William Binch has been a director of SPSS since the acquisition of ShowCase Corporation by SPSS in February 2001 and now serves as the Board's Lead Director. Mr. Binch was a director of ShowCase from 1999 until the acquisition. Mr. Binch is a professional independent director with extensive experience in worldwide sales, enterprise applications and analytics. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of: Callidus Software Inc., Medefinance, Inc. and Saama Technologies, Inc. He serves as Lead Director at Callidus Software. Previously, Mr. Binch was senior vice president at Hyperion/Arbor from July 1997 to May 1999. He was a senior executive at Business Objects and Prism, two business intelligence and data warehousing companies. Mr. Binch served for five years at Oracle, finally as vice president of strategic accounts. He has held executive sales positions at IBM, Itel and Fortune Systems.