Jane Sales
Jane was an undergraduate at Jesus College, Oxford where she gained an MA in Mathematics and a DPhil in drinking too much. Her first job was as part of a small team porting CCP/M to their home-built microcomputer. If she tells you that Bill Gates was still in shorts and the PC wasn't even a twinkle in IBM's eye, you'll get an idea of how old she is.
After living in Hong Kong and Malaysia for two years and travelling in the Far East for another, Jane returned to Blighty and joined Insignia Solutions to write PC emulation software and meet her future husband, Rog. A couple of years later she moved to Psion to lead a new team creating a 32-bit operating system called EPOC. EPOC, now more familiar as Symbian OS, ran for the first time in Jane's back bedroom. Fortunately its distribution is rather more widespread today.
In 1999, Jane moved to Japan where she set up a Research Group and ate some very unusual things with chopsticks. Four years later, she followed Rog to the South of France where she grew her own grapes in the back garden and wrote Symbian OS Internals (published by Wiley in 2005). In the winter of 2006, tiring of the endless sunshine, Jane moved to a big, empty house with dodgy central heating in Ukraine. She met Tristan in a Kiev bar, and the rest was history.
Jane's favourite drinkie-poo is a nice bottle of Nyetimber.