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Mark Place is a senior consultant of Latitude Consulting Group, an e-business and technology consulting firm based in Saline, Michigan. Latitude's expertise is rooted in a 25-year operating history of designing and building large-scale business partner portals for Fortune 100 companies. Place may be reached at insights@latitudecg.com.

Stephen Deedy is a managing director responsible for the leadership of AlixPartners' Information Technology Transformation Services Practice, which focuses on working with client executives to affect dramatic improvements in IT organizations, investments, and projects.  He has over 20 years of hands-on experience in building and managing businessses, and his expertise includes IT, operations restructuring and improvement, strategic planning, business development, and revenue and profitability growth. 

Rob Augenstein, CPA, is director of Business Development and partner of nexDimension Technology Solutions, an Atlanta, Georgia-based Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. nexDimension provides focused, comprehensive and cost-effective corporate performance management, business intelligence and ERP solutions available to emerging and enterprise businesses. Augenstein can be contacted at raugenstein@nexdimension.net.

Jim Bowerman manages engineering at Consul, where he has overall responsibility for audit and compliance products. He has extensive experience in information security and has managed development of numerous commercial products. He may be reached at jim.bowerman@consul.com.

Leah MacMillan joined Cognos in 2005 as vice president of Product Marketing. As a key member of the global management team, MacMillan serves as a driving force behind the global, go-to-market strategy for Cognos' business intelligence solutions. Key responsibilities include building visibility and awareness for Cognos BI products and promoting a deeper understanding of the business value of BI to customers and the market. Leah has more than 15 years of experience in high-tech marketing and product management.

Neeraj Gokhale is the general manager, Enterprise Information Management at TIBCO Software, Inc. He may be reached at ngokhale@tibco.com.

Roland P. Mosimann is CEO of BI International, a Malvern, PA-based consultancy specializing in performance and risk management. As CEO and co-founder of BI International, he has led major client relationships and thought leadership initiatives for the company. Most recently he drove the launch of the Aline platform for on-demand governance, risk and compliance. He is also a co-author of the Multidimensional Manager and the Multidimensional Organization. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics. He may be reached at rmosimann@business-intelligence.com.

Patrick Mosimann is founding and joint managing director of PMSI Consulting (Practical Management Solutions & Insights) a data-driven strategy group in Malvern, PA. co-founder of PMSI Patrick has led major client engagements and has significant experience across a number of industry sectors. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics. He may be reached at pmosimann@pmsi-consulting.com.

David Besemer is CTO of Composite Software, Inc. He has worked at the leading edge of enterprise software for more than 20 years. He began his tenure at Composite Software in 2002 as vice president of Engineering, and transitioned to the CTO role in January 2006. He joined Composite from his freelance CTO consulting practice, through which he provided software technology intelligence to venture capital firms. Previously, Besemer was CTO of eStyle; headed software product marketing at NeXT Computer; built program trading systems on Wall Street; and researched natural language processing systems at GE's Corporate R&D center. He may be reached at dbesemer@compositesw.com.

Rick Barkal is unit leader, market development for Infogix, Inc. Prior to this role, Barkal spent two years as an account executive for the company, working with customers on their information integrity needs. Prior to joining Infogix, he spent close to five years as a business development director for CGI, a multibillion dollar IT consulting and outsourcing company. Mr. Barkal also worked as an account executive for Investext, a division of Thomson Publishing, and as a solutions consultant for LexisNexis. He may be reached at rbarkal@infogix.com.