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Rex Brooks, president of Stabourne Communications Design, has pursued an extensive and wide-ranging career in advertising art direction, corporate identity and graphic design. His ongoing interests have included the applications of computer technology in his field and applying concepts from the fields of psychology, sociology and advertising in the area of semantics and semiotics for the purposes of improving communications in digital information systems. This led to his involvement with OASIS in the HumanMarkup Technical Committee helping to create the Human Markup Language. He is the cofounder of the Content Development Working Group of the Web 3D Consortium and Humanmarkup.org, Inc. and serves as vice chair of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee. He is also actively serving on the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets and Emergency Management Technical Committees. You can reach him at rexb@starbourne.com.

Dan Stanford is a director for McKnight Associates, Inc. Stanford has implemented numerous management information systems, decision support systems and data warehouses over his 22-year career. He was Oracle's director of the Data Warehousing Center of Excellence and has worked with all the major database platforms, many of the ETL tools and most of the OLAP and query tools in the marketplace today. Stanford can be reached at dstanford@mcknight-associates.com.

Jack Jia is a founder and CEO of Baynote, Inc. Earlier in his career, Jia served as a senior vice president and chief technology officer for Interwoven Inc. and was responsible for the long-term strategic technology direction of the company. Jia is a frequent speaker at major industry and financial conferences. Jia may be reached at jack@baynote.com.

Patrick Walker is the vice president of Operations at Prime Factors, Inc. Walker has worked in software development for more than 25 years, including 12 years in data security software development at Prime Factors (www.primefactors.com). You can contact Walker via e-mail at patrick.walker@primefactors.com.

James Smith is the president and CEO of Octigon, LLC, which is a Web-based technology company focusing on applications that improve corporate communication across the Internet. Octigon�s flagship product, Octane8, is the first Web platform that enables users of all skill levels to create, deploy and maintain large, database driven Web sites, intranets, extranets and portals. Company and product information can be found at www.octigon.com. Since moving to the United States from South Africa in 1990, Smith has masterminded the startup of four technology companies all specializing in the development of integrated business systems designed to streamline business processes.

Brian Hartlen is vice president of Geac Performance Management marketing.

Denis Kosar is the vice president of Communications for the Data Management Association (DAMA).

Tim Walsh is a manager in the Enterprise Solutions practice at BearingPoint, Inc., one of the world's largest business consulting, systems integration and managed services firms. He can be reached via e-mail at twalsh1@bearingpoint.net.

Michael R. Sutcliff is the global managing partner for Accenture's Finance and Performance Management Service Line. He has extensive experience in strategy, business architecture, systems integration, business transformation and outsourcing engagements across multiple industries and geographies. His responsibilities include developing new service offerings and alliance relationships while managing Accenture's combination of consulting and outsourcing services of interest to senior finance executives. Sutcliff may be reached via e- mail at michael.r.sutcliff@accenture.com.

Ken DesRochers, senior vice president of information technology at Allied Office Products.