Ira Pramanick started working for Google from March 31st, 2008 in the Enterprise group. 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 twelve year old daughter, and is the founder of the MAGIC program.

Foz Saeed was in a variety of management and technical roles at Sun Microsystems for the past few years. Before that, she was on Chevron's global management team for eight years, developing international markets and leading Global Planning and Product Management organizations. 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. Foz has been a core team member of MAGIC from its inception. Foz is also the mother of a 5 year old. She is working as an independent consultant at this time.

Ben Lunzer is a Vice President at JP Morgan Chase, in technology and operations management, responsible for the global practices and processes for the development and operationalizing of distributed computing technology. He was previously with Andersen Consulting, where he led the global middleware group, and before that with J P Morgan, managing global groups in middleware, database research, and networking. 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 16, 14, and 6. The girls share an interest in computing and mathematics, and, with their parents, the removal of any remnants of a glass, or silicon, ceiling.