Dave Cross is the owner of Magnum Solutions Ltd, a London-based open source consultancy. He founded london.pm and is somewhat responsible for the nms project. He wrote 'Data Munging with Perl' and co-wrote 'Perl Template Toolkit'. Dave recently stood down after four years herding the Perl Mongers group leaders for The Perl Foundation and is lookong forward to a good rest.

There is no truth in the rumours about the gold-plated cat.