Mike Edwards is a strategist in the IBM Java Technologies group in Hursley, England. He is responsible for technical strategy for future IBM products, including the IBM Java SDKs, and for Web service-related products. Before working on Asynchronous IO, Dr. Edwards was involved in Java SDK 1.4.0 and was a member of the Expert Groups that defined the specifications for J2SE 1.4.0 and for the New IO package. He received his Ph.D. in Elementary Particle Physics from Birmingham University.

Tim Ellison is a senior software engineer and strategic planner in the emerging technologies team at IBM Hursley Java Technologies group. He has contributed to the implementation of Smalltalk, IBM VisualAge Micro Edition, Eclipse, and the Java SDK over a period of twenty years. He is interested in new ways of applying object technology to difficult problems.