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Jon Bostwick (jbostwick@sododekko.com), is a senior partner at Sodo Dekko, a global information management consulting company with a focus on people, processes and leading-edge technologies.

William N. McCrosky is a business intelligence consultant in IBM's Business Consulting Services. McCrosky has been a project manager and a technical architect on several significant IBM business intelligence engagements. He recently was the project manager on an engagement to build an integrated operational data store (ODS) data from structured and unstructured sources. He has a Master of Computer Science degree from the University of Virginia and 25 years of data management experience.

Ajay Amberkar has 15 years of experience in the IT industry providing professional services at enterprise level. He is currently working as ILM project manager at AdvizeX Technologies responsible for all engineering, architectural ILM solutions and calculating TOC/ROI in customer environment. He has participated in world-wide implementation of ERP/CRM applications at Fortune 500 customers and has worked with Bearing Point (KPMG) as an acceptance support engineer. You can reach him at ajayambe@omnienet.com.

Jeff Tonkel is president and chief executive officer of Infravio, Inc. The 13-page Infravio X-registry - The Web Services Registry, Key to a Successful SOA white paper is available today by calling Infravio at (408) 861-3038, sending an e-mail to info@infravio.com or downloading the paper directly from the Infravio Web site at http://www.infravio.com/whitepaper.

Barry Parshall is director of Product Management for WebTrends Web analytics products at NetIQ Corporation and has over 13 years of experience in the business intelligence and database software industries. Prior to joining NetIQ, Parshall was the director of Product Management for Q Strategies, Inc., a start-up software firm developing a financial business metrics application. And before Q Strategies Parshall spent four years at Crystal Decisions, where he was Product Manager for Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise products.

Joseph Kleinschmidt is CTO and cofounder of Leverage Software where he spearheads the development of leading enterprise relationship capital management (RCM) solutions to help empower sales professionals and enterprises to discover, analyze and leverage relationships within their organizations to accelerate revenue opportunities. Kleinschmidt's background includes experience in the financial, biotech, energy, Internet and multimedia industries, and he has worked with a variety of firms from small software start-ups to larger organizations in developing solutions that make better use of their information assets. He can be reached at joek@leveragesoftware.com.

Stephen Few has worked for 25 years as an information technology innovator, teacher and consultant. Today, as principal of the consultancy Perceptual Edge, he focuses on data visualization for analyzing and communicating quantitative business information. In addition to consulting and training services, he writes the monthly Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter, speaks frequently at conferences and teaches in the MBA program at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of two books: Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten and Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data. You can learn more about his work at www.perceptualedge.com and may contact him at sfew@perceptualedge.com.

Srinivas Pandrangi is the architect of Ipedo's XML Intelligence Platform. He leads the development of Ipedo's XQuery engine and represents Ipedo on W3C's XML Query Working group. Pandrangi has written a number of articles on EII and XQuery in various industry publications and has spoken in DAMA and XML Conferences. He may be reached at srinivas@ipedo.com.

Steve Craggs has been involved in the business integration marketplace for more than 10 years, originally at IBM where he ran the MQSeries worldwide business and more recently as founder of Saint Consulting Limited, a management consultancy within this market. In addition to this role, Craggs was invited to take a board position as European chairman of the Integration Consortium, a not for profit consortium for anyone interested in business integration. Craggs is well known in the industry and has authored many papers and arties for leading publications spanning all aspects of business integration. Craggs may be contacted at stc@saintconsulting.co.uk.