Anne Thomas Manes is a former Chief Technology Officer at Systinet, a web services infrastructure vendor. She was the Director of Market Innovation in Sun Microsystem's software group. Manes' 26-year industry background also includes field service and education at IBM Corporation, customer education at Cullinet Software, product management at Digital Equipment Corporation, chief architect at Open Environment Corporation, and research analyst with Patricia Seybold Group.

She was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking in 2002 by Network World. He has also been listed among the "Power 100 IT Leaders," by Enterprise Systems Journal. A frequent speaker at trade shows and conferences, she authors numerous articles in trade publications. Anne Manes is a member of the Web Services Journal editorial board. She authored "Web Services: A Manager's Guide," published by Addison-Wesley, 2003, and participated in web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP.

Ed Horst Mr. Horst has more than twenty years of experience in planning, marketing and developing distributed systems, management frameworks and development tools. He was the vice president of Marketing at OnKilter, a strategy execution software vendor, and Provato, an electronic contract management solution provider that was acquired by I-Many. Previously, he was a founding member of the marketing team at Forte and held various engineering and product management positions at Ingres.

In addition to his work at leading software companies, Mr. Horst served for several years an IT Director for Atlas Die, a Midwestern manufacturing firm, where he was an early implementer of several early-stage technologies, including CAD applications, relational databases and wide area networking systems.