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David Harberson is a principal consultant in the National Customer Marketing and Management Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. He has more than 12 years of business experience focusing on customer relationship marketing (CRM) solutions and business process reengineering.

David Blundin is the founder of DataSage, Inc. Blundin's early work on neural networks and their behavior in extremely large databases with high dimensionality led him to conclude that traditional neural network solutions quickly broke down in large data environments. This pioneering conclusion would serve as the foundation for his later development of the proprietary CirrusNet pattern recognition algorithm, the first algorithm incorporated in DataSage. Before founding DataSage, Blundin was a founding member of MicroStrategy, one of the leading privately held decision support/OLAP software companies. While at MicroStrategy, he assumed responsibility for project management of several key national accounts. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science from MIT, where he did thesis research at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Richard Barker has served as senior vice president and chief technical officer of VERITAS Software since April of 1997. VERITAS Software Corp is a leading provider of end-to-end storage management software. Previously, Barker was senior vice president of the Consulting and Technical Services division of OpenVision International Limited and senior vice president for Oracle's Methodology and CASE product set. Prior to that he ran the development center for the IDMSX mainframe database product for ICL.

James M. Meyer joined the information industry in 1974 and evolved from a programmer to a project manager to a marketing executive. Meyer joined Universal Systems Inc. (USI) in late 1997 as vice president of product marketing with the mission of driving the growth of USI's product revenue through targeted marketing programs and an integrated communications plan. Prior to joining USI, Meyer spent seven years as a general manager and marketing executive with FileNet and Interleaf. In the first 16 years of his career, Meyer developed skills as a programmer, project manager and customer service manager. He can be reached at (800) 874-2344.

Richard J. Kachur is the author of The Data Warehouse Management Handbook (Prentice Hall, 2000). Kachur is the lead data warehouse architect for TMP Worldwide, a leading provider of Internet, data warehousing and data quality engineering solutions. His diverse 23-year background includes systems methodology consulting,project management, information systems planning, data administration, business process reengineering, customer relationship management, enterprise data modeling, object oriented analysis, data warehousing, data quality management, repository administration and case technology management. His data warehousing background covers government, insurance, oil and gas, retail, telecommunications, transportation and utility corporations. For further information on Kachur's background or available publications, please contact him at richard.kachur@tmp.com.

In 1997 Gary Angel and Joel Hadary founded Data Insight, a data mining company specializing in the analysis of large volumes of transaction data and the development of applications necessary for that analysis. Data Insight customers are in the financial, insurance and public utilities industries.

Evan Shelby has worked in the EIS/DSS/OLAP business for 11 years, ten at Pilot Software, a provider of client/server and Web-based business intelligence solutions. He's served as a pre-sale consultant, a post-sales consultant, managing developer and currently is a marketing product manager.

Ron Baer is a technical publications manager at Syncsort, Inc. He has over 20 years of experience developing technical documents in the aerospace and software industries and teaching college-level writing. Baer currently manages documentation for Syncsort products running on mainframe systems, UNIX and Windows NT.

Don Leick is product manager for Carleton, a leading provider of data integration solutions for rapidly deploying customer-centric data warehouses, managed data marts and customer relationship management applications. Don has over seven years of experience in delivering software solutions for customer data quality. He can be reached at (612) 238-4052 or by e-mail at don.leick@car leton.com.

Jay Clark is vice president for Global Services at Syntel, Inc., a leading applications management firm with more than 2,400 employees in offices located in North America, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Syntel, Clark spent more than 10 years with EDS. Mr. Clark can be reached at: jay_clark@syntelinc.com or to find out more information about Syntel, visit: www.syntelinc.com.