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Brian Butte has almost twenty years of experience in Strategy and Architecture across business, marketing, consumer affairs, and information technology in multiple verticals. His success lies in adopting a customer lens through he views each initiative. He builds strong trusted adviser relationships by assisting in the analysis, recommendation for action, and execution of both strategic and tactical responses to business challenges. His experience covers the full spectrum from green field strategy to tactical implementations and crisis management.

Brian is a noted thought leader in Cloud Computing who speaks at multiple conferences, has published several white papers, and is quoted in various industry publications. Brian is a member of IEEE and OMG's Cloud Standards Customer Council.

Dave has two decades of experience in strategic product development. Prior to his current role as vice president of strategy and marketing at ServiceMesh, he held a similar role at open networking vendor Vyatta, where he crafted the marketing and communications strategy that positioned Vyatta as the leader in open networking. Prior to Vyatta, Mr. Roberts was the co-founder, CTO, and vice president of strategy at Inkra networks where he pioneered virtualized security and networking technology for utility and cloud computing. Roberts has authored 11 patents, three technical books, and numerous articles.

Dheeraj Pandey is a co-founder and CEO of Nutanix. He brings over 13 years of experience working at high growth enterprise software companies. Prior to founding Nutanix, Dheeraj was the VP of Engineering at Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped build the product and its engineering team ground up. At Oracle, he managed the storage engine group for Oracle Database/Exadata, and co-authored numerous patents in the area of distributed databases. Dheeraj is a Ph.D. dropout from University of Texas (Austin), where he was a Graduate Fellow of the CS department. He graduated with a BS in CS from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Kanpur), where he was adjudged the "Best All-Rounder Student Among All Graduating Students in All Disciplines."

Oded Haner is an accomplished, strategic, collaborative leader with over 15 years of experience developing and implementing innovating technologies that contribute to aggressive corporate growth. Key IT projects included reengineering and overhauling corporate architecture towards virtualization, private cloud and SaaS technologies starting as far back as 2002. Utilizing leading-edge technologies to deliver compelling advantages which enable differentiation and bottom-line results. Over the last 15 years Oded served in various executive roles, in his current position as HotLink’s CTO Oded is leading the development of the HotLink SuperVISOR™ platform which revolutionizes system management of heterogeneous virtual computing with an open, enterprise-class integration and transformation platform spanning all major hypervisors. Previously as a CIO for Monster Cable, Oded successfully delivered a verity of projects including an global overhaul of Monster’s Cable’s infrastructure utilizing complex virtualization technologies to deliver services to an ever growing business and a long list of solutions to support business growth. Solution included the global deployment of Oracle’s ERP and a rapidly growing eCommerce solution where his vision and execution over a multi-year roadmap delivered tangible year over year ROI and bottom line profitable growth.

Mark McKenzie is a Director of Advanced Services in Cisco’s Enterprise Data Center Practice. The practice is responsible for providing architectural guidance, best practices, and recommendations on how customers can leverage Cisco solutions to bring maximum value to their stakeholders. Cisco’s data center solutions can be leveraged as the strategic foundation for virtualization, unified I/O and data center consolidation and provide a converged infrastructure that enables business applications to run more effectively, efficiently, and with optimal return on investment.

The practice is also responsible for helping Enterprise, Commercial, and public sector customers assess where they are on the journey to Cloud computing and assist them in migrating their infrastructure and applications to take advantage of the benefits of a converged architecture and an automated operations.

Kit Colbert is a Principal Engineer in the Management group at VMware. He is the lead architect for the vCenter Operations suite of products, which provides performance, capacity and configuration management optimized for virtualization and cloud environments. Previously, he was the architect and technical lead for the VMotion and Storage VMotion products from VMware. Kit is a regular speaker on virtualization memory management topics and vCenter Operations at VMworld, on podcasts and at VMware User Groups.

Chad Jones is an expert in virtualization, infrastructure and cloud technologies with over 17 years’ experience driving strategic product initiatives for the G2000 Enterprise. Prior to DynamicOps, he served as Vice President, Product Management for Neocleus, an innovator of type-1 client hypervisors, which was acquired by Intel. Before Neocleus, Chad was one of the creators of SoftGrid from application virtualization pioneer Softricity, which was acquired by Microsoft. As part of Microsoft, Mr. Jones oversaw the App-V product as part of the MDOP group which has sold over 37 million licenses to date. In a bit of historical irony, Chad was Chief Architect for an Application Service Provider named FutureLink where he designed global cloud services before cloud was known as cloud.

Hugh has been working on online commerce and user experiences with video and multimedia technologies for nearly a decade. As a Product Director at Google, he is currently leads the strategic direction for overall Chrome Media offerings and services including audio and video within the web platform. Prior to Google, Hugh lead multiple launches of Kindle and its key features at Amazon.com. Before Amazon, he worked at Microsoft for 10 years developing the multiplayer infrastructure for PC games as well as various enterprise office products.

Frank Fender is a Unified Communications Product Manager and Architect at Siemens Enterprise Communications in their Global OpenScape Unified Communications Server practice. Frank has been specifically focused on UC deliverables since 2003. In those days the technology was known as Real-Time Collaboration (RTC). He was instrumental in assisting Siemens declare first-to-market status with their award-winning UC system, OpenScape Server.? Frank has a BS in Computer Science, an MBA, and 20 years of voice, data, and development experience as a Unified Communications Architect, Integrated Communications Consultant, Software Developer, and Technical Project Leader.? He has performed in a variety of technical roles including Consultant, Lead Architect, Developer, and Systems Integrator.? Frank has also worked in various capacities as Manager, Director, CFO, Board Member, and Chairman of a number of companies that he has founded, co-founded, managed or developed.

Jamie Stark looks after voice, networking and interoperability for Microsoft Lync. Jamie has spent the last 15 Years in Enterprise Software for Telephony, Contact Center, and Enterprise PBX systems and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft’s TechED and Worldwide Partner Conferences and Enterprise Connect. Jamie can be reached at jastark@microsoft.com and tweets sporadically @nomorephones.

Wade Hamblin brings more than twenty years of telecommunications industry experience to his position as Product Manager for Cisco’s IP Communications Business Unit. In this role, Mr. Hamblin is responsible for product direction and management of enterprise-based Unified Communication architecture.

Previously he held other product management roles at Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Hamblin spent time in management and technical roles with Optical Systems and Arizona/New Mexico Optical Network.

Wade Hamblin holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.

Hugh has been working on online commerce and user experiences with video and multimedia technologies for nearly a decade. As a Product Director at Google, he is currently leads the strategic direction for overall Chrome Media offerings and services including audio and video within the web platform. Prior to Google, Hugh lead multiple launches of Kindle and its key features at Amazon.com. Before Amazon, he worked at Microsoft for 10 years developing the multiplayer infrastructure for PC games as well as various enterprise office products.

Jamie Stark looks after voice, networking and interoperability for Microsoft Lync. Jamie has spent the last 15 Years in Enterprise Software for Telephony, Contact Center, and Enterprise PBX systems and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft’s TechED and Worldwide Partner Conferences and Enterprise Connect. Jamie can be reached at jastark@microsoft.com and tweets sporadically @nomorephones.

Wes first worked on the integration of communications and business applications at Siebel Systems in 1999 leading support areas focused on inbound and outbound email integration - Email Agent, eMail Response, and Communications Server, and later was Product Manager for the CRM Desktop products for Siebel and Oracle Fusion CRM teams. Currently the Product Manager for Appirio technology components of the Cloud Enablement Suite e.g. CloudFactor, Cloud Sync, and Cloud Management Center.

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

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

Gary Gordon is a senior manager focused on unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) for NEC’s Enterprise Technologies business. He started with NEC in September 2004 as a UC product manager, and he previously managed communication and e-commerce business process integration for Fleming Co., a $20 billion wholesale/retail distribution company.

Gordon has more than 17 years’ experience working with emerging technologies, including UC, software-oriented architecture (SOA), and presence-enabled applications. He has seven years’ experience in managing PC’s and web-based applications on a large IP network. Gary brings strong knowledge and management skills in real-time-communication based applications, communication enabled business process (CEBP), and has additional expertise in sales and marketing.

David Chavez is a 42 year-old Systems Architect with 20 years of professional experience. He credits his exceptional track record of innovation to “creativity and enthusiasm in my approach to solving problems.”

His contribution has been recognized by 57 patent awards, with many more pending. David received a B.S. in computer Science and Mathematics from New Mexico State University in 1987 and an M.S. in Mathematics from Colorado State University. Additionally, David supplemented his education with Executive coursework at Stanford Graduate School of Business in corporate strategy.

David was responsible for Avaya’s award winning and market leading IP Communications architecture, and the creator of Avaya’s Next Generation Aura™ architecture launched this year.

David has received numerous professional awards including the Avaya Leadership Award, Avaya’s “Leading Edge Innovators” Award, AT&T’s Partner of Choice Award, the Lucent International President’s Award, and the Lucent GROWs Award for his commitment to personal development and the development of others. Additionally, David is a multiple nominee for MIT’s Lemelson Award for Innovation.

The products he developed have won many awards, including “Product of the Year” from Network Magazine and “best new business phone system” from Communications Convergence.

Wade Hamblin brings more than twenty years of telecommunications industry experience to his position as Product Manager for Cisco’s IP Communications Business Unit. In this role, Mr. Hamblin is responsible for product direction and management of enterprise-based Unified Communication architecture.

Previously he held other product management roles at Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Hamblin spent time in management and technical roles with Optical Systems and Arizona/New Mexico Optical Network.

Wade Hamblin holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Smith brings over 15 years of enterprise software and telecommunications industry experience to Cisco Systems, where he is the Director of Marketing for Collaboration Applications. Michael is responsible for Collaboration Applications product marketing activities, channel marketing programs, and ISV and developer marketing.

Previously, Michael worked for Microsoft as Director of Marketing for Office Communications Server and Office PerformancePoint Server. He also worked in Deloitte Consulting’s Telecom practice and as Director of Product Management for Pacific Bell Wireless. He holds an M.B.A from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon and a B.S. in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon.

Laura Bassett is the Director of Marketing for Avaya’s Emerging Products and Technology group. The group delivers innovative business solutions from Avaya Research Labs and Advanced Software Development. In this role Laura oversees the groups go-to-market including business planning and strategy, market awareness, marketing, and sales enablement and engagement for next generation solutions. She has established Avaya’s Market Driven Innovation Model and Early Adopter Program to support the efforts of Avaya to accelerate the commercialization of innovation. Additionally, Laura is a supporting author of Avaya’s Social Media in the Contact Center for Dummies.

Laura has over 18 years experience in applications consulting, development and delivery. Prior to her current role, Laura led the Contact Center Solutions team responsible for delivering end to end customer service solutions. She has a BSBA in Computer Science and an Executive MBA from the University of Florida.

With twenty five years of experience as a senior software marketing executive, Lisa Abbott has a long track record of successfully driving marketing strategies for products that harness the web and in particular social media, as a customer channel. Within her past experience, Lisa has worked with brands including Charles Schwab, Autodesk, Informix Software and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to drive migration to and investment of new web-based products and services, as well as increase collaboration across the organization.

As a Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Genesys, Lisa is currently responsible for defining the marketing strategy and execution of the Genesys Social Media and eServices products worldwide. Within this role she is constantly acting as a resource for organizations that are looking to stop bad customer service and evolve their customer interaction beyond voice, to a true cross channel strategy and has been recognized as an industry leader through speaking opportunities and forums at various industry events worldwide.

Mr. Peters is author of the Esri Press book Building a GIS, System Architecture Design Strategies for Managers initially published in August 2008 (second edition published January 2012). He is also content manager and principal instructor for Esri System Architecture Design Strategies educational services, developing materials used by Esri Distributors and Business Partners worldwide, promoting services for design and implementation of customer GIS operations. Mr. Peters develops and maintains the Capacity Planning Tools shared on the Esri Press Building a GIS Online Resource Center. He is also author of the System Design Strategies wiki site (wiki.gis.com), providing an online resource for effective system design training and consulting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dheeraj Pandey is a co-founder and CEO of Nutanix. He brings over 13 years of experience working at high growth enterprise software companies. Prior to founding Nutanix, Dheeraj was the VP of Engineering at Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped build the product and its engineering team ground up. At Oracle, he managed the storage engine group for Oracle Database/Exadata, and co-authored numerous patents in the area of distributed databases. Dheeraj is a Ph.D. dropout from University of Texas (Austin), where he was a Graduate Fellow of the CS department. He graduated with a BS in CS from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Kanpur), where he was adjudged the "Best All-Rounder Student Among All Graduating Students in All Disciplines."

Paul Unbehagen is an active member of the IEEE and IETF. He has worked on the design, standardization, implementation, deployment, and support of many modern routing protocols (e.g., MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, and SPB)and currently has approximately 24 networking related patents. He has also participated in several IETF WGs to include IS-IS, BGP, L2VPN, and IPVPNs and is currently the author of the IP/SPB IETF draft. Paul is now participating in the design, standardization, implementation and productization of IEEE 802.1aq/Shortest Path Bridging.

Previously Paul has worked in numerous diverse networking environments to include the US Military, Bloomberg, MCI, and Nortel as well as a few startups. Paul thus has 16 years of deployment, operational, network design and architectural experience in live networks ranging from Government, Enterprise and Carrier.

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

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

Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he served as technical lead for content networking product management. A senior member of the Office of the CTO, Dr. Day is part of the team responsible for Riverbed’s technology direction and strategy. He works closely with Riverbed customers, solving some of the most technically complex and challenging issues associated with application acceleration and Wide Area Network optimization. Dr. Day also invented the SSL optimization technique that is a core feature of Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products. This development has that made it practical for enterprises to accelerate secure SSL traffic. He holds 19 patents in distributed systems, presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony, and has chaired several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995.

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

Steve Shah is part of the marketing team in the NetScaler and Cloud Product group where he drives product direction and go-to-market strategy. Before returning to Citrix, Steve Shah was the principal of RisingEdge Consutling, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in strategic marketing for datacenter infrastructure products and cloud computing. Some of Steve's customers include Citrix Systems, Coradiant, Silver Peak, and Amadeus Capital. Prior to his return to consulting, Steve Shah was the VP of Product Strategy and Co-founder of Asyncast which built a NLP engine for use in new media and telephony applications. Steve uses his experience of being the customer, engineer, and marketeer to identify new market opportunities and drive technology in new directions as a result. He gained his expertise by holding various product management, engineering, and system administrator roles at Citrix Systems, NetScaler, Array Networks, and Alteon Web Systems.

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.

Kumar Ramachandran is Director of Product Management and Marketing at Cisco, responsible for product roadmap and GTM for WAAS. Kumar has worked extensively in the areas of application and video delivery, high performance clouds, virtual desktop optimization and BYOD. Kumar previously held product management responsibilities for Cisco’s ISR branch office routers. Prior to joining Cisco, Kumar built, deployed and managed applications and networks at companies such as Citibank and Providian Financial. Kumar holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science as well as an MBA from University of California, Berkeley.

Haseeb Budhani is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Infineta Systems' product marketing and management, customer and partner relationships, and overall product roadmap. Most recently, he served as Vice President for NET's Broadband Technology Group, spearheading the group's product marketing, program management and business development functions. Haseeb has previously held senior product management, marketing and engineering roles at Personal IT, Citrix Systems, Orbital Data, IP Infusion and Oblix. He has served in key advisory roles for startups such as Chegg Inc. and Gift Venture. Haseeb holds an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

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

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

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

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

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

Neil Cohen is Akamai’s Vice President of Global Product Marketing where he develops the go-to-market strategy for application performance, site optimization, web security and digital media services. Over the past five years at Akamai, he has brought to market new services and partnerships applied towards strategic enterprise initiatives such as cloud computing, application acceleration, data-center optimization, virtual desktops, mobile web and Internet security. Neil has over 15-years of engineering, product management and marketing experience in the high-tech industry and a regular speaker and contributor for a variety of cloud computing technology forums and publications.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ron is VP, Strategy and Product Management at Compuware, responsible for the company’s Application Performance Management solutions. He has over 20 years experience across software, management consulting, financial services, healthcare, government, consumer products, retail, and service provider segments. Previously, Ron was VP at two national management consulting companies leading Business Development, Consulting Services, and Corporate Strategy. He was also an IT leader at Mercury Interactive during its explosive growth from $300MM to $1BB. Ron is an alumnus of Accenture where he led financial systems design for global 2000 customers. Ron has developed and implemented business strategies and technology architectures for leading organizations including American Express, Family Dollar, Pfizer, Mercy Healthcare, and Dial Corporation. He has also worked with leading technology companies including Cisco, HP, Microsoft, EMC, Oracle, and VMware. A former CPA and CCIE candidate, Ron holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from the University of Arizona.

Stephen Burton is Tech Evangelist at AppDynamics, and is also the alter ego of increasingly popular "App Man" character. Steve is responsible for promoting best practice application performance management (APM) for distributed applications running in cloud, virtual and physical environments.

Before joining AppDynamics, Steve held senior product management positions at OpTier and Precise leading innovation and creative solutions to help customers better manage the performance of their applications. Steve has previously worked in pre-sales and also spent many years as a senior developer and application support engineer when his career began at Sapient.

Steve received his BS in Computer Science from Lancaster University, UK. He enjoys speed and is a keen motorsport/formula 1 fan and hopes one day to become The Stig.

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

Andi Mann is vice president of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies. With over 20 years’ experience across four continents, Andi has deep expertise in strategic enterprise technology. Andi has worked within IT departments for governments and corporations, from small businesses to global multi-nationals; with several large enterprise software vendors; and as a leading industry analyst advising enterprises, governments, and IT vendors – from startups to the worlds’ largest companies. He has been widely published including in the New York Times, USA Today, CIO, ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, TechTarget, and more. He has presented around the world on virtualization, cloud, automation, and IT management, including at Gartner ITxpo, VMworld, CA World, Interop, Cloud Computing Expo, SAPPHIRE, Citrix Synergy, Cloud Slam, and others. Andi is a co-author of the popular handbook, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud’; he blogs at ‘Andi Mann – Übergeek’, and tweets as @AndiMann.

As Director of Industry Marketing at Cisco, Joel strives to understand? the unique challenges in Manufacturing, Retail, and Financial Services industries, and help customers in those industries harness the transformative power of the network.? He is part of a dynamic team of individuals responsible for envisioning the future of the network and IT.?

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Conover is a seasoned industry professional with over 18 years of experience.? He holds bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.?? Joel works in a world without borders from his Cisco Virtual Office in De Pere, WI.

Sudheer Matta is Sr Director of Product Management, WLAN Systems for Juniper’s Campus and Branch Business Unit based in Sunnyvale. Prior to that he was leading Cisco’s Product Management for Wireless LAN Controllers and Architecture. Sudheer has spent 10 years in the IEEE and Wi-Fi alliance; Most recently he was the Chair of the Wi-Fi alliance Healthcare Task Group, and Vice-chair of Wi-Fi alliance Network Management Task Group. Sudheer has 4 assigned and 2 pending patents including the recently awarded Band Steering patent, widely implemented in the

industry. In his engineering roles, Sudheer was the primary architect of the 802.11 implementation in the Juniper Access points.

Patrick has 25 years of technology experience in engineering, product management and product marketing, providing solutions for companies ranging from the enterprise to SMBs. As Senior Manager, Integrated Solutions Marketing for Brocade for the past 3 years, Patrick’s main responsibilities center on the development and execution of the marketing strategy for integrated solutions for Brocade Campus LAN/WLAN. This solution based approach strives to combine the right technology solutions to solve the challenges faced by enterprise customers each day.

Stuart is an analyst and research for Wikibon. He focuses on networking, virtualization (was named a 2011 VMware vExpert), storage and cloud computing. Before becoming an analyst in 2010, Stuart's past positions included telecommunications sales at Lucent Technologies and, a decade at EMC spanning product management, engineering program management and strategic planning in the Office of the CTO. Stuart holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Bryant University. Stuart is engaged in the technical and social media communities; find him on the Wikibon blog and on Twitter @stu.

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

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

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

Technology Expertise:

• XenDesktop XenApp/XenDesktop and application virtualization
• VMware vSphere

Certifications, Publications, and Patents Held:

• VMware VCP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dheeraj Pandey is a co-founder and CEO of Nutanix. He brings over 13 years of experience working at high growth enterprise software companies. Prior to founding Nutanix, Dheeraj was the VP of Engineering at Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped build the product and its engineering team ground up. At Oracle, he managed the storage engine group for Oracle Database/Exadata, and co-authored numerous patents in the area of distributed databases. Dheeraj is a Ph.D. dropout from University of Texas (Austin), where he was a Graduate Fellow of the CS department. He graduated with a BS in CS from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Kanpur), where he was adjudged the "Best All-Rounder Student Among All Graduating Students in All Disciplines."

Oded Haner is an accomplished, strategic, collaborative leader with over 15 years of experience developing and implementing innovating technologies that contribute to aggressive corporate growth. Key IT projects included reengineering and overhauling corporate architecture towards virtualization, private cloud and SaaS technologies starting as far back as 2002. Utilizing leading-edge technologies to deliver compelling advantages which enable differentiation and bottom-line results. Over the last 15 years Oded served in various executive roles, in his current position as HotLink’s CTO Oded is leading the development of the HotLink SuperVISOR™ platform which revolutionizes system management of heterogeneous virtual computing with an open, enterprise-class integration and transformation platform spanning all major hypervisors. Previously as a CIO for Monster Cable, Oded successfully delivered a verity of projects including an global overhaul of Monster’s Cable’s infrastructure utilizing complex virtualization technologies to deliver services to an ever growing business and a long list of solutions to support business growth. Solution included the global deployment of Oracle’s ERP and a rapidly growing eCommerce solution where his vision and execution over a multi-year roadmap delivered tangible year over year ROI and bottom line profitable growth.

Mark McKenzie is a Director of Advanced Services in Cisco’s Enterprise Data Center Practice. The practice is responsible for providing architectural guidance, best practices, and recommendations on how customers can leverage Cisco solutions to bring maximum value to their stakeholders. Cisco’s data center solutions can be leveraged as the strategic foundation for virtualization, unified I/O and data center consolidation and provide a converged infrastructure that enables business applications to run more effectively, efficiently, and with optimal return on investment.

The practice is also responsible for helping Enterprise, Commercial, and public sector customers assess where they are on the journey to Cloud computing and assist them in migrating their infrastructure and applications to take advantage of the benefits of a converged architecture and an automated operations.

Kit Colbert is a Principal Engineer in the Management group at VMware. He is the lead architect for the vCenter Operations suite of products, which provides performance, capacity and configuration management optimized for virtualization and cloud environments. Previously, he was the architect and technical lead for the VMotion and Storage VMotion products from VMware. Kit is a regular speaker on virtualization memory management topics and vCenter Operations at VMworld, on podcasts and at VMware User Groups.

Chad Jones is an expert in virtualization, infrastructure and cloud technologies with over 17 years’ experience driving strategic product initiatives for the G2000 Enterprise. Prior to DynamicOps, he served as Vice President, Product Management for Neocleus, an innovator of type-1 client hypervisors, which was acquired by Intel. Before Neocleus, Chad was one of the creators of SoftGrid from application virtualization pioneer Softricity, which was acquired by Microsoft. As part of Microsoft, Mr. Jones oversaw the App-V product as part of the MDOP group which has sold over 37 million licenses to date. In a bit of historical irony, Chad was Chief Architect for an Application Service Provider named FutureLink where he designed global cloud services before cloud was known as cloud.

As an Industry Analyst in Frost & Sullivan’s Mobile & Wireless Communications Group, Mr. Day researches and analyzes mobile devices, applications, and next generation wireless technologies that enable the mobile revolution. Mr. Day has over 18 years experience in the telecommunications space, ranging from Operations and Engineering, to Marketing and growth strategy consulting for global fortune 100 companies. He has authored numerous syndicated studies and articles in the areas of Next Generation Technologies, Smartphones, and Application Storefronts. Mr. Day has been a speaker at Interop & Go Mobile on topics such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Mobile OS & Platforms and Mobile Media Services, and is frequently quoted by major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, and SmartMoney.

Michael J. Miller is senior vice president for technology strategy at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment firm, and writes the Forward Thinking blog at pcmag.com. From 1991 to 2005, Miller was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine, responsible for the editorial direction, quality and presentation of the world's largest computer publication. Until late 2006, Miller was the Chief Content Officer for Ziff Davis Media, responsible for overseeing the editorial positions of Ziff Davis's magazines, websites, and events. As Editorial Director for Ziff Davis Publishing, Miller took an active role in helping to identify new editorial needs in the marketplace and in shaping the editorial positioning of every Ziff Davis title.

Robin Gareiss is Executive Vice President and Senior Founding Partner for Nemertes Research, where she oversees research product development, conducts primary research, develops cost models, and advises leading enterprises, vendors, and carriers. She serves as chief financial officer, as well.

For the past 20 years, Robin has advised and worked with hundreds of senior IT executives, ranging in size from Fortune 100 to Fortune 2000, analyzing their use of technology and capturing best practices. She also has developed industry-leading, interactive cost models for some of the world's largest enterprises and vendors.

Robin is a widely recognized expert in Voice over IP, convergence, collaboration, advanced communications services, mobility, services, and branch-office technologies. She is a sought-after speaker at conferences and trade shows, presenting at IT Roadmap, VoiceCon, Citrix Synergy, AT&T Technical Leader Forums, Interop, Mobile Business Expo, Supercomm, Telecom, and CeBit. She also writes the IT Transformation column for No Jitter, and the Borderless Networks blog for Network World.

Robin also has personal experience managing operations and developing new product offerings. Her entrepreneurial experience includes co-founding and overseeing marketing and business development for The OnBoard Group, a water-purification business in Illinois. She also served as president of Living Hope Lutheran Church, and ran several successful fundraisers for children's cancer and other charities.

Before joining Nemertes, Robin shaped technology and business coverage as Senior News Editor of InformationWeek, a leading business-technology publication with 440,000 readers. Prior to joining InformationWeek, Robin served in a variety of capacities at Data Communications magazine, where helped set strategic direction, oversaw reader surveys, and provided quantitative and statistical analysis. At these organizations Robin also helped develop, organize, and operate Web sites, TV, and print coverage of major trade shows. She has won numerous, prestigious awards for her in-depth analyses of business-technology issues.

Robin also taught ethics at the Poynter Institute for Advanced Media Studies. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and American Medical News. Robin has a Bachelor of Science in journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana. She lives in Illinois with her husband and four daughters.

John Dix is Editor in Chief of Network World where he is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the newsweekly and overseeing its Web property, NetworkWorld.com. A 32 year industry veteran, Dix worked for International Data Corp. covering developments in networking and distributed processing, Computerworld as the newsweekly’s senior communications editor, then in 1986 was part of the team that launched Network World. Dix has served on the boards of many industry trade shows, including Interop, Comnet, Comdex, PC Expo and SatCon.

Terri Griffith, Ph.D. helps people and organizations work with technology. She is a Professor of Management at Santa Clara University and the author of The Plugged-In Manager. She regularly contributes to GigaOM's WebWorkerDaily, her own blog, Technology and Organizations, and has written for the Wall Street Journal.

Tom Henderson is principal researcher for ExtremeLabs, Inc., of Bloomington Indiana. The author of a dozen books on operating systems and spreadsheet software, Tom is also a member of NetworkWorld Magazine's Global Test Alliance. He's also found online in various spots, and too easily found by search engines.

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

Vishy is responsible for supporting strategic customers opportunities and market development initiatives across the mobility portfolio at SAP. Prior to SAP, Vishy was with AT&T Business Solutions where he launched and scaled a nationwide specialist sales force focused on mobile application platforms, mobile device management, and location based services. He has held prior roles spanning technology and IT consulting, solution development, portfolio management, and alliances at Nokia, Capgemini, and Motorola. Vishy is also the co-author of "Work Goes Mobile" (Wiley, 2006).

Chuck founded Apperian in 2009 and leads Apperian’s strategic initiatives and business development for the company. Chuck spent eight years as a Director at Apple, Inc where he helped integrate Apple technologies into Apple’s largest education and enterprise customer infrastructures. Chuck led Apple’s iPhone Enterprise Beta Program program and helped Apple’s earliest adopters leverage iOS to empower a mobile workforce since the day it launched.

Chuck was also founder and CEO of Interactive Media Solutions, the leading provider of next-generation online recruiting tools for colleges and universities. At IMS, Chuck created America’s first “virtual open house” where students, faculty, and staff communicated in real-time and conducted virtual online leader-led campus tours.

Brian is currently a director at Sanofi where he heads the mobility industrialization and engineering group. In his current role, he is managing mobile initiatives to enable the organization to move forward in the mobile space, which includes mobilizing the salesforce, handling BYOD initiatives, and enabling new devices and form factors for success.

He has over 20 years experience in managing and implementing IT processes. He started his career working with a multi-national New York financial company as an email architect, designing and maintainingtheir email and communications systems which also involved supporting theirmobile computing platforms. He later moved to Sanofi where he led the x86/Microsoft server group for many years before moving into his current position.

Bret Kinsella is Vice President, Commercial Services, reporting to the senior vice president of Business Development for Harris IT Services. As part of the $6 billion Harris Corporation, Harris IT Services designs, deploys and operates secure communication systems and information networks with optimal reliability and affordability for high-profile customers in government and commercial markets, delivering expertise in Program Management, Enterprise Services Management and Information Assurance worldwide.

Prior to joining Harris, Mr. Kinsella served as chief operating officer at ODIN Technologies, whose key customers include Airbus, U.S. Department of Defense, CareFusion, Dell, Johnson & Johnson, and Morgan Stanley. Previous leadership positions include director, general manager supply chain service line with Sapient; director, product and industry marketing for Formation Systems; manager and co-founder of the B2B eCommerce practice at Accenture; and communications director for the North Carolina Senate.

Mr. Kinsella holds a master of business administration degree in Marketing and Operations from The Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor of science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Kinsella has been frequently published in industry trade publications and he blogs on topics ranging from mobility, wireless, radio frequency identification technology and supply chain to corporate brand strategy.

Searl Tate is Director of Engineering at law firm, Paul Hastings, LLP. He has a total of 19 years experience in IT with the last 5 years at his current role. Searl's experience encompasses comprehensive infrastructure management that includes all facets of datacenter, storage, networking, messaging and document management systems.

Chuck King is the Manager of Computer Network Services for Desert Sands Unified School District, a “twenty-nine thousand student”, K-12 district, located in the heart of the Coachella Valley, in Southern California. He manages a fifteen-person, IT support staff serving thirty-four school sites and the district office. He has served the school district for over fourteen years. Chuck worked as an Engineering Manager for “Amber-a division of Raytheon Inc” developing high-performing Infrared systems for military applications for six years, and was a Project Engineer developing Sonar Navigation and Undersea Exploration Devices for Sonatech and EDO Corporations for 12 years. His education was at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he studied Electronic Engineering and Communications Systems Design.

John is an industry recognized Chief Technology Officer and ICT visionary. Currently John is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Futurewei, Huawei’s North American R&D organization. Huawei is the world’s second largest telecom solution provider serving over 2 billion people in more than 140 countries. Futurewei provides technical expertise across all Huawei products including wireless, wire line, core networking, silicon development, terminals, software and solutions. John is also the executive leader of Huawei’s Enterprise Global Competency Center, which provides Enterprise technology innovation and incubation as well as sales, marketing and operations support for Huawei’s Enterprise field sales and marketing teams worldwide.

Prior to Huawei, John was CTO of Nortel, the senior technology and R&D executive globally for the corporation, with functional responsibility for12,000 R&D staff and $1.7B annual budget. Prior to Nortel John was CTO for networking technologies at Broadcom Corporation. Prior to Broadcom, John was CTO, CMO and CIO of Enterasys Networks. John started his career at Cabletron Systems where he grew within the company ultimately becoming the global CTO.

David Ginsburg serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Extreme Networks, a leader in high performance networks, where he leads overall corporate and field marketing strategies. Ginsburg brings to Extreme Networks 25 years of industry experience in marketing and technical networking and has authored several books on the topic of internetworking, including, “Implementing IP Services and the Network Edge,” and “Implementing ADSL and ATM: Solutions for Enterprise Internetworking.”

Michael Smith brings over 15 years of enterprise software and telecommunications industry experience to Cisco Systems, where he is the Director of Marketing for Collaboration Applications. Michael is responsible for Collaboration Applications product marketing activities, channel marketing programs, and ISV and developer marketing.

Previously, Michael worked for Microsoft as Director of Marketing for Office Communications Server and Office PerformancePoint Server. He also worked in Deloitte Consulting’s Telecom practice and as Director of Product Management for Pacific Bell Wireless. He holds an M.B.A from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon and a B.S. in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon.

Seth Atkins is currently an Architect for the WLAN Portfolio. In this role he manages the WLAN portfolio strategy and roadmap of investment, working closely with R&D teams, product engineering, and key customers. He has a passion for customers, for being an advocate to Avaya representing those customer needs, and for creating products and solutions that work to solve real customer business challenges.

Prior to this role, Seth was the Mobility Solutions Leader within the Enterprise CTO team at Nortel. In that role he led the Mobility Solutions Council which was a vehicle for providing the voice of the customer to product management and Mobility VTeam which was responsible for supporting global Sales Engineering and equipping them to design solutions. Seth has written and delivered numerous training courses around WLAN and Mobility products to global Sales Engineering personnel.

He has a broad knowledge with more than ten years of experience in the networking industry, from network design and implementation to product design and R&D. This experience ranges from carrier to enterprise customers utilizing technologies such as WLAN, Mesh, WiMAX, RFID, Location Services, LAN/WAN, Routing, IP Multicast, Optical, DWDM, Security, IP Telephony, E911, Unified Communications, Operating Systems (Linux and various Microsoft).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Before MobileIron, Ojas was Vice President of Global Mobile Products at Yahoo!, responsible for Yahoo’s mobile search, email, messaging, and content services. The team delivered SMS, mobile web, and client applications for phones, and built extensive platforms to deal with the daunting global fragmentation of mobile technology. Ojas started in mobile in 2000 as Vice President of Product Marketing at AvantGo, one of the first software developers for Palm and PocketPC handhelds. AvantGo was purchased by Sybase iAnywhere Solutions in 2003. Before AvantGo, Ojas managed the online video gaming team at Acclaim Entertainment, spent several years with Boston Consulting Group, and started his career in 1988 as VAX/VMS product line manager at Oracle. Ojas is also a Board Member for Pact, a non-profit in Oakland California that provides adoption services for children of color and their parents.

Ojas has a BS/MS in Computer Engineering from M.I.T. and an MBA from Stanford. You can follow Ojas on twitter at @orege.

Mr. King is a proven leader with more than 15 years experience in business and technology, including more than ten years in mobile and approximately five years in security. His industry experience includes leading strategic initiatives and launching new products with service providers, network infrastructure, mobile and security software, and cloud services. He is currently Vice President, Product Management at McAfee, responsible for the mobile security product portfolio. Prior to joining McAfee, Mr. King led the Corporate Strategy team at VeriSign and previously held positions in management consulting, start up technology companies, and investment banking. Neil has an MBA and MSEE degree from The University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and an Undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mike Siegel, VP of Products, is responsible for product management, product marketing and strategy for Mocana Corporation, a leading smart device and data security company. Mocana has developed the only Smart Device Security Platform that secures all aspects of connected devices, as well as the apps and services that run on them. Mocana solutions increase confidence and deliver compliance to the Enterprise, the OEM and the service provider. Mike has over 12 years of experience in the security industry, 9 of which were spent at global security leader McAfee, Inc., where he played a leading role in defining McAfee's business in the mobile device and smartphone security arena and oversaw global product management and strategy for the entire Data Protection product line. Mike holds a bachelor's degree and MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

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

Mike Leseberg is the executive director of information technology for Richland School District and has held this position for nearly a decade. Leseberg has years of experience in the information technology and education space and has spearheaded various security initiatives. As the director of information technology at Richland, Leseberg lead a district-wide initiative where he successfully enforced security policy compliance on employee mobile devices to allow employees to connect their devices to the network

For more than 20 years, Egan’s insights, analysis and predictions have served as early-warning indicators—calls to action—for CEOs, product vendors, mobile operators and device manufacturers. At Mobiquity, Egan is focusing on enterprise deployment and business-benefit strategies, competitive insights and product architecture.
As vice president of the Gartner Group, Egan received the prestigious “Thought Leadership Achievement Award.” Wireless Review called him the “Market Maker” and Adweek Magazine’s Technology Marketing group named him one of the six most influential industry analysts. A pioneer in Wi-Fi, he was a member of the first release of the IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard.
Egan is the founding chairman of SourceMedia’s Mobile Banking and Emerging Applications Summit, the WiMAX Forum Congress and Gartner’s Enterprise Mobility Conference.
His commentaries have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Businessweek and Fortune. He also writes two blogs, "Things Mobile" on Forbes.com and "The Mobile Strategist" at SepharimGroup.com, which focuses on the impact of mobility on global economies and consumer spending.

Andrew has been a technology analyst with Current Analysis for more than eight years. As Research Director for the Business Technology and Software group at Current Analysis, Andrew manages the Enterprise Security, Data Center Infrastructure, and Enterprise Network Systems coverage. As the lead analyst for Enterprise Security coverage, Andrew focuses on the market and technology dynamics that are transforming the industry. Andrew started his career as a journalist covering information technology in the defense and telecommunications sectors. He holds a M.A. from George Washington University in Science, Technology and Public Policy and a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Christian sits on the Infrastructure and Operations team, focusing on mobile hardware, mobile operating systems, mobile device management solutions, mobile applications, BYOD, and mobile policy.

Adam has been CTO/VP of Engineering/co-founder of several successful startups in the mobile and web services spaces: Commerce One, Systinet, and Good. He is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon and the author of several books on various computer science topics.

Michael Golz is SVP & CIO Americas at SAP. He oversees all IT infrastructure and applications in North America and Latin America, aligning information and technology strategy with SAP’s business strategy, directing the investment in IT to support the organization’s goals and providing best-in-class processes and reliable, optimized operations for all SAP lines of business in the Americas.

Darren Platt was Securant's first Vice President of Engineering, joining in 1996. Darren managed the first three releases of ClearTrust through 2000. He grew the engineering team to 40 people under tight bootstrap budgets in the hyper-competitive dot-com hiring boom.

Darren co-authored AuthXML and represented Securant on the standards bodies. With the sale of Securant, Darren managed the transition of ClearTrust into RSA's product portfolio and continued to represent RSA on the standards bodies.

In 2002, Platt joined Ping Identity as one of its first three employees, leading Ping's technology strategy and its transition into enterprise software. At Ping, Darren was given product, development and team management responsibility for Ping's conformance services and led the entire lifecycle of Ping's SOA security product, PingTrust.

Chris Smithee is a network security manager at Lancope, a leading provider of flow-based monitoring solutions to ensure high-performing and secure networks for global enterprises. A leading contributor to the innovation and advancement of flow based detection and analysis of information security and network events, And industry veteran, Smithee brings over eleven years of experience in telecomm industry with a strong focus in Network Security and Network design, Previously to Lancope, he work for the vendor neutral integration arm of Avaya performing Network Design and Integration inclusive of Data, Voice, and Network Security for large corporate, government, and military institutions.

A recognized voice in the industry, Smithee presents at conferences, leads NetFlow 101 Seminars and delivers training to customers and partners worldwide.

Peter Lunk is the Director of Product Marketing for Juniper's Security Business Unit. He has a broad background with over 15 years in leadership positions in product marketing, product management, solutions marketing and business development for technology companies focused on the service provider and enterprise markets. In these roles he drove marketing strategy and execution for a variety of networking and security technologies. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.