Colin Surprenant, Practice Leader, Business to Business eCommerce: Colin Surprenant is Practice Leader, Business to Business eCommerce and he is based in Montreal, Canada. Colin Surprenant has been architecting and leading development teams in both business to business transaction processing as well as business to consumer interactive systems since 1986. He has designed software solutions, as well as network security for companies such as CERVEAU, Hydro Quebec, Lévesque-Beaubien-Geoffrions, Accenture, Canada Post, Nortel, IMS Canada, Softimage and Microsoft. Mr. Surprenant provides unique value in supply chain automation by deploying high performance, bi-directional TCP-IP applications for distributed supply chain solutions. With a strong understanding of network security and operating systems as well as TCP/IP protocols, Mr. Surprenant architects systems that focus on efficient data exchange while avoiding multiple layers of inefficient commercial off the shelf network servers. The result is a lightweight solution that provides effective solutions with orders of magnitude of improved processing capacity. Mr. Surprenant studied Informatics and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, in Montreal, Quebec, as well as Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Quebec at Hull.