Aspect Communications Corp.

As Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Aspect, Mike Provenzano provides strategic financial direction for the company and oversees all accounting, financial planning, budgeting, treasury, facilities and risk management activities. He also plays an instrumental role in the company's corporate strategy including its mergers and acquisitions activities. Under Mike's direction, Aspect has successfully merged with or acquired more than seven companies while continuing to maintain profitability. Read full bio"

Deborah Barber is a Principal with the Jackson Hole Group, a San Francisco-based consulting practice focused on Human Capital Management. With a 25-year career in senior human resources and corporate services management, she is recognized among her peers as one of the Bay Area's leading business strategists in the HR profession. In 2000 Deborah was awarded the Human Resource Symposium's first annual Excellence Award for leadership in the Human Resources field in the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the HR Forums. Since her retirement as Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services, Aspect Communications, Deborah has built a consulting practice that specializes in working with senior executives to solve their strategic and operational-level human resources and their leadership and organizational development issues. In her Senior VP of HR role at Aspect, Deborah was responsible for leading Aspect's Human Resources operations, staffing, compensation, management and organizational development, facilities, real estate, environmental health and safety, and corporate services worldwide. She was actively involved in orchestrating the transformation of Aspect Communications from a hardware telecommunication equipment supplier to a provider of software solutions in the customer relationship management (CRM) marketplace, a major organizational and cultural transformation. Before joining Aspect in 1998, Deborah was Vice President of Human Resources and Worldwide Real Estate and Corporate Services for Quantum Corporation, building a global human resources and facilities and real estate function to support its rapid growth over a six-year period. She was actively engaged in leading key initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions (most importantly, the acquisition of Digital Equipment Corporation's Storage Works business, which expanded the workforce by an additional 10,000 employees); restructuring operations to achieve cost efficiencies with eroding margins in a growing commodities business; launching new business startups; and revitalizing a core value system and culture, thus creating a employment brand around an ?Extraordinary Environment with Extraordinary People.? Deborah was previously Vice President of Human Resources at Cray Research, Inc. and also held senior human resources leadership positions at Honeywell Inc.

As Senior Vice President of the Technology Office at Aspect, Jim Mitchell plays an instrumental role in setting the technology direction. He also acts as a customer advocate, responsible for ensuring the company's product futures are aligned with customer needs, communicating corporate and technology strategy and helping customers best utilize Aspect products and services. Under his direction, the company developed and introduced the Unison call management system, which helped to revolutionize the outbound dialing process and the contact center industry. Read full bio"