Dr Martin Fahy is a senior lecturer in Accounting and Information Systems at National University of Ireland, Galway.  He is a chartered accountant and holds a PhD in Informatics from UCC. Prior to joining NUI, Galway he worked as a management consultant with KPMG. He has written extensively on the areas of CPM, Business Intelligence, ERP systems and emerging issues in Finance. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Université d’Auvergne in France and is involved in research in the areas of CPM/BI, and Strategic Enterprise Management. His most recent books include ERP Leveraging the Benefits (a joint venture with CIMA and PwC) and Strategic Enterprise Management Systems and An Executive guide to Shared Services. Martin is convenor of the CIMA SEM Round Table and is a member of the advisory board of the SBPOA. He is a former Fulbright scholar and a holder of the ICAI award for excellence in accounting education.

Jeremy Roche is CEO of The CODA Group, a global financial software company based in the UK with offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. He started his career at IBM, and held a number of senior systems engineering and sales roles in IT companies before joining Science Systems (now CODASciSys plc, parent company of The CODA Group) as Commercial Director in 1990. He speaks regularly on financial strategy, corporate governance and financial systems issues and is widely quoted in the finance and IT press around the world.

Anastasia Weiner was a business journalist with a number of newspapers before becoming a freelance business writer. She is commissioned regularly by business magazines, newspapers and other publications, as well as by professional business organisations including Business in the Community. Her specialist areas of writing include corporate responsibility, business regulation, corporate governance, finance strategy and information technology. She has interviewed and profiled numerous top business executives and politicians including Bill Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani.