Dr Inderpal Singh Mumick

Dr Mumick, CEO and co-founder, Kirusa, is termed as billing
specialist. His pioneering work on the Sunrise research project at AT&T Bell
Labs led Mike Miller, VP, billing, AT&T, to comment, "This changes the
paradigm of billing." The Sunrise project led to numerous billing
initiatives at AT&T and Lucent.

Mumick has also been the co-founder and CEO of Savera, a 100%
web-based billing solutions firm. He is the author of several key patents in the
areas of billing, query optimization, and materialized views. He has published
and presented over 40 technical papers in leading journals and conferences, and
is the co-editor of a book on materialized views.

Mumick's work on recursion in SQL has been incorporated
into the SQL 3 standard, and his work on query optimization has been
incorporated into IBM's DB2 database. Dr Mumick, a PhD holder in computer
science from Stanford University, is an international authority on materialized
views technology, and his work on materialized views has influenced the
implementation of materialized views in the Oracle 8i database.