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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.

Bob Geiger is senior director of Product Development for Symantec, Corp.

Dr. Ronen Feldman. PhD is one of the leading minds in the field of text mining and draws on years of experience in the development of knowledge discovery systems and text mining applications. Feldman is responsible for ClearForest's technical business development, rapid prototyping, and the research and development of new products. In particular, he is in charge of the wireless segment and development of language models for new vertical domains. Feldman serves as a consultant to leading Israeli companies and serves on the program committees of AAAI, KDD, PKDD and SIGIR. He is often an invited speaker in academic and industrial conferences, and he is a senior lecturer in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Diane Freundel is assistant vice president of compliance and contract review for American Education Services.