The Nehman Briefing Creators & Guests

Richard Andrew Pitino is a professional basketball coach, he is the head coach for Iona College and also the head coach of Greece's senior national team.

Sarah E. Needleman is a reporter who writes about interactive entertainment and social media for The Wall Street Journal. Her coverage centers on Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts and other big videogame publishers, as well as social-media companies such as Twitter, Reddit and Pinterest.Needleman joined the Wall Street Journal in 2001 and was covering small business and careers. She also wrote the monthly column "Accidental Entrepreneur." Before that, she was a feature writer and paginator for the Home News & Tribune and the Princeton Packet.Needleman received her B.A. in Journalism from Rutgers University.

Nate Silver is the founder and editor in chief of Five Thirty Eight and the author of “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t.” He is an American Statistician who is famous for analyzing sports events as well as US elections. He formerly was a contributor for the NY Times where he built traction for his near accurate prediction of the polling data for the 2012 presidential election.

Salena Zito is a journalist, a reporter at New York Post, columnist at CNN, contributor at Harvard University, and visiting professor at Washington and Lee.