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Jonathan Greenberg is the business intelligence sr. analyst for BMW of North America, LLC located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. He has 13 years invested in information technology sales, business development, post sales technical consulting and business intelligence. In his 5-year tenure at BMW, the operational reporting platform grew steadily from 40 to 4,000 users and has become a business-critical information resource. He has introduced new tools, technology and process within the enterprise and established a competency center for consistent and reliable delivery of BI.

Curt Finch is the CEO of Journyx, a provider of Web-based software located in Austin, Texas, that automates billing, payroll and project accounting by tracking time, expenses and mileage. Finch is a software industry veteran. In 1997, he created the world's first Internet-based timesheet application - the foundation for the current Journyx product offering. He has managed development teams creating enterprise-level software solutions since 1985, with a focus on project accounting. Learn more about Curt at http://journyx.com/company/curtfinch.html or at his Google+ page.

Steve Miller is co-founder of a Chicago-based analytics and business intelligence services firm Inquidia, formerly�OpenBI, that specializes in delivering analytic solutions with both open source and commercial technologies. Miller has more than 30 years of experience in intelligence and analytics, having migrated from health care program evaluation, to database consulting with Oracle Corporation, to running a fast-growing BI services business at Braun Consulting. Advances in technology over that time have fundamentally enabled the use of quantitative methods for business differentiation. OpenBI, LLC, is all about helping customers attain that differentiation. You can reach him at steve.miller@inquidia.com.

Paul Friedman is CTO and co-founder of Purisma, Inc. and a software industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in engineering and technical management roles. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, having founded both Stanford Technology Group (STG), which was acquired by Informix and Supplybase, which was acquired by i2. You can contact him at pfriedman@purisma.com.

Rohit Tandon has been on the leading edge of data in product development as well as solution delivery for over 20 years. Mr. Tandon has been a data management leader for Oracle, PeopleSoft, Metamor Worldwide and Tata Consultancy Services. He was Oracle�s global product strategist and leader for the Oracle MDM suite, building the portfolio from the ground up. Mr. Tandon also served as global spokesperson, keynoting on data management topics, and representing the product portfolio and brand to IT analysts (Gartner, Forrester, MDM Institute). He was responsible for creation of several key functions for the product set, including the systems integrators and ISV partner network as well as the customer advisory board. Prior to his Oracle tenure, Mr. Tandon spent 15 years building and running successful BI/DW practices prior to his work in product management, living and working on several continents. His consulting clientele included Citi, S.C. Johnson Wax, Cooper Lighting, J.P. Morgan (Mexico), and UBS (Switzerland). Mr. Tandon holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor's in Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi as a summa cum laude valedictorian.

Byron Sebastian is founder and CEO of Seattle-based SourceLabs, providers of dependable open source systems for enterprise IT organizations. He develops and drives SourceLabs strategy and ensures that the company has the right talent and process capabilities to grow rapidly and provide support to its customers. He has been in the software industry for many years and has held various product development and marketing positions for companies such as Microsoft, BEA, Crossgaina nd Amazon. Before founding SourceLabs, he was vice president and general manager of the WebLogic Portal and Workshop Divisions at BEA. He may be reached at byron@sourcelabs.com.

Doug Freud is technical manager of Analytics & Data Mining at Oracle Corporation. He has over fifteen years of experience in helping organizations design, develop and implement analytically based solutions. His areas of expertise include data mining, text mining and statistics. Prior to joining Oracle, Freud was at SPSS Inc. and worked both in the marketing and professional services organizations.  He may be reached at doug.freud@oracle.com

Michael Coveney is director of Extensity Business Services (formerly Geac Business Services), a group of domain experts that helps enterprises combine "best management practices" with technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their performance management processes. He is a regular speaker at many international events. He is co-author of the book, The Strategy Gap, published by John Wiley and Sons and a course leader on corporate performance management with the American Management Association.

Jim Hodel is a senior data architect working as a consultant for clients in government and private industry. You may contact him at jhodel@qwest.net. 

Alberto Villari is a charter member of the IAIDQ. He began his IT career in 1993, working as a consultant object-oriented developer and later as a database analyst. His I/DQ career began in 2000 with the Bulgari data quality project; he later became the data quality manager in 2002. He may be reached at alberto.villari@bulgari.com.