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The ANTs Technical Advisory Board is made up of senior executives from leading IT vendors and Global 2000 corporations. The board advises the company on a range of strategic items including technology, product and go to market strategy. Specific activities include:

1. Guiding the direction of the product roadmap and other future technical work within ANTs.
2. Recommending areas of collaboration within ANTs technical team and with outside activities and alliances.
3. Recommending guidelines and other processes that will support the ANTs technical team.
4. Supporting ANTs with the creation of new strategic alliances, business development, and other partner and M&A activities as appropriate.
   

Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Members

Don Haderle
Ari Kaplan
Warren Lucas

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.

Warren Lucas
Mr. Lucas joined IBM in 1978 as a Systems Engineer in the IBM Data Processing Division.  In 1985, Mr. Lucas became a Senior Specialist for IBM’s DB2 product line, selling and supporting the IBM software against competitive products. 

He started the first IBM Software Group sales team in 1996 that successfully competed with Oracle, Sybase and Informix in the New York financial district.  In 2005, he became Sales Manager of IBM’s Wall Street data management sales team; and in the following year, he rose to Sales Manager of the combined Wall Street and New York Metro teams. 

Mr. Lucas was made Business Unit Executive of IBM’s Information Management business in greater New York and New Jersey in 2008.  In this position he managed a large sales team that significantly exceeded the revenue targets. 

He retired from IBM on June 30th, 2010. Mr. Lucas holds a Bachelors of Science Degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  As a sales representative, Mr. Lucas won six (6) Golden Circles awards, IBM’s highest sales award.

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