Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Jonathan is the CEO of Diyotta, a technology company that provides software for orchestrating and automating the movement and integration of Big Data on Hadoop, MPP and NoSQL platforms. He has over thirty years of experience with Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Integration and Information Management solutions. He has held various executive leadership positions with several leading Business Intelligence companies beginning with BASE Consulting Group (BASE), which he co-founded in 1994. In 2003, BASE merged with Knightsbridge Solutions and Jonathan became a member of the executive management team and board member. In 2006, Knightsbridge Solutions was acquired by Hewlett-Packard to become their Information Management Practice. Jonathan has been a columnist for Information Management magazine, a faculty member of The Data Warehousing Institute and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley Extension and Santa Clara University. He can be reached at jwu@diyotta.com.

Suzanne Eaton is with Mylex Corporation, a company specializing in developing high performance, intelligent hardware and software for moving, storing, protecting and managing data in desktop and networked environments. She can be contacted at suzannee@mylex.com.

Tim Kounadis is vice president of product marketing at Hyperwave Information Management, Inc. (>www.hyperwave.com). He has held numerous positions at leading software companies including Lotus Development and Computer Associates International, Inc. Kounadis can be contacted at tkounadis@hyperwave.com.

Joe Somma, manager of customer acquisition and research at HSBC Bank USA.

Matthew Wyatt, director of decision support technology for CustomerLinx.

Greg Deily, marketing director and member of the executive management team for Dynamic Resource Group.

Dr. Fred Hulting, senior research scientist for the Pillsbury Company.

Frederick C. Howard, Jr., systems analyst for Experian Corporation.

Michael Wiklund, manager of complete goods for John Deere Waterloo Works.

Kevin Smith is senior director of business management and marketing for external products at Mylex, where he has been for the last two years. Prior to Mylex, Smith spent 20 years working for DEC as a product line manager in storage systems, a group engineering manager in database systems and marketing manager in a US telecommunications organization. Smith has spoken at various industry conferences hosted by Gartner and several DEC user group conferences.