Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Shyamala Sadananda is a technical architect with the BI Center of Excellence, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies Ltd. She has extensive experience in all aspects of business intelligence and data warehousing. She has successfully implemented large data warehouses. She has worked in areas of performance management, BI, analytics, customer relationship management, and customer data warehouses. She can be reached at shyamala_s@infosys.com.

Barry Wilderman, an industry authority on total cost of ownership (TCO), has worked for more than 20 years in executive positions at various companies and has a wide range of analytical, management, marketing and product management skills. Currently, he is vice president of business strategy for Lawson Software. Previously, Wilderman was vice president of NPD Group. He also served as senior vice president at META Group, where he was a service director, leading a group of analysts in the enterprise business application space.

Jennifer Ellard is a senior product marketing manager with Symantec's Data Center Foundation.

Richard Blahunka, CBIP, has over 25 years of business intelligence and analytics experience specializing in architecture, product management, project management, governance, and strategic thinking -- predominantly in Fortune 500 companies, including Lockheed Martin, FedEx, MCI, Entergy, SAS, and NCR -- within military, utility, airline, telecommunications, banking, manufacturing, and education industries. He is currently an Enterprise Architect for data management and enterprise analytics at Entergy Corporation based in New Orleans, and can be reached at rblahun@entergy.com orrickblahunka@yahoo.com.

Ben Plummer is vice president worldwide marketing, Applix. He is responsible for strategic marketing and product direction and has over 23 years of experience in the software industry, with 15 of those years in the performance management and business intelligence markets. Plummer most recently held the position of chief marketing officer at OutlookSoft. Prior to this, Plummer spent 13 years at Cognos in a variety of senior roles, including customer operations, professional services, global marketing and global partner operations.

Greg Carter is chief technology officer and vice president of Product Development, Metastorm.

Mikel Chertudi is the senior director of Demand and Online Marketing at Omniture. He oversees global strategy and execution of demand creation for new customer acquisition and cross selling strategies including the tactics of search (both paid and SEO), email, newsletters, display, content syndication, direct and dimensional mail. Chertudi is responsible for thought leadership-based marketing including best practice guides, Web seminars and reports. He and his team have deployed a comprehensive marketing technology-based solution for increasing response effectiveness by intertwining search marketing automation, email and direct mail lead nurturing automation, progressive telephony, on-site behavioral targeting, ad serving, A/B and multivariable testing, personalized prospect portals with Web analytics as the anchor technology to deploy a highly relevant prospect and customer experience.

Dr. Todd Brennan is the CTO and Co-founder of Bit9, Inc., an application and device control solutions provider. Previously, Brennan founded Okena (acquired by Cisco in 2003), where he devised new techniques to defend against emerging computing threats.

Tom Gould is an international trade consultant for Zisser Group and may be reached at tgould@zissergroup.com.

Ravi is responsible for product and technical marketing activities for master data management at Informatica.� Ravi joined Informatica following the Siperian acquisition, where he ran product marketing. He helped position the company as a proven leader in multidomain MDM.� With over 20 years of leadership experience, Ravi has directed product marketing, product management, and business development efforts at enterprise software leaders such as Oracle. Ravi holds a BS (Honors) and an MS in Computer Science, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Ravi is a published author and a frequent speaker on MDM and data governance.