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Francis "Skip" Cusack is chief technology officer of Vidient Systems, Inc. He has 20 years of executive and technical leadership experience in conceiving and promoting technology solutions, with the last ten years focused specifically on intelligent security. Cusack holds several patents in the areas of security system design and biometrics, and was recognized by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent considered "one of the ten most important inventions for Homeland Security in 2002."

Shayne Skaff, VP of business development for MaintenanceNet, brings to the organization more than ten years of experience in helping organizations develop and build a profitable IT services business. Skaff may be reached at sskaff@maintenancenet.com.

Dr. Scott Needle is the owner of Bay St. Louis Pediatrics.

Joseph Eschbach joined Astoria Software as vice president and chief marketing officer in 2005. Joseph is a battle-hardened high-tech marketing executive and technology industry leader. He most recently served as VP of Microsoft's Information Worker Product Management Division. Before joining Microsoft, Eschbach served as VP of Product Marketing and Business Development at Mitsubishi. He has also held key management roles at Radius, Apple Computer and Applied Decision Analysis. He holds a PhD & MS in Engineering-Economics-Systems from Stanford University, an MA in Economics from Cambridge University, and both an MS in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Washington State University.

Chip Gettinger, vice president, Services & Sales Support, joined Astoria Software at its inception. Gettinger has 20 years of experience working with content management tools. While at Xerox Corporation's Astoria software group in the mid-1990s, Gettinger provided technical sales consulting for XML content management support for direct and channel sales efforts. Gettinger has held management positions in sales, product marketing, training, course development and technical writing at Document Management Solutions, Harlequin, XyEnterprise and Agfa Corporation. He received his bachelor's degree in Graphic Arts Technology from Northern Illinois University.

Baseline Consulting has grown to become one of the industry's premier business advisory and information technology consulting firms. Baseline provides the people, tools, methods, vision and, above all, the experience necessary to help companies make their strategic objectives a reality through information technology. Various principals with the company present an actual "problem solved" each month.

Jim Rogers is currently the director of product and industry marketing for Primavera Systems, responsible for the global strategy and execution of Primavera positioning and direction within selected industries.

Ian Clemens is the chief technology officer at IDV Solutions and is an industry-recognized consultant and speaker on location intelligence for the Global 1000. He may be reached at ian.clemens@idvsolutions.com.

Jim Keenan is the director of sales and marketing at IDV Solutions. He may be reached at jim.keenan@idvsolutions.com.

Mark Theissen is a respected data warehouse and business intelligence expert. In his 22 years in the industry, Theissen has worked in a variety of key roles including vice president and research lead at META Group (now Gartner Group) for the Enterprise Analytics Practice. In his current position of vice president of professional services at DATAllegro, Theissen helps companies implement affordable and innovative data warehouse solutions using DATAllegro's data warehouse appliances. He may be reached at mtheissen@datallegro.com.