Anna Berry

Nagaraj Bukkapatnam is the founding director of the Center for Business Analytics. He is responsible for fostering university-industry partnerships through value co-creation and knowledge sharing. Nagaraj is also focused on enabling future technologies in experiential learning and applied research. He serves as an advisor for companies on go-to-market strategies and disruptive technologies. Nagaraj has developed AI-based products in the areas of customer intelligence and channel experience. His areas of expertise include AI, Digital Analytics, Market Analysis, Product Innovation, and Design. He is passionate about reading and mentoring, and his research interest is in externalization – the process of transforming tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge.

Ali Sekou

Councilor Ali Sekou, born and raised in a small, rural village in Niger, West Africa, immigrated to the United States in 2012 with almost zero English. He began learning English at Laconia’s Adult Education to prepare himself for higher education. Soon after that, Ali went on to earn his Associate degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management from the New Hampshire Technical Institute (NHTI), his Bachelor’s degree in Tourism Management and Political Science from Plymouth State University and his Master’s degree from Carsey School of Public Policy (UNH) in Community Development.

Ali is the Manager of Community Engagement & Inclusion at New Hampshire Housing and serves as a City Councilor for Concord's Ward 8. In addition he serves on various community boards throughout the year.

Maura Sullivan, a former Marine Corps Officer and Iraq veteran,served as an Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs & Assistant to the Secretary of Defense during the Obama Administration.  Prior to being appointed by President Obama, Maura served as an executive at PepsiCo in New England where she held a number of General Management roles.  Maura is currently a Senior Fellow at New Politics and is a term member on the Council on Foreign Relations and a French-American Foundation Young Leader.  Her interest in national security and foreign policy issues stemmed from her service in the Marines while stationed in Southeast Asia, her subsequent military service in Fallujah during the Iraq War, and as a Commissioner on the American Battle Monuments Commission from 2010-2014, overseeing America's overseas cemeteries.  Maura holds an MBA and MPA from Harvard and a BA from Northwestern University, which she earned on a Navy/Marine Corps ROTC scholarship. Maura serves on the Advisory Board of the New Hampshire Chapter of Children of the Fallen Patriots and lives with her husband, a Navy Reserve Officer, on New Hampshire's Seacoast.