Davide Lauria is a professor in the Mathematics department at Texas Tech University.

W. Brent Lindquist is a computational mathematician and Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the Texas Tech University. He has developed numerical methods for portfolio optimization and option pricing, flow in porous media, 3D image analysis, Riemann problems, hierarchy formation in social groups, and quantum electrodynamics. He was a co-founder of a petroleum software company and has commercially licensed his image analysis code.

Svetlozar (Zari) Rachev is Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the Texas Tech University. He is one of the world's foremost authorities in the application of heavy-tailed distributions in finance. He was a co-founder and President of Bravo Risk Management Group, originator of the Cognity methodology. Bravo was acquired by FinAnalytica, where Zari served as Chief Scientist.