Mayur Pant

CEO of Microsoft (2000—2014)

Co-founders of Twitter

Creator of C++, Columbia University

Vice President of Google (2005—)

Creator of the TCP/IP protocol and first commercial email service

Author of Applied Cryptography (1994)

Chief Legal and Business Officer of Mozilla

Chief Legal Advisor of the NSA

UK Chief of Defence Intelligence (2009—2012)

Minister for Police and Criminal Justice (2012—2014)

CEO of Google (2001—2011)

Editor at The Economist

Author of Big Data (2013)

Vice President of Google (2002—2011)

MI5 intelligence officer (1991—1996)

Whistleblower (fugitive)

Co-founder of WikiLeaks (fugitive, streamed)

UK Government Technology Advisor

Director of the NSA (1999—2005)

Director of the CIA (2006—2009)

Chair of US Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative

Founder of Amstrad (Alan Michael Sugar Trading, 1968)

Owner of Viglen (1994—2009)

United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2013—)

General Counsel of the Department of Defence (2009—2012)

Co-founder of the Bitcoin Dark Wallet

Wired Magazine's top 5 most dangerous people on the Internet (has featured E. Snowden and J. Assange)

Former CIA employee

Whistleblower of GCHQ / NSA global phone tapping program (fugitive, streamed)

General Counsel of the NSA (1992—1994)

Author of The Limits of Trust: Cryptography, Governments, and Electronic Commerce (1998)

Statistician, developed baseball's PECOTA system (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm)

Author of The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction (2013)

Chief editor of FiveThirtyEight.com