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Jonathan Saunders is managing director for the U.K. subsidiary of QueryObject Systems Corporation, headquartered in Uniondale, New York. He can be reached at jsaunders@ queryobject.com.

Mark Hohneke is a systems analyst for ConAgra Frozen Foods.

Rogerio Luis Loggetto is a senior database strategist for IBM Brazil.

Raghuraman Ramasubbu is currently a business analyst with Mastech Corp. Ramasubbu has several years of experience working on data models, process models, meta data, etc. and architecting solutions for customers around client/server technologies. He can be contacted at rramasubbu@aol.com.

Michael A. Bingle is a principle at OSMC, a consulting company based in Westfield, New Jersey. Bingle can be reached by e-mail at mbingle@osmc-web.com.

David Harberson is a principal consultant in the National Customer Marketing and Management Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. He has more than 12 years of business experience focusing on customer relationship marketing (CRM) solutions and business process reengineering.

David Blundin is the founder of DataSage, Inc. Blundin's early work on neural networks and their behavior in extremely large databases with high dimensionality led him to conclude that traditional neural network solutions quickly broke down in large data environments. This pioneering conclusion would serve as the foundation for his later development of the proprietary CirrusNet pattern recognition algorithm, the first algorithm incorporated in DataSage. Before founding DataSage, Blundin was a founding member of MicroStrategy, one of the leading privately held decision support/OLAP software companies. While at MicroStrategy, he assumed responsibility for project management of several key national accounts. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science from MIT, where he did thesis research at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Richard Barker has served as senior vice president and chief technical officer of VERITAS Software since April of 1997. VERITAS Software Corp is a leading provider of end-to-end storage management software. Previously, Barker was senior vice president of the Consulting and Technical Services division of OpenVision International Limited and senior vice president for Oracle's Methodology and CASE product set. Prior to that he ran the development center for the IDMSX mainframe database product for ICL.

James M. Meyer joined the information industry in 1974 and evolved from a programmer to a project manager to a marketing executive. Meyer joined Universal Systems Inc. (USI) in late 1997 as vice president of product marketing with the mission of driving the growth of USI's product revenue through targeted marketing programs and an integrated communications plan. Prior to joining USI, Meyer spent seven years as a general manager and marketing executive with FileNet and Interleaf. In the first 16 years of his career, Meyer developed skills as a programmer, project manager and customer service manager. He can be reached at (800) 874-2344.

Richard J. Kachur is the author of The Data Warehouse Management Handbook (Prentice Hall, 2000). Kachur is the lead data warehouse architect for TMP Worldwide, a leading provider of Internet, data warehousing and data quality engineering solutions. His diverse 23-year background includes systems methodology consulting,project management, information systems planning, data administration, business process reengineering, customer relationship management, enterprise data modeling, object oriented analysis, data warehousing, data quality management, repository administration and case technology management. His data warehousing background covers government, insurance, oil and gas, retail, telecommunications, transportation and utility corporations. For further information on Kachur's background or available publications, please contact him at richard.kachur@tmp.com.