Bob has worked for more than 30 years as a forecaster, exploring the human side of new technologies. He has a deep interest in the future of religion and its impact on business, society, and individuals. Bob works mainly with senior corporate executives across a wide range of industries. He has rich experience in presenting IFTF's foresight and then drawing out insights-inputs to strategy-and-action steps.

Cesar Castro is a Research Director at the Institute For The Future, working both with the Technology Horizons Team and the Health Horizons Team. He also directs the X2 Project at the institute (www.sciencex2.org). His primary areas of research include open innovation, crowdsourcing, hybrid business models, and new models for online cooperative communities.

Chris Sumner joined Institute for the Future in 1998.

Dawn oversees client services for the Health Horizons program and across other projects at the Institute, contributing to the business relationship part of the equation. She began her technical sales career over a decade ago after realizing her skills lie in building partnerships between organizations and their clients. She believes in living life passionately which is why she was intrigued by the topics the Institute covers. This view of life has taken her on many adventures ranging from starting a company in the dot.com era to dancing the Tango in Buenos Aires.

An anthropologist and urban planner specializing in community and identity formation, Jackie leads the Institute's application of forecasting to the challenges facing philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. She has worked for over 25 years as an executive, grant-maker, evaluator, or researcher for foundations, including the Pew, Lilly, and Northwest Area foundations. She has served as vice president of The Philadelphia Foundation and founding managing director for philanthropic services at U.S. Bank Private Client Group.

Jason Tester's interests in interactive technology began the old-fashioned way, tinkering one-on-one with the equipment he had at hand. With his work on technological voting, however, he saw the possible effects of computer-human interaction on the future of society as a whole.

Over eight years ago Jean brought her lifelong passion for visual metaphors and more than fifteen years of experience in information design, branding and graphics production to IFTF. Her experience helped IFTF move toward new ways of presenting research material visually through maps, digital stories and many other methods.

She currently leads the communications, creative and production arm of the organization. In this role Jean oversees and collaborates with researchers, artists, writers, and storytellers to create and communicate IFTF work and the visual expression of the research.

Jeannie has been with the Institute since March of 2005. In her role as Programs Administrator, she fulfills a wide range of administrative duties in support of our research programs, conferences, client services, creative services and operations.

Jeff oversees institutional and programmatic communications, event planning, web presence, research project messaging, and assists with production management.

Before joining IFTF, Jeff worked at EPRI (Electric Power Research
Institute), with over ten years of research communications and project management experience for the Nuclear and Fossil Generation programs. He graduated from Saint Mary's College (Moraga, CA) with a B.A in business.

As a Research Manager for the Technology Horizons program, Jess is interested in the future of media, particularly music, and how new technologies will shape the way we make, access, share, and appreciate media content. She covers the San Francisco music scene for TheOwlMag and her own blog, SFJukebox and has participated in panels sponsored by the Bandwidth Conference and the Bay Area Video Coalition.

Lisa serves as the assistant producer in IFTF's production department and program coordinator for the Ten-Year Forecast. She provides a bridge between research and production, edits various deliverables, and helps to organize the flow of projects that runs through IFTF at all times. Her interests lie in all things language-related: literature, editing, writing, etc. Lisa holds a BA in English literature, with a specialization in 18th Century British fiction, from Mills College in Oakland, CA.

Lynne Postlethwaite grew up in Salinas, California, a seminal agricultural area on the west coast. She learned early on of the fragility of the food supply and how important it is to safeguard the planet. Lynne worked at the Electrical Power Research Institute for 32 years, first as the Business Manager of the Environment Division and for the last ten years as Director of Corporate Business Operations.

A native of Odessa, Ukraine, Marina is particularly suited to see things from a global perspective. She has directed international programs and led international development projects for SRI (formerly Stanford Research Institute) in China, Japan, Vietnam, India, and Eastern Europe. Marina has also authored publications on international business and economics, with an emphasis on regional innovation and competitiveness.

Miriam Lueck is a researcher in the Health Horizons program and across other projects at the Institute, contributing to a broad range of research tasks. She began interning with the Institute in 2003. As an ethnographer, her overarching interest lies in how people individually and collectively exert agency and embody the change described in forecasts, in their everyday lives. More specifically she explores how food connects people to each other, to their health and bodies, and to natural and built environments.

Neela works closely with the Research Managers on the Health Horizon team, and assists in areas of need with the research. She also provides administrative support for the Program Director, and day-to-day coordination and support for the Health Horizon team. Neela enjoys helping out the communities in need, which is why she has given her time in doing volunteer work at Planned Parenthood, Good Samaritan Hospital, and interned at Breathe California. Neela holds a B.S in Health Science, with a focus of Community Health Promotion, from San Jose State University.

At IFTF, Rachel is a research manager for the Health Horizons Program. Rachel’s research interests include migration and health, the global trade of health services, the global portability of health and pension benefits, and the international movement of health professionals. At IFTF, Rachel conducts research on the ways new media and mobile technologies inform health care practices and deliver care, specializing on mobile technologies and access to digital content in Latin America.

Born in Oakland, California in a time and place of great social change, Rod Falcon attended nearby UC Berkeley to better understand what was happening. There he studied history and social change as an undergraduate and public policy as a graduate student. After working one summer enforcing the Voting Rights Act for the Justice Department, he realized that public policy was not as future oriented as it might be and was inspired to do something about it. He came to IFTF to forecast the future of the California health care safety net and has stayed on for more than a decade and counting.

A self-described nerd growing up, Sean read all he could about science as a kid, and immersed himself in maps for hours at a time. He also set his chemistry set on fire a few times, took junior high computer classes on a TRS-80, and was on his high school ecology team. In college, he switched from mechanical engineering to polymer science when he learned that polymer grads often went on to technical sales. The idea of technical sales piqued his interest, and an entrepreneur was born.

Born in Copenhagen, Tessa moved to California at the age of seven. Having lived in three continents and speaking three to four languages (depending on what day you ask her) Tessa comes to IFTF with a global perspective. After earning her bachelors degree in Anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz, Tessa joined the Peace Corps. At the end of a year long application process she received a letter inviting her to Kenya. Three months later Tessa was on plane heading towards a new life in Kenya.

Vivian brings to the Health Horizons Program extensive experience as a researcher, editor, and project manager. She has also worked in the health care field, primarily in pediatrics. Her interests in health care are focused on the provision of services to children, both regionally and globally, and in terms of well-child, acute care and palliative care. Vivian graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in broadcasting & film and a B.A. in history. She also has a J.D.