Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Dr. Yves Schabes co-founded multilingual natural language technology company Teragram Corporation (www.teragram.com) with Dr. Emmanuel Roche in 1997. Schabes has spent the past fifteen years working on issues relating to natural language processing and computer science. He is the author or editor of more than 50 international scientific publications. Schabes is also an associate to the Division of Applied Science, Harvard University. Prior to founding Teragram, Schabes was a senior scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.

Mehdi Hatami has 20+ years of data warehousing experience in it architecture and project management working for leading Canadian organizations. His expertise in management, data architecture, database design and development, and DW technology has enabled him to work for high-profile clients such as American Express, Ontario Power Generation, and the Government of Canada. He is a senior consultant and solution architect at Adastra Corporation. Hatami may be reached at mehdi.hatami@adastracorp.com.

Michael Di Stefano is the vice president, architecture - financial services for GemStone Systems, where he is responsible for helping to grow GemStones' financial services offering and manage the professional services group, both in North America and Europe. Di Stefano has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and technology sectors, including key roles at the American Stock Exchange, Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones Markets and Sun Microsystems. He was a key member of the design and implementation team that created the very first service failover high availability system in 1991. He may be reached at michael.distefano@gemstone.com.

Ralph J. Bardsley, vice president at Racepoint Group, brings more than a decade of strategic positioning, communications planning and program implementation to the position. His client experience ranges from helping Microsoft spinout companies find their place in the new Web 2.0 universe to leading more established teams such as eHarmony and DigitalGlobe in finding new audiences. Before joining Racepoint, Bardsley worked with Ascential Software as manager of media and analyst relations, where he was responsible for helping shape and execute on public relations strategy. He has experience in developing media strategy and communications plans in support of corporate and product launches, expansion, and IPO planning. He may be reached at rbardsley@racepointgroup.com.

Andy Burns PMP is a veteran program officer of global development efforts in the business intelligence and Web development arenas. His career stands evenly split between consulting for and employment by some of the largest BI and Web customers in corporate America. Ever the collaborator, he would enjoy hearing from you at AWB.AWB@gmail.com.

Greg Anderson steers the development direction of GoldMine software in his role as senior director of product for FrontRange Solutions. He welcomes questions at Greg.Anderson@frontrange.com.

Jim Foreman is vice president of Client Solutions at ESI International. His responsibilities center on design and development of client performance improvement programs. Foreman has provided project management training and consulting svervices to numerous Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. He may be reached at jforeman@esi-intl.com.