Allen Wood (Deceased), received his BEE from Marquette University, an MSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He worked at the General Electric Company from 1951 to 1969.  He was a member of the GE Electric Utility Engineering Operation where he worked on utility system and corporate planning. He participated in the development of new probabilistic techniques for generation planning, new economic and financial evaluation methods, and directed joint research projects on new system planning methods. He joined Power Technologies, Inc., in 1969 as a Principal Engineer and Director. He was a Life Fellow of IEEE and served as an adjunct professor in the Electric Power Engineering graduate program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He passed away on September 10, 2011.

Bruce Wollenberg worked for three different industry suppliers of power system control centers from 1966 to 1989. He was responsible for writing real time applications such as an operator power flow program, state estimator, security analysis and security dispatch programs used in utility control systems. He was part of a team that developed the first security index and contingency selection techniques. He joined the University of Minnesota in 1989 and made original contributions to the understanding of electric power market structures and he was responsible for developing new methods to allocate losses and flows to multiple transactions in power systems. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Gerald Sheblé worked for two different industry suppliers and two consulting firm for power system control centers.  He was responsible for writing real-time applications in dispatch, unit commitment, transaction evaluation, probabilistic production costing, and hydro scheduling.  He was part of a team that developed the first dispatcher training simulator.  He joined Auburn University (1990) to conduct research in power system, space power, and electric auction market research.  He joined Iowa State University to conduct research in the interaction of markets and power system operation.  His academic research has continued to center on the action of the markets based on the physical operation of the power system.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He passed away in 2021.