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 5,000 employees. Cooper products include brand names such as Lufkin, Crescent, Weller, Nicholson, Wiss, and Plumb.

Mr. Chandler’s previous experience includes 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 he and his wife 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. He is one of the original developers of “FIND” (Financial Information into Narrative Data), the company's core artificial intelligence technology. “FIND” is the basis of ProfitCents^™ and Sageworks Analyst^™, financial applications that are used today by thousands of financial institutions and accounting firms throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

Brian has guided Sageworks since its inception. Brian has been published and quoted in most major national media outlets. He holds an MBA from Duke and an undergraduate degree from Sacred Heart. He is currently a guest columnist for Forbes.com. He directs an outreach program, Inmates to Entrepreneurs, which teaches inmates of correctional facilities how to start low capital businesses. He is also a regular volunteer for the Wake County Re-Entry program, which helps guide young people who are having behavioral challenges in school.

Christopher Lee co-founded Teleware, Inc., a software development company specializing in online financial services, in 1982. In the 1980s and 1990s, 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.