William B. Gail - Microsoft

William B. Gail is Director of Strategic Development within Virtual Earth at Microsoft Corporation, with responsibility for expanding the capabilities of Virtual Earth and its use throughout the community.  He was previously Vice President of the Mapping and Photogrammetric Solutions division at Vexcel Corporation (acquired in 2006 by Microsoft), where he directed a global organization responsible for a range of Earth information systems and services.  Prior to joining Vexcel, he was Director of Earth Science Advanced Programs at Ball Aerospace where he led the development of spaceborne instruments and missions for Earth science and meteorology. 

Dr. Gail received his undergraduate degree in Physics and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, focusing his research on wave-particle interactions in the Earth's magnetosphere.  During this period, he spent a year as cosmic ray and upper atmospheric field scientist at South Pole Station.  Dr. Gail is on the Board of Directors of Peak Weather Resources, Inc., is a member of the editorial boards for Imaging Notes magazine and the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, and is the Director of Industry Relations for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. 

He is a member of the Executive Committee for the National Research Council's Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future (the "Decadal Survey") and previously served as a member of the NRC Committee on Earth Studies (2002-05), the NRC Task Group on Principle Investigator-Led Earth Science Missions (2001-03), the NRC Committee on NASA-NOAA Transition from Research to Operations (2002-03), the NRC Committee to Review the NASA Earth Science Enterprise Strategic Plan (2003), and the NASA Earth Science and Applications from Space Strategic Roadmap Committee (2005).  In 2007, he received awards from GITA for best conference speaker and AGU for excellence in scientific journal review.

Alan S. Fuller

Alan S. Fuller is Director of Product Management in Oracle's Business Intelligence Product Group. He joined the Oracle family as part of Oracle's acquisition of Siebel Systems. Prior to joining the Product Management team, he managed the global Business Intelligence deployment at Siebel Systems to more than 5000 employees. Siebel's CIO referred to it as "the most impactful project he had seen in over 30 years of IT experience." After moving to the Product Management team at Oracle, Mr. Fuller has been "hands-on" in delivering Oracle's market-leading BI products. His areas of focus have included managing teams for Core Product Management, Release Management, and Customer Success. He has helped to integrate the BI products acquired by Oracle leading to a tripling of revenue from these products over the last two years. Mr. Fuller received an MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.