Conference: Mobile Business Track

Lisa Phifer is President of Core Competence, a consulting firm focused on business use of emerging network and security technologies. At Core Competence, Lisa draws upon nearly 30 years of network design, implementation, and testing experience to provide services ranging from vulnerability assessment and product evaluation to user education and white paper development. She has advised companies large and small regarding use of network technologies and security best practices to manage risk and meet business needs. Lisa teaches and writes extensively about many technologies, including wireless/mobile security, IPS, VPN, and NAC. Her work appears regularly in industry publications, including Wi-Fi Planet, SearchMobileComputing, and Information Security Magazine.

Fanny Mlinarsky is President of octoScope, a wireless communications consulting firm focusing on WiMAX and LTE technologies. She has 26 years of experience developing data communication and test products. At the start of her career she designed Ethernet and RF modems, technologies that resulted in the Cable modem used today for broadband access. As VP of Engineering at Scope Communications (now Agilent), Fanny and her team developed network test equipment. For the past 8 years Fanny has been focusing on the wireless communications product development and deployments. In 2001 she founded Azimuth Systems, the leading wireless test equipment vendor focusing on Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE. Through her work on wireless test equipment Fanny has become an expert at wireless performance requirements for a variety of applications, including data, voice and video. She founded the IEEE 802.11 test committee that worked on the standard for performance test. Her expertise spans RF, PHY, MAC, transport and application layers. Fanny frequently publishes articles on wireless communications and participates in industry standards development and conferences

Philippe Winthrop has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC’s European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe then moved on to a Boston based marketing services firm where he launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices.

Michael J. Miller is senior vice president for technology strategy at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment firm. He also writes the popular Forward Thinking blog at PC Magazine -- blogs.pcmag.com/miller From 1991 to 2005, Miller was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine, responsible for the editorial direction, quality and presentation of the world's largest computer publication. Until late 2006, Miller was the Chief Content Officer for Ziff Davis Media, responsible for overseeing the editorial positions of Ziff Davis's magazines, websites, and events. As Editorial Director for Ziff Davis Publishing since 1997, Miller took an active role in helping to identify new editorial needs in the marketplace and in shaping the editorial positioning of every Ziff Davis title. Under Miller's supervision, PC Magazine grew to have the largest readership of any technology publication in the world. PC Magazine has grown and evolved its pioneering online work as well, evolving from its successful PC MagNet service on CompuServe to become one of the earliest and most successful Web sites. PC Magazine Online on the Web, at http://www.pcmag.com, provides updated news and analysis, innovative interactive elements, discussions, and archival data to complement the print version. As an accomplished journalist, well versed in product testing and evaluating and writing about software issues, and as an experienced public speaker, Miller has become a leading commentator on the computer industry. He has participated as a speaker and panelist in industry conferences, has appeared on numerous business television and radio programs discussing technology issues, and is frequently quoted in major newspapers. His areas of special expertise include the Internet and its applications, desktop productivity tools, and the use of PCs in business applications. Prior to joining PC Magazine, Miller was editor-in-chief of InfoWorld, which he joined as executive editor in 1985. At InfoWorld, he was responsible for development of the magazine's comparative reviews and oversaw the establishment of the InfoWorld Test Center. Previously, he was the west coast bureau chief for Popular Computing, and senior editor for Building Design & Construction. Miller earned a BS in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and an MS in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He has received several awards for his writing and editing, including being named to Medill's Alumni Hall of Achievement. Follow Michael on Twitter at www.twitter.com/m_j_miller

MobileIron is one of the newest players in enterprise mobility and was picked by Network World as one of “Ten Start-ups to Watch in 2010.”. Bob has led the company since its inception. The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform gives IT and users real-time intelligence and control over smartphone content, activity and apps in order to secure data, reduce wireless cost, and improve user experience.Before MobileIron, Bob led the Business Development team for Cisco’s wireless business units, a combined $1B business. As a member of the executive staff, he was responsible for driving long term revenue growth and expanding Cisco’s wireless initiatives to laptops and smartphones. Before Cisco, Bob was the first business executive at enterprise wireless pioneer Airespace, where he was Vice President of Business Development. Cisco acquired Airespace in 2005. Bob’s previous roles include Director of Marketing at Vertical Networks and Vice President at NationsBank, with oversight of IT, sales, product management, and operations. Bob is an Executive Board Member of the Foundation for the University of California at Merced, the first major university built in the U.S. in the last 30 years. He is also a member of the Full Circle Fund, a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in partnership with nonprofits to advance the causes of public education, affordable housing, digital inclusion, and sustainable energy in the San Francisco Bay Area.Bob has a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford

Michael Saitow is an energetic leader with over 12 years of executive level experience operations, logistics, marketing & IT. He is responsible for the business process engineering surrounding both sales and operations and for M. S. Walker, Inc., a $250 million Wine & Spirits distributor with facilities throughout the northeast United States. He has held multiple senior-level positions in the service, sales, on-line, and financial vertical markets. Mr. Saitow was the Project Manager for the Company's distribution facility migration in 2005, including the implementation of HighJump Software, which has significantly reduced the Company's expenses related to operations and improved customer satisfaction. Mr. Saitow is an avid surfer, skier and rock, ice and mountain climber.

As Senior Vice President of Marketing, Steven Wastie is responsible for evolving iPass’ corporate strategy, ensuring the development of new capabilities, services, pricing, and messaging consistent with this strategy, and effectively promoting the company and its services to prospects, customers, partners and other stakeholders. With over 15 years of global marketing and general management experience, Steven has a consistent track record of building and managing teams that deliver results. He has demonstrated strategic and operational success in outbound marketing, product management and sales roles in highly competitive markets worldwide. Before joining iPass, Steven was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Rohati Systems, Inc. a network and cloud security company. Previously he held senior marketing positions at several technology leaders. At Juniper Networks he served as Vice President of Worldwide Enterprise and Managed Services Marketing. Prior to that he was Vice President of Marketing at enterprise content management vendor Hummingbird and Vice President and General Manager at Inktomi. He also held marketing and product management positions with Netscape and AT&T Online services. Steven holds a B.A. (Hons) in Business Studies and Marketing from London Guildhall University.

Mark Shull joined the Trust Digital team in early 2010 as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining the company, Mark held a number of increasingly responsible executive positions, and was most recently the Group President, Enterprise Security Services at VeriSign in Mountain View, California, where he was responsible for the overall management of VeriSign's security unit. Prior to that role, Mark was the Senior Vice President of VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services business where he managed VeriSign’s .com, .net and global DNS services, with a P/L responsibility of over $500 million. Prior to VeriSign, Mark was President and CEO of MarkMonitor, Inc., a San Francisco-based global corporate domain registration and online fraud protection services organization. Under Mark’s leadership, MarkMonitor grew a customer base of almost 200 Fortune 500 companies (46 in the Fortune 100), raised two rounds of equity capital, and grew revenues from $1.5 to $30 million in just over 3 years. Before MarkMonitor, Mark was President and CEO of Digex, Inc. where, during his tenure, revenues grew from $22M to $214M in just over 3 years, Digex completed a successful $200M IPO in August 1999, a $100M investment by Microsoft and Compaq in November 1999 and a $1.2 billion secondary offering (for majority owner) in January 2000. Mark also navigated an extremely complex $6 billion sale of majority ownership in Digex to WorldCom late in 2000 and completed the transition to WorldCom in mid-2002. Early in his career, Mark held senior positions/consultancies with Cable & Wireless in the U.K., BBN Corporation and EDS.

Mr. de Vegt is a Director of Technology Standards in Qualcomms Connectivity Technology group. His focus is on the business, marketing strategy and standards aspects of future generation connectivity technologies. Mr. de Vegt has participated in, and led various activites inside the WFA since 2001. He serves as the Chairman of the TGn Marketing Taskgroup at the Wi-Fi Alliance. After earning a Masters Degree from Twente University in the Netherlands, Mr. de Vegt entered a career in Management Consulting in the High Tech and Telecommunications Industry. In 2001, he Co-Founded Airgo Networks Inc. a start-up company based in Palo Alto CA; the first company to successfully commercialize MIMO technology for the WLAN market. Airgo was acquired by Qualcomm, in December 2006.

Senior Standards Architect, Aruba Wireless Networks, responsible for WLAN standards strategy. Chair IEEE 802.11v Wireless Networks Management Task Group, Vice- Chair Wi-Fi Alliance Security Technical Task Group, Active participant and contributor to several WFA and IEEE 802.11 task groups, including IEEE 802.11i, IEEE 802.11r and IEEE 802.11v. Liaison from IEEE 802.11 to IETF. Previous to joining Aruba Networks in 2005, was Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Agere Systems for Wavelan products and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Responsibilities included system architecture, software development, and capacity planning and performance analysis for Digital Switching Systems and fixed wireless systems. Awards include 5 patents, WFA 2005 Members Achievement Award, WFA Special Recognition Award for contributions to WPA, and IEEE Standards Association certificate for contributions to IEEE 802.11i, 802.11m. Member IEEE.

Ben Guderian is vice president of wireless solutions for Polycom’s Wireless Business Unit (formerly SpectraLink). He currently guides the company’s wireless product solution and marketing strategies for vertical markets. Before taking on his current role, Guderian held key positions at the company in the areas of market strategy, industry relations, marketing and sales. He has been instrumental in developing vertical markets and driving product development to meet the voice communication requirements of mobile workers in a wide variety of enterprise applications. Guderian directed SpectraLink’s marketing and product management efforts from 1999 through 2004, during which time the company more than doubled its annual revenues and established strategic partnerships with top-tier telecom vendors such as Avaya, Nortel and SBC (now AT&T). As an early evangelist for workplace wireless telephony, he has written numerous articles and presented at many industry events. In 2006, Guderian was recognized as one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications” of all time by Internet Telephony magazine. Guderian’s experience includes more than 20 years in telecommunications and networking. Prior to joining SpectraLink in 1992, he held engineering and marketing positions with several telecommunication and data communication equipment manufacturers including GTE and NEC. Guderian received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara.

Liam Quinn has been at Dell over 13 years, and is the Business Client CTO working for Steve Lalla. His team develops and drives technology strategies and Architecture across both Business Client and CSMB client products. He was inventor of the year at Dell in 2005 and 2007, and has 10 issued US patents and 30 Pending US patents. His background and focus is in Network silicon and systems Design – specializing in Ethernet, Token Ring and Wireless. He sits on the Board of the Wi-Fi Alliance, and also holds the Regulatory Chair on the Wi-Fi Alliance. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas and also sits on the Board of the UT Wireless Network and Communications Group.