Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit organization. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.

Walter De Brouwer was involved in the merger of Eunet with Qwest Communications, Jobscape with Stepstone and was the founder of Starlab. He is the chairman of The British Royal Society of Arts and a director of Tau Zero Foundation.

Francis van Bever is the CFO of SWIFT. Mr Vanbever joined SWIFT in 1988. Prior to SWIFT Mr Vanbever held various financial responsibilities for the Belgian and European operations of Exxon Chemicals.