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Ms. Samuelson is an expert in antitrust, finance, and valuation, combining more than 25 years of experience applying economic and financial analysis to complex legal disputes with five years of experience as a practicing trial attorney. A key aspect of Ms. Samuelson’s work is the direction of economic analyses for merger review, regulatory investigations, and large private litigations. Working with affiliate David Dranove on behalf of the US Department of Justice, she recently led the case team that successfully challenged the proposed merger of Anthem and Cigna. She has managed economic analyses related to antitrust issues in more than 100 matters during her career, including numerous government, competitor, and consumer matters on behalf of MasterCard over more than two decades, and on behalf of Microsoft during a similar period. Ms. Samuelson has also provided analysis of issues of class certification, liability, and damages in a broad set of technology- and financial services-related cases, and has analyzed economic issues related to government investigations and mergers involving companies in technology and health care. She has served as an expert in many phases of litigation, including development of economic and financial models; preparation of testimony; development, presentation, and review of pretrial discovery; and critique of economic and financial analyses of opposing experts. A frequent speaker on topics in antitrust and competition, the role of economics in litigation, and leadership, Ms. Samuelson has presented before a number of legal audiences and at leading academic institutions, including the American Bar Association (ABA)’s Antitrust Section Annual Spring Meeting, the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)’s Annual Antitrust Law Section Meeting, the Yale School of Management, the University of Chicago Law School, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has also participated in numerous legal and economic conferences and seminars. In one representative example, Ms. Samuelson moderated a panel at the US Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice joint public workshop on most-favored nation clauses, and subsequently coauthored an article on the program in the ABA Antitrust Section Joint Conduct Committee’s newsletter. Ms. Samuelson was named as one of Global Competition Review’s Women in Antitrust 2016, and she is frequently included in the International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists and Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers/Economists. She has served as a vice chair of the ABA’s Trial Practice Committee of Antitrust Law. In addition to her economic consulting work, Ms. Samuelson serves as CEO and Chairman of Analysis Group, one of the largest economic consulting firms in the United States. She previously served as President and CEO (beginning in 2004), and prior to that as co-CEO (beginning in 1998). Since joining Analysis Group in 1992, Ms. Samuelson has played a key role in the company’s growth and diversification and has brought significant new clients, academic affiliates, and professional staff to the firm. Under her guidance, Analysis Group has been named (by Vault) as one of the top 50 consulting firms in the US for several years running. In Massachusetts, the firm has been consistently named in the annual Top Places to Work ranking by The Boston Globe, and the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts listing by the Commonwealth Institute and Boston Globe Magazine. Ms. Samuelson is also the chair of the Boston Medical Center Hospital Board of Trustees and sits on the board of directors of the Yale School of Management.

Ed Merrow is the Founder and CEO of Independent Project Analysis, Inc. (IPA), the global industry leader in quantitative analysis and benchmarking of project management systems. After receiving his degrees from Dartmouth College and Princeton University, Merrow began his career as an Assistant Professor at University of California Los Angeles, followed by 14 years as a research scientist at The Rand Corporation where he directed the Energy Research Program. He is a recognized expert on the development and commercialization of new process technologies and management of large and complex projects. His recent books include his critically acclaimed Industrial Megaprojects (John Wiley 2011) and Leading Complex Projects (John Wiley 2018). Ed’s current major research effort centers on a quantitative analysis of how contracting strategies and delivery systems shape project results. That will result in a new book on the subject in late 2019.IPA evaluates projects and project delivery systems primarily for industrial companies in oil, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, minerals, and power and infrastructure. IPA’s clients are worldwide. IPA also maintains the largest projects research organization in the world with a full-time staff of over 40 inter-disciplinary researchers studying how to better develop and execute capital projects.

Anil Kaul is a prominent figure in the field of Analytics and Market Research. He has a PhD in quantitative marketing from Cornell University. Before starting Absolutdata, Anil worked at Personify and McKinsey & Company. He has published articles in leading management and academic journals such as McKinsey Quarterly, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research and International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has also been invited as a speaker at McKinsey & Co., Dartmouth, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Yale, Columbia and New York University. Anil is also an avid hiker, having recently climbed a 20,000 foot peak in Ladakh, India.

Srikanth Velamakanni is the Co-founder, Group Chief Executive, and Executive Vice Chairman of Fractal, one of the leading players in artificial intelligence and digital transformation. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and to use the power of AI to help the world’s most admired Fortune 100 companies. Since Srikanth co-founded Fractal in 2000, the company has raised more than $300 million USD from private equity investors and has empowered more than 100 Fortune 500 companies with its AI, data, and analytics-driven business strategies. Under his leadership, Fractal has developed several product lines within the company, including Cuddle.ai, Eugenie.ai, and Qure.ai. Srikanth serves on the board of Qure.ai - which has recently received 16MM USD in funding less than three years after incubation. Srikanth is also a Co-founder and Trustee of Plaksha University, which focuses on core engineering, AIML, and mathematics, and promotes interdisciplinary learning by bringing together science and liberal arts. In addition, Srikanth is a member of the NASSCOM Executive Council, where he serves as a subject matter expert on data and AI. Prior to co-founding Fractal, he was an investment banker, working on structured debt and CDOs. Srikanth’s passion for AI and analytics has made him a thought leader in the space and an admired public speaker. He considers himself a lifelong student of mathematics, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and consumer behavior. In his free time, Srikanth reads an average of 40 non-fiction books a year on these subjects, as well as memoirs, biographies, and books on leadership. He also actively follows US politics and American late-night talk shows, such as Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Hassan Minhaj, and Jimmy Kimmel. Srikanth completed his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, and holds an MBA in Management, Finance and Marketing degree from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.