Mark Davis co-founded the Unicode project and has been the president of the Unicode Consortium since its incorporation. He is one of the key technical contributors to the Unicode specifications, including such areas as bidirectional text, normalization, scripts, text segmentation, identifiers (including IDN), collation, regular expressions, compression, locale data, character conversion, character properties, and security.

Mark was responsible for the overall architecture of ICU (the premier Unicode software library), and the earlier version of ICU that was incorporated into the standard Java release. 

As W3C Internationalization Activity Lead, Richard Ishida is striving to make the World Wide Web world wide. The Internationalization Activity works with W3C working groups and liaises with other organizations to help ensure universal access to the Web, regardless of language, script or culture. Richard has also increased internationalization-related education and outreach while at the W3C. He is on the Unicode Conference board, and the Unicode Editorial Committee. He is the coordinator for the MultilingualWeb network, a European Commission funded project reviewing standards and best practices enabling multilingual use of the Web.

Addison is a Globalization Architect for Lab126, the Amazon.com subsidiary that created the Kindle e-book. 
He is also the chair of the W3C Internationalization Working Group, co-author of IETF BCP47 (language tags), a member of the IUC Program Review Committee and the Internationalization and Unicode Conference Advisory Committee.  Mr. Phillips has been involved with internationalization since 1991. He has been an internationalization consultant and worked as a globalization architect at companies such as AT&T, webMethods, Quest Software and Yahoo!

Cathy spent over 15 years working on international software at Microsoft.

As a Program Manager in the Windows Division, she worked on the Win32 NLS API, the System.Globalization namespace in the .NET Framework, and a number of internationalization tools and packages. Cathy was involved in implementing Unicode on Windows from version 1.0 (Windows NT 3.1) to version 5.0 (Windows Vista), and participated in the Unicode Consortium in varied roles, including Microsoft's primary representative to the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC), UTC vice chair, and chair of INCITS/L2 (the US technical committee for character sets and internationalization).

As the lead for the Windows International Product Strategy team on the Windows 7 release, Cathy was responsible for language and market investment strategies for Windows and related products.

She has published and presented white papers, articles and patents on Microsoft-specific internationalization.

Cathy is now Director, Standards Marketing within the Interoperability Group at Microsoft. She is responsible for corporate messaging regarding Microsoft’s work in the standards ecosystem, including (of course!) the company’s participation in internationalization standards.