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, …

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Scott McNealy is chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, a company he co-founded in 1982 and chairman of Sun Federal Inc. McNealy grew Sun from a Silicon Valley start-up to a leading provider of network computing infrastructure with 37,900 employees worldwide, all while positioning the Company as the model of corporate integrity. A champion of Sun's 24-year old strategy to share, McNealy is always fighting for openness and choice: "Without choice, you have no innovation.

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.

Dietmar Hopp (born April 26, 1940 in Heidelberg, Germany) is an entrepreneur. He was one of the founders of SAP AG in 1972 with other former IBM employees Hans Werner Hector, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther and Hasso Plattner. He was the 698th richest person in the world according to Forbes Magazine.

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.

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.

Andy Bechtolsheim , co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, is a product architect with the Systems Group. Andy works with the Systems Group to help drive next generation X64 and storage servers product architecture as well as HPC opportunities. Bechtolsheim has more than 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and expertise.

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.

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., …

Jeff De Luca is a global information technology strategist and an author in the field of software development methodology. He is considered the primary architect of "Feature Driven Development" (FDD) circa 1999 [^JDLBIO], a lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money. In 1999, Jeff De Luca co-authored "Java Modeling In Color With UML" (1999, ISBN 0-13-011510-X), …

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.

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.