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Justin Hay is founder of Justin Hay Consulting Corp. He is the designer of the Enterprise Query Platform reporting application and is a principal data architect for IBM’s BDW and RDW enterprise data warehouse models.

Chris Knight is a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. He is one of the key developers of the NETMARK system. Before joining NASA, he worked on Web-based shopping, gaming and related projects in the industry. His interests are focused on asynchronous collaborative technologies and architectures for rapid application development tools for enabling collaboration. Knight holds a degree in computer science from Cal State.

Elizabeth Gibson, Ph.D., Senior Principal, Continuous Learning Group. Email: egibson@clg.com Phone: (512)694-2907

Joe Luedtke is director of Business Intelligence Solutions for WHITTMANHART, a process and technology consulting firm. Luedtke has more than fifteen years of IT industry experience architecting and implementing high-value BI, CRM and ERP solutions. He specializes in the design and implementation of business intelligence and analytic solutions. You can contact him at jluedtke@whittmanhart.com.

Robert A. Maksimchuk is the data modeling evangelist for Rational Software Corporation.  Maksimchuk coauthored UML For Database Design, Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-72163-5 with Eric J. Naiburg.

Robert Blumberg is the president of Blumberg Consulting, Inc. He has broad experience both as a computer software executive and as a consultant focusing on product R&D, marketing and business development. Blumberg specializes in the commercialization of software products, from market analysis to product design and go-to- market planning. Previously, he was president of Fresher Information, a DBMS vendor specializing in unstructured data management. Before that, Blumberg founded Live Picture, where he held various executive positions. Blumberg has also been a featured speaker at many industry events and management forums in the U.S. and elsewhere. He may be reached at rblumberg@earthlink.net.

Rob Gillette is CTO and vice president of engineering for Evolve and author of Physical Database Design for Sybase SQL Server. Gillette is responsible for Evolve's technology strategy and for the architecture, design and development of Evolve's product suite. He is the key architect of all new product initiatives and leads the products' continual evolution and enhanced functionality. Gillette may be contacted by e-mail at rob.gillette@evolve.com.

Shaku Atre is president of Atre Group Inc. and of a leading consulting, training and publishing company specializing in business intelligence. An acknowledged expert in the data warehousing and database field and an exceptional speaker, she captures the attention of audiences and maintains their interest while guiding her listeners through sophisticated material. Before heading her present company, Ms. Atre was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She also has 14 years of experi­ence in various fields with IBM. As a prolific writer, she has published more than 500 columns in various publications and is the author of a number of books, including “Database: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance and Management,” ‘Information Center: Strategies and Case Studies,” “Database Management Systems,” “Distributed Databases, Cooperative Processing & Networking,” “Atre’s Roadmap for Data warehouse/Data mart Implementations,” and “Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications.” She can be contacted at shaku@atre.com. Download some of her previously published columns at www.atre.com/forms/survey1.html.

Jamie Barrette is lead consultant at ClarityMatters, a business analytics consulting firm. Specializing in data warehousing and business intelligence, he brings a unique perspective to projects with experience in both the business and technical realms. He has successfully deployed end-to-end solutions for Fortune 100 companies and is a frequent speaker on workforce analytics and other business intelligence topics. Barrette may be reached at 678-514-6013 or jamie.barrette@claritymatters.com.

Andres Perez is a senior information management consultant and principal of IRM Consulting, Ltd. Co., San Antonio, Texas, and an associate of Larry P. English. He is an experienced information management consultant and enterprise information architect and is certified in the TIQM method. Perez is a well- known public speaker that has participated in the Information Quality, DAMA International, ZIFA, TDWI and other conferences.