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Ari Kaplan is a leading figure in the new generation of analytical minds helping shape the future of baseball in America today. Educated at the elite California Institute of Technology, he is a recipient of the university’s “Alumni of the Decade” award for pioneering groundbreaking sabermetrics used to evaluate pitcher talent. Over the past seventeen seasons, Ari has worked full-time and consulted for twelve MLB organizations working directly with General Managers, Presidents, and Scouting Directors to dramatically improve business operations and strategic analytical capabilities. He comes from a scouting background and is also one of the few long-term baseball leaders who has a proven track record of successfully running several high-profile companies as CEO.

Ari is highly skilled at combining computers, technology, statistical analysis and business acumen for a fresh look at evaluating players for maximum return on a baseball club’s investment. His use of analytical insights and technology greatly improves the effective evaluation of players and provides a competitive edge over other Clubs. Ari improves scouting at every level, working closely with upper management to maximize drafts, trades, and salary arbitration opportunities. Organizational business objectives are met and exceeded by aligning and implementing technology to assist scouting and player development.

Baseball Summary

Ari Kaplan is known throughout the Major Leagues for revolutionizing and modernizing player assessment. Over the past 17 years, he has brought innovative analysis and technology to baseball. While employed by the Baltimore Orioles, San Diego Padres, Montreal Expos, and Houston Astros he designed and developed scouting and player development database systems from the ground up. He has been a senior consultant with additional organizations to cross-supply advanced scouting reports, computational analytics, spray charts, and additional information.

v Worked with several teams and under many GMs and managers including Andy MacPhail, Tal Smith, Tim Purpura, Phil Garner, Kevin Kennedy, Frank Robinson, Roland Hemond, Joe McIlvaine, Fred Claire, Jim Beattie, Bill Stoneman, David Littlefield, Dan Duquette, Kevin Malone, and others.

v Received Caltech’s Alumni of the Decade award for his ability to analyze player performance and trends with new techniques and technology.

v Profiled on the covers of ComputerWorld, Data Management Review and Contract Professional. Also featured in Baseball America, “This Week in Baseball” with Mel Allen, on CNN, and the “Today Show”.

v Played NCAA Baseball at Caltech 1988-1992

Business Summary

Ari Kaplan is President of the Independent Oracle Users Group. Caltech's "Alumni of the Decade" for the 1990's, he was the CEO and CTO for Expand Beyond Corporation before its acquisition in March 2005 by Datalink. As CEO he was responsible for setting the strategic vision of the company's technology, and served as the company's evangelist to promote the immediate and powerful benefits of mobile solutions in the IT workforce. As CTO he was the driving force behind a talented software development team focused on mobile management products within the Expand Beyond framework that empower companies to manage their entire IT infrastructure (databases, applications, servers, networks) from a mobile console. Expand Beyond raised over $16 million led by Menlo Ventures and is viewed today as one of the founders and instrumental leaders of the mobile business software market. Business highlights include:

v Founding and serving as CEO of Expand Beyond, the worldwide leader in mobile business software. Raising the largest first round of funding in Illinois for 2001 from the same venture firm that backed Hotmail and brokered its eventual sale to Microsoft.

v Serving as President on the Board of Directors of the Independent Oracle Users Group for the world’s second largest software company.

v Regular column in Oracle Magazine with over 800,000 subscribers.

v Serving on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Technology Association.

v Held senior roles at Oracle, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz Allen Hamilton, U.S. Robotics/3Com, among others. Developed applications for Fortune 500 companies including Playboy, Hallmark, Merck and the Chicago Board Options Exchange, as well as several branches of the U.S. military and government.

Ari Kaplan Fred Claire

kaplanari@hotmail.com flcaire@pacbell.net

312-399-0079 626-796-2749

“Kaplan has already has devised three formulas that could, if instituted, change the way managers handle their bullpens.”

v Baseball America

“Keeping track of thousands of baseball scouting reports for minor and major league teams can be very cumbersome. Especially remembering where you filed them. Well, there's a new software program to help sort out all of this mess. Joining us today is Ari Kaplan, the man behind this new program…And it’s the best thing since sliced bread.”

v CNN interview (with anchor Sean Callebs)

"Our ability to generate stats has gotten way ahead of our ability to make any sense of it… it's going to take a lot of work by people like Mr. Kaplan before we understand what all this means."

v Bill James (LA Times)

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