Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. President
Dr. Jarboe is President of Athena Alliance, and editor of the blog, The Intangible Economy. He served in a number of senior staff positions for the United States Senate, including as Chief Economist for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Ken is author of numerous publications on economic competitiveness, corporate strategy, international trade and technology policy. Among his reports are:
- Measuring Intangibles: A Summary of Recent Activity;
- Reporting Intangibles: A Hard Look at Improving Business Information in the U.S.;
- Extending the Information Revolution: A White Paper on Policies for Prosperity and Security;
- Inclusion in the Information Age;
- Knowledge Management as an Economic Development Strategy;
- The Challenge of the Global Information Age;
- Making the Global Economy Work for Every Worker;
- Technology and Economic Growth.
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. Ken earned his Ph.D. in Sociotechnological Planning and B.S. in Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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. They are:
- Measures That Matter;
- Success Factors in the IPO Transformation Process;
- Decisions That Matter;
- The Value Creation Index.
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 Understandingand is a Fellow of the National IP Task Force. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale University’s School of Management.