Iris Adä: one of the last to join the team. She quickly changed her name to be first on this list. She is responsible for the data generation nodes in KNIME and the only one with taste in the team.

Michael Berthold: arguably the author of the first line of KNIME code and the fearless scientific leader. He is also the one who keeps adding features to already closed release lists (which others then have to implement).

Thomas Gabriel: arguably the author of the other first line of KNIME code and responsible for the R integration, the database nodes and much more.

Heather Fyson: she makes us a truly international, multi-continental team and also makes sure we use the real English!

Heiko Hofer: the lonely north german on the team who has time and peace (until kid #3 shows up) to implement really cool new nodes for the KNIME platform.

Martin Horn: is usually somewhere else, trying to kill himself doing what he calls "sport". When unbroken, he takes care of the High Content Analytics (HCA) plug-in.

Tobias Kötter: ponders bisociative creativity support and in his spare time continues to improve the GroupBy node and a number of other KNIME modules.

Thorsten Meinl: the man behind the KNIME build machine. He is also responsible for the chemistry extensions and is the only one on the team who believes Genetic Algorithms work.

Dominik Morent: the Mac guy. Enough said.

Peter Ohl: arguably the one who wrote yet another first line of KNIME code. The man behind the increasingly magical File Reader node and the only one who has a hunch about book keeping.

Sebastian Peter: the youngster. And he jumped right in and implemented the Web Analytics plug-in.

Kilian Thiel: the other bisociative thinker. Plays ping pong with Tobias and is responsible for the Text Mining plug-in and R integration.

Phil Winters: the oldest (by far) on the team. But also the one who actually knows how to really mine data. 'Cuz he's been doing it for ages!

Bernd Wiswedel: the one who likely did write the first line of code and still understands it. Without Bernd, there would be no KNIME.