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ebizQ TEAM

Executive Bios

Les Yeamans - Founder and Publisher

Beth Gold-Bernstein - Chair, ebizQ Virtual Conference Series

Rick Frey - VP Finance

Editorial

Elizabeth Book - Editor in Chief

Peter Schooff - Managing Editor

Krissi Danielsson - Editor

Sales & Marketing

Lisa Benevento(DiBiasi) - Director of Sales

Rebecca Dannheim - Account Executive

Leah Archibald - Director of Marketing

Daniel Enrico - Marketing Manager

Gian Trotta - Business Development Consultant

Ely Rosenstock - Marketing Consultant

Lisa Damast - Membership Manager

Production/Client Services

Michele Thompson - Client Services/Art Director

Ricki Pappo - Designer

Amy Dureya - Client Services Representative

Dana Arikian - Production - Client Services Support

Rasheeda Winfield - Production Support

Operations

Jayaprakash Kannoth - Programmer Analyst

Jim Kutter - Consultant

Les Yeamans - Founder and Publisher

Les Yeamans has more than 20 years of experience in the information processing industry. For the past ten years, Yeamans has been an industry leader in the messaging and application integration market. He is currently president of ebizQ.net, the only Web portal dedicated to e-business integration, the set of strategies, systems and solutions without which e-business cannot succeed. ebizQ.net is a network of sites that has evolved from messageq.com, which Yeamans successfully launched in 1998.

Previously, Yeamans served as general manager at Apertus Technologies/Systems Strategies, where he partnered with IBM in the initial development and marketing of MQSeries. He was also co-founder of MOMA, the Message Oriented Middleware Association. Yeamans has worked extensively as an analyst and consultant for end users and vendors in this growing market.

Prior to Apertus, Yeamans developed and marketed PowerBase, the industry-leading database software package for the IBM PC. He started his career consulting at Arthur Andersen & Co., providing end-user IT solutions.

Yeamans has published articles and white papers in print and on the Web. He has contributed to Computerworld, MIDDLEWARESpectra, Application Development Trends, Datamation and MQ Magazine, among others. Yeamans received a masters of business administration in 1977 from the University of Michigan, specializing in information systems design, and a bachelors degree in computer science and mathematics from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1975.

Yeamans lives in Scarsdale, New York, with his wife Dorothy and three boys—William, Benjamin and Aaron. You can contact him at les at ebizQ dot net.

Beth Gold-Bernstein - Chair, ebizQ Virtual Conference Series

Beth Gold-Bernstein is the Chair of the ebizQ In Action Conference Series and served as lead analyst for ebizQ since 2000. She is a recognized expert in integration technologies and SOA with over 20 years experience working with financial institutions, retail chains and manufacturers on planning, designing and implementing large scale distributed systems and enterprise architectures. She has developed training programs for business analysts, architects, and implementers, and speaks nationally and internationally at conferences and seminars.
Gold-Bernstein is the author of "Enterprise Integration: the Essential Guide to Integrated Solutions," published in July 2004 by Addison Wesley, and "Designing Enterprise Client/Server Systems," published in August 1997 by Prentice Hall. Gold Bernstein also co-authored "Integration and SOA: Concepts, Technologies and Best Practices" available as an ebook Prior to joining ebizQ, Gold-Bernstein was the director of business integration technologies at Hurwitz Group from 1995 - 2000. Previously, she was president of IllumiSys Corp. and director of architecture planning and implementation advisory services for DeBoever Architectures. She was also the founder and director of the Boston Computer Society Client/Server Group. Gold-Bernstein holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an M.S. in computer information systems from Bentley College. She can be reached at bethgb at ebizQ.net.

Rick Frey - VP Finance

Rick Frey is vice president of finance for ebizQ. Before joining the team in early 1999, he was president of his own investment firm, Frey Financial Group, and was employed as an independent consultant in the financial and publishing industries. From 1982 to 1998, Frey worked at The Sacramento Bee—northern California's second-largest metropolitan newspaper. During his last nine years at The Bee, he was director of operations, responsible for the newspaper's production, IT and finance functions. Frey has an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He can be reached at rick (at)ebizQ dot net.

Leah Archibald - Director of Marketing

Leah Archibald manages marketing communications and strategy for ebizQ. Before entering the IT space, Archibald worked in direct marketing in the retail industry, for companies such as New Balance and Lululemon. Archibald holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and a MBA from Babson College. She can be reached at leah at ebizq dot net.

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