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Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.

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.

Opher Dubrovsky serves as AVP Product Marketing at Crescendo Networks where he drives the roadmap and global go-to-market strategies for the AppBeat ADC product line. For the last 15 years, Opher has been driving product activities in a variety of companies ranging from startups to large multinationals. Having spent years at Microsoft, Opher has enhanced his expertise in networking, security, virtualization and interactive television. Opher is the co-author of 4 security and acceleration patents and 3 scientific articles. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion, Israel.

Mark Weiner is Director of Market Management for Data Center Solutions at Cisco Systems, focusing on Cisco application delivery technologies. Previously, Weiner was Vice President of Marketing at NetDevices, a startup focused on next generation branch networking products, and Vice President of Marketing at NetScaler, a pioneer in application delivery products that was acquired by Citrix Systems. Earlier in his career, Weiner spent several years in the telecommunications sector, serving as Vice President of Marketing at Redback Networks and Director of Marketing at Juniper Networks. Weiner began his career in the networking market with management roles at early industry leaders Bay Networks and Ungermann-Bass. Mr. Weiner has a Masters in Business Administration Degree from Santa Clara University, where he is an advisory board member, and a Bachelors of Science Degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application delivery services. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning this line of managed services towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as web-enabled business processes, software-as-a-service, cloud computing, virtualization and service oriented architectures. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.  

Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives.  Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi.  He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. 

Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives.  Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi.  He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. 

As part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks Initiative, Shashi Kiran heads the Enterprise Routing and WAN Optimization Marketing team for the Network Systems and Security group at Cisco. In this position he is 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 various roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing, Business Development, Sales and Network Engineering focusing on areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he has worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Dept.of Electronics, India). He also was an honorary consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine, Indian edition from 1997-2001. To propagate Network awareness in the 1990s, he devised India’s first e-mail based course on Internetworking that was subsequently syndicated in leading IT magazines. Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and routing areas and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration in addition to a few industry certifications.

Mark McReynolds, MCSE, CISSP is a Principal Technology Specialist with Microsoft.   Mark has 15 years of industry experience and ten years of experience working with Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft’s Enterprise Product Group delivery Windows Server based solutions.    For the past five years Mark has focused on virtualization technologies and has worked extensively with Microsoft’s enterprise customers delivering server and client based virtualization solutions.   In addition to his technical work, Mark speaks at dozens of customer, partner and industry events each year, including the recent Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 product launch.

Randy Rowland is responsible for the managed hosting business unit for Terremark. As part of his role, Mr. Rowland oversees the operation of Terremark’s Infinistructure™ and The Enterprise Cloud utility computing product offerings.  Mr. Rowland has more than 14 years of experience in the IT services industry, including eight years with Data Return, where he was most recently responsible for product development.  Prior to that, Mr. Rowland previously held senior positions in sales engineering and IT consulting for Data Return and CompuCom.   Born in Brawley, California, Mr. Rowland received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University.  He lives in the Dallas area with his wife and children.  

Alistair is a co-founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).

Mr. Leinwand is a venture partner in the firm and focuses on technology investments. Prior to this role, he joined JPMorgan Partners as an operating partner in 2004. From 2001 to 2004, he was President and Co-founder of Proficient Networks, Inc. From 2000 to 2001, he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Telegis Networks, Inc. In 1997 Mr. Leinwand joined Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD) at inception and served as their Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer through the company's IPO and secondary offering. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Leinwand served as Manager of Consulting Engineering and Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. helping to build and engineer service provider and enterprise networks worldwide. He co-authored "Cisco Router Configuration" and "Network Management: A Practical Perspective" and has been granted a patent in the field of data routing. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches the subjects of computer networks, network management, and network design. Mr. Leinwand holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He presently serves on the board of directors of Vyatta, Inc. He is also a board observer to Belair Networks, Cedar Point Communications and Sylantro Systems.

Mark Fernandes is a Managing Director at Sierra Ventures and focuses on infrastructure software investments in the consumer internet and enterprise software areas. His investments include Frontbridge Technologies (acquired by Microsoft), Sourcefire (NASD: FIRE) and Opalis Software (acquired by Microsoft). He was also a board observer at Net6 (acquired by Citrix Systems) and Permeo (acquired by Blue Coat Systems). He serves on the boards of Ooyala and Spotzer Media. Mark started his career in engineering at Seagate Technology and was then a product manager at Cisco Systems. After business school, Mark was an equity research analyst covering software companies, first at Robertson Stephens and then as a Director at Merrill Lynch. He joined Sierra Ventures in 2002. Mark has a MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a MBA from Harvard.

Guy brings to Gemini his diverse executive experience in product strategy, product marketing and product management, in startups as well as large corporations. Guy's areas of focus in Gemini are Software, Communications and Consumer Technologies.

Guy rejoined Gemini in 2009 from Gemini's portfolio company modu, where he served as head of strategy. Previously, Guy was Director of Product Marketing in Microsoft's Telecom Products group.

Prior to Gemini, Guy has held senior product marketing and product management positions at Followap (acquired by Neustar - NYSE: NSR), a leader in the mobile messaging and presence space, Commtouch (NASDAQ: CTCH), a former Gemini portfolio company in the electronic messaging space, and CleverUp, an e-Learning start-up. Before his start-up career, Guy worked in the planning division of Elbit Systems (NASDAQ: ESLT) and was among the founders of Israel's first GMAT school.

Guy holds a BA Cum Laude in Economics from the University of Haifa's honors program, an MBA Cum Laude from the Haifa Graduate School of Management, and a Merage Fellowship from the Merage Foundation for US-Israel trade.

Mr. Contos has over fourteen-years of real-world security engineering and management expertise developed in some of the most sensitive and mission-critical environments in the world.  As the chief security strategist for Imperva he advises government organizations and Global 2,000s on security strategy related to data-centric security while being an evangelist for the security space.  He has written several security books including Enemy at the Water Cooler – Real Life Stories of Insider Threats as well as Physical and Logical Security Convergence which was co-authored with the former Deputy Director of the NSA – Bill Crowell. He has delivered countless speeches, webcasts, podcasts, and magazine articles for Forbes, the London Times, Computerworld, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, SC Magazine and many others. Mr. Contos has held management and engineering positions at ArcSight, Riptech, Lucent Bell Labs, Compaq Computers and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

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.
 

Alistair is a co-founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).

David is General Manager of Alternative Events in the Live Events Group of TechWeb (formerly CMP). He is also Editor-At-Large for InformationWeek.com and the Executive Conference Director for Interop. Prior to his career in tech media, David spent eight years as a software developer, network engineer, and IT manager.

Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990.  He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc.   Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers.  The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month.  In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud.

Alistair is a co-founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).

Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. 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. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com.

In his role of Director of Product Management for the Systems and Resource Management (SRM) unit of Novell, John works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments.  John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including Novell ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines.

John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin’s product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell’s acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions.

Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including:
- VMworld
- VMworld Europe
- Gartner Data Center Conference
- BrainShare, Novell’s annual user conference

Thorsten co-founded RightScale, Inc, the leading cloud management platform. Previously, Thorsten was Chief Architect at Expertcity.com and Citrix Online, makers of GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToAssist. He was responsible for the overall architecture of these online services and also managed the 24/7 datacenter operations which allowed him to acquire deep knowledge in deploying and running secure scalable online services. Thorsten received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and was a professor of computer science at Cornell University.

Jason Lochhead is responsible for the technological development of Terremark’s hosting services. Mr. Lochhead oversees the overall technology direction of the Company’s hosting business. Mr. Lochhead is the architect of Terremark’s acclaimed utility computing platform, Infinistructure™. He is also the architect of Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud, the Company’s innovative cloud computing product. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lochhead was a co-founder of Data Return, a hosting company often rated among the best in the industry. During his 11 years at Data Return, he worked in various positions, including research and development, architecture and technology executive positions. Mr. Lochhead was born in Irving, Texas and currently resides in Frisco, Texas with his wife and child.

Founder and & VP of Products at CloudSwitch, Ellen Rubin is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market for fast-growing companies. Prior to founding CloudSwitch, Ellen was Vice President of Marketing at Netezza (NYSE: NZ), 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, Ellen helped grow the company to over $125 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Ellen 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 Netezza, Ellen founded Manna, an Israeli and Boston-based developer of real-time personalization software. Ellen 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. Ellen 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.

Phil Fritz a manager in IBM Tivoli's Strategy and Product Management group. In this role, Phil leads a multi-disciplinary team that works with clients to define solutions, drive product strategy and bring key technologies, including Green, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, SOA and Software-as-a-Service to the marketplace. Phil's team has been driving the strategy and product management behind key initiatives for IBM Tivoli , starting with IBM's Green Data Center launch in 2007 and, more recently, IBM Tivoli's new foray into Cloud Computing with Service Management Center for Cloud. Previously, Phil was a senior program director in the area of SOA management since 2002, helping define and drive the management capabilities in IBM’s SOA Foundation, focusing on security and management. Phil is a frequent speaker at trade, analyst and customer events. Phil has an MBA in Information Technology from the University of Texas – Austin and a BA from the University of Virginia.  

Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business.

Kirsten Wolberg is Chief Information Officer at Salesforce.com, leading the Information Technology organization responsible for building and maintaining the global technology infrastructure and business applications for all Salesforce.com employees and business units. Wolberg joined Salesforce.com in May, 2008 from Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. where she led the organization responsible for corporate technology, offshore development and technology education & leadership development. She was a key member of the executive team that led Schwab’s turnaround and return to profitability. For the past seven years Wolberg has served in leadership roles with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the San Francisco Light the Night Walk.  

Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application delivery services. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning this line of managed services towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as web-enabled business processes, software-as-a-service, cloud computing, virtualization and service oriented architectures. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.  

Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives.  Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi.  He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. 

Bernard Golden is called a “cloud guru.” He is CEO of HyperStratus, a Silicon Valley cloud consulting firm that helps its clients plan, design, and implement cloud initiatives. HyperStratus clients include the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, HelloWallet, Sun Microsytems, and Hewlett- Packard. Bernard is the Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine. His widely-read CIO.com blog on cloud computing has been called “brilliant and incisive.” His blog's influence was recognized when it was named a “Top 25 Cloud Computing Blog” by CloudTP. He is the author or co-author of three books on virtualization and cloud computing, including Virtualization for Dummies, the most popular book on the subject ever published. Bernard is a popular and engaging presenter, speaking throughout the world at conferences like CloudWorld, Cloud Connect, Structure, and EDUCAUSE.

Randy Rowland is responsible for the managed hosting business unit for Terremark. As part of his role, Mr. Rowland oversees the operation of Terremark’s Infinistructure™ and The Enterprise Cloud utility computing product offerings.  Mr. Rowland has more than 14 years of experience in the IT services industry, including eight years with Data Return, where he was most recently responsible for product development.  Prior to that, Mr. Rowland previously held senior positions in sales engineering and IT consulting for Data Return and CompuCom.   Born in Brawley, California, Mr. Rowland received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University.  He lives in the Dallas area with his wife and children.  

Brooks Esser is the Worldwide Lead for HP’s CIO Agenda program.  He has over ten years of experience in services, industry and solutions marketing.  Prior to joining his current position, he served as a finance manager at several HP divisions, and also managed HP’s syndicated market research activities for several years.  Esser holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of the Pacific, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

  Shehzad Merchant serves as Senior Director for Strategy at Extreme Networks, where he drives the direction for data center networking. With over 17 years of industry experience, and an engineering track record highlighted by the achievement of several technology patents, Merchant is a veteran of wired and wireless Ethernet and communications. Prior to Extreme Networks, Merchant held various technology and executive management roles including CTO at Nevis Networks, a company specializing in network security. Prior to that Merchant was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Polytime Systems. Merchant earned an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Tate Cantrell’s primary responsibilities include product design and development and data center operations.  Mr. Cantrell has been in the mission-critical facilities business for more than 15 years and has overseen the build-out and operationalization of some the largest and most sophisticated data centers in the industry.Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Cantrell was Vice President, Data Center Technologies, at Dupont Fabros Technology, the second-largest pure-play data center REIT in the United States. He was responsible for development and execution of operational strategies critical to the start-up of the Dupont Fabros Development Wholesale Data Center business model, the first of its kind in the industry.

Robert Petrocelli founded GreenBytes® in 2007 and serves as chief executive officer. Prior to establishing GreenBytes, Petrocelli founded Heartlab, Inc. in 1994, a medical information technology company that was sold to Agfa in 2005.  Petrocelli was awarded a patent on archival technology utilized for the long-term storage of patient data, including cardiology images, demographics and reports. Petrocelli received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 and has made the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America list four times.

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.

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.

Thomas Scheibe joined Cisco in 1998 and is currently Director for datacenter systems in Cisco’s System Architecture and Strategy Unit. During his time at Cisco he managed Cisco’s transceiver portfolio and worked with customers in the cable and Metro Ethernet service provider space. Thomas represents Cisco on the Board of Directors of the Ethernet Alliance. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.

Paul Congdon is Chief Technology Officer for HP ProCurve and an HP Fellow, one of the elite HP employees recognized as pioneers in their fields. He is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing ProCurve network infrastructure and software products.  In his 25 years in the networking industry, he has become widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards. Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF RADIUS Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. He is co-inventor of the commonly used TCP checksum offloading, a program for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He also architected the method of distributing ProCurve software onto multiple processors, enabling ProCurve switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems. After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. He expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, SNA, X.25, FDDI, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X. Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico.   He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis.  He currently holds ten patents related to the networking industry and has several more in process.  

Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business.

Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA’s Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior to CA, Stephen was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Stephen earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.

Paul Congdon is Chief Technology Officer for HP ProCurve and an HP Fellow, one of the elite HP employees recognized as pioneers in their fields. He is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing ProCurve network infrastructure and software products.  In his 25 years in the networking industry, he has become widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards. Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF RADIUS Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. He is co-inventor of the commonly used TCP checksum offloading, a program for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He also architected the method of distributing ProCurve software onto multiple processors, enabling ProCurve switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems. After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. He expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, SNA, X.25, FDDI, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X. Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico.   He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis.  He currently holds ten patents related to the networking industry and has several more in process.  

Jon Flower is the vice president of technology at Adaptec, responsible for developing and implementing technologies to expand the company's leadership beyond the data storage I/O market. He leads the Adaptec engineering team at several levels, ranging from product concept development and architectural design, to the development of engineering and test specifications.  At Adaptec, Mr. Flower has also served as the chief technology officer (CTO), specializing in new business initiatives, as well as the CTO of the Storage Systems Division at Adaptec.  Before joining Adaptec, he was the vice president of architecture at Tricord.

Thomas Scheibe joined Cisco in 1998 and is currently Director for datacenter systems in Cisco’s System Architecture and Strategy Unit. During his time at Cisco he managed Cisco’s transceiver portfolio and worked with customers in the cable and Metro Ethernet service provider space. Thomas represents Cisco on the Board of Directors of the Ethernet Alliance. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.

Phil Fritz a manager in IBM Tivoli's Strategy and Product Management group. In this role, Phil leads a multi-disciplinary team that works with clients to define solutions, drive product strategy and bring key technologies, including Green, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, SOA and Software-as-a-Service to the marketplace. Phil's team has been driving the strategy and product management behind key initiatives for IBM Tivoli , starting with IBM's Green Data Center launch in 2007 and, more recently, IBM Tivoli's new foray into Cloud Computing with Service Management Center for Cloud. Previously, Phil was a senior program director in the area of SOA management since 2002, helping define and drive the management capabilities in IBM’s SOA Foundation, focusing on security and management. Phil is a frequent speaker at trade, analyst and customer events. Phil has an MBA in Information Technology from the University of Texas – Austin and a BA from the University of Virginia.  

Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business.

Kirsten Wolberg is Chief Information Officer at Salesforce.com, leading the Information Technology organization responsible for building and maintaining the global technology infrastructure and business applications for all Salesforce.com employees and business units. Wolberg joined Salesforce.com in May, 2008 from Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. where she led the organization responsible for corporate technology, offshore development and technology education & leadership development. She was a key member of the executive team that led Schwab’s turnaround and return to profitability. For the past seven years Wolberg has served in leadership roles with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the San Francisco Light the Night Walk.  

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

Paul Arceneaux has more than 12 years of network and system management experience. Prior to TippingPoint, he was vice president of systems management for 3Com Corporation. He was responsible for the engineering and product management of the company’s management software. Previously, Arceneaux was vice president and general manager for Siemens network and service management software solutions. In addition, he has worked as a project engineer dealing with security, time management and network management.

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.

Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker.

Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives.  Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi.  He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. 

As part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks Initiative, Shashi Kiran heads the Enterprise Routing and WAN Optimization Marketing team for the Network Systems and Security group at Cisco. In this position he is 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 various roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing, Business Development, Sales and Network Engineering focusing on areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he has worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Dept.of Electronics, India). He also was an honorary consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine, Indian edition from 1997-2001. To propagate Network awareness in the 1990s, he devised India’s first e-mail based course on Internetworking that was subsequently syndicated in leading IT magazines. Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and routing areas and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration in addition to a few industry certifications.

Mark McReynolds, MCSE, CISSP is a Principal Technology Specialist with Microsoft.   Mark has 15 years of industry experience and ten years of experience working with Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft’s Enterprise Product Group delivery Windows Server based solutions.    For the past five years Mark has focused on virtualization technologies and has worked extensively with Microsoft’s enterprise customers delivering server and client based virtualization solutions.   In addition to his technical work, Mark speaks at dozens of customer, partner and industry events each year, including the recent Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 product launch.

Tony Byrne is the President of the Real Story Group and oversees all of the technology streams and properties, which include CMS Watch, Enterprise Information Watch, and SharePoint Watch. In 2001, Tony founded CMS Watch as a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies and publishes research comparing different solutions head-to-head. Over time, CMS Watch evolved into a multi-channel research and advisory organization, spinning off similar product evaluation research in various areas of Enterprise Content Management. As a result of this natural evolution, in 2010, The Real Story Group became the parent company of CMS Watch and its sister entities, EI Watch and SharePoint Watch. Tony is the original author of The Real Story Group's Web Content Management research, a former journalist, and a 20-year technology industry veteran. Prior to 2001, he managed an engineering team at a systems integration firm. He now focuses his own research on Enterprise Community and Collaboration software, SharePoint, and Web Content Management. During the last decade, Tony has advised clients such as the US Dept. of the Treasury, the American Association of Retired Persons, MBC Television of Dubai, The Canadian Cancer Society, and The Seattle Children's Hospital.  

  David Perry brings more than 25 years of technical education and support experience to his role as Global Director of Education at Trend Micro. He represents the company’s Internet content security awareness endeavors through speaking engagements working to educate network administrators, computer users, and the public at large about computer virus protection. Previously, Mr. Perry served as Product Marketing Manager at Trend Micro as well as Cybermedia Corporation, where he appeared in more than 170 television and radio broadcasts as a company spokesperson; and at McAfee Corporation, where he managed all online and Web-based support. Mr. Perry began his career as Technical Support Analyst at Peter Norton Computing (now Symantec).

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 programs, business resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, 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), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP).  He is also a published author and writer, highly quoted and often interviewed by global media, and a frequent speaker on electronic business and security topics at domestic and international industry conferences.

Joshua Corman serves as Principal Security Strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems. With over a decade in security and IT, Corman drives security strategy for emerging issues and is responsible for IBM’s Threat Mitigation Strategy. Corman is a highly coveted and engaging speaker and has spoken at leading industry events such as RSA, Interop, ISACA, InfoSec, Computerworld, and IT Security World. His thought leadership encourages strategic approaches for the Evolving Threat, Virtualization, Data Security, Security Cost & Complexity, and 7 Dirty Secrets of the Security Industry. He brings a rare balance of deep technical acumen, business context, and the ability to communicate in accessible ways. Networkworld magazine recently chose to recognize Corman as a top influencer of IT for 2009.

In 1992, Gene co-authored Tripwire while at Purdue University with Dr. Gene Spafford.  Since 1999, he has been studying high performing IT operations and security organizations, which led Gene to co-found the IT Process Institute (ITPI) in 2004. In conjunction with the ITPI, Gene co-authored the "Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in Four Practical And Auditable Steps" which has since sold over 75,000 copies.  He was a principal investigator on the IT Controls Performance Study project, and in 2008, he co-authored the "Security Visible Ops", a handbook describing how to link IT security and operational objectives in four practical steps by integrating security controls into IT operational, software development and project management processes. Gene currently serves on the Advanced Technology Committee for the Institute of Internal Auditors where he is part of the GAIT task force, which has created guidance on how to scope IT general controls for SOX-404. In 2007, he was given the Outstanding Alumnus Award by the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.

Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence.

  Shehzad Merchant serves as Senior Director for Strategy at Extreme Networks, where he drives the direction for data center networking. With over 17 years of industry experience, and an engineering track record highlighted by the achievement of several technology patents, Merchant is a veteran of wired and wireless Ethernet and communications. Prior to Extreme Networks, Merchant held various technology and executive management roles including CTO at Nevis Networks, a company specializing in network security. Prior to that Merchant was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Polytime Systems. Merchant earned an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Tate Cantrell’s primary responsibilities include product design and development and data center operations.  Mr. Cantrell has been in the mission-critical facilities business for more than 15 years and has overseen the build-out and operationalization of some the largest and most sophisticated data centers in the industry.Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Cantrell was Vice President, Data Center Technologies, at Dupont Fabros Technology, the second-largest pure-play data center REIT in the United States. He was responsible for development and execution of operational strategies critical to the start-up of the Dupont Fabros Development Wholesale Data Center business model, the first of its kind in the industry.

Robert Petrocelli founded GreenBytes® in 2007 and serves as chief executive officer. Prior to establishing GreenBytes, Petrocelli founded Heartlab, Inc. in 1994, a medical information technology company that was sold to Agfa in 2005.  Petrocelli was awarded a patent on archival technology utilized for the long-term storage of patient data, including cardiology images, demographics and reports. Petrocelli received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 and has made the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America list four times.

As chief evangelist and CMO for BDNA, Ido Sarig leads customer and community outreach, communications and strategic planning. Specializing in product strategy and corporate development, Ido has a long career as a senior technology executive and a venture partner with a leading VC firm in Silicon Valley. Formerly senior VP of technology strategy for Mercury Interactive, he was responsible for the technology roadmap, strategic industry acquisitions and business opportunities. Ido has participated as an industry speaker for more than 12 years, domestically and internationally, at various technology and user-group conferences and venture capital events including Oracle Open World and STAREAST.

Climate Savers Computing executive director Pat Tiernan has more than 15 years experience in technology, most recently driving sustainability strategy and execution as Hewlett Packard’s vice president of Social and Environmental Responsibility. Tiernan is a recognized expert in green technology, sustainability issues and the future of IT energy efficiency and its impact on climate change. At Climate Savers Computing, Tiernan promotes the adoption of energy-efficient computers and power management tools worldwide. Under his leadership, the organization has topped 500 members, has launched a chapter in India, and expanded its partnership with the U.S. EPA and its ENERGY STAR program.

Jay Leek, CISM, CISA, CISSP is currently a global manager of Corporate IT Security Services at Nokia where he has been directly involved in the negotiations and management of multi-million dollar IT security outsourcing relationships. Over the past 15 years, Jay has also worked as a product manager for information security vendors as well as a consultant to numerous telecommunications companies, government agencies and financial institutions assisting them with business development, strategic planning and architectural design required to meet their ICT and security objectives.  He is also a frequent speaker on information security related topics at domestic and international conferences.

Mr. Contos has over fourteen-years of real-world security engineering and management expertise developed in some of the most sensitive and mission-critical environments in the world.  As the chief security strategist for Imperva he advises government organizations and Global 2,000s on security strategy related to data-centric security while being an evangelist for the security space.  He has written several security books including Enemy at the Water Cooler – Real Life Stories of Insider Threats as well as Physical and Logical Security Convergence which was co-authored with the former Deputy Director of the NSA – Bill Crowell. He has delivered countless speeches, webcasts, podcasts, and magazine articles for Forbes, the London Times, Computerworld, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, SC Magazine and many others. Mr. Contos has held management and engineering positions at ArcSight, Riptech, Lucent Bell Labs, Compaq Computers and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

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.
 

Mr. Graham is a Senior Technologist in the Office of the CTO at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. In this role, Mr. Graham is responsible for driving RSA's corporate information security technology strategy with a focus on enterprise policy, governance, risk and compliance. Mr. Graham brings a unique blend of technical knowledge and an understanding of market requirements to RSA and previously was Chief Scientist at Tablus (acquired by RSA in 2007) where he played an integral role in the development of its data loss prevention suite. Mr. Graham joined Tablus through its acquisition of Indigo Security in 2005 where he was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding Indigo, Mr. Graham was Founder and CEO of Digital-3, a digital audio device platform company. Mr. Graham was honored as the Michigan Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 and named one of BusinessWeek's Best Young Technology Entrepreneurs in 2007.

Jeremiah Grossman founded WhiteHat Security in August 2001. A world-renowned expert in Web security, Mr. Grossman is a founder of the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), and was named to InfoWorld's Top 25 CTOs for 2007. Mr. Grossman is a frequent speaker at industry events including the Black Hat Briefings, RSA Conference, ISACA, CSI, InfoSec World, OWASP, ISSA, and Defcon as well as a number of large universities. He has authored dozens of articles and white papers, is credited with the discovery of many cutting-edge attack and defensive techniques and is a co-author of XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense. Mr. Grossman is frequently quoted in major media outlets such as USA Today, the Washington Post, The Financial Times, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, USA Today, PC World, Dark Reading, SC Magazine, CNET, CSO and NBC news. He frequently alerts the media community to the latest attacks and is not only able to offer in-depth commentary, but also provide his perspective of what’s to come. Mr. Grossman was named a “friend of Google” and is also an influential blogger (www.jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com) who offers insight and encourages open dialogue regarding current research and vulnerability trend information. Prior to WhiteHat, Mr. Grossman was an information security officer at Yahoo! responsible for performing security reviews on the company's hundreds of websites. Before Yahoo!, Mr. Grossman worked for Amgen, Inc.

Hutton, research and intelligence principal with Verizon Business, has served as a consultant and auditor on topics related information risk and security for more than 15 years, working for Fortune 10 to SMB companies. He is a contributor to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report and writes regularly for the Verizon Security Blog.

Ryan Naraine is a senior security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, a global provider of anti-malware technologies.  He is responsible for monitoring the regional malware landscape and conducting preliminary analysis of threats.  He also assists with user education about malware threats and risk management.  Ryan also writes extensively about security issues for Threatpost and ZDNet.

David Perry, Global Director of Education at Trend Micro, is one of the best respected and best known authorities in the world of computer viruses and malicious code. With over 36 years of experience in the technical education and support field, (the last twenty  years entirely in Computer Security and Antivirus) David Perry brings to Trend Micro his own unique blend of technical understanding, communication style, and humor. While at Trend Micro, David Perry has been a featured speaker, panelist and published researcher at CES, COMDEX, Virus Bulletin, EICAR, RSA, Infosec London, FOSE, Infosec Moscow, AVAR, Dubtech in Dubai, and many other technical and trade conferences. He served in the national Y2K center and co chaired three meetings in the White House, concerning the protection of America’s critical digital infrastructure.   David has appeared on numerous national and regional television news broadcasts, including the ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, CBS's Good Morning America, and NPR All Things Considered.  In addition, David is a monthly guest on Craig Crossman's nationally syndicated Computer America show, and has been quoted on the front page of major news publications such as the New York Times and USA Today.  He is often looked to as a resource by news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press. David appears on television radio and publications in every corner of the world.Prior to joining Trend Micro, David Perry began his career in the antivirus world as a technical support analyst with Peter Norton Computing (now SYMANTEC), where he helped tens of thousands of individuals and corporations to recover from virus and hostile code attacks.  Later, he worked at McAfee Corporation, managing all online and Web based support, and became a well known community leader through his involvement with CompuServe and AOL. He went on to Cybermedia corporation, where he quickly moved up to a company spokesperson role where he appeared in more than 300 television and radio broadcasts in addition to a full schedule of user groups, industry conferences and other personal appearances. This is David’s thirteenth year with Trend Micro, Inc., and he continues to lead efforts to educate computer users in every walk of life. “Great system security begins in admitting that there is a problem”, says Perry, “but that is only the first step towards working in a safer, more secure world.”

As the Group Product Manager for the Mobile Security and Management Group at Symantec , Khoi Nguyen is responsible for setting the strategic direction of major new product releases, helping to define the business strategy, setting the product roadmap, and managing the product management team.   Nguyen earned his master’s in business administration from the UCLA Anderson School and MS in computer science from UCLA.  During that time, Nguyen researched and designed new Internet protocols for “self-configuring and adaptive” Web Cache servers that were designed to reduce both network bandwidth and user response time on the Web.  Nguyen is the co-author of “Adaptive Web Caching” in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems. Prior to Symantec , Nguyen co-founded Silvan Networks, which was funded by Sequoia Capital and developed peer-to-peer networking appliances for Internet Service Providers and Enterprises.  Nguyen has also previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Management Consultant in the Internet Strategy Practice. Nguyen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

  David Perry brings more than 25 years of technical education and support experience to his role as Global Director of Education at Trend Micro. He represents the company’s Internet content security awareness endeavors through speaking engagements working to educate network administrators, computer users, and the public at large about computer virus protection. Previously, Mr. Perry served as Product Marketing Manager at Trend Micro as well as Cybermedia Corporation, where he appeared in more than 170 television and radio broadcasts as a company spokesperson; and at McAfee Corporation, where he managed all online and Web-based support. Mr. Perry began his career as Technical Support Analyst at Peter Norton Computing (now Symantec).

Nick Nikols is vice president of product management for identity and security at Novell. He has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry, architecting solutions and developing innovative products for directory services, identity management, provisioning, and directory/application integration. Before his current position at Novell, Nick spent three years as a senior analyst with the Identity and Privacy Strategies Service at Burton Group, where he authored many reports ranging from topics such as fine-grained authorization and identity services to identity management governance. Prior to his work at Burton Group, Nick was a software architect and engineering manager at Novell.

Paul Arceneaux has more than 12 years of network and system management experience. Prior to TippingPoint, he was vice president of systems management for 3Com Corporation. He was responsible for the engineering and product management of the company’s management software. Previously, Arceneaux was vice president and general manager for Siemens network and service management software solutions. In addition, he has worked as a project engineer dealing with security, time management and network management.

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

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

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

Willie Jow is a 15-year veteran at Sybase, Inc. As vice president of Business Operations, oversees critical initiatives such as business process reengineering – aimed at improving customer interactions and enabling Sybase growth. He ensures Sybase’s global operations and internal procedures are effective and scalable with high integrity and quality.  Mr. Jow also leads the product marketing efforts for our frontline mobility solutions.  In this capacity, he oversees all mobility product directions,Willie Jow is a 15-year veteran at Sybase, Inc. As vice president of Business Operations, oversees critical initiatives such as business process reengineering – aimed at improving customer interactions and enabling Sybase growth. He ensures Sybase’s global operations and internal procedures are effective and scalable with high integrity and quality.  Mr. Jow also leads the product marketing efforts for our frontline mobility solutions.  In this capacity, he oversees all mobility product directions, strategic partnerships, go-to-market strategies, and marketing programs.

Chris Pearson is the President of 3G Americas, LLC.  In his role as the spokesperson and senior operating officer of the corporation, he is responsible for the strategic planning of the organization and providing executive management for the integration of strategy and operations in the areas of technology, marketing, public relations, finance as well as public and regulatory affairs.  As President of 3G Americas, Mr. Pearson represents 3G Americas’ Market Representation interests within the 3GPP organization.   Mr. Pearson came to 3G Americas from the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) where he served as Executive Vice President in charge of the strategic management of the technology consortium.  Prior to joining the UWCC, Mr. Pearson held the position of Strategic Alliance Manager for the Advanced Network Services Provider Program (ANSPP) at AT&T Wireless Services in Kirkland, Washington.    Additionally, prior to AT&T Wireless, Mr. Pearson held several senior account management and technical marketing positions at GTE Telephone Operations. Throughout his 23-year career in telecommunications, Mr. Pearson has provided lectures, technical marketing training and speeches for technology audiences throughout the world.   Mr. Pearson holds a Masters of Business Administration from The Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University and a Bachelor of Arts with emphasis in Marketing and Finance from The Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.  

Mohan Trikur, Director of Core Network Solutions for Ericsson North America, is responsible for core network strategy and solutions, focusing on Evolved Packet Core (EPC) systems. He works closely with Ericsson’s business units for solution and roadmap alignment for customers in North America .Trikur has more than 15 years of technical experience with Ericsson, holding various roles in Research and Development, Product Management and Customer Solutions Management. Prior to his current role, Trikur was responsible for E2E customer solutions and Product Manager for North American regulatory solutions.Trikur holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston .

Teresa Kellett currently serves as Director, 4G for Sprint where she is responsible for the company’s WiMAX partnerships and business development activities, including managing Clearwire activities. Prior to this role, she was Director, Global Development & Technology Advocacy for Sprint’s XOHM business unit, where she oversaw Sprint’s international carrier strategy and agreements. Kellett has been with Sprint for nearly thirteen years, focused on wireless technology, in the areas of international business development, MVNO and affiliate management, and fraud risk mitigation.  She holds a Masters in Foreign Service with Honors in International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Global Studies and French from Rockhurst College.

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.

Mr. Clevenger is the Enterprise Editor for Smartphone magazine and runs the Enterprise Mobility Solutions practice at ITR Group, a Microsoft Gold Certified consulting firm. He was previously the Chief Software Architect for Mobiliam, a provider of enterprise-class mobile/wireless software products, and has been developing mobile software for more than 12 years. An avid evangelist of mobile computing, he is dedicated to raising awareness of the potential for this technology in business.  He writes for a variety of technical and business publications, and speaks at many industry events.

Ryan Naraine is a senior security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, a global provider of anti-malware technologies.  He is responsible for monitoring the regional malware landscape and conducting preliminary analysis of threats.  He also assists with user education about malware threats and risk management.  Ryan also writes extensively about security issues for Threatpost and ZDNet.

David Perry, Global Director of Education at Trend Micro, is one of the best respected and best known authorities in the world of computer viruses and malicious code. With over 36 years of experience in the technical education and support field, (the last twenty  years entirely in Computer Security and Antivirus) David Perry brings to Trend Micro his own unique blend of technical understanding, communication style, and humor. While at Trend Micro, David Perry has been a featured speaker, panelist and published researcher at CES, COMDEX, Virus Bulletin, EICAR, RSA, Infosec London, FOSE, Infosec Moscow, AVAR, Dubtech in Dubai, and many other technical and trade conferences. He served in the national Y2K center and co chaired three meetings in the White House, concerning the protection of America’s critical digital infrastructure.   David has appeared on numerous national and regional television news broadcasts, including the ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, CBS's Good Morning America, and NPR All Things Considered.  In addition, David is a monthly guest on Craig Crossman's nationally syndicated Computer America show, and has been quoted on the front page of major news publications such as the New York Times and USA Today.  He is often looked to as a resource by news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press. David appears on television radio and publications in every corner of the world.Prior to joining Trend Micro, David Perry began his career in the antivirus world as a technical support analyst with Peter Norton Computing (now SYMANTEC), where he helped tens of thousands of individuals and corporations to recover from virus and hostile code attacks.  Later, he worked at McAfee Corporation, managing all online and Web based support, and became a well known community leader through his involvement with CompuServe and AOL. He went on to Cybermedia corporation, where he quickly moved up to a company spokesperson role where he appeared in more than 300 television and radio broadcasts in addition to a full schedule of user groups, industry conferences and other personal appearances. This is David’s thirteenth year with Trend Micro, Inc., and he continues to lead efforts to educate computer users in every walk of life. “Great system security begins in admitting that there is a problem”, says Perry, “but that is only the first step towards working in a safer, more secure world.”

As the Group Product Manager for the Mobile Security and Management Group at Symantec , Khoi Nguyen is responsible for setting the strategic direction of major new product releases, helping to define the business strategy, setting the product roadmap, and managing the product management team.   Nguyen earned his master’s in business administration from the UCLA Anderson School and MS in computer science from UCLA.  During that time, Nguyen researched and designed new Internet protocols for “self-configuring and adaptive” Web Cache servers that were designed to reduce both network bandwidth and user response time on the Web.  Nguyen is the co-author of “Adaptive Web Caching” in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems. Prior to Symantec , Nguyen co-founded Silvan Networks, which was funded by Sequoia Capital and developed peer-to-peer networking appliances for Internet Service Providers and Enterprises.  Nguyen has also previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Management Consultant in the Internet Strategy Practice. Nguyen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Mr. Haraldsvik joined SpiderCloud as vice president of marketing in July, 2008. Mr. Haraldsvik has over 20 years of global strategic marketing and industry experience across a range of technology segments including wireless broadband, wireline networking and IP services, RFID, personal computing, wafer fabrication, software, and consumer devices. Mr. Haraldsvik held positions at Qualcomm, Inc., where he was vice president of strategy and market development and vice president of marketing for mobile broadband. Mr. Haraldsvik was previously the vice president of marketing at Flarion Technologies, a company acquired by Qualcomm. At Flarion, Mr. Haraldsvik led all marketing efforts in support of industry awareness for Flarion and the introduction of its FLASH-OFDM technology. Before joining Flarion, he was the vice president of marketing with Nortel Networks’ Shasta IP Services business unit. Former positions include director of field marketing while with Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel Networks) and marketing positions with Silicon Graphics as well as several leading advertising agencies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Mr. Haraldsvik holds a BA from the University of San Francisco. http://www.spidercloud.com/company/executive-team#haraldsvik

Bob, formerly co-founder of Airespace, is currently a technical advisor to two startups, Aerohive Networks and Agito Networks.  Bob is also co-author of "IEEE 802.11 Handbook, A Designer's Companion", the leading technical resource for designers and developers of 802.11 equipment.

Joe Epstein is Chief Architect at Meru Networks, where he is responsible for Meru's product conception, architecture, and core algorithms. Additionally, he serves as company representative to the various standards bodies. Prior to joining Meru, he held engineering positions at Bytemobile, Inc., where he was responsible for next generation products including seamless cellular WAN-LAN mobility. His background covers wireless MAC, networking, and applications for Fortune 500 enterprises. Epstein has a BS in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jim Geier is the principal consultant and founder of Wireless-Nets, Ltd.  His 25 years of experience includes the analysis, design, implementation, installation, and support of numerous wireless network-based solutions for enterprises, hospitals, universities, airports, warehouses, and product manufacturers worldwide. Jim is the author of over a dozen books, including Implementing 802.1X Security Solutions (Wiley), Deploying Voice over Wireless LANs (Cisco Press), Wireless LANs (SAMS), Wireless Networks – First Step (Cisco Press), Wireless Networking Handbook (Macmillan), and Network Reengineering (McGraw-Hill). He has been active within the Wi-Fi Alliance and the IEEE 802.11 Working Group. Jim’s education includes a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering, with emphasis in wireless communications.

Bryan Wargo is the general manager of Aruba’s AirWave division focused on multi-vendor wireless management systems.  Bryan comes to Aruba via the AirWave Wireless acquisition where he was Vice President of Sales & Business Development since 2002.  Prior to AirWave, Bryan successfully founded 2Roam to address the proliferation of mobile Internet devices and the profound effect they have on enterprise computing.  Bryan also served as senior business development manager for VeriFone's e-commerce software products and was a territory manager for Hewlett-Packard's Unix division. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Chris Kozup is a Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions at Cisco. He is responsible for market development and strategy for Cisco’s portfolio of enterprise wireless networking products and solutions.

His primary focus is on articulating the business case for how a unified wired and wireless approach to enterprise-wide mobility improves business profitability, increases productivity and leads to sustainable competitive advantage.
Prior to joining Cisco in 2006, Chris was with META Group where he served as a Program Director for Infrastructure Strategies.  He has a B.A. from Ohio University and a Masters of Business Administration from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.
      

Scott Lindsay serves as the Sr. Director of Global Product Line Management for 3Com’s mobility and voice products.  He is responsible for global product strategy, direction and implementation as well as go-to-market strategy and strategic partnerships for 3Com’s mobility and voice businesses.  Prior to 3Com, Mr. Lindsay has held several sales, marketing and business development roles for companies focused on networking, and has led two start-up networking communications companies to successful acquisitions by Hewlett Packard and by 3Com.  Previous leadership roles include VP of Marketing for Engim, a developer of wide-band Wi-Fi chip sets, and VP of Marketing and Business Development for Scope Communications, which developed hand-held networking test and measurement equipment, as well several other companies focused on networking communications, wireless and sensor solutions.  Mr. Lindsay has also spent time working in the VC community with Granum Partners.  He received a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Rad Sethuraman brings more than 20 years of experience in product development and marketing to his current role of Senior Director of Product Management, Wireless Network Solutions, Motorola. In this role he leads product management and technical marketing for the company’s Enterprise WLAN solutions. Prior to Motorola, he was responsible for bringing to market a wide range of wireless LAN, networking and security products from companies including Nortel, Alteon Websystems, and Intel. Sethuraman holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University.

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.

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.

Thomas Scheibe joined Cisco in 1998 and is currently Director for datacenter systems in Cisco’s System Architecture and Strategy Unit. During his time at Cisco he managed Cisco’s transceiver portfolio and worked with customers in the cable and Metro Ethernet service provider space. Thomas represents Cisco on the Board of Directors of the Ethernet Alliance. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.

Paul Congdon is Chief Technology Officer for HP ProCurve and an HP Fellow, one of the elite HP employees recognized as pioneers in their fields. He is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing ProCurve network infrastructure and software products.  In his 25 years in the networking industry, he has become widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards. Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF RADIUS Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. He is co-inventor of the commonly used TCP checksum offloading, a program for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He also architected the method of distributing ProCurve software onto multiple processors, enabling ProCurve switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems. After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. He expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, SNA, X.25, FDDI, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X. Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico.   He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis.  He currently holds ten patents related to the networking industry and has several more in process.  

Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business.

John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region, which includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception in 1997 through early 2009.   John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, CTO for XO Communications, and CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking.

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).

Dave has over 20 years experience with WAN solutions globally. His focus is on mission-critical energy, government and transportation communications. Dave is the Broadband Forum ambassador program vice chair focusing on the development of tutorials for industry education, and was previously the IP/MPLS Forum education working group chair.  In this capacity he was involved in the development of 9 half day tutorials and their presentation at industry conferences.  Dave recently presented at the Utilities Telecom Council annual conference on the lessons learned by several European and Asian Utilities that deployed a converged IP/MPLS WAN. His most recent technology whitepaper addresses the next steps with Ethernet WAN communications at power utility substations.

Charlie Kawwas is the vice president of sales and marketing for the Network Components Division within the Semiconductor Solutions Group of LSI Corporation. Prior to his current role, Dr. Kawwas was the Senior Director for Enterprise and Service Provider Marketing at LSI. Before coming to LSI, he was the Leader of Product Line Management for Optical Multi-service Edge portfolio at Nortel Networks. Dr. Kawwas received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, and a doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.  

Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Alex Henthorn-Iwane joined Packet Design in September 2004 and brings 19 years of systems engineering, product management and marketing experience in network infrastructure, management and security technologies and products. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at CoSine Communications, a maker of virtualized edge routing and security infrastructure equipment for the Service Provider market. Previously, Henthorn-Iwane was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises (acquired by Lucent); and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

William Choe is the Director of Product Management for the Ethernet Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc.  In this position, Choe leads a team in the development of market leading fixed configuration Ethernet switching and energy management solutions for the mid-market, enterprise campus and data center.  Choe is a fifteen-year Cisco veteran and has played a number of key roles in business strategy and product development across the company.  This includes the development of Cisco’s first billion dollar fixed configuration product family, the Catalyst 3500XL platform.  Choe was responsible for Senior Product Management of the Cisco ONS 15454, the central product of Cisco’s next generation optical networking platform.  Prior to joining Cisco, Choe was an Engineer at Grand Junction Networks, which was acquired by Cisco in November 1995.  At Grand Junction, he provided technical support and management of the company’s ground-breaking switched Ethernet and Fast Ethernet products.Choe received his Bachelor of Science from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California and his Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. 

As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

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

Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives.  Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi.  He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. 

As part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks Initiative, Shashi Kiran heads the Enterprise Routing and WAN Optimization Marketing team for the Network Systems and Security group at Cisco. In this position he is 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 various roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing, Business Development, Sales and Network Engineering focusing on areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he has worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Dept.of Electronics, India). He also was an honorary consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine, Indian edition from 1997-2001. To propagate Network awareness in the 1990s, he devised India’s first e-mail based course on Internetworking that was subsequently syndicated in leading IT magazines. Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and routing areas and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration in addition to a few industry certifications.

Mark McReynolds, MCSE, CISSP is a Principal Technology Specialist with Microsoft.   Mark has 15 years of industry experience and ten years of experience working with Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft’s Enterprise Product Group delivery Windows Server based solutions.    For the past five years Mark has focused on virtualization technologies and has worked extensively with Microsoft’s enterprise customers delivering server and client based virtualization solutions.   In addition to his technical work, Mark speaks at dozens of customer, partner and industry events each year, including the recent Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 product launch.

Bryan Wargo is the general manager of Aruba’s AirWave division focused on multi-vendor wireless management systems.  Bryan comes to Aruba via the AirWave Wireless acquisition where he was Vice President of Sales & Business Development since 2002.  Prior to AirWave, Bryan successfully founded 2Roam to address the proliferation of mobile Internet devices and the profound effect they have on enterprise computing.  Bryan also served as senior business development manager for VeriFone's e-commerce software products and was a territory manager for Hewlett-Packard's Unix division. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Chris Kozup is a Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions at Cisco. He is responsible for market development and strategy for Cisco’s portfolio of enterprise wireless networking products and solutions.

His primary focus is on articulating the business case for how a unified wired and wireless approach to enterprise-wide mobility improves business profitability, increases productivity and leads to sustainable competitive advantage.
Prior to joining Cisco in 2006, Chris was with META Group where he served as a Program Director for Infrastructure Strategies.  He has a B.A. from Ohio University and a Masters of Business Administration from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.
      

Scott Lindsay serves as the Sr. Director of Global Product Line Management for 3Com’s mobility and voice products.  He is responsible for global product strategy, direction and implementation as well as go-to-market strategy and strategic partnerships for 3Com’s mobility and voice businesses.  Prior to 3Com, Mr. Lindsay has held several sales, marketing and business development roles for companies focused on networking, and has led two start-up networking communications companies to successful acquisitions by Hewlett Packard and by 3Com.  Previous leadership roles include VP of Marketing for Engim, a developer of wide-band Wi-Fi chip sets, and VP of Marketing and Business Development for Scope Communications, which developed hand-held networking test and measurement equipment, as well several other companies focused on networking communications, wireless and sensor solutions.  Mr. Lindsay has also spent time working in the VC community with Granum Partners.  He received a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Rad Sethuraman brings more than 20 years of experience in product development and marketing to his current role of Senior Director of Product Management, Wireless Network Solutions, Motorola. In this role he leads product management and technical marketing for the company’s Enterprise WLAN solutions. Prior to Motorola, he was responsible for bringing to market a wide range of wireless LAN, networking and security products from companies including Nortel, Alteon Websystems, and Intel. Sethuraman holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University.

Jesse Rothstein is the CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where his technical vision and expertise in enterprise networking give ExtraHop a competitive edge in the industry. With a world-class team under his leadership, Jesse is responsible for the technical architecture of the innovative ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance platform. Jesse co-founded ExtraHop after a six-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. Jesse was the architect and project lead for the BIG-IP v9 development effort and the technical lead for frameworks, clustering, and performance. Prior to F5, Jesse worked in product development at Motive Communications and the Trilogy Development Group. Jesse specializes in designing and implementing high-performance networking products. Jesse graduated from Rice University with bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.  

As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Richard Whitehead is Director of Product Management at EMC Ionix. Richard is in charge of Ionix for IT Operations Intelligence, EMC's solution that automates service and infrastructure root-cause analysis, monitoring, and reporting across both physical and virtual environments. Richard brings to EMC Ionix more than 20 years' experience in the systems and network management marketplace. He also has a broad background in communications and security. Prior to EMC, Richard has worked for and advised a range of Silicon Valley startups - in addition to having been an advisor to Splunk and the CTO at Clarus. In addition, Richard was the Vice President of Strategic Technologies, which was later acquired by IBM. Richard served at Micromuse for nearly eight years.

Howard Goldstein has over 30 years' experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express and others.  Goldstein holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Telecommunications from Pace University. He is a frequent speaker at Interop and Storage Networking World.  He founded Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. an Education & Technology Company offering instructor led training.  Visit www.hgai.com. He provides in-depth skills with his technology-specific classes.  His job task approach in his Storage Networking Planning, Design, Performance and Troubleshooting classes provides the skill level required to perform specific job roles in the Storage Networking industry today.  Howard Goldstein has expertise in many aspects of the human side of technology offering innovative consulting and education services on Professional Vitality and Career Development, Adult Learning, and Presentation Development & Delivery Techniques.  Howard believes that content and context delivery is as important as content development and is a master of both. Goldstein is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee.  He has helped develop the SNIA Certification Program as well as other SNIA Education initiatives.  He has been active in the publications world as technical editor of Building Storage Networks and Resilient Storage Networks.

Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies.  He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences.  Jacob’s no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades.  Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation’s leading colleges and universities.  Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale.  Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies.  He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University.

Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies.  He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences.  Jacob’s no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades.  Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation’s leading colleges and universities.  Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale.  Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies.  He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University.

Paul Congdon is Chief Technology Officer for HP ProCurve and an HP Fellow, one of the elite HP employees recognized as pioneers in their fields. He is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing ProCurve network infrastructure and software products.  In his 25 years in the networking industry, he has become widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards. Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF RADIUS Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. He is co-inventor of the commonly used TCP checksum offloading, a program for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He also architected the method of distributing ProCurve software onto multiple processors, enabling ProCurve switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems. After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. He expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, SNA, X.25, FDDI, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X. Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico.   He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis.  He currently holds ten patents related to the networking industry and has several more in process.  

Jon Flower is the vice president of technology at Adaptec, responsible for developing and implementing technologies to expand the company's leadership beyond the data storage I/O market. He leads the Adaptec engineering team at several levels, ranging from product concept development and architectural design, to the development of engineering and test specifications.  At Adaptec, Mr. Flower has also served as the chief technology officer (CTO), specializing in new business initiatives, as well as the CTO of the Storage Systems Division at Adaptec.  Before joining Adaptec, he was the vice president of architecture at Tricord.

Thomas Scheibe joined Cisco in 1998 and is currently Director for datacenter systems in Cisco’s System Architecture and Strategy Unit. During his time at Cisco he managed Cisco’s transceiver portfolio and worked with customers in the cable and Metro Ethernet service provider space. Thomas represents Cisco on the Board of Directors of the Ethernet Alliance. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.

Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation.  A 32-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is the Treasurer of the SNIA, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative and the Solid State Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance.  He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide.  He was one of 30 senior executives worldwide selected for the Network Products 2008 MVP Award. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a ten-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University’s Sever Institute of Engineering.  His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization.

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

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.  Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems.  John has 32 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. Mr. Bartlett 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.

William Choe is the Director of Product Management for the Ethernet Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc.  In this position, Choe leads a team in the development of market leading fixed configuration Ethernet switching and energy management solutions for the mid-market, enterprise campus and data center.  Choe is a fifteen-year Cisco veteran and has played a number of key roles in business strategy and product development across the company.  This includes the development of Cisco’s first billion dollar fixed configuration product family, the Catalyst 3500XL platform.  Choe was responsible for Senior Product Management of the Cisco ONS 15454, the central product of Cisco’s next generation optical networking platform.  Prior to joining Cisco, Choe was an Engineer at Grand Junction Networks, which was acquired by Cisco in November 1995.  At Grand Junction, he provided technical support and management of the company’s ground-breaking switched Ethernet and Fast Ethernet products.Choe received his Bachelor of Science from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California and his Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. 

As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker.

Joel T. McKelvey currently serves as technical alliance manager at NetApp, Inc. where he coordinates technical collaboration and co-development efforts between NetApp and key virtualization partners such as VMware and Cisco.  Prior to working at NetApp, Mr. McKelvey worked at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he served as alliance manager for several technology alliances. An experienced technology strategist, Mr. McKelvey is co-author of two books and has published numerous papers on topics related to networking, virtualization, and technology strategy. Mr. McKelvey holds masters degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University.  He is a successful marketing and engineering manager, the founder of two startups, and has earned numerous certifications and accreditations from academic and industry groups including the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), VMware, and Cisco Systems.

George Pradel has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years now, the last 12 being in Virtualization. 6 1/2 years with Citrix, 2 years with VMware and 3 1/2 years with Vizioncore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest software specializing in Virtualization solutions including Backup, Replication, Monitoring, P2V and vm optimization.
 

Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA’s Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior to CA, Stephen was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Stephen earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.

Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker.

Scott Herold leads product design and architecture for Quest's Virtualization Management Division. With more than a decade of industry experience in operating system, network, security and storage design, Scott is a pioneer in architecting advanced virtualization solutions. Scott also is the co-author of two best-selling books, "VMWare ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide," and "VMWare Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide."  Focused on helping organizations achieve the benefits of virtualization while minimizing the challenges, Scott is a frequent presenter at industry events, and contributes to white papers and articles focused on virtualization best practices.

Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA’s Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior to CA, Stephen was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Stephen earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.

Rich Bourdeau is currently vice president of product marketing and management at DynamicOps.  DynamicOps provides delivery automation and governance of private cloud based IT services.  Rich has more than 20 years experience developing, managing, and marketing IT infrastructure management solutions. He was vice president of product management at Incipient, and held product marketing and management positions at in EMC’s storage management division.

Paul Arceneaux has more than 12 years of network and system management experience. Prior to TippingPoint, he was vice president of systems management for 3Com Corporation. He was responsible for the engineering and product management of the company’s management software. Previously, Arceneaux was vice president and general manager for Siemens network and service management software solutions. In addition, he has worked as a project engineer dealing with security, time management and network management.

Marty Parker is committed to advancement of Unified Communications (UC) to produce new benefits and efficiencies in enterprise communications and to stimulate and justify innovation in the business communications industry. Marty sees Unified Communications as transforming the highly manual, unmeasured, and relatively unpredictable world of telephony-based and e-mail-based communications into a software-assisted, coordinated, simplified, predictable process that will deliver high-value benefits to customers, to employees, and to the relevant enterprises. With even moderate attention to implementation and change management, UC can deliver the cost-saving and process-accelerating changes that deliver real, compelling, hard-dollar ROI. Marty is co-founder of UniComm Consulting, the industry's premier independent consulting firm providing strategy, planning and implementation support for enterprises in all industry segments. Marty is also co-founder of UCStrategies.com, the industry's leading forum for UC information and dialog. Marty created the workshop, Planning and Implementing Unified Communications, offered though BCR Training since 2006 and now available through Telecom + UC Training. Involved providing UC sessions at VoiceCon since 2006, Marty will be delivering the industry review, "UC Options: Who's Offering What?" as well as leading the deep-dive session, "Unified Communications Implementation." As a student of UC successes and case studies, Marty will moderate the important session, "Communications Enabled Apps in Action: Case Studies" at which customer executives will highlight their actual UC experiences. Marty bases is UC activities on his experience in sales, strategic planning, product line management, financial management and general management positions in both computing (IBM) and communications (ATT/Lucent/Avaya) firms, as well as with two venture funded firms and with a very large west-coast telecom interconnect firm in the 1980s.

Allan Sulkin, President, TEQConsult Group (www.teqconsult.com), is a universally recognized consultant and analyst who focuses on enterprise communications.  His client base include virtually all of the leading system suppliers of enterprise voice systems and many large corporate and instituional end users.  For almost a quarter century he has been a contributing editor to Business Communications Review magazine and its current online version No Jitter.  He authored the textbook PBX Systems for IP Telephony and has been an instrumental factor in the success of VoiceCon since its inception.  He can be contact at amsuilkin@aol.com