Al Brown is an architect in the office of IBM""s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He holds an MBA from USC and a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Colorado School of Mines. Mr. Brown founded a Web content management company called eGrail, which FileNet bought in 2002; IBM acquired FileNet in 2006. He led the Architecture Steering Group for FileNet, and he has since led the standards effort for FileNet in the content management field.

Jay Brown has worked as a software developer for 19 years and has been with FileNet (now owned by IBM) since 1999. His biggest contributions to FileNet include the following: creating the P8 .NET CE APIs; serving as a primary developer for the P8 4.x Java Content APIs; and participating in the 4.0 Content Engine Architecture team. Mr. Brown is currently the development lead for the P8 SharePoint connector project.