Samuel Gordon is a bilingual Transfer Pricing Partner at Deloitte-Tohmatsu Japan, specializing on risk assessments, transfer pricing governance, and M&A and restructuring. He has worked in Japan for two decades and has spent much of his career in taxation, transfer pricing, banking, and securities. He holds a BA in Northeast Asia Political Economy from UC Berkeley and an MIA from GPS at UC San Diego.

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and the director of JFIT. Her research focuses on Japan's changing corporate strategies, including business culture, change management, and business organization. Her 2020 book "The Business Reinvention of Japan" analyzes how Japanese companies are responding to the rise of China and the changing global competition.