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Didier Benchimol is CEO of Cartesis. For feedback, contact usinfo@cartesis.com.

G. S. Vidyashankar is former director, Data warehousing and Business Intelligence Practice, at Cognizant Technology Solutions. He has more than 16 years of IT and management experience in the software industry, with specific focus on data warehousing and business intelligence. He has extensive experience in developing business analytical models for banking and financial services, retail and the telecom sectors. He headed the Business Analytics Group at Cognizant Technology Solutions. He may be reached at vidyashankar.gs@gmail.com.

Michael Stonebraker is an adjunct professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the chief technology officer at StreamBase.

Amit Chemburkar is a senior consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. He may be reached at amit.chemburkar@tcs.com.

Biraja P. Ghoshal is software consultant with more than 16 years of experience specializing in the DW/BI, MDM, Big Data Analytics and Hadoop Eco-System area in a variety of customer environments and industries. He is actively involved in information management related projects. You can contact him at: biraja.ghoshal@gmail.com

Patrick Dowling is senior vice president of Corporate Marketing for BridgeHead Software responsible for product marketing, business development and pre-sales engineering. Dowling has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry working in technical, sales, marketing and management functions with a variety of leading systems and storage management software vendors including MTI, Raxco-UIS, Axent and Phase Linear Systems. Prior to joining BridgeHead Software, he was a principal at Symbant, a Washington DC-based consulting firm focused on new communication and media technologies, where he ran the high technology marketing practice and assisted a variety of public companies with storage product marketing and strategic business planning. He may be reached at patrick.dowling@bridgeheadsoftware.com.

Bill Baker is chief technology officer for Visible Technologies, a provider of social media analysis and engagement solutions. He previously spent twelve years at Microsoft where he directed the company’s SQL Server Business Intelligent Unit and was general manager of Business Intelligence applications for the Microsoft Office Business Platform. Baker's deep expertise in leading teams to design and develop Microsoft solutions resulted in his recognition as one of only 36 worldwide Microsoft Distinguished Engineers.

Dan Meder is senior director of Commercial Credit Risk solutions for Experian's Business Information Solutions group. He has more than 20 years of experience in the business information field. Meder has been recognized as one of the pioneers in the area of credit decision automation, having been involved in product development, marketing and sales of decision support systems for credit management since the late 1980s. He may be reached at dan.meder@experian.com.

Todd Goldman is vice president of marketing at Exeros. He has 15 years experience as a general manager and marketing executive. Before joining Exeros, Goldman was vice president of Marketing for ScaleMP, a venture-funded company supplying enterprise middleware software to OEM computer manufacturers. Previously, he was vice president and general manager at America Online/Netscape where he oversaw the company's Shop@AOL, Netscape Search and Netscape Small Business services. Goldman joined AOL as part of its acquisition of Netscape where he was director of Product Marketing for the Netscape Directory and Security products. Before joining Netscape, he held various marketing and management positions at Hewlett-Packard working on products such as HP OpenView for Telecom and HP OpenMail/X.400. He may be reached at todd@exeros.com.

Krishna Mehta is a senior modeler for Inductis. He has worked on numerous project on bankruptcy, loan loss provisioning and customer attrition with several Fortune 500 companies. As a member of the methodology group, he has also been associated with efforts to shore up the analytics process at Inductis by introducing new tools and techniques as well as defining analytic standards. Before joining Inductis, he worked as a senior analyst with FedEx services and was part of the forecasting and pricing revenue management groups. He may be reached at kmehta@inductis.com.