Nancy Wilkins-Diehr will be the PI of the project and chair the management team. Wilkins-Diehr has led the TeraGrid Science Gateways program since its inception in 2004 and has been at the San Diego Supercomputer Center since 1993 holding a variety of management positions including Associate Director of the Scientific Computing Division and project manager for the $35M NPACI program. She is currently co-director of the XSEDE Extended Collaborative Support program, which includes support for science gateways. She participates in a variety of national and international advisory committees related to cyberinfrastructure.

Linda Hayden has been an ONR/NASA/NSF principal investigator, operating a suite of programs impacting remote-sensing research training for undergraduate and graduate students, resulting in over 1000 underrepresented students completing graduate STEM degrees. Dr. Hayden was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) by the National Science Foundation in 2003. She received the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) NOBLE Laureate 2009 distinguished Faculty Research Award and the 2003 Emerald Award for Educational Leadership by U.S. Black Engineer Magazine. She serves on the board of several minority professional organizations supporting science and engineering.

Katherine Lawrence has studied virtual organizations, collaboration, and new product development for many years. Dr. Lawrence has participated in or facilitated requirements analysis processes designed to identify future requirements for virtual research communities/organizations and for users of large cyberinfrastructure projects (e.g., TeraGrid). Lawrence has presented on best practices for collaboration (multidisciplinary, collocated, and/or geographically distributed) and new product development at professional association chapters, graduate-level professional schools, and private businesses. She also designed and taught usability evaluation methods in the University of Michigan Informatics program.

Marlon Pierce is the leader of the Indiana University Science Gateway Group and PI of the NSF SDCI Award #1032742, "SDCI NMI Improvement: Open Gateway Computing Environments—Tools for Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Science and Education." This award funds the OGCE project's core development and deployment to UltraScan, GridChem, ParamChem, and other gateways. [38] is a representative publication of this work. Pierce is a co-founder of the Apache Rave and Apache Airavata incubator projects.

Dan Stanzione is Deputy Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Stanzione is the Co-PI for cyberinfrastructure of the iPlant Collaborative, a large-scale NSF-funded CI project addressing the grand challenges of plant biology, with a focus on web portals and science gateways. He has been a Co-PI on the deployment of a number of large-scale resources for the open-science community and is the acting director of data resources at TACC, overseeing the petabyte-plus of existing community data collections residing at the center, and construction of the ten-petabyte UT data repository and 100 petabyte archive system. He also oversees the training component of the NSF XSEDE project.

Michael Zentner is a Senior Research Scientist at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at Purdue. His research includes visualization and algorithmic systems for recognition of behavior patterns of users accessing HUBzero science gateways and patients accessing health care. Michael has been founder or a senior executive of several companies where he commercialized research technologies for schedule optimization, collaboration, text exploration and extracting patterns from data. He has consulted with many Fortune 500 companies to apply his work.