Becker served as the first president of the U.S. Bridge Federation in 2001-2002. He served as chairman of the International Team Trials Committee from 1996 to 2012. He served on the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame Committee from 2000 to 2002 and chaired in 2002. Becker served on numerous Greater New York Bridge Association committees from 1966-1985, including president and vice president. He currently is the Bridge World Problem Editor. As a member of the American Stock Exchange 1979-1994, Becker traded options and trained 50 other ACBL members to do so, including many participants in this USBC.

Michael and father, B. Jay Becker, are the only father-son to play as partners in a Bermuda Bowl (1973), or to have teamed up to win the Spingold (1972).   He was a member of the Aces Team 1981-82.

Though only in his early forties, Fred is the uncontested computer guru of the bridge world. Born in Toronto but now residing in Las Vegas with his wife, Sheri Winestock and dog Koda, he has revolutionized the hobby with a profusion of innovative concepts making the game available to people worldwide through cyberspace.

A University of Toronto computer science student, he dropped out to play bridge and soon afterwards became a programmer for a bridge player operated software company.

Together with Sheri, Fred founded Bridge Base, Inc. originally concentrating on educational bridge CD-ROMS but soon turning their attention to Bridge Base Online (BBO), the world's most successful online bridge service, as well as software for producing vugraph shows for live audiences and the Internet.

 Michael Brad Moss was born in 1971 in New York City. It should come as no surprise to find that he took to bridge like a duck to water - his parents are Mike Moss and Gail Greenberg.

Brad was named the ACBL King of Bridge at the age of 18. Two years later, he became the youngest player ever to win the New York Player of the Year title. Also in 1991, he was a member of the USA team that just missed out on a medal at the World Junior Teams in Ann Arbor, Michigan, finishing fourth, and won his first National title - the Master Mixed Teams. In 1993, he added to his tally by winning the Grand National Teams and the Life Masters Open Pairs.

His current partnership with Fred Gitelman has shown great promise from its inception. In 1998, their team won the NABC Board-a-Match Teams and they finished third in the Cavendish Invitational Pairs. Since then, the pair has had much success, most recently winning the Bronze medal in the 2005 Bermuda Bowl and finishing second in the 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012 USBCs