Shintaro Nakano is a KODOKAN/USJF 6th Dan Red/White Belt who was born in Miyazaki, Japan. He began his Judo training at the young age of five and learned the traditional beliefs and values of Judo from the beginning. He graduated from Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan, and was an 8-time Japan National Team member before coming to the United States. During his time on the team, he competed and trained with some of the best in the world.

Nakano has served as a Judo Coach at San Jose State University, which is the premier North American college for Judo. He has supported the team in winning back-to-back National Collegiate Judo Championships from 2012-2016. Additionally, he coached Marti Malloy, supporting her in winning a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics and a silver medal at the 2013 World Judo Championships.

Nakano's passion for coaching stems from his desire to impart his knowledge and experiences to the next generation.

Jason Hoffman is a thought and execution leader in the industrialization trend for datacenters where he pioneered hardware and software designs that could drive wholesale supply chain efficiencies while making these systems highly accessible and usable to developers.

Jason is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Switch.com, and is also responsible for their federal business towards the DOE, DOD and IC. He is also a Managing Partner at S8 Advisory Partners, a board, shareholder and corporate development advisory firm.

Jason was the founding CEO of MobiledgeX, Inc., an edge computing company acquired by Google in 2022; a CTO and Product Area head at Ericsson AB in Sweden; and the founder and CTO at Joyent, a cloud computing company acquired and still operated by Samsung. He was also the founding Chair of the Board at NPM, Inc. (acquired by GitHub).

Previous to his work in computer science, Jason earned his PhD at the Burnham Institute with Erkki Ruoslahti, MD PhD, and earned a BS/MS in Biochemistry from UCLA. He studies adaptive complex systems with interests in Cancer, Infectious Diseases, Aging, Systems Biology, and Synthetic Biology.

His hobbies are Strength and Conditioning for Olympic Combat Sports and Practical Shooting. He's a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and a certified coach with USA Wrestling.