Interop Business Technology Conference

Tom Mornini co-founded Engine Yard to provide the infrastructure and support necessary to fuel development of Ruby on Rails applications. He has spent nearly 30 years as a software programmer and software architect with experience encompassing nearly every major development platform in that time and 20 years leading companies as a serial entrepreneur. Prior to co-founding Engine Yard in 2006, he created FaceBridge Research, Inc. and InfoMania Printing and Prepress, Inc., an innovator in Internet print procurement. Tom is also the author of Capistrano and the Rails Applications Lifecyle published by O'Reilly.

As General Manager in the Business Platform Division, Zane runs worldwide product management and marketing for cloud and middleware products including SQL Azure, Azure Appfabric, DataMarket, BizTalk Server, Windows Server AppFabric and Data Modeling Tools. His responsibilities include defining business strategy, product offerings, pricing, partner engagement, and worldwide sales integration.

Prior to this role, Zane was GM of virtualization business and marketing at Microsoft, where he lead a team responsible for working across Microsoft business groups and operations groups to formulate business strategy and product offerings\marketing for customers and partners. Prior to this role, Zane was Senior Director in the Windows Server division where he managed the enterprise infrastructure marketing teams for Windows Server, Windows Compute Cluster Server, Microsoft Virtual Server, Windows Server Hyper-V and Windows Storage Server.

Before holding these positions, Zane worked in Europe as Business and Marketing Officer for Microsoft’s Eastern European HQ. In that role he managed marketing strategy and execution for 16 Eastern European countries that include the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia.

Zane started his career at the company 12 years ago as a consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services.

Rob works for the Rackspace Cloud as a customer advocate for cloud services.

Rob started his career with Rackspace in May of 2007 as a Linux Systems Administrator working under Rackspace Cloud founder Jonathan Bryce (when we were called Mosso). He worked his way to Manager of Operations for the Cloud Sites product where he managed a team of dedicated Linux and Windows Administrators. Later, Rob took on the challenge of founding and leading the Rackspace Cloud Professional Services Team. In 2008, he was awarded the coveted Straightjacket award.

You can connect with Rob on Twitter by searching his user ID, @rcollazo.

Christopher Gesell is Chief Strategist -- Cloud Services for Verizon Business. In that capacity, he is responsible for setting the vision and the overall direction for Verizon global cloud computing initiatives, including business plans and go-to-market strategies.

Gesell has held a number of strategy, sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibility at Verizon Business and its predecessor companies. He brings nearly 15 years of experience in the design, development and deployment of cost-effective, high performance information technology solutions.

Gesell previously was director of U.S. Sales for Hosting for MCI, which was acquired by Verizon and made part of the Verizon Business portfolio in 2006. In that role, he led a nationally deployed field sales force specializing in collocation and hosting solutions.

Gesell also served as the general manager of Hosting for MCI, responsible for product marketing and partner development. Before joining MCI, Gesell was regional vice president of Sales for Digex Inc., which was later acquired by MCI.

Gesell, a graduate in mass communications from Loyola College in Maryland, is a frequent speaker on hosting and outsourcing IT services to gain a strategic business advantage. He has been a featured speaker at the Gartner ITxpo, at Microsoft-sponsored events and at many other trade shows.

John P. Pironti is the President of IP Architects, LLC. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security and risk management strategy and programs, enterprise resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, and information technology on a global scale. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information System Control (CRISC), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). Mr. Pironti frequently provides briefings and acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders of numerous organizations on information security and risk management and compliance topics and is also a member of a number of technical advisory boards for technology and services firms. He is also a published author and writer, highly quoted and often interviewed by global media, and an award winning frequent speaker on electronic business and information security and risk management topics at domestic and international industry conferences.

During his 20+ year career in the information security industry, Allison has served in management and technical roles, including the development of NaviSite’s industry-leading cloud computing platform; chief engineer and developer for a market-leading managed security operations center; and lead auditor and assessor for information security programs in the healthcare, government, e-commerce, and financial industries. With experience in the fields of systems programming; network infrastructure design and deployment; and information security, Allison has earned the highest industry certifications, including CCIE, CCSP, CISSP, MCSE, CCSE, and INFOSEC Professional. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Allison has lectured at colleges and universities on the subject of information security and regulatory compliance.

Ravi Rajagopal is a seasoned technology executive with 20 years of experience in the areas of sales, delivery, operations, and financial management. He has led and managed worldwide organizations that deliver innovative and practical technical business solutions

As Vice President & Client Partner, Flagship Accounts, Ravi manages multiple Accounts – large global corporations and governments, and advises CIOs on both on strategy and implementation of IT including Cloud.

Ravi is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University. He is currently teaching a graduate course on Cloud Computing that provides the fundamental knowledge related to the principles, economics, technology & management of cloud computing.

Ravi joined CA in 2006, and prior to CA, Ravi held several senior management positions at AT&T. During his 17 years of progressive leadership tenure at AT&T he led multiple business organizations including the worldwide network consulting and professional services organization that provided vision, defined strategy & developed technology driven solutions to address the business needs for corporations and governments around the globe. He sold & delivered hundreds of millions in services engagements. He built enduring C level client relationships, and received numerous awards including outstanding sales achievement, gold standing ovation, and has been elected to the AT&T leaders’ council.

Ravi is active with multiple charitable organizations. He is co-founder of an international organization involved in helping underprivileged and physically and mentally challenged children in India.

Ravi holds multiple degrees including a masters’ degree in computer science from Queens College of City University of New York, a master’s degree in theoretical physics from University of Mysore, India, and has completed extensive graduate work in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, New York.

Bradford Stephens is the Founder and CEO of Drawn to Scale, creators of Spire, a Big Data database platform with real-time queries and fulltext search.

Bradford has a history ranging from politics (campaign manager at the U.S. House and Presidential levels), music (metal guitar), finance (CSX Railroad), and more. He has a passion for building big things that make an impact on fundamental aspects of business. Bradford is co-chair of OSCON Data, and has spoken at LinkedIn, Gluecon, Interop, ApacheCon, OSCON, and many more places. In his spare time, he enjoys Minecraft, guitar, cocktail creation, and his scalability blog, Road to Failure.

Sam Ghods is the Vice President of Technology at Box.net, where he manages the design and architecture of Box.net's application and technology stack. Prior to joining Box.net, Sam was a developer at essembly.com, which is now part of Project Agape. Before essembly.com, Sam was the lead developer at zexsports.com, where he was responsible for development, server management, and architecture. He attended the University of Southern California, where he studied computer engineering and computer science for two years before joining Box.net in 2006.

Nicos manages all day to day company functions at TwinStrata. Nicos has spent 18 years in the data storage field, both as a business manager and as an entrepreneur. Most recently, Nicos served as Vice President of Product Strategy and Technology at Incipient, Inc., where he helped deliver the industry’s first storage virtualization solution embedded in a Cisco switch fabric. Prior to Incipient, Nicos was General Manager of the storage virtualization business at Hewlett-Packard, where he managed a multi-site business, delivering several releases of network storage virtualization products and growing the business to include host-based products.

Howells drives corporate marketing for StorSimple. Previously, he was CMO at Alfresco and was part of the team that built it from a startup to the largest private open source company. Before that, Howells was responsible for marketing at SeeBeyond (acquired by Sun). He was the first employee of Documentum in Europe where he had both European and global marketing roles. Ian started his career at Ingres. Howells is a regular speaker at conferences and blogged for Computerworld, writing “Open Source Hearts and Minds.” He holds a bachelor’s degree in computing and statistics and a Ph.D. in distributed databases.

Matthew Gast is the Director of Product Management at Aerohive Networks, where he leads development of the core software technologies in Aerohive's fully distributed Wi-Fi network system. He currently serves as chair of both the Wi-Fi Alliance's security task groups and the Wireless Network Management Marketing task group, and is the past chair of the IEEE 802.11 revision task group. Matthew is also the author of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly), which is now in its second edition and has been translated into six languages.

Bobby Guhasarkar is the senior director of product marketing at Aruba Networks. With more than 15 years of management, marketing and field experience in the networking industry, Guhasarkar brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Prior to joining Aruba, Guhasarkar held marketing leadership roles in two different business units at Juniper Networks where he orchestrated the launch of their Ethernet switching and data center security portfolios. Before Juniper, Guhasarkar held a number of senior-level product marketing and systems engineering positions at Cisco Systems, where he drove a number of key efforts, including the thought-leadership, vision and strategy for Cisco's data center networking and high-availability networking initiatives. Earlier in his career, Guhasarkar designed systems and networks for a number of high-profile New York City-based enterprises with systems integrator Exenet Technologies and served as a systems administrator at Merrill Lynch. Guhasarkar earned a Bachelors of Science degree in psychology from Brooklyn College of CUNY.

Jeff Abramowitz is president and CEO of PowerCloud™ Systems, leading the company’s overall corporate direction and strategy. Prior to founding PowerCloud™ in 2008, he was an entrepreneur in residence at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he conceived and led the PowerCloud™ project. Jeff is a leading visionary in the wireless-networking industry with more than 20 years of executive experience at Broadcom, 3Com Corporation, Azimuth Systems, Intersil and No Wires Needed. He also co-founded the Wi-Fi Alliance. He received a BSME from the University of Pennsylvania, an MSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Bob Friday is Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco where he drives strategic wireless initiatives for the aggressively growing WLAN business. Friday’s career has been focused on developing unlicensed wireless networking technology and products. He came to Cisco as the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Airespace. At Airespace, he introduced a centralized controller architecture for enterprise 802.11 wireless networks. Prior to Airespace, Bob was Chief Scientist at Metricom. Friday has been awarded 13 patents and holds a BSEE from Georgia Tech, and a MSEE in engineering from San Jose State University.

Kiren Sekar leads marketing efforts at Meraki, whose award-winning cloud networking platform is trusted by over 17,000 and has connected over 35 million clients. Meraki is backed by Google and Sequoia Capital. Prior to Meraki, Kiren has held leadership positions in a number of Silicon Valley startups, and was a software engineer at Apple, where he was responsible for Apple’s networking and collaboration platform. Kiren holds numerous patents for networking protocols and collaboration systems. Kiren received his degree in computer science from Stanford University. He is an avid skier, climber, and photographer. Kiren lives in San Francisco.

Martin Casado received his PhD from Stanford University in 2007 where his dissertation work led to the technology on which Nicira is based.

He received his Masters from Stanford University in 2005. While at Stanford, Martin co-founded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006. Prior to attending Stanford, Martin held a research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on network security in the information operations assurance center (IOAC).

Nick McKeown (PhD/MS UC Berkeley '95/'92; B.E Univ. of Leeds, '86) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Faculty Director of the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University. From 1986-1989 he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol, England. In 1995, he helped architect Cisco's GSR 12000 router. In 1997 Nick co-founded Abrizio Inc. (acquired by PMC-Sierra), where he was CTO. He was co-founder and CEO of Nemo ("Network Memory"), which is now part of Cisco.
Nick McKeown is the STMicroelectronics Faculty Scholar, the Robert Noyce Faculty Fellow, a Fellow of the Powell Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. In 2000, he received the IEEE Rice Award for the best paper in communications theory. Nick is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), the IEEE and the ACM. In 2005, he was awarded the British Computer Society Lovelace Medal, and in 2009 the IEEE Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award. Nick's research interests include the architecture of the future Internet, tools and platforms for networking teaching and research.

Igor is a principal architect at Yahoo!, where his responsibilities range from overall network design, including highly resilient datacenter and backbone switching and routing architecture, peering strategy, MPLS design, and L4-7 loadbalancing, to distributed and scalable content delivery methodologies, DNS architecture, and R&D into future technologies.

Manish Muthal is director of marketing for Enterprise Networking Solutions, LSI Corporation. Muthal brings deep knowledge of the enterprise networking business with focus on switching and services architecture for the enterprise and data center. Most recently he was Founder, Vice President of Hardware at Nevis Networks, where he led the architecture development and technology marketing for service aware enterprise switches. Prior to Nevis, he led networking silicon development at Juniper Networks and Amber Networks (Nokia), and high end server platform architecture at Intel. Muthal has a master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Kurt Marko is an InformationWeek Analytics and Network Computing contributor and IT industry veteran, pursuing his passion for communications after a varied career that has spanned virtually the entire high-tech food chain from chips to systems. Upon graduating from Stanford University with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, Kurt spent several years as a semiconductor device physicist, doing process design, modeling and testing. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a memory chip designer and CAD and simulation developer.

Moving to Hewlett-Packard, Kurt started in the laser printer R&D lab doing electrophotography development, for which he earned a patent, but his love of computers eventually led him to join HP’s nascent technical IT group. He spent 15 years as an IT engineer and was a lead architect for several enterprisewide infrastructure projects at HP, including the Windows domain infrastructure, remote access service, Exchange e-mail infrastructure and managed Web services.

Brian Payne is the Executive Director of Platform Marketing for Dell’s PowerEdge Server portfolio. The platform marketing organization is focused on developing and delivering innovative servers that help customers ranging from small businesses to multi-national corporations efficiently deploy and maintain a server infrastructure that address critical business objectives. Brian has twelve years of experience as a part of Dell’s server development organization; he holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Brent Kerby, Power Efficiency Strategist & Senior Product Manager, AMD Brent Kerby has over 25 years experience spanning both technical and marketing positions in consumer and commercial computing products. During the last 15 years of employment with AMD Kerby has managed AMD’s performance labs, launched AMD’s first server based processor, AMD Athlon MP processor, and now is a Sr. Product Manager for the AMD Opteron™ processor. His primary focus is on defining and delivering platforms that help contribute to increased efficiencies and lower TCO in the data center.

Shehzad Merchant serves as Senior Director for Strategy at Extreme Networks, a global leader in Ethernet networking, where he drives strategy and technology direction for advanced data center networking. With over 17 years of industry experience, and an engineering track record that is highlighted by the achievement of several technology patents, Shehzad is a veteran of wired and wireless Ethernet and communications. Shehzad previously served in the CTO office at Nevis Networks, a company specializing in network security. Prior to Nevis, Shehzad was co-founder and vice president of Engineering at Polytime Systems.

As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer.

Bala Pitchaikani is Senior Director, Product Line Management at Force10 Networks, where he is focused on delivering open, standards-based products and solutions for high performance data centers, LAN/SAN convergence and cloud computing. Prior to joining Force10 Networks, Bala led product management for high-end storage controllers at NetApp and next generation switching/routing systems at Nortel Networks.

With more than two decades of experience in networking, wireless, security and enterprise applications at large and start-up companies, Bala has held various key roles in product strategy, marketing, product management, business development, and engineering. During his career, Bala has been a private equity and angel investor, co-founded start-up companies and has filed or holds more than 16 patents in networking and automation technologies.

Jeff Kabel is a Technical Marketing Engineer at HP, focusing on Data Center Solutions and advanced enterprise switching solutions.He has spent the last 20 years working for some of the largest players in the technology industry including Ingram Micro, 3Com, SBC Communications, Dimension Data and Cisco. During this time, his focus has covered everything from Content Delivery networking, IP Telephony and Network Management to Visual Communications and Immersive Video Collaboration. Jeff’s forte is designing large-scale, robust, converged infrastructures for Fortune 500 and large educational institutions. He also has experience with many verticals including manufacturing, healthcare, education, finance and service providers.

Francois Tallet is a Product Manager in the Data Center Switching Technology Group, responsible for Layer 2 features on the Nexus 7000. He joined Cisco in 1997 as a customer support engineer in the LAN Switching team in Brussels. As a subject matter expert in Layer 2, he later moved to the Catalyst 6000 engineering team in the United States. He later was part of the IEEE 802.1 working group, introducing the Layer 2 Gateway Port concept in 802.1ah. He also led the development of the standard implementation of Multiple Spanning Trees protocol (MST, IEEE 802.1s) and designed a new version of the Vlan Trunk Protocol (VTP3) and the Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP). Tallet holds CCIE certification 3539 and holds two master's degrees in parallel computing and computer networking.

Jeff Kabel is a Technical Marketing Engineer at HP, focusing on Data Center Solutions and advanced enterprise switching solutions.He has spent the last 20 years working for some of the largest players in the technology industry including Ingram Micro, 3Com, SBC Communications, Dimension Data and Cisco. During this time, his focus has covered everything from Content Delivery networking, IP Telephony and Network Management to Visual Communications and Immersive Video Collaboration. Jeff’s forte is designing large-scale, robust, converged infrastructures for Fortune 500 and large educational institutions. He also has experience with many verticals including manufacturing, healthcare, education, finance and service providers.

Dan DeBacker is the Director of Data Solutions Architecture at Avaya. The architecture team is responsible for creating solutions within the data portfolio that assemble the various products into the data infrastructures supporting Avaya Unified Communications, Contact Center, and Business Collaboration. These solutions are tested, validated, documented, and provide the best practice recommendations for implementation and ongoing management. Previously, Dan was a Solutions Engineer and Sales Engineer with Nortel Enterprise Solutions. Dan has a BS in Computer and Information Systems and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Singh has extensive data center experience and drove the direction for disruptive new software and hardware solutions helping spearhead Brocade’s foray into the server, network virtualization and storage convergence market (Brocade VDX, VCS, Brocade 8000, FCoE 10-24). He’s lead industry-first data center product strategy and design, such as the Brocade VDX Data Center Networking product family and Brocade VCS technology strategy, as well as product roadmap for latest L2 Ethernet Fabric.

As Technology Strategist Jeff architects and engineers all electrical and controls solutions. Jeff has worked to consultatively engineer, optimize, and troubleshoot numerous mission critical data center projects over the last ten years for numerous Fortune 100 businesses. Jeff constantly strives to create architectures simplifying the service delivery to a data center while improving overall performance efficiency.

Coupling his electrical engineering expertise with a programming background, Jeff’s insight to the system performance benefits of a tightly integrated controls solution optimizes our data centers to achieve industry?leading PUE.

Jeff worked previously in an architecture and engineering capacity on projects for Digital Realty Trust, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and eBay.

Martin Olsen serves as the company’s vice president and general manager, leading all multi-channel sales strategies to drive growth and market penetration within Active Power’s 13 trading markets around the globe. In addition to his sales responsibilities, Olsen oversees all global business development efforts to diversify sales channels and expand new revenue streams for the company.

A holder of three U.S. patents, Olsen is a seasoned professional in the datacenter infrastructure markets with more than 13 years of global marketing, product development and business development experience. Olsen previously served as vice president of Global Channels and Business Development for Active Power.

Before joining the company in 2007, Olsen was director of the Data Center Group for Wright Line LLC, a Worcester, Mass. based datacenter infrastructure firm. Prior to that, Olsen worked in the United States and several years overseas in Munich and Singapore, where he led the product marketing and business development charter for APC by Schneider Electric.

He has conducted extensive research in computer room and datacenter power/cooling infrastructure and his research, white papers and interviews have regularly been featured in Computerworld, Information Week, Consulting Specifying Engineer and other top tier industry publications. A regular speaker at some of the more prominent domestic and international tradeshows and events, Olsen has presented on containerized power/cooling infrastructure; datacenter power/cooling inefficiencies; datacenter power quality and reliability; modular power and cooling; and datacenter thermal runaway.

A member of several well-respected professional organizations, Olsen is involved with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), AFCOM, the Building Industry Consulting Service International (BICSI) and 7x24 Exchange. He is also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.

Olsen received his bachelor’s of Science in Marketing from the International Business College at Kolding, Denmark. He also earned diplomas in Logistics and International Business Law from the International Business College at Kolding, Denmark.

Mr. Higgins leads the Product Management, Business Development and Data Center Services Design and Site Selection functions for Internap’s Data Center Services business. He brings to Internap a deep knowledge and 20+ years of extensive financial, product planning and leadership experience in the telecommunications industry.

Mr. Higgins came to Internap in January 2004 as Internap’s Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis. At Internap, he has also served as a board member for the Company’s joint venture with NTT of Japan. In late 2006, Mr. Higgins assumed the responsibility for growing and expanding Internap’s Colocation product offering.

Prior to Internap, Mr. Higgins held numerous leadership roles in Finance, Business Operations and Business Development over an 18-year career span while at MCI. His most recent role at MCI was Vice President of Business Operations. In this role he directed the Sales planning efforts for each of the business market segments. This included product planning, customer acquisition efforts, product line profitability and product integration efforts.

Mr. Higgins holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Bridgeport and a B.S. in Accounting from Villanova University.

Shlomo Swidler is a prominent cloud computing developer, trainer, and consultant. He is among the top experts contributing to the Amazon EC2 Developer Forums. His blog is a highly-regarded source of practical techniques for developers, and has served as the inspiration for a number of features in commercial products. Shlomo is also an active participant in the Oped Grid Forum's Open Cloud Computing Interface working group, providing an open, community-developed interface to cloud computing resources. Shlomo was an early adopter of cloud computing, when, in 2007 as CTO of MyDrifts, he architected and implemented a large-scale deployment completely hosted in the cloud, designed to scale itself automatically according to load. Prior to founding MyDrifts, Shlomo led a team of developers at Sun Microsystems in the Java ME Developer Tools division, where he managed development efforts both for internal and for customer-facing projects. Shlomo also led development teams at a number of startups during the dot-com era. He has an Engineering degree from The Cooper Union in New York.

George Reese is the author of several books on cloud computing and enterprise technologies. His most recent book is O’Reilly’s Cloud Application Architectures. Professionally, he is the founder and CTO of enStratus, the only infrastructure management solution supporting enterprise security and governance for the hybrid cloud. George has also led a number of Open Source projects, including several MUD libraries and the mSQL-JDBC JDBC driver. He is the primary maintainer of Dasein Cloud, a cloud abstraction API for Java.
George holds a BA from Bates College in Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

John has over three decades working in the IT trenches managing complex infrastructures. Prior to joining Opscode, he founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. John has trained more than 10,000 people on IBM Tivoli products around the world and is recognized as an industry expert in enterprise systems management and monitoring. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

Eric Krapf is co-chair of the Enterprise Connnect events, helping to set program content and direction for the leading conference events in the enterprise IP-telephony/convergence/Unified Communications marketplace. In addition, Krapf serves as editor & lead blogger for the website No Jitter, TechWeb's online community for news and analysis of the enterprise convergence/Unified Communications industry. He is also responsible for electronic content including webcasts and e-newsletters. From 1996 to 2004, Krapf was managing editor of Business Communications Review magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.

John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. John has engaged with over 50 enterprises and over 20 network vendors to analyze network performance problems, design network solutions, and support network deployments. John has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996.

Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. John also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.)

John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering.

Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. Founded in 1991, the company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a wide variety of topics. He is a well-known and often-quoted industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, as well as Webcasts, Webinars, and podcasts. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the INTEROP conferences (Las Vegas and New York) and is the Chair of the Wireless and Mobility track. He serves as a monthly columnist for InformationWeek.com and the Enterprise Mobility Foundation (theemf.org), and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University.

Steve Wylie is the General Manager and Conference Director for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and Mobile Business Expo, both of which are produced by CMP Technology. Steve formerly co-chaired CMP's annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed CMP's renowned InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies. Steve is based in San Francisco, California.

Joe Sigrist is vice president and general manager for Video at Avaya. In this position, Joe plays a key role in expanding Avaya’s focus on video and business collaboration and oversees Avaya’s go-to-market strategy in support of this exciting and growing market.

Prior to joining Avaya, Joe was senior vice president and general manager at Polycom, Inc. He was most recently the senior leader of Polycom’s Video Solutions business, responsible for strategy, product development, product management and marketing for this industry-leading video conferencing and collaboration portfolio. Before that, he led Polycom’s Network Systems business unit.

Joe’s industry experience spans a range of key functions in a number of related industry companies. He has held roles of increasing scope at Octel Communications through it’s acquisition by Lucent Technologies when he became a director of Product Management in the Enterprise division. He subsequently joined Ascend Communications, becoming president and general manager of the Edge Access division, when that also became Lucent Technologies. Here, Joe led more than 1,200 employees and delivered 50 percent year-over-year growth. He was also responsible for driving Lucent’s VoIP strategy and became an officer of the corporation in 2000.

Before joining Polycom, Joe was president and CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Hammerhead Systems, a network equipment startup in the data services space, selling to worldwide service providers.

Joe earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the same institution.

Tom Puorro is a Director with the IP Communications Business Unit at Cisco, and has a broad range of experience in the high technology industry. Tom leads teams responsible for Cisco's Mid-Market and Enterprise telephony portfolios, including the newest collaboration end point, Cisco Cius, a mobile business tablet.

John Cash is an Enterprise Product Advocate based in Dallas, TX. In his role, Mr. Cash promotes the vision and value proposition behind BlackBerry’s award winning portfolio of enterprise mobility solutions. Mr. Cash has over 19 years of product management, sales, and enterprise IT leadership spanning multiple industry segments including manufacturing, financial services, and government/military. Prior to joining RIM in 2009, Mr. Cash worked for Nokia, overseeing early market sales of Nokia’s enterprise voice and mobility solution for the US. Other previous career assignments were with Capital One, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the US Army. Mr. Cash has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Liberty University.

With 20 years in high-tech communications, John Antanaitis is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Polycom. He leads a global marketing team responsible for worldwide product positioning, messaging, new product launches and events for Polycom products, solutions and services.

John joined Polycom in 2002 after spending five years in Marketing and General Management functions for Stanley Tool Works and Fortune Brands. Prior to that, John spent ten years with Motorola, working in various functional disciplines including Engineering, Operations and Marketing in the mobile phone industry.

John has a Masters of Management (MBA) with majors in Marketing and Operations Management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois.

Eric Krapf is co-chair of the Enterprise Connnect events, helping to set program content and direction for the leading conference events in the enterprise IP-telephony/convergence/Unified Communications marketplace. In addition, Krapf serves as editor & lead blogger for the website No Jitter, TechWeb's online community for news and analysis of the enterprise convergence/Unified Communications industry. He is also responsible for electronic content including webcasts and e-newsletters. From 1996 to 2004, Krapf was managing editor of Business Communications Review magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.

John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. John has engaged with over 50 enterprises and over 20 network vendors to analyze network performance problems, design network solutions, and support network deployments. John has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996.

Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. John also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.)

John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering.

Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. Founded in 1991, the company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a wide variety of topics. He is a well-known and often-quoted industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, as well as Webcasts, Webinars, and podcasts. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the INTEROP conferences (Las Vegas and New York) and is the Chair of the Wireless and Mobility track. He serves as a monthly columnist for InformationWeek.com and the Enterprise Mobility Foundation (theemf.org), and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University.

Steve Wylie is the General Manager and Conference Director for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and Mobile Business Expo, both of which are produced by CMP Technology. Steve formerly co-chaired CMP's annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed CMP's renowned InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies. Steve is based in San Francisco, California.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

As Principal Analyst within the Business Technology and Software group Ken Landoline tracks the enterprise unified communications and contact center (UCCC) markets. Prior to joining Current Analysis Ken was VP of Research at Synergy Research Group where he developed services to monitor and measure the global market performance of unified communications and contact center vendors. Earlier in his career, Ken was Program Manager, Customer Centric Strategies at Yankee Group and also held analyst positions at Giga Information Group (now Forrester Research) and Dataquest (now Gartner Group). His analyst career has been focused on the analysis and tracking of voice telephony products and applications including PBXs, key telephone systems, interactive voice response (IVR), speech recognition and contact centers. In these roles, Ken advised end-users, vendors and investment institutions on the development and implementation of telecommunications systems and services, with special emphasis on multi-channel contact centers, speech applications and VoIP technology.

Before becoming an industry analyst Ken spent 20 years in a variety of management positions within the telecommunications industry. At Siemens Business Communications he managed business development and joint venture activities in the business telephone systems, wireless and call center areas. At Pacific Bell Information Services, he was the director of sales operations for a 30-person sales force that was instrumental in Pacific Bell’s successful venture into the voicemail and IVR service bureau businesses. While at AT&T Large Business Systems (now Avaya) and Fujitsu America, he held positions in market and product management, focusing on strategic planning, distribution and market segmentation strategies for the business telephone systems divisions of these global telecommunication companies. Ken is an often-quoted analyst in business and telecommunications journals and a frequent speaker at telecommunications industry events.

Ken served as an Infantry Captain in the U.S. Army. He has taught as an adjunct professor at both the University of Phoenix and San Jose City College in Silicon Valley. Ken earned a B.A. degree in business/economics from Rutgers College and an M.B.A. from Seton Hall University.

As Principal Analyst for Enterprise Networking and Data Center Technology, Mike is responsible for tracking the major technological, strategic and tactical developments of companies that provide networking solutions deployed on premise to support enterprise business operations.

Mike brings an experienced and veteran eye to the Business Technology and Software team at Current Analysis, with over 10 years dedicated to Enterprise competitive intelligence. He initially ran the network operations and management domain competitive intelligence practice within HP Software, and the last seven managed the competitive intelligence program within HP’s networking organization. Mike is respected by peers and partners alike for an objective and insightful view of the networking industry, providing technical and business support for sales and strategy teams.

Mike graduated with both a BS in Computer Networking and a BS in Business Administration from Regis University.

Matthew Gast is the Director of Product Management at Aerohive Networks, where he leads development of the core software technologies in Aerohive's fully distributed Wi-Fi network system. He currently serves as chair of both the Wi-Fi Alliance's security task groups and the Wireless Network Management Marketing task group, and is the past chair of the IEEE 802.11 revision task group. Matthew is also the author of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly), which is now in its second edition and has been translated into six languages.

Bobby Guhasarkar is the senior director of product marketing at Aruba Networks. With more than 15 years of management, marketing and field experience in the networking industry, Guhasarkar brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Prior to joining Aruba, Guhasarkar held marketing leadership roles in two different business units at Juniper Networks where he orchestrated the launch of their Ethernet switching and data center security portfolios. Before Juniper, Guhasarkar held a number of senior-level product marketing and systems engineering positions at Cisco Systems, where he drove a number of key efforts, including the thought-leadership, vision and strategy for Cisco's data center networking and high-availability networking initiatives. Earlier in his career, Guhasarkar designed systems and networks for a number of high-profile New York City-based enterprises with systems integrator Exenet Technologies and served as a systems administrator at Merrill Lynch. Guhasarkar earned a Bachelors of Science degree in psychology from Brooklyn College of CUNY.

Jeff Abramowitz is president and CEO of PowerCloud™ Systems, leading the company’s overall corporate direction and strategy. Prior to founding PowerCloud™ in 2008, he was an entrepreneur in residence at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he conceived and led the PowerCloud™ project. Jeff is a leading visionary in the wireless-networking industry with more than 20 years of executive experience at Broadcom, 3Com Corporation, Azimuth Systems, Intersil and No Wires Needed. He also co-founded the Wi-Fi Alliance. He received a BSME from the University of Pennsylvania, an MSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Bob Friday is Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco where he drives strategic wireless initiatives for the aggressively growing WLAN business. Friday’s career has been focused on developing unlicensed wireless networking technology and products. He came to Cisco as the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Airespace. At Airespace, he introduced a centralized controller architecture for enterprise 802.11 wireless networks. Prior to Airespace, Bob was Chief Scientist at Metricom. Friday has been awarded 13 patents and holds a BSEE from Georgia Tech, and a MSEE in engineering from San Jose State University.

Kiren Sekar leads marketing efforts at Meraki, whose award-winning cloud networking platform is trusted by over 17,000 and has connected over 35 million clients. Meraki is backed by Google and Sequoia Capital. Prior to Meraki, Kiren has held leadership positions in a number of Silicon Valley startups, and was a software engineer at Apple, where he was responsible for Apple’s networking and collaboration platform. Kiren holds numerous patents for networking protocols and collaboration systems. Kiren received his degree in computer science from Stanford University. He is an avid skier, climber, and photographer. Kiren lives in San Francisco.

Mr. Marolia is currently the vice president of product management for Smith Micro Software in charge of the product strategy and roadmap for their wireless and mobility products.

A recognized thought leader on wireless and mobile issues, Mr. Marolia has spoken at several influential industry events including CTIA and IT Expo. He has co-authored several industry papers on operational challenges and best practices associated with the support of complex mobile devices including key contributions into industry standards bodies such as the Open Mobile Alliance, OTA Flash Forum, and the CDMA Development Group.

Prior to Smith Micro Software, Mr. Marolia lead the product management and marketing functions at Hewlett-Packard in their mobility solutions group. He also held the position of vice president of product marketing and pre-sales at Bitfone Corporation, where he pioneered in the market definition and technology strategy for over-the-air (OTA) device management solutions, including firmware update and remote diagnostics.

He holds a BSEE from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.

Todd DeLaughter is the President and CEO of Mformation Technologies. Prior to Mformation, he served as President and CEO of Opalis Software Inc., a market-leading independent IT Process Automation software vendor. At Opalis, DeLaughter was responsible for the strategy and operational execution that drove rapid growth for the company in the cloud computing market, which resulted in the successful acquisition of Opalis by Microsoft.

Prior to Opalis, DeLaughter served as the Vice President and General Manager of the OpenView Business Unit at HP where he held full P&L responsibility including strategy and business planning, acquisitions, marketing and research and development. During his four-year tenure, OpenView grew at twice the market rate, doubling in size to over $1Bn. Before joining HP via acquisition, he spent 18 years with Compaq leading and working in software groups. In his last role with Compaq, he spent four years living in France where he led Compaq's telecom OSS business, which became a product group under OpenView.

DeLaughter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston.

Eric is responsible for ProfitLine’s technology vision, strategy, methodology, engineering and delivery teams. His expertise is the development and application of easy to use, scalable, secure technologies that are designed to grow with the enterprise. These include software development, systems integration, infrastructure management, data and systems security, and technology consulting. Eric is a member of the Center for Telecom Environment Management Standards (CTEMS) Industry Board of Directors.

With over 25 years of experience in global technology strategy, development, and management, Eric’s background combines the solid fundamentals of large enterprises with the entrepreneurial spirit of industry innovators. He began his career at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering, and technology applications company. Prior to joining ProfitLine, Eric was CIO/CTO for Brahma Holdings, LLC where he established the technology vision for innovative business models that created scale advantages for insurance companies. Eric was also Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Advanced Marketing Services, Inc. (AMS) where he was responsible for all global information technology activities and an early pioneer in e-books and digital media.

John Marshall, who founded AirWatch in 2003, serves as president and CEO, where he drives the company’s strategy and operations. Under Marshall’s leadership, AirWatch’s customer base has grown to over 1,000 customers in the distribution, field service, financial services, government, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing and retail industries.

Prior to founding Wandering WiFi, Mr. Marshall helped launch Celarix, a leader in global supply chain visibility. As vice president, marketing strategy for Celarix, Marshall was responsible for designing the company’s product solutions and developing the go-to-market strategy. Mr. Marshall also led business development activities with technology and transportation partners in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Celarix was acquired in 2002 by Global Exchange Systems, formerly GE Information Systems.

Prior to joining Celarix, Marshall worked in a variety of senior roles at Manhattan Associates during its fast-paced growth of the late1990s. Marshall led the design and deployment of warehousing and supply chain solutions for over 30 Fortune 500 retailers and manufacturers, developed the Knowledge Management Group, helped launch international operations in the UK and mainland Europe, and designed software modules relating to transportation, load planning and global logistics.

Marshall received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Bryan Tantzen, a Senior Director at Cisco Systems, leads the Voice Technology Group’s Customer Transformation and Market Development team. In this role, he leads VTG’s Strategic Technology Alliances, Field Engagement, and 3rd Party Developer Ecosystem (the Cisco’s Developer Network or CDN). Additionally, Bryan, leads the Customer Business Transformation team that works with many of the world's leading companies and the public sector on strategies to drive increased revenue and cost takeout through collaboration and unified communications technologies that enable more effective business processes. The Customer Business Transformation team includes business value focused consulting and vertical solution practices that cover the Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, and Public Sector vertical industries.

Mr. Tantzen has been with Cisco for 7 years and was previously in Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group, leading transformation of high technology industries. Prior to that, Bryan also brings over a decade of experience working with global companies from the management consulting and enterprise application software industries. As Vice President of the High Tech Business Unit for i2 Technologies (the supply chain management software company), he led global deployments, solution development, and product marketing. At McKinsey & Company, Mr. Tantzen worked with clients on strategy, operational process improvement, and growth initiatives.

Mr. Tantzen holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in International Affairs from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Economics from Texas A&M University. He is fluent in Japanese and has lived and worked in several countries in Europe and Asia.

An entrepreneur in the high technology industry for more than 25 years, and recently named one of the 25 Most Innovative Executives Of 2010 by CRN, Tom brings extensive strategic, organizational, and leadership experience in startup companies as well as large corporations to BurstPoint.

Tom served as vice president of worldwide marketing and business development in Hewlett-Packard’s ProCurve division, which he joined as part of the acquisition of Colubris Networks. He also founded Racca Associates – a retained management advisory firm specializing in guiding emerging technology companies in fundraising, market expansion, strategic development, acquisitions, and exit strategies.

In addition, he led marketing and business development at Chantry Networks (acquired by Siemens), and was a founder of iQ NetSolutions. Tom has also held key executive positions at KPMG; Digital Equipment Corporation; Avid Technology; Proteon; and Prime Computer.

He holds a B.S. from Northeastern University in Computer Sciences and Management Information Systems and serves on the NU Dean’s Advisory Council and other corporate boards.

Jim is President of High Speed Video where he concentrates on business development, marketing, and finance/business operations.

Prior to his position as President of Torsted Advisors, he worked at numerous technology companies in the digital media and communications areas. As Chief Executive Officer of Gist Communications, Inc. he created advanced interactive television products used on the internet, on set-top boxes in the home and on mobile phones. He started his career as an Investment Banker working with Lehman Brothers, First Boston and UBS where he was Head of Industrial Investment Banking in the U.S.

Jim received an A.B. from Holy Cross College, an M.A. from the Universite de Louvain (Belgium) and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Bruno Zerbib is currently responsible for Cisco’s portfolio of immersive TelePresence endpoints and collaboration devices. Earlier, Mr. Zerbib led Cisco’s Service Assurance strategy for virtualized architectures and collaboration services such as Video and Unified Communications. He has over 15 years of experience in senior product management and product strategy roles. As a thought leader in next-generation IP services and network architectures, he has brought to market innovative, disruptive and successful solutions for carriers, managed service providers and large enterprises. Mr. Zerbib holds a Masters of Computer Science from Paris 7 University.

Mike McRoberts is the Director of Product Management and Development at Sprint/Nextel responsible for the entire Sprint Wireline Service Product Portfolio ($5.0B in annual revenue) including IP WAN/MPLS and Dedicated IP Services, Ethernet as a Service development, Private Line, Legacy Voice Services, Packet Access including DSL and Ethernet, and Sprint’s emerging Unified Communication Product Portfolio including SIP Trunking, IP Toll Free, Sprint Mobile Integration and UC Managed Services and Enabling Equipment. Mike is responsible for the product strategy, product development and product lifecycle management for this Product Portfolio both in the U.S. and Internationally (165 countries served). In late 2009, Mike also picked up the In Building Solutions Product Management Portfolio at Sprint which includes the new Airave 2 Femtocell Platform.

McRoberts has served in numerous other Director positions including Access Product Management and Local Service Product Management where he managed Sprint’s ILEC portfolio including DSL, Metro Ethernet and Local Voice Services. McRoberts originally joined the company in 1981 and has served in roles in Sales, Marketing and Business Development, in addition to extensive product management experience in Sprint ILEC, CLEC, Cable VoIP and Long Distance operations.

Chad Hart is a product marketing manager for Acme Packet, the leader in session border control solutions. He is responsible for supporting the company’s competitive analysis, analyst relations, business analysis, and Over-the-Top services marketing programs. Formerly Chad was Product Marketing Manager for Empirix, a test and monitoring vendor serving VoIP and IMS vendors and service providers where he authored, Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience - A Practical Guide to Testing and Monitoring IP Multimedia Subsystem and Services and was a regular speaker and author on IMS and VoIP network quality. Prior to Empirix, Chad was Director of VDC’s Telecom Practice where managed and authored VDC’s groundbreaking IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Global Market Demand Analysis. His other published work includes VDC’s Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Enabling Technologies and SS7 and VoIP Infrastructure Equipment. Chad has a BSEE and MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Tom Dalrymple is the director of Global Voice Services Product Management at Verizon Business. In this role, he leads the product management team responsible for Verizon’s expansive portfolio of domestic US and global voice-over-IP trunking services, local voice services, and outbound global voice long distance services.

Mr. Dalrymple is a veteran telecommunications industry professional with significant experience in marketing, product management, and new product development. His background includes product management of IP-based voice and data network services, managed services, networking equipment, application packaging, and core voice services.

Mr. Dalrymple holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Bucknell University.

Sean Ginevan is a Solutions Architect at MobileIron. He is responsible for developing enterprise mobility solutions with technology partners along with enabling sales and go-to-market partners through technical marketing collateral and training.
MobileIron allows enterprises to secure mobile devices, automate provisioning and management tasks, and innovate through mobile applications. The company was selected as both a Gartner Cool Vendor and Network World Startup to Watch. Previous to MobileIron, Sean held marketing, editorial and engineering roles with Cisco Systems, CMP Media, AOL and NIST. Sean holds a Masters of Science in Information Management and a Bachelor of Science in Information Management and Technology, both from Syracuse University.

As an Industry Analyst in Frost & Sullivan’s Mobile & Wireless Communications Group, Mr. Todd Day researches and analyzes emerging, next generation wireless technologies & applications that enable the mobile Internet revolution. The scope of his work deals with all aspects of the mobile value chain; from delivery infrastructure and communication management, to end user content and applications.
Since joining Frost & Sullivan in November 2006, Day has completed numerous consulting projects and research studies on the following: U.S. Mobile Operator Profiles, Next-Generation Wireless Network Technologies, North American Smartphones Market, Optimizing Backhaul for Wireless Carriers, Application Storefronts Market, white papers on Mobile Application Development and Mobile Search, The Android Ecosystem, and assisted on several other private consulting projects relating to applications, smartphones, and M2M markets.

Prior to this, Day was a Network Engineer for a triple play provider in Texas where he worked with numerous network technologies including: Fiber, HFC, SS7, RF, ATM, TDM, and VoIP. He brings with him a strong technical background, along with real-world experience of various network technologies.

Christian serves Infrastructure & Operations professionals and helps Forrester clients develop and improve their desktop and mobile strategy. His research spans mobile hardware, mobile operating systems, mobile device management solutions, and mobile applications. Prior to his current role as a researcher, Christian was a senior research associate on Forrester's infrastructure and operations team. He interviewed hundreds of I&O professionals, desktop operators, and technology vendors while conducting primary and secondary research for research reports and consulting engagements. Christian graduated from Boston University with a degree in international relations focused in economics.

Tim Everitt is the Program executive for Bank of America’s TelePresence & Video Solutions Group. He has been in this role since April of 2009. He is responsible for the Banks roll out of the TelePresence program which has close to 200 installations to date.

Patrick Gannon joined McKinsey & Company in 2002. He is currently the Program Manager and Senior Architect responsible for defining the strategy, technology and product plan, architecture, and implementation methodology for all video technology and services utilized across the Firm. Over the past three years, he has directed the introduction of high-definition video conferencing solutions spanning 100 countries.

John P. Pironti is the President of IP Architects, LLC. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security and risk management strategy and programs, enterprise resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, and information technology on a global scale. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information System Control (CRISC), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). Mr. Pironti frequently provides briefings and acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders of numerous organizations on information security and risk management and compliance topics and is also a member of a number of technical advisory boards for technology and services firms. He is also a published author and writer, highly quoted and often interviewed by global media, and an award winning frequent speaker on electronic business and information security and risk management topics at domestic and international industry conferences.

During his 20+ year career in the information security industry, Allison has served in management and technical roles, including the development of NaviSite’s industry-leading cloud computing platform; chief engineer and developer for a market-leading managed security operations center; and lead auditor and assessor for information security programs in the healthcare, government, e-commerce, and financial industries. With experience in the fields of systems programming; network infrastructure design and deployment; and information security, Allison has earned the highest industry certifications, including CCIE, CCSP, CISSP, MCSE, CCSE, and INFOSEC Professional. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Allison has lectured at colleges and universities on the subject of information security and regulatory compliance.

Ravi Rajagopal is a seasoned technology executive with 20 years of experience in the areas of sales, delivery, operations, and financial management. He has led and managed worldwide organizations that deliver innovative and practical technical business solutions

As Vice President & Client Partner, Flagship Accounts, Ravi manages multiple Accounts – large global corporations and governments, and advises CIOs on both on strategy and implementation of IT including Cloud.

Ravi is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University. He is currently teaching a graduate course on Cloud Computing that provides the fundamental knowledge related to the principles, economics, technology & management of cloud computing.

Ravi joined CA in 2006, and prior to CA, Ravi held several senior management positions at AT&T. During his 17 years of progressive leadership tenure at AT&T he led multiple business organizations including the worldwide network consulting and professional services organization that provided vision, defined strategy & developed technology driven solutions to address the business needs for corporations and governments around the globe. He sold & delivered hundreds of millions in services engagements. He built enduring C level client relationships, and received numerous awards including outstanding sales achievement, gold standing ovation, and has been elected to the AT&T leaders’ council.

Ravi is active with multiple charitable organizations. He is co-founder of an international organization involved in helping underprivileged and physically and mentally challenged children in India.

Ravi holds multiple degrees including a masters’ degree in computer science from Queens College of City University of New York, a master’s degree in theoretical physics from University of Mysore, India, and has completed extensive graduate work in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, New York.

Mr. Marolia is currently the vice president of product management for Smith Micro Software in charge of the product strategy and roadmap for their wireless and mobility products.

A recognized thought leader on wireless and mobile issues, Mr. Marolia has spoken at several influential industry events including CTIA and IT Expo. He has co-authored several industry papers on operational challenges and best practices associated with the support of complex mobile devices including key contributions into industry standards bodies such as the Open Mobile Alliance, OTA Flash Forum, and the CDMA Development Group.

Prior to Smith Micro Software, Mr. Marolia lead the product management and marketing functions at Hewlett-Packard in their mobility solutions group. He also held the position of vice president of product marketing and pre-sales at Bitfone Corporation, where he pioneered in the market definition and technology strategy for over-the-air (OTA) device management solutions, including firmware update and remote diagnostics.

He holds a BSEE from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.

Todd DeLaughter is the President and CEO of Mformation Technologies. Prior to Mformation, he served as President and CEO of Opalis Software Inc., a market-leading independent IT Process Automation software vendor. At Opalis, DeLaughter was responsible for the strategy and operational execution that drove rapid growth for the company in the cloud computing market, which resulted in the successful acquisition of Opalis by Microsoft.

Prior to Opalis, DeLaughter served as the Vice President and General Manager of the OpenView Business Unit at HP where he held full P&L responsibility including strategy and business planning, acquisitions, marketing and research and development. During his four-year tenure, OpenView grew at twice the market rate, doubling in size to over $1Bn. Before joining HP via acquisition, he spent 18 years with Compaq leading and working in software groups. In his last role with Compaq, he spent four years living in France where he led Compaq's telecom OSS business, which became a product group under OpenView.

DeLaughter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston.

Eric is responsible for ProfitLine’s technology vision, strategy, methodology, engineering and delivery teams. His expertise is the development and application of easy to use, scalable, secure technologies that are designed to grow with the enterprise. These include software development, systems integration, infrastructure management, data and systems security, and technology consulting. Eric is a member of the Center for Telecom Environment Management Standards (CTEMS) Industry Board of Directors.

With over 25 years of experience in global technology strategy, development, and management, Eric’s background combines the solid fundamentals of large enterprises with the entrepreneurial spirit of industry innovators. He began his career at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering, and technology applications company. Prior to joining ProfitLine, Eric was CIO/CTO for Brahma Holdings, LLC where he established the technology vision for innovative business models that created scale advantages for insurance companies. Eric was also Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Advanced Marketing Services, Inc. (AMS) where he was responsible for all global information technology activities and an early pioneer in e-books and digital media.

John Marshall, who founded AirWatch in 2003, serves as president and CEO, where he drives the company’s strategy and operations. Under Marshall’s leadership, AirWatch’s customer base has grown to over 1,000 customers in the distribution, field service, financial services, government, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing and retail industries.

Prior to founding Wandering WiFi, Mr. Marshall helped launch Celarix, a leader in global supply chain visibility. As vice president, marketing strategy for Celarix, Marshall was responsible for designing the company’s product solutions and developing the go-to-market strategy. Mr. Marshall also led business development activities with technology and transportation partners in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Celarix was acquired in 2002 by Global Exchange Systems, formerly GE Information Systems.

Prior to joining Celarix, Marshall worked in a variety of senior roles at Manhattan Associates during its fast-paced growth of the late1990s. Marshall led the design and deployment of warehousing and supply chain solutions for over 30 Fortune 500 retailers and manufacturers, developed the Knowledge Management Group, helped launch international operations in the UK and mainland Europe, and designed software modules relating to transportation, load planning and global logistics.

Marshall received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Wendy Nather is a Senior Analyst within The 451 Group's Enterprise Security Practice, sharing analysis on the current state of security from the perspective of a veteran CISO. Wendy's areas of coverage are on application security and security services.
Wendy joined The 451 Group after five years building and managing all aspects of the IT security program at the Texas Education Agency, which serves 4.6 million Texas students. In that position, she directed multi-million dollar initiatives for a statewide external user base of over 50,000. She also provided security guidance for the data center consolidation of 27 Texas state agencies.
Wendy previously worked in various roles in the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), including helping to build Europe's then-largest private trading floor. Based in Chicago, Zurich and London, she also served as the first IT Security director for the EMEA region, managing the security aspects of various mergers, IT operations outsourcing, and the division's first Internet presence.
Wendy is based in Austin, Texas. You can follow her on Twitter at @451Wendy.

Chris is VP of security services at SAVVIS, a leading network, hosting and security services provider, where he is responsible for the managed-security line of business. He leads the effort behind implementing standardized control frameworks and risk management processes across SAVVIS’ dedicated and cloud-based services. Chris has assisted many enterprises in adapting their premise-based infrastructure risk management programs and security controls to outsourced virtualized and shared-infrastructure services. Chris is a member of ISSA and ISACA, and for more than 20 years has held various security and IT services management and consulting positions.

Vincent Lee, Vice President of Product Management, Verisign Network Intelligence & Availability

As Vice President of Product Management for the Verisign Network Intelligence and Availability (NIA) group, Vinny is responsible for the architecture of the Group’s product line consisting of DNS hosting, threat intelligence, and DDoS protection services.

Vinny joined Verisign from NeuStar, where he oversaw the UltraDNS line of service. Prior to joining NeuStar, Vinny worked at Network Solutions and IBM. He has more than 15 years of experience working in the Internet and network infrastructure industries, and has directly managed products and services related to Internet security, domain names, domain monetization, DNS, hosting, email, and SEO.

Vinny earned his BS in Computer Science-Information Science from Binghamton University in New York.

Paul Barrett works for NetScout Systems, Inc., which acquired Psytechnics Ltd. in April 2011. His role at NetScout includes responsibility for their voice and video quality assessment technology. Paul was CTO at Psytechnics prior to its acquisition by NetScout and was responsible for all research, development and standards activities at Psytechnics. He joined Psytechnics shortly after its creation in 2001 and worked for ten years at BT Laboratories before that. Paul has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has been actively involved in international standardization for most of that time. His standards work has encompassed many aspects of voice and video communications, including four generations of GSM and 3G codecs. Paul is currently a Vice Chairman of the ITU Study Group responsible for "Performance, QoS and QoE" and is the UK Head of Delegation for this group. He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the IET and IEEE, and holds a Masters Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.

Adam Edwards is the director of field systems engineering and business development at Apparent Networks. In this role Adam leads a team responsible for ensuring customer and partner success when deploying Apparent’s network monitoring and troubleshooting solutions to deliver performance critical applications such as VoIP, IP video, and virtualization. Before joining Apparent Networks in 2008, Adam spent 7 years at Motive in various technical leadership positions helping broadband providers remotely manage devices and deliver VoIP, IPTV, networking, and security services to business and residential subscribers. Adam has held numerous other leadership roles developing application, systems and network management technologies over the past 20 years. Adam began his career in technology while studying engineering at the University of Rochester and is a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve.

Kenneth Mills serves as Principal Technical Marketing Manager for CA Technologies Infrastructure Management product portfolio. He is responsible for market analysis, sales enablement and analyst relations efforts for these products. Kenneth joined CA Technologies with the NetQoS acquisition where he had worked since 2004. At NetQoS Kenneth facilitated customers in Asia, Latin America and the United States as a pre-sales consultant. Kenneth began his work with network and application performance management 10 years ago as a member of HP’s global Traffic Engineering and Application Profiling team.

Shehzad Merchant serves as Senior Director for Strategy at Extreme Networks, a global leader in Ethernet networking, where he drives strategy and technology direction for advanced data center networking. With over 17 years of industry experience, and an engineering track record that is highlighted by the achievement of several technology patents, Shehzad is a veteran of wired and wireless Ethernet and communications. Shehzad previously served in the CTO office at Nevis Networks, a company specializing in network security. Prior to Nevis, Shehzad was co-founder and vice president of Engineering at Polytime Systems.

As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer.

Bala Pitchaikani is Senior Director, Product Line Management at Force10 Networks, where he is focused on delivering open, standards-based products and solutions for high performance data centers, LAN/SAN convergence and cloud computing. Prior to joining Force10 Networks, Bala led product management for high-end storage controllers at NetApp and next generation switching/routing systems at Nortel Networks.

With more than two decades of experience in networking, wireless, security and enterprise applications at large and start-up companies, Bala has held various key roles in product strategy, marketing, product management, business development, and engineering. During his career, Bala has been a private equity and angel investor, co-founded start-up companies and has filed or holds more than 16 patents in networking and automation technologies.

Jeff Kabel is a Technical Marketing Engineer at HP, focusing on Data Center Solutions and advanced enterprise switching solutions.He has spent the last 20 years working for some of the largest players in the technology industry including Ingram Micro, 3Com, SBC Communications, Dimension Data and Cisco. During this time, his focus has covered everything from Content Delivery networking, IP Telephony and Network Management to Visual Communications and Immersive Video Collaboration. Jeff’s forte is designing large-scale, robust, converged infrastructures for Fortune 500 and large educational institutions. He also has experience with many verticals including manufacturing, healthcare, education, finance and service providers.

Shashi Kiran is the Director for Cisco’s Data Center/Virtualization marketing strategy worldwide. In this position, he heads the architectural and Innovations team with a responsibility to drive Cisco’s architectural advantage as well as switching, storage, application delivery and WAN optimization areas.

Previously, Shashi headed the the Enterprise Routing team at Cisco as part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks initiative. In this position he was responsible for defining the vision and strategic execution for the network as a platform focusing on various technologies that have a play in the branch and WAN.

In his 15-year career, Shashi has held leadership roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing and Sales engineering in areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC, Dept. of IT, Govt. of India). He was also an editorial consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine (Indian edn.) from 1997-2001 in a honorary capacity.

Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Adminstration in addition to a few industry certifications.

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Chris Koeneman is Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Bluesocket, Inc and is responsible for all market-facing functions including global sales, marketing, customer service, and business development. Chris has extensive leadership experience in the networking industry in the fields of switching, routing, network security, wireless, and virtualization. Chris joined Bluesocket from Datacom Systems where he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Chris brings over twenty years of experience with leading technology and networking companies. For the past ten years, Chris has held global leadership positions with a number of innovative technology companies including Avici Systems (acquired by Extreme Networks) and Colubris Networks (acquired by Hewlett Packard). Chris began his career with AT&T and then joined Cisco Systems where he served as Director of Sales in EMEA.
Chris holds a Masters of Business degree from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University.

Chris holds a Masters of Business degree from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University.

Shehzad Merchant serves as Senior Director for Strategy at Extreme Networks, a global leader in Ethernet networking, where he drives strategy and technology direction for advanced data center networking. With over 17 years of industry experience, and an engineering track record that is highlighted by the achievement of several technology patents, Shehzad is a veteran of wired and wireless Ethernet and communications. Shehzad previously served in the CTO office at Nevis Networks, a company specializing in network security. Prior to Nevis, Shehzad was co-founder and vice president of Engineering at Polytime Systems.

Tareq Bustami is director of the multicore communication processor product line, Networking Components Division, within the Semiconductor Solutions Group of LSI Corporation.

His current responsibilities include strategic and operational oversight of LSI’s next-generation multicore family of processors targeted for the networking space.

Prior to joining LSI, Bustami was product line manager for the high-end embedded/network processor family of solutions for AMCC. He previously was product line manager for Motorola’s PowerQUICC 3 family of products, as well as design manager for Motorola’s PowerPC processor solutions.

Bustami holds a master’s degree in Business Administration and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dimitri has 15 years experience working with major networking vendors and start-ups with a strong expertise in load balancing, high availability and IPv6 migration technologies. In his current position, Dimitri is responsible for Technical Marketing at application delivery technology leader A10 Networks from its base in San Jose, CA. Prior to A10, Dimitri was a Technical Marketing Engineer at Juniper Networks and Redline Networks.

Martin Levy has been involved in the TCP/IP world since the publication of the first TCP/IP RFCs in the early 80’s. Born and educated in England, Martin moved to the United States to work as a software developer at the prestigious Bell Labs. It was at Bell Labs where he ran their first TCP/IP network-enabled UNIX computers. After seven years in New Jersey, Martin moved to California and joined the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial-life to continue his focus on networking software and systems. Since then Martin has been building networks in California, the US, Europe, Latin America and now in Asia. Since joining Hurricane Electric in early 2008, Martin has taken on the role of significantly expanding Hurricane Electric’s IPv6 commercial and government offering.

John Sweeting is the Director of Network Engineering for Time Warner Cable, working out of their Herndon, VA office. His team is responsible for engineering of the Time Warner Cable backbone and providing standards, documentation, and guidance for the regional networks, with deployment of IPv6 being a main priority. John has over 30 years of experience in engineering networks. Previous to Time Warner Cable he worked for international carriers, MCI, Cable & Wireless and Teleglobe (Tata Communications) building out large global IP networks. John has served on the ARIN Advisory Council from 2000 - 2006, and again from 2009 - Present. He is the current Chair of the ARIN AC.

David is a seasoned senior executive with over 25 years’ experience in sales, marketing and business development. David has a strong background in WAN Optimization and has worked extensively in both enterprise and service provider markets.

Previously, he served as VP of Business Development at Expand Networks where he was responsible for their OEM relationship with 3COM/H3C as well as their acquisition of NetPriva, an Australian SoftWOC startup. David also led Expand’s entry into the virtualization market and managed their global analyst relationships.

Prior to Expand, David was the VP of Worldwide Sales at Procket Networks where he was part of the executive team responsible for Procket’s acquisition of by Cisco Systems. Prior to Procket, David was VP of Sales at several successful Silicon Valley startup companies such as Tasman Networks, CopperCom and Sentient Networks. He was responsible for OEM agreements with Lucent, DSC (Alcatel) and closed a $40M contract with Williams that led to Sentient’s acquisition by Cisco.

Before working in Silicon Valley, David was part of the initial management team at FORE Systems. He started FORE’s OEM and channel business, developing relationships with companies like Nortel, Cabletron, HP (Grenoble) and Anixter. David was also responsible for starting FORE’s worldwide service provider sales where he closed volume sales agreements with companies such as Bell Atlantic, AT&T, Cox Cable, MCI, MetroNet (ATT Canada) and Sprint.

As VP Global Business Development, David’s responsibilities will include development of strategic OEM and/or reselling partnerships with US based companies. He will also serve as the US interface for industry analysts. David’s role is a significant step forward as we increase our presence in the global market and develop new revenue channels with global US based networking companies.

Qing Li is responsible for the design and implementation of the IPv6 Secure Web Gateway Appliance at Blue Coat. The product was officially released to market in Nov. 2009 and received the IPv6 Application Solution Pioneer Award from the IPv6 Forum in April 2010. Qing is a published author, most notably the two-volume reference series on IPv6. Volume I, IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation, and Volume II, IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation, were published in October 2006 and in April 2007 respectively, by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

In 2003 Qing published the embedded systems development book Real-Time Concepts for Embedded Systems, which has served as reference text in the industry as well as in universities. Qing is also a contributing author to the first of its kind book entitled Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems, published in June of 2005 by Springer-Verlag. Qing is an active FreeBSD developer and committer.

Martin Casado received his PhD from Stanford University in 2007 where his dissertation work led to the technology on which Nicira is based.

He received his Masters from Stanford University in 2005. While at Stanford, Martin co-founded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006. Prior to attending Stanford, Martin held a research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on network security in the information operations assurance center (IOAC).

Nick McKeown (PhD/MS UC Berkeley '95/'92; B.E Univ. of Leeds, '86) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Faculty Director of the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University. From 1986-1989 he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol, England. In 1995, he helped architect Cisco's GSR 12000 router. In 1997 Nick co-founded Abrizio Inc. (acquired by PMC-Sierra), where he was CTO. He was co-founder and CEO of Nemo ("Network Memory"), which is now part of Cisco.
Nick McKeown is the STMicroelectronics Faculty Scholar, the Robert Noyce Faculty Fellow, a Fellow of the Powell Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. In 2000, he received the IEEE Rice Award for the best paper in communications theory. Nick is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), the IEEE and the ACM. In 2005, he was awarded the British Computer Society Lovelace Medal, and in 2009 the IEEE Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award. Nick's research interests include the architecture of the future Internet, tools and platforms for networking teaching and research.

Igor is a principal architect at Yahoo!, where his responsibilities range from overall network design, including highly resilient datacenter and backbone switching and routing architecture, peering strategy, MPLS design, and L4-7 loadbalancing, to distributed and scalable content delivery methodologies, DNS architecture, and R&D into future technologies.

Manish Muthal is director of marketing for Enterprise Networking Solutions, LSI Corporation. Muthal brings deep knowledge of the enterprise networking business with focus on switching and services architecture for the enterprise and data center. Most recently he was Founder, Vice President of Hardware at Nevis Networks, where he led the architecture development and technology marketing for service aware enterprise switches. Prior to Nevis, he led networking silicon development at Juniper Networks and Amber Networks (Nokia), and high end server platform architecture at Intel. Muthal has a master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Pete Mastin has more than 20 years of experience in software development, project management and operations, with a focus on digital content management and delivery since 1998. He is currently Chief Architect and Director of Engineering for Internap’s content delivery network (CDN). Prior to Internap, Pete served as CTO for MulticastMedia where he developed and deployed an Online Video Platform (Media Suite) and an award winning transcoding platform.

He has spoken at a number of industry events on the subject of digital content management and delivery.

Andy Howard has over 15 years of experience in IP Video, Networking, Software, and Internet Security. As Senior Director of Product Management at VBrick Systems, Andy directs VBrick's Business Development, Product Strategy, and Go-To-Market efforts. Andy has been at the forefront of the digital video industry since it began, pioneering the development of the industry's first streaming media caching appliance in the late 1990's, while holding Product Management and Marketing positions at CacheFlow (now Bluecoat) and Novell. Andy received a bachelor's degree cum laude in economics from Harvard University and an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Andy Howard has over 15 years of experience in IP Video, Networking, Software, and Internet Security. As Senior Director of Product Management at VBrick Systems, Andy directs VBrick's Business Development, Product Strategy, and Go-To-Market efforts. Andy has been at the forefront of the digital video industry since it began, pioneering the development of the industry's first streaming media caching appliance in the late 1990's, while holding Product Management and Marketing positions at CacheFlow (now Bluecoat) and Novell. Andy received a bachelor's degree cum laude in economics from and an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the .

Marc Bernstein is with Juniper’s Solutions Engineering & Architecture team, where he leads a team which design and validates reference architectures for delivering application-layer services including IPTV and videoconferencing across a mixed Juniper and non-Juniper infrastructure. Prior to that, he focused on triple-play service delivery to residential customers. Marc has been a manager within Product Management focusing on Wide Area Networking technologies, Technical Marketing Manager for Carrier Ethernet technologies and a Regional Sales Engineering Specialist. He holds an MBA from University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

Alex Henthorn-Iwane has been with Packet Design, Inc., since 2004. Previously he was senior director of product management at routing and security vendors CoSine Communications, Inc. and Corona Networks. Before that, he was director of product management for security and policy products at Lucent Technologies, and worked in senior product management and systems engineering management roles at remote access and security vendor Livingston Enterprises and campus LAN switching vendor Fibronics America.

As one of the co-founders of SevOne, Vess Bakalov serves as Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for leading the company’s product development and design, and overall vision of the technology architecture.

Prior to SevOne, Mr. Bakalov served in a number of senior technical positions at BankOne, including Assistant Vice President and Network Architect. He also led the network management team for the Credit Card Services division of the company, which was the largest issuer of VISA credit cards in the U.S. During his time at BankOne, Mr. Bakalov also taught undergraduate and graduate courses as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Delaware.

Mr. Bakalov began his career as a technical advisor for a fast-growing CLEC. There, he led the design and engineering effort behind that company's first DSL deployment. He was also in charge of architecting and developing the network management and instrumentation strategy for the firm.

As CTO of Lancope, Adam Powers is a leading innovator in the development of next-generation network behavior anomaly detection solutions. Adam is a significant driver of Lancope's R&D of behavioral algorithms and analysis techniques for the StealthWatch System. With a decade of operational and engineering experience in enterprise IP security technologies, Adam commands considerable expertise in datacenter network design, IP flow analysis techniques, content delivery networks, and enterprise network security planning and management. During his tenure as a Sergeant with the US Marine Corps, Adam managed UNIX and IP networks across 5 operational datacenters and participated in several highly confidential information security initiatives.

Sal DeSimone is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMC’s Infrastructure Management Group (IMG). EMC is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

IMG delivers solutions that allow customers to gain visibility and control of their information infrastructure, enabling companies to optimize their IT service delivery.

Sal is responsible for driving overall technology, architecture, and product portfolio strategy. Also, he is responsible for driving the VCE management architecture together with Cisco and VMware as a member of the VCE coalition.

Sal joined EMC in 2005 as part of the acquisition of System Management Arts (SMARTS). At SMARTS, he was the Vice President of Product Development, which include managing the development of the core SMARTS Network Management and IT Operations products.

Mark Weiner is Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Virtela. He is responsible for the company's global marketing strategy, product management, as well as the customer advisory board.

Mark has over twenty years of leadership and industry experience in the data center and networking markets. Prior to Virtela, he led marketing at Cisco across multiple data center business units and $1 billion of revenue, and successfully launched Cisco into the WAN optimization market. Previously, Mark was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at NetScaler, a pioneer in application delivery services acquired by Citrix Systems for $325 million. Earlier in his career, he spent several years in telecommunications, serving as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Redback Networks. Mark began his career in networking at Bay Networks and Ungermann-Bass.

Mark has a Masters in Business Administration with honors from Santa Clara University, where he is a part-time professor and advisory board member, and a Bachelors of Science from University of California, Berkeley.

Neil Cohen is the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Akamai where he develops the go-to-market strategy for an evolving portfolio of Internet-based managed services. Over the past five years at Akamai, he has brought to market new services and partnerships applied towards strategic enterprise initiatives such as cloud computing, application acceleration, data-center optimization, virtual desktops, mobile web and Internet security. Neil has over 15-years of engineering, product management and marketing experience in the high-tech industry and is an active speaker and contributor for a variety of technology forums and publications.

Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software used in routers, VoIP gateways, wireless base stations and broadband access equipment. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of programmable network processors, circuit design and semiconductor processes. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.

Tony Kourlas is a member of the Alcatel-Lucent product marketing team for business network services. He has over 20 years experience in the networking industry in senior product management and marketing roles.

Steve Riley is Technical Leader in the Office of the CTO at Riverbed Technology, an innovator in wide-area networking and storage optimization. Steve actively works to raise awareness of the technical and business benefits Riverbed's solutions, particularly as they relate to accelerating the enterprise adoption of cloud computing. His specialties include information security, compliance, privacy, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, SIIA, IANS, TechEd, Connections, Cloud Expo, and Interop. He co-authored a book about Windows network security, contributed a chapter to a book on auditing cloud computing, has published numerous articles, and conducted technical reviews of several data networking and telecommunications books. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. Contact him at steve.riley@riverbed.com, on Skype as stvrly, and join the conversation at http://stvrly.tumblr.com.

Benjamin Rice is Vice President of Worldwide Business & Corporate Development for Blue Coat. He has been with Blue Coat for over ten years and is responsible for Blue Coat’s Corporate/ Business Development and Alliance Strategy worldwide. Mr. Rice has served a number of roles during his Blue Coat days, including GM, WinProxy Security Division and General Counsel for Blue Coat Systems. Prior to Blue Coat Mr. Rice was General Counsel for Ositis Software where he managed the legal obligations of the company and its foreign subsidiaries. Previously, Mr. Rice worked as a staff attorney at The Castleman Law Firm, the Los Angeles County District Attorney and was Principal at The Law Offices of Benjamin Z. Rice.

Mr. Rice received his JD from Loyola Law School and his BA in Political Science and English from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Kosten Metreweli is CMO at Zeus Technology. Before joining Zeus, Kosten was VP of Global Marketing at Tideway (now part of BMC software), recognised by the Sunday Times TechTrack as the fastest growing private software company in the UK in 2008, and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2009. Prior to Tideway, Kosten was VP of Business Development at MetaSolv Software, and Orchestream (acquired by MetaSolv). Kosten has also worked as a senior consultant at Renaissance Worldwide, a leading strategy and technology consultancy, and as a research scientist at Philips Research Laboratories.

Kosten holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University.

Paul brings 18 years of experience working with Internet and security companies in the UK and the US. In his current position, Paul is responsible for Product Marketing and Strategy at application delivery technology leader A10 Networks from its base in San Jose, California. Prior to A10, Paul held various technical and management positions at Intel, Pandesic (the Internet company from Intel and SAP) and Secure Computing.

Greg Smith is the director of product marketing for Citrix System's Application Networking solutions. Greg joined Citrix through the company's acquisition of NetScaler in 2005, bringing more than 14 years of experience in engineering, product management and product marketing. He is responsible for the product marketing strategy for Citrix's Application Networking products, including Citrix NetScaler, Citrix WANScaler and the Citrix Application Firewall product lines.

Donato Buccella has more than 20 years of software industry experience having successfully brought to market several commercial products in multiple verticals, including security, infrastructure management and electronic data capture. Prior to joining Certeon, Mr. Buccella was a founder and Chief Architect at Verdasys. Mr. Buccella has also lead product teams at Symantec Corporation and Phase Forward, in addition to consulting to several Fortune 500 companies. He holds a number of patents and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University.

Raj Kanaya brings a long track record of general management and market development success to Infineta Systems. As CEO, Raj is responsible for the overall vision, direction, and revenue attainment for the company. Previously, Raj was VP of product strategy and alliances for the Application Networking Group at Citrix Systems. He joined Citrix though its acquisition of NetScaler where he served as VP of product management for a product line that went from sub-$2 million to $60+ million in revenues over three years. Raj was a GM of a BU at Lucent and led business development at Nexsi Systems. Earlier in his career, he was a Bain & Co. consultant where he advised large companies in technology and LBO funds on turnarounds, new market entries, and acquisitions/divestitures. Raj has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and earned his B.S. in computer science magna cum laude from UCSD.

Allwyn Sequeira is VP, Security and Networking Solutions at VMware, responsible for strategy and delivery of products and partnership frameworks. He was CTO and SVP of Product Operations at Blue Lane Technologies, which was acquired by VMware in 2008. At Blue Lane, Sequeira was responsible for creating the Virtual Shield product, which is the basis for VMware’s vShield product line.

He was previously the SVP of Products & Operations at netVmg, an intelligent route control company acquired by InterNap in 2003. Prior to netVmg, Sequeira was founder, CTO and EVP of Products and Operations at First Virtual Corporation (FVC). Prior to FVC, he was Director of the Network Management Business Unit at UB Networks, the first independent local area network company.

He is a recognized expert in the areas of networking, security, virtualization and cloud architectures, with more than 25 years of experience in the industry. Sequeira holds a Bachelor’s of Technology degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Master’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Kunjal Trivedi is Worldwide Director of Service Provider (SP) Product Management at VCE. Prior to VCE, Kunjal tenured at Cisco for 12+ years architecting, designing and securing some of the world's largest SP and enterprise networks. A widely respected networking and security expert, Kunjal presents network infrastructure and cloud security topics at Cisco's Networkers events as well as at conferences such as ARPICOT.

Kunjal has a Bachelor of Engineering degree with honours in electrical and electronics engineering from University of Wales, College of Cardiff, and a Master of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence from Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK. He holds CISSP and CCIE designations in routing and switching as well as security. He was awarded Chartered Engineer status by Institute of Engineering and Technology. He is a published author with a book titled [Read Me First]: Building or Buying VPNs. Kunjal has been awarded Chartered Engineer status by Institute of Engineering and Technology, U.K.

Amir Ben-Efraim is Vice President of Cloud Security at Juniper Networks, responsible for defining strategy and direction for Juniper's efforts to secure the virtualized data-center, private clouds and public clouds. Amir joined Juniper in late 2010 via its acquisition of Altor Networks, which Amir led as founder and CEO. Amir has over 20 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Prior to founding Altor Networks, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Todd DeCapua, VP of Worldwide Consulting for Shunra, is one of the technology industry's most respected thought leaders on Application Performance Engineering and a renowned speaker, author and visionary.

Mr. DeCapua's IT & QA background encompasses nearly all industries and over 70 organizations with extensive consulting experience -- before joining Shunra in 2010, he held senior leadership roles both within IT Development and IT Infrastructure at ING DIRECT, the largest internet bank in the United States -- providing him a uniquely authoritative view of the global business impact of the new best-practice models for performance engineering.

His expertise includes application development, global project management, partnership strategy, collaborative methods like Agile Scrum, infrastructure architecture, business continuity and disaster recovery. At Shunra is to drive professional services, training/education and partnership programs for nearly 2000 worldwide customers deploying applications in WAN, Web, Mobile and Cloud environments.

In 2009 he was invited to sit on the Customer Advisory Board for LoadRunner & Performance Center, Mr. DeCapua was named 2010 HP Software Universe "Best & Brightest" and 2010 Vivit Worldwide Leader of the Year. He is also a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, and Six Sigma Green Belt; and is also accredited with an MBA, Concentration in Finance.

Albert Mavashev is Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development for Nastel. As the chief architect of Nastel's suite of products, Albert is instrumental in the creation of some of the most comprehensive and advanced tools for monitoring, managing and optimizing the performance of complex transactions and integrated application processes in SOA environments. Albert is an expert in IT infrastructures and middleware, including IBM's WebSphere family of products, and in implementing service oriented architectures (SOA), helping companies achieve business agility through technology and aligning IT with business processes in the real-time enterprise. Albert is a sought-after speaker and author of numerous articles and white papers.

Paul is a Marketing Director for CA Technology in the Service Assurance Customer Solutions Group with responsibility for CA’s Application Performance Management (APM) and SOA initiatives. He has over 20 years of IT experience spanning a wide range of disciplines including world-wide marketing, product management, strategy and sales-related responsibility at major companies like IBM, Tivoli, Amdahl / Fujitsu Software Group in addition to a number of smaller organizations. His background includes significant experience in infrastructure management software and on-demand applications, in addition to storage and communications hardware platforms. He has written articles and delivered presentations at industry conferences in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific linking business needs with technology solutions.

Steve Tack is CTO of Compuware’s APM Solution where he leads the expansion of the company’s APM product portfolio and market presence. Steve has been working in the software and IT services industries for more than 14 years, with experience in sales and marketing, field implementation and product management. At Compuware, Steve has spent considerable time consulting with customers in the field in order to understand their industry, challenges, risks and strategic business needs. His area of expertise includes: application performance and web performance management, SaaS, cloud computing, end-user experience monitoring, cloud performance and mobile applications.

Stephen Foskett is an active participant in the world of enterprise information technology, currently focusing on enterprise storage and cloud computing. He is responsible for Gestalt IT, a community of independent IT thought leaders, and organizes the popular Tech Field Day events. A long-time voice in the storage industry, Foskett has authored numerous articles for industry publications, and is a popular presenter at industry events. His contributions to the enterprise IT community have earned him recognition as both a Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert. Stephen Foskett is principal consultant at Foskett Services.

Vanessa Alvarez is an analyst at Forrester Research serving Infrastructure & Operations professionals. She focuses on the impact of enabling technologies in the enterprise.

Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Networks Are Our Lives, Inc! a Hoboken NJ based networking consultancy. In over 25 years of consulting he has designed and implemented networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, US Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Mr. Marks has been a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Neworld+Interop and Microsoft’s TechEd since 1990 on topics including LAN and WAN infrastructure, systems management and web hosting. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams) along with over 100 articles in publications including PC Magazine, Network Computing and Network World. He is currently the "Backup and Business Continuity" blogger at InformationWeek.com

With an exceptional background and career in sales, marketing and business development, Mark Goros brings 30 years experience and management to Caringo. Most recently, Mark was a General Partner in a venture firm where he invested and assisted in the development of a number of new startups and executed two secondary venture deals over the last several years. He has worked with 8 startups including Oracle, Sybase, Gain Technology and BroadVision and has served in nearly every role from technical, to sales, to CEO. He has helped execute two IPOs and three M&A transactions. Mark has a gift for setting up an operational structure that allows both technology innovators and sales teams to thrive and to produce results.

Cleversafe is led by Chris Gladwin, who has created and managed a series of successful new technology companies. Chris founded Cleversafe in November, 2004 and wrote the algorithms for the first Dispersed Storage software prototype. Chris was previously the creator of the first workgroup storage server at Zenith Data Systems and was a Manager of Corporate Storage Standards at Lockheed Martin.

Before Cleversafe, Chris was the founding Chairman, President and CEO of MusicNow (initially known as FullAudio) and built the company to 100,000 customers before its acquisition by Circuit City. MusicNow, whose venture financing was led by New Enterprise Associates, was one of the largest digital content storage and distribution systems in the world and provided white label digital music services marketed by distribution partners including Best Buy, Clear Channel, Microsoft, SBC, Charter Communications and Earthlink.

Prior to MusicNow, Chris developed the wireless thin client and then was the founding Chairman, President and CEO of Cruise Technologies, which became the dominant supplier of wireless thin client technology. Cruise Technologies provided wireless thin clients that were marketed by distribution partners that included Motorola, IBM, Wyse, Telos and Zenith Data Systems.

Chris has created over 300 issued and pending patents related to Dispersed Storage™ technology, wireless remote interface and Internet service technology. Chris’s work has been recognized by 32 industry awards for the products, services and companies he has created.

Chris holds an Engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Paul Speciale has over 20 years of technology industry experience, in domains including cloud computing, enterprise data storage and database management. Paul was previously responsible for cloud product marketing at Savvis for the Symphony VPDC cloud service. Paul has also held various executive positions in product management and marketing. He was Vice President of Product Management at Q-layer, a cloud computing pioneer which was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Paul was an early member of two startup companies in the network storage storage space. For ten years Paul held senior positions in systems engineering and product management in the database industry with Oracle, IBM and Object Design. Paul holds a Masters and a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from UCLA.

Bret Piatt is responsible for helping cloud companies build solutions that integrate with OpenStack and supporting enterprises and service providers who are adopting the open source platform. Prior to his current role, Bret helped build the ecosystem around the Rackspace Cloud and was part of the Product Management teams for both Rackspace and AT&T, where he was responsible for security and compliance product lines. His technical experience comes from his time at SBC, where he designed monitoring and management systems, optimized networks for enterprise customers, and performed lab testing on new products from potential suppliers and partners. A self-described “lifelong geek”, Bret is passionate about helping companies solve problems through technology and participates in several industry organizations and alliances to further cloud standards, including the DMTF, OGF, OASIS, CloudAudit, and the ACCA.

Bradford Stephens is the Founder and CEO of Drawn to Scale, creators of Spire, a Big Data database platform with real-time queries and fulltext search.

Bradford has a history ranging from politics (campaign manager at the U.S. House and Presidential levels), music (metal guitar), finance (CSX Railroad), and more. He has a passion for building big things that make an impact on fundamental aspects of business. Bradford is co-chair of OSCON Data, and has spoken at LinkedIn, Gluecon, Interop, ApacheCon, OSCON, and many more places. In his spare time, he enjoys Minecraft, guitar, cocktail creation, and his scalability blog, Road to Failure.

Sam Ghods is the Vice President of Technology at Box.net, where he manages the design and architecture of Box.net's application and technology stack. Prior to joining Box.net, Sam was a developer at essembly.com, which is now part of Project Agape. Before essembly.com, Sam was the lead developer at zexsports.com, where he was responsible for development, server management, and architecture. He attended the University of Southern California, where he studied computer engineering and computer science for two years before joining Box.net in 2006.

Nicos manages all day to day company functions at TwinStrata. Nicos has spent 18 years in the data storage field, both as a business manager and as an entrepreneur. Most recently, Nicos served as Vice President of Product Strategy and Technology at Incipient, Inc., where he helped deliver the industry’s first storage virtualization solution embedded in a Cisco switch fabric. Prior to Incipient, Nicos was General Manager of the storage virtualization business at Hewlett-Packard, where he managed a multi-site business, delivering several releases of network storage virtualization products and growing the business to include host-based products.

Howells drives corporate marketing for StorSimple. Previously, he was CMO at Alfresco and was part of the team that built it from a startup to the largest private open source company. Before that, Howells was responsible for marketing at SeeBeyond (acquired by Sun). He was the first employee of Documentum in Europe where he had both European and global marketing roles. Ian started his career at Ingres. Howells is a regular speaker at conferences and blogged for Computerworld, writing “Open Source Hearts and Minds.” He holds a bachelor’s degree in computing and statistics and a Ph.D. in distributed databases.

Francois Tallet is a Product Manager in the Data Center Switching Technology Group, responsible for Layer 2 features on the Nexus 7000. He joined Cisco in 1997 as a customer support engineer in the LAN Switching team in Brussels. As a subject matter expert in Layer 2, he later moved to the Catalyst 6000 engineering team in the United States. He later was part of the IEEE 802.1 working group, introducing the Layer 2 Gateway Port concept in 802.1ah. He also led the development of the standard implementation of Multiple Spanning Trees protocol (MST, IEEE 802.1s) and designed a new version of the Vlan Trunk Protocol (VTP3) and the Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP). Tallet holds CCIE certification 3539 and holds two master's degrees in parallel computing and computer networking.

Jeff Kabel is a Technical Marketing Engineer at HP, focusing on Data Center Solutions and advanced enterprise switching solutions.He has spent the last 20 years working for some of the largest players in the technology industry including Ingram Micro, 3Com, SBC Communications, Dimension Data and Cisco. During this time, his focus has covered everything from Content Delivery networking, IP Telephony and Network Management to Visual Communications and Immersive Video Collaboration. Jeff’s forte is designing large-scale, robust, converged infrastructures for Fortune 500 and large educational institutions. He also has experience with many verticals including manufacturing, healthcare, education, finance and service providers.

Dan DeBacker is the Director of Data Solutions Architecture at Avaya. The architecture team is responsible for creating solutions within the data portfolio that assemble the various products into the data infrastructures supporting Avaya Unified Communications, Contact Center, and Business Collaboration. These solutions are tested, validated, documented, and provide the best practice recommendations for implementation and ongoing management. Previously, Dan was a Solutions Engineer and Sales Engineer with Nortel Enterprise Solutions. Dan has a BS in Computer and Information Systems and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Singh has extensive data center experience and drove the direction for disruptive new software and hardware solutions helping spearhead Brocade’s foray into the server, network virtualization and storage convergence market (Brocade VDX, VCS, Brocade 8000, FCoE 10-24). He’s lead industry-first data center product strategy and design, such as the Brocade VDX Data Center Networking product family and Brocade VCS technology strategy, as well as product roadmap for latest L2 Ethernet Fabric.

Paul Barrett works for NetScout Systems, Inc., which acquired Psytechnics Ltd. in April 2011. His role at NetScout includes responsibility for their voice and video quality assessment technology. Paul was CTO at Psytechnics prior to its acquisition by NetScout and was responsible for all research, development and standards activities at Psytechnics. He joined Psytechnics shortly after its creation in 2001 and worked for ten years at BT Laboratories before that. Paul has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has been actively involved in international standardization for most of that time. His standards work has encompassed many aspects of voice and video communications, including four generations of GSM and 3G codecs. Paul is currently a Vice Chairman of the ITU Study Group responsible for "Performance, QoS and QoE" and is the UK Head of Delegation for this group. He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the IET and IEEE, and holds a Masters Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.

Adam Edwards is the director of field systems engineering and business development at Apparent Networks. In this role Adam leads a team responsible for ensuring customer and partner success when deploying Apparent’s network monitoring and troubleshooting solutions to deliver performance critical applications such as VoIP, IP video, and virtualization. Before joining Apparent Networks in 2008, Adam spent 7 years at Motive in various technical leadership positions helping broadband providers remotely manage devices and deliver VoIP, IPTV, networking, and security services to business and residential subscribers. Adam has held numerous other leadership roles developing application, systems and network management technologies over the past 20 years. Adam began his career in technology while studying engineering at the University of Rochester and is a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve.

Kenneth Mills serves as Principal Technical Marketing Manager for CA Technologies Infrastructure Management product portfolio. He is responsible for market analysis, sales enablement and analyst relations efforts for these products. Kenneth joined CA Technologies with the NetQoS acquisition where he had worked since 2004. At NetQoS Kenneth facilitated customers in Asia, Latin America and the United States as a pre-sales consultant. Kenneth began his work with network and application performance management 10 years ago as a member of HP’s global Traffic Engineering and Application Profiling team.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

As Principal Analyst within the Business Technology and Software group Ken Landoline tracks the enterprise unified communications and contact center (UCCC) markets. Prior to joining Current Analysis Ken was VP of Research at Synergy Research Group where he developed services to monitor and measure the global market performance of unified communications and contact center vendors. Earlier in his career, Ken was Program Manager, Customer Centric Strategies at Yankee Group and also held analyst positions at Giga Information Group (now Forrester Research) and Dataquest (now Gartner Group). His analyst career has been focused on the analysis and tracking of voice telephony products and applications including PBXs, key telephone systems, interactive voice response (IVR), speech recognition and contact centers. In these roles, Ken advised end-users, vendors and investment institutions on the development and implementation of telecommunications systems and services, with special emphasis on multi-channel contact centers, speech applications and VoIP technology.

Before becoming an industry analyst Ken spent 20 years in a variety of management positions within the telecommunications industry. At Siemens Business Communications he managed business development and joint venture activities in the business telephone systems, wireless and call center areas. At Pacific Bell Information Services, he was the director of sales operations for a 30-person sales force that was instrumental in Pacific Bell’s successful venture into the voicemail and IVR service bureau businesses. While at AT&T Large Business Systems (now Avaya) and Fujitsu America, he held positions in market and product management, focusing on strategic planning, distribution and market segmentation strategies for the business telephone systems divisions of these global telecommunication companies. Ken is an often-quoted analyst in business and telecommunications journals and a frequent speaker at telecommunications industry events.

Ken served as an Infantry Captain in the U.S. Army. He has taught as an adjunct professor at both the University of Phoenix and San Jose City College in Silicon Valley. Ken earned a B.A. degree in business/economics from Rutgers College and an M.B.A. from Seton Hall University.

As Principal Analyst for Enterprise Networking and Data Center Technology, Mike is responsible for tracking the major technological, strategic and tactical developments of companies that provide networking solutions deployed on premise to support enterprise business operations.

Mike brings an experienced and veteran eye to the Business Technology and Software team at Current Analysis, with over 10 years dedicated to Enterprise competitive intelligence. He initially ran the network operations and management domain competitive intelligence practice within HP Software, and the last seven managed the competitive intelligence program within HP’s networking organization. Mike is respected by peers and partners alike for an objective and insightful view of the networking industry, providing technical and business support for sales and strategy teams.

Mike graduated with both a BS in Computer Networking and a BS in Business Administration from Regis University.

Bryan Tantzen, a Senior Director at Cisco Systems, leads the Voice Technology Group’s Customer Transformation and Market Development team. In this role, he leads VTG’s Strategic Technology Alliances, Field Engagement, and 3rd Party Developer Ecosystem (the Cisco’s Developer Network or CDN). Additionally, Bryan, leads the Customer Business Transformation team that works with many of the world's leading companies and the public sector on strategies to drive increased revenue and cost takeout through collaboration and unified communications technologies that enable more effective business processes. The Customer Business Transformation team includes business value focused consulting and vertical solution practices that cover the Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, and Public Sector vertical industries.

Mr. Tantzen has been with Cisco for 7 years and was previously in Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group, leading transformation of high technology industries. Prior to that, Bryan also brings over a decade of experience working with global companies from the management consulting and enterprise application software industries. As Vice President of the High Tech Business Unit for i2 Technologies (the supply chain management software company), he led global deployments, solution development, and product marketing. At McKinsey & Company, Mr. Tantzen worked with clients on strategy, operational process improvement, and growth initiatives.

Mr. Tantzen holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in International Affairs from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Economics from Texas A&M University. He is fluent in Japanese and has lived and worked in several countries in Europe and Asia.

Mike McRoberts is the Director of Product Management and Development at Sprint/Nextel responsible for the entire Sprint Wireline Service Product Portfolio ($5.0B in annual revenue) including IP WAN/MPLS and Dedicated IP Services, Ethernet as a Service development, Private Line, Legacy Voice Services, Packet Access including DSL and Ethernet, and Sprint’s emerging Unified Communication Product Portfolio including SIP Trunking, IP Toll Free, Sprint Mobile Integration and UC Managed Services and Enabling Equipment. Mike is responsible for the product strategy, product development and product lifecycle management for this Product Portfolio both in the U.S. and Internationally (165 countries served). In late 2009, Mike also picked up the In Building Solutions Product Management Portfolio at Sprint which includes the new Airave 2 Femtocell Platform.

McRoberts has served in numerous other Director positions including Access Product Management and Local Service Product Management where he managed Sprint’s ILEC portfolio including DSL, Metro Ethernet and Local Voice Services. McRoberts originally joined the company in 1981 and has served in roles in Sales, Marketing and Business Development, in addition to extensive product management experience in Sprint ILEC, CLEC, Cable VoIP and Long Distance operations.

Chad Hart is a product marketing manager for Acme Packet, the leader in session border control solutions. He is responsible for supporting the company’s competitive analysis, analyst relations, business analysis, and Over-the-Top services marketing programs. Formerly Chad was Product Marketing Manager for Empirix, a test and monitoring vendor serving VoIP and IMS vendors and service providers where he authored, Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience - A Practical Guide to Testing and Monitoring IP Multimedia Subsystem and Services and was a regular speaker and author on IMS and VoIP network quality. Prior to Empirix, Chad was Director of VDC’s Telecom Practice where managed and authored VDC’s groundbreaking IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Global Market Demand Analysis. His other published work includes VDC’s Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Enabling Technologies and SS7 and VoIP Infrastructure Equipment. Chad has a BSEE and MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Tom Dalrymple is the director of Global Voice Services Product Management at Verizon Business. In this role, he leads the product management team responsible for Verizon’s expansive portfolio of domestic US and global voice-over-IP trunking services, local voice services, and outbound global voice long distance services.

Mr. Dalrymple is a veteran telecommunications industry professional with significant experience in marketing, product management, and new product development. His background includes product management of IP-based voice and data network services, managed services, networking equipment, application packaging, and core voice services.

Mr. Dalrymple holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Bucknell University.

Tim Everitt is the Program executive for Bank of America’s TelePresence & Video Solutions Group. He has been in this role since April of 2009. He is responsible for the Banks roll out of the TelePresence program which has close to 200 installations to date.

Patrick Gannon joined McKinsey & Company in 2002. He is currently the Program Manager and Senior Architect responsible for defining the strategy, technology and product plan, architecture, and implementation methodology for all video technology and services utilized across the Firm. Over the past three years, he has directed the introduction of high-definition video conferencing solutions spanning 100 countries.

An entrepreneur in the high technology industry for more than 25 years, and recently named one of the 25 Most Innovative Executives Of 2010 by CRN, Tom brings extensive strategic, organizational, and leadership experience in startup companies as well as large corporations to BurstPoint.

Tom served as vice president of worldwide marketing and business development in Hewlett-Packard’s ProCurve division, which he joined as part of the acquisition of Colubris Networks. He also founded Racca Associates – a retained management advisory firm specializing in guiding emerging technology companies in fundraising, market expansion, strategic development, acquisitions, and exit strategies.

In addition, he led marketing and business development at Chantry Networks (acquired by Siemens), and was a founder of iQ NetSolutions. Tom has also held key executive positions at KPMG; Digital Equipment Corporation; Avid Technology; Proteon; and Prime Computer.

He holds a B.S. from Northeastern University in Computer Sciences and Management Information Systems and serves on the NU Dean’s Advisory Council and other corporate boards.

Jim is President of High Speed Video where he concentrates on business development, marketing, and finance/business operations.

Prior to his position as President of Torsted Advisors, he worked at numerous technology companies in the digital media and communications areas. As Chief Executive Officer of Gist Communications, Inc. he created advanced interactive television products used on the internet, on set-top boxes in the home and on mobile phones. He started his career as an Investment Banker working with Lehman Brothers, First Boston and UBS where he was Head of Industrial Investment Banking in the U.S.

Jim received an A.B. from Holy Cross College, an M.A. from the Universite de Louvain (Belgium) and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Bruno Zerbib is currently responsible for Cisco’s portfolio of immersive TelePresence endpoints and collaboration devices. Earlier, Mr. Zerbib led Cisco’s Service Assurance strategy for virtualized architectures and collaboration services such as Video and Unified Communications. He has over 15 years of experience in senior product management and product strategy roles. As a thought leader in next-generation IP services and network architectures, he has brought to market innovative, disruptive and successful solutions for carriers, managed service providers and large enterprises. Mr. Zerbib holds a Masters of Computer Science from Paris 7 University.

Pete Mastin has more than 20 years of experience in software development, project management and operations, with a focus on digital content management and delivery since 1998. He is currently Chief Architect and Director of Engineering for Internap’s content delivery network (CDN). Prior to Internap, Pete served as CTO for MulticastMedia where he developed and deployed an Online Video Platform (Media Suite) and an award winning transcoding platform.

He has spoken at a number of industry events on the subject of digital content management and delivery.

Andy Howard has over 15 years of experience in IP Video, Networking, Software, and Internet Security. As Senior Director of Product Management at VBrick Systems, Andy directs VBrick's Business Development, Product Strategy, and Go-To-Market efforts. Andy has been at the forefront of the digital video industry since it began, pioneering the development of the industry's first streaming media caching appliance in the late 1990's, while holding Product Management and Marketing positions at CacheFlow (now Bluecoat) and Novell. Andy received a bachelor's degree cum laude in economics from Harvard University and an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Andy Howard has over 15 years of experience in IP Video, Networking, Software, and Internet Security. As Senior Director of Product Management at VBrick Systems, Andy directs VBrick's Business Development, Product Strategy, and Go-To-Market efforts. Andy has been at the forefront of the digital video industry since it began, pioneering the development of the industry's first streaming media caching appliance in the late 1990's, while holding Product Management and Marketing positions at CacheFlow (now Bluecoat) and Novell. Andy received a bachelor's degree cum laude in economics from and an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the .

Marc Bernstein is with Juniper’s Solutions Engineering & Architecture team, where he leads a team which design and validates reference architectures for delivering application-layer services including IPTV and videoconferencing across a mixed Juniper and non-Juniper infrastructure. Prior to that, he focused on triple-play service delivery to residential customers. Marc has been a manager within Product Management focusing on Wide Area Networking technologies, Technical Marketing Manager for Carrier Ethernet technologies and a Regional Sales Engineering Specialist. He holds an MBA from University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

Tim Everitt is the Program executive for Bank of America’s TelePresence & Video Solutions Group. He has been in this role since April of 2009. He is responsible for the Banks roll out of the TelePresence program which has close to 200 installations to date.

Patrick Gannon joined McKinsey & Company in 2002. He is currently the Program Manager and Senior Architect responsible for defining the strategy, technology and product plan, architecture, and implementation methodology for all video technology and services utilized across the Firm. Over the past three years, he has directed the introduction of high-definition video conferencing solutions spanning 100 countries.

David Siles is a recognized virtualization expert who brings more than 18 years experience to Veeam Software. At Veeam, David is the director of worldwide technical operations responsible for
building and leading world-class teams supporting Veeam’s global presales engineering, technical support, customer success teams, and professional services.

David was recognized for his contributions to the virtualization community as a VMware vExpert for 2009 and 2010. He has presented at numerous conferences including VMworld and has been quoted in many national publications over the years. Before to joining Veeam Software, David was the CTO and VP of Professional Services for Hipskind TSG. Prior to that David served the citizens of Kane County, Illinois as the Chief Technical Officer for five years. He has served in technology leadership positions for llinois Trading Company, Novopoint, City of Chicago, Business Systems Engineering, and DeVry University.

Before to joining Veeam Software, David was the CTO and VP of Professional Services for Hipskind TSG. Prior to that David served the citizens of Kane County, Illinois as the Chief Technical Officerfor five years. He has served in technology leadership positions forllinois Trading Company, Novopoint, City of Chicago, Business Systems Engineering, and DeVry University.

Bob joined Neverfail as Vice President of Marketing in August of 2010. Bob has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry holding a variety of sales, product management and marketing roles. In his position, he is responsible for leading the worldwide marketing efforts for Neverfail including field and corporate marketing programs, online marketing, press relations and product marketing.

Larry has been with NetApp for over 9 years supporting, implementing, and designing NetApp Storage and Disaster Recovery solutions. He currently focuses on research and development of data replication and business continuity best practices and is co-author of NetApp’s VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices technical report and VMware Site Recovery Manager Implementation Guide. Larry has given technical presentations at several internal and external NetApp training events in North America and Europe, and has presented at VMworld ’08, ’09, and ‘10.

Joe Graves was named Stratus Technologies’ CIO in 2002. During his tenure, Graves has recreated Stratus’ IT environment using innovative approaches such as virtualization and software-as-a-service (SaaS).

He joined Stratus, an industry leader in technologies for infrastructure availability, in 1986 as a software engineer. In the mid-90’s, he managed the program to deliver several new platforms. In 1999, Graves transferred to IT. Prior to becoming CIO, he was responsible for managing IS operations, followed by IT application development.

Prior to Stratus, Graves held various software engineering positions with Sequoia Systems and Data General. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Eric Chiu is president and founder of HyTrust, a company focused on virtualization control, security, management and compliance. He has in-depth knowledge about what’s needed to achieve the same level of operational readiness in virtual as in physical I.T. infrastructures. Previously Eric served in executive roles at Cemaphore, MailFrontier, mySimon, and was a venture capitalist at Brentwood/Redpoint, Pinnacle, and M&A at Robertson, Stephens and Company.

Mike Wronski brings more than 10 years of industry experience to his role as VP of Product Management for Reflex Systems. Prior to joining Reflex he held a senior information security system architect role at GE Healthcare Information Technologies, where he led a global security team in winning and deploying a $500M contract with the UK National Healthcare System. Wronski previously also held senior roles at Starent Networks, Cambia Networks, 3Com and USRobotics. Wronski holds CISSP and certified ethical hacker certifications, as well as an MBA, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Florida International University.

Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird. Ms. Newberger has over 20 years of experience in technology development, systems engineering and marketing, including UNIX development as a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), where he led the definition of SVR4.2 MP, the award-winning source code product which is at the heart of current mainstream UNIX. Ms. Newberger also worked at Novell in product planning for next-generation technologies and as the Director of Product Management at SCO. She holds MS and BA degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York.

Amir Ben-Efraim is Vice President of Cloud Security at Juniper Networks, responsible for defining strategy and direction for Juniper's efforts to secure the virtualized data-center, private clouds and public clouds. Amir joined Juniper in late 2010 via its acquisition of Altor Networks, which Amir led as founder and CEO. Amir has over 20 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Prior to founding Altor Networks, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

John Fanelli is vice president of product marketing for the Enterprise Desktop and Applications team at Citrix Systems. He is responsible for leading the go-to-market strategy for the company’s market-leading Citrix XenDeskop product line and for evangelizing the emerging desktop virtualization market segment within the IT industry. At Citrix he also served as vice president of marketing for Solutions and Community Marketing, where he led the Citrix Communities site and the Strategic Alliance Marketing program.

Doug Lane is a seasoned marketing and product management professional with a successful 15-year record of bringing innovative technology products and services to market. He is presently Director of Product Marketing at AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions to enterprise organizations.

Before joining AppSense, Lane was employee number one at Virtual Computer, where he led marketing and product management as the company emerged as a groundbreaking client-side virtualization vendor. In addition to his experience with virtualization technology, Lane’s prior roles at companies such as VeriSign, Guardent, and GTE Internetworking/Genuity spanned technology areas such as information security, RFID/supply chain, DNS/critical Internet infrastructure, Web hosting, and telecommunications/IP backbone services.

Lane earned a BS from Emerson College and an MBA from Boston University.

As Director of End-User Computing Clients, Pat Lee drives the product definition and development of VMware’s multi-platform client applications. Prior to serving in his current role, Pat managed the development of VMware Fusion, VMware’s first virtualization product for the Mac platform. Pat has more than 15 years of experience as a product strategist, manager and marketer. Past products he has managed include Dantz Development’s award winning Retrospect data protection product line.

Bill Corrigan is Chief Marketing Officer at RES Software. With more than 20 years of experience in technology and marketing leadership, Bill is responsible for strategically driving the delivery of key product offerings for RES Software and demonstrating the company’s value to the market of workspace management.

Most recently, Corrigan held the position of CMO at Neocleus, a client hypervisor startup in the desktop management and security space that was acquired by Intel. Prior to that, he oversaw product management and marketing at Microsoft for the System Center Configuration Manager, App-V and WSUS products. During his time with Microsoft, he led the global launches of several products, including Configuration Manager 2007, PowerShell and App-V 4.6 products. Under Corrigan’s tenure, the number of SoftGrid / App-V licenses grew from zero to over 8 million. Mr. Corrigan holds a dual Bachelor's of Science degree in Management Information Systems and Finance from Boston University.

Tom Flynn is the Chief Technologist for Thin Clients and Solutions with 22 years of experience in the computing industry. Tom conceived the HP MultiSeat solution for education and small business and is leading HP’s zero client strategy. Tom is the inventor of the Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI), which is based on the Blade PC and has numerous patents pending. Tom is currently focusing on the rapidly-evolving client virtualization technologies and the impact of those solutions on commercial, healthcare and educational offerings.

Jeff McNaught leads Wyse strategy and marketing activities. Mr. McNaught is widely considered the most quoted spokesperson for thin and cloud client computing in the world. With the experience of hundreds of speaking engagements, articles, and press interviews, he is considered an authority on the topics of thin computing, Green IT, desktop virtualization and cloud computing. Mr. McNaught co-invented and spearheaded the development of the award-winning Wyse Winterm thin clients, the first enterprise thin clients to ship in volume, now with millions of units in use worldwide. Mr. McNaught joined the Wyse team in 1987 after holding positions at ITT, Netexpress, Tandy, and Cromemco. He earned his MBA from Pepperdine University.

Doug Dooley brings more than 15 years of technology industry experience to his role as director of product management for Desktop Virtualization at Cisco. At Cisco, Doug leads the product management team in the definition, development, and delivery of a complete Desktop Virtualization solution for customers consisting of Data Center, Borderless Network, Collaboration, and End-user device elements. Prior to his role at Cisco, he was vice president of marketing and product management at virtual desktop startup, RingCube Technologies. Prior to RingCube, he was a director of technical and product marketing at Juniper Networks reporting to the General Manager owning P&L for multiple product lines delivering more than $500M USD of annual revenue. Prior to Juniper, Doug held various management, engineering, sales, and marketing roles at Inktomi, Intel Corporation, and Nortel Networks.

Sumit Dhawan is Group VP and GM, Citrix Receiver and End User Services Group. His group is responsible for end user solutions for self-service access to apps, desktops and data via Citrix Receiver from any device types with high performance delivery across all networks. Most recently, he served as VP of Product Marketing for the XenDesktop product group.

As Director of End-User Computing Clients, Pat Lee drives the product definition and development of VMware’s multi-platform client applications. Prior to serving in his current role, Pat managed the development of VMware Fusion, VMware’s first virtualization product for the Mac platform. Pat has more than 15 years of experience as a product strategist, manager and marketer. Past products he has managed include Dantz Development’s award winning Retrospect data protection product line.

Christopher has over fifteen (15) years of experience in the IT industry with a focus on government and education markets. He has over a decade of experience in a pure consulting role serving as Vice President of a leading New England IT consulting organization where he delivered in excess of 300 engagements in the government and education space focusing on building project design, technology master planning, infrastructure and system design, RFP development and budgeting and capital improvement expertise. In the years prior to joining CBE, Reily served as a Director of a successful consulting/engineering organization with an emphasis on virtualization and related technologies. In addition, Reily is a Senior Visiting Lecturer currently at Salem State College in the Master’s of Education, Information Technology program. Now in the role of CTO at CBE Technologies, Christopher provides Technical Consulting Services to the Sales Organization, delivers executive level Consulting Services to select clients focusing on Operational Readiness and serves in the leadership role of assessing, evaluating and packaging the technology solution sets that CBE delivers to its customers.

Vice President of Professional Services for PC Connection, MoreDirect and Gov Connection. In charge of services practice development and creating value propositions with emerging and combining existing technologies.

Tony leads Pro Connection’s practice development teams. Each practice develops solutions based on industry hardware and software to create value for our customers. Sitting on VMware’s Partner Technical advisory board and other vendor tech advisory teams allow us to get a look at future direction of their products as well as influencing direction to support the needs of our customers. Supports our Customer Briefing Center and demo labs to participate in many vendor’s beta and pilot testing. Help set direction on products we should add to our portfolio.

All this allows our engineers with hundreds of certifications and practice competencies to help our customers with Pre and post sales services.

Tony and team spend much of their time presenting these solutions to customers. Tony regularly presents at webinars, seminars , CBC (Customer Briefing Center) visits, roadshows, tradeshow keynotes. Tony also sits on Vmware Technical advisory board and HP client virtualization tech advisory board.

Andi Mann is vice president of product marketing, Virtualization & Automation, CA Technologies. Andi has over 20 years of IT experience across four continents, and a deep knowledge of enterprise software on mainframe, midrange, server and desktop systems. Andi has worked within the IT departments of global corporations, with enterprise software vendors, and as a leading industry analyst who literally wrote the definition of virtualization. Andi has been published in the New York Times, USA Today, CIO, Network World, TechTarget, and more, and has presented at around the world on virtualization, cloud computing, automation, and IT management.

Jason Cowie is the Vice President Product Management at Embotics and oversees product direction and strategy. Previously, Jason was the General Manager at EMC responsible for the Server Management business, and played a key role in the acquisition of Configuresoft. While at Configuresoft, Jason served as Vice President of Product Management helping secure Configuresoft as the industry leader in security and configuration management. Jason’s extensive management background spans sales, business development, consulting, and product marketing at various companies including Microsoft, Scalable Software, and Mission Critical Software (merged with NetIQ in 2000). He received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta, and completed graduate studies in Information Technology at the University of Victoria.

Jerry McLeod has over twenty years of experience in technology fields including executive management, strategic planning, business development, sales, marketing, product management, operations, customer service, and engineering. As Director Product Marketing at VMware, Jerry is responsible for the pricing, packaging, promotion, and go to market efforts for the management portfolio. Other accomplishments include a 12 year career at Octel Communications where Jerry was the General Manager and Senior VP of the Global Business Solutions Division when they were acquired by Lucent Technologies. Jerry earned a BSc in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta.

Mark Shoemaker is the Executive Program Manager for Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software at HP Software. In his role, Shoemaker functions as a conduit between the customer, product development, sales and marketing, and the analyst community to help align HP’s comprehensive BTO suite with customer needs and future innovation.

Shoemaker is passionate about technology and the role it can play in enabling the business. He is an early adopter of virtualization, automation and cloud computing technology as he recognizes the transformational opportunity they can offer organizations.

Bob Egan, is managing director and chief analyst for the Sepharim Group, a market research and advisory firm. For more than 20 years, Egan’s provocative insights and analysis are recognized for their significant influence on the business impact of the market trends and directions on mobility and emerging technologies.

As a vice president with Gartner, Mr. Egan received the firm's esteemed "Thought Leadership Achievement Award." Wireless Review has called Bob Egan the "Market Maker" and Adweek Magazine Technology Marketing Group named him one of the top six most influential industry analysts. Bob is a pioneer of Wi-Fi as a founding member of the first release of IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard.

Bob Egan’s primary clients include product managers, marketing directors, CIO’s and market intelligence teams, at some of the largest – and smallest – companies.

Bob’s experience includes his company leadership roles including:
Global Head of Research & Chief Analyst at the Corporate Executive Board’s TowerGroup, President of the research firm Mobile Competency (acquired in 2005), Chief Strategy Officer of Corechange (acquired 2002), VP & Research Director at Gartner and Advanced Technology Director at Digital Equipment corporation (DEC).

His commentaries have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Business Week and Fortune magazine. His broadcast appearances include; ABC Night News, CNBC, the BBC TV and the MacNeil/Lehr NewsHour.

Philippe Winthrop is the Founder and Managing Director of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, the organization behind The Enterprise Mobility Forum, the fastest growing content portal and social network exclusively dedicated to enterprise mobility. Philippe 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 also launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice at market research firm Aberdeen Group. 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.

Joanie Wexler is an independent editor who has spent 20+ years writing about computer networking technologies, their business potential and implementation considerations. Wireless communications is a primary area of focus, and she contributes a twice-weekly newsletter on enterprise wireless issues to Network World and twice-monthly feature articles on the changing telecom landscape to Voice Report. Joanie also serves clients at other industry publications and technology companies, writing educational papers and hosting Webinars that explain how technology can be applied to solve business problems. Before starting her own research and writing business in 1998, Ms. Wexler spent nearly a decade in senior editorial roles at International Data Group publications InfoWorld, Network World and Computerworld.

Sue has been editor-in-chief of FierceMarkets wireless group since joining the company in January 2007. In her current position, she oversees the editorial content of several FierceMarkets’ newsletters including FierceWireless, FierceMobileContent, FierceDeveloper, FierceWireless:Europe and FierceBroadbandWireless and provides editorial guidance for the publications’ websites, webinars and live events. Sue has more than 18 years of experience reporting on the telecom industry. Prior to joining FierceMarkets, she was the executive editor of Wireless Week. From 1999 to 2001, she worked as an analyst for Paul Kagan Associates, specializing in wireless and broadband technologies. She also was the managing editor of Convergence magazine, a monthly magazine for cable television, phone and wireless network operators.

Joe Sigrist is vice president and general manager for Video at Avaya. In this position, Joe plays a key role in expanding Avaya’s focus on video and business collaboration and oversees Avaya’s go-to-market strategy in support of this exciting and growing market.

Prior to joining Avaya, Joe was senior vice president and general manager at Polycom, Inc. He was most recently the senior leader of Polycom’s Video Solutions business, responsible for strategy, product development, product management and marketing for this industry-leading video conferencing and collaboration portfolio. Before that, he led Polycom’s Network Systems business unit.

Joe’s industry experience spans a range of key functions in a number of related industry companies. He has held roles of increasing scope at Octel Communications through it’s acquisition by Lucent Technologies when he became a director of Product Management in the Enterprise division. He subsequently joined Ascend Communications, becoming president and general manager of the Edge Access division, when that also became Lucent Technologies. Here, Joe led more than 1,200 employees and delivered 50 percent year-over-year growth. He was also responsible for driving Lucent’s VoIP strategy and became an officer of the corporation in 2000.

Before joining Polycom, Joe was president and CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Hammerhead Systems, a network equipment startup in the data services space, selling to worldwide service providers.

Joe earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the same institution.

Tom Puorro is a Director with the IP Communications Business Unit at Cisco, and has a broad range of experience in the high technology industry. Tom leads teams responsible for Cisco's Mid-Market and Enterprise telephony portfolios, including the newest collaboration end point, Cisco Cius, a mobile business tablet.

John Cash is an Enterprise Product Advocate based in Dallas, TX. In his role, Mr. Cash promotes the vision and value proposition behind BlackBerry’s award winning portfolio of enterprise mobility solutions. Mr. Cash has over 19 years of product management, sales, and enterprise IT leadership spanning multiple industry segments including manufacturing, financial services, and government/military. Prior to joining RIM in 2009, Mr. Cash worked for Nokia, overseeing early market sales of Nokia’s enterprise voice and mobility solution for the US. Other previous career assignments were with Capital One, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the US Army. Mr. Cash has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Liberty University.

With 20 years in high-tech communications, John Antanaitis is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Polycom. He leads a global marketing team responsible for worldwide product positioning, messaging, new product launches and events for Polycom products, solutions and services.

John joined Polycom in 2002 after spending five years in Marketing and General Management functions for Stanley Tool Works and Fortune Brands. Prior to that, John spent ten years with Motorola, working in various functional disciplines including Engineering, Operations and Marketing in the mobile phone industry.

John has a Masters of Management (MBA) with majors in Marketing and Operations Management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois.

Neil Diener is a Technical Leader in the CTO and Strategic Initiatives Office of Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit. At Cisco, Neil works on shaping Cisco's wireless technology and product strategies, with a focus on the areas of Spectrum Intelligence, new RF technologies, and video over Wi-Fi. Neil came to Cisco through the acquisition of Cognio, Inc. in 2007, where he was co-founder and CTO.

Before founding Cognio, he held a series of management level positions at companies including Direct Hit (acquired by Ask.com), Telogy Networks (acquired by Motorola), Sun Microsystems, and Xerox. Neil holds a BS Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MS Computer Engineering from USC. He has been issued 15 patents in the area of Wi-Fi and spectrum management.

Joel Vincent is the Director of Product Marketing at Meru Networks where he leads efforts in defining, driving, and evangelizing Meru's technology for voice over WLAN. Prior to his role at Meru Networks, he played instrumental roles in the founding of the INS EnterprisePRO (now Lucent Netcare) network management software product line. He also led product marketing and management teams for NETGEAR and Cisco Systems and CopperCom Inc. Joel has successfully brought over 60 products and services to market worldwide, garnering many awards ranging from Comdex best-in-show to a nomination for a ComputerWorld Smithsonian award. Joel has written about wireless VoIP for numerous publications including Internet Telephony, Telephony Online, Wireless Business Review, Converge Network Digest, Business Communications Review, and Wireless Systems Design. He holds a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Patrick has over 10 years of experience in the WLAN market. He is the Vice President of Engineering and is responsible for all engineering and development activities at Bluesocket, Inc. Patrick was instrumental in introducing virtual WLAN (vWLAN) into Bluesocket's product offering and continues to facilitate the expansion of the WLAN product line. He was a panelist in WLAN industry discussions at Interop 2010 and 802.11n Challenge 2010 and has provided expert input for multiple webinars promoting virtualization of WLAN.

Patrick's work experience includes General Electric, where he completed the corporation's renowned Technical Leadership Program and then became the leader of GE's Advanced Course technology program. He also worked at other networking companies including Hughes Network Systems, Seneca Networks, and 3eTI, all based in Maryland.

Devin Akin has over 10 years in the wireless LAN market and over 15 years in information technology, co-founding CWNP, the de facto standard for vendor-neutral Wi-Fi training and certification, and Peachtree Wireless Solutions, a vendor-specific training and services company. Devin served as CTO for both companies until 2009, authoring several exams, whitepapers, and courseware as the principal subject matter expert, and he served as the primary speaker, instructor, blogger, and consultant for CWNP. He regularly assisted a wide variety of Wi-Fi industry manufacturers with product and marketing strategy, quality assurance, and workforce education and regularly keynoted vendor summits and wireless user conferences. Devin's background includes working as a network design engineer for EarthLink, AT&T/BellSouth, Foundry Networks, and Sentinel Technologies as well as working as an RF engineer in the U.S. Army. He has authored and edited several books with Wiley-Sybex and McGraw-Hill and holds some of the industry's most esteemed certifications, including CWNE, MCNE, MCSE, CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, and INFOSEC. He is considered an authority on Wi-Fi technology.

Rad Sethuraman brings over 20 years of experience in product development and marketing to his current role of Sr. Director of Product Management, Wireless Network Solutions division of Motorola. In this role he leads the Product Management for Enterprise WLAN, AirDefense, TEAM Voice and Applications product lines. Prior to Motorola, he was responsible for bringing to market a variety of wireless LAN, networking and security products at other companies including Nortel, Alteon Websystems, and Intel. Rad has a MBA from University of California, Berkeley, and a MS in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University, SC.

Kevin McCauley is the Manager of Restaurant Network Engineering at Yum! Brands, Inc., the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with nearly 38,000 restaurants in over 110 countries and territories and more than 1 million associates. The Company’s brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. Kevin has over 20 years of IT focused restaurant technology experience, extending over all facets of above and in-restaurant systems, including the management of vendor services, contract negotiation and execution. His current focus being the delivery of private network services for both company and franchise domestic restaurants, including both wired and wireless networks.

Pat Zinno is Director of Infrastructure Services and Support for Atlantic Health - a large 2 hospital system in northern NJ. In this position, he is responsible for planning, acquiring and implementing technology as it pertains to data centers, servers, storage, networks, and telecommunications. Pat has extensive experience implementing and managing large scale technology projects in complex environments as well as significant experience negotiating and managing technology vendors. His primary focus is aligning the company’s back office technology environment to support and meet the business strategies of Atlantic Health.

George has over over 15 years in the IT field and has experience as a software developer, engineer and project manager in both K-12 and higher education environments. Most recently, he managed the deployment of a large district-wide wireless network and currently manages the daily operations of the WLAN for the School District of Philadelphia.

Michael Wiley has over fifteen years of experience as an Network Engineer/Architect (CCIE) and Technical Manager. Over the last 15 years, he was a senior Architect at Cisco Systems, Inc. supporting key accounts (Wal-Mart, American Express, etc.) and technical services director for a Cisco partner focused on voice, wireless, and managed services solutions. Currently Michael is responsible for the Global Enterprise Network Operation, Engineering, and Communication services at Google, Inc. Over his career, he has been involved in evangelizing emerging technologies such as QoS, IPv6, Wan Optimization, and Wireless.

Matthew Gast is the Director of Product Management at Aerohive Networks, where he leads development of the core software technologies in Aerohive's fully distributed Wi-Fi network system. He currently serves as chair of both the Wi-Fi Alliance's security task groups and the Wireless Network Management Marketing task group, and is the past chair of the IEEE 802.11 revision task group. Matthew is also the author of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly), which is now in its second edition and has been translated into six languages.

Bobby Guhasarkar is the senior director of product marketing at Aruba Networks. With more than 15 years of management, marketing and field experience in the networking industry, Guhasarkar brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Prior to joining Aruba, Guhasarkar held marketing leadership roles in two different business units at Juniper Networks where he orchestrated the launch of their Ethernet switching and data center security portfolios. Before Juniper, Guhasarkar held a number of senior-level product marketing and systems engineering positions at Cisco Systems, where he drove a number of key efforts, including the thought-leadership, vision and strategy for Cisco's data center networking and high-availability networking initiatives. Earlier in his career, Guhasarkar designed systems and networks for a number of high-profile New York City-based enterprises with systems integrator Exenet Technologies and served as a systems administrator at Merrill Lynch. Guhasarkar earned a Bachelors of Science degree in psychology from Brooklyn College of CUNY.

Jeff Abramowitz is president and CEO of PowerCloud™ Systems, leading the company’s overall corporate direction and strategy. Prior to founding PowerCloud™ in 2008, he was an entrepreneur in residence at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he conceived and led the PowerCloud™ project. Jeff is a leading visionary in the wireless-networking industry with more than 20 years of executive experience at Broadcom, 3Com Corporation, Azimuth Systems, Intersil and No Wires Needed. He also co-founded the Wi-Fi Alliance. He received a BSME from the University of Pennsylvania, an MSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Bob Friday is Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco where he drives strategic wireless initiatives for the aggressively growing WLAN business. Friday’s career has been focused on developing unlicensed wireless networking technology and products. He came to Cisco as the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Airespace. At Airespace, he introduced a centralized controller architecture for enterprise 802.11 wireless networks. Prior to Airespace, Bob was Chief Scientist at Metricom. Friday has been awarded 13 patents and holds a BSEE from Georgia Tech, and a MSEE in engineering from San Jose State University.

Kiren Sekar leads marketing efforts at Meraki, whose award-winning cloud networking platform is trusted by over 17,000 and has connected over 35 million clients. Meraki is backed by Google and Sequoia Capital. Prior to Meraki, Kiren has held leadership positions in a number of Silicon Valley startups, and was a software engineer at Apple, where he was responsible for Apple’s networking and collaboration platform. Kiren holds numerous patents for networking protocols and collaboration systems. Kiren received his degree in computer science from Stanford University. He is an avid skier, climber, and photographer. Kiren lives in San Francisco.

Mr. Marolia is currently the vice president of product management for Smith Micro Software in charge of the product strategy and roadmap for their wireless and mobility products.

A recognized thought leader on wireless and mobile issues, Mr. Marolia has spoken at several influential industry events including CTIA and IT Expo. He has co-authored several industry papers on operational challenges and best practices associated with the support of complex mobile devices including key contributions into industry standards bodies such as the Open Mobile Alliance, OTA Flash Forum, and the CDMA Development Group.

Prior to Smith Micro Software, Mr. Marolia lead the product management and marketing functions at Hewlett-Packard in their mobility solutions group. He also held the position of vice president of product marketing and pre-sales at Bitfone Corporation, where he pioneered in the market definition and technology strategy for over-the-air (OTA) device management solutions, including firmware update and remote diagnostics.

He holds a BSEE from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.

Todd DeLaughter is the President and CEO of Mformation Technologies. Prior to Mformation, he served as President and CEO of Opalis Software Inc., a market-leading independent IT Process Automation software vendor. At Opalis, DeLaughter was responsible for the strategy and operational execution that drove rapid growth for the company in the cloud computing market, which resulted in the successful acquisition of Opalis by Microsoft.

Prior to Opalis, DeLaughter served as the Vice President and General Manager of the OpenView Business Unit at HP where he held full P&L responsibility including strategy and business planning, acquisitions, marketing and research and development. During his four-year tenure, OpenView grew at twice the market rate, doubling in size to over $1Bn. Before joining HP via acquisition, he spent 18 years with Compaq leading and working in software groups. In his last role with Compaq, he spent four years living in France where he led Compaq's telecom OSS business, which became a product group under OpenView.

DeLaughter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston.

Eric is responsible for ProfitLine’s technology vision, strategy, methodology, engineering and delivery teams. His expertise is the development and application of easy to use, scalable, secure technologies that are designed to grow with the enterprise. These include software development, systems integration, infrastructure management, data and systems security, and technology consulting. Eric is a member of the Center for Telecom Environment Management Standards (CTEMS) Industry Board of Directors.

With over 25 years of experience in global technology strategy, development, and management, Eric’s background combines the solid fundamentals of large enterprises with the entrepreneurial spirit of industry innovators. He began his career at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering, and technology applications company. Prior to joining ProfitLine, Eric was CIO/CTO for Brahma Holdings, LLC where he established the technology vision for innovative business models that created scale advantages for insurance companies. Eric was also Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Advanced Marketing Services, Inc. (AMS) where he was responsible for all global information technology activities and an early pioneer in e-books and digital media.

John Marshall, who founded AirWatch in 2003, serves as president and CEO, where he drives the company’s strategy and operations. Under Marshall’s leadership, AirWatch’s customer base has grown to over 1,000 customers in the distribution, field service, financial services, government, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing and retail industries.

Prior to founding Wandering WiFi, Mr. Marshall helped launch Celarix, a leader in global supply chain visibility. As vice president, marketing strategy for Celarix, Marshall was responsible for designing the company’s product solutions and developing the go-to-market strategy. Mr. Marshall also led business development activities with technology and transportation partners in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Celarix was acquired in 2002 by Global Exchange Systems, formerly GE Information Systems.

Prior to joining Celarix, Marshall worked in a variety of senior roles at Manhattan Associates during its fast-paced growth of the late1990s. Marshall led the design and deployment of warehousing and supply chain solutions for over 30 Fortune 500 retailers and manufacturers, developed the Knowledge Management Group, helped launch international operations in the UK and mainland Europe, and designed software modules relating to transportation, load planning and global logistics.

Marshall received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Dave Borison is Vice President of Marketing for Ralink Technology Corporation, a leading developer of high performance wired and wireless networking solutions. Before joining Ralink, Dave was Director of Product Management at Airgo Networks (acquired by Qualcomm), where he managed 802.11n Wi-Fi chipsets, reference designs, and software solutions. Prior to Airgo, Dave also held Product Management positions at Atheros Communications where he was responsible for the company’s 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi solutions, and at 3Com Corporation where he managed Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet products. Dave also spent several years with EMC Corporation in Manufacturing Engineering and Production Management positions, as well as a number of years with Andersen Consulting providing information systems consulting services. Dave holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Matthew Gast is the Director of Product Management at Aerohive Networks, where he leads development of the core software technologies in Aerohive's fully distributed Wi-Fi network system. He currently serves as chair of both the Wi-Fi Alliance's security task groups and the Wireless Network Management Marketing task group, and is the past chair of the IEEE 802.11 revision task group. Matthew is also the author of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly), which is now in its second edition and has been translated into six languages.

Srini Rao is a technology leader in broadband wireless and multimedia communications with more than 17 years of industry experience spanning research, development, standards and strategy.

Dr. Rao is currently a Fellow of the Technical Staff at Motorola Solutions, working on the evolution of public safety networks to LTE. He previously worked at Motorola as Director of Strategy and Architecture and earlier at Winphoria Networks and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He contributed to 3G wireless standards as a working group Vice-Chair and Technical Editor of specifications in 3GPP2 and CDG. He was one of the architects of Advances to IMS (A-IMS) initiative by Verizon Wireless in 2006.

Dr. Rao received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, and Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of Executive Committee and Planning Board of the Boston Chapter of IEEE Communications Society.

An accomplished high-tech executive, Atul Bhatnagar is responsible for Ixia's day-to-day operations and is intimately involved with strategy and long-term business planning. Atul brings more than 20 years of experience in the computing and communications industry. Most recently, Atul led product development at a leading mobile to mobile convergence startup, DiVitas Networks, focusing on WiFi and Cellular seamless convergence. Prior to that, Atul served as vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Data Networks Division of Nortel. At Nortel, Atul's business unit was responsible for the design and marketing of a full range of Ethernet switches, security solutions, WLAN mobility solutions, Metro Ethernet technologies and enterprise routers. Atul came to Nortel through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems in October 2000, where he was vice president of Advanced WebSwitching Products, creating next generation WebSwitches and security acceleration products. Prior to joining Alteon Web Systems, Atul worked at Hewlett-Packard for almost 15 years where he held several general management assignments in North America and Asia. He led the creation of OSS and BSS solutions for Wireless Service Providers based on HP's OpenView Architecture. His team was also responsible for HP-UX networking services for all HP-UX based workstations and minicomputers.

Mr. Bhatnagar holds a MSEE from the University of New Mexico and a BSEE from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

Sean Ginevan is a Solutions Architect at MobileIron. He is responsible for developing enterprise mobility solutions with technology partners along with enabling sales and go-to-market partners through technical marketing collateral and training.
MobileIron allows enterprises to secure mobile devices, automate provisioning and management tasks, and innovate through mobile applications. The company was selected as both a Gartner Cool Vendor and Network World Startup to Watch. Previous to MobileIron, Sean held marketing, editorial and engineering roles with Cisco Systems, CMP Media, AOL and NIST. Sean holds a Masters of Science in Information Management and a Bachelor of Science in Information Management and Technology, both from Syracuse University.

As an Industry Analyst in Frost & Sullivan’s Mobile & Wireless Communications Group, Mr. Todd Day researches and analyzes emerging, next generation wireless technologies & applications that enable the mobile Internet revolution. The scope of his work deals with all aspects of the mobile value chain; from delivery infrastructure and communication management, to end user content and applications.
Since joining Frost & Sullivan in November 2006, Day has completed numerous consulting projects and research studies on the following: U.S. Mobile Operator Profiles, Next-Generation Wireless Network Technologies, North American Smartphones Market, Optimizing Backhaul for Wireless Carriers, Application Storefronts Market, white papers on Mobile Application Development and Mobile Search, The Android Ecosystem, and assisted on several other private consulting projects relating to applications, smartphones, and M2M markets.

Prior to this, Day was a Network Engineer for a triple play provider in Texas where he worked with numerous network technologies including: Fiber, HFC, SS7, RF, ATM, TDM, and VoIP. He brings with him a strong technical background, along with real-world experience of various network technologies.

Christian serves Infrastructure & Operations professionals and helps Forrester clients develop and improve their desktop and mobile strategy. His research spans mobile hardware, mobile operating systems, mobile device management solutions, and mobile applications. Prior to his current role as a researcher, Christian was a senior research associate on Forrester's infrastructure and operations team. He interviewed hundreds of I&O professionals, desktop operators, and technology vendors while conducting primary and secondary research for research reports and consulting engagements. Christian graduated from Boston University with a degree in international relations focused in economics.