Dr Thomas Krichel, http://openlib.org/home/krichel is an economist by
training and a digital librarian by mission. He published the first
online economics paper in 1993. He started what was to become the
RePEc digital library. He created NEP in 1998. He created the world's
first author registration service in 1999. Since 2003, he has at times
been working on the ernad software that implements NEP. He is the
technical maintainer of NEP.

Dr Ross Mounce has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology and is a scientific
advisor with the ContentMine project (http://contentmine.org/),
mining and republishing facts from academic literature. His research
focus is on automating robust and reproducible identification and
re-use of facts from research articles to ameliorate impediments to
effective knowledge synthesis. In 2012, Ross was one of the first
awardees of a Panton Fellowship, for the promotion of open data in
science, by the Open Knowledge Foundation.