Interop Business Technology Conference

Steven Shalita has more than 20 years of industry and technology experience across service provider and enterprise markets with a strong background in enterprise networking, MPLS, and IP transformation projects. His wide range of experience includes service management and assurance to service delivery architecture including data center, LAN/WAN, core, edge and metro technologies as well as leading initiatives targeting convergence, mobility, triple-play and business services carrier environments. Mr. Shalita has held senior marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, HP and Cisco. He returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing from 1997 through 1999.

John Engates joined Rackspace in August 2000, just a year after the company was founded, as Vice President of Operations, managing the datacenter operations and customer-service teams. Two years later, when Rackspace decided to add new services for larger enterprise customers, John created and helped develop the Intensive Hosting business unit

Most recently, John has played an active role in the evolution and evangelism of RackspaceÕs cloud-computing strategy and cloud products. John meets frequently with customers to hear about their needs and concerns, and to discuss RackspaceÕs vision for the future of cloud computing. John currently serves as Chief Technology Officer.

John is also an internationally recognized cloud computing expert and a sought-after speaker at technology conferences, including CA World, the Goldman Sachs Techtonics Conference and Cloud Expo. He speaks on the future of cloud computing, enterprise cloud adoption, data center efficiency, green data center best practices, and more.

Prior to joining Rackspace, John was a founder and General Manager at Internet Direct, one of the original Internet service providers in Texas.

John is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio and holds a B.B.A. in Accounting.

Ellen Rubin is responsible for Terremark’s cloud product management and cloud portfolio strategy. Rubin was the co-founder of CloudSwitch, a leading cloud enablement software company acquired by Verizon in August 2011. Rubin is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in founding innovative technology companies and leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market.

Prior to CloudSwitch, Rubin was vice president of Marketing at Netezza, the pioneer and global leader in data warehouse appliances that power business intelligence and analytics at over 200 enterprises worldwide. As a member of the early management team at Netezza, she helped grow the company to over $125 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Rubin defined and created broad market acceptance of a new category, "data warehouse appliances," and led market strategy, product marketing, complementary technology relationships and marketing communications.

Prior to joining Netezza, Rubin founded Manna, an Israeli and Boston-based developer of real-time personalization software. She played a key role in raising over $18 million in venture financing from leading US and Israeli venture capital firms, recruiting the US-based management team and defining product and market strategy.

Rubin began her career as a marketing strategy consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Harvard College.

Don Krueger is a fifteen- year veteran of consulting and has more than twenty years of experience in IT. Since becoming a consultant, Don has written a variety architectural designs for companies ranging in size from small shops to dozens of fortune 100 enterprises. Throughout his career, Don has focused on server-based technologies and is an expert in technologies from Microsoft, Citrix, HP, Dell, Cisco, and VMware. For the last seven years, Don’s primary focus has been in server virtualization, and in the last two years he has narrowed his focus to VDI. Since then, Don has been involved as a principal consultant with a wide variety of projects and has successfully developed VDI strategies for some of the largest companies in the world.

Technology Expertise:

• XenDesktop XenApp/XenDesktop and application virtualization
• VMware vSphere

Certifications, Publications, and Patents Held:

• VMware VCP

Mr. Pejman Roshan is the Vice President for Mobility at ShoreTel. Prior to ShoreTel’s acquisition of Agito Networks, Mr. Roshan was the Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of Agito Networks. He brings more than 16 years of wireless expertise and an extensive track record to the company.

Prior to founding Agito, Mr. Roshan was Product Line Manager in the Cisco Systems Wireless Networking Business Unit, responsible for software, security, voice and WLAN management products. Roshan joined Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit just after its acquisition of Aironet in 2000, helping drive Cisco into its wireless market leadership position.

Prior to his product role at Cisco, Mr. Roshan spent eight years as a network engineer and architect. Mr. Roshan designed and deployed large-scale networks for companies such as Cisco Systems and Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

Mr. Roshan’s accomplishments include participation in the IEEE 802.11 task groups responsible for security (802.11i) and QoS (802.11e); co-authoring the Cisco Press book ‘802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals’, published by Cisco Press in 2004; as well as publishing numerous wireless security and wireless voice white papers.

Mr. Roshan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) University.

Dr. Jachner brings more than 20 years of telecommunications industry experience to his current focus on Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch business in North America. Jack has served in a variety of roles at Alcatel-Lucent, including in operational management, in Research and Innovation, and in the CTO. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, and a Master of Science in and Doctor of Science from MIT.

Jack holds a number of patents in the area of communication applications.

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.

Neil Cohen is Akamai’s Vice President of Global Product Marketing where he develops the go-to-market strategy for application performance, site optimization, web security and digital media 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 a regular speaker and contributor for a variety of cloud computing 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.

Before co-founding Talari Networks, John Dickey was senior director of software engineering at Applied Microcircuits (AMCC), where he led the architecture, design and development of switching and routing protocol software implementations for embedded systems. He was founding chair of the Network Processing Forum industry standards organization's Software Working Group and holds patents in multiple areas of networking technology. Prior to AMCC/MMC, Dickey was distinguished as an advisory engineer at IBM, where he held a variety of technical and managerial positions. Dickey graduated cum laude with a computer science degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Rolf de Vegt currently serves as the Chairman of the VHT5G Marketing Taskgroup at the Wi-Fi Alliance, the group that is developing the requirements and interoperability certification program for devices that implement the 802.11ac standard. Mr. de Vegt led a group in the Wi-Fi Alliance that created a series of submissions covering Use Cases and requirements for Gbps wireless communication.

Mr. de Vegt is a Senior Director in the Technology office for the Qualcomm Atheros Division in Qualcomm, where he is responsible for Qualcomm’s involvement in IEEE802.11 and overall standards coordination across the QCA portfolio of Connectivity Technologies.

After earning a Masters Degree from Twente University in the Netherlands, Mr. de Vegt entered a career in Management Consulting in the High Tech and Telecommunications Industry. In 2001, he Co-Founded Airgo Networks Inc. a start-up company based in Palo Alto CA; the first company to successfully commercialize MIMO technology for the WLAN market. Airgo was acquired by Qualcomm, in December 2006.

As Wilocity's Vice President of Marketing, Mark leads the company's global marketing, product definition, strategic alliances and marketing communication for the company's introduction of groundbreaking wireless technologies to consumers and businesses. With a background in both engineering and marketing management, Mark has spent the past decade immersed in the wireless networking industry and has played leadership roles in guiding Wi-Fi development through his participation on several industry boards and standards bodies. Mark currently serves as the Marketing Chairman and Board Member for the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, which was formed to establish a unified specification for 60 GHz wireless technology. Mark is also the Chair of Wi-Fi Alliance's 60 GHz Gigabit Wireless Marketing Task Group. Prior to that, Mark was the Chairman of the Enhanced Wireless Consortium and of the Wi-Fi Alliance (TGn) Marketing Task Group.

Mark joined Wilocity from Intel, where he led the product definition and marketing activities for Intel's line of 802.11n Wi-Fi products, for the Centrino mobile technology platform. Previously, he was a Product Line Manager at Mobilian, a start-up company making Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chipsets and software; Mobilian was acquired by Intel in late 2003. Mark holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from the Harvard Business School.

Michael Montemurro is the Technical Director responsible for WLAN Architecture at Research in Motion. He is a currently the chair of the Hotspot 2.0 Marketing Task Group in the Wi-Fi Alliance, which is responsible for defining a certification program for next generation Wi-Fi Hotspots. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Toronto. His professional experience includes architecture and design of wireless data and networking solutions using RF technologies such as 802.11 and Bluetooth, as well as extensive knowledge of IP networking over a variety of network technologies.

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.

Andrew Borg is Senior Research Analyst and practice lead in Wireless & Mobility for Aberdeen Group. He is focused on identifying the enablers and friction points in the adoption of wireless and mobility technologies within the enterprise, and in the markets those enterprises serve. His particular interest is in documenting the behavioral and procedural adaptations that the most successful companies within an industry have made; and then in disseminating those best practices for a broader audience to benefit from. Topics from his most recent research agenda range from enterprise mobility management and multi-site wireless LANs, to emerging mobile platforms and wireless network technologies, mobile application delivery, mobile collaboration and video, and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications.

Andrew has more than 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. He served as Vice President of Marketing at Vaultus Mobile Technologies, Inc., and Managing Director, Next Generation Services, then Vice President, Knowledge Resources for RoweCom. Prior to RoweCom, he was Vice President Worldwide, Marketing & Sales, for Trident International, and Director of Corporate Communications Worldwide for Electronics for Imaging, Inc. He holds a Masters Degree from the New York Institute of Technology and a Bachelors from Harvard University.

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.

Glenn Wilson is a Product Manager at Google, overseeing development of Chromebooks for Business and Education and Chrome for Business. While at Google, he also helped launch the Chrome browser and Chrome Frame. Prior to Google, he designed and built XML-based SOA web services. Glenn holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he studied at the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). He also holds a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

John Burke is a Principal Research Analyst with Nemertes Research, where he advises key enterprise and vendor clients, conducts and analyzes primary research, and writes thought-leadership pieces across a wide variety of topics. John leads research on virtual enterprise, focusing primarily on the virtual and mobile desktop, Application Delivery Optimization (ADO), and management and orchestration tools for the virtualized data center and the cloud. He also covers security related to all these topics, as well as server and storage virtualization, network and application performance management and monitoring, branch office IT, and SOA.

As research analyst and consultant, John draws on his past experience as a practitioner and director of IT to better understand the needs of IT executives and the challenges facing vendors trying to sell to them. His experience has given him broad and deep knowledge in computing, communications, and IT management.

John’s experience centers around high-level IT management positions in higher education. He directed the staff in the voice and data network, desktop support, and systems management groups at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul). John also worked in IT management and systems and network administration posts at The College of St. Catherine (St. Paul). He has experience in the application of technology at The Johns Hopkins University, where he supported the engineering faculty in its use of IT in research and teaching.

Phil Montgomery runs Product Management for the rapidly growing VMware Desktop Virtualization business, including VMware View, Thinapp, Fusion and Workstation. Phil’s background includes a focus on end user technologies, mobile, networking and security. He sold his software startup, Netoria, to Novell in 1999.

Roberto De La Mora marketing responsibilities include the solutions related to Voice and Video Communications, VoIP Infrastructure, IP Endpoints, Cloud Collaboration and Desktop Virtualization.

In this capacity Mr. De La Mora provides guidance and strategic direction for WW field marketing teams and business units, and supports the sales organization by defining the value proposition of the solutions under his charter, as well as the competitive and market positioning for them. His team develops the programs and initiatives required to successfully execute on the strategy, ensure the alignment of the channels, sales, technical operations and support teams, serves as a liaison between Cisco’s Business Units and customers and sales teams.

Mr. De La Mora holds an MBA from the Instituto Mexico-Aleman de Capacitacion Industrial y Comercial in Mexico City, Mexico, with post-graduate diplomas in Production & Materials Management, Sales Management and Industrial Finance and Accounting. He graduated with honors as a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the UNIVA, in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Oded serves as Sr. Director of Product Management at Blue Jeans Network. Prior to joining Blue Jeans, Oded was the head of the video team at Webex Cisco where he was responsible for developing video technologies used in Webex Meeting Center and Jabber. Oded was also in charge of Webex integration with Cisco's Unified Communications and Telepresence.

Prior to Cisco, Oded was Director of Business Development for Radvision, where he managed the integrated solution between Microsoft Office business applications (such as LiveMeeting, Live Communications Server and Outlook) and Radvision’s Click-to-Meet collaboration software. The solution was named “Best of Tech Ed 2005” and awarded “2005 Product of the Year” by Internet Telephony Magazine.

Oded obtained his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Simon Dudley is a technology executive and dynamic presenter with over 20 years of experience in high-tech industries with a key focus on visual communications. Throughout his career, Dudley has been a passionate advocate for technology that changes the way people communicate and solutions that deliver tangible business results. Dudley’s background includes developing programs to educate and inspire the global workforce, identifying emerging industries and markets, sales, management of top talent, marketing and financial operations. Dudley is a passionate technologist who thrives on driving revolutionary change and has proven that challenging the norm helps an organization create competitive differentiators. As an agent of innovation himself, Dudley holds design patents of intellectual property for his participation in the invention and design of three video collaboration products.

In his role as Video Evangelist, Dudley is the spokesperson for LifeSize and evangelizes how video communications can help companies bolster their employee collaboration across the office or across continents while accelerating business success and productivity. Over his nine years at LifeSize, Dudley has held several roles in product management, sales, channel development and strategy. Prior to joining LifeSize, Dudley held a number of senior management positions in high-tech industries.

With more than 20 years of high-tech marketing experience, Marty specializes in developing lasting strategic assets through creative market development. Previously, Marty served as Vice President of Marketing at Cemaphore Systems, Latitude Communications (later acquired by Cisco) and ProactiveNet (later acquired by BMC). He also founded CollectiveSpace and IntelliCorp, where he played a variety of executive roles. Marty has also held senior level positions at Silicon Graphics and Storm Technology. Marty earned an MBA from Stanford University as well as an MS from Carnegie-Mellon University.

In his current role, Mr. Skillicorn is responsible for:

• Analyzing current and anticipating future video collaboration technology and market trends.
• Anticipating and building services and services capabilities to support business transformation and value with Cisco’s customers.
• Building delivery and sales readiness for video applications and Technologies.

Recently, Mr. Skillicorn was executive responsible integrating Cisco and Tandberg’s services organizations and is responsible for the combined and integrated portfolio.

Mr. Skillicorn’s expertise and experience spans both network and video application technologies, technology lifecycles, and the methodologies to achieve business transformation across an enterprise.

Vijay Kanchi is a competency partner with EMC Consulting in the area of Service Provider Cloud and Information management strategies and solutions that focuses on communications, media and entertainment industries. Mr. Kanchi, who has 18 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, focuses on ways service providers can monetize the Cloud technologies by defining compelling service offers. Mr. Kanchi has worked with major service providers to develop customer-centric business solutions and personalization strategies. Mr. Kanchi has a developed leading edge concepts to apply customer focused approach to personalization. He has been also been instrumental in defining and designing the concepts and developing them into fully-fledged production systems, along with supporting operational processes and organizational structure. Mr Kanchi has additionally developed integration approaches for personalization across customer self-service, retail kiosks, point of sales & customer care systems. Mr Kanchi has had an impact on customer facing systems, BSS/OSS architectures, application implementation and integration for wireline, wireless and broadband communications service providers worldwide.

Joe Weinman is responsible for leading Telx’s fast-growing cloud services business development and strategy. He joined Telx® with over 30 years of experience in executive leadership positions at AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, and Bell Laboratories, in areas such as corporate strategy, business development, product management, operations, and R&D.
Named a “Top 10 Cloud Computing Leader” by TechTarget, Weinman is a frequent keynote speaker, blogger and the founder of Cloudonomics, a rigorous, multidisciplinary analytical approach leveraging economics, behavioral economics, statistics, calculus, computational complexity theory, simulation, and system dynamics to characterize the sometimes counter-intuitive multi-dimensional business, financial, and user experience benefits of cloud computing and other on-demand, pay-per-use business models. He is the author ofCloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, available from John Wiley & Sons in summer, 2012.

Marc Hayden is CHR Solutions’ Executive Vice President, Client Services Business Unit. Mr. Hayden manages and directs the team responsible for helping CHR’s clients succeed through innovative outsourced business operations and services. These services include billing operations, CABS processing, bill fulfillment, managing their IT and Telecom networks, cloud services and more. Mr. Hayden joined CHR in January, 2010 as Vice President of Managed Services. Prior to CHR, Marc was the Managing Partner of Force Multiplier International, a global consulting company focused on strategic planning and market development. He brings over 20 years of commercial and military communications experience having held domestic and international sales and management positions with premier telecommunications companies including Redknee, Harris Corporation, Openet Telecommunications, Inc. and ADC Telecommunications, Inc. Mr. Hayden graduated with honors in Middle Eastern Studies from the Defense Language Institute and is a United States Marine Corps veteran. He received his MBA in International Business and Entrepreneurship from Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business and serves on the Board of Directors of the Healthy Start Coalition of Brevard County, Florida.

Rakesh Saha is Director of Product Management for System Networking in the Systems & Technology Group at IBM. Rakesh leads product management including strategy and roadmap of advanced networking technologies for IBM System Networking, where he is leading SDN (Software Defined Networking), including IBM's OpenFlow product offerings, Network Virtualization, Cloud Networking and Data Center Convergence products. He has over 15 years of experience in product management, research, design and development of networks and systems. At BLADE Network Technologies (BNT), which was acquired by IBM in 2010, Rakesh served as lead architect and R&D manager for BLADE virtualization and convergence portfolio, delivering industry firsts including the first virtualization-aware switch, the first FCoE converged networking solution. Prior to IBM Rakesh held various senior product management, technical and management roles at BNT and Hewlett-Packard. Rakesh has patents awarded and pending in system networking and virtualization.

Isabelle Guis is responsible for outbound marketing at Big Switch Networks and is the Chair of the Market Education committee at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF).

She has extensive global experience spanning several networking companies where she held a variety of positions from R&D to product management and marketing for both enterprise and service provider market segments. Prior to joining Big Switch Networks, she was the General Manager of Avaya’s Small and Medium Enterprise Communications Business Unit with worldwide responsibilities for product design, development, marketing and indirect sales. At Cisco, she was instrumental in the post-acquisition integration of the WLAN start-up Airespace with Cisco Go-To-Market and also led several Mobile Vertical Solutions from design and testing to launch.

Isabelle holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Supelec in France and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Frank is responsible for marketing at Cyan. Frank has a diverse professional background ranging from engineering to product management, marketing, sales, business development, general management and executive management for companies including Nortel, AT&T / Paradyne and Calix. Prior to Cyan, Frank ran product development for Calix – leading product strategy, engineering and product management. Prior to this role, Frank founded their field marketing team, wrote the company publication The Book on Video and was the lead author of The Book on Network Transformation. His initial role with the company was leading business development, where he founded the CalixCompatible partnership program. Previously, Frank lead marketing, product strategy, product management, engineering and sales teams for Paradyne Corp. and AT&T Paradyne. He started his career as a network engineer supporting fiber transmission systems for Nortel Networks. Frank holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida.

As Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Telx, Shepcaro is responsible for leading and directing the strategy, growth and operations of the company. Focusing on network centric companies, Shepcaro has expanded the company to 17 locations nationwide, and Telx has landed on the Inc. 5000 list two years in a row with year-over-year revenue growth in excess of 40%. Under his leadership, Telx has become the company of choice for interconnection and network-rich colocation services. Because of his leadership accomplishments, Eric was a finalist for the 2011 Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award.

Shepcaro joined Telx with over 25 years of experience working in the Network/IT industries in both public and startup companies.

Barry Dykes has more than 20 years of Internet industry experience. As VP of Engineering/Operations for ViaWest, he is responsible for all networking and security functions. Dykes has developed and implemented firewall, VPN, load-balancing, routing and switching products for ViaWest customers and oversees all backbone and data center design (internal, complex-customers, and production). He successfully guided the ViaWest backbone through 4 major overhauls, ensuring the stability and scalability of the infrastructure that connects ViaWest, its customers and the Internet together. This was done with no measurable impact to customers through each phase.

Barry previously held positions with Qwest, Genuity and MCI. With Qwest, he defined and developed their Cyber-Centers as well as a comprehensive Network-based VPN offering that utilized IPSec and other protocols. He worked with various vendors to develop methods of address conservation (VLAN-aggregation RFC 3069 and VPN ID’s utilized by a number of Network-based VPN vendors).

During his tenure with Genuity Inc, a leading Tier 1 Internet Service Provider, he performed as Senior Network Architect and played an intricate role in the design and implementation of their Wide Area Network and defined policies, including IGP and BGP.

Barry was key to the building of InternetMCI’s first Internet Network Operations Center during his employment with MCI. He provided both training and expert troubleshooting of complex networking issues as well as monitored, troubleshot and restored both customer and backbone circuits in bandwidths from Fractional T1’s to Optical Carriers.

Erica Schroeder is responsible for global marketing of Cisco’s portfolio of video endpoints, infrastructure and medianet architecture. Earlier, Erica led worldwide marketing for Cisco TelePresence, marketing for the acquisition of Tandberg, and the global launch of several other emerging video technologies. She draws on years of experience as the West Coast Bureau Chief, columnist and editor for PC Week, covering networking, telecommunications, digital media and video, enterprise applications and data center technologies, and is a frequent speaker about business video technologies and collaboration. She holds a B.A. from Duke University.

Laura Shay is Sr. Director of Group Product Marketing for the Global Solutions Group at Polycom. Shay has been with Polycom for seven years. Prior to Polycom, she was the director of marketing for VCON, Inc. and a product manager at VTEL.

Shay has more than 14 years of experience in marketing and product management roles in the video conferencing industry. She holds a double degree in International Business and Management from the University of Texas at Austin and currently resides in Austin.

Greg Zweig is the Director of Corporate Marketing for VBrick Systems. His primary role is to managing the company’s outreach to prospects, customers and Partners. In addition, Greg enjoys keeping a direct hand in the technology by serving as the Product Manager for VBrick’s Distributed Media Engine. Greg has over 20 years of experience in communications, starting his career at AT&T/Lucent technologies before working on IP-PBXs at NBX Corp and later 3Com, when they acquired NBX. Prior to VBrick, Greg spent several years in the carrier space supporting hosted UC solutions.

Simon Dudley is a technology executive and dynamic presenter with over 20 years of experience in high-tech industries with a key focus on visual communications. Throughout his career, Dudley has been a passionate advocate for technology that changes the way people communicate and solutions that deliver tangible business results. Dudley’s background includes developing programs to educate and inspire the global workforce, identifying emerging industries and markets, sales, management of top talent, marketing and financial operations. Dudley is a passionate technologist who thrives on driving revolutionary change and has proven that challenging the norm helps an organization create competitive differentiators. As an agent of innovation himself, Dudley holds design patents of intellectual property for his participation in the invention and design of three video collaboration products.

In his role as Video Evangelist, Dudley is the spokesperson for LifeSize and evangelizes how video communications can help companies bolster their employee collaboration across the office or across continents while accelerating business success and productivity. Over his nine years at LifeSize, Dudley has held several roles in product management, sales, channel development and strategy. Prior to joining LifeSize, Dudley held a number of senior management positions in high-tech industries.

Alan Dabbiere is the chairman of AirWatch, a leader in enterprise-wide mobile device and WLAN management solutions, having joined the company in 2006.

In 1990, Dabbiere founded Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ:MANH), the world’s leading supply-chain execution software company, and he served as president and CEO from 1990 through the end of 1999. Following the company’s successful initial public offering in 1998, Dabbiere was Manhattan Associates’ chairman of the board of directors through 2003. Today, Manhattan Associates is a global company with over 1200 customers, 2000 employees and more than $337 million in revenue.

In 2001 and 2002, FORTUNE magazine included Manhattan Associates in their annual list of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. with the rank of 23 and 71 respectively. In 2005, Cape Horn Strategies honored Manhattan Associates as one of only three public software companies—Microsoft and Kronos were the other two companies cited—with 15 years of consecutive profitability and growth.

Dabbiere currently serves on the executive leadership committee for the Washington, D.C. chapter of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), on the Foundation Board for Inova Health Systems and on the Advisory Board of Georgia Tech’s College of Computing.

Dabbiere received both his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and his MBA from Indiana University.

Dan Dearing is Vice President of Marketing at Enterproid Inc. With 20+ years of industry experience, Dan has most recently held executive marketing roles at BoxTone, Trust Digital and NexTone, where he helped create new product categories that changed how carriers and mobile IT connect networks and people. At Trust Digital and BoxTone, he helped create and promote Enterprise Mobility Management, which is enabling enterprise IT to mobilize their workforce. While at NexTone he created marketing, product, and partnership strategies that differentiated the company as a leading supplier of VoIP Session Border Controllers for carriers, service providers, and enterprises.

Dan earned a BS in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University and an MS in Computer Science and Applications from Virginia Tech.

Purnima Kochikar leads a team within Nokia’s smart devices unit focused on providing business productivity solutions to Nokia’s business customers. Working closely with Nokia’s platform partner, Microsoft, Purnima leads the business strategy and execution across the Nokia Lumia smartphone portfolio.
Previous, Purnima served as Vice President for Nokia’s Developer organization where she was responsible for strategy and growth opportunities with Nokia’s third party developers to create a vibrant Nokia ecosystem.

She joined Nokia in 2003 as Senior Product Manager for Multimedia Solutions in Nokia mobile phones, strategy and business development position in business mobility and security, before taking on her current role. At Nokia, Purnima has been recognized for her contributions to the mobile middleware and data mobilization business.

Before joining Nokia, Purnima led Product Marketing for Watercove Networks, a venture funded startup acquired by Alcatel. Prior to Watercove, she held various technical and engineering management positions at Verizon, where she received two achievement awards for her contributions. Before Verizon, Purnima founded and managed a computer services business in India, and grew the business from 5 to 500 students and tripled revenues each year for three years.

Purnima earned a MBA with honors from Harvard Business School and an MS in Computer Science from University of Maryland, where she was initiated into the Phi Kappa Phi and the Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor societies. In her spare time, Purnima serves as an advisor to technical startups, and volunteers at non-profit institutions focused on K-12 education.

For the past 10 years, Brian has been focused on “mobilizing the enterprise” -- working with large IT shops, technology companies & service providers to transform & mobilize the workforce through innovative technology & industry best practices. As BoxTone’s Chief Product Officer, Brian Reed brings more than 20 years of experience, overseeing strategic direction, product portfolio & go-to-market.
Brian is a frequent writer & speaker at industry events including mobility, security & policy management, IT service management, business/IT optimization & startups. Brian has held leadership & advisory roles at Cesura, Brabeion, BottomLine, FormScape, Progress, MERANT, MicroFocus, INTERSOLV & DataDirect.

Custie Crampton is a specialist in mobile device management product development with a long history in making sure the mobility challenges faced by enterprises today are addressed in the MDM product development process. As VP of MDM Development for Tangoe, Custie is responsible for steering the development of original products and determining the architecture for enterprise business solutions. With experience in all stages of the enterprise wireless/mobile lifecycle, he has helped companies take on their mobile workforce initiatives with trust and high ROI. Custie has been on Research in Motion's (RIM) ISV technical roundtable to help give guidance into the direction of the Blackberry Enterprise Server platform and has worked with RIM on the strategy around Hosted Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES).

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.