Tom has been designing, developing, and managing the creation of award-winning software titles for more than 20 years. From 1986 to 1996 he worked for Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. Tom has consulted with numerous companies on software initiatives, including projects at Privacy and American Business and Sony's US and Tokyo Design Centers in conjunction with Sony Research Labs. In 1997 he founded the Realmail® Company to realize his vision for next-generation, spam-free, Internet messaging, Realmail®. In addition to his own patents, including three for Sony, Tom has contributed to interaction designs that have become industry standards. In 2003 he was selected by a leading New York City independent school to create a web application to coordinate their 3,000 person community. Tom holds an A.B. in English and American Studies from Occidental College and is a 1983 Fellow of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. He lives in Friday Harbor, Washington with his wife Caroline Grauman-Boss and their daughter Beatrice.

Caroline has been teaching professionally since 1982. She has held positions at leading universities and independent high schools, including Columbia, Princeton, Baruch, Trinity School, The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and Rye Country Day School. She has also provided editing and writing services for a national academic publishing company. Caroline holds a Master of Science Degree from the London School of Economics in Political Philosophy and a Master of Philosophy Degree from Columbia University in Politics. She earned her A.B. in Political Science at Occidental College, where she met her husband Thomas Grauman. Caroline is a Swiss/American dual national who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended public schools. Caroline graduated from Ravenswood High School, a flagship example of school reform and desegregation in California. She and Tom live with their daughter Beatrice in Friday Harbor, Washington, in the scenic San Juan Islands.

Barry's specialty is easy-to-use, interactive, information software design, which he's been doing for 20 years. Currently Barry is designing and developing custom websites that allow people to create and share information easily and securely. His experience includes ten years of software design at Microsoft and, more recently, ten years of website creation. While at Microsoft, Barry received the Leonardo Da Vinci Award for innovation and, in 1992, PC Magazine's Innovation of the Year M.V.P. award for his work on Wizards for Microsoft Publisher. Barry holds three US patents for his work while at Microsoft. In 2003 he rejoined with his old Microsoft collaborator Tom Grauman to develop the project that grew into Interpelago. Other projects include Tideline2005, an online community newspaper where any reader can easily contribute content. Visit www.stonebreakerdesigns.com to see more of Barry's recent work. Barry holds a B.A. in Biology from Stanford University. He lives with his family on Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Warren Habib, currently Senior Vice President of MTV Digital, was the CTO of Fotolog, the oldest and one of the world's largest photo-blogging communities. Within his first year at Fotolog, he improved site performance and more than tripled the traffic to make Fotolog a top-100 site globally according to Alexa, serving 1.5 billion pages/month. Prior to Fotolog, Warren was at Solbright for over 6 years, serving in various capacities including as VP of Engineering and CTO at the time of his departure. While at Solbright, Warren oversaw the development and deployment of Solbright's ASP-model software for managing the process of online advertising from the perspective of the publisher. The suite of tools included AdSales, a contract management system, AdTraffic, a traffic management tool, and AdBilling, for automating the reconciliation and billing process for online campaigns. The tools became the standard for most large online publishers, including major media companies such as the NYTimes.com, Weather.com, Tribune Interactive, Knight-Ridder, MSN properties in Canada and Australia, Kelley Blue Book and numerous other sites. In his capacity as Solbright CTO, Warren also worked closely with many major players in the online advertising industry including Doubleclick, 247 Realmedia, Tacoda and Revenue Science. Before Solbright, Warren served in various consulting capacities with major corporations such as Morgan Stanley and Mastercard, and also served as the VP of Technology for People Sciences, Inc., a vendor of a client-server HR system for doing skills-assessment and training management. Warren received his BA from Stanford University and a MA from Columbia University.

J. Alison Grauman's skills in user-interface and web-based interaction design were refined during her career at Microsoft, where she worked in multiple divisions, including Applications, Systems, Research, and Consumer. Her most significant contribution at Microsoft was as a lead designer for Windows95, where she directed the overall style and appearance of iconography and 3D system controls. She holds many U.S. patents, including "Method and System for Scalable Borders that Provide an Appearance of Depth." This invention adjusts the size of Windows screen elements for different platforms and user preference—a huge step forward from the rigid and unforgiving methods that preceded it. In 1991, she received an Award of Excellence for Technical Art for her book cover illustration, Play Winning Chess. In 1992, she was featured by PC Week Supplement in an article entitled "For Icons, Subtle Changes Make a Big Difference." Alison was a presenter at the 1993 Windows Professional Developers Conference. In 1997, Alison left Microsoft to pursue life as a mother and free-lance designer, specializing in corporate logo design. Alison is a graduate of the University of Washington and holds a BFA in Graphic Design and a BA in German Area Studies.

Ben Segal is Associate Creative Director at Laird and Partners, an advertising and design agency, where he handles the Donna Karan Collection, DKNY, Estee Lauder and Style.com accounts. Prior to this position, he was a principal at Tank Design, a boutique marketing communications design firm where he focused on corporate clients such as Cole Haan, Ebel and Sony as well as academic clients such as Fordham University. In all, he has a background of 13+ years design experience. He attended UC Santa Cruz and the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his BFA in 1991.

Michael Honner provides cross platform systems and data integration services. For Interpelago, he provides a real-time integration solution from Raisers Edge to the Interpelago written in VB.NET using the Raisers Edge API and REOPEN. In addition, Michael provides Interpelago integration with all major operating, database and middleware systems including MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server and DB2. Michael Honner has provided software development, security and integration consulting to Fortune 500 companies for the last 15 years. Clients include: General Motors, Ford Motor Company, AOL/Time Warner and General Electric. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and is a member of IEEE.

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