Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Nancy Fictum, senior systems analyst at Wisconsin Public Service Corporation.

Robert Paluch, president for Paluch & Associates.

Dariush Salehi, senior IT engineer for the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

Cedric Faulkner, business systems manager for Barr Systems, Inc.

Jerry Griswold, sales information systems manager for McKee Foods Corporation.

Dale Prillaman, enterprise analytical systems manager for First Union National Bank.

Gary Williamson, manager of operations control for WestLB.

Ben Hume, president of Alco Ventures.

Brian Reed is the vice president of product management at MERANT, overseeing the development and marketing efforts for MERANT's leading standards-based data access and integration technologies. He has been involved with information, databases and connectivity standards such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO and XML and brings more than ten years of experience in standards-based data access and integration.

Jason Bloomberg is an e-business technology manager and industry analyst with a diverse background in the business and technology of e-business. He has been a senior analyst in IDC's eBusiness Advisory group, as well as serving in e-business management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and other firms. As chief business architect for the e-business incubator eHatchery, he formalized its business incubation methodology. Bloomberg is a widely published business and technical writer, whose articles have appeared in EC Technology News, Intranet Journal, Datamation, The Rational Edge, DM Review Interactive and ZDNet: Developer. He also coauthored the book Web Page Scripting Techniques (Hayden Books, 1996). He can be reached at wizard@rhodes.com.