Adam Siegel
Adam serves as CEO and leads the development of Inkling Markets' user experience and business consulting efforts. Before co-founding Inkling, Adam worked at Accenture, a global consulting firm where he served over a dozen clients across multiple industries for over a decade. At Accenture, Adam also directed a research initiative in next generation user experiences and ran a small internal venture fund to seed innovative ideas. Adam has spoken and served on expert panels at numerous conferences and in MBA classrooms and has been published or quoted in Fortune, Business Week, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, InfoWeek, NetworkWorld, and Risk Management magazine. In addition to his daily chores at Inkling, Adam spends his time being a political junky, reading short stories by Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, Bernard Malamud and the like, loves the radio show "This American Life," and "The Moth" podcasts, has a dog, and first used a computer made of pine wood and metal when he was 4: the PLATO system at the University of Illinois in Champaign. Adam holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Indiana University.

Nate Kontny
Nate serves as CTO and leads the application development of Inkling Markets. Before co-founding Inkling, Nate was a Senior Developer at Digital River, a large eCommerce platform company in Chicago. Nate also spent five years at Accenture in the Technology Labs where he worked for clients across multiple industries implementing bleeding-edge technology solutions. As a longtime contributor of the Ruby on Rails framework, Nate has developed and contributed to several plug-ins and Inkling was recently listed on the Ruby on Rails site as one of the "most prolific." Other applications on this list include Twitter, Shopify, and Hulu. In addition to his duties at Inkling, Nate is an avid reader of business non-fiction, an active blogger, actor, and amateur bartender. Nate holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

As we've built the company we've met lots of interesting, intelligent, and insightful people along the way. Some we've asked to be our informal advisors in various aspects of our business. Here are some of the friends of the company:

• Bo Cowgill, Google Inc. - product developer, expert on decision markets for Google; creator of Google's prediction market and co-author of Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence From Google
• George Gendron, Clark University - founder and director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at Clark University; former Editor-in-Chief of Inc. magazine
• Michael Giberson, Texas Tech University - professional economist, blogger and Inkling Top 10 trader
• Bob Johansen, Institute for the Future - author of Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present and six other books; Distinguished fellow and former CEO of Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Palo Alto based think tank that does ten-year forecasting
• Jane McGonigal, PhD, renowned gaming developer - award-winning innovative game designer, researcher and analyst. MIT Technology Review named her as one of the top 35 innovators changing the world through technology
• Russ Roberts, management consultant and professor, Northwestern University - a strategy and organization effectiveness consultant and professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University
• Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab / Second Life - founder and chairman of Linden Lab, creator of the acclaimed 3D virtual world Second Life. In 2007, he was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the world.

Inkling was started in January of 2006 after receiving seed funding from yCombinator, a Boston and Palo Alto-based venture fund started by entrepreneur Paul Graham. Besides yCombinator's investment, Inkling is self-funded.