by the Secretary of Health to the board of regents of the National Library of Medicine for a four-year term.

Mike Green

Mike Green serves as an advisor, investor and board member of several privately held technology companies. His most recent position was that of president of field operations of Loudcloud (now Opsware). Prior to that he was senior vice president and general manager of worldwide sales at FORE Systems until it was sold to U.K.-based GEC (now Marconi) in 1999 for $4.5B. Mike started his career in 1969 as a mathematician, cryptanalyst and software developer at the National Security Agency. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Boston University and a master's degree in numerical science from Johns Hopkins University.

Tom Murphy

Tom Murphy is a Senior Resident Fellow (Klingbeil Family Chair for urban development) at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, D.C. Before this, Murphy served three terms as the mayor of Pittsburgh, from January 1994 through December 2005. During that time, he initiated a public-private partnership strategy that leveraged more than $4.5 billion in economic development in Pittsburgh. From 1979 through 1993, Murphy served eight terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, authoring legislation that created the Ben Franklin Technology Partnership, which is dedicated to advancing Pennsylvania's focus on technology in the economy. Murphy served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay from 1970 through 1972. He holds a Master of Science degree in urban studies from Hunter College, and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and chemistry from John Carroll University.