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Marianne Arents-Gregory is the retail practice director for ThinkFast Consulting and has more than eight years of experience in the retail industry including operations, marketing, advertising, reverse logistics and strategic planning. Most recently, Arents- Gregory has conducted extensive BI strategy and tool assessments, recommending and advising on the implementation of solutions for some of the nation's top retail and wholesale organizations. Arents- Gregory can be reached at mgregory@thinkfast.com.

Mark Gschwind is a business intelligence consultant based in Northern California. He has over 15 years of experience architecting BI solutions that use multiple technologies (Data Warehousing, OLAP, Dashboards, Reporting Systems and Enterprise Data Management) that work together in well-governed systems. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), is certified in Oracle Essbase and is a Melissa Data MVP. He can be reached at mark@gschwindconsulting.com.

Paul Clip is a managing security architect at @stake, the world's leading independent digital security consulting firm. Clip has more than 10 years of IT and security experience and is a technical lead for @stake's Application Security Center of Excellence. He can be reached at pclip@atstake.com.

Rich Fomin is a senior product manager in BMC Software's Enterprise Storage Group where he is accountable for managing product requirements for BMC Software's distributed Storage Management Product Suite. Prior to joining BMC Software, Fomin spent most of his career in various infrastructure management roles, both on the mainframe and distributed platforms.

Bill Tolson is vice president at Archive360. Prior to this role he was a senior storage solutions marketing manager for StorageTek. Prior to joining StorageTek, Tolson held a number of key positions within the storage industry including Iomega Corp. and Hewlett-Packard. He has over 20 years of experience in the storage industry.

Mishell Meyer is a manager with Accenture and a member of Accenture's North American Financial Services and Finance & Performance Management practice. Meyer leads client implementations that include data warehousing, performance management, human resources, financial insight and analytical applications. Please contact Meyer at mishell.l.meyer@accenture.com.

As the VP of Technology Alliances for arcplan, Inc., Brian King leads arcplan's strategic relationship building and directs operations for their Pacific Region in the U.S. King works closely with many technology solution vendors to strategically position arcplan for future growth in the business intelligence and OLAP space. King sits on the Microsoft and Hyperion XML Advisory Committee and speaks frequently at conferences. King may be contacted at brian.king@arcplan.com.

Todd Higginson is senior marketing manager of professional service for Teradata, a division of NCR. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of quantifying the return on data warehousing investments and the process of consolidating disparate data mart environments. He can be reached at todd.higginson@teradata-ncr.com.

Kevin Hartnett is the managing partner of Harnett Consulting, Inc., a company focused on the design and development of data-intensive business solutions for the pharmaceutrical, aerospace and financial services industries.

Scott Farr, director of performance management for Hilton Hotels Corporation.