Russ Alan Prince is president of Prince & Associates, a leading consultancy in the private wealth field. Prince & Associates works with nonprofits, private banks, insurance companies, and investment management firms on strategic issues involving the private wealth markets. Prince is columnist for leading financial industry magazines and author of fifteen books in these interrelated fields, several coauthored with Karen Maru File.

Karen Maru File is associate professor of marketing at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. Her long-term research interests include global wealth, professional services marketing and philanthropy, interests which lead to her collaboration with Russ Alan Prince and Prince & Associates.