Erik has a Master's degree of Business Administration (MBA) and is a renowned education consultant aiming towards managerial development and construction of computer aided decision-making tools. He has experience both as CEO and as CFO from a wide range of industries and he has practical experience of hotel- and restaurant operation. For many years he has been doing educational assignments in business economics for SHR, the Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Employers' Association. He is also in charge of the the course "Financial Control, Business Planning and Leadership" at Örebro University, Department of Restaurant and Culinary Arts. Erik is the originator of the company game HotCalc.

Gitte has a Bachelor's degree of Science in Business with a Major in Information Systems. She has many years of experience as a consultant in the IT industry and she has been instrumental in business oriented courses, mainly in media related computer programs, for several years. She as been responsible for the recording and implementation of lectures and instructions connected to HotCalc. Gitte teaches several of the courses that use HotCalc as a platform.