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Zayna is a Principal in the Toronto office of The Boston Consulting Group. She joined the Strategy Institute as an Ambassador in April 2009, and joined BCG in 2001.

Zayna has served clients in North America, Europe and Australia across diverse sectors including telecom, airlines, financial institutions, medical technology, biopharma and not-for-profit.  She is a core group member of BCG's Health Care and Organization practices where she takes personal interest in large scale organizational transformation, and new biopharma business models.

Prior to joining the firm, Zanya earned a doctorate degree in biochemistry from University of Toronto where she was a scholar of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her research focused on how insulin clears sugar out of the bloodstream, and how the process breaks down during dysfunction such as diabetes.

Sofia is an consultant based in the BCG New York office.  She joined BCG in 2007 and has been working in the Strategy Institute since April 2009. Prior to joining the Strategy Institute, Sofia's engagements have focused on clients in the pharmaceutical, technology, financial services and non-profit sectors.  Her projects include work on global vision and strategy design, sales model optimization,  growth strategy, and operating model re-engineering.

Before joining BCG, Sofia focused her academic research on the impact of immigration policy in the United States.   Her past experience includes working with the Mexican Foreign Ministry, with a London-based investment bank, and with a venture capital fund specialized in social impact in Latin America.

Karim is an academic fellow of the Strategy Institute, and an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School and a Faculty fellow at the Berkman Center of Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. He specializes in the management of technological innovation and product development in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be found and put to use inside for innovation in the biotechnology, life sciences and industrial chemicals industries. He is co-editor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2005) and co-founder of the MIT-based Open Source research community and web portal.

Ronald is an academic fellow of the Strategy Institute and the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.  Ron studies the social structure of competitive advantage in careers, organizations, and markets. Applications focus on manager networks (how people of diverse backgrounds create social capital and its effect on their careers) and the network structure of markets (how the structure of producer, supplier, and consumer relations defines competitive advantage among producers).

Ronald is the author of six books, two software programs, and numerous articles and chapters in academic works. Ron obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago and held full-time appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University before returning to join the University of Chicago faculty in 1993, then INSEAD in 1998. He took a leave beginning in 2000 to work as the Vice President of Strategic Learning in Raytheon Company, directing the Raytheon Leadership Institute. Additional fellowships include: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Sociological Research Association, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.