Isabell M. Welpe holds the chair of strategy and organization at the Munich Technical University. She studied management at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. She was visiting professor at the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, USA, and postdoctoral fellow at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Gerhard Wimberger was born on August 30, 1923, in Vienna. At the Mozarteum in Salzburg he studied composition with Cesar Bresgen and Johann Nepomuk David, as well as conducting with Clemens Krauss and Bernhard Paumgartner. In 1947/48 he was répétiteur at the Vienna Volksoper and from 1948 to 1951 Kapellmeister at the Salzburg Landestheater. From 1953 to 1981 he was head of the conducting class, and from 1969 to 1991 he was a professor at the Mozarteum.