Susan E. Brandon, Ph.D., is co-founder of SyncScience LLC, based in the U.S. Dr. Brandon managed a U.S. government research program on interviewing and interrogation methods for ten years. For the last eight of those ten years, she served as Research Program Manager for the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG), an inter-agency capability set up by the Obama Administration in 2009 to ensure lawful, rights-respecting interrogations of individuals assumed to have information of significant threats to the U.S. and its allies either within the U.S. or abroad. This Group also is mandated to conduct scientific studies to improve rapport-based interrogation methods. Prior to this, Dr. Brandon was a Program Manager at the National Institutes of Mental Health and Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Educational Sciences at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2003 - 2006). She served two years in the Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association. Prior to that, she was on the faculty of the Department of Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience Program at Yale University.Simon Wells is Co-Director of Acacia 17, based in the U.K. He previously served with London's Metropolitan Police, retiring as a Detective Chief Inspector after 30 years' service. Accredited as an Offender profiler, he has profiled over 1000 cases, working throughout the world supporting investigations and operations. He was Course Director of the U.K. National Hostage Crisis Negotiation Course and Head of Operations for Crisis Negotiation in London. Between 2008 and 2013 he was seconded to the U.K.'s Civil Service to support the counter-terrorism effort within the U.K., Iraq, Afghanistan and other theatres of operation. Most recently he has been supporting the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) interrogation training, and currently is the Research to Practice Fellow for the Centre for Research and Evidence in Security and Threat (CREST) at Lancaster University (U.K.).