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Gerald Raddatz is a project manager, data infrastructure, at Carlson Wagonlit Travel.

Vaibhav Shringarpure is the business intelligence and data management practice leader for Kanbay Incorporated, a global IT services firm focused on the financial services industry. Shringarpure has more than 10 years of experience as a business intelligence solutions architect to the software industry. Through the years, he has architected and successfully implemented numerous data warehousing and online analytical processing programs around the world. Shringarpure has also worked internationally with various business intelligence programs. You may contact him directly at vaibhavs@kanbay.com.

Peter Arena is a principal with ASR Analytics, a Washington, DC-based consultancy that specializes in the design and development of advanced analytic applications. ASR is at the frontier of this emerging solution area, helping clients in the public and private sectors to achieve step-change improvements in the speed, quality and cohesiveness of their business decisions.

Kevin Shaughnessy is COO of Opus Group, one of the pioneers of operational performance management for organizations with large customer contact centers and processing areas. He can be reached at kshaughnessy@theopusgroup.com.

Jaymin Patel is a senior consultant with Trinus Corporation (www.trinus.com), a leading systems integration firm specializing in data warehousing, business intelligence, data quality, data integration and enterprise application integration. Patel would enjoy receiving feedback at jaymin_patel@trinus.com.

Majid Abai is executive vice president and director of Information Management and SOA practices at Crescent Enterprise Solutions, a systems integration organization with 12 offices and 300 consultants across the United States. During the past 24 years, he has focused on providing enterprise IT and information strategies as well as implementation of major business systems to Fortune 2000 organizations and government offices. A number of his clients have been listed as the Top Information Management Organizations by Baseline Magazine. Abai coauthored Data Strategy, a book published by Addison-Wesley, to provide a comprehensive road map in building a sound data strategy for organizations. He has developed and teaches classes at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Majid is a member of the Ask the Experts panel in DM Review magazine and a regular contributor to CIOupdate.com. He is continuously invited to consult and lecture on various information management and enterprise architecture subjects globally. You can reach him at majid.abai@crescententerprise.net.

Brian Staff is vice president of Marketing for Centerboard.

Rebecca Lawson, senior product marketing manager for Peregrine Systems (www.peregrine.com), has more than 17 years of broad experience in the enterprise software application segments. With expertise in strategy, product and marketing communications, her domain expertise includes IT asset and service management, Web technologies, analytics and vertical applications for finance, insurance and transportation.

Prashant Gupta is a consultant with the Banking and Capital Markets Group at Infosys. He consults with asset managers, broker dealers and investment banks in areas of accounting, trading and risk management. He has more than eight years of experience in treasury (money market and FX trading), ALM, risk management and financial accounting. You can reach him at gupta_prashant@infosys.com. 

N. Raja Venkateswar works with HCL Technologies Ltd. He is a frequent speaker on operational risk and outsourcing. He has previously headed outsourcing projects for Wall Street firms and has been working in the areas of customer relationship management, capital markets and core banking for the past few years. You can reach him at nraja@hcltech.com.