Howard Putnam was raised on an Iowa farm and learned to fly out of a pasture in his father's J-3 Piper Cub. He entered the airline business as a baggage handler at Midway Airport in Chicago for Capital Airlines at age 17. Capital was soon merged into United and Howard held thirteen different positions in sales, services and staff assignments in several cities, before being named Group Vice President of Marketing for United Airlines, the world's largest airline, in 1976.

In 1978 he was recruited to become President and CEO of fledgling Southwest Airlines in Dallas, TX. While at Southwest Howard and his team tripled the revenues and tripled profitability in three years. They also successfully guided Southwest through airline deregulation. Howard led the visioning process at Southwest that helped further develop the "fun" culture and excellent customer service that Southwest is still known for today. Southwest has been profitable in every quarter for over twenty-five years, a record unsurpassed by any airline.

In 1981, Howard was recruited by the board of directors of Braniff International to come aboard as CEO and save and/or restructure the financially failing airline. He was the first airline CEO to successfully take a major carrier into, through and out of chapter 11. Braniff flew again in 1984.

He is the author of "The Winds of Turbulence" on leadership and ethics. Putnam has been an entrepreneur, the Chairman of a startup investment company and in 1998, the co-founder and chairman of AIR, a commercial airline seat refurbishment company. Putnam holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago.

Since joining Team New Zealand in 2000, Christopher Miller has become known as the team's software development wizard. In pursuit of the America's Cup, Miller has developed a high-performance computer system that shares data between boats and shore, incorporates real-time navigation and meteorological data, provides advanced performance modeling.

Prior to sailing around the world and joining Team New Zealand, Miller spent more than 20 years working in the Silicon Valley high tech industry as a software engineer and system architect, securing two US patents in automated software testing, and has written approximately 1 million lines of object-oriented C++.

Mr. Miller holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Masters of Engineering in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University. He now lives in New Zealand with his wife where he works as a design engineer for Emirates Team New Zealand. He uses Pavilion Technologies software to analyze data and find ways to improve the boats' performance in pursuit of the America's Cup.

With over 20 years of experience in production and technology management, Mason has responsibility for leading AMR Research's Chemical & Process Research Team. His research starts with an understanding of the business environment in each industry and leads to strategic advice on the application technology for competitive advantage.

Mason began his career with National Chemical Products, a Division of Sentrachem and now a Dow Chemical subsidiary, in plant operations, working with the company for fourteen years and eventually serving as Chief Information Officer. From that position, Mason became responsible for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), next moving into business development with an emphasis on new plant design and construction technology applications.

Mason also gained experience in the software industry, including business development for supply-chain market channels and a role as Chief Technology Officer for Marcam, a process enterprise resource planning (ERP) company. Colin's unique skills were more broadly applied at Invensys developing the company's real-time enterprise strategy. His expertise also includes business process management and enterprise application integration.

Colin holds a B.S. with Honors in Chemical Engineering from The University of Surrey, England.

Tom Fiske is part of the Automation Consulting team at ARC Advisory Group covering the global process manufacturing markets. He is responsible for following the global industrial automation markets, writing in-depth research reports, and providing advice to clients, with particular focus on process simulation (including dynamic training simulators), advanced process control, optimization, and collaborative production management markets.

Fiske has 15 years experience of broad experience in industry, government, and academia. Fiske has been with ARC since 1999. He has authored many market studies and reports including Collaborative Production Management Software Worldwide Outlook for the Process Industries and Real-Time Process Optimization and Training Worldwide Outlook.

Prior to ARC, Fiske was a program manager and technical advisor for the Department of Energy with responsibilities for research and development of advanced production technologies, technology transfer, and a research and development program at a major chemical processing facility. Before that, he worked for the Highly Filled Materials Institute where he conducted research in the area of polymer processing that led to over 15 publications. Earlier in his career, Tom was a manufacturing engineer for Norton Company where he managed the installation of new equipment and developed manufacturing procedures for new products.

Tom holds a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a M.S. from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology, all in Chemical Engineering. He also holds a M.S. degree in the Management of Technology from the Sloan School at MIT.

Tom Guiliani serves as Process Manager for Capitol Cement Division of Capitol Aggregates, Ltd. Guiliani's responsibilities include operations optimization, assessment and implementation of new technology, and operator training at the plant. Guiliani has over 16 years experience in cement and industrial minerals production.

As a process engineer for Medusa Cement, Guiliani was involved with installing DCS systems and implementing expert controls. He was also responsible for operations analysis, quarry engineering and production, and environmental programs in various positions during his time at Medusa. At Central Silica (Oglebay - Norton Company), Guiliani was the plant engineer responsible for quarry planning, construction projects, environmental and safety programs at their Ohio operations.

Guiliani received a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mining Engineering from Michigan Technological University.

Art Smart serves as Senior Process Control Engineer for Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., LP, at its Cedar Bayou Chemical Complex in Baytown, Texas. Smart's current responsibilities include management and implementation of advanced process control technology (APC) on all polymer units at Cedar Bayou, including the world's largest Phillips loop reactor, six autoclave LDPE units, and two gas phase units for HDPE and LLDPE manufacture.

Smart has over 33 years of experience implementing advanced process control technology and fault-tolerant safety systems in a variety of chemical processes at DuPont, Celanese, W.R. Grace, Quantum Chemical, Chevron Chemical and other manufacturers, implemented on a wide variety of control systems and PLC platforms. Smart has been utilizing Pavilion's technological solutions for polymer reactor control for over six years.

Smart holds Chemical Engineering Bachelor's and Master's degrees, both summa cum laude from Georgia Tech, as well as graduate certification in computerized process control. Additional post graduate studies include contract law, accounting, management, object oriented programming and software engineering. Publications include Chemical Engineering Progress and ISA Transactions.

Tony Baucke serves as the Research and Development Manager for the Automation and Process Control Group at Fonterra Operations-Ingredients. Baucke is responsible for the discovery and delivery of innovative measurement, control and automation solutions to Fonterra Operations. His experience in the dairy industry spans more than 44 years and includes 24 years of history working with the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute.

Baucke's work includes development of equipment design, new product development, consultancy to the New Zealand dairy industry, and all aspects of evaporation and spray drying. Baucke was also involved in a project investigating the application of model-based predictive control to dairy processes in the early '70s. He moved from research into production management, and later worked in strategic modeling, evaluation and planning for a number of large dairy processing plants for Anchor Products. Baucke participated in the establishment of advanced process control (APC) in Anchor Products in the mid 90's and now manages a small group with a strong focus on the conversion of data into value for Fonterra.

Baucke holds an undergraduate diploma in Dairy Technology from Massey University, New Zealand.

Tom Alloway serves as Global APC Leader for NOVA Chemicals, and the Process Control Leader for the NOVA Chemicals Styrenics Division. Alloway's responsibilities include the development of plans for the implementation of Advanced Process Control (APC) across the entire company in a multi-year program. Alloway has more than 19 years of experience in process control.

Alloway joined NOVA Chemicals in 1999 as part of the acquisition of Huntsman Styrenics assets. At Huntsman, Alloway was responsible for the Polymer Division's process control solutions, it was here where he had his initial contact with Pavilion Technologies in 1995. Earlier in his career, Alloway worked for ABB and Eastman Kodak in Rochester NY.

Alloway received a Bachelor's of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware in Newark Delaware. He received a Master's in Business Administration from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.

Bettina Rathaj is responsible for technology, quality and safety of three Polypropylene plants at Sabic Polyolefine GmbH Germany (Gelsenkirchen). Rathaj has 6 years of experience as a technical engineer in polypropylene production. In this role Rathaj played a key part on the implementation team of Advance Process Control (APC) at the BP Innovene plant in 2003. The APC implementation was a great success in a short amount of time.

After graduating with a degree in Chemical Engineering, Rahaj was employed at BASF Coatings for three years before accepting a job with DSM Polyolefine GMBH which now is Sabic Polyolefine GmbH. Since March 2004 she has been the staff manager, managing a group of four engineers and three quality technicians.

Dennis Yieh is a Process Control Technologist in the Control System Group in Sterling Chemicals at the Texas City site. He is responsible for applying and implementing advanced process control (APC) and optimization technology to process units for improving operating efficiency, cost and product quality. Yieh has more than 25 years of chemical industry experience ranging from process design, technical support, production, and process control. He has managed and successfully deployed more than 6 APC and environmental applications since 1994. Despite the styrene industry's cyclical nature, Yieh has been instrumental in driving costs down and productivity up to meet market demands. His most recent successful project was the implementation of the Process Perfecter control application on the ethyl benzene process.

Yieh received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1976 from University of Oklahoma and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1979 from Rice University.

Ralph Carter joined Pavilion as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2003. He has a proven track record of leading companies through profitable growth and extensive experience in operational management, sales and services. Carter has deep manufacturing experience and solid expertise in the software and related services industries. Carter most recently served as COO for Datastream (Nasdaq: DSTM), a company that provides asset management software to more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500. At Datastream, Carter was responsible for overseeing the company's day-to-day operations and coordinating the worldwide sales divisions. Under Carter's leadership, the company recently celebrated 10 consecutive quarters of positive cash flow from operations. Prior to joining Datastream, he served as vice president of sales for Honeywell International's North American Industrial Automation and Control division where he oversaw sales revenues of $450 million.

Carter holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maine.

Matt Tormollen brings more than 18 years of software industry experience to Pavilion. Tormollen joined Pavilion from BroadJump Inc where he served as vice president of marketing and managed corporate communications, product marketing, product management and globalization. Prior to BroadJump, Tormollen was vice president of product marketing at Dazel Corporation and was responsible for strategic planning, market segmentation, and the product roadmap for all Dazel enterprise applications. In addition, he established Dazel's relationship with SAP. Tormollen also has first-hand experience in the deployment of large-scale distributed and object-based systems from his work at Intersolv Inc., CSX Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Tormollen graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor of science in information systems management.

Dave Cooper joined Pavilion Technologies in April 2004 as its vice president and chief technology officer. Cooper brings 20 years of experience delivering valuable software solutions to Fortune 500 customers. He is responsible for directing research activities, implementing Pavilion's product roadmap and leading a worldwide software development team. Prior to joining Pavilion, Cooper served as president of Corporate Data Solutions Corporation (CDS), providing strategic and technological management for eight high-growth software companies. Before founding CDS, he served as CTO and vice president of engineering for Echopass Corporation, a communications and data hosting company serving high-volume call centers. Cooper also served as vice president of development with TenFold Corporation, implementing large-scale applications for Fortune 500 companies in the banking, insurance, healthcare, energy and investment management sectors. Cooper also served as the director of development at Corel Corporation where he conceived and developed some of the most heavily marketed features in WordPerfect including QuickFinder, Coaches and the WordPerfect file management system.