Edward Peters, president and CEO of DataDirect Technologies, Inc., has spent more than 20 years in various software and IT industry roles, such as CEO of Cerebellum Software and senior-leadership roles at MERANT and INTERSOLV, where he led the unit to become the leading ISV in the data access middleware market. Peters, an Ernst & Young 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, has received numerous industry awards, including the GUIDE International President�s Award, the R/A/D Award for Excellence in Repository-Based Application Development and a Lehigh University Williams Prize.