Matt Agresta is the Order Fulfillment Manager at Anritsu Company, a world recognized leader in Test and Measurement equipment. He has been lucky to have served in a wide variety of positions in his 5 plus years at Anritsu. He is responsible for managing the orders, shipments, and bookings for the United States and Latin America. In addition to leading a department, he has added duties as a project manager. Recently, he successfully completed a major repackaging of Anritsu's CRM application for North America, measurably improving end user acceptance and forecast accuracy. Matt also serves on the Risk Management committee, helping communicate the business risks to the Anritsu board of directors.

Previously, Matt served as a Senior Business Systems Analyst in Anritsu's IS department. As project manager, he successfully implemented a trade compliance project with an application service provider. Prior to Anritsu, Matt spent 5 years at Ryan Herco Products, a leading distributor of fluid handling products. There he served as a Technical Sales person and in Operations Management, also helping to successfully implement a company wide training program for all inside sales people.

He received his degree in Biology from California State University Long Beach. Matt enjoys playing golf whenever he gets the chance as well as volleyball, and basketball. To relax he enjoys playing the guitar and reading his far too many magazine subscriptions.

He lives and works in Morgan Hill with his wife Keriann, and their two girls Maria and Kristina, ages 6 and 1.

Gitanjali (Gita) Barry is an Associate Product Manager at Boston Scientific. She is responsible for global marketing of new and established medical devices for interventional neurovascular applications. Her responsibilities include global marketing strategies, pricing, positioning, customer needs assessments, promotional material development, physician and sales force training material, product launch, and field support. Her position requires significant interaction with physicians, technologists, nurses, engineers and scientists in the development, testing and clinical use of new access products for interventional neurovascular applications.

Previously she was Director of Product Development at Vasconnect, Inc., where she was responsible for development of a novel anastomosis device and delivery system for peripheral vascular applications. Gita has over eight years of work experience in the medical device industry including engineering positions at Corazon Technologies, W.L. Gore & Associates, and Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson Company. Gita has a Biomedical Engineering degree from the University of Miami.

For leisure, she enjoys outside activities, including hiking, camping, and biking, supporting her husband's triathlons, and watching movies. She lives in Fremont with her husband Dave and their two rat terriers.

Gene Domecus is the Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at macys.com, a separate operating division of Federated Department Stores, Inc., in San Francisco, CA. He has profit and loss responsibility for total Internet sales at macys.com and weddingchannel.com, the bridal registry alliance of all 6 Federated divisions. His duties include financial planning, capital spending, expense budget control and legal compliance. Gene also manages the merchandise planning functions including sales, gross margin, inventory productivity and order fulfillment logistics, including facility capacity and sku / unit forecasting.

Gene has been with Federated in some capacity for his entire 20-year career. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President of e-Commerce at macys.com, and was part of the original team that launched the Internet channel for Macy's in 1998. In that role, Gene supervised teams in both New York and San Francisco responsible for site merchandising, inventory planning, content management, and technical development, specifically related to legacy systems integration. Prior to macys.com, he was Vice President and Director of Planning for Macy's West. Gene's career also includes 7 years experience in merchandising as a Buyer in Bridge & Fine Jewelry, where he earned his certification in diamond grading from the Gemological Institute of America and enjoyed semi-annual trips to northern Italy sourcing product.

He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Shop.org, the network of retailers on-line and a division of the National Retail Federation in Washington, D.C., and previously sat on the Retail Advisory Board for Propel Software in Santa Clara, CA.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, in 1983, majoring in Communications, with an emphasis in Organizational Development. While at UOP, he was elected President of his fraternity, Alpha Kappa Phi/Archania, studied piano and flute at the Conservatory of Music and most importantly, met his future bride Cindy on the first day of school after sharing the same dorm hallway. Today, the couple lives in Hillsborough with their three children Grace, Grant and Mark (nine, five and three years old respectively).

Most of Gene's volunteer work centers around various activities of the 1st Presbyterian Church in Burlingame, CA, where he serves on the Board of Deacons. In addition, his favorite pastimes are wine tasting, travel, dogs, cooking, theater, art and music. He especially enjoys entertaining friends by creating a 'wine-maker's dinner' of five courses paired specifically with a different varietal to enhance the blend of flavors.

Jennifer Ernst is the Manager of Communications at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation. Through her organization's external and internal communication programs, she is responsible for raising awareness of the company, increasing business opportunities, supporting the sales cycle, and keeping employees involved in and committed to the organization and its goals.

Ms. Ernst was recruited in 1997 by PARC's V.P. of Operations to help build an integrated Communications organization by leading the consolidation of several discrete groups. She broadened the new team's charter to encompass such areas as public relations, marketing communications, analyst relations, employee communications and Internet/Intranet management. The strategic value of her contributions was recognized in 2002 with an Excellence in Management Award, one of the company's top honors.

She has successfully led multiple cross-organizational and inter-company projects. Following PARC's transition from a corporate research lab to a subsidiary company, Ms. Ernst led the deployment of a re-architected Internet site to support the new company's business objectives - from design and content, to server and application infrastructure. She also spearheaded a broad-reaching program to capture and document PARC's intellectual property assets related to trademarks, copyrights and domains. Among her inter-company projects is an industry-wide celebration of Ethernet's thirtieth anniversary that included seven companies and received coverage in more than 30 major publications.

Prior to taking her current role, Ms. Ernst was part of an experimental research program focused on the interactions of technology and design, where she served as project manager for web, multimedia, video and graphic design projects. She joined PARC in 1990 as part of the Creative Services organization after working with the production department of the San Francisco ABC affiliate, KGO-TV.

Ms. Ernst received a BA in Radio/Television from San Francisco State University with high honors; in 1994, she received a Bronze Medal in Arts & Cultural Programming from the Charleston Film Festival. PARC has presented her with two top awards, the Excellence in Management described earlier and an earlier Excellence in Support of Research.

Roger Frey is Business Development Manager at Network Appliance, Inc., located in Sunnyvale, CA. His primary responsibility is managing the marketing and technical relationship between NetApp and Microsoft Corporation. He is also involved in developing its Windows technology strategy. Roger also manages strategic alliances with other storage and networking companies.

Previously, Roger was Senior Product Manager for Server and Storage Products at Wind River Systems, Inc. Prior to Wind River, Roger has held senior sales and marketing positions at Yahoo!, InfoWorld Publishing and Microsoft Corporation.

He received his BA in Political Science (Soviet foreign policy) from the University of Washington, located in Seattle, WA. He is a published author of several essays regarding Russian literature.

For leisure, he enjoys golfing, skiing, and biking. He enjoys reading history and listening to music. He is a fan of the University of Washington football program, the San Francisco Giants and the San Francisco 49ers. He is an accomplished amateur chef and enjoys cooking for family and friends. Roger lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife Allison and their two dogs.

Edouard Granstedt is a Senior Engineering Manager at Motorola. He is responsible for the MoCA Design Center which he launched in April 2000. This center provides Internet Protocol technology for Motorola's world wide Public Safety Radio Communication Systems. The team designs edge and core routers responsible for packet voice communication over an IP transport. The group consists of 60 members responsible for product development and release to contract manufacturing. Ed's specific duties include managing the design center site, budget, staffing, resource usage, product portfolio.

Previously, Ed was with TRW for 12 years and was most recently, a line of business Chief System Engineer . In this role he was responsible for the acquisition, development, and support of complex real-time processing systems. This included the formulation of business capture plans and preparation and tender of proposals. Post award, the efforts included forming the development team, performing system design and development, integrating prototype and production equipment, and final sell-off to customers. Ed's specific duties spanned managing technical, cost, and schedule performance of the project system engineering activities.

Ed received his degree in mathematics/computer science from San Jose State University.

Ed and his wife Allison lead the marriage preparation ministry for their parish.

For leisure, Ed enjoys composing music on his Korg Triton keyboard and modeling the Southern Pacific railroad in N gauge. He lives in Santa Clara with his wife Allison and their sons Jason and Aaron, ages 9 and 4 respectively.

Bill Haskell is project manager at Creativity, Inc. He is responsible for overseeing a team of about 15 people in creating the music, sound effects and speech that are used in a product called PowerTouch by Fisher-Price. This interactive book teaches children language skills through stories and interaction with the product. His responsibilities extend to managing tasks and resources, scheduling, securing talent & negotiations, compiling cost information, and ensure customer satisfaction.

His career began as a systems engineer at TRW. There, he performed a wide range of technical jobs including hardware and software design, signal analysis and computer system administration. After 13 years in engineering, Bill spent the next few years in education teaching secondary-level mathematics. Returning to the technical realm, he found some interesting opportunities at startup companies. The first, eMind.com, created web-based courses for professions such as accounting. While there, Bill worked as a content producer, QA manager and production manager. His next opportunity was at the New Internet Computer Company (NIC). NIC produced an Internet appliance running Linux and Netscape. Bill's duties as project manager at NIC included overseeing hardware and software design, development and production.

Bill earned his undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He later received a Master of Science degree in Cybernetic Systems from San Jose State University. Most recently, Bill earned a Master of Arts in Education along with a teaching credential from Stanford University.

For leisure, he enjoys bicycling, backpacking, and other outdoor activities. On an ongoing basis, Bill actively supports environmental issues.

Lincoln Heacock is director of IT Applications at CyberSource Corporation, a provider of electronic payment and risk management solutions to organizations that conduct financial transactions over the Internet. He is responsible for managing the budget, planning, and strategy for all internal applications and systems that support the company's business units. In his 5+ years at CyberSource, Lincoln has enhanced the company's effectiveness by building an infrastructure that supports the Finance, Human Resources, Customer Support, Product Development and Management, Operations, Marketing, and Sales functions. Lincoln currently leads a team of architects, programmer analysts and business analysts to help meet the needs of the organization.

Previously, Lincoln was a Project Manager at IT Solutions, Inc. where he worked with clients such as Synopsys, Sun Microsystems, and co-led the creation of a new software development function within IT Solutions. Lincoln also has held numerous programmer analyst and system support positions at Silicon Graphics and Mips Computer Systems.

Lincoln received his bachelor of science degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Lincoln enjoys golf, hiking, camping, and traveling. He lives in San Jose with his wife Karen and 3 daughters, Emily, Marin, and Noelle.

Steve Kain has over 12 years experience as a Scientific and Business Director in environments ranging from start-ups to public companies. His primary area of expertise is preclinical pharmaceutical development, where he has contributed to the development and marketing of hardware, software, and consumable products targeting the drug discovery market. In his most recent position with Scimagix, Inc., Steve was a Senior Marketing Director responsible for implementing a strategy to develop cellular image analysis and informatics software for use in pharmaceutical research. He lead all business development, sales, and marketing functions related to cellular applications, including formation of strategic partnerships with several of the top 15 biopharmaceutical companies. Steve lead the launch of a Scientific Image Management System (SIMS) software product line to augment performance of drug screening platforms. Projected sales from this product line account for one-third of the company revenues in 2004.

In previous positions, Steve has been Senior Director of Business Development for Cellomics, Inc., the market leader in development of high-resolution imaging systems used for drug discovery. He was also a Business Unit Director for Becton Dickinson and Company, responsible for managing a new business venture to leverage the company core market strength in cellular analysis with instrument platforms and reagent systems used for pharmaceutical development. Steve spent several years with Clontech Laboratories as the Director of Cell Biology. In this role, he successfully managed several commercial R&D programs, and launched over 100 products used in life science research. Most notably, Steve was the inventor of several products based on the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). This technology has made a major impact on diverse markets such as agriculture, virology, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and the pet industry (e.g. "glowing fish" - the first genetically engineered pet approved in the U.S.). He has authored over 60 scientific publications, books, and patents on the subject, and negotiated several licensing deals with large pharmaceutical companies to provide access to GFP.

Steve received his Bachelors degree in Pharmacology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Riverside. He also conducted postdoctoral training at the University of California at Berkeley.

Raj is Partner Software Development Manager at Varian Medical Systems in Palo Alto, California. He is responsible for developing standard and proprietary software interfaces like DICOM and HL7. He oversees several projects and teams working at different geographical locations in the world.

Prior to joining Varian Medical Systems, Raj enjoyed various technical and management positions in technology industry in India. He worked with varied Indian businesses from large family owned businesses, Indian conglomerates; small scale Industry to government sector. UB Group, WIE, BSF, Patni Computer Systems are to name a few. He also had a successful business back in India, which he co-founded.

He received his Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications (New Delhi, India), and Engineering Diploma in Electronics and Radio Communication from CWIT (Pune, India).

Raj enjoys spending time with family and friends. He lives in Cupertino with wife Smita and 5 year old son Siddharth. Smita is an Electrical engineer from University of Pune and she worked with e-commerce and Medical device companies in Bay area.

Paul Loughnane is Director of Hardware Engineering at Logitech Inc. He is responsible for design, development and production launch of PC peripherals and gaming products for the video game console and Entertainment markets. These products are marketed and sold worldwide into both retail and OEM channels. His responsibilities include:
- All aspects of new product design and development, from initial concept definition to high volume production.
- Managing resources, planning activities, developing costs, schedules and budgets. - Determining future technology and manufacturing strategy.
- Continuous improvements in time to market and product costs.

Currently Paul leads a multinational team of 25 people located in the US and Taiwan comprised of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Program Management, Test Engineering and Quality Assurance.

At Logitech, Paul has also held the positions of Senior Electrical Engineering Manager in the Interactive Entertainment BU, Quality and Test Engineering Manager in the Entertainment and Video BU and Hardware QA Manager in the Scanner and Imaging Business Unit.

Prior to his employment with Logitech Inc., Paul held a number of Senior level Engineering positions in the electronics industry in Ireland with Logitech (Ireland) Ltd., Ogden Atlantic Design, Autotote (Ireland) Ltd. and Forde Electronics where he held both Product Design and Manufacturing related roles.

He received his degree in Electrical Engineering from University College Cork, Ireland in 1989 and also holds a certificate in Management from Open University, U.K. For leisure, he enjoys hiking, skiing and spending time with his family.

He lives in Newark, CA with his wife Aisling and two children, Ciara and Michael, ages six and two respectively.

Gregory Lynn is currently on sabbatical. Prior to this he was Senior Director of Engineering and SQA at i-drive, the pioneer of consumer web storage technology and the number one file and music download site on the Internet. During his three years at I-drive, he was initially responsible for creating the quality assurance and customer support departments from scratch, then directed the engineering development of all products.

Previously he was a Lead Software Quality Engineer at Netscape, producing the Navigator/Communicator browser client software and free source codebase for Mozilla. He was also a Lead SQA Engineer at Apple Computer producing key software diagnostic products for its resellers and consumers. Before Apple, at Jasmine Technologies, he served in Customer Service, Product Management and as Manager of Mass Storage Product Development providing leading storage solutions for the Macintosh.

He received his B.S.C. in Finance from The University of Santa Clara in 1985 and a California Real Estate Broker's license in 1992. He is a member of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

Gregory supports various charities and organizations including the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

For leisure, he enjoys a wide variety of activities and interests including travel, photography, cycling, science fiction novels, music, movies, martial arts, cooking, fine wine and the great outdoors.

He lives in Campbell, enjoys spending time with his girlfriend, godson, friends and family. He uses the Bay Area as a home base for world travel and exploration.

Andy Mackenzie is the Director of Engineering at PST, Inc.; a Palo Alto based medical device start up company. Andy is responsible for Product Development, Regulatory Affairs/Quality Assurance and Clinical Research. PST's products are intended to improve clinical outcomes in various types of extirpative surgeries (where tissue is removed) through the design of novel electrosurgical devices.

Prior to PST, Andy was Director of Research and Development at medical device maker InnerDyne, Inc. through it's acquisition by US Surgical, and was Project Leader and Angioplasty Products Designer at Guidant.

Andy received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1988, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.

Lesley Pickford is currently self-employed as a consultant in biotechnology R&D. In this capacity, she advises small and startup companies on strategies for defining their preclinical and clinical programs, product profiles and target markets. She also supports the efforts to raise funds for their companies. With her husband she also operates a small aviation business, owning aircraft for rental, as well as a small equestrian-related business.

Lesley has over 12 years industry experience in the Bay Area in drug and diagnostic development, predominantly in the disease areas of oncology, autoimmune diseases and diabetes. Until mid-2003, Lesley was VP of Research at Calyx Therapeutics, a small venture capital-funded company, where she managed 20 reports in several functional areas, and had executive management responsibilities including budgeting up to $25M. Previously she held Director of Pharmacology and/or Toxicology positions at the biopharmaceutical companies Corixa, Coulter Pharmaceutical and Connetics. Prior to that, she was a Senior Scientist at Nycomed Salutar. In these companies she had various roles, ranging from discovery research through preclinical and clinical development, which have contributed to the successful registration and commercialization of 5 products. Lesley has lead and participated on many project teams, including collaborative joint ventures with international pharmaceutical companies. She has been extensively involved in Business Development activities including M&A, licensing of drugs and spin-outs of research programs. Earlier in her career, Lesley was a veterinary surgery Manager.

Lesley received a PhD in Medical Biochemistry from Flinders University of South Australia, and a Bachelors of Science degree with first class honors, majoring in Physiology and Biochemistry from Adelaide University, in South Australia. She held Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Stanford University in the Departments of Pathology and Psychiatry for 6 years. She has 12 peer-reviewed scientific publications or book chapters and 30 abstracts, and has authored many internal reports and documents for regulatory submissions. She is an inventor on 3 patents related to novel oncology therapeutics.

Lesley serves as a volunteer coordinator for the BioE2E (Entrepreneur to Entrepreneur) organization, is a committee member of the Young Australian Professionals, Life Science vertical sub-group, and is a member of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association, SF Chapter. She formerly served on the Board of Governors of the non-profit Woodside Horse Park, and was the organizer of several nationally-rated equestrian competitions.

Lesley has had a lifelong involvement with horses, now focused on the discipline of dressage. She also enjoys flying and sailing and, in common with many Australians, has an interest in wine and winemaking. She is perpetually writing a novel based on her horsey adventures. She lives in Menlo Park with her husband Evan Williams and assorted cats.

Robert Rogenmoser is a Senior Engineering Manager at Broadcom. He is the implementation lead for the BCM1480 chip built in a cutting edge 90nm CMOS technology. The chip consists of four microprocessors running at over 1GHz, a 1MB cache, and several 10Gbit and 1Gbit interfaces, totaling over 130 million transistors. Besides managing his team which is responsible for all custom digital blocks including the CPU he works with several other groups that deliver parts of the chip. He also interfaces with the foundry that is manufacturing the chip.

Previously Robert was a Principal Design Engineer at SiByte Corporation where he led a small engineering team and built a high performance Floating Point Unit from scratch. He also worked for three years as a design engineer at Intel Corporation, where he enabled a successful first tapeout and working silicon of the first generation Itanium.

Robert received his PhD and MS degrees at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He graduated from the Integrated Systems Lab of the Electrical Engineering Department with a thesis on "The Design of High-Speed Dynamic VLSI circuits", available in print.

He is a member of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference committee serving in the Digital subcommittee. He has published many papers on high-speed and low-power VLSI designs and chips and currently holds four patents.

For leisure he enjoys exercising, golfing, skiing, reading, and spending time with his family. He lives in Santa Clara with his wife and two children.

Naresh is an Alliance manager for the Itanium processor family at Intel Corporation. Itanium is Intel's 64-bit processor family aimed at Enterprise Servers. Naresh manages the co-development of this program with HP. He is responsible for the program management of product roadmap and its implementation in the Alliance.

Prior to that, he was Design Automation manager for a cpu project at Intel. Naresh also worked for 10 years at Intel's Design Technology division, writing and managing various Computer Aided Design tools. Naresh holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Syracuse University, NY. His background includes software development, and an electrical engineering degree from Punjab Engineering College in India.

For leisure, Naresh enjoys reading and spending time with his family. He lives in Santa Clara with his wife Sunita, a 6 yr-old son Hetesh, and 3-year old twin daughters Gauri and Garima. They all have been very supportive of Dad going back to school again.

Venkatesh Tadinada is Vice President, Engineering at ClearBenefits. ClearBenefits provides Employee Self Service capabilities for small to medium size companies for their benefits management. Venkat is responsible for designing, developing and operations of ClearBenefits service offerings.

Previously he was Director Professional Services at Vigilance, Inc. There he was responsible for installing and providing technical services to customers all over the world. Prior to Vigilance, Venkat was a Manager at Ernst & Young, in their Management Consulting division.

Venkat has Masters in Computer Applications from the university of Poona and also a BS in Maths from the same institute.

For leisure, he enjoys biking, trekking and playing chess with his eight year old son, Ravi. Going camping with his wife Chitra and son is his favorite weekend activity.

David Todd is a Sigma Black Belt at Sun Microsystems Inc. He is responsible for identifying key opportunities and driving process innovation and improvement projects with regard to sales and services. He also is charged with business planning for the sales and services administration team across Asia Pacific. He led the global team that designed and implemented the online software update delivery system in 52 countries and nine major languages. He also managed the team across Asia Pacific that designed, localized and implemented the Online Support Center, which entitles and delivers technical support according to contracts. He joined Sun in 1997 as the program manager responsible for implementing and operating the Sun Download Center, which enabled online commerce and delivery of software, including distribution of Java technology.

Previously, David was a financial writer at American Century Investments responsible for shareholder communications on behalf of the Chairman and CEO. He joined the firm as a registered representative selling financial products and servicing shareholders.

He received a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts (Cum Laude), with an emphasis in Mass Communications and Public Relations, from Mesa State College in Grand Junction Colorado. He appeared in Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges for two sequential years.

David has received numerous achievement awards within Sun Microsystems, including the Best of the Best award for leading a global enterprise software management project, and a Global Vision Mission and Values award for leadership and professionalism.

For leisure, David enjoys bicycling, hiking and time with family. He lives with his wife in Mountain View, California.

Since 1994 Tom has held various positions within Samsung's Semiconductor's division, both in the US and in Europe (Germany & Scotland). Currently, as a Sales Director based in San Jose, California, Tom manages a number of strategic customers and territories in the US. His primary focus is the semiconductor and disc drive business. Prior to joining Samsung's US division he spent a number of years managing Hitachi's Electronic Components business in Ireland. Before entering Electronics, Tom spent a number of years working in the medical device industry which features heavily along the west coast of Ireland, his native country.

He holds a BBS from the Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Santa Clara University (CA). Tom and his family live in Mountain View, California. He enjoys fast paced, challenging and changing environments in both his private and professional life.

Sridhar Vuruputoor is currently working as a Senior Manager, Projects at JRD Systems Inc where he moved, after downsizing in his previous company, i2 Technologies Inc. Sridhar has over 16 years of experience in software and systems development, with the last 7 years in Supplier Relationship Management domain.

Previously, at i2 technologies Inc, a pioneer in Supply Chain Management, Sridhar was a Senior Manager, Solutions Development, responsible for providing customized strategic sourcing solutions to key customers like Toshiba Semiconductor Inc, Japan and Applied Materials Inc. Sridhar came to i2 Technologies through the acquisition of Rightworks Inc. a successful startup that provided highly scalable eProcurement solutions. At Rightworks, Sridhar managed a custom development group which developed customized solutions for over 15 customers and earned a revenue of over $2M per quarter. Sridhar was also responsible for the outsourcing partnership with HCL Infosystems (a top 5, IT services company in India). Sridhar established from scratch and managed the offshore development center of over 50 engineers. Prior to Rightworks, Sridhar worked at Aspect Development in India and was responsible for managing the development of Aspect's flagship product, Explore and for setting up the processes for software development from an offshore location. Prior to that Sridhar worked as a Senior Scientific Officer at Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, where he has developed Supervisory Control and Data Acquistion (SCADA) Systems for monitoring the functioning of the atomic power plants and heavy water plants. Sridhar was also involved in the development of fault tolerant Dual LAN for use in critical monitoring systems.

Sridhar holds a B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Instrumentation from Osmania University in India. He is a member of Project Management Institute, Silicon Valley Chapter. He served as Executive Committee Member of cultural organization Kalpakkam Telugu Samithi while working at IGCAR, where he organized many cultural programs. He, like many Indians is very much obsessed with the game of cricket and played the same at college and local league in Hyderabad, India, where he grew up.

Sridhar lives in Sunnyvale with his wife, Bhooma, 7 year old daughter, Yashaswini and 1 year old son, Adithya. He spends leisure time watching old Indian movies and playing with his children.

Daniel A. Wagner, P.E. is the Process Engineering Manager at Drexler Technology Corporation. He leads a team of process engineers and technicians in a manufacturing plant for optical memory cards used mainly as high security identification documents for Visitors, Legal Residents, and Citizens of countries including United States, Canada, and Italy.

Previously he was Global Technical Support Engineer at Electroglas, a supplier of test equipment for the semiconductor industry, where he designed and implemented a worldwide program of reliability upgrades for equipment already deployed in the field. Before Electroglas Daniel was Controls Engineer and latter Engineering Manager at Harmony Foods, a famous maker of chocolates, gummy bears, and jelly beans.

Daniel received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from Excelsior College. He is also a Licensed Professional Engineer in Control System Engineering registered with the California Board of Professional Engineers. Prior to his arrival in the United States, Daniel studied Nuclear Technology and Civil Engineering in Romania.

Daniel also served as member of the editorial review board for the American Institute of Plant Engineers, AIPE, and wrote for "The Facilities Journal," the official AIPE publication. He is also recognized as an inventor and has been granted patent No. 6,047,711 in 2001 by the US Patent Office.

For leisure Daniel enjoys Skiing, Kayaking, Swimming, Hang gliding, and also good food and fine wine. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife Ioana and their twin teenage boys David and William.