B. Joseph Pine II is an accomplished author, speaker, and management consultant with extensive experience advising Fortune 500 companies and startups. He is a co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, which helps businesses create and develop innovative strategies to add value to their offerings. Mr. Pine holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin - Stout, and he studied management at MIT Sloan School of Management. He has also pursued design education at The College of Extraordinary Experiences.

As an expert on experience economy, Mr. Pine focuses on helping companies shift from product-oriented to experience-based business models. He has authored several books, including the best-selling The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money, which has been published in fifteen languages worldwide. The book outlines how businesses are no longer competing on goods and services but instead on experiences that engage customers on a personal level.

Mr. Pine is a world-renowned speaker and has addressed the World Economic Forum, the original TED conference, and the Consumer Electronics Show. He has been a visiting scholar at the MIT Design Lab and a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam. Additionally, he has taught at Penn State, Duke Corporate Education, the University of Minnesota, and UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management. He is also a former lecturer at Columbia University School of Professional Studies.