Biographical Sketch: Many of you know Russ Teubner as the founder and CEO of HostBridge Technology. Some of you also know him as a software entrepreneur who formed his first company in 1984 and developed multiple software products before that company merged with a European ISV in 1998. This is all true. But at heart, Russ is a puzzle solver, a designer, and a bridge builder. He loves nothing better than to find disconnected stuff that ought to work together – and make do so in an elegant manner. In 1999, Russ was inspired by the evolving feature set of CICS TS v1. Since then, he has devoted his creative energies to building integration solutions exclusively for CICS. I think his customers are glad he did.