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The
ANTs Technical Advisory Board (TAB) is made up of senior executives
from leading IT vendors and Fortune 1000 corporations. The TAB advises
the company on a range of ANTs technology and product issues, including:
- Guiding the direction of the product roadmap and other future technical work within ANTs
- Recommending areas of collaboration within ANTs technical team and with outside standards activities
- Recommending guidelines and other processes that will support the ANTs technical team
- Supporting ANTs with partners, technical events, and other technical activities as appropriate
Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Members
Don Haderle
Ari Kaplan
Don Haderle
Mr.
Haderle, also known as “The Father of DB2”, joined IBM in 1968 as a
software developer and retired in 2005 as the software executive
operating as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Information
Management segment which constitutes a $3-4B portfolio of products
covering Database Management and Content Management.
Mr.
Haderle is most well known as the founding architect for DB2 in the
1970s, which is IBM’s premier relational database management system.
Mr. Haderle led and drove the architecture, design, and technical
development for DB2 from the 1970s until the early 1990s. He was
appointed IBM Fellow in 1989, which is IBM’s top position for
technologists.
In
1991, Mr. Haderle was appointed Director and then Vice President,
holding the position of CTO for the Information Management segment,
responsible for establishing the technology strategy and creation
(prototypes, acquisitions). During this period Mr. Haderle led
technology for databases on open systems, a federated information
infrastructure, content management, spatial systems, and other advances
in the IBM portfolio.
In 2000 Mr. Haderle was appointed ACM Fellow in recognition of his impact on database technology.
Mr.
Haderle is a graduate of UC Berkeley, with a BA in Economics 1967. Don
and his wife Gail were wed in 1966 and have one child and 2
grandchildren. He is an avid golfer, hiker, backpacker, skier, and
fisherman. He and his wife are active dancers and travelers.
Ari Kaplan
Mr. Kaplan is President Emeritus of
the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), a 20,000+ member
organization of Oracle technology professionals. Mr. Kaplan served as
Executive Vice President of IOUG from 2003 to 2004, before assuming his
current role in 2005. Mr. Kaplan is also a Senior Consultant for
Datalink Corporation, where he leads the database practice, helping
companies architect, implement and and support storage solutions for
database environments.
Beginning
in 1999 and continuing through 2005, Mr. Kaplan served as Chief
Executive Officer at Expand Beyond, a pioneering mobile business
software company. Mr. Kaplan worked as a Chief Architect/Senior
Consultant from 1994 to 1999, to companies including Chicago Board
Options Exchange, Merck & Co.,
Inc., 3Com/US Robotics, Hallmark, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the
Department of Defense. Mr. Kaplan also worked as a Senior Consultant
for Oracle Corporation from 1992 to 1994. He has co-authored five
best-selling books including the first-to-market book on Windows 2000,
three on Oracle, and one on baseball analytics.
Mr.
Kaplan received a Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering and
Applied Sciences from the California Institute of Technology in 1992.
He was awarded the school's prestigious "Caltech Alumni of the Decade" award for the 1990's.
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