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Sean Derrington is senior group manager of Product Management at Symantec Corporation. He is responsible for product marketing, product strategy and outbound marketing for VERITAS' Storage Foundation and Storage Management products in the Data Center Management Group at Symantec Corporation. He joined Symantec with the VERITAS acquisition. Prior to joining VERITAS, Derrington was senior program director of META Group's Server Infrastructure Strategies. During his eight years at META Group, he was the lead consultant and analyst covering storage and storage management market.

Avadhut Gopal Kulkarni is a technical architect with the BI Center of Excellence, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies Limited. He has seven years of consulting, design and implementation experience in the data warehousing and business intelligence domain. He can be reached at avadhut_kulkarni@infosys.com.

Chris Johnson is vice president of Storage Systems for Dynamic Solutions International, where he directs the design and implementation of DSI's solutions, which include high-speed solid state disk systems, and automated tape and optical backup solutions. He is a twenty-one year computer industry veteran. For the last twelve years, Johnson has specialized in data storage systems. He may be reached at c.johnson@dynamicsolutions.com.

Jerome Shattner is a founder of SAND Technology, an international provider of intelligent enterprise information management solutions. Shattner has educated C-level executives on the benefits of leveraging corporate databases to support the bottom line and has presented at business and industry events over the past twenty-five years. From 1987 to 1999, he served as president of SAND Technology's joint venture company with Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems Inc. Under his direction, Hitachi Data Systems achieved more than $100 million in annual sales. Prior to SAND's inception, Shattner was employed by IBM in a variety of management positions. He may be reached at jerry.shattner@sand.com.

Duncan Ross is an advanced analytics specialist for Teradata in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His responsibilities include assessing, quantifying and prioritizing ROI opportunities that organizations can realize from implementing information-based analytical solutions.

Dinendra (Dinu) Joshi is the vice president of Engineering and Oracle Practice for Solix Technologies, Inc. He has more than 25 years of experience in providing enterprise application solutions for various industry verticals. Joshi is a leader in the information lifecycle management space and the founder of the Archive and Purge Special Interest Group at OAUG, for which he is the worldwide coordinator. He is an eminent speaker and has presented numerous papers at conventions around the world.

Suzanne Mescan is vice president of Marketing for Vasont Systems. Mescan most recently served as the vice president and general manager of Progressive Publishing Alternatives, a sister division of Vasont Systems offering project management, editorial and design services. Prior to joining Vasont Systems, Mescan was a marketing analyst at Advanta. In this role, she was responsible for product planning, advertising and the promoting of financial services.

Dennis Bilowus is president and CEO of AEC Software. He may be reached at dbilowus@aecsoftware.com.

Martin Boyd is vice president of marketing at Silver Creek Systems, a product data quality company. He may be reached at mboyd@silvercreeksystems.com.

Lee DeVries is the director of Business Planning at EMC Corporation and teaches business intelligence at Clark University. During his eleven years at EMC, the company has transformed from a single-product $1 billion company to a diverse $10 billion organization. DeVries continues to lead changes to EMC's business intelligence processes enabling EMC to maintain and extend its industry leadership. He may be reached at devries_lee@emc.com.