Daniel van der Weide is a pioneer in terahertz generation and detection using integrated circuits, having designed, fabricated and measured the shortest pulses on record using these circuits in 1994, with comparable results at world-record slew rates reported in 2018. He has made extraordinary contributions to the understanding of terahertz electronics, including coherent measurements, ultra-broadband antennas, and remote sensing. He helped develop the ability to localize high-frequency energy which led him to its use in a wide range of applications, including the first non-contact measurements of pore-forming protein dynamics in membranes. The small-signal measurements gave way to exploration of localized microwave power to treat cancer. With others, he pursued the clinical refinement of this application of 2.45 GHz microwave power, ultimately establishing Neuwave Medical Inc., which has treated thousands of patients with kidney, lung and liver lesions, and was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2016.

Justin Reed, CEO and Co-founder of C-Motive Technology, Inc. is an entrepreneur at heart, driven to "build something from nothing," and applies his meticulousness to the company’s strategic development, fundraising, evaluating new business opportunities, and forging customer relationships, among many other hats. A graduate of UW-Madison's power research program (WEMPEC), Justin's technical expertise lies in multi-level power converters and electromechanical power conversion. He has authored or co-authored over a dozen technical papers and is an inventor of patented and patent-pending core C-Motive technology.

Clark Johnson, is a physicist specializing in magnetics especially as it relates to data storage. He spent 9 years in the Central Research Laboratory of 3M Company involved with magnetics technologies and subsequently as entrepreneur founding several companies working in data storage, telecommunications and later in image capture, processing and display.  One of these, Vertimag Systems, played a significant role in the development of perpendicular magnetic recording technology, now used in virtually all disk drives. Clark is currently a Director of Iowa Pacific Holdings, LLC, a short-line railroad holding company and president of its High Iron subsidiary. He is Senior Scientist at Creative Technology, LLC, which is commercializing WORF technology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), former president of the Magnetics Society and holder of over 30 U.S. and foreign patents. He was a science advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988-89. He holds a BS and MSEE degree in Physics from the University of Minnesota.