Aidan J. McNamara is Associate Publisher at The Deal LLC, whose print publications include The Deal, The Daily Deal, and Corporate Dealmaker. McNamara formerly worked at Institutional Investor magazine and earlier was an international banking executive for Lloyds Bank PLC, working on various assignments at branches of the bank around the world. McNamara holds a BA in German from the University of Manchester and an MA in area studies (Eastern Europe & Russia) from the University of London (London School of Economics/School of Slavonic & East European Studies).

Martha A.Brozyna is a part-time lecturer in the History Department at Rutgers University. She holds a BA in history and political science from Rutgers University and a PhD in history from the University of Southern California. Brozyna published Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages: A Medieval Source Documents Reader in 2005.