The following early-stage SaaS companies were selected by a group of industry executives to present during the Previews program of the conference agenda. You can meet with their company representative during the conference breaks immediately following their presentations at the Previews Exhibit Tables located in the Technology Showcase.

Wednesday, November 8
9:45AM-10:00AM LucidEra Talent Technology Corporation Apangea Learning	2:15PM-2:30PM Aria Systems Fortiva Involve Technology
Thursday, November 9
9:45AM-10:00AM LeCayla Expensewatch.com Remend	2:30PM-2:45PM @Road, Inc. Demandware Spoke Software

@Road, Inc. is a leading global provider of solutions designed to automate the management of mobile resources and to optimize the service delivery process for customers across a variety of industries. delivers Mobile Resource Management solutions in three key areas: Field Force Management, Field Service Management and Field Asset Management. By providing real-time Mobile Resource Management infrastructure integrating wireless communications, location-based technologies, transaction processing and the Internet, @Road solutions are designed to provide a secure, scalable, upgradeable, enterprise-class platform, and are offered in on-demand software delivery, on-premise or hybrid environments that can seamlessly connect mobile workers in the field to real-time corporate data.

Presenter:
Thomas Allen, Executive Vice President, Service Delivery and Systems
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As Executive Vice President, Service Delivery and Systems, Mr. Allen leads all activities related to systems engineering, IT architecture, and service operations. He is responsible for deploying and operating the @Road Information Technology infrastructure. This includes providing leadership for @Road services, network, computing and internal systems design and support teams. Mr. Allen has 20+ years of experience in the IT industry with companies such as Visa International, Edison International and Atlantic Richfield. Most recently Mr. Allen served as Vice President of Network Engineering at Visa International where he led the voice and data network engineering and operations functions. In this capacity, he played a key role in the rollout of Visa's e-Commerce initiatives, enabling Visa to launch key internet based services including SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) and Bankruptcy/Fraud Risk Prediction Services. Mr. Allen's team successfully built two large fault tolerant internet portal sites in the US and Europe in support of these programs. Prior to that, Mr. Allen managed the Technology Integration Division of the IT organization at Edison International (EI), where he oversaw development projects in the TCP-IP networking and client/server computing areas. Mr. Allen testified before the California Public Utilities Commission in support of technology initiatives and projects at EI. Mr. Allen holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from SUNY at Buffalo, an M.B.A. from San Jose State University and a Certificate in Executive Management from the Peter F. Drucker Management Center at the Claremont Graduate University.

Apangea Learning SmartHelp is setting a new standard in the way students learn, enabling students to dramatically improve achievement, at a cost of $1-$2 per tutoring hour. SmartHelp provides differentiated instruction for every student via a unique integration of an intelligent tutoring system and live one-on-one human tutors. Delivered online as a hosted service, SmartHelp makes it possible to administer tutoring anywhere, anytime. SmartHelp is based on one of the world's largest bodies of cognitive research and utilizes innovative Web-based technology that engages students and teaches fundamental problem-solving skills.

Presenter:
Louis Piconi, Founder and CEO
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In 2002, Louis combined his talents as a tutor in inner-city math programs and a successful technology entrepreneur to found Apangea Learning, Inc. The company's mission is to ensure that every child who needs a tutor has access to one. As such, it develops hybrid tutoring solutions that combine intelligent software with live support from human tutors to help schools enhance the quality of the tutoring programs while lowering the costs of administering them. During the 2006-2007 school year, over 25,000 students across the country will use Apangea Learning's solutions to improve their performance in math. Prior to founding Apangea, Louis launched WiredOrg.com, an innovative Intranet startup company and served as COO of CommNav, Inc., an early stage portal infrastructure company. He was also Managing Director of the IT Networks for the Pittsburgh Technology Council (PTC).

Aria Systems develops, markets, and implements an on-demand billing and customer management solution that meets the complex, mission-critical revenue and customer management needs of traditional and electronic service providers. Our flagship solution - Aria Coda™ - incorporates billing, user self-service, account management, and back-office CRM into a single web-based tool. Coda operates equally effectively as a stand-alone on-demand business application, or integrated with a SaaS hosting platform to provide streamlined customer service and accelerate subscription billing and processing.

Presenter:
Edward Sullivan, CEO and Founder
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Edward Sullivan is the CEO and Founder of Aria Systems. Prior to Aria, Ed was the Founder and President of LaserLink.net, the world's first and largest virtual Internet Service Provider. LaserLink provided billing and Internet services to over one million end users and operated the Internet Services for several ISP's including American Express, Compaq, Gateway, Amway and IBM. LaserLink was sold to Covad Communications in March 2000. Ed is a Director of NetQOS, an Austin Texas based IT company that offers end to end network management solutions. Deloitte & Touche recently ranked NetQOS the number one fastest growing technology company in Texas. Ed also serves on the advisory board of Covad Communications – a publicly traded provider of voice and data services.

Demandware's true on-demand eCommerce platform for retailers provides free, automatic seasonal upgrades that deliver continuous eCommerce innovation and revenue-driving benefits to all customers each and every quarter. Demandware customers including Bare Escentuals, Gardener's Supply Company, Playmobil, and Sanrio gain new capabilities to differentiate their brand and improve the user experience with each shopping season.

Presenter:
Stephan Schambach, President and CEO, Demandware
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Stephan Schambach, President and CEO of Demandware is an ecommerce visionary and pioneer. Schambach was among the first to recognize the sector as a major software market. He is the developer of a number of industry standards for the technology and also produced the first integrated ecommerce software package, enabling major global companies to streamline complex business processes. Prior to Demandware, Schambach was CEO at Intershop, an ecommerce company he founded in 1992, built to market leadership, brought public in 1998 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Neuer Market, and led to a successful NASDAQ listing in 2000. Earlier in his career, he studied physics at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany, and was among the first to found a company in East Germany after the Berlin Wall came down.

Expensewatch.com is a complete Web-based subscription service that gives small-to-mid-sized companies comprehensive tools to control and reduce operating expenses in the least time, at the lowest cost and with minimal risk. Customers automate the control of their expenses with modules for travel and entertainment, purchasing and/or invoice management. Corporate spending policies are automatically enforced. Compliance issues addressed. Budgets, real-time reporting, implementation, training and support are included in the subscription pricing. Expensewatch.com seamlessly integrates with most accounting, ERP and corporate systems to ensure transactional efficiency. Currently, thousands of people in more than 15 countries are using the expensewatch.com service.

Presenter:
Bill Vergantino, President and Chief Executive Officer
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Bill Vergantino is president and chief executive officer of expensewatch.com. As president and CEO, Mr. Vergantino is leading expensewatch.com to become the world's most trusted partner in helping small and midsized companies control operating expenses while complying with financial regulations. Mr. Vergantino joined expensewatch.com as executive vice president of sales and operations in January 2006. He managed all sales and operational functions worldwide, including direct and indirect sales, post sales implementation, training and support, as well as strategic alliances. Under his watch, expensewatch.com has delivered impressive sales growth and a unique approach to a customer's post sales experience resulting in enhanced customer satisfaction. He brings more than 15 years of leadership experience to his role at expensewatch.com that includes playing instrumental roles in the growth of four software start up organizations, all of which were either successfully acquired or went public. Known for his ability to efficiently align an organization's solutions to a prospective marketplace's needs in a compelling way, his teams have consistently driven impressive growth in sales and customer satisfaction. Bill's ability to communicate clearly and align expectations with prospective customers, partners and co-workers, has been a driving reason behind the success that his teams have experienced. His entrepreneurial vision, and proven ability to lead, positions expensewatch.com for long-term success in executing against its objective.

Fortiva is a provider of managed email archiving solutions for legal discovery, regulatory compliance and mailbox management. The Fortiva Archiving Suite automatically captures and indexes all electronic communications for redundant storage offsite. Users can easily access archived data within Outlook or a browser, without installing any software on their servers. By outsourcing to Fortiva, customers can enforce a consistent message retention policy without having to worry about managing the storage infrastructure. Fortiva is the only email archiving service provider that guarantees search performance while offering total data privacy in an outsourced solution.

Presenter:
Paul Chen, Chief Executive Officer
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As the Chief Executive Officer of Fortiva Inc, a provider of secure, managed email archiving services, Paul Chen is focused on leading Fortiva's long term business vision and direction. A proven visionary and leader, Paul previously founded FloNetwork Inc., a leading email marketing service provider. As Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer at FloNetwork, he guided the firm to prominence and helped to raise more than $30M from high-profile venture capital firms such as McLean Watson Capital, Ventures West and the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan. Paul was instrumental in ultimately selling the business in 2001 to DoubleClick for $80M. Prior to FloNetwork, Paul held senior development positions with IBM, Honeywell Inc. and Bell-Northern Research Inc., the research and development subsidiary of Nortel. Paul earned his Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Involve Technologyy provides StreetSmarts an on-demand collaboration platform specifically designed to improve sales performance. This is achieved by enabling sales and marketing teams to easily identify, capture, manage, and automatically share sales know-how and best practices using their existing business processes and email system. StreetSmarts provides a mechanism to post, reference, tag and rate various structured and unstructured content that other salespeople can leverage and evaluate. StreetSmarts has approximately 22,000 licensed users and was chosen by Gartner as one of the eight "Cool Vendors in the CRM Sales, Service and Support markets for 2006.

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LeCayla provides a metering and billing solution for software. It is the complete revenue solution for SaaS. The equivalent of a utility meter for software it allows vendors to record actual usage and bill on that basis. Our rules based billing engine allows vendors to optimise revenue opportunities by offering precisely the right pricing scheme per customer. LeCayla allows vendors to mix perpetual and pay-per-use license agreements; making it easy for vendors to transition from a pure perpetual licence model to a SaaS model. Offered as a SaaS solution LeCayla is easy to integrate and fast to deploy.

Presenter:
Conor Halpin, CEO, LeCayla Technologies
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Conor Halpin is founder and CEO of LeCayla Technologies who provide the world's first metering and billing solution for SaaS solutions. LeCayla offers the software equivalent of a utility meter allowing software vendors to measure and bill for usage on a per-use basis. Conor's specific expertise is in software marketing and pricing. He has led the sales and marketing effort for a number of international software companies including IONA Technologies, eSpatial Solutions and Marrakech. He holds a degree in software engineering from Trinity College Dublin.

LucidEra provides a complete business analysis and reporting solution delivered as an On-Demand service to midsize companies and departments of larger companies. The Company is the first to provide true Business Intelligence On-Demand, combining data from multiple applications inside and outside of companies, and delivering reports in a simple dashboard interface built for business people. LucidEra's On-Demand solution means all the complexity is managed behind the scenes, there are no upfront costs, and no additional IT staff required. And, LucidEra's prebuilt dashboards can be rapidly configured, so customers can see results quickly without needing any specialized skills.

Presenter:
Ken Rudin, CEO
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Ken Rudin is a veteran of the rapidly growing On Demand / Software as a Service industry, bringing to LucidEra nearly seven years of executive experience with leading On Demand software vendors. As co-founder and CEO of LucidEra, Ken is focused on redefining the reporting and business analytics market by providing a complete Business Intelligence On Demand solution. Before founding LucidEra, Ken held executive positions at Siebel Systems. He created Siebel's CRM OnDemand business unit, and as Vice President and General Manager of that division, he had global responsibility for Siebel's hosted solution. Ken was also the VP and General Manager of Siebel's flagship Sales Force Automation product line. Before that, Ken was VP of Marketing for Siebel Analytics, where he leveraged nearly ten years of analytics experience to help Siebel become the one of the industry's largest providers of analytics applications.

Remend provides on-demand mortgage servicing solutions to improve the performance of loans and the experience of borrowers and people servicing loans. Remend integrates for the first time all the stakeholders in a common workspace and platform - institutional investors, mortgage lender/servicers, outsourcers, realtors and borrowers. Our solution provides these users with a consistent process; real-time decisioning and analytics; and a means to collaborate throughout the loan lifecycle. Our customers are mortgage lenders and institutional investors responsible for the performance and servicing of loans. Customers can trial and purchase a discrete process or suite of processes based on subscription and transaction pricing.

Presenter:
Don Morrison, President and CEO
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Don Morrison is President and CEO of Remend, a new OnDemand solutions company providing solutions integrating the mortgage and real-estate industry. Remend is launching the first on-demand offering for the mortgage industry that integrates investment bankers, mortgage companies, real-estate community and investment bankers into an internet based business network. Don has spent the past twenty-five years building software companies in Silicon Valley and successfully working with venture capital and public market investors in four early stage companies and successfully completed two public offerings. Previous to Remend, Don was President of Chordiant Software, an SOA based applications company serving retail banks and credit card issuers. Don joined Chordiant in 1997 with two customers and grew the business to hundreds of global customers, a successful pubic offering and led five acquisitions. Don's previous experience included marketing and sales management, product planning, and industry partnerships with companies such as SMI, an AC Nielsen company, and field operations and marketing management positions with the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO).

Spoke Software provides online business-to-business contact information designed specifically to help individuals and organizations find people at their target accounts. Spoke's business directory and detailed contact information allows users to identify prospects, conduct company research and access the right people at all levels of an organization. Information on over 30 million people across more than 650,000 companies gives marketers, sales people and recruiters the contact information they need to penetrate target accounts.

Presenter:
Frank Vaculin, President and CEO
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Frank is a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley and brings a unique blend of experience, including CRM, hosted applications, knowledge management and search, to Spoke. With a proven track record building successful software companies, Vaculin has been responsible for up to $141 million in annual revenue, managing organizations from 50 to 400 employees, and aggressively driving annual revenue growth of over 350 percent. Prior to joining Spoke, Frank was CEO of Tealeaf Technologies where he directed the turn around of the company, taking them from pre-revenue to $4.5 million in sales and raising over $12 million in top-tier venture capital funding. Prior to Tealeaf, Frank was executive vice president at Ask Jeeves, where he launched Ask Jeeves Business Solutions, which accounted for half of the company's revenues. He also was a member of the executive team that led the company's successful initial public offering, raising $120 million. Vaculin has also held senior operations, marketing, and sales management positions at Borland International, Electronics for Imaging (EFI), and Software Publishing Corporation. Frank holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco.

Talent Technology Corporation (TTC) is a human capital (HR) software company. TTC provides software solutions that both automate and improve the effectiveness of recruiting and hiring processes for professional recruiters, corporate HR departments, HR software companies, and the job board industry. TTC is experiencing rapid growth offering its software as a service, with recurring revenues in excess of $7 million and growing 100% per annum. The company is approaching 400 clients, with 100 employees and projected revenues of $28 million within 3 years. TTC is in the process of evaluating acquisition candidates to expedite its growth projections.

Presenter:
Jade Bourelle, Founder
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