Ariel L. Furst received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Chicago, working with Prof. Stephen B. H. Kent on the chemical synthesis of proteins. She then completed her Ph.D. in the lab of Prof. Jacqueline K. Barton at the California Institute of Technology, developing new cancer diagnostic strategies based on DNA charge transport. She was then an A. O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Prof. Matthew Francis at the University of California, Berkeley. She is now an assistant professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT. She is passionate about STEM outreach and increasing participation of underrepresented groups in engineering. Ariel is a cofounder and Chair of the Trelkin Scientific Advisory Board.
Stacy Ladwig received a B.S. degree in Economics, with distinction, from James Madison University with faculty advisement from J. Barkley Rosser. After working in the United States House of Representatives office of Congressman Erik Paulsen, she completed her Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College working with the Captain George Thibault, USN (Ret.) on targeted motivation and deterrence. She then worked as a defense lobbyist for Innovative Federal Strategies until she transitioned to health information technology. Stacy has led bespoke product design for workforce and hospital management, negotiated an innovation pipeline and Cooperative Research and Development agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs and led the cloud migration of all health records and supporting solutions for the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs while working at Oracle. Her MBA is from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Stacy is a cofounder and CEO of Trelkin.