Amaya Gergoff Bengoa Caracas Macintosh Users Group Amaya has been a leader of CMUG for over 4 years, serving as President. She is a System Engineer and works as Webmaster of IFX.com.ve, a major ISP in Venezuela. She is also treasurer of the Internet Society chapter of Venezuela. Amaya is working in a new project , LatinMUG.org which will serve as a MUG Center for Latin American MUGs and other Spanish-speaking countries.
	Gail Glore WiredWomen Gail bought her first Mac to complete her senior thesis at Norwich University and, at the same time, joined her first Mac user group. A past President of MacChamp, she founded WiredWomen to create "...a place where women could ask their questions and problem solve in an atmosphere more suited to their needs." Gail is the newest member of Apple's User Group Advisory Board and is responsible for editing email communications. In her day job, Gail is the registrar for "Hot Topics in Neonatology," an annual global conference. In her spare time, she has five children and a very tired- but understanding husband.
	Garr Reynolds Kinki Macintosh Users Group Garr is president of KMUG in Osaka, Japan. Professionally, Garr is a corporate learning specialist at Sumitomo Electric's head office in Osaka. There he is responsible for special projects coordination and the design of cross-cultural management seminars. Garr frequently makes formal presentations outside the company on such issues as change management, career development, design, and branding. Before going to Japan Garr worked on cross-cultural management issues at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Garr has an M.A. in Organizational Communication from the University of Hawaii.
	Lorene Romero North Coast Mac Users Group Lorene has been the President of NCMUG for 3 years. She began 6 years ago as a new member who volunteered to help with a fundraising event. She serves on Apple's User Group Advisory Board as "Vendor Queen," working with vendors to improve relations and negotiate MUG discounts. It has become something she loves because everyone wins. In spite of an educational background in Clinical Psychology and12 years in the Mental Health field, she decided to work with computers. Today Lorene works at a software company and is the corporate contact for 30 field reps. It is much less stressful.
	Yuan-Yuan Sun Macintosh Users Switzerland Yuan-Yuan first worked on a Mac back in 1984 but fell in love with them 10 years later. She fervently made up for the long incubation time by immediately joining the local User Group, MUS, and their Board of Directors. She has served as President since 1999. In her other life, she first studied architecture (the traditional one) but then switched careers to work as software developer for an ISP.