Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of Cognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).

Ben Nelson is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva. A visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education, he spent more than ten years at Snapfish, serving five years as CEO.