Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Bill Byron Concevitch serves as chief talent and learning officer for Witness Systems. In his role, he leads all of the people, talent and learning initiatives for employees, partners and customers around the globe. Prior to Witness Systems, he served as chief learning officer of ExecuTrain Corporation and senior vice president of Element K (formerly Ziff-Davis Education). He has also served as president of Mentergy, executive vice president of KnowledgePool (the Fujitsu e-learning company) and executive vice president of Learning Tree International.

Presently working as an analyst for the consumer lending and credit policy team of a global bank, Jayaram Ranganathan pursues one of his hobbies - technical paper writing focusing on cross-functional areas. He can be reached at j_ranganathan@yahoo.com.

Nick Benvenuto is a managing director with Protiviti, a leading internal audit and risk consulting firm with more than 38 offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Benvenuto specializes in the development and implementation of business continuity management solutions worldwide. Benvenuto may be reached at nicholas.benvenuto@protiviti.com.

Denise Hanily, director of sales analytics and planning for Biovail Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Garry Musgrave, eBusiness development manager for T&F Informa Telecoms and Media Division.

Larry Northington is former Deputy Assistance Secretary of the Air Force, Financial Management, Director of Budget. He is currently Vice President of Strategic Planning, Teksouth Corporation.

Prashanth (PV) Boccasam brings more than 16 years of management experience to his role as president and CEO of Approva. Before founding Approva, PV was cofounder and president of Entevo, Corp. and previous to that he spent several years developing and managing projects at Microsoft's Systems Division and later in its worldwide consulting groups (MCS). PV's extensive software and management experience includes building, marketing and selling enterprise software products in the areas of Internet and application infrastructure, directory and security management.

Eric Rogge is vice president and research director for Ventana Research. As head of the business intelligence practice, Rogge has established the company�s research agenda for business intelligence (BI) and analytics. He conducts research across the entire landscape of BI platforms, tools and technologies including areas such as total cost of ownership (TCO), Microsoft Office and collaborative technologies. Rogge works directly with corporate business decision-makers and technology vendors to structure research that provides relevant data for effective product positioning and technology purchases. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Eric has substantial knowledge of the technology and software vendors in the analytic applications, enterprise software and database software segments. You can reach him at eric.rogge@ventanaresearch.com.

Kurt Milne serves as the senior manager of Strategic Marketing for BMC Software. Milne has 15 years of experience in enterprise software and electronics manufacturing and design, with significant knowledge of IT service management, inventory and supply chain management, and computer integrated manufacturing. You can reach him at kurt.milne@remedy.com or (408) 571-7265.

Richard Williams is a senior technical support specialist for Symark Software in Agoura Hills, California with more than 20 years in systems administration, architecture and design. You can reach him at rwilliams@symark.com.