- Jim Peden, President, CGIS Spatial Solutions

- Paul Blanchet, Vice President of Operations, iCompass Technologies, Inc.

• In 2004, the SaskTel Data Center became the first and only hosting provider in Canada to achieve Signature Certified Partner status from HP, which is a comprehensive end-to-end on-site review of the SaskTel Data Center and the Managed Hosting service. This designation ensures SaskTel consistently delivers to a defined standard based upon industry best practices.
  
  
• For the 2006 year, SaskTel's entire Managed Hosting service achieved over 99.99% availability, surpassing all service level agreements for all customers.
  
  
• SaskTel boasts a long list of achievements, including being the first in North America to offer DSL high speed internet, playing a key role in helping install and test the communications system in the Channel Tunnel linking England and France, and being the first in North America to deliver HDTV over IP.
  
  
• In 2006, for the second consecutive year, J.D. Power and Associates named SaskTel the “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Contracted Wireless Service;”  Nortel also recognized SaskTel for distinction in customer satisfaction, innovation and growth.

Jeff Kaplan is a senior consultant with Cutter Consortium's Sourcing & Vendor Relationships practice. He has developed expertise in helping IT enterprise decision makers with their sourcing strategies. In addition, he assists solution providers with their marketing strategies and venture firms with their investment strategies. Formerly, Mr. Kaplan, who is founder of THINKstrategies, served as vice president of marketing and business development at InterOPS Management Solutions, an Internet operations management services provider. Prior to joining InterOPS, Kaplan was director of strategic marketing at Lucent Technologies Worldwide Services, as a result of its acquisition of International Network Services (INS). Before his position at INS, Mr. Kaplan spent 13 years as a leading industry analyst and market research consultant at IDC, the Ledgeway Group, Dataquest, and META Group. Mr. Kaplan is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a contributing columnist for Mass High Tech, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, Computerworld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, eWeek, and the Financial Times of London. He serves as the site guide for ITworld's Utility Computing Web portal and is the outsourcing expert for TechTarget's SearchCIO and SearchSmallBizIT. He has served on the board of advisors of CeBIT America and ComNet Expositions, and is a member of the IT Services Marketing Association.

Jeff Dean
Vice President
CGIS Spatial Solutions

Jeff Dean is a founding member and vice president for CGIS Spatial Solutions. As a SaaS provider, CGIS is a leader in the industry creating effective, integrated, community–based information management systems that cost-effectively meet the integration needs of communities through user friendly, Web-based solutions founded upon client core competencies.