CONFERENCES

Mr. Cook co-founded Intuit Inc. in 1983 and now serves as the chairman of the Executive Committee of the board. He is the driving force behind the Company's strategy to revolutionize financial automation. Since the launch of Quicken, Mr. Cook has been instrumental in guiding Intuit into new businesses, such as small business accounting software, tax preparation software for home PCs, and Internet businesses, including Quicken.com. Before founding Intuit, Mr. Cook managed consulting assignments in banking and technology for Bain & Company, a corporate strategy consulting firm. Prior to Bain, he worked for Procter & Gamble, the household-products giant, in various marketing positions, including brand manager, for four years.

Mr. Cook holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Southern California and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University. In addition to his responsibilities at Intuit, Mr. Cook is a member of the board of directors of eBay, the world's leading personal trading community; The Asia Foundation; Procter & Gamble and the Intuit Scholarship Foundation. He is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization, a worldwide group of corporate chief executives dedicated to learning.

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Dr. James (Jim) Goodnight is CEO of SAS Institute, the world's largest privately held software company. Chief executive since the company's incorporation in 1976, Goodnight continues to focus on strategic planning for the global business, which provides software and services that enable customers to transform data from all areas of their business into intelligence. An accomplished programmer, Goodnight has authored many of the procedures that comprise SAS software.

In addition to this significant investment in technology, Goodnight also invests in people -- SAS employees and their families. The company's work environment is designed to nurture and encourage creativity, innovation and quality. Since the early 1980s, Goodnight has supported on-site childcare, health care and recreation and fitness centers. His commitment to these progressive work-life programs has earned SAS national recognition in publications such as The Wall Street Journal as well as Fortune, Fast Company, Business Week and Working Mother magazines.

A native of Wilmington, N.C., Goodnight holds bachelor's and master's degrees as well as a doctorate in statistics from North Carolina State University. He served on the faculty of NCSU from 1972 to 1976, and continues to serve as an adjunct professor. Goodnight is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and has authored numerous papers on statistical computing.

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Scott Kriens is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks, Inc. Since joining the organization in 1996 at the company’s inception, Kriens has grown Juniper Networks into an organization of almost 3000 people serving thousands of customers in more than 75 countries worldwide. Today, Juniper Networks’ customers include the top 25 global carriers and 8 of the top 15 Fortune 500 companies.

Kriens’ entrepreneurial spirit has earned him several awards, including recognition for his achievements in the world of Internet technology at Ernst & Young's first-ever World Entrepreneur of The Year™ awards and the 2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Kriens was named one of Forbes’ Top Tech Execs in 1996, one of Business Week’s top 25 Managers in 2000, and, more recently, one of the “25 Most Powerful People in Networking” by Network World.

Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Kriens was a co-founder and officer of StrataCom, Inc. in 1986, where he served as vice president of sales and operations, establishing and developing relationships with StrataCom's first customers, including those who built the first Frame Relay and ATM networks in the industry.

Kriens also serves on the Board of Directors of VeriSign, Inc., and Equinix, Inc.

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Roger McNamee is a co-founder and general partner of Integral Capital Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and Elevation Partners. Roger began his career at T. Rowe Price Associates in a variety of research and portfolio management positions.

Roger is the author of The New Normal, published in November 2004 by the Portfolio imprint of Penguin Books. The New Normal provides a roadmap for balancing family, career and financial issues in a time where technology and globalization have increased uncertainty, but also increased the opportunities for individuals.

In his spare time, Mr. McNamee plays guitar and sings lead vocals in the Flying Other Brothers Band (FOBs), a rock 'n' roll band.

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Charles Phillips is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors. He is responsible for global field operations including consulting, marketing, sales, alliances and channels, and customer programs, as well as corporate strategy. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Phillips was a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley in its technology group. Prior to his career on Wall Street, Mr. Phillips was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. Phillips holds a BS in Computer Science from the United States Air Force Academy, an MBA from Hampton University, and a JD from New York Law School and is a member of the bar in Washington D.C. and Georgia. Mr. Phillips is on the boards of Viacom Corporation, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, and New York Law School.

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S. Ramadorai, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services Limited, has been associated with the Company for the past thirty years. Joining as a trainee engineer, Ramadorai took over as CEO in 1996 and has been instrumental in building TCS to a $ 1.6 Billion global software and services company with a talent base of over 30,000 associates, a geographical reach of 32 countries and an enviable client list which includes six of the Top Ten Fortune companies. Ramadorai has now set his sights on ensuring that TCS is among the global Top Ten software companies.

His key initiatives include his relentless pursuit of excellence in quality. In August 2004, TCS became the world's first organization to achieve an integrated Enterprise wide Maturity Level 5 on both Capability Maturity model and People Capability Maturity model.

Ramadorai firmly believes that learning is a continual process, which does not end with formal education. With this in mind, he has striven to make TCS a learning organization, conducive to developing ones full potential. TCS spends 6 % of its annual turnover on training and development and has invested in a world class Training Center. Additionally, each year, every TCSer has the opportunity to undergo 20 days training.

His academic credentials include a Bachelors degree in Physics from Delhi University, India, a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California - UCLA, USA.

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Shane Robison is responsible for shaping HP's overall corporate strategy and technology agenda. He steers the company’s nearly $4B R&D investment as well as fostering the development of the company’s 25,000 plus technical community. All of the company’s senior CTOs and the director of HP Labs report into Robison. Shane also leads the company's strategy and corporate development efforts including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IP licensing, VC community, and partnerships. He was one of four principal architects of the HP/Compaq merger and in 2004, InfoWorld declared Robison one of the worlds 25 most influential Chief Technology Officers.

Robison was senior vice president and chief technology officer of Strategy and Technology at Compaq Computer Corporation. Prior to joining Compaq, Robison was president of Internet Technology and Development at AT&T Labs. While at AT&T, he led a 2,000-person team that was responsible for the architecture, planning and development of all of AT&T's Internet technologies and services.

Prior to AT&T, Robison held positions at Cadence Design Systems and Apple Computers.

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As President & CEO, Mr. Bedard is directly responsible for the strategic direction, research point of view, and the day-to-day operations of the organization.

Before joining AberdeenGroup, Mr. Bedard, Jim Sims (founder of Cambridge Technology Partners), Michael Treacy (coauthor of The Discipline of Market Leaders and author of Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It — No Matter What) built GEN3 Partners. As president of GEN3 Partners, Mr. Bedard developed an innovative business model that delivered solution-based marketing programs to drive deal flow and "private-label" professional services to software companies below the current internal cost structure of their professional services organizations.

Prior to his tenure at GEN3, Mr. Bedard was a partner and COO at Benchmarking Partners, a research-based consultancy that focused on IT-enabled value chain best practices. Over a three-year period, Mr. Bedard developed a $30 million, 140-person consulting practice focused on research-based go-to-market strategies for software companies and ROI from implementing IT-enabled best practices for end-clients. Mr. Bedard spearheaded the development of supply chain collaboration, resulting in the first industrywide, Internet-based B2B standard for collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR).

Mr. Bedard received his B.A. in Economics from Bates College and an M.B.A. in Finance from Central Michigan University.

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Ken Berryman is a Principal in the Silicon Valley office of McKinsey & Company. He is active within McKinsey's High Technology practice and is a leader of its North American Software and Services practice sub-sector. He has served a range of high tech clients on issues including corporate strategy, market strategy, acquisitions, and go-to-market improvement. Examples of his client work include:

Ken holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University, and an A.B. in physics from Harvard University. Before joining McKinsey, Ken conducted semiconductor research as a post-doctoral scientist in the electrical engineering department of Princeton University, and has also been a member of the technical staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has lectured and consulted at research institutions around the world, including Japan's Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) in the Netherlands.

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Mr Cameron is a 30 year veteran of the IT industry. Mr Cameron joined Unilever in July 2003 from Diageo plc where he was also CIO.

Prior to that he was CIO for the North American business of Marks & Spencer. Mr Cameron started in IT in 1973 with RHM Management Services and held technical and junior management positions for a variety of organisations - Dixons Stores, TSB Trustcard, Aer Lingus & IBM.

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Jim Cashman is President and Chief Executive Officer of ANSYS, Inc. He joined the company as Senior Vice President of Operations in 1997 and became President and CEO in 2000.

Cashman's 30 years of experience in the areas of financial, operational, and sales management have been key to the success of numerous computer-aided design, product data management, transaction processing, and computer-aided engineering companies including PAR Technology Corporation, Metaphase, and SDRC.

Mr. Cashman holds BSME, MSME and MBA degrees from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. In addition to his duties at ANSYS, he serves on the company's board of directors. Mr. Cashman is also on the boards of the Pittsburgh Technology Council and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the advisory board of Marketing Department Solutions (MDS), and is a member of the TechAction Group, an IT cluster initiative for the Catalyst Connection and the Pittsburgh Technology Council.

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As CIO for the Lockheed Martin Corporation, Joe Cleveland is responsible for formulating the Corporation’s information technology (IT) vision and strategy, consolidating IT resources, implementing e -commerce initiatives, leveraging economies of scale, and supporting Lockheed Martin businesses. As president of Enterprise Information Systems, Cleveland is responsible for all internal information technology operations and services across the $31.8 billion Lockheed Martin Corporation.

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Mr. Greenough is the visionary leader and driving force behind the company’s successful business strategy. A former partner in a public accounting firm and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, Greenough’s leadership has resulted in a more than 350 percent increase in revenue, with profits exceeding 20 percent in just two years. His strategy to “acquire market share and develop customer share” has made him an oft-quoted expert regarding the consolidation trend occurring in the ERP software industry. Satisfying the critical software solutions and services requirements of the company’s growing global client base is a key component of Greenough’s business strategy. His commitment to customer satisfaction is demonstrated by a high level of investment in R&D and customer service.

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Quentin Hardy is the Silicon Valley Bureau Chief of Forbes Magazine. He joined the magazine in March 1999, and has written cover stories on Yahoo, Google, Hewlett Packard, telecommunications, and philanthropy, among others.

He is also a regular on Forbes on Fox, a weekly show on the Fox Cable News Network.

Prior to joining Forbes, Mr. Hardy spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal, covering the Japanese financial meltdown in Tokyo and the late-nineties boom in the Silicon Valley

Mr. Hardy is a graduate of Kenyon College and has a Masters degree from the University of London. In 1995 he was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship from the Columbia University School of Journalism.

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Erik Keller has been a participant in the information technology industry for over 20 years in a variety of roles and formed Wapiti LLC in January 1999. As principal of Wapiti, he has provided strategic consulting services for dozens of companies seeking advice on enterprise-software business models and technologies. Erik currently consults with venture-capital firms, works with a variety of enterprise software companies on both a project and retainer basis, and key buyers of technology products. In the past he has authored columns for Manufacturing Systems, Managing Automation and other trade magazines. He is currently a columnist for MSI magazine. In the spring of 2004 his book, Technology Paradise Lost, which predicts the future of IT spending in corporations was published.

Before forming Wapiti, Erik was a Research Fellow, Director of Research and Vice President with Gartner Inc. While with Gartner, he managed the enterprise software group, which had over 45 analysts in the areas of front-office, back-office and e-commerce software. With Gartner for more than a decade, Erik has worked with over 1,000 companies worldwide (including many of the Fortune 100) to advise them how to deploy and develop information technology strategies with an emphasis in the manufacturing sector.

Erik is currently a Research Fellow in residence at AMR Research and a Research Fellow at Saugatuck Technology. He is also on the Board of Advisors for Questra.

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David Kirkpatrick, senior editor, Internet and technology at FORTUNE, specializes in the computer and technology industries, as well as in the impact of the Internet on business and society. He writes a column, which appears, weekly on fortune.com and through e-mail subscription.

Kirkpatrick joined Time Inc. in 1978 while working as a video artist, and started at FORTUNE in 1983. In 1991 he began covering the computer beat. In 1990 his story "Will You Be Able to Retire?" was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in the personal service journalism category. Marketing Computers regularly ranks him among the top five most influential technology journalists in the country.

Kirkpatrick is a regular commentator on CNNfn and TechTV, and has also appeared frequently as a technology industry expert on CNN and PBS. Working with other FORTUNE editors, he developed Brainstorm, a multi-disciplinary conference which brings together global leaders to interact and discuss the future. The conference, first held in 2001, takes place annually in Aspen and is produced in partnership with the Aspen Institute.

Kirkpatrick has a B.A. in English from Amherst College, and attended art school for two years.

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Amnon Landan, Forbes 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year, has served as Mercury President and Chief Executive Officer since February 1997. Appointed to chairman in July 1999, he has been a director of the Company since February 1996. Since joining Mercury Interactive in November 1989, Landan has held numerous positions, including president of North American operations, chief operating officer, vice president of operations and vice president of research and development. Landan has been involved in the software industry for more than 17 years. He holds a B.Sc. degree in computer sciences from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

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AS CIO of BP, John Leggate is responsible for the development of BP's digital capability - its related systems, technology, business processes and opportunities - across the 150 business units that comprise the company's global operations, upstream and downstream.

John was honoured as Commander, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen in her 2004 New Year's Honour List. This is in recognition of an outstanding contribution and leadership of the international digital technology agenda.

A chartered engineer, a graduate of Glasgow University and a Fellow of the IEE, began his career in marine consultancy and nuclear energy before joining BP Exploration in 1979. During the 1980-90s he held posts of increasing responsibility in the management and operating of BP's North Sea oil and gas assets.

In 1998, he was appointed President of BP's Azerbaijan International Operating Company, in which capacity he was tasked to manage BP's interests in the unfolding geopolitical and economic debate that centres on crude oil export routes from the Caspian Sea.

John has a particular interest in executive leadership, the management of high-performance teams, organisational change, and knowledge management. He is a member of the BP Group Senior Leadership Team, and is closely involved in the development of corporate policy on technology foresight, global environmental performance, and sustainability.

He is married with four children, lives in London and travels widely on behalf of the company.

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Liautaud has ultimate responsibility for all areas of the company, including operations, finance, product engineering, marketing, and business development. Liautaud co-founded Business Objects in 1990, and took the company public on NASDAQ in September 1994, making it the first French software company listed in the United States.

* In October 2002, Liautaud was named to Time Magazine Europe's Digital Top 25, which recognized the 25 most influential executives in technology.

* In March 2001, Liautaud was named by Chief Executive Magazine as one of the Top 10 CEOs in North America.

* In the fall of 2000, Liautaud authored the popular business book, e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information Into Knowledge Into Profit. Published by McGraw-Hill, this book is an Amazon best seller and is currently available in nine languages worldwide.

Previously he was the deputy scientific attaché for the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. Liautaud has a master's degree in engineering from École Centrale (France) and a masters degree in engineering management from Stanford University.

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Jorge is based in the United States, focused on building and managing the flexible, real-time business. His responsibilities include researching and identifying best practices, frameworks and approaches for creating the next-generation enterprise, providing frameworks to capitalize on customer priorities as leading indicators of behavior and identifying critical cross-industry business issues and produce research that addresses each issue.

Jorge has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry including various executive roles in marketing and sales, research and development, implementation services, strategic planning, and corporate business development.

Jorge has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering fom Rice University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Notre Dame.

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Iain Morris is senior vice president of the Personal Connectivity Solutions Group (PCSG) at AMD. He is responsible for leading the overall strategy and business activities of the group. Morris comes to AMD with more than 25 years of solid experience in the industry. Leveraging the international operations experience acquired throughout his career, Morris is also overseeing AMD's emerging markets initiative.

Morris joins AMD from Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he was senior vice president for the Mobility and Emerging Technology group. Prior to this, he was president of the Embedded and Personal Systems group there. Prior to HP, he served a 23-year tenure at Motorola as senior vice president and general manager of its Personal Communications Sector (PCS) Americas Region, comprising of its cellular, advanced messaging and paging businesses in the United States and Canada.

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Nicholas Negroponte is the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding chairman of MIT's Media Laboratory.

Professor Negroponte studied at MIT and has been an MIT faculty member since 1966. He was the founder of MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface. In 1995, he published The New York Times bestseller Being Digital which has been translated into over 40 languages.

In the private sector, Professor Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola, ÊInc. and as a special general partner in a venture capital firm focusing on technologies for information and entertainment. He was a founder of WiReD magazine and has been an "angel investor" for over 40 start-ups, including three in China. Most recently, Professor Negroponte helped to establish, and serves as chairman of, the 2B1 Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing computer access to children in the most remote and poorest parts of the world.

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Teresa Peters founded bridges.org in 1999 and serves as its executive director. Teresa combines involvement in the highest levels of international technology policy-making with participation in ground level projects in developing countries and disadvantaged communities.

Under her leadership, bridges.org has become a leading organisation in the area of ICT-enabled development, bringing an entrepreneurial attitude to its social mission, and working with governments, civil society, and the business community. Teresa is a lawyer with technology expertise and a specialisation in law and policy matters related to the Internet and electronic commerce.

Prior to founding bridges.org, Teresa was an official at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) based in Paris, where she led the efforts of the Committee on Information, Computers and Communications Policy in the areas of authentication, cryptography and security of information systems.

Teresa has been involved in civil and human rights efforts in Latin America, Africa, Europe and North America. She was on the founding board of the American and African Business Women's Alliance (AABWA), and was named a Global Leader of Tomorrow (2003) by the World Economic Forum.

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Bruce Richardson has been analyzing the software market for more than 20 years. Since joining AMR Research in 1988, he has been responsible for spearheading new research directions, contributing to the company's analysis of leading market trends, and presenting AMR's analysis in public forums throughout the world.

Prior to AMR Research, Bruce held senior marketing management positions within the software and networking industries. He currently serves on Mass eComm's Leadership Roundtable Series Advisory Board and is a member of the Boston College Technology Council.

Bruce graduated cum laude from Boston College.

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As an analyst on the Application Development & Infrastructure research team, John covers application servers and platforms, including J2EE application servers and Microsoft's competing technologies. John has 14 years of experience as an industry analyst, business strategy consultant, and software-marketing executive.

Previously, John served as a vice president of product marketing at IONA Technologies, where he gained firsthand experience in creating and executing market strategies. John played a key role in launching Iona's Web Services Integration product set, formulating the strategy and serving as principal company spokesmen. John was also a member of Ionass senior management team.

In late 1994, John helped to found Giga Information Group, which Forrester acquired in 2003. Most recently at Giga, John was vice president and research leader, specializing in distributed application development tools and platforms. In 1997, John earned the Giga Research Achievement Award.

Prior to joining Giga, John spent six years as vice president and senior consultant with the Patricia Seybold Group, a technology research firm specializing in emerging distributed and network computing technologies, including CORBA, Microsoft COM, C++ and Smalltalk, and message - oriented middleware.

John graduated from Ohio University with a B.S. in journalism.

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Ernie is a Director of Arcsight, Good Technology, Levanta, BDNA, and several other private technology companies. He was co-founder of the Research Board where he directed the professional staff into examinations of evolving business models, advanced technology, business applications and IT best practices.

He holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from New York University. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Computerworld and Fortune.

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Brian Turchin, a 30-year software industry veteran, is founder and president of Cape Horn Strategies, which since 1998 has provided strategic planning services to the software industry. He writes the "Executive Strategy" column for Software Business magazine. He chairs the Long Island Software CEO Roundtable. And he moderates the Strategy and Leadership forum on SoftwareCEO.com.

For the past two years, Turchin has been researching why, in the face of our industry's economic slump, a select few software companies operate as if we were still in the late '90s continuing to rack up consecutive years of profitable growth. Each year his company publishes the Sustained Success Honor Roll, which highlights this special group of companies. Out of 573 public software companies, only 15 made it to the 2004 Honor Roll.

Prior to founding Cape Horn Strategies, Turchin was VP Sales & Marketing for a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp which sold Internet-based software products and services. Prior to News Corp, Turchin held several executive titles at Prodigy Services Corp, helping to build the first consumer-based on-line service. Earlier in his career, on the technical side, at a time of mainframe domination, he helped pioneer the building of distributed processing applications.

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Dave Watson is CTO of Kaiser Permanente Information Technology (KPIT), the $1 billion technology management arm of Kaiser Permanente and the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. In this role, Dave provides IT strategy, systems architecture, and application development services across Kaiser Permanente’s hospitals, medical groups and insurance operations that serve nearly 9 million members in 9 states and the District of Columbia, and employs over 130,000 people.

Dave has been with KPIT for 3 years and has 25 years of experience in a variety of executive IT roles most notably in the Life Sciences sector with Baxter Healthcare and Allergan Inc., as well as other business sectors with recognized industry leaders such as Northrop Corp., Mattel, and others. Over half of his 25 years have been in IT leadership positions in global companies with the past 10 years in CIO and/or CTO roles.

Dave is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School’s Executive Development Program and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California.

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