David Rich is the marketing director for the MATLAB family of products at MathWorks, spanning MATLAB and related toolboxes as well as cloud, server, and web capabilities. He also directs the company’s support of the startup community. Prior to this, he focused on strategic business development at Microsoft^®, joining the company as part of its acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing, where he served as the vice president of marketing. David has experience working at large enterprises and startups ranging from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Fujitsu^® to API Networks and Dolphin Interconnect. He has a computer science degree from Brown University.

Paul Peeling is a consultant engineer who focuses on the financial services industry in modeling credit and market risk, and managing the risk associated with those models, especially when machine learning is applied. He also has expertise in signal processing, software design and application development in MATLAB and big data for enterprise-scale data analytics. Prior to joining MathWorks, Paul worked applying pattern recognition techniques to detect and combat online fraud. Paul has a Ph.D. in statistical signal processing from the University of Cambridge.