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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.

David Gleason is the director of offerings and methods for PLATINUM technology's Information Management Consulting practice. Gleason has over nine years of industry experience and seven years of data warehousing and meta data management experience. Gleason is frequent speaker at data warehouse events and is also a contributor to DATA WAREHOUSE: PRACTICAL ADVICE FROM THE EXPERTS, Prentice-Hall, 1997.

Rob Reinauer is currently chief architect and director of system architecture for Pervasive Software of Austin, Texas. Previously, Rob was chief architect for IBM's PSP Division. He can be contacted at rob.reinauer@pervasive.com.

Peter Hitchcock, computer specialist for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 3.

Barbara C. Gaskin has extensive experience in designing and developing enterprise information systems. She is an expert in DSS/EIS software, assessing business information needs and managing design and implementation issues.

Juan Meza is a senior consultant with Innovative Systems, Inc. During his years at Innovative Systems, he has helped companies from Europe, South America, the Pacific-Rim and North America manage and expand their customer relationships through customer information management solutions.