Biographical Sketch: Karen Durward is an IBM product manager in the InfoSphere software organization specializing in System z data integration environments. With over 30 years of industry experience, she has held a number of technical and management positions in corporate IT organizations as well as software vendor environments. Her areas of expertise include data access and integration, application development and enterprise integration environments. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Math and Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire as well as a Master of Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.