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Soledad O’Brien, an NBC News Correspondent, reports for
"Nightly News," and "Dateline," substitute anchors for weekend
"Nightly News" and weekend "Today," as well as anchors coverage for
MSNBC. At MSNBC, she anchors "Morning Blend," a three-hour news talk show on
Saturday and Sunday mornings. Additionally, O’Brien pens a column for MSNBC.COM; is a
contributing technology editor for USA Weekend Magazine; and a technology columnist
for Women’s Wire’s website, WOMEN.COM. Most recently, O’Brien hosted
MSNBC’s Emmy-award winning program. "The Site," devoted to the
technological revolution. O’Brien was named to Irish American Magazine’s in 1998 "Top 100 Irish Americans" list and in 1997, awarded the Hispanic Achievement Award in Communications. She is also a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Black Journalists Association, O’Brien studied at Harvard University and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband.
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John Perry Barlow, called by some the "Thomas Jefferson of the
Internet," is one of its most colorful chroniclers and influential defenders. And he
is just possibly the best person in the world to provide clues to the clueless on the
wired age connecting us all. Together with Lotus's Mitch
Kapor, he founded The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the premier organization fighting
for online freedom of expression and privacy in the world today.
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Michael Fitzgerald, an award-winning writer and editor, is the founding news
editor for ZDNet News, the news channel on ZDNet, the largest site for news and
information on the World Wide Web. A ten-year veteran of high-technology writing, he also spent six years at
Computerworld and has won several awards, including the 1995 Best News Story from the
Computer
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Kapi Attawar joined HP as a manufacturing and Unix consultant in London
in 1987. Later, he managed the HP consulting business in London looking after Global and
Financials businesses. After a couple of years he then moved to manage the Systems Migration and Performance Center (UK and Europe) based in the UK, working with key ISVs like Oracle, Informix and SAP. In 1993 he moved to Boeblingen, Germany to work in the European Marketing Center looking after the High End Unix server business covering Europe, Middle-East and Africa. He worked closely with the Datacentre and Data Warehousing programs covering the Unix platform, operating environment and Middleware products as well as linking key ISVs. In April 1996 he moved to the Asia marketing team in Cupertino to cover the Emerging markets of Asia looking after the Internet and E-commerce businesses for HP in all Asian countries except Japan. During that time HP has emerged to become a well known name in the Internet space in the region while also dominating the payment and banking space in South East Asia. In early 1998, he moved to take over the Internet and Application Systems Division (IASD) Business Unit covering the Americas for Hewlett-Packard.
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Alan Fisher is a co-founder and chief technical officer of Onsale, Inc.
He is responsible for the company’s engineering and technical operations. Prior to Onsale, Mr. Fisher co-founded Ambia Corporation, now a division of publicly held Infodata Systems, Inc., where he is vice chairman. Mr. Fisher also co-founded Software Partners, Inc., a developer of software products for online services. Mr. Fisher’s career began at AT&T Bell Laboratories. From there, he moved to Teknowledge, an artificial intelligence software products firm. Mr. Fisher holds a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri.
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Bobby
Lent leads Ariba's businesses development and strategic partner organization and is in
charge of all partner-related strategy and activities. Prior to co-founding Ariba, Mr.
Lent was vice president of marketing for Inmac, an international supplier of networking
& computing equipment to Fortune 1000 enterprises. In this capacity, Mr. Lent managed
Inmac's marketing, sales, and inventory management operations. Prior to Inmac, he held senior product-marketing positions at Quantum and Softbridge Microsystems. Mr. Lent began his career with Deloitte-Touche and is a CPA.
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Dr. Perry W. Thorndyke is Vice President of Business Development at BroadVision.
He is responsible for new market development, corporate development and acquisitions,
strategic alliances, and new solutions development with systems integration and technology
partners. He also manages corporate relationships with interactive agencies and new media
organizations. During his three years at BroadVision, he has been responsible for creating
and growing the partners program with systems integrators and technology companies;
Worldwide Marketing and Product Management, and Americas Sales. Dr. Thorndyke has previously held management positions in Fortune 200 organizations, with responsibility for implementing and supporting mission-critical business applications. Prior to Quintus, he was Vice President and Division Manager for retail banking systems at Wells Fargo Bank, leading a 150-person organization with responsibility for the applications serving 600+ branches and six 24-hour customer service centers. Previously, he held senior positions in marketing, business development, and engineering management at FMC Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems.
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Cheryl Duda-Harte currently serves as VP of Marketing for
InterWorld, responsible for the worldwide marketing of InterWorld products. She joined
InterWorld in 1998, and brings thirteen years of hi-tech marketing experience to the
company. Prior to InterWorld, Mrs. Duda-Harte was VP for Claremont Technology Group, a mid-tier consulting firm. She initially served as VP of Claremont's Electronic Commerce division, working with their industry practices to deliver electronic commerce implementations to Claremont's clients. Prior to Claremont Technology Group, Mrs. Duda-Harte was Division VP of Marketing for EDS' Electronic Commerce Services Division. She served in many roles at EDS in the marketing and packaging of EDS solutions, as well as in EDS' Advanced Technology group.
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Jacob (Koby) Huberman is the Vice President of InterNetworking
Marketing of the Enterprise Systems Group, Lucent Technologies, Systems Division. He is
responsible for the definition of Lucent’s marketing strategy for Enterprise
customers, and the coordination of Lucent marketing departments and activities,
initiatives and major operations on a world-wide basis. He is driving the marketing
organizations to ensure optimal marketing impact and growth of data networking business
for Enterprise customers. Koby joined Lucent Technologies in September 1998 following the acquisition of LANNET, an Israeli based pioneer in data networking switching, where he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. In this role, he was responsible for LANNET business and marketing strategy, and led its marketing organization. He was also in charge of business development activities, OEM and strategic alliances with large corporations, such as NEC, Mitel, NTT, Trigem and more. Formerly, Koby served as the Managing Director of ServiceSoft Europe, a Pan-European leading vendor of artificial intelligence and knowledge based software for customer service applications (based in Brussels). His company developed strategic relationships with large customers, such as Siemens, Philips, IBM, ICL, Alcatel and Olivetti and helped define service vision and strategy, as well as implementation of knowledge based technology in their organizations. Koby Huberman brings over twenty years of extensive experience in executive management, sales and marketing operations of high tech companies, as well as strong global experience in the USA, Europe and Asia.
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Matthew M. Rizai joined Engineering Animation, Inc. in 1990, during the
company’s start-up phase, as the CEO, chairman and president. Under his leadership,
EAI has experienced remarkable growth. In 1998, revenues reached $107 million. Prior to joining EAI, Rizai worked for ARCH Development Corp., a venture capital firm in Chicago. He has also served as a senior research engineer for General Motors, the vice president of engineering at Computer Aided Design, Inc. and as a development engineer for Ford Motor Co. Rizai serves on Iowa State University’s College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Council and is a member of the Executive’s Club at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Rizai earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. The Des Moines Register named Rizai the 1998 Business Leader of the Year. Business Week magazine chose Rizai as one of the seven top entrepreneurs of 1997. In 1996, Rizai was named the Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for Iowa by the Des Moines Register and the Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year in the Iowa-Nebraska Region. Rizai has also been profiled in Forbes and Individual Investor.
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As executive vice president of sales and marketing for Security First
Technologies (S1), Charles W. Ogilvie III is responsible for managing the revenue areas of
the company. He oversees the marketing, sales and corporate communications efforts for S1.
Prior to joining S1, Ogilvie worked with National Commerce Bancorporation (NCBC) of Memphis, Tennessee, one of the nations leading retail banks specializing in the alternative delivery of retail banking service. Ogilvie worked with senior management at NCBC to develop National Commerce Bank Service, which provides banks across the U.S. with the expertise to successfully implement alternative delivery channels, such as supermarket branches. Ogilvie has a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance, marketing and insurance from the University of Memphis.
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Robert
J. Lynch is serious about helping companies make money on the Web. A
no-nonsense, no-hype approach to Internet payments is changing the way customers view the
unbounded potential of the Internet as a seamless channel for sales and service. Lynch never loses sight of his company's role to solve tough business problems in a crusade to make the web channel profitable, citing that the biggest hurdle to Internet revenue is the electronic payments' back-end integration into existing business processes. Companies who support online selling with offline processing quickly understand that online volume can pose a serious threat to customer service and profitability. Solving this problem, says Lynch, will make ClearCommerce very successful. ClearCommerce is Lynch's fourth successful pre-IPO venture. The successful IPOs of MTech, ACS and NetSolve will likely be seen as the early results of his long career in e-commerce. With 10 years experience in the debit/credit industry, Lynch is well suited to his role as thought leader and problem solver in this market.
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Douglas F. Aldrich is vice president and managing director of the
Global Strategic Information Technology Practice at A.T. Kearney, the global management
consulting firm. He is also a member of the Board of Management and is based in Dallas. Aldrich has more than 26 years of experience in helping large-scale organizations transform their business through the strategic use of information technology. His specialties include systems strategy, technology transformation, business process reengineering and business strategy in a wide variety of industries, including automotive, manufacturing, consumer products, transportation, and high technology. Prior to joining A.T. Kearney, Aldrich was a vice president at Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc. and was one of the founders of Booz-Allen’s information technology practice. He served as a partner at Arthur Young & Co., where he founded the Advanced Information Technology Consulting practice, and worked with customer and financial systems for Cummins Engine Co.
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John Charters is Chief Executive Officer of Qwest Cyber.Solutions LLC,
a joint venture formed by Qwest Communications International Inc. and KPMG LLP to deliver
facilities based application service provider (ASP), application hosting (AHS) and
application management (AM) services. Mr. Charters leads Qwest’s entry into the new
applications services markets which capitalizes on the convergence of the Internet and
Internet technologies with applications outsourcing. Qwest Cyber.Solutions offers the
broadest set of vendor products available for ERP, CRM and Back Office solutions in the
marketplace, a state-of-the-art IP broadband network, industry-leading Cybercenters, and
experienced certified applications specialists. Previously Mr. Charters served as Vice President of Business Development for Qwest Communications International Inc. As Vice President of Business Development, Mr. Charters. was focused on accelerating the delivery of Internet-based communications services by initiating strategic business alliances and relationships with industry leading organizations. He led a team of Vice Presidents responsible for evaluating new and emerging technologies, applications and services for Qwest’s infrastructure and services portfolio.
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As Executive Vice President of FreeMarkets, Mr. Kinney assists in leading the company’s growth strategy, business planning and business process development. Mr. Kinney's intellectual leadership is applied to marketing, recruiting, and market making. He plays a leading role in the development of software applications for industrial market making and decision support. Mr. Kinney co-founded FreeMarkets, the global leader in creating custom-engineered online markets for buyers at Global 1000 corporations, in 1995, after leaving the Pittsburgh office of McKinsey & Company, where he had been working as an Engagement Manager. He brings five years of top management consulting experience to the FreeMarkets team, gained through experience at McKinsey and Booz-Allen & Hamilton. During his consulting tenure, Mr. Kinney worked on issues of sourcing, industrial distribution and operations effectiveness for industrial, healthcare and financial institution clients. Mr. Kinney earned an MBA,
with highest distinction, from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and a B.A.
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Mr. Simpson has over 25 years of leadership and executive experience in
high technology with specific industry expertise in communications, high tech and
healthcare industries. He is currently the Executive Vice President/General Manager of
eBusiness at i2 Technologies. From 1986 to 1996, Mr. Simpson held several executive
positions at Oracle Corp., serving most recently as Senior Vice President of
Telecommunications. From 1981 to 1986 he served as Vice President of Field Operations for
HBO & Company. From 1972 to 1981, Mr. Simpson held various sales, marketing and
general management positions at IBM. He also serves on the Board of Directors for several
software and technology companies.
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