Ira Pramanick started working for Google from March 31st, 2008, and is currently in the Google Analytics team. Before joining Google, Ira worked for nine years at Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Ira was an architect for Solaris Cluster, Sun's High Availability product, and she also chaired the Cluster Architecture Committee. She served as a mentor in Sun's SEED mentoring program since 2002. In March 2007, Ira was invited to be the keynote speaker at the National Science Foundation sponsored Technology Powered by Women conference held for middle and high school girls in Kansas City. Prior to working at Sun, Ira worked at Silicon Graphics, IBM and the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iowa, and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. She serves as the High Availability Coordinator for the Institue of Electrical and Electonics Engineers' Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (IEEE-TCSC), and is on the Editorial Board of the Cluster Computing Journal. Ira is a holder of four US patents. She has a teenage daughter, and is the founder of the MAGIC program, as well as the president of the board of directors of GetMagic Corporation.

Foz Saeed is a Development Team Realization Lead at Teradata Corporation. Before Teradata, she worked at Sun Microsystems in various leadership positions in the high-end server and software businesses. Prior to the computer industry, she was on Chevron's global management team for eight years, developing international markets and leading the Global Planning and Product Management organization. During her spare time, Foz partners with an ethnic minority support group for single mothers, mentors young people and teaches at UCSD. Foz is a Fulbright and Commonwealth scholar with an MBA and an MS. Foz leads the Open Solaris User Group in San Diego and is a Board member of PDMA, San Diego. She is also on the board of the San Diego Asian Film Festival. Foz has been a core team member of MAGIC from its inception. Foz has a young son at elementary school.

Jazmine Jung has been with Kaiser Permanente, San Jose for more than 15 years. She previously served as the Neurogenetics Clinic Coordinator. Now, in addition to doing clinical genetic counseling, she is the TPMG Regional Molecular Lab Liaison. These two roles allow her to combine the love of providing patient care with the challenge of staying on top of advances in molecular genetics. Her undergraduate and graduate education were obtained at the University of California, Berkeley. She has two sons and a daughter and would like to inspire them to always love to learn.

Truda Kruger was born in Upington, The Republic of South Africa. She has lived in Iowa City, Iowa, since 1986. She has two sons and one daughter. Her interests include child development and elder care.

Seema Shukla has been a consultant for Southern Living at Home for the last six years. She served on the PTA Board for both elementary and middle schools. Also, she served as treasurer for the Chester Montessori School. Seema has been an active member of the American Cancer Society in organizing fundraisers and various other activities. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Botany and a Master's in political science from the University of Delhi. She has two sons who are 19 and 17 years old.

Tim Frazee is currently a Principal Owner and the President of LA Refrigerant Recovery, Inc., a sustainable business enterprise operating from Southern California. Prior to his current endeavor, Tim was Associate Director of Facilities Services at California State University, Los Angeles, and earlier a Special Projects Manager with the City of San Jose in Northern California. Tim enjoys developing the skill-sets of his staff, both with the intent of making them more valuable to their current employer, as well as to their individual marketability. Tim is also active in local community issues in the Santa Clarita Valley, where he resides with his wife and daughter.

Margot Hackett Miller is a software engineer at Oracle Corporation, working on the Solaris operating system. Prior to that, she worked for twenty years at Sun Microsystems and five years at NCR. She has been a MAGIC mentor for two years, and the board secretary for three years.

Ritu Kamboj currently works as a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle Corporation. She has over fifteen years of software development experience, with expertise in database performance and high availability. She has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and a Master's degree in Computer Science from India. Her interests include mentoring young kids in yoga and reading scriptures in all religions. She has two daughters aged nine and seven. She is the chief financial officer at Getmagic Corporation.

Ben Lunzer is an applications architect at GXS, Inc., in Gaithersburg, MD, following a long career at JP Morgan Chase in technology and operations management. He was previously with Accenture, where he led the global middleware group. Prior work was in bioengineering, with a focus on ultrasound, distributed processing, and mathematical modeling. Mr. Lunzer is a founding member of the Securities Industry Middleware Council, has served on the Advisory Council of the IAFE and as co-chair of its Technical Committee, and has represented J P Morgan at The Open Group. Ben and his wife, Hindi, a psychiatric oncologist, have three daughters, ages 17, 15, and 8. The girls share an interest in computing and mathematics, and, with their parents, the removal of any remnants of a glass, or silicon, ceiling.

Esha Sahai grew up in New Delhi, India. For her undergraduate and graduate studies, she attended University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she majored in Computer Science and was awarded the Bay State Fellowship. She works at Oracle Corporation in the Systems group. She also advises and works with various non-profit organizations. Her academic and volunteer experiences have been focused on educational technologies, global health initiatives, and encouraging women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In her spare time, Esha enjoys painting, cooking and power yoga.