These are the team members :

Bela Ban Born in Switzerland in 1965, I did my Masters and PhD (in network management) at the University of Zurich. After a stint at IBM Research and various smaller companies, I moved to Ithaca, NY, for a 2-year post-doc at Cornell. Instead of returning to Switzerland, I moved on to God's Own Country (California) where I currently work as a principal software engineer at Fujitsu Network Communications (EMS/NMS systems). My interests include network protocols, group communication, Linux, Java, trail running, triathlon and beerathlon. If not hacking on JGroups I can be found spending time with my family. Bela is the creator of JGroups (during his post-doc at Cornell). His main focus in JGroups is currently Performance improvements (both speed and memory wise Bug fixing and stability improvements Figuring out how to make money with open source	Vladimir Blagojevic Originally from Yugoslavia, stuck in Canada since 1995. Recently graduated with Honours degree in Computer Science from York University in Toronto. Got involved with JGroups while still an undergrad. Currently works as a Java developer on server side platform for wireless POS devices. Vladimir created the CAUSAL and TOTAL_TOKEN protocols and also worked on a number of performance related issues.
Filip Hanik I was born in Sweden in 1975 where I studied Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. After a few years in the Swedish corporate environment I decided it was time to broaden my experience. I moved to San Francisco in 1997 where I have been working with distributed server systems using Java, Corba and J2EE technologies. Today my professional focus is still on distributed server systems and with a special attachment to clustering and fail over. In my spare time I'm almost always occupied with yoga, meditation, salsa dancing and motorcycle riding. Filip integrated the ANT build system into JGroups, and also added XML-based configuration of protocol stack specs. He recently used JGroups to implement session clustering in Tomcat and is currently integrating JGroups into Tomcat.	Sacha Labourey Sacha is the founder of Cogito Informatique, a Swiss company mainly working in the application servers and middlewares fields. He was born in 1975 in Neuchatel (Switzerland), and owns a Master in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Sacha is the main implementor of the load-balancing/failover for JBoss using JGroups.
John Giorgiadis I was born in 1975. I did my first degree at the Electronic Eng. Dept. of the Polytechnic Institute of Crete and a PhD at the Dept. of Computing at Imperial College on adaptive component architectures. I like group comm. (obviously), and the investigation of related performance and scalability issues. John reimplemented the NakReceiverWindow and wrote the implementation of the TOTAL protocol (sequencer-based). The NakReceiverWindow is a central piece of reliable multipoint message transmission and has worked like a charm (and very performant !) ever since it was rewritten. John promised to send a better picture soon :-)	Roman Rokytskyy Born in Ukraine in 1976, I got my diploma with honors of Specialist in Radio-Physics and Electronics (equivalent to Masters of Sciences) from Lviv National University in 1998. The same year I entered PhD program at Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine, but in 2000 I postponed my research and moved to Berlin (Germany). Fields of my interest include distributed systems, intelligent software agents, databases, photography, voleyball and skiing.
Gianluca Collet Gianluca implemented a first version of partition merging protocol (MERGE and GMS).	Jim Menard Jim implemented the excellent Trace subsystem (org.jgroups.log).
Mandar Shinde I was born (1976) and brought up in Bombay, India. Graduated with Bachelors, Comp Eng from Bombay University and Masters, Comp. Science from University of Delaware. Joined Fujitsu Network Communications in 1999 with the Network Management Systems team and have been there since. Like to work in large-scale deployed distributed systems, tuning peer-peer communication, ad-hoc messaging and transactional related issues. Hobbies include playing cricket, running and gym. Love to watch any competitive sport. Mandar implemented the persistence manager for DistributedHashtable, and the ENCRYPT protocol.	Ovidiu Feodorov Born in Romania in 1972, I got my MSc in Computer Sciences at University Politehnica of Bucharest. Since 1999 I live and work in Bay Area, California, trying to mix together geophysics and Java programming. My current areas of interest are client-server systems, J2EE, application level network collaboration (and hence JGroups, which came as a very useful tool at the right moment) and in general creating Java applications that work and the users are happy about. Currently I am concentrating on the WAN aspects of JGroups. Otherwise skiing, hiking, tennis, watching movies and meeting with friends succeed keeping me 100% busy.
Chris Mills Born in England in 1979, Chris started his programming career at a small consultancy in deepest Gloucestershire using one of the first Java application servers. He moved on to work for Silverstream Software where he held a Senior Consultant position. Novell acquired Silverstream in 2002 and Chris worked for both Novell UK and Novell New Zealand. After almost 2 years as the Solution Architect at Novell NZ, Chris moved back to the UK to take a position at JBoss. Chris is currently running the Systems Engineering team in EMEA and likes to keep his hand in by helping out on some of the projects. In his spare time he enjoys playing rugby, drinking beer, reading, drinking beer and oh drinking beer!

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