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Wei is a Director with Simon-Kucher & Partners, and holds joint appointment in the New York and Toronto offices. He specializes in strategic issues at the marketing-operations interface. Wei's primary consulting focus is on pricing, marketing, and risk analytics topics with large financial institutions in the US, Canada, and Europe.Besides financial services, Wei has developed customer-centric pricing and marketing optimization solutions for a department store chain and an entertainment company in the US. He has also developed optimization solutions for clients in self-storage, healthcare, shipping, and solar energy industries.Wei has been published in leading banking journals, including American Banker BankThink, Bank Accounting & Finance, and BAI Banking Strategies. He has also co-authored MBA teaching cases on retail pricing, currently in use at Columbia Business School and NYU Stern School of Business.Wei received a PhD in Decision, Risk, and Operations from Columbia Business School, and a BS in Electrical Engineering & Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Columbia University.

Guis is chief strategy officer at Egnyte.

Mastrogiacomo is director of architecture and design at SPHERE Technology Solutions. Prior to joining SPHERE, Mastrogiacomo held high-level positions at multiple financial services organizations managing technology groups charged with core infrastructure, and end-user products.

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The new hires are both industry veterans of more than two decades.

Mark Phillips is a partner in Arent Fox’s Litigation group, located in Los Angeles. His work focuses on class action defense and labor and employment litigation.

Matthew Jackson is a director with Simon-Kucher & Partners.

Melinda Zabritski is senior director of automotive credit at Experian.

Timothy J. Yeager is professor of finance and holds the Arkansas Bankers Association Chair in Banking at the University of Arkansas.

Some providers are offering access to the industry through bundles of shares focused on businesses that run everything from airports to cell phone towers.