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Debbie Pascoe is vice president of Client Services for Maxamine, Inc. Her experience spans the energy, telecommunications and Internet industries and includes both customer-facing and supplier-facing activities. Pascoe has worked with small and large companies to provide marketing and strategic direction in their adoption of the Web as a business asset. You can contact her at dpascoe@maxamine.com.

David Klementz, SVP and CFO for Progress Rail Services Corporation.

Elmer Easton formed Three D Graphics in 1986 to introduce a very powerful 3D graphics software technology. Over the ensuing 16 years, Three D Graphics became the leading charting and graphing technology provider, partnering with dozens of the top publishers of presentations, multimedia, database, client/server, OLAP and report-writer applications. In 2002, ACUMEN Financial Solutions, Inc. was created as a wholly owned subsidiary to focus on the financial predictive analytics and planning market.

Mike Gruia is a co-founder and president of United Management Technologies (UMT), a global solutions firm specializing in portfolio management (www.umt.com). He is responsible for the company's strategy, direction and overall service offering. Gruia has more than twenty-five years of experience in developing solutions that help executives improve operations and management processes. A visionary who has profoundly changed how businesses manage large project portfolios, Gruia spearheaded the creation of the modern portfolio prioritization and optimization framework and governance approach. You can reach him at mgruia@umt.com or (212) 965- 0550.

Guy Weismantel and Patrick Morrissey, now with Business Objects, have more than 25 years experience in software, hardware and technology services and have worked with leading companies including IBM, HP, PeopleSoft, Business Objects, Cisco, Manugistics, Sun, Microsoft, Oracle and the usual suspects in consulting and services. In this column series, Weismantel and Morrissey will provide insight into how leading companies are addressing performance hype and operations reality. They can be reached at performanceguys@yahoo.com.

Dr. Wayne M. Greene is a director of product strategy at the Wily Technology Division of CA in the area of application performance management. Prior to this he was an IT manager at HP's Managed Services and Corporate IT. He has more than 18 years of experience in industry cover a broad career in multiple businesses at HP. He holds 5 patents and has written more than 35 journal articles.

Carol Baroudi is CEO and founder of Baroudi Bloor International. Her more than 20 years of IT industry experience include her role as VP, Emerging Technologies, at Hurwitz Group, her coauthorship of the best-selling Internet book of all time �� The Internet For Dummies, information architecture, management consulting and software development. Contact her at carol@baroudi.com.

Kathy Auerbach is the research program director of Winter Corporation. Her diverse background includes experience on the vendor side in a range of marketing and product management roles. She also spent six years with a market research firm, first as an analyst for alliance marketing and then as senior analyst for application development tools. Auerbach joined Winter Corporation in 1996, where she is responsible for all aspects of the company's survey and research programs, including survey development, program sponsorship, data analysis, custom reports and research publications. Auerbach may be reached at Kathy.Auerbach@wintercorp.com.

Neal Novotny is senior manager of Integration Product Marketing for BEA Systems, San Jose, California.

Sophia Ruiz, manager of data warehousing for Jenny Craig.