Bobby Napiltonia was previously vice president and general manager of worldwide channels and alliances for BEA Systems, Inc. At BEA, Napiltonia directed strategy and business models for the company's worldwide alliance partners including Intel, Computer Sciences Corp., Accenture, Hewlett Packard Co., EMC, Wipro, Tata Consultany Services and Electronic Data Systems. Napiltonia also created new business engagement models with global system integrators, software vendors and launched a formal Reseller Program in the United States.

In March 2005, Napiltonia's was recognized by CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine as one of North America's Top Channel Executives of 2005. Napiltonia was CEO, president and founder of State Software Inc., a start-up company selling a software platform for enabling Web applications. Prior to this, Napiltonia spent 12 years in senior management positions working in a variety of channels at Creative Labs and D&H Distributing.

Erin Traudt is a research analyst for IDC's Software as a Service (SaaS) research program. In this capacity, Ms. Traudt provides coverage of SaaS and software on demand, and assists clients with their market intelligence needs through research, analysis, and consulting.

Prior to her analyst role at IDC, Ms. Traudt spent over four years in the marketing department for IDC's Software; Integration, Development and Application Strategies (IDeAS); and Services Research organizations where she gained broad software and services industry knowledge. In this role, Ms. Traudt executed strategic marketing initiatives for over 40 of IDC's valued research programs and worked closely with analysts to promote and generate demand for the company's portfolio of products.

Before coming to IDC, Ms. Traudt worked at Sybase providing marketing and partner support for the CODE/ISV Partner Program initiative.

Ms. Traudt graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University where she earned her Bachelors of Science degree in Organizational Communication with a minor in Graphic Design.

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is a leading venture capital firm focused on software investing and manages over $1 billion in cumulative capital. Since Hummer Winblad Venture Partners' inception in 1989 the firm has launched over 90 new software companies.

Ann has over 25 years of experience in the software industry as a successful software entrepreneur, strategy advisor, technical author and venture capitalist. Her background and experience have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications.

As SVP Marketing, Strategy and Product Management, Tien Tzuo brings to Salesforce.com over 16 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. Since he joined the company in 1999, Tzuo has been responsible for setting the vision, strategy, direction and design of Salesforce.com's award winning product line, including overseeing the launch of Salesforce, Supportforce, Customforce, Sforce, and Wireless Edition. In 2004, Tzuo was named CMO of the Year Finalist by the CMO Council and BusinessWeek Magazine. Tzuo came to salesforce.com from CrossWorlds Software, where he spearheaded CrossWorlds product, marketing and sales push into the Telecommunications vertical worldwide. Prior to CrossWorlds, Tzuo spent over six years at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and professional services roles.

Mr. Tzuo holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a master's in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Jeff Kaplan is the Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, a strategic consulting firm that helps IT enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies.

Kaplan is also the founder of the Managed Service Showplace® (www.msp-showplace.com or www.thinkmsp.com) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace® (www.saas-showplace.com or www.thinksaas.com) free, online directories. THINKstrategies' online directories provide an easy-to-use listing of SaaS solutions by application and MSPs by service category, and extensive information and insight about industry best practices to help organizations fully leverage the growing array of SaaS solutions and managed services.

Mrs. Wohl is Editor and Publisher of Amy D. Wohl's Opinions, a weekly electronic newsletter. She previously edited The TrendsLetter and The Wohl Report. She also maintains a weblog at amywohl.weblogger.com. She is a columnist to VARBusiness magazine, a contributing editor to Spectrum Middleware, and a frequent contributor to the trade and general business press on the Internet, software, computing, computer trends, and technology. Mrs. Wohl is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and seminars in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. She is especially well known for her keynotes on the future.

Jim Geisman is president of MarketShare, Inc. a consulting firm located in Wayland, Massachusetts that he started in 1982. Since then, MarketShare has worked with more than 200 clients from North America, Europe and Japan. Geisman has been a co-founder, director, advisor and mentor to early stage companies and has helped raise more than $25M for various ventures. Jim helped BrookTrout Technologies and MicroTouch Systems raise their seed round. A semiconductor capital equipment company that he co-founded was sold to Balzers. A company he advised on transactions led to their acquisition by Network Appliance. He also serves on the board and as an advisor to several early stage technology companies and has consulted with more than 100 early stage ventures.

K.B. Chandrasekhar ("Chandra") is co-founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Jamcracker. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of e4e Inc., a global technology holding company and Chairman of the Board of Aztec Software and Technology Services Limited, a publicly traded company on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Mike Hoskins brings more than 21 years of experience in developing and managing software companies to his role as chief technology officer. Mike previously served as vice president and general manager of Pervasive's Integration Products Division, created following the December 2003 acquisition of Data Junction Corporation where Mike served as president for the last 15 years. As chief technology officer, Mike champions Pervasive's technology direction and evangelizes the company's industry-leading low-TCO approach to data management and integration worldwide.

Since 1996, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce.

Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting, IP networkig, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution. Under his leadership, MFN customers included BP Amoco, JP Morgan Chase, Sony, Microsoft, and Mercedes-Benz. Mr. Ryan joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN the following year in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. Prior to co-founding SiteSmith, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Professional Services for GlobalCenter, a pioneer in the hosting and Internet services marketplace.