Louiqa Raschid has made pioneering contributions towards meeting the data integration and data management challenges in multiple non-traditional domains including the life sciences, Web data delivery, health information systems, humanitarian IT applications, social media monitoring, and the next generation financial cyberinfrastructure. Her multi-disciplinary research spans the fields of computer science to business information systems, along with a strong link to important application areas. She is an expert in optimization and large scale simulation; modeling and prediction; semantics and logic based reasoning; and data management and analysis techniques. Recent projects include social media modeling and prediction, data integration and data mining to support personalized genomics and healthcare and an NSF Wokshop on Knowledge Representation and Information Management for Financial Risk Management. She has played a key role in the Sahana FOSS project for disaster information management. Sahana is the only comprehensive product for disaster information management and is an outgrowth of the 2003 tsunami.

Chuck is responsible for financial and accounting software products and databases for the Smith School. These include real-time services (Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg) and other products (CRSP, Compustat, Mergent, S&P's Capital IQ, Thomson One Banker, ThomsonOne.com, Datastream, etc.). He is also responsible for advising faculty and students on the use of these products for research and teaching.

H. V. Jagadish is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After earning his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1985, he spent over a decade at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., eventually becoming head of AT&T Labs database research department at the Shannon Laboratory in Florham Park, N.J. He has also served as a Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Professor Jagadish is well-known for his broad-ranging research on databases, and has over 80 major papers and 20 patents. He is currently the founding editor of the ACM SIGMOD Digital Review. Among many professional positions he has held, he has previously been an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Database Systems (1992-1995) and Program Chair of the ACM SIGMOD Annual Conference (1996).

Mark Flood is with the Office of Financial Research in the Deaprtment of the Treasury. He was a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Smith School. He did his undergraduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he majored in finance (B.S., 1982), and German and economics (B.A., 1983). In 1990, he received his Ph.D. in finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, an Assistant Professor of finance at Concordia U. in Montreal, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at the U. of North Carolina at Charlotte, a Senior Financial Economist in the Division of Risk Management at the Office of Thrift Supervision and a Senior Economist with the Federal Housing Finance Agency. He is a founding member of the Committee to Establish the National Institute of Finance and a senior partner in ProBanker, an online training simulation. His research interests include risk management, financial data and information, financial markets and institutions, securities market microstructure, and bank market structure and regulatory policy. His research has appeared in the Review of Financial Studies, Quantitative Finance, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the St. Louis Fed’s Review, among others.

Mr. Nichols is with the Office of Financial Research in the Department of the Treasury. He was a Managing Director at RCube Information Management, where he consulted on product design, information architecture, and securities systems for firms active in financial markets. As Program Director for Securities Processing Automation for FISD, Bill concentrated on the intersection between technology and business practices, within the Securities industry, and was responsible for managing MDDL (Market Data Definition Language). Currently a standards liaison for FISD and FIX, Nichols is Convenor of the ISO TC68/SC4/WG (ISIN) Working Group, is active on several other ISO committees, and is a member of the FIX Protocol Limited Global Technical Steering Committee. He is vice-chair of the US ANSI X9D Securities Committee. Nichols was Co-founder/CEO of a corporate governance research firm acquired by Thomson in 1995, after which he spent 7 years at Thomson Financial. He has an extensive background in Internet architecture and business models, and was retained as an expert witness regarding online traffic and advertising models in Homestore vs. AOL.

Mike Bennett is the Head of Semantics and Standards at the EDM Council, and is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Council's Semantics Repository of securities terms and definitions. Mike has been involved in a number of standards initiatives in the financial services industry including MDDL, TWIST, FIX, ISO 20022 and the ISO FIBIM data model among others. During that time Mike has championed business and semantics oriented requirements management for standards. Prior to working in the financial sector Mike worked in industrial software development, principally around quality process management.

David Newman is Vice President and Strategic Planning Manager of Enterprise Architecture at Wells Fargo Bank.  David also chairs the Semantic Technology program for the Enterprise Data Management Council and is leading a collaborative effort with the Object Management Group to develop, implement and evaluate operational ontologies derived from the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO).  These efforts include ontologies describing Swaps and Derivatives and other financial instruments as well as Metadata Annotations.  David also participated on the W3C SPARQL working group to architect enhancements to the semantic query language.  David has been with Wells Fargo since 2008.  Prior to his tenure at Wells Fargo, David was President of Technium, a computer consulting firm specializing in the design and development of enterprise, internet and distributed architectures.  David holds an MBA in Information Systems from Golden Gate University and an MSW in Psychiatric Social Work from San Diego State University.

Joseph Langsam retired as a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, where he was responsible for analytic research for the Fixed Income Division. Langsam received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in urban studies and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in 1985, he was an assistant professor of mathematics at Case Western Reserve University.

Sanjiv Das is Professor of Finance and Chair of the Finance Department at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. He previously held faculty appointments at the Harvard Business School and UC Berkeley. He holds post-graduate degrees in Finance (M.Phil and Ph.D. from New York University), Computer Science (M.S. from UC Berkeley), an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He completed an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Economics at the University of Bombay, Sydenham College. He is a qualified Cost and Works Accountant. He is a senior editor of The Journal of Investment Management and co-editor of The Journal of Derivatives. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked in the derivatives business in the Asia-Pacific region as a Vice-President at Citibank. His current research interests includethe housing crisis, the modeling of default risk, algorithms for harvesting financial information from the web, derivative pricing models, portfolio theory, and venture capital. He has published over seventy articles in academic journals and has won numerous awards for research and teaching.

Leora Morgenstern is the Principal Investigator (SAIC) for the DARPA Machine Reading Project. As a Visiting Research Scientist at the Courant Institute at New York University, she developed formal models of narrative structure and planning, and investigated how these can be used to automate analysis of classic Harvard Business School case studies. Previously, she was Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (1989-2009) and Assistant Professor at Brown University (1987-1989). At IBM Watson, she pursued her foundational research in Artificial Intelligence at the same time as she extended state-of-the-art knowledge representation techniques for industrial applications. She is noted in particular for her contributions in applying her research in semantic networks, nonmonotonic inheritance networks, business modeling, and business rules for applications in knowledge management, customer relationship management, and decision support. These applications have been deployed by Fortune-500 companies in various industries, and have been demonstrated to increase company income stream by significant percentages. She holds three patents, which have won several IBM awards due to their value to IBM's core businesses. Dr. Morgenstern received her B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from the City College of New York and her M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Benjamin Grosof is a senior research program manager at Vulcan Inc., the parent company of Paul G. Allen (co-founder of Microsoft). There he conceived and leads a research program in the area of rule-based semantic technologies and artificial intelligence, aiming to be a game changer for knowledge representation and question answering. In addition, he has a part-time expert consulting business, advising companies large and small on technology and related strategy. Previously he was an IT professor at MIT Sloan (2000-2007) and a senior software scientist at IBM Research (1988-2000). He has pioneered semantic technology and standards for rules, their combination with ontologies, their application in e-commerce and business policies, and business roadmapping of the Semantic Web. He co-founded the influential RuleML industry standards design effort and prototyped it in SweetRules, the main bases for the W3C Rule Interchange Format standard now in last phase of finalization. He was lead inventor of the rule-based technique which rapidly became the currently dominant approach to commercial implementation of W3C OWL (Web Ontology Language) and the main basis of its RL (Rules Profile) standard, and of several other fundamental technical advances in knowledge representation. His background includes three major industry software releases, two years in software startups, a Stanford PhD, a Harvard BA, and over 50 refereed publications.