Emotiv

Born in South Vietnam and migrated to Australia as a refugee. She completed a combined Honours degree in Law and Commerce at Monash University in 1998, beginning her studies at 16. Her first company, SASme, was a pioneer in SMPP platforms for Australian telecoms and SMS application markets, growing to 35 employees across multiple locations. Named Young Australian of the Year in 1998 and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, she has appeared in Forbes's "50 Names You Need to Know" and Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology. She co-founded Emotiv in 2011 to build consumer EEG headsets for neuroscience research and brain monitoring.

Physicist and engineer with a Ph.D. in Laser Physics from Macquarie University (graduated 1985). He spent a decade as Chief Scientist at Metalaser Technologies designing over 35 laser systems, including the Vasculase medical laser, and later served as R&D Manager at Polartechnics developing the Truscreen and Solarscan cancer-detection products. With more than 25 years of experience developing high-tech medical and consumer products, he co-founded Emotiv in 2011 as CTO to engineer the signal acquisition and processing hardware underlying Emotiv's EEG headset line. He also serves as CEO of Emotiv Research.