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Dhananjay Joshi is responsible for managing the product lifecycle and evangelizing the products to the market and customers. Joshi has experience leading and managing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intlligence implementations for global corporations as well as integration of Exact Business Analytics' business intelligence solution with major enterprise systems.

Allen Brown is president and CEO of The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that works toward enabling access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. He’s responsible for driving the organization’s strategic plan and daily operations. He also was instrumental in creating The Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects, which was recently formed to increase job opportunities for all its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.

Naveen Ashish, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He has extensively researched information integration technologies, having a key role in information integration research projects such as Ariadne at the USC Information Sciences Institute and NETMARK at NASA Ames. He has over 35 technical publications in the data management and related areas. He received his Ph.D. (Computer Science) from USC in 2000.

Tom Kallal has 17 years experience with data warehouses and business intelligence solutions. He works as a senior applications architect for March Networks Inc. in Scottsdale Arizona. You can reach him at TomKallal@Yahoo.com.

Niel Bornman joined Acceleration in 2005 as Online Analytics Director. He is responsible for growing Acceleration’s web analytics division, which combines web analytics software from Omniture with Acceleration's Professional Services expertise. The combination provides solutions that help customers drive the best returns from their online marketing strategies. Bornman has played an instrumental role in developing Acceleration's channel partnership with Omniture. Niel’s career includes tenure as IT director at Media24, South Africa's largest online publisher. Before joining Media24, Niel owned and managed a web application development company that focused on turnkey solutions for the healthcare, travel and motoring industries.

Kate Mitchell is the chief executive officer at Edge Intelligence. Prior to that she was CEO of CopperEye. She possesses nearly three decades of wide-ranging, customer-facing executive success with such database leaders as Oracle and IBM. Prior to joining CopperEye, Mitchell was senior vice president of marketing and business development for SeeBeyond Technology Corporation, where she worked with such customers as Target, barnes&noble.com, JP Morgan Chase and General Motors to grow revenues 400 percent in her four-year tenure and establish SeeBeyond as the global leader in business integration. Contact her at kate.mitchell@edgeintelligence.com.

Dominic Tavassoli is vice president of Product Marketing - Change and Configuration Management Applications for Telelogic. Tavassoli joined Telelogic in December 1999 and has more than 15 years of experience in the managing and adapting of advanced software products and solutions in defense, automotive, financial and commercial industries.

Stuart Smith is currently senior manager, Solutions and Services for ClearPath servers, Unisys Systems and Technology. His 37-year Unisys career spans progressive assignments in engineering, product marketing, alliance and partner management. He is responsible for leading the development of the SOA for ClearPath initiative.

William Hayes is Assoc. Dir., Library & Literature Informatics at Biogen Idec.

Samir Kapuria is the director of Symantec Global Consulting Services.