Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

John Gabrick is the chief architect for the Innovator, MindMatters flagship enterprise software solution. He has designed enterprise business processes from the ground up both domestically and internationally in engineering, finance, manufacturing and sales. Gabrick has significant experience involving multiple intellectual property issues, including litigation. He has experienced innovation from many different perspectives throughout his professional career.

Pete Cipollone directs the strategic development of Factiva's text mining and visualization initiatives. He is responsible for the Factiva Insight line of products, which meets the information needs of brand and reputation managers as well as  public relations and corporate communications professionals.

Sean Barry is manager of remote data recovery for North America at Ontrack Data Recovery. He joined Ontrack Data Recovery, a subsidiary of Kroll, in 1997. He can be reached at sbarry@ontrack.com.

Walter Braunschweiger is currently vice president of product development at Intellego Solutions, LLC, a company that provides business intelligence services and software solutions.  He has more than eighteen years experience in data warehousing and database design and was named a winner of The Data Warehousing Institute's 2001 Best Practices in Data Warehousing award competition.  Walter may be reached at wbraunschweiger@intellegosolutions.com or (781) 205-7382.

Dr. Geunter Sauter is the information management, information integration solutions architect at IBM. He received a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science at the University of Kaiserlautern. He can be reached at gsauter@us.ibm.com.

Rich Ciarciello is a leader in the client centricity practice within BusinessEdge Solutions Inc. An expert in business operations and information systems, he provides thought leadership in the areas of client centricity, process design and technology application. For more than 18 years, Ciarciello has supported Fortune 500 companies in various leadership roles across the financial services, entertainment and communications industries. He assists organizations enhance, develop and implement technology solutions to improve business processes and increase operational efficiency in the areas of sales, marketing, customer care and relationship management, and customer data integration.

James Masuoka is a senior consultant with Baseline Consulting. For the past 15 months, he has worked with a partner firm to manage a team of 40 offshore resources in the design, development and delivery of an enterprise data warehouse. He can be reached at jamesmasuoka@baseline-consulting.com.

Darryl Williamson leads the business intelligence practice at BST Global, a Tampa, Florida-based organization that delivers business performance management solutions to projectdriven organizations throughout the world. His responsibilities in that role center on the establishment of enterprise reporting strategies and the delivery of strategic and operational reports within those strategies. Prior to joining BST Global, Williamson served as a business intelligence and architecture director for PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, and as a software company executive and data warehouse manager at Home Shopping Network. He can be reached at dwilliamson@bstglobal.com.

Greg Hackett is the president of MergerShop LLC, a management think tank located in Bath, Ohio. He was the founder of The Hackett Group, the world's foremost benchmarking firm in the knowledge-worker field. He is a leading-edge thinker and pioneer regarding structural change, organizational success and tactical planning. He can be contacted at ghackett@mergershop.com.

David Langston, senior vice president of sales and marketing, comes to Noetix with over 17 years of industry experience in enterprise applications and business intelligence. He is responsible for driving the growth of the Noetix suite of products and services and for market positioning, communications and analyst relations. Prior to joining Noetix, Langston held a variety of senior management positions at Oracle Corporation. Prior to Oracle, he spent six years with IBM. For more information about Noetix, go to http://www.noetix.com or call (866) 4NOETIX.