Paul Cotton is Program Manager of XML Standards with Microsoft Canada. Paul has been active within the W3C XML Activity since 1998 and has been the Chairman of the W3C XML Query Working Group since the WG was formed in 1999. Paul is also Microsoft's alternate on the W3C XML Protocol WG.Paul was elected to the first W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) in Dec 2001. The W3C TAG is responsible for defining the W3C's view of the architecture for the Web. Paul was an elected member on the W3C Advisory Board from July 2000 through Dec 2001 when he resigned to join the W3C TAG.Paul has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry and has been working on SQL standardization for 15 years. Paul holds a M. Math from the University of Waterloo.

Tim Bray has been in the software profession since 1981. In 1987 he managed the New Oxford English Dictionary Project. In 1989 he co-founded Open Text Corporation. In 1995 he built one of the first popular commercial Web Search Engines. In 1996-99, as an Invited Expert at the W3C, he co-invented XML and XML Namespaces. He is the author of Bonnie, a filesystem benchmark widely used in the Linux community and Lark, the world's first conformant XML processor. In 1999 he founded Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. and is currently employed there. He also serves on the W3C Technical Architecture Group.

Norman Walsh is an XML Standards Architect in the XML Technology Center at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Norm is an active participant in a number of standards efforts worldwide, including the XML Core, XSL and XML Schema Working Groups of the World Wide Web Consortium, the OASIS XSLT Conformance and RELAX NG Committees, the OASIS Entity Resolution Committee for which he is the editor, and the OASIS DocBook Technical Committee, which he chairs.He is the principal author of "DocBook: The Definitive Guide", published by O'Reilly & Associates.

David Orchard is the W3C lead for BEA, focusing on web services standards. He is a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, Web Services Architecture, XML Protocol, XML Core, and Advisory committees. He is currently or has been a co-editor of the XML Link and XInclude specifications, and the SAML domain model and core assertions document. He participates actively in web services related Java standards. He has written numerous technical articles and is a frequent speaker on various internet related technologies.

Chris, previously at the Computer Graphics Unit in the UK, joined the Consortium in April 1996. He is Graphics Activity lead, chairs the SVG Working Group and is a member of the TAG. His interests are 2D graphics - both vector and raster - stylesheets, XML, and multilingual typography. Chris is based at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis, France. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry, an MSc in Biological Computation and a postgraduate diploma in Bioinformatics, and has been working with Web Graphics since 1993.