J. David Thompson is a U.S. Army Civil Affairs Major. He has a Juris Doctorate from Washington Lee School of Law. He also holds a BS in Economics and MBA-Leadership from Liberty University. Outside the military, he's worked at the UN Refugee Agency, Department of Defense, and Physicians for Human Rights – Israel. Check out his website.

Chris Sylvia is an RAAMC Officer currently posted to HQ 1 BDE. He holds a Masters in Defence Studies and Masters in Project Management from the University of New South Wales and is a graduate of the Defence Force School of Languages (Korean).

In 1965 he was conscripted into the Australian Army, In 1967 he deployed to Vietnam as a Plant Operator with the Royal Australian Engineers and afterwards remained in the Army serving in Singapore and the United States until discharging as a Major in 1986. He qualified as a HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) military parachutist with the US Army in 1978. He is a graduate of the Officer Cadet School, Portsea, Victoria and the Army Staff College at Fort Queenscliff, Victoria. He represented the Army in Australian Rules football, tennis, squash and marathon running.

Melissa is an entrepreneur, with an active interest in cognitive science, philosophy, and how technology and human behaviour intersect.

She is currently the founder of Liminal Technologies. Liminal is a leadership training and technology company that have developed an immersive, experience-based training that uses a new kind of measurement technology to quantify, measure and map authentic human behaviour.