Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites.

Behlendorf is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation. In January 2006, he was named a Young Global Leader by the Forum of Young Global Leaders, an affiliate of the World Economic Forum. Behlendorf is one of only 41 people in North America chosen to join this powerful international community tasked with making a positive impact on the global future. Behlendorf moderated a software panel at the 2006 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in January 2006 in Davos, Switzerland.

Since 1999, Aneel served as general partner at Greylock Partners, a leading, early-stage venture capital firm. Aneel is on the Board of Directors of Above All Software, Cape Clear, Data Domain, and Outlooksoft.

Aneel held multiple leadership roles with PeopleSoft from 1993 to 2004, serving as senior vice president in charge of product strategy, business development, and marketing, and most recently as vice chairman of the board.

He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Brown University.

Dr. Charan earnedhis MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with high distinction and was a Baker Scholar. After receiving his doctorate degree, he served on the Harvard Business School faculty.

Identified by Fortune as the leading expert in corporate governance, Dr. Charan is helping boards go beyond the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and the New York Stock Exchange by providing practical ways to improve their group dynamics. Boards, CEOs, and senior-most human resource executives often seek his advice on talent planning and key hires. Many people have come to know Dr. Charan through in-house executive education programs. His energetic, interactive teaching style has won him several awards. He won the Bell Ringer award at GE's famous Crotonville Institute and best teacher award at Northwestern. He was among BusinessWeek's top ten resources for in-house executive development programs.

Over the past decade, Dr. Charan has captured his business insights in numerous books and articles. In the past five years, Dr. Charan's books have sold more than 2 million copies. These include the bestseller Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done and Confronting Reality, both co-authored with Larry Bossidy, What the CEO Wants You to Know, Boards at Work, Every Business Is a Growth Business, Profitable Growth, and Boards That Deliver. A frequent contributor to Fortune, Dr. Charan has written two cover stories, "Why CEOs Fail" and "Why Companies Fail." His other articles have appeared in the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Director's Monthly, and Strategy and Business.

Previously, Dabney served as CIO/Group Technology Executive for Retail Applications, which included responsibility for the Retail store delivery channels (teller/sales/service platforms), Call Center Technology, Hogan Deposit Systems, Risk Systems, and Check Operations Systems, as well as dotted-line responsibility for the Private Client Services, Business Banking, and Internet Services.

In his career with Wells Fargo/Norwest, Dabney has also managed the item processing operations, Mergers and Acquisitions (including management of the merger between Wells Fargo and Norwest) and the Project Management Office.

After graduating Cum Laude from Texas Tech in Management/Finance, Dabney has spent over 30 years in Retail, Operations, Technology and now Wholesale banking and has also completed the Pacific Coast Banking School Honors Program.

He has provided over 21 years of strategic leadership in the areas of information and biomedical technologies that has positioned UPMC as a world-class IT organization on par with leading technical organizations across all industries.

Under his tactical leadership, UPMC has been consistently recognized by InformationWeek magazine as one of the 100 most innovative users of information technology, along with organizations such as Cisco, Verizon, and Capital One. In 2004, UPMC ranked No. 1 among health care organizations and fifth overall.

In April 2005, Mr. Drawbaugh spearheaded the UPMC - IBM eight-year, $402 million partnership to re-engineer UPMC’s technology infrastructure to an on-demand environment. Mr. Drawbaugh was instrumental in securing the “on-demand” agreement that will allow UPMC to be more agile and react effectively to fluctuating demand or unforeseen competitive or business continuity challenges. Additionally, through Mr. Drawbaugh’s innovation and creativity, an investment and marketing component were established that will develop, utilize, and market health care solutions that will improve patient care and research at UPMC and other health care organizations nationally and internationally.

In addition, Mr. Drawbaugh serves as a key technology advisor to four UPMC partnered joint venture funds. His contributions involve development of the relationship, creation and management of the fund, and governance positions in identification of new opportunities for investment focused on healthcare technology innovation.

Evans has been with Intel for 26 years and, before joining Digital Health Group, held a variety of management positions in Europe and the US in a broad spectrum of disciplines including information technology, business applications development, marketing, e-Business architecture, and system software research. In his most recent role Evans led Intel’s Corporate Technology Group research labs focused on virtualization, trust, and content protection technologies and hosted Intel’s research on Proactive Health aimed at the development of platforms for home health monitoring.

Evans has represented Intel in the leadership of a number of industry standards initiatives. He chaired the Board of Directors of Oasis, an international consortium driving XML interoperability, and played a central role in the creation of RosettaNet, a multi-company initiative focused on building Internet-based supply chains for the information technology, electronic components, and semiconductor manufacturing industries. For several years, Evans served as chair of RosettaNet’s Executive Board and is currently the President of the Dossia Consortium.

Prior to joining Intel, Evans was involved in business applications development in the semiconductor, electric utility and pharmaceutical industries.

Evans obtained his degree in Computer Science at Manchester University in the United Kingdom, and is an alumnus of INSEAD, France.

Scott champions IT as a value-added business for Microsoft. Partnering across Microsoft, Scott and his team identify opportunities, structure IT solutions and deliver measurable returns to the business. Scott ensures Microsoft is the first and best customer of its own products. In addition to maintaining a globally integrated set of enterprise IT platforms built on Microsoft® technology, his team deploys prerelease versions of Microsoft products throughout the company. The direction and feedback his team provides to Microsoft developers helps enhance products before commercial release. His team also helps evangelize Microsoft products with customers, providing firsthand insight on deployment and the value of Microsoft software and services.

Scott joined Microsoft in July 2005 from General Electric Co. (GE), where he has served as CIO for multiple GE divisions. During 17 years with GE, he gained experience in IT architecture, software development and management. Under his guidance, GE successfully re-engineered its Consumer & Industrial division and integrated the business systems of four GE divisions composed of 75,000 employees. He also led the IT and business integration of $14 billion in acquisitions for GE’s Healthcare division.

He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering, mathematics and computer science from the University of Louisville, as well as an MBA from Vanderbilt University.

Susan Sheskey is senior vice president and chief information officer for Dell Inc., where she is responsible for Dell's global information systems and technology infrastructure. Before becoming CIO in August 2005, Sheskey was Dell's vice president of information technology for the Americas Region, where she had responsibility for the development, deployment, and support of Dell’s global sales, services, manufacturing and fulfillment systems.

A noted authority on supply-chain and eCommerce technology, Sheskey joined Dell in 1993 and worked in various IT management and leadership functions in sales, manufacturing, fulfillment, services, procurement, data warehouse, finance, and human resources. Her efforts helped establish Dell as a leader in ecommerce and supply chain management, and she was a recipient of CIO magazine’s CIO Enterprise Value Award in 2004 for her work in providing Dell’s sales agents with an integrated view of customer data. In 2006, Sheskey was awarded the "CIO 100" award from CIO magazine for Dell's innovative work on its European order-management systems.

Prior to joining Dell, Sheskey compiled key planning, development and operational experience during 20 years with Ameritech's corporate and services functions and at Ohio Bell.

Sheskey graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Kevin Turner, as Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Turner is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services organization. Turner leads a global organization of over 35,000 employees, including field sales and marketing professionals who delivered over US$44 billion in revenue during fiscal 2006. In addition to driving sales and marketing programs, Turner’s areas of responsibility include corporate support organizations, including product and customer support services, branding, advertising, public relations, marketing research, and relationship marketing. Turner also oversees corporate operations and internal Information Technology that support the work of Microsoft's over 70,000 employees around the world.

Along with Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and five other senior executives, Turner serves on the Senior Leadership Team that sets the overall strategy and direction for Microsoft.

Prior to Microsoft, Turner worked nearly 20 years at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., where he started as a cashier while going to college. Upon graduating from college, he held various leadership positions within Wal-Mart, including most recently as president and chief executive officer of SAM'S CLUB, with over 46 million members and over $37.1 billion in annual sales. Before this role, Turner worked 13 years in the IT department, where he achieved the level of executive vice president and chief information officer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in which he oversaw all information systems and IT operations for the company worldwide.

In 1995 at the age of 29, Turner became the youngest corporate officer ever named at Wal-Mart, and in 1997, while having worldwide responsibility for all Application Development and Support at Wal-Mart, Turner became the recipient of the first "Sam M. Walton - Entrepreneur Of The Year" Award, which is the highest honor given at Wal-Mart and is voted by the Walton Family.

Turner graduated in 1987 from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management, where he was also the Distinguished Alumnus in 2003.

Lynn Harold Vogel, is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, a $2.3B+ clinical, research and teaching institution that is the world’s largest and highest rated facility devoted to the care and cure of cancer. In 2006, M. D. Anderson was named to the CIO100 list of most innovative IT organizations, to the top 100 of InformationWeek’s Top 500, honored as one of the top 25 connected healthcare facilities by HealthImaging and IT, and named as the inaugural recipient of the Transformation Leadership Award, jointly awarded by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Center for Healthcare Transformation. As the senior IT executive managing a 600+ person IT organization, he is leading the in-house development of M. D. Anderson’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) with a major focus on the integration of research and clinical data. Dr. Vogel is Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at M. D. Anderson, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University in New York City. He also serves as a faculty member for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) CIO Boot Camp experience.

Previously, Dr. Vogel was Vice President, Healthlink, Inc., in Houston, Texas, where he was a leader on the Advisory Services team. He has also served as Vice-President, Information Services, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System in New York City, responsible for coordinating information services planning and management for the more than thirty hospitals and other health care facilities which collectively form the nation’s largest academic medical center-based health system. Dr. Vogel was previously Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Mount Sinai Medical Center, in New York City., served formerly at The University of Chicago Hospitals as Chief Information Officer, and as Director, Medical Center Information Services, as Associate Director in the Department of Finance, and as the Senior Executive responsible for Departments of Pharmacy, Clinical and Surgical Laboratories, Radiology and Medical Records.

Dr. Vogel has been a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences, including most recently “Peering into the Scientific Future of Medicine: Implications for Information Technology”, at the 2006 CHIME Fall Forum, with Dr. Joseph Jasinski, Program Director for Healthcare and Life Sciences at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, “Using IT Governance to Increase IT Investment Value” at the 2005 IT Governance for Healthcare Conference. At the 2005 HIMSS Annual Conference he gave two presentations: “Structure Follows Strategy: Building the Customer-Driven IT Organization”, and “IT Investment: Can IT’s Value be Enhanced?” (with Leon Leach). Previously he presented at the Summer 2004 HIMSS Conference, and at the August 2004 Regional HIMSS Chapter meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on his award-winning JHIM article on the return on investment (ROI) from healthcare IT. He also presented the Inaugural Grand Rounds Lecture at the University of Kansas Center for Health Care Informatics, “From Bench to Bedside: What is the Role of Information Technology?” in October 2004.

Dr. Vogel’s education at the bachelor’s, masters and doctoral level was completed at The University of Chicago, where he also served as a faculty member and administrator for twelve years. His teaching responsibilities at Columbia University have included “Economics of Informatics: Cost and Investment Issues in Healthcare Information Technology”, and on a continuing basis leads sections in the introductory Biomedical Informatics course, and in the Intensive Course in Biomedical Informatics. He has also lectured in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He was a charter member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and is currently a member and Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Greg Fitzsimmons, one of the premier comedians/writers in the business, Greg Fitzsimmons’ humor can be seen shining through in the Emmy Award Winning Ellen DeGeneres Show where he has earned two awards for writing and producing. Greg’s stellar performances can be seen in either of his two Comedy Central half-hour specials in 1999 & 2006 (debuting on March 17). Greg has made multiple guest appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. He is a seasoned professional who won the Jury Award for “Best Comedian” at the prestigious HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in 2001 and a Cable Ace Award in 1997.

Although he started doing comedy while a senior at Boston University in 1990, it was not until 6 years later that Greg Fitzsimmons would begin to see his dreams come true.

In July of 1995, after years of performing in Boston, New York and throughout New England, Greg was invited to perform at the World-renown Just For Laughs in Montreal where he drew the attention of agents, managers, network executives and the booker at Late Show with David Letterman.

In January of 1996, Greg made his debut on Late Show With David Letterman, followed by a two-season deal with USA Network to create his own segment called "Stereotypically Fitzsimmons" and "Temporarily Fitzsimmons" for the program "USA Live". In September of '96, Greg made his debut on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and was featured on the "HBO Comedy Showcase" hosted by Louie Anderson in October. In December of 96, Greg became a regular Prime Time face as host of MTV's Idiot Savants, a critically acclaimed daily game show. The show ran through March of '97 and won the Cable ACE Award for Best Game Show.

In March of 1997, The Sunday New York Times ran a major feature on Greg calling him "New York comedy's Golden Boy". In July of '97, Greg returned to Just For Laughs as a featured headliner, and completed his first starring role in the independent feature film "Monumental" that fall.

In 1998, Greg shot two short films, "The Callback" and "Three", was featured on Comedy Central's stand-up show "Premium Blend" and made his first appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in June. He also premiered his own half-hour comedy special for Comedy Central that December.

In 1999, Greg made his second appearances on "Late Show with David Letterman" and Late Night with Conan O’Brien and his first appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn." He also worked on two television pilots for Comedy Central and VH1 and premiered his own one-man show "Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons" in New York as part of the Toyota Comedy Festival.

In 2000, Greg made his first appearances on "The View" and VH1's "The List. He also made his third appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," and appeared on the premier episode of NBC's new standup show "Late Fridays."

In 2006, Greg has established himself as a respected comedian and television writer. He is currently writing on HBO’s “Lucky Louie,” coming out in June of 2006. He recently hosted AVN’s adult Movie Awards on the Playboy Channel and can also be heard as a recurring substitute for Jackie the Jokeman on "The Howard Stern Show."

John Foley is Editor, InformationWeek. Foley has been a writer and editor with InformationWeek since about the time Microsoft released Windows 95. Based in New York, he's written about a wide range of IT topics, including networking, databases, operating systems, enterprise applications, Web technologies, and all things Microsoft. He started InformationWeek's Windows Enterprise newsletter and is a regular blogger on InformationWeek.com. Sun's Scott McNealy once ate frozen yogurt during an interview with John, Oracle's Larry Ellison drank from John's water glass, and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer downed a muffin. These experiences led Foley to understand that tech execs aren't only opinionated and influential, but often hungry, too.

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Preston holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from St. Bonaventure University and a master's degree in economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton.