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Richard Lee has been an Information Management professional for more than 30 years. Mr. Lee is currently responsible for leading ICBC’s information transformation project (INFO), establishing its Data Governance Office, and leading its Business Analytics – Community of Practice. He reports to ICBC’s CFO and was previously responsible for leading the organization’s BICC (business intelligence competency centre). Prior to joining ICBC, Mr. Lee was a consultant to the executive team at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) on strategy & analytics. He is a widely published thought leader on Information Management and Predictive Analytics. Mr. Lee has a BSc and MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA (Management & Decision Sciences) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

David Colbourn is the DBA for the enterprise architecture group at Ca Technologies. He previously worked for IT groups in companies such as ADP, Morgan Stanley, The Federal Reserve Bank, Lockheed Martin, 1-800 flowers and others. He served as an adjunct instructor at Pace University, his alma mater, for several years. He has over 26 years in the field of systems installation customization integration and design with the concentration in database management, data design, modeling and warehousing. The opinions and statements in this communication are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of CA.

John Head is the National Director of The Intersect Group’s Information Strategy & Delivery practice. He has more than 18 years of experience helping organizations leverage information to create practical and real business value. Prior to joining The Intersect Group, Mr. Head had been a vice president for Hitachi Consulting and a principle for Navigator Systems, a specialized BI & CPM consultancy. Mr. Head also has extensive experience in the software industry during his tenure with Hyperion Solutions & Oracle, and was a founding member of the BI practice for Arthur Andersen.

Yogesh Bhatt is a principal architect at Infosys Technologies Ltd. He can be reached at Yogesh_Bhatt@infosys.com.

In his role as a senior technology visionary, Bert Buchanan has established strategies and set direction for some of Canada’s largest corporations in the financial, consulting and telecom sectors. Specifically, Mr. Buchanan has led very large architecture, development and support organizations. These experiences over the past 20+ years have provided him with key insights into banking (retail, corporate and capital markets), telecommunications, and IS/IT consulting. Prior to his current role as Head of Corporate Architecture at TD Bank, Mr. Buchanan also performed a similar strategic role as Technology Head at Royal Bank of Canada. In addition, he also worked as Director at CGI and Senior Director at CIBC. Mr. Buchanan received his business degrees from George Brown College and the University of Manitoba.

Bill Giard is a Senior Enterprise Architect in the IT organization and joined Intel in 1996. He started at Intel working on the design engineering application and has since been involved in deploying large enterprise capabilities across the company. Mr. Giard has spent the majority of his career helping to improve master data and product data management capabilities and is responsible for the MDM and PLM architecture for Intel. He has helped the company deploy a central instance for product data management, including product excursion and issue management, environmental compliance, and external collaboration capabilities in conjunction with a master data foundation that links product lifecycle and PLM with supply planning and ERP.

Sam Alapati is Senior Technical Director, Miro Consulting Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University and conducted post doctoral research in Information Systems at the University of Texas at Austin.

Based in Silicon Valley, Brian Babineau serves as Vice President of Research and Analyst Services for Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).