Ferris Chandler is a retired Vice President of Domestic Operations of Cooper Tool, a Fortune 500 industrial firm and division of Cooper Industries. In this position, he was responsible for the operation of nine manufacturing facilities and managed over 5000 employees. Cooper products include brand names such as Lufkin, Crescent, Weller, Nicholson, Wiss, and Plumb.

Previous experience included Production Manager at Cooper-Bessemer and also Rem-Cru Titanium, a consortium of Remington Arms and Crucible Steel. He received a BS from Carnegie Mellon University in 1950.

Since retirement he has worked as a Management Consultant and, with his wife, has founded a Learning Center to help students in public schools.

His interests include writing essays, throwing and glazing pottery, designing houses, woodworking, and politics. He and his wife, Mary Jane, live near Raleigh in a house they designed and built in 1972. They have two daughters.

Brian Hamilton is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sageworks, where he manages overall strategy and product development. He is an original co-developer of “FIND” (Financial Information into Narrative Data), the company's core artificial intelligence technology which converts financial numbers into plain-language reports. “FIND” is the basis of ProfitCents and Sageworks Analyst, applications that are used today by thousands of financial institutions and accounting firms throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

Brian is an accomplished entrepreneur who has guided Sageworks since its inception. He holds an MBA degree from Duke University and a bachelor's degree from Sacred Heart University, where he graduated summa cum laude. Brian is a noted expert in finance who has been published and quoted in most major national media outlets. He is currently a guest columnist for Forbes.com.

Christopher Lee co-founded Teleware, Inc., a software development company specializing in online financial services, in 1982. In the 1980's and 1990's, he led the development of many of the industry's leading-edge applications, including the Dow Jones Market Manager (portfolio management), The Charles Schwab Equalizer (online stock trading), and Andrew Tobias' Managing Your Money for the Macintosh (personal finance).

After spearheading the development of MYOB accounting software, Mr. Lee became president of Teleware in 1991. The Teleware group sold the company to Best Programs of Reston, VA, in 1993. Mr. Lee remained as president of the company, renamed Bestware, Inc., until 1996, when he and two Australian partners bought Bestware. They expanded international operations into the UK, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In 1999, the three partners merged all of the international entities into one company, MYOB Ltd., and took it public on the Australian stock exchange (ASX symbol MYO).

Today, MYOB Ltd. has over 1,000 employees and annual revenues of $150 million. Mr. Lee serves as an Executive Director, and is responsible for guiding the evolution of the global product line.

Mr. Lee received a BA in mass media communications and an MBA in quantitative studies from Rutgers University.

He currently resides with his wife and three sons in Mendham, New Jersey.