As Editor-in-Chief Jim Ericson is responsible for developing and executing all aspects of editorial content for DM Review and for ensuring that the magazine maintains its positioning as the undisputed market leader in the business intelligence arena. He is also Editorial Director at Business Intelligence Review. Mr. Ericson has a proven track record in building excellent teams and strong editorial products.

Most recently, he was editorial director and senior news editor at Line56 Media, a multimedia publishing company serving consumers of e-business technology in the public and private sectors. Before joining Line56 Media, Mr. Ericson worked as a managing editor at MSNBC and was a senior morning news producer for the NBC radio network. His mainstream news background enables him to speak with technology consumers and to address the issues of relevance for the end-user readership. Mr. Ericson has written extensively on a variety of topics on e-business, including application integration, portals and content management, and Web services. His stories have been widely reviewed and excerpted in corporate and consulting publications, and academic sites.

Mr. Allburn is president and CEO of DataDelta, an analysis tool for comparing, transitioning and optimizing "Single Customer View" record matching systems from Data Quality and Customer Data Integration (CDI) vendors. An 18-year veteran of database marketing, data quality and CDI, Mr. Allburn has worked in senior Experian and strategic management positions for industry leaders such as Customer Insight Company/Metromail, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Firstlogic, Group 1 Software and others. During his career Mr. Allburn has been responsible for over 200 successful CDI projects in banking, telecom, catalog and other industries. Ed Allburn is an international speaker contributor to DM Review and other publications.

Ms. Alipanahi is a senior business information system professional with over 15 years of full life-cycle systems development and large-scale systems integration experience with extensive experience interacting with and reporting to C- and executive-level management. She specializes in customer information management, program and project management, business intelligence, data warehouse architecture, identity and access management solution architecture, and project technical leadership. Ms. Alipanahi’s recent engagements include leading a global customer data integration initiative at a major financial services firm.

Christine has over 15 years experience with CRM, 12 years working on the Siebel Application and the remaining on Clarify. She has been with Palm, Inc. for over 7 years where she is responsible for all aspects and user touch points of Palm's Siebel system and a critical part of two CRM implementations at Palm.. Prior to her employment with Palm, Christine spent 3 years consulting which lent her additional implementation experience.

James Andrews is the Practice Leader for MDM at Wipro Technologies focusing on Enterprise Verticals. At Wipro, Mr. Andrews works with clients to define their MDM strategy and manages the development of MDM solutions and frameworks. He has over 15 years of experience in data management and business intelligence in a variety of roles such as end-user IT management, product engineering, and consulting. Mr. Andrews has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mangalore, India.

Christopher Blotto is the CDI Solutions Partner at BusinessEdge Solutions Inc. Mr. Blotto works with many Fortune 1000 clients to understand their challenges, define their information management strategy, and to implement customer centric processes, methodologies, and technology solutions that enable enterprise wide insight and alignment. Over the past 13 years, Mr. Blotto has worked with global organizations across various industries focusing on complex data integration programs. His diverse industry exposure and knowledge, coupled with his global experience, is often requested to define and implement creative solutions for the most challenging client-focused programs.

Jane Booth is responsible for developing and implementing a customer data integration strategy and solution that enables corporate wide view of Honeywell’s customer relationships. An employee of Honeywell since 1995, Jane progressed through the IT organization assuming management roles for various ERP/MRP application support teams including SAP implementation. Prior to joining Honeywell, Jane spent 14 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. A graduate of West Virginia University, Jane holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University.

Jay Bourland was named Vice President and General Manager, Customer Data Quality and Data Integration Division for Pitney Bowes’ Group 1 Software in January 2007. In this role, he is responsible for the product development, product management, marketing, and strategic direction of Group 1 Software’s customer data quality and data integration solutions. Prior to this, from 2002 to 2007, Mr. Bourland was in charge of technology for Group 1 Software’s Business Geographics Division, where he worked to improve the product line and shape its future.

Nate Boyd joined Purisma as one of its first engineers. Initially responsible for database architecture and then the technical lead for initial customer deployments, he has held the position of Director, Product Management for the past two years. Mr. Boyd has spent the last decade in the high technology sector, focusing on enterprise software for over seven years. Prior to joining Purisma, he was Director of Program Management and Data Architect at Xtime Inc., which provides auto dealership resource scheduling and optimization technology. He helped Xtime define the fundamental scheduling algorithms and user interface that led to their success penetrating the automotive marketplace. Mr. Boyd holds a patent for an innovative approach to efficiently send Internet traffic over satellite networks, an idea developed while working as a network engineer and later Manager of Technology Strategy for Teledesic Corp. He graduated from MIT with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and and a Masters of Engineering in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Bill Brumlow has worked in the information technology field for more than 18 years. In his current role of Senior Enterprise Information Architect, he works extensively with the business to ensure high quality enterprise-driven information assets that align with business goals and direction. Prior to working for SUPERVALU, Bill was the CEO of AJL Consulting, whose distinguished clients included American Airlines, Sprint, TXU, and the Dallas Central Appraisal District. He is also currently serving as an instructor for ESI International and is a graduate of Baylor University.

Donna Burbank brings more than 12 years of experience in the areas of data management, metadata management, and enterprise architecture to her current role at Embarcadero where she oversees the strategic direction of Embarcadero’s architecture and modeling solutions. Prior to joining Embarcadero, Donna served in key brand strategy and product management roles at Computer Associates and as a senior consultant for Platinum Technology’s information management consulting division. She has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the USA, Europe, Asia, and Africa and speaks regularly at industry conferences on the topic of metadata, data management, and enterprise architecture.

Suresh Chandrasekaran is vice president of product management and marketing at Denodo Technologies, an innovative provider of Enterprise Data Mashups that combine data integration, web extraction and search in a single platform. Mr. Chandrasekaran brings over 17 years of experience in strategy consulting and enterprise software products and marketing on a worldwide basis. Prior to Denodo, he was the vice president of worldwide marketing at Vitria Technology where he managed all aspects of marketing Vitria's award-winning BusinessWare BPM and Integration suite and pre-built vertical solutions called Business Process Applications. He has also held management positions at Epicentric (now Vignette), AltaVista, and Compaq, and was a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton for 5 years. Mr. Chandrasekaran is a Chartered Accountant and has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Michigan.

Ramon Chen has been working in product development, marketing and management of enterprise software for over 19 years. In his current role at Siperian, he oversees the company's product management function. Prior to joining Siperian in 2005, Mr. Chen was the Senior Director of Product Marketing for GoldenGate Software. Previous positions include VP of Worldwide Product Management and Marketing for MetaTV, (now Comcast), Director of Product Management and Marketing at Evolve Software (now Primavera Systems), and positions at Sterling Software (now Computer Associates). He has in-depth experience designing, launching and marketing high technology products domestically and in international markets. Mr. Chen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Essex University in the United Kingdom.

Malcolm Chisholm has over 25 years of experience in data management in manufacturing, finance, and government. During this time, Dr. Chisholm has sought to reconcile conceptual understanding with the delivery of implemented solutions for clients. In particular, he has focused on metadata engineering to build a variety of applications. These include repositories, reference and master data management systems, and business rules engines. Dr. Chisholm has written numerous articles and has spoken at many venues. He has authored two of the seminal books on MDM: “Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases” (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000) and “How to Build a Business Rules Engine” (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003). Dr. Chisholm received his MA degree from Oxford University, England and his Ph.D. from Bristol University, England.

In his current role at Initiate Systems, Mr. Clements is responsible for defining product strategy, vision and roadmap and communicating this to customers and the industry at large. Prior to joining Initiate Systems in 2006, Mr. Clements was Director of Strategic Marketing at webMethods and Director of Product Marketing for SeeBeyond where he was responsible for their go-to-market strategy. Before working in the enterprise software industry, Mr. Clements served as a systems engineer and defense contractor on several Department of Defense Advanced Concept and Technology Demonstration projects. Mr. Clements holds an MBA from Virginia Tech University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University.

David Codelli is Director of Segment Marketing at Sun Microsystems. He holds a bachelor's degree in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech. A 15 year veteran of business integration, David integrated systems and applications in healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing before becoming product manager of the flagship eGate Integrator product from SeeBeyond Technologies Corporation, which was later acquired by Sun Microsystems.

Roger Cottle is Director, Windows Live Platform Business Solutions at Microsoft. In this role, he guides the development of sales, marketing and services platforms for Microsoft’s On-line Services Group. Mr. Cottle has 15 years experience in working with customer data solutions. Over the past 9 years he has managed the development of various sales and partnering platforms at Microsoft and is currently leading the development of an integrated platform to coordinate activities associated with Microsoft’s growing ad platform.

Angie Couron currently manages the Customer Data Integration Group at Network Appliance. Formerly, she headed up NetApp’s Enterprise Data Stewardship Group. As manager of CDI, Ms. Couron drives initiatives around data management, customer master and data quality architecture, testing and training. Previously, she was an integral member of the design and integration team that implemented NetApp’s “Enterprise-Wide Customer Master” an operational, real-time master using Oracle Customers Online (OCO). The successful 4-year old “Customer Master Program” at NetApp integrates three individual source applications and ultimately feeds downstream business intelligence reporting from the data warehouse. Ms. Couron has over 20 years experience in data management, including four years in Database Marketing.

Kanon Cozad has nearly two decades of information technology experience in both the consulting and corporate world. He has served in a number of diverse roles during his career, from Technical Writer to Programmer to Database Administrator to Project Manager to Teacher to Vice President of Research & Development. Currently, Mr. Cozad serves as Senior Vice President of Application Development at UMB Bank, where he is responsible for all software application development and implementation. He also is responsible for UMB Bank’s overall technical architecture strategy, and oversees the bank’s information integration activities. Additionally, Mr. Cozad is responsible for UMB WebSolutions, a professional services consulting company that offers web design and electronic transaction enablement services to UMB’s commercial client base. He has spoken and written on a number of information technology subjects, including data quality, information integration, electronic payment services, and future trends in application development. Mr. Cozad received his Bachelor of Arts in English from William Jewell College.

Pete Daffern holds the position of chief executive officer of Purisma and directs the company's strategy and operations, with focus on growth through valuable solutions, customer service, multi-functional sales and business development initiatives. Prior to Purisma, he was most recently president and chief operating officer of AIM Technology where he was responsible for creating the company strategy and business plan, and driving execution against that plan. Before AIM, Mr. Daffern served as vice president, worldwide alliances and business development of Vitria Technology, a leading BPM and EAI company. Under his direction, the Vitria Alliance organization generated more than 60% of the company's revenue. He also spent more than 10 years at Seagate Software, supplier of business intelligence (BI) software products, where he held numerous management and sales positions including general manager EMEA. Mr. Daffern holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Sheffield University

David Danziger is a Data Solutions Leader at Acxiom Corporation, a leading provider of customer data integration (CDI), data content, and information management solutions for the Fortune 1000. He is currently responsible for developing new channel relationships to expand distribution for Acxiom's products and services. Danziger has over ten years of experience in areas associated with optimizing data to drive business benefits. He previously led an innovation unit focused on developing disruptive data product offerings and served as a data consultant for Acxiom's clients. A dynamic presenter and public speaker, Danziger is an expert in consumer demographic data and its use in acquisition, cross-sell/upsell, and retention marketing efforts as well as its use in broader customer relationship management (CRM) applications. Danziger holds MBA in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Political Science from The University of Michigan.

Peter Deering is a Vice President of Corporate Systems for State Street and is currently the IT Director responsible for the technology implementation of Basel II. This includes the development of applications supporting credit, operational, and market risk, and the modeling and calculation of regulatory and economic capital. He also has responsibility for all corporate regulatory and compliance systems.

Prior to joining Corporate Systems, Peter led a technology team in the Wealth Manager Services area that supported data needs of outsourced investment managers supporting managed accounts and high net worth clients. During his 20 years at State Street, Peter has managed a number of application development teams that supported a variety of business areas. His teams have designed, developed, and implemented large-scale accounting and custody applications that supported institutional clients and investment managers. He has also supported Corporate Finance in leading the technology team the selected and implemented a new general ledger and management reporting capabilities for State Street. Peter has also led efforts that have resulted in the development of key architectural components in use at State Street, particularly in the area of messaging and open system technologies.

Dean Drougas joined Hyperion as chief information officer in March 2005. His organization is responsible for all IT services within Hyperion. During his tenure, Hyperion has made significant progress in moving to a best-in-class IT organization. It has embarked on a 2 year effort to redefine and implement a world-class infrastructure in support of a fast growing business. Prior to joining Hyperion, Mr. Drougas was CIO at SGI. During his tenure at SGI, the company implemented a worldwide ERP solution in a seven month process. He led the reorganization of the IT function to a more centralized, streamlined organization resulting in a more responsive and effective team. Prior to joining SGI, Mr. Drougas held various IT leadership and management positions within Conner Peripherals, DuPont, Cullinet Software, and GTE. Over the span of his IT career, he has managed all major IT disciplines including applications development, applications support, desktop computing, data centers, networks and telecommunications. Mr. Drougas earned a BA from Albion College, where he majored in Computational Mathematics. He also holds a MS from Northeastern University, School of Engineering.

As Senior Vice President for Alliance, Martin is charged with growing and managing Alliance’s Information Management practice, encompassing its Business Intelligence and Master Data Management solutions areas.

Before joining Alliance, Martin was the co-founder and CEO of Delos Technology, a leader and pioneer in Information Reliability software and services. He brings nearly 20 years of data warehousing and repository experience to Alliance. Prior to co-founding Delos, he spearheaded the creation of a distribution business for Platinum Technology and Information Builders in South Africa. In this role, Martin helped to establish Platinum as the leading software supplier in South Africa. He has worked with and for a number of major integration vendors, and shared his expertise with FT100 companies in North America, Europe and South Africa.

Donald Farmer has worked in the Microsoft Business Intelligence team for 5 years. Prior to that, his "career" in Scotland included business intelligence tools development, business software consultancy, medieval archaeology, fish farming, and hydrology. Mr. Farmer is the author of the upcoming book titled "Delivering Data Quality with SQL Server 2005" to be published by Mann Publishing Group.

Tony Fisher joined DataFlux as president and general manager in 2000. In his years at DataFlux, he has guided the company through tremendous growth as DataFlux became a market-leading provider of data quality and data integration solutions. Mr. Fisher is also a featured speaker and author about emerging trends in data quality, data integration and corporate compliance efforts. Prior to DataFlux, he was the director of data warehouse technology at SAS. Mr. Fisher was a key technology leader at SAS, providing the engineering research and development direction that helped make SAS the market leader in business intelligence software. He is a native of North Carolina and earned a degree in computer science and mathematics from Duke University.

John Gairhan is Product Marketing Manager for IBM WebSphere Customer Center (IBM WCC) and owns the WCC product strategy for Financial Services. Mr. Gairhan came to IBM through the IBM acquisition of DWL, where John was the Director of Strategy for the DWL Customer Product. Prior to DWL, he spent 5 years at Acxiom Corporation and was responsible for company-wide recognition strategy related to Acxiom solutions, alliance partners and worked with numerous Acxiom Fortune 100 customers in implementing real-time marketing and recognition solutions. Mr. Gairhan also spent 9 years working in software development for Alltel Information Services/Systematics. Before that, he spent several years working as a software engineer in the defense industry after completing his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

For nearly 20 years, he has worked with Fortune 100 companies to understand, design, and operationalize enterprise-scale projects and programs incorporating Data Governance. The practice led by Mr. Gow blends thought leadership with real life implementations including data warehousing, strategic planning, business intelligence, change management, and CRM, among other elements, to deploy world-class environments for IBM clients.

Jim joined Composite Software in April 2003 bringing more than 20 years of enterprise computing leadership. Prior to Composite Jim served as webMethods' CTO and executive vice president of product development. He currently serves as a member of webMethods' Board of Directors. Jim joined webMethods when his company, Active Software, was acquired in 2000. As CEO of Active Software, he grew the company from a start-up to an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software. Before that, during a seven year tenure at Sun Microsystems, he led the development of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification, the industry standard for distributed objects. In previous companies, he achieved several industry firsts by developing networking and distributed computing products. Jim holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and an MS in Computer Science.

Sunil Gupta has been working in the Enterprise Software Applications area for the past 16 years. He represents the Product and Technology Group at SAP with a specific focus on SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM), a key solution within SAP NetWeaver and is based in New York City, New York.  Mr. Gupta joined SAP in 2001 after spending several years working with several start ups such as Blue Martini Software and Moai Technologies in various product marketing and business development roles. Previously, he spent 3 years in product marketing and pre-sales positions at Siebel Systems.  Prior to joining Siebel, Mr. Gupta held a number of product development  and technical support positions with IBM and Walldata and also spent 2 years as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa teaching as well as advising various Government institutions on Internet strategy and deployment.

Mr. Hagenau's 20 year career in the software business includes positions as a key player in multiple successful start-ups as well as well-known public companies. Currently he is responsible for the definition of Purisma's product strategy, positioning of solutions and corporate development activities. Prior to founding Purisma, Bob was a founding member of Acta Technology, a leader in data integration and data warehousing solutions, which was acquired by Business Objects in August of 2002 for $65 million. Mr. Hagenau served as Acta's Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing, leading the creation of two successful product lines and 16 core products in a highly competitive, rapidly changing market. He has also held several senior product management and software engineering positions at Advent Software, Apple Computer and IBM. Mr. Hagenau has an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science with highest honors from the University of California, Davis.

Naeem Hashmi is founder and chief research officer of Information Frameworks, Mr. Hashmi is a renowned thought leader, author, speaker, and expert on emerging Information Technologies with 25+ years of experience in enterprise architectures, distributed service-oriented business applications design, ERP application integration, data warehousing; data mining and visualizing new products. His current research work includes social networks, psyche mining and intelligent distributed enterprise architectures. Mr. Hashmi is also a founding member of the Center for Knowledge Engineering. He also advises vendors on innovative technologies/product roadmaps as well as Fortune 500 companies and government agencies for defining information architectures and technology assessments. Mr. Hashmi has authored four books and over 150 publications in leading IT journals. His two new books are “Analytics Design Strategies” and “Governance Aspect of Enterprise Architectures”. Mr. Hashmi holds an MS in Experimental Nuclear Physics in addition to an MS in Radiological Health and Environmental Sciences specializing in Nuclear Analytical techniques, modeling, simulation and high performance computing.

Mr. Johnston started his lab career in 1988 with National Health Laboratories and during his 12 year tenure with LabCorp, he served in a variety of field and corporate roles including his last position as Vice President of National Managed Care and Hospital Alliances where he guided LabCorp’s connectivity strategy and sat on LabCorp’s strategic planning committee. In 2000, Mr. Johnston started LabPortal.com and served as President and CEO until the company was acquired by Quest Diagnostics in April 2002. Mark then served as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for MedPlus, the wholly owned technology subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics, where he helped to build and deploy the Care 360 product. After leaving MedPlus, Mr. Johnston served as Vice President of Sales for Physician Micro Systems, a Seattle based EMR and Practice Management System software Development Company, until recently when he moved to the Spokane area and joined PAML in August of 2005. At PAML, Mark is responsible for IT operations, strategy and execution across PAML and all of her Joint Ventures. Mr. Johnston was a practicing CPA for Deloitte and Touche prior to entering the laboratory industry and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Accounting.

Jolene Jonas currently fills two roles; one as the SAP Master Data architect responsible for integration of master data across the full SAP landscape, and one as SAP NetWeaver MDM product owner acting as Intel's first point of contact back to SAP. Ms. Jonas manages Intel's product enhancement requests to ensure the SAP NW MDM product capabilities align with Intel's Master Data program roadmap.

Rahul Kamath leads the product management team responsible for Oracle’s portfolio of customer data management products including Oracle Customer Data Hub. As an early member of the Oracle CDI team, he has been instrumental in shaping Oracle’s product strategy and vision for CDI and MDM. Prior to Oracle, he worked in management consulting at Integral, Inc., where he helped Fortune 500 companies design and execute innovation management, technology and business strategies. Mr. Kamath holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in business administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Rob is a principal analyst whose current research focus includes data architecture, master data management, metadata management, ETL, and EII. Rob has more than 14 years of data management experience working in both business and IT roles to develop solutions that provide better quality, confidence in, and usability of critical enterprise data. Prior to joining Forrester, he managed Intuit's enterprise data quality initiatives and supported the implementation of Intuit's customer master reference system. Prior to Intuit, Rob managed the design and development of customer master and attribute management solutions for Cisco Systems. Earlier, Rob was research manager for the Global Mergers & Acquisitions product group at Thomson Financial Securities Data (now Thomson Financial Investment Banking). Rob holds a B.S. in finance from Ithaca College.

Judy Ko is senior director of enterprise marketing at Informatica, and leads Informatica’s data governance solution initiative. She is also responsible for the company’s strategy and marketing initiatives for enterprise data integration, including integration competency centers and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Prior to joining Informatica, Ms. Ko was director of solutions marketing at BEA Systems, focusing on the financial services sector. Ms. Ko also spent time at Calico Commerce, and at Mercer Management Consulting. Ms. Ko holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and management systems from Princeton University and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

Rajesh Krishnaswamy is the Practice Leader for MDM at Wipro Technologies focusing on Financial Services and Telecom Industry. As a practice leader, he is responsible for creating and developing CDI-based industry solutions. Mr. Krishnaswamy has 10 years of IT experience in consulting, architecting and delivering business intelligence and data warehouse solutions including a marquee CDI implementation at Prudential Plc. He holds a Bachelors Degree from the University of Bangalore, India.

Satish Krishnaswamy is currently responsible for worldwide master data management (MDM) solutions marketing and strategy for Teradata, a division of NCR.  He joined Teradata from i2 Technologies where, since mid 2004, he was responsible for the sales and marketing of the MDM solutions on a global basis. From 2000 through 2004 he held a variety of leadership roles in sales and marketing of i2’s solutions, with a primary focus on the global manufacturing sector.

Prior to i2, Krishnaswamy was the Principal Consultant at PTC Technologies, where he focused on driving the product lifecycle management solutions business. He started his career at Ford Motor Company, where he worked in the Product Development groups both in advanced engineering functions as well as on vehicle programs. Krishnaswamy earned a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from MNIT in Jaipur, India. He also has an MBA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio University.

Pascal Laik is the Vice President of Oracle Master Data Management (MDM) Product Strategy. His group’s responsibilities include the definition and execution of Oracle development and acquisition investments in the Master Data Management area as well as supporting Oracle MDM sales, marketing and professional services effort. Prior to that position Pascal led the Customer Data Integration (CDI) Oracle/Siebel practice in EMEA. This responsibility included sales and delivery of CDI based solutions and projects. Prior to that position, Pascal was Product Line Manager in the CDI product at Siebel within the Product Marketing organization. In that respect Pascal was in charge of the product direction, development and marketing of the CDI Business Integration Applications across horizontal and vertical Siebel product lines. Prior to this position, Pascal was the product manager for the Siebel Customer Order Management product line.

Deb Largen is the Program Manager for the Customer Information System initiative at SunTrust. Mrs. Largen has more than 12 years of consulting and industry experience in project management and systems implementation. For the last seven years, Mrs. Largen has been focused on implementing CRM/CDI type solutions in a number of different industries. In addition, she is a certified PMP and Six Sigma Greenbelt.

Gafar Lawal is the Chief Architect of the Global Private Client Technology at Merrill Lynch. Since 1997, Gafar has been responsible for the specification and development of next generation application platform, which was the basis for the largest Wealth Management Technology rollout to date in the Financial Industry. He created an SOA Framework based on .NET as a platform. Overall, Gafar has more than 22 years of experience in the following areas: Enterprise & Infrastructure Architecture, Enterprise Frameworks, Technology Roadmaps, High Performance Computing Technologies and New Product Development.

Scott Lee has worked as a consultant for global businesses for over a decade to solve increasingly complex data integration problems. Mr. Lee is currently Chief Architect of the Corporate Master Data Management Program and is responsible for customer, job, and vendor entities. Previously, his role at R.R. Donnelley was Senior Solutions Architect and Strategist for five years. As a consultant, Mr. Lee has solved increasingly complex data integration problems for worldwide clients. He is a contributor to professional publications such as BI Review ("In the Trenches" to be published February 2007) and the co-author of "Understanding e-Business Application Integration" (M.C. Press, 2002). Most recently, Mr. Lee has led MDM discussion forums such as the Yahoo community forum on MDM. H

Evan Levy is a partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting (www.baseline-consulting.com), a technology and management consulting firm specializing in business analytics and data integration. In addition to his executive management responsibilities at Baseline, Mr. Levy is actively involved in managing project delivery teams and guiding client solutions. He advises vendors and VC firms on new and emerging product strategies. Considered an industry leader on the topic of data integration and management, Mr. Levy is a faculty member of The Data Warehousing Institute and a contributor to DM Review’s “Ask the Experts” feature. He is also co-author of the book, “Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth” (John Wiley and Sons, 2006).

Chris Lucas is recognized as a subject matter expert in the areas of CRM and Customer Information Management with specific expertise in data quality, data integration and data enrichment. Mr. Lucas’ expertise is based on more than 19 years of business-to business information and technology experience. At D&B, he is currently Vice President, Customer Data Integration Solutions, for D&B’s Sales & Marketing Solutions. In this role Mr. Lucas is responsible for product management and pre-sales technical consulting for D&B’s data integration solutions. He has been with D&B for 9 years and prior to his current role was AVP – Consulting Services, managing a team of 25 technical pre-sales consultants. Before joining D&B, he held various management positions for 10 years at InfoUSA. Over the last decade, Mr. Lucas has led engagements with many Fortune 500 companies, helping them improve their customer information for the purposes of creating and maximizing customer relationships and revenue opportunities.

Mr. Lyons has 15 years experience in customer operations, business intelligence, and real-time customer data integration (CDI) and acts as a subject matter expert in customer-centric data architecture and strategies. Prior to joining Infosys Consulting, Mr. Lyons led the open systems BI practice of Inforte as well as leading several key accounts within the Managed Analytics competency. The Managed Analytics competency acted as the “data” agency of record for clients such as America Online and Estee Lauder and was responsible calculation and monitoring of customer metrics as well as the design, execution, and measurement of marketing campaigns on an ongoing basis. In addition, Mr. Lyons has been a frequent speaker at numerous national and regional marketing conferences including DMA conventions, NCDM, and DMDays in New York.

Aaron Mahimainathan is Product Strategist for NetWeaver Master Data Management at SAP. His team's responsibilities include product strategy, definition, and management of the MDM product based out of Palo Alto. He has over 12 years of experience in Technology consulting, product marketing and strategy. Prior to Joining SAP, Mr. Mahimainathan led the Data Quality product line at Siebel Systems as part of their Customer Data Integration (CDI) solution. He was one of the founding Product Manager’s of the Siebel UCM product. Prior to Siebel, he held senior consulting management positions at Oracle where he led several implementation projects for Oracle’s ERP and CRM solutions with focus on the Telecommunication industry. Mr. Mahimainathan holds a MBA from University of California, Berkeley and a MS in Engineering from State University of New York, Syracuse.

Mr. Manda is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience in implementing Enterprise solutions using Oracle, PeopleSoft, etc. As a founder of Rhapsody Technologies, he is a seasoned implementer of CDI solutions. Mr. Manda regularly lectures on CDI implementations, Oracle’s Trading Community Architecture, and related topics, etc. Mr. Manda is also the chairman of the Oracle SIG for Oracle Customer Data Hub.

Chris Maughan has spent the last 13 years leading software development teams, with a focus on financial applications. For the last nine years, Mr. Maughan has been focused exclusively on maturing SunTrust’s customer information systems. At SunTrust, Chris has served in leadership roles for several large-scale CDI projects, including multiple bank mergers, USA PATRIOT Act compliance, and most recently, implementation of IBM’s WebSphere Customer Center. After graduating from Duke University with a B.A. in Economics, Mr. Maughan began his software consulting career with three years at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he specialized in Telecom and Transportation industries.

William McKnight is a renowned expert in information management. Mr. McKnight has architected and directed the development of several of the largest and most successful enterprise data warehouse programs in the world. Five clients in the past year have gone public with their success case study where he was advisor or architect of the solution. Mr. McKnight is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a best practices judge, widely quoted, master's level instructor and has authored more than 100 articles/white papers and given over 100 seminars. In 2005, CSI acquired McKnight Associates, Inc., which placed #306 in the Inc. 500. William is a former Fortune 100 IT VP of a recognized Best Practices Information Management Program, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.

In his current role, Mr. Menon handles product strategy and management for Identity Systems' solutions for identity resolution across computer systems and network databases. Mr. Menon started with Identity Systems more than 9 years ago in sales and product support, advising Identity Systems' customers on optimum use of the algorithms and rule bases that underlie the company's proprietary identity search software products. He later moved on to projects that helped shape the development of the software into an enterprise-class identity search solution. Mr. Menon has worked directly with many clients to solve identity data issues including: GE Capital, Gartner, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, TransUnion, and Sprint.

Nimish Mehta is Senior Vice President, Enterprise Information Management at SAP. Mr. Mehta’s responsibilities include the development and management of Business Intelligence, Master Data, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Search and Collaboration product lines. He is a seasoned technology executive with more than 25 years of experience in managing global software businesses. Prior to SAP, he was Group Vice President, Customer Data Integration (CDI), at Siebel Systems where he led the company to a dominant position in the Customer Data Management market. Prior to joining Siebel Systems, Mr. Mehta was President and CEO of Stratify, Inc., a leader in unstructured data management. Mr. Mehta also worked at Oracle Corporation for 11 years. As Senior Vice President, Industry Applications, he reported directly to Larry Ellison, CEO. He was a member of Oracle’s management committee and helped drive overall corporate strategy, including acquisitions and new initiatives. Mr. Mehta holds a Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Martin “Marty” Moseley plays an integral role in Initiate Systems’ strategic technology direction, development and future product evolution, and is a key evangelist on behalf of the company. Mr. Moseley joined Initiate from Intuit where, as chief architect, he implemented Initiate Identity Hub™ software to provide a single view of all Intuit customer information and transactions. Mr. Moseley is a 23 year IT industry veteran with extensive systems architecture experience. He has held senior level positions as co-founder and CTO at several start-up companies where he was responsible for defining technology design, vision and direction. He also worked for a number of years as a senior information systems architecture consultant where he gained valuable insight into the data integration and management markets and designed and built more than 20 different data warehousing systems. Earlier in his career, Mr. Moseley spent three years at Apple Computer, where he was responsible for managing enterprise architecture and participated in the VITAL Architecture development, and four years at Booz Allen Hamilton in the defense sector practice. Mr. Moseley has engineered IT architectures for giants like Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, GE Capital, IBM, Nestlé Foods, Sun Microsystems, Stanford University and Syntex/Roche.

Larry Parks works as a Technical Manager with Oracle Consulting where he is part of the Customer Data Integration practice. As such, Mr. Parks has the distinction of being one of the few IT professionals who has completed multiple CDI initiatives.

Jim Plas joined Acxiom in April of 2006 as Group Leader for CDI Products & Services. Jim brings with him many years of experience as a services marketing and sales executive with a track record of developing and executing successful product strategies, optimizing existing portfolios and driving growth through utilization and enhancement of existing channels. He has proven results in managing a global portfolio, developing and driving alliance relationship and delivering world class service to Fortune 100 customers.

David Plotkin is the Manager of Data Quality at Wells Fargo Consumer Credit Group. He manages a group of people charged with establishing metadata methodology, defining and enforcing data quality, defining and managing master and reference data, providing subject matter expertise to projects, and building a corporate-wide set of rules around these topics. Mr. Plotkin has been instrumental in setting up data governance, and has been involved in metadata, data modeling, stewardship, and data quality for more than 20 years. He is a frequent speaker at Metadata Europe, DAMA/Metadata, local DAMA chapters, data quality vendor conferences, IAIDQ (Data Quality) conference, and more.

As Sr. Program Manager, Stephane Poulin is responsible for defining and deploying a customer data integration strategy and solution that enables a corporate wide single view of Motorola’s customers. An employee of Motorola since 1990, Mr. Poulin has worked in various management roles within Business Operations, Business Planning, Financial Analysis, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Information Management and Master Data Management. Some of his recent accomplishments include: Enterprise Customer Master operational platform, Enterprise data warehouse for Mobile Devices Business and Finance Business Performance Analytics.

Dan Power is a member of D&B’s Global Alliance team and co-manages D&B’s strategic relationship with Oracle Corporation. He has more than 18 years of experience in enterprise technology at Deloitte, CSC and Parson Consulting. He has worked with Oracle’s ERP & CRM suites for 10+ years and regularly advises companies on developing and implementing data quality strategies that leverage D&B’s DUNSRight™ process

Neil Raden is the founder of Hired Brains, Inc., a research, advisory and consulting firm specializing in Business Intelligence, Decision Automation, Data Mining, Semantic Technology, Information Integration and Real-Time Analytics. Hired Brains has been active since 1985 across North America and Europe. Mr. Raden is a consultant, author, speaker and industry thought leader. In the past he's been a mathematician, an actuary, a software developer, a management consultant, and a founder of a systems integration company specialized in DSS/Data Warehousing/BI. He is a widely published writer, well-known speaker and consultant. He has personally designed dozens of data warehouses, implemented dozens of large analytical applications in finance, marketing, distribution, logistics, actuarial, scientific, statistical, consumer products and more. His white papers and seminars for SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Teradata, Business Objects, Microstrategy as well as many start-up technology firms are widely circulated and influential. Mr. Raden was a founding partner of the Business Intelligence Alliance, a contributor to one of the first books about data warehousing, "Planning and Designing the Data Warehouse," Prentice Hall, 1996, and co-author of the forthcoming (June 2007) “Smart (Enough) Systems.” His articles appear in Intelligent Enterprise, DM Review, TDWI Flashpoint, Optimize, Darwin, Forbes, BI Review, Information Week and many others, with a recurrent theme of the transformative possibilities of Information Technology.

Robert Roth is the Director of the Intuit Shared Development and Services team responsible for Integration and SOA architecture technologies, including the corporate Enterprise Services Bus architecture. This platform is highly leveraged across Intuit to provide the backbone for how Intuit interacts internally and with customers. Prior to Intuit, Mr. Roth has extensive experience in the enterprise architecture arena, including extensive experience in the travel industry, consulting and large scale B2B solution implementation.

Robert S. Seiner is the President and Principal of KIK Consulting/TDAN.com, a consultancy focused on designing and implementing best practices in the areas of Data Governance & Data Stewardship, Meta-Data Management, Data Management Programs and Data Architecture. KIK, standing for “knowledge is king”, provides consulting and mentoring services as well as private and public seminars in these data management disciplines. Mr. Seiner is also the Publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). Over the years, TDAN.com has won several prestigious awards and has become recognized as a “Go-To” place for data managers. TDAN.com is preparing to celebrate its 10th Anniversary in July of 2007 and presently attracts 200,000 visitors every quarter.

Len Silverston is the author of The Data Model Resource Book, rated #12 on the Computer Literacy Best Seller List, which describes how flexible, adaptive generic and industry-specific data models increase quality and facilitate data integration and is a frequent contributor to Data Management Review.

Haidong Song is currently responsible for the overall data management strategy within Oracle's MDM portfolio, as well as working with key partners to deliver joint solutions. Mr. Song comes to Oracle from the Siebel acquisition, where as a product manager of Siebel's CDI application, he played an instrumental role in helping Siebel achieve a marketing leading position. Prior to joining product management, Mr. Song was an engagement manager in Siebel Global Services and several boutique consulting firms working with Global 1000 companies such as HP, IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens, RaboBank, etc. to implement enterprise applications. Prior to that, he was assistant professor of Information Systems at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Mr. Song holds a PhD in Information Systems from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Dileep Srinivasan is the Practice Leader for CDI & Customer Analytics at Cognizant Technology Solutions. With over 25 years of experience in the consulting practice, Mr. Srinivasan has contributed extensively to organizations, helping them derive strategic benefits and greater return on investment from their IT investments. He has been a key speaker at many global conferences covering wide varieties of topics such as strategic outsourcing, change management, call center management and managed operations. In his current role, he is involved in building industry specific CDI-MDM solutions, establishing data governance principles and establishing key partnerships to enable better value addition. Mr. Srinivasan has also provided key solutions to clients in the data governance and stewardship areas.

Starting in business consulting (Anderson Consulting) implementing enterprise applications in both the CRM and ERP space. Mr. Stitz’s next move took him out of the consulting, working as a product manager overseeing the data quality components of Oracle's CDI solution. Currently, he is a lead product manager for the core releases of Microsoft's internal CDI solution, working with the key business stakeholders to ensure that the appropriate business needs are adequately met with each release.

Kuldeep Tanwar is currently Manager of Business Applications at Wind River Systems in Alameda, California. Mr. Tanwar has over 15 years experience in design and managing of custom and packaged applications. He has been working on ERP and CRM implementations using Oracle’s Ebusiness, Peoplesoft and Siebel technologies for the past decade. Currently, Mr. Tanwar is program managing the customer master initiative at Wind River which is based on the Oracle Customer Data Management family of solutions.

Mr. Viswanathan is a seasoned IT professional, with over 17 years of IT experience. As practice director for MDM at TCS he is responsible for creating and developing industry specific uses of the TCS Master Data Management offering. Mr. Viswanathan is one of the select few IT professionals who has experience from more than one CDI-MDM project and is also one of the few practitioners with experience in more than one specific CDI-MDM solution set. In addition, he has CDI-MD project experience in both Retail Banking and Credit Cards.