Ninad Shinde talks to Guy Spier about his education, his work on lab-on-a-chip devices, about the evolution of the private equity space and about one of his big interests, the cloud / software as a service business.

Olaf Hein is the CEO of Elbstein AG, a publicly-traded German holding company.

David Sumpter is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Uppsala, in Sweden, and the author of a wonderful book, called The 10 equations that Rule the World.

Ricardo Fernandez is the Founder and Managing Partner of Signal Capital, an alternative asset management company. He grew up in Brazil, studied in Spain and in the United States, and holds an MBA from IESE and an AMP from Harvard Business School.

Arthur Fine is a lawyer and one of the directors of Aloha Medical Mission (“AMM”), a non-profit volunteer organization based in Honolulu, Hawaii.