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The move comes as part of a wider push to deepen the firm’s offerings across income-generating assets.

The group is the latest to join the boutique firm, which has been operating under new leadership.

Ellen Friedman is principal technologist for MapR, a scientist, and O'Reilly author currently writing about a variety of open source and big data topics. Ellen is a committer on the Apache Drill and Mahout projects, and she has a PhD in biochemistry. Ellen is coauthor of a number of short data books published by O’Reilly Media, including Machine Learning Logistics, Streaming Architecture, thePractical Machine Learning series, Time Series Databases, and Introduction to Apache Flink. Ellen has been an invited speaker at Strata + Hadoop in London, Berlin Buzzwords, Nike Tech Talks, the University of Sheffield Methods Institute, and Philly ETE as well as a keynote speaker for Big Data London and for NoSQL Matters in Barcelona.

Ted Dunning, PhD, is a board member of the Apache Software Foundation, chief application architect at MapR, and author of the newly released "AI and Analytics in Production," a short book that addresses finding value with AI and machine learning. Ted has a long history in building successful startups where machine learning made a big difference in the value of the company. He is listed as inventor on dozens of patents and continues to develop new algorithms and architectures.

Michael Lewis is chief information officer at Copper State Communications.

Clients should consider the next market downturn as an opportunity to invest in stocks that are "on sale."

Nick Semple is a managing consultant in PA Consulting Group’s IT consulting practice with experience in business and IT strategy development, enterprise information architecture, business process design, knowledge management, Web and workflow systems and infrastructure design.

Alison Lerner is a healthcare expert for PA Consulting Group.

Amelia Barros is a healthcare expert for PA Consulting Group.

Peter Mandel of Providence is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Harper’s, The International Herald Tribune, and The Boston Globe Magazine, as well as the author of several books for children, including “Jackhammer Sam,” "Zoo-achooo," and “Bun, Onion, Burger.”