Ed Leach is an assistant professor and director of the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship, in the School of Business, Dalhousie University. Ed served as president of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE) , 2006. He is the co-author of the Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) and in March of 2009 completed his Ph.D in computing technology in education where he crafted Going Fishing: An Opportunity Finding tutorial.
Mary Kilfoil holds graduate degrees from Carleton University (M.A., Economics) and Dalhousie University (Ph.D., Economics), as well as undergraduate degrees in business administration (B.B.A., St. F.X.) and economics (B.A., Honours, SMU). Her fields of concentration are quantitative analysis (econometrics), research methods, and labour economics. She has held teaching positions at Acadia University, Mount St. Vincent University, Saint Mary's University and at Dalhousie University (1993-present).