Paul Zane Pilzer is an economist, social entrepreneur, professor, and public servant. Pilzer completed Lehigh University in three years and received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 15 months at age 22. He became Citibank's youngest officer at age 22 and its youngest Vice President at age 25. He was appointed an Adjunct Professor at New York University at age 24 where he taught for 21 years and was five times voted "best teacher." Pilzer has started, and/or taken public, six companies in the healthcare, real estate, and K-12 education sectors.

Stephen P. Jarchow is the author of four books on real estate taxation and finance published by Wiley. He cowrote Tax Management Portfolio on Taxation of Foreign Governments (IRC Section 892), as well as numerous articles on business taxation. He also compiled and edited Graaskamp on Real Estate, which summarized the groundbreaking real estate investment work of the late Professor James A. Graaskamp.