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John Gowers is the IT director for Blue Mountain.

Cliff Pollan is CEO of Lumigent (www.lumigent.com) whose technology provides companies with the assurance that any type of database activity can be tracked and flagged.

Richard April is vice president of marketing for Permessa Corporation (formerly DYS Analytics), whose solutions and services help manage demanding messaging environments. April has nearly 20 years of experience in the security, software and networking industries. For more information, contact (781) 694-2200, or pr@permessa.com.

Brian Ball draws from 18 years experience in the industry. He is vice president of Parascript, which processes over 75 billion imaged documents per year and is online at www.parascript.com.

Joe Caliro, executive vice president of quality at HyperQuality, Inc., is an expert in global customer-service management and strategic deployment, consultative sales design, and call-center operations. He can be reached at joe.caliro@HyperQuality.com for more information.

Televerde President and CEO James (Jim) Hooker is responsible for establishing and maintaining the company's strategic focus as a premium provider of outsourced, performance-based customer acquisition solutions and actionable market intelligence for technology companies. Jim Hooker can be reached at either jim.hooker@televerde.com or (480)736-8137.

Matthew Zito is an expert in large-scale infrastructures, with extensive experience in designing and deploying some of the world's largest system, network, and application architectures. Before joining GridApp Systems as Chief Scientist, Zito worked at information storage company EMC and at Register.com, where he pioneered the use of centralized management and automation to run large production application infrastructures.

Larry Sackett, president and CEO of E.J. Barry Company, has more than twenty years of experience designing and implementing database marketing and business intelligence systems. He is a specialist in the use of data, technology and marketing best practices to increase revenues and profits. He may be reached at lsackett@ejbarry.com.

Dr. David Meader tracks and writes about emerging business technologies. He received his Ph.D. in MIS, his M.A. in Organizational Psychology, and his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He received his M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Dr. Meader was also on the faculty at the University of Arizona's MIS program in the Eller College of Management for 12 years and currently teaches in the MIS program at San Jose State University.

Scott Keith is senior BI consultant at Blue Line Planning. He may be reached at skeith@bluelineplanning.com.