The 2006 E-Fusion Awards Judges

Bruce Arbonies currently serves as vice president of e-commerce for Prudential Financial's E-Business Development Group. Arbonies is responsible for coordinating the life, property and casualty, long term care insurance and financial planning content and functionality for prudential.com. He is also responsible for the Prudential Online client service site. Over his career at Prudential Financial, Arbonies has worked on various projects that have applied technology to redesign, streamline or support business processes. Arbonies' current focus is on helping the business units he supports leverage the Internet to improve business performance through marketing, lead generation and customer self-service initiatives.

William K. Austin started his career in 1977, and is a frequent speaker on risk management issues. Austin provides risk management advice to organizations throughout the United States. From 1994 to 2002, Austin served as vice president and corporate risk manager for FleetBoston, an international Fortune 100 company, and the seventh largest U.S. bank. Since 2002, Austin has served as principal for Austin & Stanovich Risk Managers, L.L.C.

Since 2004, William B. Jenkins has served as Penn National Insurance Co.'s vice president and chief information officer. Jenkins has more than 30 years of industry experience, on both the company and brokerage/agency sides. Before joining Penn National, Jenkins was founder and principal of a business and IT management consulting firm, practicing primarily in the property/casualty industry.

Steven Landberg is managing partner of Claymore Partners, an executive search and consulting firm that specializes in helping insurance and financial service organizations. Landberg, with more than 25 years of experience in the executive search, organizational and management consulting industry, previously served as a financial services partner with Gemini Consulting, Nextera, InSearch Worldwide and Sibson Consulting, and held senior executive positions with Citicorp, GE Capital and PepsiCo.

With more than 20 years of IT experience, Gates Ouimette began his career as a programmer at NH Insurance, followed by consultative business development roles at Digital Equipment, BISYS, CSC, Dell and Verizon Business. Ouimette joined Verizon Business as part of the company's Enterprise Integration Service practice, focusing on facilitating, governing and managing sourcing and business transformation initiatives for Verizon Business clients. He authors technology columns for Best's Review and has been actively involved with the New England Canada Business Council, the New England E-Commerce Association and DECAlumni.

John Pogas serves as vice president of Internet and e-commerce for Affinity Insurance Services — a division of Aon Corp. Pogas is responsible for the development, management and oversight of Affinity's highly successful e-commerce initiatives, which are responsible for more than 30 percent of all new business at Affinity. In addition to managing the day-to-day operations for the Affinity Web Team, Pogas also serves as the chairman of Affinity's Internet Steering Committee. Pogas has been with Aon for more than eight years, and has more than 16 years of experience in the utilization and marketing of new and emerging technologies, including positions with Day-Timer Technologies and Keyboard Publishing.