Fellows
The Diamond Fellows are a world-class network of experts who provide clients with a broad range of perspectives on engagements and interactions throughout the year. Their focused expertise and unbiased opinions serve as a catalyst for launching innovative thought leadership, resulting in breakthrough strategies and solid businesses.
Dan Ariely
Diamond fellow; Principal Investigator, MIT Media Lab eRationality Group; Co-director, MIT Media Lab SIMPLICITY Consortium
Dan Ariely holds a joint appointment between MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and
The Sloan School of
Management. He is the principal investigator of the Lab's eRationality group and co-director of the Lab's
SIMPLICITY consortium.
Vince Barabba
Diamond fellow; Chairman, Kings County Ventures and Market Insight Corporation
Vincent P. Barabba is the chairman of Market Insight Corporation and the Synthesis Alliance. He retired in 2003 as the general manager of corporate strategy and knowledge development at General Motors Corporation where he was responsible for overseeing corporate strategic planning and the Business Decision Support Center.
John Perry Barlow
Diamond fellow; co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; fellow, Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF). He promotes the freedom of expression in digital media through his work
with the EFF, his writings, and lectures.
Gordon Bell
Diamond Fellow; Principal Researcher, Microsoft; Visiting Professor, Macquarie University's Institute for Innovation
Gordon Bell has been a principal researcher with the Microsoft eSciences
Research Group in San Francisco, California since 1995, and is currently a
visiting professor at Macquarie University's Institute for Innovation in
Sydney, Australia. At Microsoft, he is involved in “lifelogging” or storing
everything an individual has experienced in his lifetime.
Dan Bricklin
Diamond fellow; President, Software Garden, Inc.
(read Dan's blog/listen to Dan's podcasts)
Daniel Bricklin is founder and president of Software Garden, Inc., a small consulting firm and developer of software applications. Products he personally developed at Software Garden include the wikiCalc Open Source web-spreadsheet and the Dan Bricklin's Demo Program prototyping tool. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on the software industry, software development, and innovation.
Linda Hill
Diamond Fellow; Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Linda Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration in the organizational behavior area at the Harvard Business School.
She is unit chair of organizational behavior, faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative, and she has chaired numerous HBS executive education
programs including the Young Presidents' Organization, Presidents' Seminar, and the High Potentials Program.
Alan Kay
Diamond Fellow; President, Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc.; Fellow, HP Labs
Alan Kay is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming,
personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have
been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy
of Engineering “for the vision, conception, and development of the first
practical networked personal computers,”...
Andy Lippman
Co-founder, MIT Media Lab and Diamond Fellow
Andrew Lippman has spent the last forty years at MIT in capacities ranging from undergraduate to professor to senior research scientist. He has never had to look for a job in his life. He received his bachelor and master of science degrees from MIT, and a Ph.D. from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland while on leave from MIT.
Chunka Mui
Chairman, Diamond Fellows and Partner, Cornerloft Partners LLC; Member of the board of advisors, Brulant
Chunka Mui is an independent business advisor on strategic issues at the intersection of business and technology. He is also a fellow at Diamond and chairs that firm's prestigious network of external advisors.
David Reed
Adjunct Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT's Media Lab & Diamond Fellow
David
Reed helped develop the fundamental protocols of the internet known as TCP/IP. He was
chief scientist at Lotus Development Corp.
and currently holds joint appointments at the MIT Media Lab and HP Labs.
Marvin Zonis
Diamond fellow; professor, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Marvin Zonis, a political economist and professor emeritus of the University of Chicago,
and helps organizations identify,
assess, and manage their political risks in the global environment. His recent book,
The Kimchi Matters, uncovers important misperceptions of globalization.

