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Advisory Board

Tania Neild is the founder and CEO of InfoGrate Inc., a wealth technology consulting firm specializing in solutions for family offices. She began her career as an applied scientist at the National Security Agency, where she was awarded the National Physical Sciences Consortium Award to support her research in heterogeneous database integration. She went on to hold leadership positions at several boutique application service providers. As CTO and COO of Private Client Resources, she built the technology and led the team responsible for a reporting platform that grew to track over $6 billion in assets for more than 300 families. She later served as CTO and Managing Director of EnvestNet Asset Management, where she developed a separately managed account platform recognized by Forbes in 2001 as “Best of the Web.” Co-founded by Neild, EnvestNet went public in 2010.

Neild’s expertise lies in distributed data integration and real-time data management. Her work continues to shape the design, implementation, and customization of financial technology systems for the private wealth industry. She earned her PhD in computer engineering from Northwestern University.

Shriram Revankar is a senior vice president at Dolby Labs, where he directs the Advanced Technology Group. Previously, he served as a fellow and vice president at Adobe Systems and headed Adobe's research labs in India. Before joining Adobe, Revankar was with Xerox Research, where he was a Xerox Fellow and the head of the Smart & Adaptive Systems Lab.

Dr. Revankar holds an MS and PhD in computer science from SUNY Buffalo, and his research interests span immersive sight, sound, multimodal, and extended reality experiences.

Stephen Pratt is the founder and former CEO of Noodle.ai, a San Francisco–based company applying artificial intelligence to eliminate waste in global supply chains. Pratt began his career in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps before joining Booz Allen Hamilton as a technology and strategy consultant. He later joined Deloitte, where he rose rapidly through the ranks to become a senior partner. In 2004, he co-founded Infosys Consulting, which grew from a two-person startup into a global enterprise with 32,000 employees and $2.3 billion in revenue. In 2016, Pratt launched Noodle.ai, where he led efforts to apply advanced analytics, machine learning, and supercomputing to optimize business operations, reduce inefficiencies, and drive environmental sustainability.

Pratt’s work lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, complex systems, and supply chain optimization. He is a strong advocate for applying AI in ways that improve global resource allocation and reduce environmental impact. Pratt has twice been named one of Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 Consultants in the World, and his company has been recognized as one of LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups. Pratt earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in satellite communications from The George Washington University. He is a member of the McCormick School of Engineering Advisory Board.

Prabhakar Raghavan is the Chief Technologist at Google. He was previously Senior Vice President for Google’s Knowledge & Information products, including Google Search, Geo, Ads and Commerce. Dr. Raghavan is one of the foremost authorities on search, with over 20 years of research spanning algorithms, web search, and databases. He is the co-author of two widely-used graduate texts, Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval. Prior to joining Google, he founded and led Yahoo! Labs. He also served as chief technology officer at Verity and held various positions during 14 years at IBM Research. Dr. Raghavan holds a PhD from UC Berkeley; he is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the ACM, member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and recipient of a Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Bologna.

Valerie Taylor received her PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. She then joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University, where she was a member of the faculty for 11 years. In 2003, she joined Texas A&M, where she served as head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and as senior associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Engineering and a Regents Professor and the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She joined Argonne National Laboratory in 2017 as director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and, in 2019, was named an Argonne Distinguished Fellow.

Dr. Taylor is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS. Her current research is focused on the areas of performance analysis, energy-efficient computing, and microelectronics.

Todd Warren is a software consultant and adjunct faculty member for the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Department of Computer Science at the McCormick School of Engineering. He has served as Interim Director Software at Ford Motor Company and is also a venture capitalist and managing director, partner, and investor in Divergent Ventures, focusing on early-stage companies. Warren previously worked for Microsoft for more than 20 years in a variety of product management, general management, and product development roles, including corporate vice president. Warren received his BA in computer science and economics from Northwestern and previously served on a Board of Trustees for the University. He is also a chair of Venturewell’s board and a board member of Ashesi University in Ghana.