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Mr. Niven is the CEO and Founder of The Senalosa Group, Inc., a consulting firm exclusively dedicated to helping organizations reach the breakthrough results that can be achieved using the Balanced Scorecard. Mr. Niven is a noted speaker on the subjects of Performance Management and the Balanced Scorecard. As a hands-on practitioner, Mr. Niven guides organizations large and small in a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 1000 companies, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations, through the development of world-class Balanced Scorecard systems. Mr. Niven has written three books on the subject of Performance Measurement. His latest book "Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics: Maintaining Maximum Performance," was released in April, 2005. Previously he wrote, "Balanced Scorecard Step by Step for Governments and Nonprofits" released by John Wiley & Sons in June, 2003. It was a follow-up to his very popular book"Balanced Scorecard Step by Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results" which was released by John Wiley and Sons in March of 2002 and has subsequently been translated into 12 languages worldwide. Mr. Niven is also a highly sought after speaker, delivering keynote addresses at performance related conferences throughout North America and Europe. Most recently he was the keynote speaker at the "Nordic Balanced Scorecard Summit" in Stockholm.
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Frank Sparacino is a Vice President, First Analysis Securities Corporation specializing in research and investment in enterprise software and health care information technology. He provides research coverage of leading private and publicly traded companies in his sectors. Prior to joining First Analysis in 2000, he spent four years as a sell-side equity research analyst with Barrington Research Associates Inc., where he covered the enterprise and Internet infrastructure software market. Earlier, he was with Brinson Partners, a global money management firm, performing a wide range of duties from portfolio implementation and client service to developing derivative functionality for the firm's portfolio management accounting system. Before that, he worked for KPMG as a corporate tax specialist. Mr. Sparacino earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Northern Illinois University. He is a certified public accountant and a CFA charter holder.
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Since 1994, Gregory L. Hrncir has been an active investor and served as a board member, strategist, and corporate counsel for a broad range of private and publicly traded companies, principally focusing on emerging growth technology companies. Mr. Hrncir has significant experience with respect to IPOs, M&A transactions, private placements, structuring and negotiating complex transactions, intellectual property licensing, ‘34 Act public company reporting, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Mr. Hrncir holds a Bachelor’s of Science from Arizona State University and a J.D. from Whittier Law School, is licensed with the Arizona and California State Bar Associations, and sits on the board of directors of several private companies.
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Rajiv Gupta is widely recognized as a pioneer of web services. Currently he is a vice president/general manager of Cisco Systems' policy management business unit, and is founder and CEO of Securent, Inc., which offers application entitlement management solution (EMS) that enables organizations to secure sensitive applications and data. Securent was purchased by Cisco in 2007. Previously he was founder and CEO of Confluent Software, and before that he spent 11 years at Hewlett-Packard, most recently as the general manager of the E-speak Division. E-speak is the precursor to the web service offerings from many major IT companies, and has been inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum. Gupta is the inventor or co-inventor of some of the seminal concepts that underpin web services, and has more than 45 patents to his name.
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