Omar Rodríguez Vilá, PhD, is an award-winning marketing professor at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. His research focuses on modern marketing practices and the relationship between social impact and brand growth. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a former global marketing executive at The Coca-Cola Company. Dr. Rodríguez Vilá earned a PhD in Marketing from Emory University and an MBA from Northwestern University. He lives in Atlanta with his daughters Shanti and Lucca.

Sundar Bharadwaj, PhD, is the Coca-Cola Company Chair Professor of Marketing at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. He has held tenured or visiting faculty positions at Emory University, the Wharton School, the Indian School of Business, HEC (Paris), Singapore Management University, and BI (Oslo). His research focuses on financial market outcomes and the societal impact of marketing. He has held brand management and sales management positions at several multinational firms.