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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
boysWilliam, Benjamin and Aaron. You can contact him at les@ebizQ.net.
Beth
Gold-Bernstein is a recognized expert in e-business integration technologies
and technical architectures. She has worked with financial institutions,
retail chains and manufacturers on planning, designing and implementing
large scale distributed systems. Gold-Bernstein has also written numerous
articles for a variety of publications, including EAI Journal, Application
Development Trends, Intelligent Enterprise, IMWA and Middleware Spectre.
She has been a judge of Information Week's e-100 awards and the Real Awards
for Enterprise Integration Solution, and speaks nationally and internationally
at conferences and seminars.
Prior to joining ebizQ, Gold-Bernstein was the director of business integration
technologies at Hurwitz Group. Previously, she was president of IllumiSys
Corp. and director of architecture planning and implementation advisory
services for DeBoever Architectures.
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
was also the founder and director of the Boston Computer Society Client/Server
Group. Her book, Designing Enterprise Client/Server Systems, was published
by Prentice Hall in August 1997. She can be reached at bethgb@ebizQ.net.
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
Beenorthern 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@ebizQ.net.