Doug Roberts is the Director of Business Development for Fluke Networks Performance Management Business. Doug has been a part of Fluke Networks since the company's founding, where he has shown a unique ability to communicate the complexities of IT infrastructure to all levels of an organization. Doug has worked as an IT professional for over 12 years. Most recently Doug has been instrumental in helping to build Fluke Networks Performance Management Business specific to next generation application performance. Doug holds a B.S. degree from Georgia College, and is presently pursuing an EMBA from Mercer University. In addition to his formal education Doug also holds a myriad of both technical and industry certifications, including: Cisco CCNP, PMG NetAnalyst, CNE, SCE, and Six Sigma.

Matt Sherrod is the Vice President of Product Management for NetQoS where he defines product direction and strategy for the company's innovative networking solutions. With more than 20 years of IT and networking experience, Matt has in-depth knowledge of his customers' experiences and needs. Over the last six years he has held a number of field and management positions at NetQoS. Prior to joining NetQoS, Matt worked as a Director of Communications for a Fortune 100 global enterprise, applying leading edge technologies to improve application delivery. Matt holds a B.S. degree in Applied Math, Computer Science and Statistics, and a M.S. degree in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University.

Paul Ellis, CA Wily Senior Marketing Manager for CA Wily Application Performance Management (APM) and SOA initiatives, has over 30 years of IT experience spanning a wide range of disciplines including world-wide marketing, product management, strategy and sales-related responsibility at companies like IBM, Amdahl / Fujitsu Software Group and Memorex. His background includes significant experience in infrastructure management software and on-demand applications, in addition to storage and communications hardware platforms. He has written articles and delivered presentations at industry conferences in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific linking business needs with technology solutions.

Apurva Davé is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for Riverbed Technology. As part of the pioneering team in the WAN optimization, Apurva works closely with direct response marketing and creative services to deliver more effective, targeted lead generation through compelling content and efficient, scalable Marketing IT automation. Previously, he served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. Areas of technology expertise include Wide-area Data Services, WAN optimization, application acceleration, content delivery, caching and streaming media. Apurva holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University.

Ken Salchow has been employed by F5 for the past nine years where he has served in several capacities, from field engineering, to security architect overlay, to technical marketing and evangelist. Ken has helped design and implement some of the most cutting-edge uses of F5 technology, written numerous articles and whitepapers and traveled the world in an effort to help F5 customers achieve their business goals through the use of F5 technology. Prior to F5, Ken was a principal member of the Best Buy, Inc. Internet Services Group which was responsible for the development of the retailing giant's eCommerce presence taking what was a single machine to one of the largest and most successful "clicks and mortar" implementations in the industry. In addition, he has owned and operated several small businesses including a consultancy, a boutique computer forensics shop and, with his wife, a burger and malt shop. Ken is, or has been a CNE, MSCE, CCNP, C|EH, CISSP, Network+, CCNP, holds a BS in Information Technology from the MN School of Business and is currently completing his MBA with a focus on IT management. He lives with his wife and children in Twin Cities Metro area of Minnesota.

Mark Urban is the senior director of product marketing for Blue Coat's Application Delivery Network Infrastructure business. He has more than ten years of experience working with Fortune Global 500 enterprises and carriers to successfully navigate and implement advanced networking solutions for secure, high performance application delivery. Prior to joining Blue Coat, Urban was director of product marketing at Packeteer. Earlier, he worked in the enterprise networking group at FORE Systems/Marconi. Urban began his career at M&I Capital as an investment analyst. Later, he transitioned to the role of IT manager and moved the company to a networked infrastructure. Urban holds a B.S. in finance, investments and banking from the University of Wisconsin.

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

Evan Jafa is Senior Vice President and Corporate Chief Technology Officer for The First American Corporation. In this role, Jafa oversees the Corporate Information Technology Group, which was formed to support the ongoing development of First American's technology infrastructure and world-class technology centers. Prior to assuming this position in 2005, Jafa served as Chief Technology Officer of First American's Property Information Group. For the past six years, Jafa oversaw technology strategies for multiple business units within the division. In this capacity, he aligned IT strategies with rapidly changing needs of the fast-growing businesses due to acquisitions and organic growth. The First American Corporation is the nation's leading provider of business information. Tracing its history to 1889, First American continues its commitment to service by providing the information resources businesses need to make timely and accurate decisions. Backed by industry-leading technology systems, First American delivers efficiency to support its customers' business information needs. Under Jafa's leadership, the Corporate Information Technology and Group has executed consolidation of First American's technology infrastructures, provide the most cost-effective solutions for the specific needs of the Corporation and lead the Corporation's vision of technology. Jafa holds a master's degree in engineering with an emphasis in advanced systems from the University of California, Irvine.

Jerome Oglesby is Chief Technology Officer for Deloitte LLP, the U.S. member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world's leading professional services organizations, providing audit, risk management, tax, consulting and financial advisory services to selected clients. As Chief Technology Officer of the 1,100 person Information Technology Service organization, he is responsible for the technology strategy and transformation of the technology platforms for Deloitte's operations in the U.S. He is also responsible for the Service-Line Technology Centers of Innovation and Incubation that deliver technology solutions which support client-services engagements Jerome's background spans 27 years in information technology across several different industries, including; airlines, travel reservations, retail software distribution, telecommunications, and professional services. He holds an MBA and BS in Information Systems. He is a member of the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF) and the Nashville Technology Council - T3 Initiative, "Turning the Tide of Technology" to promote student & academic interest in technology.

Ken Salchow has been employed by F5 for the past nine years where he has served in several capacities, from field engineering, to security architect overlay, to technical marketing and evangelist. Ken has helped design and implement some of the most cutting-edge uses of F5 technology, written numerous articles and whitepapers and traveled the world in an effort to help F5 customers achieve their business goals through the use of F5 technology. Prior to F5, Ken was a principal member of the Best Buy, Inc. Internet Services Group which was responsible for the development of the retailing giant's eCommerce presence taking what was a single machine to one of the largest and most successful "clicks and mortar" implementations in the industry. In addition, he has owned and operated several small businesses including a consultancy, a boutique computer forensics shop and, with his wife, a burger and malt shop. Ken is, or has been a CNE, MSCE, CCNP, C|EH, CISSP, Network+, CCNP, holds a BS in Information Technology from the MN School of Business and is currently completing his MBA with a focus on IT management. He lives with his wife and children in Twin Cities Metro area of Minnesota.

Liad Ofek holds the technical marketing responsibilities for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product line. Mr. Ofek leads a team of product Marketing experts and responsible for system level solution definition and outbound technical marketing efforts. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Ofek was the VP of Technical Services for Expand Networks where he established the Pre/Post sale support team; Liad was personally involved with the creation and evolution of the WAN Optimization market. Prior to Expand Networks, Liad worked for Netcom, a leading networking and IT service provider in Israel. At Netcom, Liad managed the technical support team and was responsible for deploying and supporting leading edge networking technology from Cisco and other vendors. Mr. Ofek has over 12 years of experience with customer support and training and has real-world understanding of WAN optimization and deep networking knowledge (CCIE). Liad earned a B.Sc. in Communications Engineering from Holon Institute of Technology

Stephen Elliot is Vice President of Business Unit (BU) Strategy for CA in the Infrastructure Management BU, focused currently on virtualization and data center automation. Previously, Mr. Elliot was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. Mr. Elliot also was a Product Marketing Manager at Inteq, a venture-backed start-up. Additionally, Mr. Elliot holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California with graduate work at American University. He has also completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.

Gary Hemminger is Director of Product Management for the Application Delivery Controller products at Brocade. Gary has over 20 years of network experience, with development, systems engineering, product management, and marketing roles in the switching and routing, network management, application delivery, supercomputing & clustering space. Gary attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with distinction in general scholarship, with a BA in Computer Science. Gary also attended Stanford University, where he received an MS in Computer Science.

At Cisco Systems, Mark Leary formulates and executes market and business development activities as they relate to Cisco's Network Systems and Security solutions, including Cisco routers, switches, IOS software, security products, and network management systems. He also serves on Cisco's internal Green Team, where he works to solidify Cisco network systems solutions aimed at driving sustainable technology deployments and business practices. His responsibilities include driving the adoption and advancement of Cisco Network Systems technologies and products; providing business and technology guidance to Cisco customers and partners; and ensuring that Cisco Network Systems strategies, technologies, and products map to both existing and developing industry requirements. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Leary worked at ArrowPoint Communications where he established technology and marketing partnerships; provided guidance for company/product directions and marketing activities; and advised customers on the proper application of content-aware Web Switching. Before ArrowPoint, Mr. Leary spent 13 years with International Data Corporation (IDC) and held numerous positions, lastly, Vice President, Networking Industry Research & Consulting Practice. At IDC, he consulted with Fortune 500 companies; networking, computing system, and software suppliers; service providers, and the investment community. Mr. Leary received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, as well as an MBA in business strategy & planning from Boston College.

Tim Richards is the Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing for WAN Acceleration products at Juniper Networks, where he defines product features, direction and strategy for the company's application acceleration product portfolio. With more than 15 years of people management, product management and field experience in the networking industry, Richards brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Richards joined Juniper Networks as part of the acquisition of Peribit Networks in 2005, where he held a key technical role in the EMEA Sales Operation. Prior to Peribit Networks, Richards held various managerial and senior technical roles at Lucent Technologies, IBM and 3Com. Richards earned a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.

Anthony James has 16+ years of networking and high-tech product experience. As Fortinet's vice president of products, he is responsible for product direction, definition and marketing. His objective is to help ensure Fortinet's continued market leadership and technology innovation, and to proliferate the value of ASIC-accelerated, consolidated security as the core function in protecting the world's enterprises. Anthony's previous experience includes leadership roles in engineering support organizations, technical instruction and network/security consulting. Anthony has an intimate understanding of networking technologies, and throughout his career has driven many products introductions with companies including Network Associates, Foundry Networks and NetScaler.

Brian Lazear is the Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks, where he leads the High-End Security Systems product team. Brian has over 14 years of experience, including product management at VeriSign, 3Com and start-up companies. He now manages Juniper Network's market-leading integrated firewall solutions for the data center, enterprise central site and service provider networks. Prior to Juniper, he worked on PKI and security authentication services as well as home/SMB gateway products with integrated networking and security services. Brian holds an MS in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri, a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College.

Chris Carr serves as Director Video Markets at Masergy Communications, Inc. He is responsible for MASERGY's strategic direction and partnerships in the Videoconferencing, Telepresence, and Broadcast Media Markets. Prior to his employment at MASERGY, he was on the global sales teams at Zephion Networks and UUNET Technologies where he was heavily involved in video over IP initiatives. His career in private enterprise was preceded by 11 years of service as an Infantry Officer with the United States Marine Corps in a variety of command and staff assignments. He is an industry recognized thought leader on IP video transport and speaks frequently at numerous industry events.

Kumar Srikantan is Vice President of Product Management for the Cisco Catalyst 6500, Catalyst 4500 Series of Ethernet Switching Platforms at Cisco. In this role, Kumar is responsible for setting the strategic vision, long term product strategy and day-to-day operations for Cisco's premier Catalyst switching product lines. The Catalyst 6500 and 4500 platforms are at the core of Cisco's "Network As a Platform" vision through integration of key network based services that span Security, Unified Communications, Video and Virtualization technologies. These capabilities are enabled across the wide spectrum of Catalyst 6500 and 4500 deployments that span Datacenters, Campus, Branch/WAN and Service Provider Carrier Ethernet deployments. Kumar's work experience is wide reaching that spans both the computing and communications industries - including parallel computing architectures, high performance computing, routing and Ethernet Switching systems. Prior to Cisco, Kumar worked at StratumOne Communications, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems and Sun Microsystems in senior marketing and engineering positions. Kumar holds a master's in Computer Science from Rice University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

Lou Chiorazzi is a seasoned business executive with more than 17 years of experience in Engineering, Operations, Sales, and Consulting services. In 2001, Lou joined Glowpoint, a leading provider of advanced video communications managed services, during its initial founding and was instrumental in building the world's first video-centric IP network. Lou currently serves as Glowpoint's VP of Engineering focused on Research & Development, Software Development, Pre-Sales Solutions, Post-Sale Complex Engineering, Sustaining Engineering and Corporate IT efforts. Lou leads a team of more than 20 technology professionals, who have played key roles in achieving strategic high profile sales, significant cost reductions, and build and maintaining an award winning, scalable technology platforms and solutions in the video communications marketplace. Prior to his term with Glowpoint, Lou developed a strong reputation in the IT industry of bringing forth a broad perspective of IT solutions for financial market data operations, IT consulting, pre-sales engineering and engineering management. Prior to joining Glowpoint, Lou was most recently with Cisco, proving expertise for Content Delivery Network Solutions. Before Cisco, Lou provided consulting services for high level clients for Lucent/INS and the Johns Brook Company. Mr. Chiorazzi began his career with Knight Ridder Financial/Bridge as a Senior Engineer in their core NOC in New York City. Lou completed his undergraduate studies in Electronics Engineering from DeVry University and currently lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.

Bob Zemke is a Solutions Architect in the Managed Services organization at Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc. An IT professional with a broad span of experience, Bob has expertise in next generation wireless solutions as well as unified communications (UC) network design, deployment and management. Experienced in working with healthcare, education and private sector customers, Bob designed the WLAN solution for Siemens' largest HiPath Wireless deployment globally which was featured in Mobile Wireless Magazine and earned the 2008 Mobilizer Award from Mobile Enterprise Magazine. Bob also managed the design and implementation of a HIPAA compliant mobile messaging solutions for Blackberry, Palm and Microsoft mobile devices. He is regarded as a subject matter expert of advanced wireless technologies, solutions and deployments. Bob has been featured in HealthCare Design Magazine, Most Wired Magazine, Mobile Wireless Magazine, and Xchange Magazine. He has also participated in several industry-specific webinars and presentations. Bob received a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Management from Western Michigan University and a Master's degree in telecommunications and network management from Syracuse University.

Roger Sands is the HP ProCurve Worldwide Director of Mobility Solutions. He is responsible for product requirements, profit and loss, go-to-market roadmap and strategic partnerships for HP ProCurve's mobility business. Sands brings more than 20 years of engineering and executive management experience to HP ProCurve. He was formerly Executive Vice President of Technical Operations for Colubris Networks, responsible for the company's research and development, pre- and post-sales support and technical training. Prior to his time at Colubris, Sands served as General Manager of the enterprise WLAN business unit of Accton Technologies. At Accton, he built and led the unit from formation through product release and high-volume delivery. Previously, Sands spent time as General Manager of 3Com's Business Access Solutions division. He has also held senior engineering positions at US Robotics (acquired by 3Com), Bytex and Digital Equipment Corporation (acquired by Compaq/HP). Sands holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.

With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman leads the product efforts at Strangeloop and is well versed in load balancing, application acceleration, and content delivery networks. Before joining Strangeloop, he served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman's experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine.

Jean Critcher has been working in the telecommunications and IT consulting industries for 13 years developing and delivering services and solutions for multi-national customers in all global markets and sectors. In the 1990s, she exercised her entrepreneurial skills having either led or co-partnered in several IT startups that specialized in cutting-edge technologies and standards for network services including IPv6 and Voice over IP. She has been with the France Telecom Group since 2000 in several roles ranging from network engineering to product management to consulting. She spent 5 years in France for Orange Business Services leading major application performance management service development projects based on the latest vendor technologies and developing the most effective consulting methodologies that provide deliverables which correspond to the IT and business alignment needs of the customer. She is the Solution Director of Business Acceleration, one of Orange Business Services' key strategic propositions. Business Acceleration is comprised of a suite of services that improves visibility, management and performance of applications through an optimized communications infrastructure. She currently resides in the United States where outside of work enjoys music, film, sports, speaking french and food and wine from all cultures. She holds degrees in Computer Science and Vocal Music Performance and a masters certificate in IT Technology Management.

Paul Liesenberg is an Enterprise Architecture and Technology Manager for Cisco. In this role, Paul is responsible for developing methodologies that optimally align next-generation infrastructures and overarching business processes. Prior to Cisco, Paul spent five years as VP of Strategic Marketing for ZettaCom and Bivio Networks, orchestrating product and partnership strategies. Previously, through the acquisition of StrataCom, Paul was with Cisco Systems for eight years in product marketing, business development, and sales and technical marketing positions. Prior to Cisco and StrataCom, Paul worked in Nortel's Data Networks Division as manager for network consulting, and earlier worked for Siemens' Public Networks' R&D division. Paul holds two patents in the area of VoIP, and is a frequent speaker at industry events. Paul holds a M.Sc. from TUM (Technische Universitaet Muenchen).

As vice president of product management for Enterasys, Barry Cioe is responsible for the definition and delivery of service-oriented, convergence-optimized switching, routing and security products and solutions. Mr. Cioe works closely with customers to understand their networking and security needs in order to develop cost-effective products and solutions that helps ensure their success. Prior to joining Enterasys, Mr. Cioe led several product development and network and security services teams for Symantec, AXENT Technologies and GTE. Together they designed, developed and deployed large-scale networks and multi-million dollar software systems with both commercial and government application. In total, Mr. Cioe has over 20 years of experience working in the Internet security and network infrastructure markets. He has also managed the deployment or integration of various technologies, including enterprise switching and routing, Unified Threat Management systems, security gateways, firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Network Access Control solutions and more. Mr. Cioe earned his BS in Computer Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and his MBA from Northeastern University.

Jeff has more than 20 years of experience developing networking and ASIC technologies. Prior to becoming Chairman and CTO of ConSentry Networks, Jeff was a founder of Foundry Networks (FDRY), where he led Foundry's hardware engineering group. Prior to Foundry, Jeff was a founder of Centillion Networks, which was acquired by Bay Networks in 1995 and became a billion dollar product line for Bay. Prior to Centillion, Jeff was a hardware engineering manager at Network Equipment Technologies. Jeff holds eight patents related to networking technologies, and he has a BS in Computer Engineering from California State University Chico. Jeff is also a managing partner at Prince Ventures, LP.

Kumar Srikantan is Vice President of Product Management for the Cisco Catalyst 6500, Catalyst 4500 Series of Ethernet Switching Platforms at Cisco. In this role, Kumar is responsible for setting the strategic vision, long term product strategy and day-to-day operations for Cisco's premier Catalyst switching product lines. The Catalyst 6500 and 4500 platforms are at the core of Cisco's "Network As a Platform" vision through integration of key network based services that span Security, Unified Communications, Video and Virtualization technologies. These capabilities are enabled across the wide spectrum of Catalyst 6500 and 4500 deployments that span Datacenters, Campus, Branch/WAN and Service Provider Carrier Ethernet deployments. Kumar's work experience is wide reaching that spans both the computing and communications industries - including parallel computing architectures, high performance computing, routing and Ethernet Switching systems. Prior to Cisco, Kumar worked at StratumOne Communications, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems and Sun Microsystems in senior marketing and engineering positions. Kumar holds a master's in Computer Science from Rice University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

Manfred Arndt is the Convergence Solutions Architect and Distinguished Technologist for HP ProCurve. He is responsible for specifying and architecting IP telephony and multimedia capabilities in ProCurve's network equipment and network management applications. He also participates within the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), helping defining networking and telecommunications standards and is a co-author of the ANSI/TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) standard. Arndt has 20 years of experience as System Architect, Technologist, Software Engineer and R&D Software Development Manager in several networking startups and the technology industry. Before joining ProCurve, he led the development of a broadband wireless access system, which included advanced QoS and scheduling algorithms to support business grade VoIP and video conferencing.

Dave Roberts has two decades of experience in networking, computer engineering and strategic product development. Prior to his current role as vice president of strategy and marketing at Vyatta, Dave was the co-founder, CTO, and vice president of strategy at Inkra networks where he provided the product and strategy direction that captured a tier-one customer base including IBM, EDS, AT&T, and NEC. Prior to Inkra, Dave was vice president of product management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Additionally, Dave forged key strategic alliances and OEM relationships. Dave has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, ZeitNet, and AMD, where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and WiFi product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. Dave began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in numerous networking and software technologies, Dave holds ten patents, and is the author of three books. Dave holds a B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jonathan Davidson, CCIE Number 2560, is the Director of Marketing for the Edge Routing Business Unit. He currently leads the Enterprise Routing organization and the Cross-Segment Layer 4 through Layer 7 Services organization. Previously Jonathan led the Service Provider Solutions Engineering organization which developed end to end solutions for Service Providers worldwide. He has co-authored the bestselling book Voice over IP Fundamentals and Deploying Cisco Voice over IP. He has been with Cisco for over 10 years in post sales support, marketing and engineering divisions.

Alan Saldich joined Riverbed Technology in September 2002 and serves as its VP of Product Marketing and Alliances. Prior to joining Riverbed, he was director of enterprise solutions for Inktomi Corporation, where he began working following its acquisition of FastForward Networks in the fall of 2000. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Saldich served as FastForward Networks' director of business development. In addition, since 1988 Mr. Saldich has held senior positions in sales, marketing, business development and corporate finance at several high technology companies, including RasterOps (IPO, 1990) and Metricom. Mr. Saldich holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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

Steven Shalita is Vice President, Marketing at NetScout Systems, the market leader for network and application performance management and service assurance solutions. He has over 20 years of technology marketing, product development and strategy experience in the voice, video and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has strong market and technology experience in many aspects of the Enterprise and service provider networking segments covering LAN, WAN and metro networking technologies. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held senior marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems.

Marius Haas is senior vice president and general manager of the ProCurve Networking business. He oversees the group's worldwide operations, with a focus on expanding its position as a leading networking supplier in the market. Previously, Haas served as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development for HP. In that role, he led initiatives that focused on improving efficiency and driving growth, including the execution and integration of all acquisitions since 2004. He also oversaw the company's strategic planning process, new business incubation and strategic alliances. Haas joined Compaq in 1995 from Intel Corporation and has held a wide range of senior operations roles. His teams have developed and deployed enterprise software solutions, Internet and e-commerce capabilities, content management applications, IT services offerings, marketing programs and complex cross-company strategic programs. Haas is a member of the McKinsey & Co. Chief Strategy Officer Council, the Ernst and Young Corporate Development Leadership Network, and a Board Member of the ASAP organization. He has been active on several advisory boards including the Texas eCommerce Group, the eBusiness Research Center at Penn State University and Suffield Academy in Connecticut. Haas received a BSBA from Georgetown University and an MBA in international management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Glendale, Ariz.

Dr. Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer Stephen Herrod is responsible for VMware's new technologies and technology collaborations with customers, partners and standards groups. He has led the VMware ESX group through numerous successful releases. Prior to joining VMware, Stephen was Senior Director of Software at Transmeta Corporation co-leading development of their "Code Morphing" technology. Stephen holds a Ph.D. and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University where he worked with VMware's founders on the SimOS machine simulation project.

Efi Gatmor is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and VP of product management of Expand Networks and is responsible for leading the Company's technology strategy, system architecture, roadmap and design. Mr. Gatmor has more than 20 years of experience in the field. His areas of expertise include Object Oriented and IP networking and Multi Platform development. Before joining Expand, Mr. Gatmor worked for New Dimension Software which was acquired by BMC in 1999; there he led a group that was responsible for the definition, design and implementation of the company's new communication and database infrastructure. Mr. Gatmor graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University, where he earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics.

Stephen Garrison has more than 19 years of experience designing strategic marketing programs for the telecommunications and networking industries. Prior to becoming vice president of marketing, Garrison directed the company's corporate marketing and customer activities. Prior to joining Force10 Networks, Garrison was the senior director of marketing at Riverstone Networks, where he was responsible for building customer programs. Earlier, he served as the director of marketing at Cabletron Systems. Garrison received a B.S. in ceramic science from Alfred University and an M.S. in materials science and engineering from MIT. He also holds four patents and sits on the board of directors for the Ethernet Alliance.

Nir Ilani is Director, Product Marketing at Radware where he leads the planning, positioning and go-to-market strategy of Radware's innovative Application Delivery solutions. Mr. Ilani has diverse technological, product management and marketing experience including definition and launching of large-scale Application Infrastructure and Networking solutions. He has a solid background in working closely with US, European & Asian customers in both the Enterprise and Carrier/Telecommunication markets. His expertise extends to Networking, Enterprise software, Internet technologies, Application Performance Management and Open-source software. Prior to his tenure at Radware, he held various managerial positions at leading Hi-Tech companies including Mercury (acquired by HP), Zend and Exent. Mr. Ilani holds a B.A. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialization in Marketing Management - all from Tel-Aviv University.

Martin Skagen joined the Brocade Competitive Analysis team in 2002, helping to ensure the competitiveness of a wide range of Brocade products and strategies. Since 2004, he runs the technology, standards and strategy team and is responsible for Brocade's Data Center product lines. Skagen has more than 19 years of IT experience, including more than a decade spent at Hewlett Packard, where he held various positions such as managing support/services teams for mission-critical customers. He has a BS in Computer Science from Niels Brock University in Copenhagen Denmark.

Dave Stevens brings more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise networking, security, compute, and data storage industries to his current role as Chief Technology Officer for Brocade Communications Systems. In this position, Mr. Stevens is instrumental in driving Brocade's company-wide technology strategy as the company expands its role in the evolving enterprise network market. Before joining Brocade in 2008, Mr. Stevens was founder and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, a developer of next-generation firewall products. Previously he was a partner at Foundation Capital, and held senior management positions at Atmosphere Networks, Nortel and Microdyne. Mr. Stevens had also worked with Brocade previously, serving as Vice President and CTO of Brocade Transport Systems from 2003 to 2004. He joined Brocade through its acquisition of Rhapsody Networks, where he was Vice President of Business Development. Dave Stevens holds bachelor of science and a master of science degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.

David Yen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Vice President of the Data Center Business Group (DCBG), for Juniper Networks. Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. In the '90s, his team developed Sun's first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Dr. Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. His group introduced the industry's first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developed it into a multi-billion dollar business. He also managed Sun's storage business for one year. Prior to joining Sun Microsystems in 1988, Dr. Yen was a cofounder of Cydrome, Inc., a mini-supercomputer start-up. He also served in engineering roles at IBM Research and TRW, Inc. Dr. Yen earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1973, and received an MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980. He also completed a General Management Program at Stanford Business School in 1993. Dr. Yen holds three U.S. patents.

John McAdam has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of F5 Networks, as well as on the board of directors, since July 2000. Just after his arrival at F5, McAdam successfully navigated the company through the turbulent post-dot-com era, bringing F5 to profitability and positioning it for further growth. During his tenure at F5, McAdam has grown the company's annual revenue from $108.6 million to over $650 million. He has overseen numerous successful acquisitions, guiding F5 into new and adjacent markets that build on the company's Application Delivery Networking solution offerings. Under his leadership, F5 has been named the ?Best Company to Work for in Seattle' and identified by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 25 hottest tech stocks. Prior to joining F5, McAdam served as General Manager of the Web server sales business at IBM. From January 1995 until August 1999, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end open systems, which was sold to IBM in September 1999. McAdam holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he was technical lead for content networking product management. Dr. Day was previously Senior Scientist at Sight Path, which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. Earlier, he was a Research Scientist and assistant to the CTO at Lotus/IBM, where his work contributed to the creation of Lotus Sametime (now called Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing). Dr. Day has chaired Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups on Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP) and Content Internetworking (CDI). He has three issued patents and multiple pending patents relating to presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony. His other notable work includes contributions to the programming languages Argus and Theta, and to the distributed object database Thor. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995.

Paul McNab is responsible for developing and executing Cisco System's global Enterprise and Mid-Market Solutions and Technology Marketing strategy. This strategy focuses on providing global marketing programs, messages and content that support Cisco's broad portfolio of Foundation, Advanced and Emerging products and technologies in the Enterprise and Mid-Market segments. Such products and technologies include Routing, Switching, Unified Communications, Security, Mobility, Video and Storage across Campus, Branch, Wide Area and Data Center architectures. Paul is also responsible for delivering both horizontal reference architectures as well as scalable industry based solutions in support of Cisco's customer's business strategies. Previously, Paul was Vice President of Cisco's Integrated Network Systems Engineering group, providing verified reference network designs for Enterprise, Service Provider, and Commercial markets. He devloped Cisco's Service Provider Solutions Engineering and Enterprise Solutions Engineering and Commercial Solutions Engineering teams to design, test, and market total customer solutions. Paul joined Cisco in 1996 through the acquisition of StrataCom. Previously, he held management and engineering positions with Cray Communications and Dowty Communications in Watford, England. A hardware and software engineer for the first half of his 25 years in the industry, Paul brings to his role a balanced mix of both Marketing and Engineering skills. Paul has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from North West University in Manchester, England, and holds an international patent for distribution switch matrices.

Russell Stern has served as President and CEO at Solarflare Communications since 2004. In 2006, Mr. Stern led the acquisition of Level 5 Networks, a 10G Ethernet controller company based in Cambridge, UK. With both the leading 10GBASE-T PHY and 10G Ethernet controller technologies, Mr. Stern is establishing Solarflare as the leading supplier of 10Gb Ethernet semiconductors for LAN-on-Motherboard in Servers and 10GBASE-T transceivers for data center switches. To date, he has raised nearly $160M in venture capital for Solarflare and intends to position the company for an IPO in 2010. He was formerly President and CEO at JNI Corporation in San Diego, California which he sold to AMCC. Prior to JNI, Mr. Stern served as COO at Quantum Corporation and for more than 13 years, he held a number of increasingly responsible positions in the disc drive industry including five years at Western Digital Corporation in Irvine, CA, where he held the positions of Sr. VP, R & D, VP, Worldwide Operations and as Co-Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Stern has also held executive engineering and marketing positions with Seagate Technology and Adaptec. He began his career at IBM, where he held various engineering and management positions in the development and manufacturing of the IBM PC / XT / AT and PS/2. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. Mr. Stern is also a Foundation Board member of the Orange County High School of the Arts, a chartered public school in Santa Ana, CA.

Steven Shalita is Vice President, Marketing at NetScout Systems, the market leader for network and application performance management and service assurance solutions. He has over 20 years of technology marketing, product development and strategy experience in the voice, video and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has strong market and technology experience in many aspects of the Enterprise and service provider networking segments covering LAN, WAN and metro networking technologies. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held senior marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems.

Prashanth Shenoy is a Network Systems and Security Solutions marketing manager at Cisco, responsible for Cisco's high-end enterprise routing portfolio including the 7200, 7600, Catalyst 6500, and the ASR 1000 Series. Previously he was responsible for core Cisco IOS strategies and initiatives, including technologies such as MPLS, IPv6, QoS, and multicast. Prashanth joined Cisco in 2000 as part of the core engineering team that designed and developed the routing and forwarding engines for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series of switches. Prashanth Shenoy holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley.

Mark Urban is the senior director of product marketing for Blue Coat's Application Delivery Network Infrastructure business. He has more than ten years of experience working with Fortune Global 500 enterprises and carriers to successfully navigate and implement advanced networking solutions for secure, high performance application delivery. Prior to joining Blue Coat, Urban was director of product marketing at Packeteer. Earlier, he worked in the enterprise networking group at FORE Systems/Marconi. Urban began his career at M&I Capital as an investment analyst. Later, he transitioned to the role of IT manager and moved the company to a networked infrastructure. Urban holds a B.S. in finance, investments and banking from the University of Wisconsin.