SPEAKER BIOS

Phil Brotherton
Vice President of Marketing

Prior to joining Acta, Brotherton worked for Hewlett-Packard, most recently as worldwide marketing manager for HP's Communication Infrastructure Computing Operation. In this role, Brotherton was responsible for all aspects of marketing for specialized servers targeted at computer telephony and internet infrastructure applications. During his nine years at HP, Brotherton also led the development effort that resulted in the industry's highest performance enterprise NT server and led the worldwide product line planning organization for HP's industry-leading enterprise Unix servers and storage. Among other achievements at HP, Brotherton was selected into HP's Advanced Development Program for high potential managers and twice won the "Most Effective Speaker Award" for communication of strategy and positioning to HP's major enterprise customers and partners. Before HP, Brotherton held sales and engineering positions at Teledyne Inc. and Hughes Aircraft Corporation. He has a BSME from UC Santa Barbara and a MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

About Acta

Acta Technology provides the leading eCommerce Data Platform which enables medium and large enterprises to respond to the opportunities of the Internet economy. Designed for eCommerce and eAnalytic applications, Acta's eCommerce Data Platform provides efficient and rapid access to the business content and information needed, across the extended enterprise. The platform, built on Acta's data caching technology, includes the ActaWorks Data Server, and a suite of eCache applications. This suite of products allows enterprises to make effective use of their information assets to compete in all sectors of the networked economy-including eMarketplaces, direct eCommerce, and traditional markets.

Acta is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, and has international offices in London, Zurich, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Paris, and the Netherlands. The company's 130+ customers include IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Chevron, Hitachi, Guinness, Shell, Monsanto, and other leaders in the Global 1000. Acta partners with leading vendors in enterprise resource planning (ERP), front-end eCommerce solutions, and eAnalytics providers and is an active member of the SAP Complementary Software Program (CSP), PeopleSoft and Oracle's Global Alliance Programs.