He was previously with Accenture, where he led the global middleware group. Prior work was in bioengineering, with a focus on ultrasound, distributed processing, and mathematical modeling. Mr. Lunzer is a founding member of the Securities Industry Middleware Council, has served on the Advisory Council of the IAFE and as co-chair of its Technical Committee, and has represented J P Morgan at The Open Group. Ben and his wife, Hindi, a psychiatric oncologist, have three daughters, ages 20, 18, and 11. The girls share an interest in computing and mathematics, and, with their parents, the removal of any remnants of a glass, or silicon, ceiling.