Kirk Fertitta

Kirk Fertitta is Chief Technical Officer of Pacific MindWorks, Inc., and is an instructor with Pluralsight. He lives in San Diego.

Brent E. Rector

Brent E. Rector is President of Wise Owl Consulting, Inc., a firm that specializes in Windows/COM development and consulting. He also teaches classes on COM, ATL, and MTS for DevelopMentor, a leading COM education firm. He received the Microsoft Annual MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for his contributions to CompuServe's Windows forums.

Chris Sells

Chris Sells is a Program Manager for the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft. He's written several books, including Programming Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms Programming in C# and ATL Internals. In his free time, Chris hosts various conferences and makes a pest of himself on Microsoft internal product team discussion lists. More information about Chris, and his various projects, is available at http://www.sellsbrothers.com

Christopher Tavares

Christopher Tavares is XXX. He lives in the Seattle area.