Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. President
Ken Jarboe is President of Athena Alliance, and editor of the blog, The Intangible Economy. Dr. Jarboe received his Ph.D. in Sociotechnological Planning and B.S. in Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has served in a number of senior staff positions for the United States Senate, including as Chief Economist for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Before founding Athena Alliance he served as Senior U.S. Strategist at G7 Group, Inc., a Washington-based political economy consulting firm, as Senior Fellow at the Work and Technology Institute and as an analyst at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. An internationally recognized expert on intangible assets and the knowledge economy, Dr. Jarboe is the author of numerous publications and presentations on intellectual capital and intangible assets, innovation, information policy, economic competitiveness, corporate strategy, international trade and technology policy. He has also served as an Assistant Professor of Technology Management at the University of Maryland, University College and an Adjunct Professor of International Business at Georgetown University.

Joan L. Wills, Secretary/Treasurer
Ms. Wills is Director of the Center for Workforce Development, Institute for Educational Leadership. She concentrates on assisting states and localities in improving capacity of their institutions and staffs to provide high-quality preparatory experiences for new entrants into the labor force driven by standards of practice based on “want-works” research. Her published works are on issues such as: transition to the world of work, literacy, career guidance, work readiness and occupational skill standards.
Before joining the Institute, Joan served as project manager of the Commission on Skills of the American Workforce, author of the report, America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages!. She has also been Director of the Center for Policy Research at the National Governors Association and a gubernatorial appointee in two states. Joan’s international experience is with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Inter-American Development Bank and U.S. AID. She has also served on many national boards, advisory committees, work groups and task forces for national organizations and the federal government.
Joan earned an undergraduate degree from Franklin College in Indiana and a graduate degree from Ohio State University in social work.

Jonathan Low
Mr. Low is a Partner and Co-Founder of Predictiv, LLC. His specialty is management performance and organizational effectiveness, primarily valuation of intangibles such as strategy execution, brand, reputation, communications, innovation and organizational transition. He and his colleagues work with clients in business, government and the not-for-profit sector in the U.S. and Europe. In partnership with Fleishman-Hillard Inc. of the Omnicom Group, Predictiv has established Communications Consultants Worldwide (CCW) to provide communications measurement and management solutions to corporations.
Before founding Predictiv, Jon was a Senior Fellow at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation. Under his leadership, CGEY produced four major reports on the growing role of intangibles in the global economy. Jon organizes and co-hosts, with Forbes ASAP, an annual conference entitled Measuring the Future. Co-editor of Enterprise Value in the Knowledge Economy, published by the OECD and Ernst & Young in 1997, he is also co-author of Invisible Advantage, published by Perseus Press in 2002.
Jon has served in a number of positions relating to valuation of intangibles, including co-Chair for Strategic and Organizational Issues of The Brookings Institution’s Task Force on Understanding Intangible Sources of Value. He has presented his findings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the European Commission and New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Before affiliating with CGEY, Jon took a leave of absence from investment firm High Street Associates to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary (Acting) for Work and Technology Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor. In that capacity, Jon served on the SEC Steering Committee on the Future of Accounting and Financial Reporting and The Conference Board’s Working Group on Corporate Performance Measures. He was also U.S. representative to the inaugural OECD Conference on Corporate Governance.
Jon serves on the Boards of Advisors of IP Innovations Financial Services Inc., and Earth-Jet Inc., on the Board of Visitors of Dartmouth College’s Center for International Understanding and is a Fellow of the National IP Task Force. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale University’s School of Management.

Peter Harter
Peter Harter has been on email since 1986 and began publishing websites in 1993. Networking scientists, investors, lawyers, journalists, CEOs, and politicians, Peter generates relationship capital. Peter's policy expertise stems from first hand knowledge of innovation and disruption created by emerging technology companies, academia, and individuals.
Peter has managed nonprofit online communities and lobbied for corporations and startups such as Netscape Communications, EMusic.com, and Securify, Inc.. He has lobbied in Washington, DC, and Sacramento, CA, as well as numerous international locations including Ottawa, London, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Bonn, Berlin, and Tokyo.
Presently, he advises social innovators, non-profits, think-tanks, entrepreneurs and venture investors in China, US and Israel. Peter also represents Intellectual Ventures, LLC, a Bellevue, WA, firm that invents and invests in invention.
He holds a B.A. in Government and Rhetoric from Lehigh University and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. Peter is a member of the board of directors of the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on making digital voting technologies trusted and available to the public.