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Alex Berson is an internationally recognized expert, author and educator in various areas of information technologies. Throughout his professional career, Berson has held key technology and management positions in several major corporations including BearingPoint Inc., Merrill Lynch, Entrust, enCommerce, Dun & Bradstreet, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Solomon Smith Barney, and others. Berson is a member of Standard & Poor's Vista Research Society of Industrial Leaders (SIL). He is the author of a number of best-selling professional books including Building Data Mining Applications for CRM, Data Warehousing, Data Mining and OLAP; Client/Server Architecture; SYBASE and Client/Server Computing; and APPC: Introduction to LU6.2.

Rachael Narel is a vice president and unit leader of new product development at Infogix. She has more than seven years of software industry experience that includes various roles in the Infogix Product Development, Customer Development and Market Development groups. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified Technical Trainer. You may contact Narel at rnarel@infogix.com.

Dipak Patel is senior director of Development for OpenAccess at DataDirect Technologies, a provider of software for data connectivity to business applications used by thousands of enterprises. Patel can be reached at Dipak.Patel@datadirect.com.

Cor Winkler is technical director, BI, PBT group. He may be reached at corw@pbt.co.za.

Barbara Angius Saxby is the chief marketing officer for Ramco Systems. She drives global marketing strategy and program execution. Saxby has more than 20 years of strategic management and international business experience with in-depth indsutry knowledge in enteprise applications and infrastructure technologies. You can reach her at bsaxby@rsc.ramco.com.

Mike Murphy brings more than 20 years of technology management and sales experience to InQuira and has been the CEO of InQuira since 2002. Prior to InQuira, he served as one of four key executives at Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) and worked at Hewlett Packard for 13 years. Murphy can be reached at mmurphy@inquira.com.

Anita Stephen is a senior associate in the Banking and Capital Markets Group at Infosys Technologies Limited. She has eight years of experience in financial services and technology working with leading banks and finance firms to implement risk and compliance initiatives including Basel II and data management processes.

Mark Ritzmann is a leader in the IBM World Wide Business Intelligence Group. Ritzmann has written and spoken widely on issues in data warehousing and business intelligence.

Hassan Kotob, President and CEO, North Plains, has more than 15 years of executive management and global market development experience. Kotob was president and CEO of Medasys from 1991 to 1998. Under his leadership, Medasys grew from a small privately held developer of medical imaging software to a publicly traded corporation. Prior to that, Kotob held management and director positions at various corporations including CText and Irwin Magnetic Systems. Kotob has served on the boards of both public and private companies including Medasys, CText, Optima International, KOAC Ltd. and Digital Design Systems.

Michael Koscielny is director of regional underwriting operations at Auto Club Group where he is capitalizing on his 20-plus year career in the insurance industry, which includes positions at Kemper Insurance and Safeco.