Pippa Funnell MBE (born 7 October 1968) is a world class equestrian sportswoman. She competes in three-day eventing. Funnell was born in Crowborough, East Sussex in 1968. She became "European Young Rider Champion" in 1987 after successfully competing on "Sir Barnaby" at Bialy Bor, Poland. In 1999 she became European Champion at Luhmühlen riding "Supreme Rock" and again on the same horse in 2001 at Pau.

Akira Yamaoka (山岡 晃 "Yamaoka Akira", born February 6 1968 in Niigata, Japan) is a musician and video game composer, having scored dozens of titles released by Konami. Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and interior design. He joined Konami on September 21, 1993, after previously being a freelance music composer.

is a Japanese game designer famous for designing innovative video games, often featuring the use of voice recognition technology, such as "Seaman" for the Sega Dreamcast. In 1996, he founded his own video game development company, Vivarium. His latest game is "Odama" for the Nintendo GameCube, though he is currently working on both a sequel to Seaman and an unnamed game for the Nintendo DS, …

David Wise (often also credited as Dave Wise or D. Wise) is a British video game music composer. He is one of the in-house composers at Rare, and his music appears in most of the Rare-developed titles. He started his career there in 1985 and was the company's sole musician up until 1994. He is known for his atmospheric style of music, mixing natural environmental sounds with prominent melodic and percussive accompaniment.

Satoru Okada is the general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering, the division designing and developing Nintendo handheld game consoles (such as the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, and Nintendo DS consoles). He was also assistant producer and director of and contributor to several Nintendo games, notably "Metroid", released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986.

Shinkiro　(Japanese: 森気楼, "Shinkirō", December 14, 1962-) is a Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist currently employed by Capcom. Prior to joining Capcom, Shinkiro was employed by SNK, where he provided the character designs and cover illustrations for their Neo-Geo games, including the "King of Fighters" and "Metal Slug" series, until he was laid off due to SNK's bankruptcy in 2000.

Scott Dolph is the translator of multiple Konami video games, most notably from Hideo Kojima's "Metal Gear Solid" series. Kojima named a Marine commandant after Dolph in "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty". In addition, he also provided some voice acting for Metal Gear Solid and Sons of Liberty, but only in the English versions. He is also Kojima's bodyguard. Additionally, Dolph did translation work for Konami's "Dance Dance Revolution", …

Yannis Brown is a composer and sound designer for portable devices and consoles. He grew up in Adelaide, Australia. He began playing keyboards by ear at the age of 4 and started composing music around the age of 13. He then moved on to writing MOD Tracker formats on the Commodore Amiga since 1989 and later IBM PC around 1993. He was heavily involved with the music part of the DemoScene and ran Groovy Compo - a bi-weekly Tracker based internet competition first started by Mick Rippon.

Neil D. Voss (born 1974) is a critically acclaimed composer who writes techno soundtracks for Nintendo video games. Voss' first work was Tetrisphere in 1997 and then The New Tetris in 1999 both for the Nintendo 64. Voss has since moved to working on the Game Boy Advance, producing soundtracks for Racing Gears Advance in collaboration with Orbital Media Inc.

Dave D. Taylor is a game programmer, perhaps best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming. In 1993 he graduated from University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. He worked for id Software between 1993 and 1996, and was during the time involved with the development of "Doom" and "Quake". He created ports of both games to Irix, AIX, Solaris and Linux, …

Joel Breton (born 1971) is a game producer, international D.J. and entrepreneur. Breton's first role as a producer was for GT Interactive (GT), where he produced "Duke Nukem", "Anno 1602", "Unreal", the original Unreal Engine, "Quake" and "Doom" along with several other video games.