Robin Schumacher has deep experience in InfiniDB, DB2, Teradata, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL. He has written extensively in print and online on the subject of database design and performance, and is the author of three database performance books. Robin was the past Director of Product Management for MySQL and before that was the VP of Product Management for Embarcadero Technologies.

Roland Bouman is a database application Developer, Information and business process analyst, and business intelligence developer. He is a long-time active member of the MySQL and Pentaho communities and author of "Pentaho Solutions" (ISBN: 978-0-470-48432-6). He maintains a technical blog about database and business intelligence technology at http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/.

Ronald Bradford. As a Technology Strategist and Advisor, Ronald brings two decades of enterprise RDBMS industry experience across MySQL, Oracle and Ingres technologies including consulting positions for Oracle Corporation (1996-1999) and MySQL Inc (2006-2008). Ronald provides independent advisory and consulting services to organizations addressing core business needs including Business Continuity, Data Retention and Due Diligence. By employing best practices and a solid architectural foundation for applications in the present internet landscape, Ronald works with the goal to ensure successful scalable, resilient and highly available solutions. http://ronaldbradford.com, @RonaldBradford, @MySQLExpert

Sheeri Kritzer Cabral has a master's degree in computer science specializing in databases from Brandeis University and currently works as a MySQL DBA for The Pythian Group, a remote database administration solution. She has a background in systems administration. Unstoppable as a volunteer and activist since age 14, Cabral founded and organizes the Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MySQL User Group. As MySQL’s Community Advocate, Communicator and Facilitator of the Year for 2007 and 2008, she also produces OurSQL: The MySQL Database Podcast for the Community, By the Community and the corresponding videocast. You can read Sheer’s blog at http://www.pythian.com/news/author/sheeri/.

Bert Scalzo is a Database Expert for Quest Software, a member of the TOAD dev team and an Oracle ACE. He has worked with Oracle databases for well over two decades. Bert’s work history includes time at both Oracle Education and Oracle Consulting. He holds several Oracle Masters certifications and has an extensive academic background - including a BS, MS and PhD in Computer Science, an MBA, plus insurance industry designations. Bert is an accomplished speaker and has presented at numerous Oracle conferences and user groups. His key areas of DBA interest are Data Modeling, Database Benchmarking, Database Tuning & Optimization, "Star Schema" Data Warehouses, Linux and VMware. In addition to a number of articles, papers and blogs, Oracle DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schemas, TOAD Handbook, TOAD Pocket Reference (2nd Ed),Database Benchmarking: Practical Methods for Oracle & SQL Server, Advanced Oracle Utilities: The Definitive Reference and Oracle on VMware: Expert Tips for Database Virtualization.

Lenz Grimmer is a member of the MySQL Community Relations Team at Sun Microsystems. He lives in Hamburg, Germany and has worked for MySQL since April, 2002. Before joining the Community Relations team in December 2005, he was a member of the Release Engineering team that is in charge of creating the official release builds of the MySQL server. Prior to working for MySQL, Lenz was an engineer in the distribution development team of SuSE Linux in Nuremberg for four years. His first work experiences with LAMP environments date back to 1995, when he took his first job as a systems administrator and web developer for a small web company. He has a degree in Computer Science and has been involved in Linux and Open Source since 1994. In his spare time, Lenz enjoys hacking on open source software (e.g. maintaining his mylvmbackup tool or building RPM packages on the openSUSE Build Service), playing with his daughter Lena and spending time in the garden.