For years he was a manager of computer systems at Fred Alger Management, and was a consultant for the company when it was located on the 93rd floor of the World Trade Center and much of the New York staff was killed in the attack of Sept. 11, 2001.
Mr. Mahedy, also 31, works in Manhattan as a manager of computer software development at Digital World Services, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, the German media and publishing company.
Over the succeeding years, Mr. Bloch held a number of administrative positions in the rapidly growing computer industry, including general manager of the computer division of Raytheon, vice president for technical operations at Honeywell, vice president for corporate development at the Auerbach Corporation and vice president of the advanced systems division of General Electric.
Mr. Rudolph, 32, is in his second year of the leadership development program at AT&T; he is working as a manager of computer network services in San Leandro, Calif., and next month is to become a manager of a customer service call center in Tustin, Calif.
Over the years I've been a manager of a computer-game shop, an IT nerd, and right now I'm an IT project manager.
Before joining Tandem, Mr. Pesatori was vice president and general manager of the computer systems division at the Digital Equipment Corporation.
In 1985 Mark, Janet and their two infant daughters moved from the UK to Zambia, where he became manager of the computer centre at the University of Zambia.
"If you rest your wrist on there, you're doing more damage than good," says Kenneth Suttorp, manager of the computer support tools product line at the office furniture company Steelcase.
His mother is a manager of computer systems for a division of Mattel Toys in El Segundo, Calif.
Her father is a manager of computer networking services, specializing in strategy and planning, at I.B.M. in Somers, N.Y.
