Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Kirstan Vandersluis founded XAware, Inc., in 1999, and spent over 20 years designing and implementing software systems in industries including financial services, insurance, banking, DoD, semi-conductor and telecommunications. Vandersluis speaks and blogs about SOA and related technologies and published a book, "XML-Based Integration with XAware."

Jerry is an Enterprise Data Architect with the Data Strategy group at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, with responsibility for establishing Data Architectural standards and evangelizing the Enterprise Data Governance Program.  In addition, Jerry has been establishing an enterprise Metadata Management Repository at Horizon.  He was previously a technology and project leader for a variety of data centric implementations, including numerous SAP ERP and BW deployments,  electronic product catalogs, MDM, other business intelligence initiatives, and, at the time, the largest Salesforce.com deployment.  Jerry earned his BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Michigan State University.  His varied career has enabled him to cross pollinate ideas from a variety of industries, including advertising, pharmaceuticals, medical education, manufacturing, telecommunications, and insurance.

Marina Yesakova is a senior strategic marketing manager at BMC Software. She leads the financial justification of IT purchasing decisions initiatives by creating financial and statistical models and business cases for BMC customers.

Alan Ito, vice president of Product Development, Convergence CT.

Tanya Fritz is director of channels and alliances, North America, at Aleri Inc. She may be reached at tanya.fritz@aleri.com.

Patrick Boylan is the President & CEO of Intellilink – a management consulting firm that improves the productivity of knowledge worker organizations. His areas of expertise include corporate governance, business reorganization and change management.

Hilary Cotter has more than 20 years of experience as a Web and database consultant in the tristate area of New York/New Jersey/Connecticut. Currently director of text mining and database strategy at RelevantNoise.com, Cotter has also worked for companies such as Microsoft and Merrill-Lynch. A key contributor to the SQL Server community, Cotter regularly speaks at industry events and is the author of a book on replication. He has been a SQL Server MVP since 2001 and is also a member of PASS and Quest’s Association of SQL Server Experts.

Mike Jerbic is an independent consultant who specializes in high technology engineering and project management. He may be reached at m.jerbic@opengroup.org.

Jim King is vice president of Operations at Panasonic

Peter Hopwood is principal consultant for Altis Consulting, an information management consultancy in Sydney, Australia. He may be contacted at peterh@altis.com.au.