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Ari Kaplan is President of AriBall, a leading analyst and scouting firm to Major League Baseball teams and media. Educated at the elite California Institute of Technology, he is a recipient of their “Alumni of the Decade” award for the 1990’s. Kaplan is the President of AriBall and was President of the Independent Oracle Users Group for three years. Kaplan gained broad recognition in the IT marketplace as CEO of Expand Beyond Corp, a leader in the database and server management market,raising the largest first round of funding in Illinois for 2001 through its public acquisition. In 2001, he was included in Crain Communications’ "40 Under 40" profile of business leaders.

· President of the Independent Oracle Users Group 2005-2008 for the world’s second largest software company, presiding over 200 staff and volunteers for the 20,000+ member technical association.

· Widely recognized as a leading authority in the IT industry, Kaplan has architected and led implementation of some of the most successful and highly visible data centers and applications for Fortune 500 companies including 3Com, Hallmark, Merck and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

· Co-author of six best-selling books including the first-to-market book on Windows 2000 (which went to #17 on Amazon’s Best-Seller list), three on Oracle, and two on baseball analytics.

· Awarded Crain Communication’s "40 Under 40" distinction for effective business leaders.

· Awarded broad US Patents on mobile technology with 46 claims.

· Ari’s work has been covered by more than 400 print, online, and broadcast outlets, including the Today Show, CNN, Time, the History Channel, Chris Matthews Hardball, Newsweek, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CIO, Financial Times, and the BBC.

Kaplan is a popular speaker at national and international technology conferences including Comdex, OracleWorld, the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, Wall Street Technology Association, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.

Kaplan is also on the Swedish-Russian Working Group on the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg, investigating the disappearance of the Holocaust hero into the Soviet gulag. He serves on the board of directors for ANTs software and the Illinois Technology Association.

This was the FIRST Windows 2000 book in the world.	or at Barnes & Noble; or at Waite Group
Windows 2000 from Apogeo (in Italian, translated from my NT5 book).	NT5 - The Next Revolution - Chinese Editions

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Ari Kaplan in the News:

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Video of Ari Kaplan and Charles Phillips during the Oracle Database 11g launch, NYC 2007 (Watch Segment 1 from minute 48-52), also on YouTube

History of Trenton Computer Festival Keynote presenters

Trenton Times cover story, October 1, 2006: Hero outsmarted the Nazis. He saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews but could not save himself

Trenton Times second cover story, October 4, 2006: Remembering missing hero of the Holocaust

Ari Kaplan's Co-Authored Books:

Raoul Wallenberg:

AP story: Scholars run down more clues to a Holocaust mystery, April 27 2008

Trenton Times second cover story, October 4, 2006: Remembering missing hero of the Holocaust

Trenton Times cover story, October 1, 2006: Hero outsmarted the Nazis. He saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews but could not save himself