CostVision Inc. provides software and services for cost engineering and management. The founder and president, Charlie Stirk, was a contributor to the CAM-I book Hitting the Target: The CAM-I Target Costing Implementation Guide published in Sept. 2005, and 2007 recipient of the CAM-I Robert A. Bonsack award for distinguished contribution in the advancement of cost management. He is a Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of PDES Inc. (that develops and implements some of the STEP standards) and a recipient of their 2008 Brad Rigdon award for Technical Management. He is also a member of INCOSE, the professional society for systems engineering.

Gary Cokins is global product marketing manager for performance management at SAS. An internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author on advanced cost management and performance improvement systems, he works closely with SAS customers, partners, industry analysts, and internal stakeholders to ensure that SAS continues to deliver high-value solutions to the market that meet the needs of customers worldwide.
Cokins began his career as a financial controller and operations manager for FMC Corporation; he has also been a management consultant with Deloitte and Touche, KPMG Peat Marwick, and Electronic Data Systems. He has served on activity-based information committees with several organizations, including CAM-I, Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), American Society for Quality (ASQ), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and Purchasing Management Association of Canada. He has writes articles regularly for bettermanagment.com and DM Review. He is the author of five books, including Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces (to Close the Intelligence Gap), also part of the Wiley and SAS Business Series.