As Chief Executive Officer of Drakontas, Dr. Regli is responsible for developing product commercialization strategies for emerging technologies, and has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, software and real estate industries. Dr. Regli serves as the Primary Investigator for Drakontas' work with the Bureau of Justice Assistance and has been responsible for developing curricula materials in cooperation with Drexel University to help increase awareness of crimes committed in virtual worlds and on line gaming communities and build capacity among state and local law enforcement.  He recently served as the Center Director for the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technologies Center, Communications Technologies Center of Excellence, a program of the US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice. Dr. Regli holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, has served as an Adjunct Professor at St. Joseph's University (PA), and is the author of Wireless: Strategically Liberalizing the Telecommunications Market (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996).

President and Chief Operating Officer of Drakontas. Mr. Sim, has more than 18 years of experience as an entrepreneur, independent consultant and human factors researcher. Mr. Sim is the founder of UCnet.com - The University City Network which provides electronic marketing and survey research services to more than 100 national clients. As a transportation researcher, Mr. Sim designed and produced the hardware, software and source material for interactive video based diving simulators for research conducted by USDOT, Federal Highway Administration and NHTSA. Mr. Sim has extensive experience in the area of experimental design, data modeling and analysis. Mr. Sim holds a Bachelor's degree from Drexel University in Experimental Psychology.

William Regli is a Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University with joint appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also Associate Technical Director of Drexel University's Applied Communications and Information Networking Program. Dr. Regli has interdisciplinary research interests and his contributions span several computer science and engineering fields (artificial intelligence, solid modeling and graphics, CAD/CAM integration, mechanical design, and wireless networks). His research has been sponsored by a wide variety or organizations (including US Army, DISA, NSF, ONR, ARO, DARPA, NIST, NIJ/DoJ, DoE, NNSA, SAIC, Boeing, Lockheed, AT&T, GE), supporting over 100 graduate and undergraduate students and producing four patent filings and over 150 technical publications. Regli's research awards include major grants under each of NSF's interdisciplinary research initiatives of the past decade: KDI, ITR and Cyber-Infrastructure programs. Six of his undergraduates have been acknowledged by CRA. Regli is the recipient of many awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, an NRC Postdoc, NIST Special Service Award, the Drexel College of Engineering Research Award; and co-recipient of the Army's 2006 International Collaboration Award. He is a life member of ACM, AAAI, and Sigma Xi and a member of IEEE. Contact him at regli@drexel.edu