Dr. Raul Hinojosa is Founding Director of the North American Integration and Development Center and Associate Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana, Chicano and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a B.A. (Economics), M.A. (Anthropology) and Ph.D. (Political Science) at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the political economy of regional integrations in various parts of the world, including trade, investment and migration relations between the U.S., Mexico, Latin American and the Pacific Rim.

Dr. Hinojosa is also co-founder of the North American Development Bank.

Dr. Hinojisa's recent work has focused on researching and identifying Social Equity footprint, which can be quantified and utilized in assessing and ranking long term Energy Transition planning, as well as ESG investments.

Marc Canter is a 40+ software entrepreneur, best known for co-founding MacroMind, which became Macromedia [MACR.]

Marc has been called "one of the fathers of multimedia", and is a specialist in taking ideas and turning them into software startups.

Marc has been part of and has participated in every era of the software business, since the early 80's.