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Mitchell A. Ocampo is practice team lead, Application Development, EMC Global Services. He may be reached at Ocampo_Mitchell@emc.com.

Vicki P. Raeburn is president of Scofield Ridge Associates, Inc., a business consultancy focused on data governance and data quality.She has nearly 30 years of leadership experience in the information industry, where she has held positions in global business and product development, marketing, and data operations. Most recently, Raeburn was chief quality officer at Dun & Bradstreet, consulting with customers on the successful implementation of customer information solutions. She has a B.A. from New College of Florida and a Ph.D. from Yale University. She may be reached at vicki@scoridge.com.

Andrew Africa, chief operating office for MaintenanceNet, Inc., has more than 10 years of business operations experience. With a background in defining and managing highly efficient operations frameworks, Africa steers the design, production and delivery of advanced software technologies for the company.

Mario Passalacqua is the director of IBM's Worldwide Business Intelligence Group. Passalacqua has spoken and written extensively on IBM's dynamic data warehousing initiative and related topics. He can be reached at mcpassa@us.ibm.com.  

Rajesh Natarajan is assistant manager, Projects, Business Analytics Group at Cognizant Technology Solutions. He specializes in applying data mining techniques to real-world problem scenarios. He has published in international conferences and journals. Natarajan may be reached at rajesh.natarajan@cognizant.com.

Rado Kotorov is a technical director of Strategic Product Management in Information Builders Inc., responsible for emerging reporting, analytic and visualization technologies. Prior to joining Information Builders Inc., he has managed the implementation of BI solutions and decision-support systems, data warehouses and custom applications. He has developed analytic models and applications for the pharmaceutical, retail, CPG, financial, and automotive industries. He has publications on business processes, emerging technologies, CRM, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Dan Cobb is the CTO of Information Management Software, EMC Corp . He may be reached at cobb_dan@emc.com.

Umeshwar Dayal is an HP Fellow and co-director of the Advanced Database Research program at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. His research interests are data mining, business process management, distributed information management, and decision support technologies, especially as applied to e-business. Umesh has over 25 years of research experience in information management and business process management. Prior to joining HP Labs, he was a senior researcher at DEC's Cambridge Research Lab, chief scientist at Xerox Advanced Information Technology and Computer Corporation of America and on the faculty at the University of Texas - Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University. Umesh has published extensively and holds several patents in the areas of database systems, transaction management, workflow systems, and data mining. He has been a member of the Board of the VLDB Endowment, the Board of the International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems and the Advisory Board of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute. Contact him at umeshwar.dayal@hp.com.

Scott DeFusco, vice president of Innovation, is responsible for driving emerging technologies into Deltek's product portfolio. DeFusco brings more than 17 years of experience with the use, design and marketing of professional service automation solutions to his role. Before joining Deltek, DeFusco had practical experience implementing and using Deltek software with two very different A/E firms, including The Dewberry Companies, an ENR Top 100 design firm.

Matthew Quinn is the vice president of product strategy for TIBCO, where he has worked for over seven years in a variety of key positions. As an expert in agents and highly distributed complex systems, he is often called upon to help customers solve some of their most challenging integration problems. Quinn can be reached at mquinn@tibco.com.