Alan spent 5 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories working as a system administrator for the mainframe and Unix environments. He was responsible for tape backups. Alan joined Goldman Sachs in 1992. As an Information Technology Vice President, he founded the Storage and Capacity Management group and was responsible for the firm's storage infrastructure throughout the globe. In 2000, Alan left Goldman to join StorageNetworks (the first Storage Service Provider) as VP of Engineering. During Alan's tenure at StorageNetworks, customers such as Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Network Appliance trusted their backups to the company. After a successful Initial Public Offering and being promoted to SVP, Alan left StorageNetworks to co-found WysDM Software. Alan received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tim Tokarsky earned his BSc in Geophysics from McGill University. His IT career began at Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for the global systems monitoring design and rollout. In 1995, Tim joined Merrill Lynch as VP, Distributed Systems Management with responsibility for the design and implementation of the firm's global distributed systems management strategy. This included performance management, monitoring, distributed scheduling, backup and restore and software distribution. He joined Micromuse's executive team in early 1997 as VP, Application Development. He designed and oversaw development of three software solutions: Netcool/Impact, Netcool/Reporter and Netcool/NT Service Monitors. Tim eventually was promoted to Senior VP, Business Development where he was responsible for the company's product market strategy, marketing, partnerships and acquisition activity. During Tim's tenure with Micromuse annual software revenues increased from less than $2.0 million to over $212 million.

While at the University of Edinburgh, Jim was primary architect and systems administrator for one of the first public-access systems on the internet. Jim spent 5 years at Goldman Sachs where at various stages he held international responsibilities in the systems management, scheduling, and primary and secondary storage areas. Jim joined StorageNetworks in 2001 with the position of director and was responsible for global primary storage engineering and technical liaison with a number of key accounts. Jim left StorageNetworks in 2001 to work on a number of open source products, and in 2002 co-founded WysDM Software. Jim studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he received a BSC(Hons) in Computer Science.

Mark joined Goldman Sachs in 1994 working in the distributed computing environment. As part of the Application Support Group Mark developed a number of internal system management products as well as working with third party vendors to make their products ready for production deployment. After moving into the Storage Capacity and Management group Mark became responsible for the tape backup environment at Goldman Sachs. In 2000 Mark moved to StorageNetworks as Director of Engineering responsible for all the technical aspects around their STORBackup service. Since leaving StorageNetworks in March 2002 Mark has co-founded WysDM Software. Mark holds a BSc(Hons), MEng in Computer Science from the University of Manchester.