Bill Shannon
Bill Shannon, is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and worked as the Java EE specification lead.
Shannon has been with Sun since 1982 and previously worked on the JavaMail API, the HotJava Views product, the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), the Solaris Operating Environment, and all versions of SunOS.
He graduated from Case Western Reserve University with an MS in Computer Engineering.
Source: Sun Microsystems