Nate Bolt is fascinated by the personal, social, and cultural roles of technology, and the ways that research and design can transform them. After pioneering and directing the User Experience department at Clear Ink in 1999, which included the construction of Natural Environment and Remote Observation laboratories, Nate co-founded Bolt | Peters. He now serves as president and CEO, overseeing hundreds of user research studies for Hallmark, Oracle, Time Warner, Levi's, Restoration Hardware, and many others. Beginning in 2003, he led the creation of the first moderated remote user research software, Ethnio, which is being used around the world to recruit live participants for research on web sites and applications.

Nate regularly gives presentations on native environment research methods in both commercial and academic settings. Working with faculty at the University of California, San Diego, he created a degree titled "Digital Technology and Society," which focused on the intersection of technology and mass population usage. He also completed a year of communications studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was jailed briefly for playing drums in public without a license.

After graduating from Stanford University with a Master's degree in Symbolic Systems (a relative of cognitive sciences) focusing on video game interaction, Tony Tulathimutte worked as a user researcher for the casual games site ijji.com, later joining Bolt | Peters in 2007. In addition to working on user research projects for AAA, Hewlett-Packard, Harvard Business Review, ANSYS, Autodesk, and Princess Cruises, he was also the lead researcher on the player experience study for Electronic Arts' massive 2008 game, Spore.

Tony is also a fiction writer, and in 2008 received an O. Henry Award for his short story, "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska." He spends his evenings luxuriating in a glycerine bath with an aged Chianti and a copy of the Collected Keats, tossing back a head of rich auburn hair and laughing, always laughing, at the caprice of the Fates. He has a website.