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Charles E. Phillips is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors. He joined Oracle in 2003. Before joining Oracle, Mr. Phillips was with Morgan Stanley, a global investment bank. Prior to Wall Street, Mr. Phillips served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps in the 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines. Mr. Phillips holds a BS in Computer Science from the United States Air Force Academy, a JD from New York Law School, and an MBA from Hampton University. Mr. Phillips is on the boards of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, The American Museum of Natural History, New York Law School, Viacom Inc., and Morgan Stanley. In February 2009, Phillips was appointed as a member to the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide President Barack Obama and his administration with advice and counsel regarding the economy.

Safra A. Catz has been President of Oracle Corporation since January 2004 and a member of the Board of Directors since October 2001. She served as Oracle’s Chief Financial Officer from November 2005 to September 2008, as Executive Vice President from November 1999 to January 2004, and as Senior Vice President from April 1999 to October 1999. In May 2008, Ms. Catz was also appointed to a three-year term as member of the board of directors for HSBC Holdings plc, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations.

Judson Althoff is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Alliances and Channels at Oracle Corporation, reporting to Oracle's President, Charles Phillips. He is responsible for the ongoing development and execution of Oracle's Alliances and Channels programs and strategies, partner revenue generating business initiatives, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program, and the models for managing all of Oracle's over 20,000 Alliance and Channel partners.

Prior to this role, Mr. Althoff was responsible for marketing, sales and technical relationships with Oracle's strategic platform and distribution partners, and served as head of Oracle's Technology Channel Program Office. In this position, he developed technology and applications initiatives and go-to-market programs with Oracle's top partners targeting mid-sized businesses, and these programs have become some of the fastest growing business units within Oracle.

Before that, Mr. Althoff was Director of E-Business Solutions at Oracle, where he led a team responsible for developing the company's next generation of platform technologies and enterprise applications. He also helped to develop customer solutions in the areas of supply chain management, customer relationship management, data warehousing, as well as middleware and database technologies.

Before joining Oracle, Mr. Althoff was an Area Business Development Manager and District Sales Manager for EMC Corporation. In this capacity, he was responsible for a team of direct and indirect sales staff in a five state region in the Midwestern United States.

Mr. Althoff has worked for Oracle for nine years both in Chicago and Oracle's corporate headquarters in Redwood Shores, California. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself - the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.

He coined the phrase "Enterprise 2.0" in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other research. McAfee's blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati). He also maintains a Facebook profile and Twitter account.

McAfee's book on Enterprise 2.0 will be published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press.

In the July / August issue of Harvard Business Review McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson published "Investing in the IT that Makes a Competitive Difference," a summary of their research investigating IT's links to changes in competition. This work was the first to reveal that competition began to heat up in the US in the mid 1990s - to become faster paced, more turbulent, and more winner-take-all - and that this acceleration was greater in industries that spent more on IT. This research continues, and continues to highlight that technology appears to be significantly reshaping the landscape of competition.

McAfee is the author or co-author of more than fifteen scholarly articles and ninety case studies and other materials for students and teachers of technology. This work has convinced him that modern information technology is the most powerful tool available to business leaders, yet also the most misunderstood and under-appreciated resource at their disposal.

In 2008 McAfee was named by the editors of the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis number 38 in their list of the "100 Most Influential People in IT." He was also named by Baseline magazine to a separate, unranked list of the 50 most influential people in business IT that year. He was invited by Prof. Gary Hamel to join a "renegade brigade" of thinkers in the task of assembling a set of Moon Shots for Management, which was published in the January 2009 Harvard Business Review.

He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world.

McAfee is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.