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| CEO perennials: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft; John Chambers, Cisco; Michael Dell, Dell; David Dorman, AT&T; Larry Ellison, Oracle; Sam Palmisano, IBM; Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon; Ed Whitacre, SBC. |
| Vendor executives: Shai Agassi, SAP; Gary Bloom, Veritas Software; Michael Capellas, MCI; Craig Conway, PeopleSoft; Nora Denzel, HP; Tim Donahue, Nextel; Doug Elix, IBM; Carly Fiorina, HP; Bill Gates, Microsoft; Patrick Gelsinger, Intel; Charlie Giancarlo, Cisco; Diane Greene, VMware; Amnon Landan, Mercury Interactive; Darl McBride, SCO Group; Greg Papadopoulos, Sun; Brian Roberts, Comcast; Eric Rudder, Microsoft; George Samenuk, Network Associates; Stratton Sclavos, VeriSign; Pradeep Sindhu, Juniper; John Thompson, Symantec; Joseph Tucci, EMC; Peggy Weigle, Sanctum; Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM. |
| IT executives: Mike Bennett, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Linda Dillman, Wal-Mart; Scott Griffin, Boeing; Rhonda MacLean, Bank of America; Brad Noblet, Dartmouth College; Tony Scott, General Motors. |
| Standards setters: Dennis Eaton, Wi-Fi Alliance; Hugo Haas, W3C; Henning Schulzrinne, IETF (and Columbia University); Fred Wettling, Network Applications Consortium (and Bechtel). |
| Legislators & regulators: Kevin Martin, FCC; Michael Oxley (R-Ohio) and Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.). |
| Advocates and industry thinkers: Nicolas Carr, business writer; Russ Cooper, NTBugtraq (and TruSecure); Scott Hazen Mueller, spam.abuse.net; Bruce Perens, open source activist; Richard Stiennon, Gartner; Harry Weller, New Enterprise Associates. |
