Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page (born March 26 1973 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin. Page is currently the President of Products at Google Inc. and has a net worth estimated at 16.6 billion dollars, making him the 26th richest (living) person in the world together with Sergey Brin according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires on 2007

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …

Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …

Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $16.6 billion as of march 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world together with Larry Page and the 9th richest person in the United States. He is also the 4th youngest billionaire in the world.

Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.

Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates . Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company.

David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and a MS from Stanford University. Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, …

Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (born November 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. He is also one of the two Chief Yahoo!s and board director of the company. As of 2007 his net worth is estimated to be US$2.2 billion and is ranked 432nd among the world's richest people according to Forbes.

Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American entrepreneur. With Bill Gates, he formed Microsoft. Allen regularly appears on lists of the richest people in the world; as of 2007 "Forbes" ranks him the fifth richest American, worth an estimated $18.0 billion. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. (his private asset management company)and chairman of Charter Communications.

Hasso Plattner is a cofounder of software giant SAP AG. Today he's Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP AG.

Azim Hashim Premji (born July 24, 1945) is the Chairman & CEO of Wipro Technologies, which today is one of the largest software companies in India. It has its headquarters in the Indian Silicon City Bangalore. He was rated the richest person in the country from 1999 to 2005 by Forbes. His wealth today is estimated at 58,451 crores INR which places him as the fourth richest Indian; behind DLF Chairman Kushal Pal Singh and ahead of Sterlite Chairman [Anil Agarwal].

Thomas M. Siebel , Founder and Vice-chairman, Montana Meth Project Thomas Siebel is the Managing Director of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company based in Palo Alto, CA. Mr. Siebel resides in Woodside, CA and Wolf Creek, MT.

Dr. An Wang (February 7, 1920 - March 24, 1990) was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories.

Warren Teitelman is a computer scientist since 1960 to date, who contributed to and invented many technologies like InterLisp.

Darl McBride (b. circa 1960) became the CEO of The SCO Group (formerly known as Caldera) on June 28, 2002. During his tenure, Caldera renamed itself The SCO Group, and on March 7, 2003 initiated litigation against IBM regarding the intellectual property status of the Linux operating system.

John J. Moores (1944-) is an American businessman. Moores was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas and grew up poor. He left Texas A&M University before graduating and became a programmer for IBM. Later, he received a BS degree in economics and law degree from the University of Houston. Moores considers his decision to attend law school "a boneheaded move" since he never wanted to practice law in the first place.

Gaurav Dhillon is the founder and former CEO of Informatica Corporation, worth over a billion dollars, 2006, on the "Nasdaq". Forbes magazine said, in 2001, that Informatica “has become Silicon Valley’s latest darling; the phrase “the next Microsoft” has been also used by Forbes magazine. Dhillon is currently CEO and founder of the online movie site Jaman.

N.R. Narayana Murthy is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and one of the 7 founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India.

Jack Dangermond is the co-founder and president of ESRI, a privately-held Geographic Information Systems software company that is headquartered in Redlands, California. In 1969, he co-founded ESRI with his wife, Laura. Originally, the company concentrated on land use analysis, but increasingly focused on developing GIS software. ESRI became a leader in the GIS industry during the 1980s and continues to dominate.

James A. Highsmith III, commonly, Jim Highsmith (born 1945) is an author of multiple books in the field of software development methodology. He is the creator of a lightweight methodology known as Adaptive Software Development, described in his 1999 book "Adaptive Software Development" (Dorset House Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0-932633-40-4), winner of the 2000 Jolt Award. Working as a principal of Information Architects, Inc., …

Charles H. Ferguson co-founded Vermeer Technologies Incorporated, the original creator of Microsoft FrontPage. Ferguson detailed his experiences from the company in his 1999 book, "High St@kes, No Prisoners", including raising venture capital, building the product, and finally selling it to Microsoft for $133 million in 1996. He currently is a documentary filmmaker.

Mark Skapinker , a software industry veteran, is a member of Maximizer's board. Mark co-founded Delrina Corporation, which created Winfax, one of the most popular Windows programs of all time. Mark was President of Delrina until Symantec acquired it in 1995 for over $600 million. In 1997, Mark founded Balisoft Technologies which joined with Servicesoft Technologies in 1999 to become the first major vendor offering comprehensive customer service solutions via the interest.

Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting.

Kris Gopalakrishnan is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and one of the 7 founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India.

Dmitry Shapiro founded Veoh Networks in late 2004 and now serves as the company's Chief Innovation Officer. Dmitry started Veoh a very short to-do list: First, democratize. Open the business of television-once strictly a members-only deal-to a virtual community of broadcasters. Second, connect those broadcasters with new, global audiences, hungry for a limitless world of compelling programming to fill every niche interest, and desire.

Prasad Ram, also known as Prasad Bharat Ram is the head of Research and Developement at Google India. He had also worked as a Chief Technology officer at Yahoo and Dynamx Technologies and as research scientist at Xerox Parc. He hold B. Tech, computer science from IIT Mumbai and PhD, computer science from UCLA.

Scott Oki (born October 5, 1948 in Seattle, Washington) is a former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations. Oki also played a crucial role in Microsoft's rapid domestic growth during the 1980s. Born to a Japanese-American family, Oki attended the University of Washington, but left after 18 months to join the Air Force. While in the service he took courses at the University of Colorado.

Laszlo Belady (born April 29 1928 in Hungary) is a computer scientist notable for devising the Belady's Min theoretical memory caching algorithm in 1966 while working at IBM Research. He also demonstrated the existence of a Belady's anomaly. In his later years at IBM he was responsible for Software engineering worldwide until leaving for Tokyo to create its software research lab. He retired from IBM two years later.

Eyal Hertzog , Co-founder

Santeri Kannisto was one of open source and free software advocates in Finland and held positions in the Finnish IT society in 1991-2004. He was the founder and long time CEO of open source company SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd. The company was making SOT Linux and SOT Office software products.

Sashi Reddi is the founder, Chairman & CEO of AppLabs, a leading IT Services Company.

David Nielsen is the director of ISV and developer programs for StrikeIron. Previously, Nielsen managed the PayPal Developer Network. He founded the first Web Services user group in March 2001 which he continues to chair today with Ash Parikh. Dave received modest notoriety when he proposed to his fiancée, Erika Anderson, in print in his book, "PayPal Hacks". This is the first wedding proposal to have been made in a published book.

Arun Nayar (born December 1964 in Foxhill Court, Burmantofts, Leeds) is chairman, CEO and co-founder of Direction Software Solutions. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Oxford University and a Masters degree in Physics from Imperial College, London. He is much better known as the husband of British actress Elizabeth Hurley.

Raul J. Fernandez is an American entreprenuer. He is currently Chairman and CEO of ObjectVideo, co-owner of the NHL Washington Capitals, NBA Washington Wizards, and the WNBA Washington Mystics.