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. 

The W3C Internationalization Activity has the mission of ensuring universal access to the Web, regardless of language, script or culture, by proposing & coordinating any techniques, conventions, guidelines and activities within the W3C that help to make and keep the Web international. Richard's background includes international user-interface design consultancy, translation tool design, translating and interpreting, and computational linguistics.

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!

Since 1991, Cathy has worked on numerous internationalization projects at Microsoft, including the Win32 NLS API, and the System.Globalization namespace in the .NET Framework. Cathy has been involved in implementing Unicode on Windows since version 1.0 was enabled on Windows NT 3.1, and has participated in the Unicode Consortium in varied roles. She is Microsoft's primary representative to the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC), UTC vice chair, and chair of INCITS/L2. She has published and presented many white papers and articles on Microsoft-specific internationalization.