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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.

Dave Siroff is a network engineer for VistaCare.

Hans Haglund is the business development manager of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP.

Tom Lueker is the chief marketing officer for WebSurveyor Corporation where he is responsible for product definition, positioning, market analysis and implementation of all marketing programs and strategic business relationships. Lueker has more than 18 years of experience in software marketing, sales and development.

Mitch Landry is the business unit field director for BMC Software's Enterprise Data Management. His area of specialization throughout his 12-year tenure with BMC Software has been in data management solutions for both mainframe and distributed systems. Currently he is responsible for working with BMC Software's development organizations on future product direction and in visiting customer's locations in North and South America. Landry has been working in the IT field for 23 years, spending the first 11 in the design, development and management of applications and databases to support the aerospace, retail, state government and insurance industries.