Nina Gualinga (born June 1993) is an Ecuadorian environmental and indigenous rights activist. She is part of the Kichwa-speaking community and has spent most of her life advocating for better environmental protection of the Ecuadorian Amazon and the inhabitant wildlife as well as the people who are dependent on this environment.

Alexander Chepakovich is a web developer, engineer, entrepreneur and finance practitioner best known for his eponymous valuation model. He is the founder of X-FIN.com. During his career Chepakovich worked at Gomel Power Plant 2, General Electric Company, Alstom, Bank of Canada, ABN Amro Bank, Commerzbank, Edward Jones, ING Bank, EBRD, MirZnanii.com and AllianceIT Inc.
Alexander Chepakovich is a web developer, engineer, entrepreneur and finance practitioner best known for his eponymous valuation model. He is the founder of X-FIN.com. During his career Chepakovich worked at Gomel Power Plant 2, General Electric Company, Alstom, Bank of Canada, ABN Amro Bank, Commerzbank, Edward Jones, ING Bank, EBRD, MirZnanii.com and AllianceIT Inc. In finance, Chepakovich is author of the Chepakovich valuation model. In engineering, he has done an original research study on single- and two-phase transient jets created by diesel engine injectors. This was part of a work undertaken by a team of graduate students and research engineers led by Professor Philip Hill at the University of British Columbia's Department of Mechanical Engineering, which become the basis of Westport HD technology used by Westport Innovations in its products. Born in 1963 (Republic of Belarus), Chepakovich graduated from the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute (Thermal Power Plants Engineer) in 1985; in 1993, from the University of British Columbia (Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering); in 2000, from McGill University (MBA - Finance); and in 2010, from Moscow State University of Information Technology (Master of Science in Information Systems Engineering). In 2002 he received the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) qualification.