DEBORAH L. BAYLES has been in the software industry since 1979 in marketing and technical management consulting roles for Fortune 500 companies. She is the Founder and CEO of BridgeCommerce.com, Inc., an online and off-line venture designed to assist companies with the essential backend/logistics of e-commerce. She also founded NETouch Communications, Inc., in 1994, a company that builds commerce-enabled extranets.
Bayles also teaches e-commerce courses at the UC-Irvine and the Singapore Institute of Management. Her first book, Extranets: Building the Business-to-Business Web, was published by Prentice Hall PTR in 1998.