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Bill Baker is chief technology officer for Visible Technologies, a provider of social media analysis and engagement solutions. He previously spent twelve years at Microsoft where he directed the company’s SQL Server Business Intelligent Unit and was general manager of Business Intelligence applications for the Microsoft Office Business Platform. Baker's deep expertise in leading teams to design and develop Microsoft solutions resulted in his recognition as one of only 36 worldwide Microsoft Distinguished Engineers.

Dan Meder is senior director of Commercial Credit Risk solutions for Experian's Business Information Solutions group. He has more than 20 years of experience in the business information field. Meder has been recognized as one of the pioneers in the area of credit decision automation, having been involved in product development, marketing and sales of decision support systems for credit management since the late 1980s. He may be reached at dan.meder@experian.com.

Todd Goldman is vice president of marketing at Exeros. He has 15 years experience as a general manager and marketing executive. Before joining Exeros, Goldman was vice president of Marketing for ScaleMP, a venture-funded company supplying enterprise middleware software to OEM computer manufacturers. Previously, he was vice president and general manager at America Online/Netscape where he oversaw the company's Shop@AOL, Netscape Search and Netscape Small Business services. Goldman joined AOL as part of its acquisition of Netscape where he was director of Product Marketing for the Netscape Directory and Security products. Before joining Netscape, he held various marketing and management positions at Hewlett-Packard working on products such as HP OpenView for Telecom and HP OpenMail/X.400. He may be reached at todd@exeros.com.

Krishna Mehta is a senior modeler for Inductis. He has worked on numerous project on bankruptcy, loan loss provisioning and customer attrition with several Fortune 500 companies. As a member of the methodology group, he has also been associated with efforts to shore up the analytics process at Inductis by introducing new tools and techniques as well as defining analytic standards. Before joining Inductis, he worked as a senior analyst with FedEx services and was part of the forecasting and pricing revenue management groups. He may be reached at kmehta@inductis.com.

George Barroso is senior developer with Axis Technology LLC. Prior to Axis, he was a senior consultant with netNumina, now part of Keane. He may be contacted at barrosog@gmail.com.

Scot J. Reagin is a principal architect in the area of business intelligence. He may be reached at scot@sjreagin.com.

Paul Johns is vice president of global marketing for Orchestria. He may be reached at paul.johns@orchestria.com.

Amy Bethke is director of Product Management for Pegasystems, Inc., where she is responsible for the company's customer service product offerings Amy has held engineering, product management, product marketing, customer support, and business analysis positions in the software industry since 1987. She may be reached at amy.bethke@pega.com.

Venkat S. Devraj is is a co-founder and chief architect of StrataVia Corporation  formerly ExtraQuest Corporation, creator of the patent-pending Data Palette autonomics technology and a provider of managed database administration services in Denver.  He is the author of Oracle 24x7 Tips & Techniques (Oracle Press/McGraw-Hill) and co-author of Oracle8i Web Development (Oracle Press/McGraw-Hill). He has been in application development and database administration for over 15 years, specializing in quantitative performance management, disaster recovery and compliance. He may be reached at dbafeedback@extraquest.com.

Tao Zheng is a certified Oracle DBA with nine years of experience on business intelligence strategy, data warehouse architecture and ETL design and implementation. Currently, he is the data warehouse manager at PlanetOut Inc. in San Francisco. He can be reached at tao97@yahoo.com.