M.B.A., D.B.A., Harvard Business School; B.S. University of Nevada

Dr. Helfert is Managing Principal of Helfert Associates, where he is involved in executive development and consulting in finance and strategy, including tailored shareholder value management seminars for Fortune 100 and technology companies. He is also a frequent public speaker on financial/economic management issues. Prior to his current activity, Dr. Helfert was Vice President, Corporate Planning at Crown Zellerbach Corporation, where he served twenty years in a variety of high-level positions involving strategy and portfolio planning, financial/economic analysis, and senior management development. Before entering the corporate environment, he taught finance and controllership at the Harvard Business School for seven years, including course development and consulting activities. Dr. Helfert is the author of "Techniques of Financial Analysis", the best-selling and most widely published text on financial analysis since 1963, appearing in its 11th edition © 2003, which has been translated into ten languages. He has also authored and co-authored several other books on finance, and recently published his first literary work, "Valley of the Shadow".

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University; B.A. Rice University.

Dr. Clancey is Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Computing at NASA Ames Research Center, where he is responsible for the management of projects in the area of work systems design and knowledge management.  His numerous articles and books since the 1970's have been very influential in the design of expert systems and instructional programs. Clancey is the inventor of basic methods for automated explanation, tutorial instruction, and qualitative process modeling. He has consulted and presented this work in 18 countries. Dr. Clancey is on leave at NASA from the Florida Institute of Human and Machcine Cognition.  Previously, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Learning (1987-97) at Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory (1974-1987). He was also a founder, consultant, and member of the board of directors of Teknowledge, Inc. (1981-1987). Clancey is a fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the AAAI Press and a Senior Editor of Cognitive Science.

M.B.A., Harvard Business School; B.A., Harvard College.

Mr. Wu is Chief Executive Officer of John Wu & Company providing to clients financial planning, strategic planning, computer modeling and investment services. Before starting John Wu & Company, Mr. Wu was Manager of Strategic Planning for Crown Zellerbach Corporation where he was responsible for providing planning support to Senior Management in corporate portfolio strategies, business valuation and resource allocation. In the thirteen years prior to joining Crown Zellerbach, Mr. Wu served as Manager, Corporate Planning for Arcata National Corporation; Planning Analyst for Potlatch Corporation; Manager of Treasury Programs and Manager of Finance, Corporate Treasury for Itel Corporation, as well as Director of Finance and Administration for Itel Finance Corp.; and Financial Analyst, Europe Area Budgets and Planning for IBM World Trade Corporation.

B.A., C. W. Post College of Long Island University (Cum Laude); IBM Research Institute; IBM President’s Class, Harvard University.

Mr. Baker held the position of Executive Vice President, world-wide support, of Oracle Corporation, which he joined in 1993 as vice president, customer support. Being responsible for direct support operations, carried out by over 6,300 technical employees in 90 countries for more than 200,000 customers, he grew support revenue ten-fold to $2.8 billion and was a major contributor to Oracle’s profits. At the same time he improved customer and employee satisfaction to all-time record levels. Prior to joining Oracle, he spent ten years with Tandem Computers in increasingly responsible positions managing customer support, receiving many awards for his performance. From 1966 to 1983 Mr. Baker was with IBM Corporation, where his role included software development and systems engineering. He was consistently promoted and rewarded for outstanding contributions, and graduated from IBM’s Research Institute and IBM’s President Class at Harvard University. Mr. Baker is very active in the community, serving on several non-profit boards, and he has been recognized with numerous awards. He currently participates on advisory boards of high-technology firms.