William Strong attended Williams College earning a BA in Economics.  He worked for 5 years in municipal bond market as one of youngest underwriters on Wall Street before attending Harvard Business School where he concentrated in finance. He then worked as an analyst at Ruane Cunniff & Co, one of the leading value investing firms in New York  in 1979.   After 8 years he left to found his own investment management firm, Mason Hill Advisors, LLC and Equinox Partners. Currently his firm manages about $1billion in hedge fund assets and was recognized by Nelson's as one of the "Best Money Mangers You Can Hire," AsiaHedge, and other industry publications for outstanding investment performance.

Purrshottam Bhaggeria, is an entrepreneur, industrialist and an avid collector of Indian Contemporary Art. Based in New Delhi, he is currently the Joint Managing Director of Filatex India Limited, a synthetic yarn manufacturing company. He is also involved in real estate development, luxury retailing and capital markets and has a personal interest in heritage preservation, golf and philanthropy. He has recently co-authored another coffee table book “Elite Collectors of Modern & Contemporary Indian Art” a limited edition ‘first of its kind’ book. He graduated from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and is a M.B.A. (with distinction) from the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.