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Kuldeep Dongre is a data conversion and migration analyst with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. He has more than four years of experience in data conversion and migration, data cleansing, ETL, government accounting and data structure rationalization. You can reach him at kul.deep@corporg.net.

John Kelleher served more than a decade in U.S. Air Force intelligence. Much of that time was spent teaching civilians and military personnel the fundamentals of the military intelligence process at the joint service Armed Forces Air Intelligence Training Center. He now works at IBM, where he is the principal instructor and curriculum developer for the IBM Red Brick Data Warehouse product line and trains instructors to teach IBM DB2. He can be reached at jkellehe@us.ibm.com or johnk@jkellehe.com.

Tawfik A. Hammoud is vice president of Marketing and Corporate Development at Antarctica Systems (http://www.antarctica.net), a pioneer provider of business performance management software. He was previously a founder of Citadon Inc, a project management software company and a management consultant at Bain & Company. He has more than 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur and software executive. You can contact him at thammoud@antarctica.net.

Jim Green, chairman and CEO of Composite Software, Inc., has more than 20 years of experience in developing products and technology for enterprise computing. From July of 2000 until April of 2003, Green served as webMethods' CTO and executive vice president of product development. He currently serves as a member of webMethods' Board of Directors. In previous companies, he achieved several industry firsts by developing networking and distributed computing products.  

Michael L. Gonzales has been a chief architecture and solutions strategist for more than a decade, specializing in business intelligence technologies and techniques. Gonzales is currently a Principle at Claraview, Inc., where he leads the Education department teaching a series of DW/BI courses internationally. He is a successful author; his latest book is BI Strategy: How to Create and Document. You can reach him at michael.gonzales@claraview.com.

Michael Heinze, Chief Technology Officer for Hotel Booking Solutions.

Greg Farris is the senior product marketing manager for Vormetric, Inc. (www.vormetric.com,) a provider of enterprise security solutions that enforce system integrity and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access and viewing.

Matt Coblentz is a senior product manager with EMC Software. He can be reached at coblentz_matthew@emc.com.

Michael M. David is founder of Advanced Data Access Technologies, Inc. Previously a staff scientist and the lead XML architect for NCR/Teradata and their representative to the ANSI SQLX Group, he has more than 20 years of experience researching and designing commercial nonprocedural heterogeneous database processing products. Based on this experience, he has authored the book Advanced ANSI SQL Data Modeling and Structure Processing and many papers and articles on this subject. You can reach him at mike@adatinc.com. Additional information on hierarchical semantics and its automatic uses in SQL can be found at www.adatinc.com.

Neil Kurlander is vice president of Public Sector Solutions for Asynchrony Solutions, Inc. (www.asolutions.com), an information technology consulting firm specializing in middleware architecture, system integration and custom application development, including wireless and Web applications. Kurlander's dual careers in public safety and technology spans four decades. In 1965 he joined the St .Louis Metropolitan Police Department and served in a variety of positions from officer to commander. In 1985 he was selected as the first chief of police of the Maryland Heights, Missouri Police Department, a position he held for 15 years. Under his leadership the department became one of the first in the nation to deploy in-car computers using wireless technology for dispatching and report writing, The department also was one of the first to deploy AVL technology to track the location of the patrol fleet and GIS mapping for crime analysis and operational planning. You can contact him at neil.kurlander@asolutions.com.