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John Ladley is a recognized information technology thought leader with 30 years experience in strategic planning, design and implementation of enterprise solutions. He is a recognized authority and speaker on enterprise information management, enterprise architecture, information architectures, data governance, business intelligence, collaborative intelligence, data warehouse and knowledge management. He applies experience, knowledge and pragmatic thinking toward balancing business technology strategy and planning efforts and the practical solution of business problems. He can be reached at jladley@imcue.com.

Kenneth Pawlak is co-the founder and senior vice president for sales and marketing at PAR3 Communications, Inc. This Seattle-based company focuses on customer participation management with its innovative Intelligent Response Platform, an interactive alert and response solution that helps businesses engage customers in two-way communications, improving customer retention and loyalty while increasing call center efficiency. Pawlak is a seasoned and well- regarded technology evangelist, an experienced entrepreneur and a marketing expert on e-commerce, call center, multimedia and Internet products. For more information, visit www.par3.com or call 206-902-3900.

Dr. Bhooshan Kelkar is an advisory software engineer at IBM business intelligence group. Kelkar earned his B.Tech. in engineering from IIT, Bombay and M.S. and Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from Scotland. His 10-year career in applied machine learning includes engineering applications and more recently data management. Kelkar can be reached at bkelkar@us.ibm.com.

Gavin Robertson is chief technology officer of WhamTech Inc., a privately held VLDB technology company that develops breakthrough database-related products and technologies designed for enterprise-scale database and search systems. Robertson has almost 30 years of experience in IT and database application development and has developed an economics application, creating a global enterprise database application that now sells commercially. He can be reached at gavin.robertson@whamtech.com.

Steve Vollmer, director of information technology for The Venetian Casino.

Lee T. Capps is vice president of IT Strategy for The Revere Group. Capps has more than twenty-five years of information technology (IT) industry experience, including more than twelve years in IT consulting. Capps joined The Revere Group in February 2000 and currently leads the Leadership Advisory Services Group, specializing in technology strategy and organizational change leadership. Prior to The Revere Group, he was employed with Acxiom Corporation, a major provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. In his role, Capps led a sales and delivery team that developed a pharmaceutical and healthcare-focused business unit for Acxiom. Capps can be reached at lcapps@reveregroup.com or (847) 790-2318.

Tony Priore joined MarketsOnDemand as president in March 2001, bringing with him more than 20 years of successful and innovative business experience. Priore�s career spans a wide range of marketing-oriented businesses from electronic commerce and Internet marketing to direct/database marketing, consumer services and packaged goods marketing. He is co-author of the book, Email Marketing: Using Email to Reach Your Target Audience and Build Customer Relationships. You may contact him at tpriore@marketsondemand.net.

Howard Fosdick is an independent consultant specializing in database and system administration. Fosdick is the president of FCI and the author of five books and more than 150 articles. He is the founder of IOUG, MDUG and CANP. He's both an Oracle-certified DBA and an IBM-certified DB2 DBA. You can reach him at hfosdick@compuserve.com.

David Butler is vice president of Product Strategy for Spotfire, Inc. He can be reached via e-mail at dbutler@spotfire.com.

Aaron Garner, senior vice president of strategic marketing for Sovereign Bank.