The people behind Peng! are hard working and highly professional. The inner core is small, but there are more than 100 people in the extended network, having all kinds of backgrounds: science, media, politics, art, craft, public service. We also hire external specialists to work with on specific campaigns.
Karla is a former spy who joined us through the Intelexit program. She is believed to be the brains behind many of the current surveillance technologies being used to monitor the activities of intelligence agencies in several repressive regimes. Not one for appearing in public, or answering questions directly, Karla keeps a low profile, and commutes into Berlin daily from a gherkin farm in Brandenburg.
Markus is a mechanical engineer and once owned a monsterbike workshop in Rajasthan. He married and divorced a German and set up an electricity sharing collective in Berlin that redistributes electricity bills through physical hacks into households and databanks. After a major electrical shock, he left the collective and focussed solely on Peng engineering issues. Markus is extremely religious when it comes to politics.
Heinrich wanted to become both lawyer and astronaut and thus failed at both. He then focused on tangible skills like road pavement, hybrid cooling systems for server farms and money printing plates, as these hold together society at its most vulnerable spots. He is holding about 500 lacewings (Chrysoperla Carnea) at home and gives each ones individual Hindu names. When it comes to infrastructural hacking, he holds the part between her closed eyes with her fingertips and thinks loudly.
Karoline talks like a leader, walks like a leader, smells like a leader but never has a plan. A trained physicist with a PhD on the history of Russian/US-American spy industry of aeronautics and aerospace programs, Karoline decided to pursue her true passion and become a florist and Peng member after a false diagnosis of cancer. Karoline can dance the cha cha cha with a natural grace at the oddest moments.