Emotion Inc.

Mr. Croll became e know's CEO in 2002. Mr. Croll's 30+ years of prior experience includes leading a 1,300-person unit of Digital Equipment Corp. with $450M+ in annual revenues. Mr. Croll also served as VP, Professional Services for SAGA Software; as President and COO of CSSi, a subsidiary of Nichols Research Corp.; and as COO of eMotion, Inc., a software company specializing in digital media asset management. As Chairman and CEO, Mr. Croll continues to set the strategic direction while leading business development, sales and fundraising activities for the company.

Helen Nissenbaum is an associate professor in the Department of Culture and Communication and a Senior Fellow of the Information Law Institute, New York University. She specializes in social, ethical, and political dimensions of information technology. Her published works on privacy, property rights, electronic publication, accountability, the use of computers in education, and values embodied in computer systems have appeared in scholarly journals of philosophy, applied ethics, law, and computer science. She is author of Emotion and Focus (University of Chicago Press), co-editor (with D.J. Johnson) of Computers, Ethics and Social Values (Prentice-Hall), and a founding co-editor of the journal, Ethics and Information Technology (Kluwer Academic Press). Grants from the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation have supported her research and she has served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, UNESCO, AAAS, and the ACM. Before joining NYU, Nissenbaum was a Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Associate Director of Princeton University Center for Human Values, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. She earned a B.A. (Honors) from the University of Witwatersand, Johannesburg and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University.

Mr. Murphy is Vice Chairman of National Geographic Society, a position he has held since March 1998. From May 1996 until March 1998, Mr. Murphy was President and Chief Executive Officer of National Geographic Society. He is a trustee of Mercer University, a trustee and Chairman of the Board of the PNC Mutual Funds and Chairman of the Board of the PNC Alternative Fund. Mr. Murphy is also a past president of the U.S. Golf Association.

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is an associate research scientist in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He also is the associate director of Yale's Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory and director of emotional intelligence research at the Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy. He received his Ph.D. at the University of New Hampshire with Dr. Jack Mayer and was a post doctoral fellow at Yale University with Peter Salovey (co-founder of the theory of emotional intelligence). Dr. Brackett is the author or co-author of more than two dozen scholarly publications, including two educational curricula: Emotional Literacy in the Middle School and the Emotionally Intelligent Teacher. He also is the principal investigator on two grant-funded projects examining the short- and long-term effects of emotional literacy training in school children. He regularly works with school systems and corporations in the areas of assessment, training, and leadership development.