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Michael Abbott
CTO,
code.METAmorphosis |
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Michael Abbott has more than ten years of distributed computing experience and has been published in several peer-reviewed publications and speaks regularly on p2p frameworks, XML and distributed transactions. Abbott is very involved in the computing community as he participates on a JSR Expert Group at Sun, participates on a technical committee at OASIS and has chaired the XML Sig for the Software Development Forum for the past 2 years. Abbott was most recently the CTO and Executive-Vice President of Electron Economy, a supply chain software company, prior to its acquisition by Viewlocity in Fall 2001.
While at Electron Economy he built an engineering team of over 140 people, enabled Electron Economy to be named to Upside's Top 100 companies of 2000 , participated in securing $86 million dollars in investment over two rounds of funding and filed four technical patents. Prior to Electron Economy, as the Director of Java Solutions in the e-Commerce practice at USWeb/CKS, Abbott led the design and implementation of multimillion-dollar engagements and initiated important strategic alliances with leading technology partners such as BEA and ATG to give clients Java-based e-commerce solutions.
Abbott holds a BS degree in Biochemistry with a focus in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University as well as the completion of almost two years of Ph.D. work at the University of Washington. Abbott also serves on the board of directors for Innogenex and on the strategic advisory board to SchemaLogic.
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Peter Aiken
Director,
Institute for Data Research |
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Peter Aiken is Director of the Institute for Data Research. His research has explored XML-based data engineering and its relationship to systems and business reengineering. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been a DAMA International Advisor since 1999. He is widely published on these subjects. |
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Nobby Akiha
Vice President of Marketing,
Actuate |
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Mr. Akiha brings over 18 years of experience in high technology and consumer packaged goods marketing to Actuate Corporation. He joined Actuate in 2000 as vice president of Marketing. Prior to joining Actuate, he was vice president, Marketing and Business Development at Inference Corporation.
Mr. Akiha also served as senior consultant at Regis McKenna, Inc., Director of Marketing Communications for CASE vendor Interactive Development Environments (IDE) and Group Product manager at Oracle Corporation. Mr. Akiha started his marketing career consulting to consumer packaged goods companies at Management Decision Systems and Burke Marketing Research.
He holds a B. Commerce from the University of British Columbia and an M. Science in Management from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.
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Larry Alston
EVP Product Management
eXcelon
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Larry Alston brings more than two decades of technology and business experience to his role as EVP of Product Management at eXcelon. In his role, he is responsible for developing strategy and vision for eXcelon's products based on the latest technical innovations. Under Larry's direction, the company successfully defined and executed the company's product strategy for the e-Business sector and enabled the company's move into the B2B space. Larry conceived and oversaw the launch of the industry's first XML-based information server. Based on Larry's leadership, eXcelon Corporation's B2B division grew from $2 million to $20 million during the Year 2000.
Prior to joining eXcelon, Larry worked at Bachman Information Systems as a developer of CASE tools. As employee 35, Larry saw the company grow from $0 to $50M in revenue, and assisted in the company's IPO. Larry began his career at Symbolics, an AI workstation vendor, writing tools for AI development environment.
Larry is a regular speaker on the topics of B2B Infrastructures and Architectures, XML technologies, and Object Oriented technologies. Among his speaking appearances are the following:
· High performance OO Systems
· Comdex, Fall 1997
· Internet World
· XML and eBusiness, XML Europe 98 and 99
· XML One Europe
· XML Austin 99
· XML World 2001
Larry received an MBA from Northeastern University as well as a BS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts.
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Ed Anuff
Chief Strategy Officer,
Epicentric, Inc.
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Co-Founder, Executive Vice-President and Chief Strategy Officer, Chairman and Co-Founder, Ed Anuff serves as Epicentric's Chief Strategy Officer. In this role Mr. Anuff focuses on strategic direction for Epicentric product and services. Mr. Anuff also oversees all product management responsibilities. With more than 12 years of high tech experience, Mr. Anuff has held numerous leadership roles across the areas of product management, marketing, and business development. Additionally, he is the author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, published by J. Wiley and Sons, one of the first books on the Java programming language.
Prior to co-founding Epicentric, he was the Director of Product Management at Wired Digital (HotWired) where he launched and managed the HotBot search engine, and negotiated key partnerships with Inktomi, Microsoft, BellSouth, among others. Prior to Wired Digital, he was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Motion Works, a publisher of multimedia software.
Mr. Anuff joined Motion Works after the company acquired Vision Software, a multimedia tools start-up he founded in 1992. A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ed is a frequent contributor to publications such as Wired and speaks regularly on topics including web business models, e-commerce, and content syndication. |
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PG Bartlett
Vice President Marketing,
Arbortext
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PG Bartlett is Arbortexts vice president of marketing. In this position, Bartlett is responsible for overall corporate positioning, branding and identity, and driving an integrated communication strategy. On a daily basis he oversees public relations, market research, direct marketing and analyst relations.
Bartlett joined Arbortext in October 1994 with more than 18 years experience in both technical and marketing positions at leading edge, high-technology companies. Before joining Arbortext, Bartlett was vice president of marketing for Nematron, a leading manufacturer of industrialized computer hardware, where he successfully introduced several new product lines and launched a distributor relationship program that increased revenues.
Since joining Arbortext, Bartlett has hosted electronic webinars on topics ranging from What is XML? to Enterprise Content Management and Single Sourcing and authored many white papers and articles. He is a frequent presenter at major industry events and has been invited to speak and chair sessions at Comdex, Seybold Seminars, XML conferences, AIIM conferences and other major high technology events.
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Adam Blum
Vice President of Engineering,
Talaris Corporation
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Adam Blum is Vice President of Engineering at Talaris. Prior to joining Talaris, Adam was Vice President of Engineering for the XML Platform at Commerce One, responsible for MarketSite, the XML Portal Connector and the XML Development Kit as well as all other platform and connectivity products delivered by Commerce One. Before Commerce One, he was a group manager for five years at Microsoft in the SQL Server development team. Adam is the author of several books and articles on various programming and computer science topics, and holds a masters in computer science and an MBA from George Mason University.
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Jim Bole
VP, Engineering,
Infravio
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Jim Bole has more than 17 years of entrepreneurial software development and technical management experience in both startups and Fortune 100 companies. Jim was a member of the founding development team at Formtek, later acquired by Lockheed Martin. Jim holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Danny Boulanger
Information Architect,
InterDoc Corporation
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Founder of InterDoc Corporation, a leading consulting firm, Mr. Boulanger has earned a solid reputation as a consulting expert in the field of document management, electronic publishing, and document workflow.
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Richard Brock
Founder, President and CEO
Firstwave Technologies, Inc.
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Named one the "10 Most Influential People in Customer Relationship Management (CRM)" by CRM Magazine, formerly Sales and Marketing Automation magazine, Richard Brock founded and serves as president and CEO of Firstwave Technologies Inc., formerly Brock International Inc.
Firstwave, a pioneer in the Sales Force Automation market and a leading provider of Web-based CRM applications, was started by Brock in 1984. His entrepreneurial spirit has resulted in Firstwave establishing an international presence, with over 1000 installations in 20 countries.
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Timothy Chien
Sr Product Manager,
Oracle Corp.
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Timothy has had experience in various projects, including Oracle8i
Disaster Recovery products and Oracle9iAS, specifically in Web and
database caching technologies, and is currently a product manager with Oracle9i Application Server Web Services. Timothy has spoken about emerging Web services technologies at several conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, iDevelop, and Technology Days, ODTUG, NYOUG SIG, Atlantic Oracle Training Conference, and the International Conference on Internet Computing. |
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Micheal Cvetan
Product Support Specialist,
Progressive Information Technologies
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As Product Support Manager for Progressive Information Technologies, Mike is responsible for all Vasont Cross-Media Publishing System support. Mike designs and conducts all Vasont training, conducts product demonstrations, seminars, and tutorials, and is liaison between Progressives Database Department and the rest of the XML, database, content management, editorial software community, including the Vasont Users Group.
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Beverly DeWitt
Senior Manager, New Business Initiatives,
IBM Lotus Software
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Beverly is a senior manager on the New Business Initiatives and Strategy team at IBM for the Lotus software brand.
She had an instrumental role in conceptualizing the strategy for next generation collaboration and is leading the initiative to execute the strategy in 2002. Her responsibilities include serving as the Project Development Team Lead and Offerings Manager for NextGen collaboration which carries responsibility for the business planning and go to market strategy for the NextGen collaboration offerings.
Beverly joined Lotus software in 1991 and has held positions in Technical Support, Field Sales, the Worldwide Technology Advocate team and Domino Product Management. As Domino product manager, she was responsible for devising a strategy to open the development environment to third party tools.
Prior to her current position, she managed the product marketing team for the Domino Application server and developer tools. In this role she led Lotus' participation in the IBM's marketing initiatives for Web services.
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Brian Dirking
Stellent, Inc.
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Brian Dirking has been in the electronic publishing industry for more than 10 years. He is currently vice president of business development for Stellent, Inc. Dirking is responsible for tracking industry developments and acts as Stellents liaison to W3C, WAP Forum, OASIS, WebDAV, ICE Consortium and other industry organizations. |
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Chris Dix
Lead Developer,
Navtrak, Inc.
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Chris is Lead Developer for Navtrak, where he designs and develops products for mobile data access and asset tracking. He is an author and frequent speaker on the subject of Web Services, and he is co-author of Professional XML Web Services (Wrox, 2001). |
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Sunil Gaitonde
Co-Founder, President and CEO
Sarvega, Inc.
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Sunil Gaitonde, Ph.D., has successfully developed networking and content delivery products for IBM, Cisco and Internet Junction, a company he founded and sold to Cisco. Sunil led the second-generation cache engine initiative for Ciscos Content Services Business Unit. He helped develop strategic relationships with Akamai and Sightpath (later acquired by Cisco) and formulated the strategy for processing and routing rich content.
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Patrick Gannon
President and CEO,
OASIS |
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Patrick J. Gannon (patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org) is President and CEO of OASIS. In addition to serving on the OASIS board, Mr.Gannon was also recently appointed to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, where he chairs a team which advises governments in transitional economies on best practices for electronic business. He has worked for BEA Systems, where he served as Senior Vice President in the E-Commerce Integration Division.
Prior to BEA, Mr. Gannon served as Vice President of Marketing and Industry Programs at Netfish Technologies and as Vice President of Strategic Programs for the CommerceNet Consortium, directing research and development efforts in new Internet commerce standards such as XML. Mr. Gannon is co-author of the book: "Building Database-Driven Web Catalogs," and is an international speaker on electronic business. He was the President and CEO of Internet Shopping Directory Inc., which he co-founded in 1996 to bring advanced electronic catalog techniques to the online consumer marketplace.
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Chip Gettinger
Vice President of Customer Solutions,
LightSpeed, Inc.
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Mr. Chip Gettinger is Vice President of Customer Solutions at Lightspeed Interactive in Pleasanton, California. He has over 20 years experience working with tools for XML content management, single-sourcing, authoring and publishing. At Lightspeed, Mr. Gettinger works with customers to establish technical and business requirements for Lightspeed product development efforts.
At Chrystal Software, he provided technical sales consulting for XML content management and support for direct sales efforts and reseller partners. Mr. Gettinger also held positions at Document Management Solutions, Harlequin Inc., XyEnterprise and Agfa Corporation.
His background includes positions in sales, product marketing, training, course development and technical writing. He has a bachelors degree in Graphic Arts Technology with a Business Emphasis. |
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Joe Gollner
Founder and President,
XIA Information Architects Corporation
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Mr. Gollner, a leading authority on how XML technology can be leveraged by modern organizations to change the way they inter-operate, supports an international clientele in the adoption of XML and the development of cost-effective XML solutions. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Queen's University and a Master's of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. |
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David Gourley
CTO,
Endeca
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Prior to co-founding Endeca, provider of software infrastructure for information delivery, Gourley was on the founding development team at Inktomi, where he helped build their search engine infrastructure and went on to help build Inktomi's Internet infrastructure cache. He also led the customer deployment of AOL's cache infrastructure, one of the highest trafficked Internet infrastructures in the world. |
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Mark Hale
Standards Architect,
Interwoven
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Mark has been working for a number of years in the field of information systems integration. Presently, he works to advance standards activity at Interwoven to further enterprise class content management, which include ebXML Proof-of-Concept, UDDI, and WebDAV, among others. While on the research faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Mark served on more than ten application framework steering committees and has taught graduate and short courses on the subject.
His research expertise is in an integration theory linking business processes and product content. He has authored over twenty-five publications while collaborating with the NASA High Performance Computing and Communications Program, National Center for Advanced Technologies, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, and industrial partners. Mark was granted his doctorate in 1996 by the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Dave Hollander
CTO,
Contivo
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Dave Hollander has been teaching computers how to help humans communicate for over 20 years. He is a technology strategist and architect who has been on the leading edge of many key information technologies. Dave's career has concentrated on information management, blending new standards and technologies with corporate opportunities and needs. For example, while chief architect for hp.com, XML was invented in response to the need to find a better way to manage information.
Dave has had a leading role in the development of XML since its inception. He is a co-inventor, member of the first XML Working Group, leads the XML Schemas Working Group, and participates in the Web Services Architecture Working Group. Dave co-authored the W3C Standard, "Namespaces in XML", co-authored a book titled XML Applications by Wrox Press, and was technical editor for XML Schemas from Morgan-Kauffmann. Dave has also contributed to a variety of eCommerce standards: OAGI, RosettaNet, OBI and the ECO Framework.
Focused on business oriented information management, Dave's corporate achievements include founding and chief architect of www.hp.com, leading the development of Contivo's semantic modeling technology, deployment of an internal HP-wide search engine and development a CD-ROM publishing system for all of HP's technical manuals. Dave has been on the advisory board for Cohera, XMology, OSM, and Noonetime and held senior technology positions at CommerceNet, Hewlett Packard and Bell Laboratories. Dave is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Contivo, a provider of automated data integration.
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Sebastian Holst
Vice President Marketing,
Artesia Technologies
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Sebastian Holst is VP of Marketing for Artesia Technologies, suppliers of TEAMS(tm) Digital Asset Management Solution. He's spent 15+ years in the software industry bringing to market XML-based technologies. Previous positions have included VP, Strategic Marketing at Inso where he managed numerous XML and SGML publishing and content management products.
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Murali Janakiraman
Software Architect,
Rogue Wave Software
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Murali Janakiraman is currently the Software Architect for the XML Products team in Rogue Wave Software. Murali has a Masters in Computer Science from Portland State University. He is a regular speaker in various conferences and his current areas of interest includes Web Services, distributed transactions and object-relational mapping.
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John Johnson
CTO,
FNC, Inc. |
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John D. Johnson is Chief Technology Officer and founder of FNC, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from Texas A & M University and has specialized in research that explores applications of computer modeling to a variety of business functions. John also serves as an editor of the Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce and of Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Economics, Finance, and Management.
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Una Kearns
XML Architect/Director, Product Development,
Documentum
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As an XML architect at Documentum, Una Kearns leads the development of the companys next-generation XML solutions and is responsible for Documentums overall XML product strategy and architecture. Una works directly with Documentum customers to help them get their XML e-business initiatives up and running quickly and easily.
Una is on the OASIS Board of Directors, a member of the XML.org advisory committee, an advisor to UDDI.org, and the Documentum representative to the W3C.
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Larry Klein
Chief Operating Officer,
Advent 3B2 Incorporated |
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Larry Klein has participated in many technological developments in the Graphic Arts industry during his 35-year career. Before joining Advent 3B2 Inc. as Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Klein was Vice President of Content Management and Publishing Technology Development at Pearson Education. Mr. Klein is a frequent speaker on topics such as typography, content management and various database publishing solutions.
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Ron Lake
President,
Galdos Systems Inc. |
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Ron Lake is the president and CEO of Galdos Systems Inc., a world leader in the application of XML technology to geo-spatial information systems. Mr. Lake was the creator of GML and a well known technology leader.
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Geoff Leigh
Manager,
Answerthink |
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Geoff Leigh has over 18 years of Computer Industry experience as a system integrator and Database specialist at Answerthink, where he has worked with on projects for a Major US Motor Manufacturer, a Family Restaurant Group, a major Retail and Commercial Banking Group, a large telco organization and a leading eletrical utility.
He studied in England, and worked for many multinational and UK based industries, pioneering data warehouse techniques and system integration between legacy systems and Business Intelligence Applications. |
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Ulrich Leuthner
Senior Product Manager,
FileNET Corp.
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Ulrich Leuthner currently serves as senior product manager responsible for overseeing the launch of FileNETs new eBusiness framework software, Brightspire. Leuthner began his FileNET career as product marketing manager for central Europe. Prior to FileNET, he spent over 10 years working for German computer firms, Control Data and Nixdorf Computer.
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Joan Lu
Lecturer,
School of Computing and Maths,
The University of Huddersfield
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Dr. Joan Lu, after her PhD in 1999 worked in industry, as Team Leader in IT department. Later on, she joined University of Huddersfield as a lecturer in School of Computing and Mathematics. Her research interests are in the areas of object oriented system development, database and XML technologies in relevant subject areas. |
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Nancy Mancini
Director, Product Marketing
Hummingbird Ltd
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Nancy Mancini delivers innovative product positioning through her 13+year career in Information Technology. As Director for Product Marketing at Hummingbird Ltd., a global software organization, Ms. Mancini leads a team of product marketing staff who are responsible for a suite of products ranging from IT tools to end-user applications. In her spare time, she volunteers for the Mississauga chapter of Community Living, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for developmentally challenged children and adults. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a Certificate in Marketing from York University; as well as a Certificate in Public Relations from Humber College.
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Martyn Mallick
Wireless Solutions Evangelist.
iAnywhere Solutions, a Sybase company
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As Wireless Solutions Evangelist for Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions, Martyn drives the companys Web services strategy, focusing on integrating mobile Web services into existing application infrastructures. Marty has spoken at Comdex, JavaOne and Internet World and holds a B.S. in Systems and Computing Engineering from the University of Guelph (Ontario). |
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JP Morgenthal
Chief Services Architect,
Software AG, Inc. |
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JP Morgenthal is an internationally prominent authority on XML with more than 15 years of experience designing, developing and analyzing software and technology. In his role as Chief Services Architect, Morgenthal will explore and manage the design of complete professional services solutions based on Software AG technology and partner products in existing and emerging industries.
Morgenthal is a two-time author and his most recent book is "Enterprise Application Integration with XML and Java" in the Charles Goldfarb XML Series. He is also credited with more than 100 articles published across a variety of leading industry publications and regularly speaks at industry conferences around the world.
Prior to joining Software AG, Inc., Morgenthal was CTO of two highly visible startups in the Northern Virginia area, including Ikimbo and XMLSolutions. Before that, Morgenthal ran his own analyst firm, NC.Focus, where he became the most widely quoted analyst on Java and XML.
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Mark Morrissey
Vice President of Marketing, Siebel ERM
Siebel Systems |
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As Vice President of Marketing for Siebel ERM, Mr. Morrissey is responsible for Employee Relationship Management (ERM) product positioning, outbound marketing, and relations with industry analysts and strategic partners.
Previously, Mr. Morrissey was Vice President of Marketing for Allegis Corporation. At Allegis, Morrissey held responsibility for corporate strategy, product marketing, business development, and professional services. Morrissey joined Allegis as employee 30, helping the company to define, launch, and successfully deploy the industry's first Partner Relationship Management (PRM) product. While at Allegis Morrissey helped to build the company to more than 200 employees and secure many of the PRM market's highest profile customers. Morrissey is widely recognized as a leading contributor to defining and building the PRM market.
Prior to joining Allegis, Mr. Morrissey served as a Product Manager and Development Manager for Continuus Software, a maker of enterprise software and content management products. Morrissey was a key contributor in the company's growth from 25 to 175 employees, prior to its purchase by Telelogic.
Prior to Continuus, Mr. Morrissey was founder and CTO for Design Intent Software, a maker of sales configuration software for engineered products.
Mr. Morrissey earned a bachelor's degree in operations research and industrial engineering from Cornell University.
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Perry Moss,
Director of Technology Marketing,
J.D. Edwards |
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Perry Moss is the director of technology marketing at J.D. Edwards. His organization is responsible for defining technology requirements and strategies to support J.D. Edwards' enterprise software solutions. The technology marketing organization is also responsible for positioning and marketing J.D. Edwards' technology-based solutions. His organization works closely with the company's development, product marketing, and field organizations to define and deliver technology-based solutions to the marketplace. Technology-based solutions include, but are not limited to, portal, business intelligence, and interoperability applications, as well as presentation solutions, such as HTML and tools platforms. Prior to joining J.D. Edwards, Moss held positions in marketing and development for the smart card, software publishing, and instrumentationindustries. Moss holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science f om the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as an MBA from the University of Colorado at Denver.
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Brand Niemann
Computer Scientist,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Dr. Brand Niemann has been with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for more than 20 years and currently works in the Office of Environmental Information on electronic publishing and data exchange on the Web using XML. He teaches a class on XML for the Government Printing Office and has received awards from the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, LOTUS, and ComputerWorld-Smithsonian.
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Brian Phelps
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Vested Development, Inc.
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Brian established the US organization, opened offices in Boston and Silicon Valley and remains a key driver for the company. With 10 years of software development management experience, Brian brings real world knowledge of the development process, having worked for both large and small software development companies. Brian is responsible for VDI's first round of VC funding and for fostering relationships with industry partners including Sun, Oracle and Silicon Valley Bank. As a member of the W3C interest groups for XML, XLL and XSL, Brian maintains a close technical watch on industry progress.
In prior positions, Brian was responsible for development teams of up to 60 people in 3 locations and was a member of the management team at PC DOCS, Inc. that set a NASDAQ record by rising from $0.52 to $24.00 in 14 months.
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Martin Pike
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Stilo Technology
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Martin Pike has over twenty years of experience in developing software, managing software projects and consultancy. He has been involved in structured markup for over a decade having founded Stilo, a company dedicated to SGML/XML solutions, in 1992. He was a member of the W3C XML Special Interest Group.
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David Povilus
Senior Systems Engineer,
IONA Technologies
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David Povilus has over 25 years experience architecting IT solutions in the realm of engineering at various Fortune 500 companies. He is a registered professional engineer and former chairman of the West Michigan Group of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
With the Automotive Industry Action Group, Dave is chair of the AIAG Pilot Demo for PDM Interoperability, a NIST-funded project being conducted jointly with OAGI. He represents the AIAG in this area before the international Strategic Automotive product data Standards Industry Group (SAIG), which also includes equivalent European and Asian organizations.
Dave has published several papers on engineering information exchange and is well-versed on XML technologies, most recently presenting his companys Web Services strategy at Suns Tech Days. Dave is a Senior Systems Engineer at IONA Technologies.
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Ramana Rao
CTO & Sr. Vice President,
Inxight Software, Inc.
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Ramana is a founder of Inxight and serves as the companys visionary for the development of world-class knowledge management solutions. He provides strategic guidance based on his analysis of existing and emerging technologies, and manages ongoing communications with customers and strategic partners. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Jonathan Robie
XML Architect,
DataDirect Tecnologies |
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Jonathan Robie is a widely recognized XML Architect. Robie has 14 years of programming experience, and 13 years of experience working advanced database systems and complex database applications, including object oriented databases, multimedia databases, workgroup database applications, and XML/SGML databases.
A former XML research specialist at Software AG, Robie helped design architectures for XML servers and represented Software AG on the XML Query and XML Schema work groups. He earned his master's degree in computer science at Michigan State University.
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Frank Ryan
Director of product management, eBusiness,
SilverStream Software
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Director of product management, eBusiness Integration Products
Frank brings over 20 years of experience in IT strategy, product management and development experience to SilverStream. Prior to SilverStream, Frank held positions at GE, Electrical Distribution and Control, most recently as IT manager for Business Integration. Prior to GE, Frank held director level positions at Level 3 Communications and EC Cubed. Frank holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Connecticut. |
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Art Sarno
Vice President for Alliances,
Gauss
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Art Sarno is Gauss Vice President for Alliances, responsible for integration partners, resellers, analyst relations and technology alliances. He is a key member of the Product Planning and Global Marketing Group within Gauss. Art has over 25 year in the software industry, including positions as Director for Business and Engineering for Unisys Object Technology Group; President, TechGnosis: Vice President, SmartStar Corporation; Sales and Services Director, Cognos Corporation and Director of Sales for Intellicorp. He has had positions as a data systems analyst at Bell Research labs and General Electric as a System Analyst, and a graduate of GE's two year full time Management Training program.
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Ray Seddigh
Director, XML Programs,
PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Technology Centre
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Ray Seddigh is a Director at the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Technology Centre in Menlo Park, California. He leads the XML Centre of Excellence, XML Publications, and XML Lab initiatives of the Technology Centre. He is a Contributing Editor of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology Forecast, the Centre's key technology Thought Leadership publication for global clients of PwC.
Ray has held leadership positions in technology development, support, consulting, marketing-sales, and training organizations, and he is the co-author of a comprehensive course on XML for developers. He currently performs assessments of technologies in their business contexts and researches emerging technology trends for PwC's investment clients in merger, acquisition, funding, and disposal mandates.
He is a member of the Technical Committee on Universal Business Language (UBL), an emerging XML-based standard for the exchange of business documents, and he is the official liaison to UBL from XBRL, the global accounting standards initiative.
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Dr. Bruce Sharpe
Executive Vice-President,
XML Content Solutions
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Dr. Bruce Sharpe is Corels Executive Vice-President, XML Content Solutions. With more than six years experience with XML and related technologies, Dr. Sharpe plays a critical role in driving strategies that establish Corel as a leading provider of enterprise-class content solutions.
Formerly Chief Technical Officer at SoftQuad Software Ltd., Dr. Sharpe was responsible for the companys technology development activities and was highly successful in bringing the benefits of markup languages to the enterprise market. Dr. Sharpe has been instrumental in the creation of solutions based on XML since its inception, and has worked closely with the W3C during the creation of XML and related standards.
For more than 19 years, Dr. Sharpe has built an impressive track record of delivering first-class products to market. Prior to joining SoftQuad, he held the position of Director of Research and Development at Advanced Gravis Computer Technologies, where he was involved in the creation of award-winning sound cards and entertainment peripherals for personal computers.
Dr. Sharpe holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. A frequent presenter and well published author, he is recognized as an authority on XML and related technologies.
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Anupam Singh
Staff Software Engineer,
Sybase
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Anupam Singh is a Staff Software Engineer with Sybase, Inc. As project lead of XML Query Engine Team, Singh has the responsibility of interpreting standards like XQUERY and translating into products. His work at Sybase has focused on querying and indexing semi-structured data within an RDBMS engine. Mr. Singh is also a founding member of Sybases XML Query Engine Development Team, which works to improve the XML storage, indexing and querying capabilities of Sybases Adaptive Server® Enterprise database. Additionally, Singh represents Sybase on the XQUERY standards Committee.
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Andrew Stuart
Director Market Technologies,
Liquent |
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Andrew Stuart is the Director Market Technologies for Liquent (formerly ESPS, Inc.), where he is responsible for identifying and managing new infrastructure technologies for Liquent. Prior to joining Liquent in August 1999, he spent two years in a Senior Business Development role at Documentum, where he applied the Documentum platform to eBusiness opportunities and was responsible for packaging Consulting offerings.
With over nine years experience in the Content and Knowledge Management Industries, Mr. Stuart is an active speaker and presenter at industry conferences and seminars with papers published in both the Document Management press and professional computing magazines. Mr. Stuart holds a degree in both the Medical Sciences and in Mathematics from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. |
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Bea Whray
CEO,
Deposix
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Bea Wray, the leading authority on software escrow was CEO of Data Securities International after she established Fort Knox Escrow Services and SourceFile.
Bea graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA (Political Science & Psychology) from Emory University and earned her MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School.
Bea is a frequent speaker and contributor to technology journals with audiencing including Venture Capital Summit 2000, mySAP.com, Women in Technology Forum, San Francisco Bar Association, Santa Clara Software Association, Software Publishers Association, Upside Magazine, Dr. Dobb's Journal, L.A. Times, High-Tech Report, Computer und Recht.
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Sinisa Zimek,
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Sinisa Zimek is Director of XML and Java-based technology architectures at SAP Labs, California. He is responsible for planning and driving SAP's strategy in technology architectures and open Internet standards in the United States.
Sinisa is member of the WS-I Board of Directors (Web Services Interoperability organization), Advisory Board member of XML.org as well as co-chair of the WS-I Sample Applications work group. He is active member of various work groups including the W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group and OASIS ebXML Messaging technical committee.
Mr. Zimek is the author of numerous publications as well as an active speaker and track-leader on conferences. His experience includes over 14 years of development and consulting in the software industry as well as in the international research arena where he has been working for academic and industrial sponsors. Mr. Zimek holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science. His academic background includes Ph.D. studies in the fields of computer supported collaborative work and human computer interactions.
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