Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D., is a vice president and member, Technology Consulting Associates, LLC. He was TCA�s manager at KeySpan during its recent integration of Eastern Enterprise�s customer data into the KeySpan customer system. McDonald can be reached via e-mail at dennis.mcdonald@tca-llc.com. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, TCA provides expert technology and business consulting services in a wide range of industries. For further information, call (404) 303-1795 or visit the company�s Web site at www.tca-llc.com.

Foster Hinshaw, often referred to as the Father of Data Warehouse Appliances, brings a wealth of creativity, technical and operational expertise in both hardware and software to Dataupia. He is accomplished at designing and developing large complex systems for business-critical enterprise and departmental applications, as well as Web-based e-commerce systems. Prior to Dataupia, Hinshaw founded Netezza, the provider of enterprise-class business intelligence appliances.

Neil Raden is the founder of Hired Brains, Inc., http://www.hiredbrains.com. Hired Brains provides consulting, systems integration and implementation services in business intelligence, decision automation and business process integration for clients worldwide. Hired Brains Research provides consulting, market research, product marketing and advisory services to the software ndustry. Based in Santa Barbara, CA, Raden is an active consultant and widely published author and speaker. He welcomes your comments at nraden@hiredbrains.com. 

Kent Bauer is the managing director, Performance Management Practice at GRT Corporation in Stamford, CT. He has more than 20 years of experience in managing and developing CRM, database marketing, data mining and data warehousing solutions for the financial, information services, healthcare and CPG industries. Bauer has an MBA in Statistics and an APC in Finance from the Stern Graduate School of Business, New York University. A published author and industry speaker, his recent articles and workshops have focused on KPI development, BI visioning and predictive analytics. Please contact Bauer at kent.bauer@grtcorp.com.

Mike Biensen is currently the business intelligence leader of a major project at Celanese, recently featured in CIO magazine, to move all SAP and other legacy systems to one SAP instance. Benefiting from data warehousing best practices learned prior to his experience with SAP's Business Warehouse, Biensen is implementing this system utilizing a hub-and-spoke architecture. Operational and other source data goes through a data hub where integration and business rule resolution occurs before going to the spokes (e.g., data marts or external systems). He can be reached at mbiensen@celanese.com.

Chris Grant, senior data analyst at Fry Multimedia.

Stephanie Garcia, director of e-commerce merchandising for Restoration Hardware, Inc.

Vice president of chapter services for DAMA.

Jill Eckhaus, president of AFCOM, is responsible for the worldwide activities of the organization including membership, publications, marketing, sales, conferences and trade shows. Eckhaus has been with AFCOM for more than 10 years. Prior to becoming president, she was AFCOM's executive vice president, in charge of the organization's day-to-day activities. In this position, she also headed AFCOM's Strategic Partner Program and was instrumental in the creation of AFCOM's Data Center Institute. Eckhaus may be reached at jeckhaus@afcom.com.

Riddhi Dutta worked in manufacturing industry in operations after graduating with a degree in Economics. He earned his MBA degree in Finance in September 2002 at Leeds University Business School, U.K. As an intern in the IT/IS Department of Leeds University, he designed and constructed a decision support system for the evaluation and prioritization of IS projects. Dutta�s career and research interests involve applications of decision analysis tools within different industrial sectors. You can contact him at riddhidutta@yahoo.com.