Conference: Physical Security Track

Keven W. Marier is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of IP Video Security Magazine (IPVS). In a year since its launch, IPVS has over 20,000 subscribers, offers award winning content, and is accelerating the adoption of IP video security. Mr. Marier has nine years of enterprise IT consulting, management and technology instructor experience, with an emphasis in technology infrastructure and convergence of voice, video, and data networks. Prior to establishing IPVS, his consulting practice led to the successful acquisition and deployment of 40 million dollars of technology over the past five years. He is an accomplished technical college instructor, has taught over 250 students and lead over 4,000 hours of lecture and hands-on-training classes. Mr. Marier attended the University of St. Thomas and the Control Data Institute. He holds several technical certifications.

Fredrik Nilsson currently serves as the General Manager for Axis Communications Inc., overseeing the company?s operations in North America. Mr. Nilsson has been with Axis for More than 10 years and has been general manager of the North American region since 2003. In that time, he has helped the company increase the revenue five fold and has been instrumental in leading the industry shift from analog closed circuit television to network video. Mr. Nilsson also serves on the SIA (Security Industry Association) Board of Directors. He is a trusted industry speaker and has spoken at more than 20 conferences, including the keynote address at TechSec Solutions, the premier conference on IP-ready security technology. He has spoken at influential shows such as Securing New Ground, ASIS Emerging Trends in Security, ISC West ISC East, and Interop. Mr. Nilsson has been in top publications such as The New York Times, USA Today and the Washington Post. He has also appeared on television shows such as CNN Headline News, CNBC?s ?Wake Up Call? and the Fox News Channel?s ?Fox & Friends.? He has written articles for, and been quoted in, many publications in the security industry, including Access Control & Security Systems, Security Products & Technology, Security Management and Security Systems News. He is also a regular columnist for SecurityInfoWatch.com.

LEE CASWELL Pivot3 Founder and Chief Marketing Officer Lee is an experienced technology executive with more than twenty years of marketing and management experience in the storage, networking, and digital video markets. Prior to Pivot3, Lee was a corporate officer at Adaptec, where he was VP and General Manager of Adaptec's $350M Storage Solutions Group. Lee managed Adaptec's relationships with OEM customers, led Adaptec's acquisition of IBM's ServeRAID business and launched Adaptec's external storage product line. Prior to Adaptec, Lee was VP Sales and Marketing at Parallax Graphics where he successfully closed funded development relationships with HP and IBM. Lee was a co-founder and Director of Marketing at Kodiak Technology, a LAN startup, and was a marketing analyst at SEEQ Technology, an Ethernet semiconductor company. He spent the first five years of his career in management programs at GE. Lee has a BA from Carleton College where he was a Wingspread Fellow and an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College where he was a Tuck Scholar.

Val Oliva is the Director of Product Management for Foundry?s Enterprise Business Unit. Oliva is also the President and a board member of the Ethernet Alliance Organization. Before 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) was a standard, Oliva lead the 10 Gigabit Ethernet efforts at Foundry. Oliva was a 10GEA Vice President, a Member of the Board of Directors with the 10GEA, and the Chair of the 10GEA Technical Committee. Oliva led the efforts to demonstrate the first and the largest 10GbE network vendor interoperability. Prior to Foundry, Oliva held a Product Line Management position at Network Equipment Technology. Oliva also spent 10 years building IP networks since 1988, and was employed as a Network Architect and Network Manager at Hewlett-Packard and Bay Networks, respectively.