Executive Management Brandt Williams, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Williams and Mr. Bair co-founded if… in late 1995 to empower an new class of knowledge workers. Mr. Williams has over 18 years in sales and business development experience. Mr. Williams was the President co-founder of db Industries in the early 1980's that he successfully sold. After performing several sales and marketing roles at Microsoft and Apple Computer Mr. Williams joined Paragon Systems as Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Williams has a BS in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from the University of Southern California. John Bair, Co-Founder, Chief of Technology, Senior Vice President Product Development Mr. Bair has spent the past 15 years developing technology for software startup companies that he co-founded. Mr. Bair was President and Chief Architect for Paragon Systems, which developed a temporal database coupled with an object oriented development environment. He also co-founded Bair Associates, a computer consulting firm specializing in business accounting, distribution and manufacturing software. Mr. Bair has two patents pending in temporal database technology. He has published several papers and spoken at many conferences on the subject of temporal data and the data warehouse. Philip Chernin, Chief Financial Officer Mr. Chernin has over 20 years of experience as a senior financial manager and Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Chernin is in private practice and has consulted for technology companies such as Virtual Vinyards, Stereographics, Alza Corporation, Forecross, and Optical Coating Labs, Inc. He was formerly with Arthur Young & Co. (now Ernst and Young), known for its preeminent, global technology practice, and Moss Adams, the largest regional accounting firm in the United States. Mr. Chernin holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin. Jay Jenkins, Vice President Business Development Mr. Jenkins has 20 years of experience in sales and business development for large corporate accounts. He was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for HOPS International, selling high performance databases for the Macintosh. He held sales and business development roles at Tektronix, Apple Computer, Prime Computer, and John H. Harland. As the National Account Manager at Apple Computer, he sold the first 200 Apple PowerBooks. Mr. Jenkins holds a BS from Colorado State University. Hollis Chin, Vice President Marketing Ms. Chin has spent over 8 years in the software industry in marketing and engineering roles. Prior to joining if… she was Director of Marketing at Geoworks, responsible for product marketing and coverage of the European region. Ms. Chin managed the engineering development efforts at Sybase for the Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database and an application development tool. She has served in the financial services industry and was Vice President, Marketing, at Bank of America. Ms. Chin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from the University of California, Berkeley. Ryan Sousa, Vice President Enterprise Applications Mr. Sousa is an internationally recognized expert, author, and speaker in the data warehouse industry. He co-authored the Corporate Information Factory and Data Warehouse Performance with W.H. Inmon, "the father of the data warehouse" and CTO of Pine Cone Systems. Mr. Sousa has extensive experience in telecommunications, utility, and other industries as a data warehouse architect for leading edge solutions. Most recently he was the Data Warehouse Architect for Primestar where he developed customer relationship and customer intelligence solutions. At MCI, Mr. Sousa architected the data warehouse solution for the highly successful "Friends and Family" marketing program. Mr. Sousa was the Chief Technologist of Intelligent Solutions, Inc. and consulted for Global 1000 companies with Claudia Imhoff, founder and CEO. Mr. Sousa is a frequent speaker at the Data Warehouse Institute, DCI, and other tradeshows.