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Alan M. Missroon, vice president of Marketing for CorVu Corporation, has 12 years of experience in the data warehousing industry. Having gathered a wealth of expertise in this area, he served as an advisory board member of the International Data Warehouse Association. In addition, Missroon has spoken internationally at business and technology conferences and has been published on the subjects of business intelligence, balanced scorecard and business performance management solutions.

Frank J. Koss is a senior systems engineer with EDS. He is a member of the Decision Support Architecture group, which provides a broad range of information services to the healthcare industry including consulting and systems design, development, management and integration. Koss has more than 20 years of experience building software solutions, including 10 years in healthcare and five years specifically in healthcare decision support. His specialities include data modeling, data warehousing, requirements analysis, and application architecture design. He may be reached at frank.koss@eds.com.

Jamie Spriggs is the vice president of Information Technology at RewardsPlus.

Bill Lewis is a principal consultant with Enterprise Warehousing Solutions. Lewis' 20-plus years of information technology experience span the financial services, energy, healthcare, software and consulting industries. In addition to his current specializations in data management, meta data management and business intelligence, he has been a leading-edge practitioner and thought-leader on topics ranging from software development tools to IT architecture. His book, Data Warehousing and E-Commerce, is available at online and brick-and-mortar booksellers. Lewis can be reached at wlewis@ewsolutions.com.

Marcel Bhend is a data warehouse project manager at NCR Germany where he is responsible for the creation and implementation of data warehouse solutions. Major clients for data warehouse solutions have included Metro, SmithKline Beecham and VISA. Bhend has worked for more than 14 years as a systems engineer, consultant and marketing manager with consulting and computer companies. He can be reached at marcel. bhend@germany.ncr.com.

Mike Fine, senior product manager at Informatica Corporation, is responsible for the PowerCenter and PowerConnect product lines. Prior to Informatica, Fine was vice president of engineering at an Internet start-up company and director of engineering at Oracle Corp. for nine years. Informatica is a provider of the leading software platform for deploying business intelligence and analytic applications across the enterprise.

Greg Schottland is president of Advanced Software Technologies Inc., an industry leader based in Littleton, Colorado, providing scalable software design and reengineering solutions which accommodate single users all the way to large development teams. He has managed large scale software development at IBM, Bell Laboratories and Lockheed Martin. Schottland can be reached at greg@advancedsw. com or the Web site, http://www.advancedsw.com/.

Tom Spillane has served as director of marketing for Nestor's Financial Solutions division since November, 1996. Prior to joining Nestor, he was director of marketing communications at Xionics Document Technologies, Inc., an international provider of embedded electronic printing, imaging and PC systems technology. From 1985 until 1994, he held a variety of strategic marketing positions at Phoenix Technologies, Ltd. Spillane has more than 13 years of experience in the high technology industry, with extensive experience in software and systems marketing management and business development. He holds a B.A. in business administration from Salem State College and has completed graduate studies in technical communications at Northeastern University.

Dena Bauckman, director of product and target markets for the Communications Software Group of Sterling Commerce, has marketed electronic commerce and networking software products for 15 years. Bauckman started her career at Hewlett-Packard working on SNA and X.25 communications software products. She later joined Soft Switch, now a division of IBM, that developed electronic mail gateway products using X.400 and SMTP and Texas Instrument, working on their mainframe and UNIX EDI products (now owned by Harbinger. Throughout her career, Bauckman's focus has been on working with customers and prospects to understand the issues of business-to-business electronic communications. Because the Internet can provide businesses and inexpensive, highly accessible vehicles for bringing companies closer to their business partners, Bauckman's focus has been on adopting Internet technologies into the CONNECT product family as a key component for moving and managing information. Bauckman can be reached at dena_bauc kman@stercomm.com.

Joel Hadary is co-founder and chief operating officer of SEMphonic. He has over twenty-five years of experience in information technology including operations, finance, data mining, and application development in industries ranging from finance, aerospace, to telecommunications. At Hughes Aircraft he developed systems that saved Hughes over $300 million in taxes. His primary expertise focuses on using large volumes of information for actionable results. He may be reached at jhadary@semphonic.com.