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Jim McDonald is chief technology officer and cofounder of WysDM Software. While at the University of Edinburgh, McDonald was primary architect and systems administrator for one of the first public-access systems on the Internet. He spent five years at Goldman Sachs where at various stages he held international responsibilities in the systems management, scheduling, and primary and secondary storage areas. He has been responsible for global primary storage engineering and technical liaison with a number of key accounts and has worked on a number of open source products. You can reach him at Jim.McDonald@wysdm.com or (212) 228-1800.

Barb Swartz leads the Financial Management solutions marketing program for Teradata. Since 2001 she has focused on the application of data warehousing for finance, which includes the analysis and impact of regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and International Accounting Standards. She has consulted with many Fortune 1000 companies as they look to reengineer their finance organizations and use data warehousing technology to drive better integration, optimization and results from their financial information environments. You can contact her at Barb.Swartz@ncr.com.

The CDI Institute helps IT organization clients be more efficient, effective and timely in their use of customer data integration (CDI) technologies to achieve their customer-centric business goals. It also provides vendors with insight into the key drivers of market demand, product definition, vendor differentiation and the factors that impact successful implementation. Formore information, please visit www.tcdii.com.

Eric A. King is president of The Modeling Agency, a Texas company that provides training and consulting in predictive modeling for those who are data-rich, yet information-poor. King holds a BS in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh and has over 14 years experience specifically in data mining sales and project management. Prior to The Modeling Agency, King worked for NeuralWare, a neural network tools company, and American Heuristics Corporation, an artificial intelligence consulting firm. He may be reached at eric@the-modeling-agency.com.

Steven K. Ball is currently the assistant vice president for Business Affairs at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. In this role he manages procurement, research finance, accounts payable, risk management and the business aspects of construction and facilities for the university and the financial affairs for a psychiatric hospital. Prior to this he has worked for Compaq Computer, Dell, and Ford Motor Company in Financial Management, information systems, quality control and real estate development positions. Ball also spent five years teaching finance, economics and database design as n adjunct professor for several different universities. You can contact him at Steve@ballhome.com.

William Dinner has more than 25 years experience in reference data, information management and architecture. He is a senior member of SysCore Solutions (www.syscore.com), an information management consulting firm that specializes in information integration for the financial industry. Bill can be reached at wdinner@optonline.net or (917) 623-0634.

Brian Handly is a senior profitability analytics consultant with Teradata Customer Management Solutions.

Shadan Malik, president and CEO of iDashboards, has worked with hundreds of businesses and global enterprises to address their specific needs and architect dashboard solutions for organizational scorecards, finance, operations, customer service, quality control and supply chain. He holds two patents in the area of data visualization for dashboards. As an expert in this field, Malik authored the first book on dashboard best practices, Enterprise Dashboards: Design and Best Practices for IT.

Hollinsworth Auguste is chief technology officer and EVP Commercial Finance at Cyence International, Inc. Cyence (www.cyence.com) is a leading provider of Web services software solutions for the world's banking, manufacturing and equipment finance markets. As CTO, Hollinsworth is responsible for Cyence's technology, strategy and direction. Before joining Cyence, he served as President of Vizier Group, a B2B e-commerce firm specializing in general leasing and automated credit systems in North America and Asia Pac. Auguste has also served as a consultant and lead technical architect for a variety of private-sector firms. You can reach him at holl@cyence.com.

Alan Ganek is vice president of autonomic computing for IBM and chief technology officer for its Tivoli Software unit.