Katy Bohinc, Founder, Star Arkestress

Katy Bohinc is a poet and mathematician. She has three books of poetry and two edited volumes. Bohinc also works as a data scientist and technologist in the field of marketing, with over ten years of experience analyzing results for the world's largest brand names.

Bohinc is a self-taught astrologer, studying since 2006 by testing natal chart readings on victims in bars and parties (who tend to love a 45 minute discourse on themselves.) She began researching astrology as a bridge between her interest in ancient culture and astrology's constant references in historical literature ("Let us not be star-crossed lovers!" Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.)

It has long been Bohinc's dream to study this ancient astrological art with contemporary mathematical practice. You can read her first publication on the topic, here.

Michael Lutin, Vanity Fair Astrologer

Michael Lutin, New York native, is most noted for his 2006 Vanity Fair article which predicted world events with accuracy Foreign Affairs is quite jealous of. A leader in the astrology community for over 4 decades, Lutin is known for creative delivery of scarily accurate astrological prediction. A connector of brilliant minds in the astrological community and host of debate, discussion, research, and progress in his 5th Avenue Downtown Manhattan office and internationally, The Ratio is happy to have Michael on the board.

Additionally, Lutin is highly trained in the Robert Langs' theory of communicative Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and one of the few on earth who was friends with Michele Gauquelin, the 20th century French statistician to first study astrological data with statistical methods.

Learn more about Michael at his website, here.

Lincoln D. Carr, Quantum Physicist, colorado school of mines

Lincoln D. Carr is an American Professor of physics at Colorado School of Mines and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.

Carr has a broad range of theoretical interests covering many disciplines, using an even balance of analytical and numerical methods, and often working closely with experimentalists. Subjects Carr has worked on include entangled quantum dynamics, quantum phase transitions, and ultracold quantum gases; artificial lattice systems, from optical lattices to graphene to millimeter waves; solitons, vortices, chaos, fractals, and other nonlinear phenomena in nonlinear Schrodinger and nonlinear Dirac equations as realized in Bose-Einstein condensates, spin waves in ferromagnetic films, and optics; the quark-gluon plasma at CERN and RHIC; and a variety of topics in mathematical physics and the physics of complex systems. Lincoln is honored to mentor an intense, active, diverse research group averaging 15 persons and including undergraduates, MS and PhD graduate students, and post-docs.

Ryan Bonifacino

Ryan is a world-class CMO, advising on The Ratio for all business and marketing purposes. We are grateful for his expertise.

Ryan Bonifacino is the CMO of Direct to Consumer for Serta Simmons Bedding, North America’s largest bedding manufacturer and the company behind Serta, Beautyrest, Tomorrow and Tuft & Needle Brands.  Ryan was previously Chief Marketing Officer and SVP Digital at Alex and Ani, one of the fastest growing multi-channel retailers in history, where he continues to serve as Senior Advisor.  He started his career as consultant within the venture capital, advertising technology and marketing technology sectors. Ryan holds numerous advisory board positions with both challenger brands and established retail and consumer organizations. 

Ryan lives in New York City and is an active investor in technology, retail and consumer startups and growth stage companies and is also a frequent speaker, contributor and guest lecturer on topics related to advertising, ecommerce, digital marketing and analytics. 

Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Delaware, an MBA from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management and an International MBA from Queen’s University.

Jeng-Tyng (Jen) Hong, Sr. Producer NBC News

Jeng-Tyng (Jen) Hong is a Senior Producer at the Today Show/NBC News.  She manages a team of producers to deliver breaking news as well as feature stories to viewers across the country. 

Jen’s career in journalism began with a full-time college internship at ABC News. She continued with the network for four years before going oversees to join the Peace Corps.  Stationed in Bulgaria, Jen teamed up with the leading TV station in Bulgaria and became the Executive Producer of a reality TV Show - Lost in Bulgaria.  The 11-part series showcased two Americans who traveled to the country's smallest villages in hopes of helping Bulgarians discover their country's natural beauty.  

Jen has a B.S. in Culture and Politics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University.   

Eamon Boyle, EVP Marketing Data Science

Eamon Boyle is a marketing measurement specialist of over 20 years. He holds a PhD in Applied Modelling of Urban Systems. Within the marketing community he is known for his accurate predictions of response behavior to media ads with advanced forecasting and attribution analysis -- decades prior to the existence of  Cambridge Analytica. In the past he has worked for J Walter Thompon, The Martin Agency, Havas and Performics. In addition, he has such iconic brands as Ford, GEICO, UPS, Morgan Stanley, Sony, Liberty Mutual, AMEX, and E*TRADE, He most recently worked as Executive Vice President of Assembly Media, Ad Age’s 2017 Agency of the Year.  Eamon also helped to develop the first of kind 3D data arena for marketing, where you can actually stand within the data and manipulate with a joy stick.  Eamon is currently working on the development of the eSports pillar of an international sports data start-up.