Tim Bray is an independent writer, consultant, and programmer based out of Vancouver, Canada.

Bray collaborated on Synth-Bank¨'s Introduction to XML intructional video for executives.

Bray established his own company, Textuality.com, in 1996. Previous to that time, Bray was the Senior Vice President of Technology for Open Text Corporation, where he invented and built the Open Text Index of the World Wide Web (now BusinessWeb). Other positions previously held include: CEO of Waterloo Maple Software, Manager for the University of Waterloo's New Oxford Dictionary Project, Part-time lecturer on Operating Systems at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University.

Tim is a Seybold Fellow, and has taught and lectured extensively for the last twelve years at conferences all over the world.

Tim Bray's customers have included: IBM, Merrill Lynch, The Microsoft Network, Netscape, The United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Lucent, Software AG, A.T. Kearney, B.C. Gas, Daimler-Benz, Diebold, Encyclop*dia Britannica, and UWI.Com.

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Dr. Allen Brown, Jr. has been an architecture and implementation expert for enterprise client/server product software for more than two decades, beginning with the landmark Xerox Star. Most recently, Dr. Brown was CTO and co-founder of Media Guaranty, a venture-backed software startup focused on providing enterprise media asset management for corporate marketing.

Brown was a principle consultant on the design and implementation of the Russell Publishing System and co-authored a white paper with Synth-Bank® President Bryan Bell about Managing the Intellectual Property Lifecycle.

Dr. Brown has played many critical roles in information technology including his time as a Xerox Research Fellow and Vice President and CTO of Xerox's XSoft division. Both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees were earned at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is the author of numerous published technical papers and the holder of several U.S. patents. Dr. Brown has been a James Clark Welling Professor at the George Washington University, and has served on the National Research Council NIST Panel on Information Technology.

President, Info Objects, Inc.

Steve Brown founded Data Logic in 1967 and guided his company's growth over 25 years to become the largest SGML and database publisher in the United States. He provided his clients with the latest in technology for automotive maintenance, military repair manuals, SEC compliance documentation and other legal and financial applications.

In 1992, Mr. Brown sold Data Logic to FrameTechnology for 17.5 million. At Frame he was named VP Corporate Product Strategy where he orchestrated Frame's entry into the document market.

In 1996, Frame was acquired by Adobe Systems. Mr. Brown was assigned task management for Data Logics/Frame Document Management Group and prepared business units for sale to Adobe Systems. On completion of this sale, he founded Info Objects, Inc. to pursue interests from object technology to document and knowledge management.

Mr. Brown graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago with a BS in Mathematics. He is a board member of the GCA trade association which promotes SGML and document processing.

Ricky Cassiday has many years of experience with content creation, management and marketing. He directed all market and consumer research for Castle & Cooke, Inc. before starting his own market research business. In the decade prior, he performed political, market and investment research for the Heritage Foundation, MIRC/Frost & Sullivan and the Henry Luce Trust. Prior to that, he coordinated the production and marketing of several books and feature films for members of the Monty Python group and George Harrison.

Richard Russell is a Seattle-based communications facilitator, media producer, fine artist and musician, who uses a range of visual tools to help clients effectively communicate complex messages.

Russell was a chief consultant on the Intro to XML Video.

A Stanford University graduate, with additional training at Grove Consultants International (pioneers in the use of graphic language in business situations), Richard's broad experience ranges from computer programming to improvisational drama, allowing him to bring a unique perspective to this work.

During the last ten years, he has been a communications and development consultant to a variety of organizations. His expertise includes strategic visioning, team building, project planning and multiple media productions. He has also produced videotapes, CD-ROMS and many conceptual designs to help clients communicate their individual messages.

John Tigue is an independent consultant based out of Seattle, Washington.

Tigue was a member of the original working group that produced the XML v. 1.0 Recommendation. Tigue authored the WebBroker W3C Note (an XML-RPC precursor to SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and was a co-author of the XML-Data W3C Note. Tigue was formerly the Senior Software Architect for DataChannel.

He is currently the Senior Programmer for Synth-Bank¨'s Computer Aided Indexing (CAI) software.