2010 Archive: Business Technology Conference

Kosten Metreweli is CMO at Zeus Technology. Before joining Zeus, Kosten was VP of Global Marketing at Tideway (now part of BMC software), recognised by the Sunday Times TechTrack as the fastest growing private software company in the UK in 2008, and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2009. Prior to Tideway, Kosten was VP of Business Development at MetaSolv Software, and Orchestream (acquired by MetaSolv). Kosten has also worked as a senior consultant at Renaissance Worldwide, a leading strategy and technology consultancy, and as a research scientist at Philips Research Laboratories. Kosten holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University.

Shawn Cooney, co-founder of Certeon, has over 25 years experience in information and network security. Mr. Cooney holds a patent in audio and video compression over IP networks, has authored several bylined articles on virtualization and spoke at the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (November 2008) in San Jose, CA.

Steve Sacchi is currently a Senior Systems Engineer for A10 Networks where he serves as a product specialist for A10's Application Acceleration and Server Load Balancing product line - designing high-performance networks for companies of all sizes. Steve has over 23 years of datacom experience, having served various systems engineering roles for companies such as Chase Bank, Network Equipment Technologies, 3Com and Foundry Networks - where he designed some of the largest networks in the world.

As Vice President of WW Professional Services, Itai is responsible for the strategic implementation and technical support worldwide with more than 8 years of experience in the Application Delivery market. Prior to joining Crescendo, Itai held the position of Senior Software Engineer at Radwiz, which was acquired by Terayon (TERN). While with Teva (TEVA), the largest pharmaceutical company in Israel, he managed all network planning activities in over 16 branches in 6 countries. Previously, at the Israel Defense Force Control and Communication Center, Itai lead a professional services team. He holds a BA degree in Telecommunications and Management from the Israeli College for Management.

Shashi Kiran is the Director for Cisco’s Data Center/Virtualization marketing strategy worldwide. In this position, he heads the architectural and Innovations team with a responsibility to drive Cisco’s architectural advantage as well as switching, storage, application delivery and WAN optimization areas.

Previously, Shashi headed the the Enterprise Routing team at Cisco as part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks initiative. In this position he was responsible for defining the vision and strategic execution for the network as a platform focusing on various technologies that have a play in the branch and WAN.

In his 15-year career, Shashi has held leadership roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing and Sales engineering in areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC, Dept. of IT, Govt. of India). He was also an editorial consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine (Indian edn.) from 1997-2001 in a honorary capacity.

Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Adminstration in addition to a few industry certifications.

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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.

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

Rahul Tripathi is the Director of Product Management & Marketing at Cisco responsible for Application Services and Security. He has been with Cisco since 2001 in various roles focused on delivering network integrated Layer 4-7 services, WAN Optimization, Security and Performance Management. Most recently, he has been playing a key role in Cisco’s virtualization and cloud initiatives with recently launched “Application Velocity” offerings including Unified Computing System (UCS) Express and Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Express.

Rahul has over 15 years of IT industry experience in networking, telecommunications and application domains. He has an MBA from INSEAD (France) and Bachelors in EE from BITS-Pilani (India).

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

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

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.

David is the president and CEO of ScienceLogic, LLC and an IT visionary. He founded and built ScienceLogic by identifying large emerging markets, gaining intimate knowledge of customer IT problems, challenging conventional wisdom and bringing targeted, innovative products to market. At ScienceLogic, his market knowledge and customer focus has led the EM7 IT Management System to dramatically exceed the needs and expectations of clients. Prior to founding ScienceLogic in 2003, Link was senior vice president and a corporate officer at Interliant, Inc., where he lead the establishment of Interliant's strong presence in the ASP/MSP market. He previously held senior management positions within IBM's Software Division leading the development of Internet commerce products. Link also spent nine years in IT solutions with CompuServe, building innovative global online communication solutions while establishing the market for business and consumer online services.

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

Jason Read is the founder of CloudHarmony.com, a service dedicated to providing independent and unbiased public analysis on cloud computing performance, trends, pricing and features. To date, CloudHarmony has collected and published large amounts of data and analysis on their blog and website including CPU, storage, and network performance benchmarks for dozens of different IaaS, SaaS and PaaS cloud providers. Prior to founding CloudHarmony, Jason worked as a consultant or employee for IBM, Solera Networks, eBay and others. Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.

Rothstein has more than 20 years of experience managing and bringing to market innovative software solutions. Before OpTier, Russell was AVP Product Marketing at OPNET Technologies (Nasdaq: OPNT), a leading provider of Application Performance Management solutions. He was co-founder and CEO of Zettapoint, a venture-backed enterprise software startup and ran marketing for Open Sesame, a Web 1.0 startup that was acquired by Bowne (NYSE: BNE). Russell began his career at Oracle, deploying Oracle Applications for Fortune 1000 companies.

Alex Polvi is the CEO of Cloudkick, a Y-Combinator funded start-up. Cloudkick specializes in portability and openness between cloud providers. 1,000s of companies use Cloudkick to manage their infrastructure on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, etc. Additionally, Alex is a lead contributor to libcloud, an open source library for developers to build portable cloud applications. In the past, he has worked on many free/open infrastructure projects for the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and the Open Source Lab. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University.

Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com.

As CEO and Co-founder of Mashery, Oren Michels has led the team responsible for working with over 100 leading brands to power over 10,000 apps created by 50,000+ developers. Oren is a leading evangelist for the API movement in general and has pioneered and chaired the annual Business of APIs conference, now in its 5th year. A frequent speaker at events in both the US and Europe, Oren has taken the stage at events such as Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Gluecon, the GCA/Savvian Summit, Digital Hollywood, eComm, WeMedia, Interop, Dow Jones Venturewire, CTIA, John Battelle's Conversational Marketing Summit, and the Forbes CIO Summit.

Prior to Mashery, Michels served in Executive roles for a number of successful startups including Feedster, WiFinder, Colt HR, and Winebid.com. He also served as President and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company.

Oren began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School.

Bret Piatt leads the Technical Alliances team for Rackspace Hosting. In this role he is responsible for helping cloud companies build solutions that integrate the Rackspace Cloud. He is also actively involved in the cloud computing community helping open source projects such as OpenStack gain awareness and adoption.

Prior to his current role, Bret was part of the Product Management teams for both Rackspace and AT&T where he was responsible for launching offerings such as the Rackspace PCI Toolbox and the AT&T Premises–Based Cisco ASA Firewall Service. A self-described “lifelong geek”, Bret’s professional technical experience comes from his time at SBC where he designed monitoring and management systems, optimized networks for enterprise customers, and performed lab testing on new products from potential suppliers and partners.

Frank D. Greco is the Director of Technology, Americas, for Kaazing Corporation. Frank is responsible for helping customers understand the value of reactivating TCP protocols over the web and how WebSocket is a key component of a cloud infrastructure. Frank is also the founder of the New York Java Special Interest Group (NYJavaSIG), the largest Java User Group in North America with over 7,000 active members in the local Java community. The NYJavaSIG has had some of the most famous Java luminaries speak at their meetings; including JavaChampions: Rod Johnson, Brian Goetz, Doug Lea and Josh Bloch. Frank has a long history as a "Champion" of the Java Platform; he taught a developer track session at the very first Java Day back in September 1995 in New York and started the NYJavaSIG that afternoon. Frank has been involved with software development for over 10 years and has worked on sophisticated architectures, grid/cloud computing, innovative user interfaces, mobile computing and next-generation collaborative financial systems.

Sean Lynch started out at Google working on internal infrastructure before he joined the App Engine team to help open up Google's data centers to the world. Today, Sean spends most of his time working with developers and partners in order to bring the power and simplicity of App Engine into IT departments and development shops the world over.

John Shaw is a serial entrepreneur and technology consultant with over 15 years of enterprise level experience. In 2010 John started a new venture, Nimbo Tech, a Global Cloud Computing services and product company located in New York City and India. Nimbo Tech are aiming to launch their first cloud integration product early next year. During John’s career he has worked closely with Microsoft and can help the audience in understanding the worlds new focus around Cloud Computing. His Company has worked with some of the largest global companies on migrations to the cloud using Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite platform. He has a deep technical and business knowledge of the Cloud and is a published author in this space.

Marc-Thomas Schmidt has been with IBM for 23 years most of which he worked in the WebSphere development organization on business integration middleware, including workflow management, ESBs, Service Registry and other SOA Connectivity underpinnings... in his current role as Chief Architect SOA Connectivity he is responsible for the technical strategy & architecture of the WebSphere Connectivity product portfolio.

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

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

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.

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. Prior to Extreme Networks, Shehzad held various technology and executive management roles spanning his career. 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. Shehzad holds an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California.

In his current role at cisco, John is responsible for identifying system requirements for enterprise and service provider data centers and driving consistent development of features across the portfolio of products that are produced by Cisco for these markets. John’s areas of expertise include , cloud computing, data center design, low latency architectures, high availability, diagnostics and testing methodologies. Prior to joining Cisco in 1997, was general manager of business units at VBand Systems and various consultancies whose practices focused on the financial services community.

Bowman Hall joined IBM in 1996 after IBM's acquisition of Tivoli Systems, Inc. Bowman has had multiple technical and management roles within the IBM Software Group in technical support, education, consulting services and technical sales, based at various times in the US, UK and Spain. Since 2009, Bowman has been responsible for Cloud Computing Client Engagements with the IBM Software Group, where he leads early adopter customer projects and cloud software implementations. Prior to joining IBM, Bowman was responsible for managing distributed systems at Carnival Cruise Lines. Bowman attended the University of Texas at Austin where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics.

Ken Oestreich is VP Marketing for Egenera. With over 20 years in enterprise software and data center automation, he’s now helping define the market for converged infrastructure and unified computing. Prior to Egenera he led Product Marketing at Cassatt Corp., where he developed the market for utility computing and internal cloud computing. Previously, Ken was with Sun Microsystems, driving business management for an incubator business unit, coordinating Java and software strategy, and driving Developer Marketing. He began at Sun developing the market for CORBA middleware and web services. Ken also helped found the Liberty Alliance, an industry-wide body defining federated identity standards for the internet. Prior to Sun, he held marketing and sales development positions in early-stage technology and consulting companies. Ken began his career in Electrical Engineering, controlling adaptive optics with Litton Industries. He holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia University.

Shaun Walsh joined Emulex in 2008 and serves as vice president of corporate marketing. Walsh directs the company’s branding, outbound product and solution marketing, OEM and channel marketing and marketing communications. Walsh has held various executive and senior management positions at Quantum, Overland Storage, JNI, STEC, Dot Hill and QLogic. Walsh holds a Bachelor of Science degree in management from Pepperdine University.

Michael Rowan is a serial entrepreneur with deep technical knowledge and a strong vision for customer-centric product innovations. Prior to co-founding Viridity Software, he was the creator of the continuous data protection (CDP) technology segment, founding two companies focused on CDP as well as being the author of over a dozen CDP-related patents. Michael was the founder and CTO of Revivio (acquired by Symantec), the developer of the first enterprise class CDP solution for the market. Prior to Revivio, Michael was the founder and CTO of StorageCom (acquired by Vyant Technologies/Mendocino Software), also a CDP product company. Michael was also the founder and CTO of CLAM Associates, a company that developed IBM's open systems high availability product line, including HACMP (clustering), HAGEO (geographic clustering), HA-DR (storage replication), and the Concurrent Logical Volume Manager (CLVM). At CLAM, Michael was the technical visionary and product architect for all new product development. CLAM was eventually acquired by Lakeview Technologies. Michael began his career, after attending and working for Purdue University, at the Free Software Foundation.

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

Richard Goode is the Senior Director of Sustainability at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role Rich leads the company’s efforts in setting CO2 reduction targets, and creating and implementing sustainability programs across all Alcatel-Lucent. Rich also integrates sustainability issues into the planning, business and decision-making functions of the company, challenging established ways of doing things to build lasting business value. Rich has lectured on climate change and sustainability issues at Harvard University, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Boston University. Rich is the founder of the Boston-area Sustainability Group and is a graduate of Presidio School of Management.

Sandy Hwang is a project manager in NYSERDA’s New York City Office, working in the Energy Efficiency Services Division. She is part of the Industrial and Process team, which leads NYSERDA’s effort on designing and providing incentives for data center efficiency projects in New York State. Sandy is the key contact for data centers in the New York downstate region.

Previously, Sandy worked as a Project Engineer for Air Liquide US in the Industrial Customers and Hydrogen Technologies Divisions. With this position she worked on projects such as the optimization of hydrogen plant production within an oil refinery, design of high-pressure hydrogen fueling stations for hybrid buses, and troubleshooting impurity issues in electronic specialty gas-purification processes.

Sandy has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a Certified Energy Manager.

Julian Kudritzki, is Vice President of Uptime Institute. He has managed the expansion of Tier Program into South America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He continues to ensure the integrity of Tier Certifications worldwide and work with clients to broadcast their Tier awards. Julian has assisted in the development of numerous Uptime Institute publications and educational programs, including the Accredited Tier Designer curriculum.

Kevin Dalton is Director of Engineering at Digital Realty Trust, the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider with more than 90 properties in 27 markets across North America and Europe containing nearly 15 million square feet of rentable datacenter space. Dalton has been with Digital Realty Trust for four years and leads the team of engineers that is responsible for working with customers to assess their technical needs and guide them in selecting appropriate datacenter solutions. In his role as Director of Engineering, Dalton also plays an important role in the design and delivery of Digital Realty Trust’s datacenter products, including Turn-Key Datacenters®, Build-to-Suit Datacenters and POD Architecture Services®. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust, Dalton spent ten years at MGE as a large systems manager focusing on enterprise datacenter applications. In the ten years preceding his joining MGE, Dalton worked with McClier Corp consulting in Chicago as a Senior Electrical Engineer and Project Manager. Dalton earned a BSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Kfir Godrich is Vice President and Chief Technologist for HP Enterprise Business (EB), Technology Services (TS). His role is driving the technology roadmap for HP TS, providing thought leadership that strengthens HPs leadership in field of technology services. Before that role, Mr. Godrich was Chief Technology Officer for HP CFS delivered by EYP Mission Critical Facilities. His expertise is in powering critical infrastructure and complex systems applications and technologies. Over the last 20 years, Mr. Godrich has provided consulting services to global financial, technology and telecom clients, as well as public sector entities. He's been directly involved in the development of the NGDC strategy for more than a dozen of Fortune 50 companies. Mr. Godrich is the leader of HP TS Technology Council.

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

Rahul Tripathi is the Director of Product Management & Marketing at Cisco responsible for Application Services and Security. He has been with Cisco since 2001 in various roles focused on delivering network integrated Layer 4-7 services, WAN Optimization, Security and Performance Management. Most recently, he has been playing a key role in Cisco’s virtualization and cloud initiatives with recently launched “Application Velocity” offerings including Unified Computing System (UCS) Express and Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Express.

Rahul has over 15 years of IT industry experience in networking, telecommunications and application domains. He has an MBA from INSEAD (France) and Bachelors in EE from BITS-Pilani (India).

Allan Andersen is vice president of product management in CA Technologies Virtualization and Automation Customer Solutions Unit. He is responsible for the strategic positioning and product management activities for client and datacenter automation solutions.

Allen Stewart is a Principal Group Program Manager in the Windows Server and Solutions Division. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, virtualization management, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen is responsible for ensuring early deployment readiness and testing of all of Windows Server releases with Customers. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and he is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book “Inside Hyper-V” from Sybex Press.

A Senior Professional Services Executive with over fifteen years of diverse industry experience and a proven track record of success in transforming global organizations for growth and profitability. Extensive experience managing complex, concurrent business and technical consulting practices and services across a variety of environments, industries, and market segments. Special skills working with emerging technologies and software companies looking to take innovative products to market at a global level. Dmitry has worked with companies like Marimba, BMC, VMware and several start-ups in the Virtualization space.

Russel Wilkinson is a 6+ year veteran of VMware, Inc. and has been directly involved with customers' virtualization of Fortune 10 websites and multi-thousand seat desktop deployments. Initially brought on as a Sr. Systems Engineer, Russel spent 2 1/2 years working with customers in Michigan & Indiana driving customer adoption of ESX/Virtual Center and was quickly promoted to Staff SE. Russel was one of the initial members of the Global Accounts team as a Solutions Consultant where he worked with General Motors, Chrysler, & Ford to standardize on "virtualize first" approaches for server deployments. He has spent the last two years working as a Desktop Specialist Systems Engineer as a key member of the team aiding in customer adoption of VMware based desktop solutions including VMware View and ThinApp.

Based outside Detroit, MI, when Russel isn't found meeting with customers and evangelizing hosted desktop strategies he is responsible for chauffeuring his daughter to various ice skating competitions around the upper Midwest.

Jeff McNaught leads Wyse's marketing activities and customer support. Mr. McNaught is widely considered the most quoted spokesperson for thin computing in the world. With the experience of hundreds of speaking engagements, articles, and press interviews, he is considered an authority on the topic of thin computing. Mr. McNaught spearheaded the development of the award-winning Wyse Winterm thin clients and played an instrumental role in the creation of the Winterm line, the first Windows terminal to ship in volume. Mr. McNaught joined the Wyse team in 1987 after holding positions at ITT, Netexpress, and Cromemco. He earned his MBA from Pepperdine University.

Tom Flynn is the Chief Technologist for Thin Clients and Solutions with 22 years of experience in the computing industry. Tom conceived the HP MultiSeat solution for education and small business and is the leading the HP zero client strategy. Tom is the inventor of the Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) which is based on the Blade PC and has numerous patents pending. Tom is currently focusing on the rapidly evolving client virtualization technologies and the impact of those solutions on commercial, healthcare and educational offerings.

Tom is a well rounded technologist and a seasoned executive having held leadership positions in services organization, service provider organization, enterprise servers and storage organization, and the personal systems group. Prior to joining the personal systems group, Tom was the Director, Computing on Demand Solutions within Enterprise Servers and Storage. Tom led the technology team in the Service Provider Business Unit that helped create the Supplier Enablement portfolio. Tom joined Hewlett Packard in January 1995 as a founding member of Enterprise Consulting Services where he held a number of roles including principal consultant and manager of the Enterprise Solutions Centers.

Prior to joining HP, Tom held various roles at Amoco Production Company. These included the lead technical architect for the Business Process Re-engineering project, implementation manager for a company-wide decision support system, and team leader for exploration related applications supporting both domestic and international regions.

Tom holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Corpus Christi State University. Tom served with distinction in the US Army prior to attending university.

As executive vice president of products and technology, Parmeet brings more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership experience to Pano Logic and is responsible for leadership of the company's product development. Prior to joining Pano Logic, Parmeet was CEO and co-founder of MobileVerbs, Inc., a next generation mobile marketing platform, acquired by iLoop Mobile Inc. Before MobileVerbs, Parmeet was CTO of the Applications-on-Demand business unit at IBM, which had acquired Corio, an enterprise application service provider. At Corio, Parmeet held a number of executive positions, including CTO, Senior Vice President and President of Corio India. Parmeet started his career at Oracle, where he served as Director of Tools Development. Parmeet has also served as a consulting advisor to a number of technology companies. Parmeet holds a number of patents and has been widely published in industry and technical trade publications. He holds an M.S. and B.S. from MIT.

Ted serves Content & Collaboration professionals. With 23 years of experience in the technology industry, Ted advises clients in a wide variety of industries on the effect of technology on the workforce and workforce productivity. His research focuses on workforce technologies, including instant messaging and Web conferencing, smart mobile devices that increase collaboration and team productivity, telepresence and videoconferencing, cloud email and collaboration tools, and the consumerization of IT.

Ted is the co-author of Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, September 2010). Social, mobile, video, and cloud Internet services give consumers and business customers more information power than ever before. To win customer trust and business, companies must empower their employees to directly engage with and solve the problems of empowered customers using these same technologies.

It is through this empowered lens that the "consumerization of IT" makes sense: employees solving customer and business problems using readily available technology that they master first at home — social, mobile, video, and cloud. This management book helps CIOs and IT organizations engage directly with business managers and employees to build an empowered strategy: understanding which employees are workforce "HEROes" — highly empowered and resourceful operatives, implementing empowering collaboration and innovation programs, creating a new empowered security architecture, and supporting HEROes with the right technology platforms.

Marcia Conner, Partner with Altimeter Group, works with senior leaders to put collaborative technologies into action. Because the challenges organizations face are too big for individuals or organizations to solve alone, Marcia aligns social strategies with corporate culture to speed innovation, inform decision-making, and invigorate an organization’s value chain. She rises above the rhetoric of “engagement” to connect, streamline, and energize ecosystems for new and dramatically improved results. Research topics often address internal social networks, multi-generation business culture, learning management, and leadership preparedness.

The collaborative tools Marcia uses are naturally relationship-driven, and can equip people to tap the collective brainpower of the larger community in new and extraordinary ways. Online communities, media sharing, microsharing, and content networks introduce ideas in quick bursts, when it suits the flow of work, without a big learning curve.

For enterprise clients, Marcia addresses change readiness and overcomes stymied collaboration with cultural assessments and strategic recommendations. For software vendors, she provides tactical guidance in go-to-market strategies; reviews products for usability, learnability, and adoption; delivers competitive evaluations; and recommends software partnerships. For the broader market, she delivers educational programs to level-set senior teams around what collaboration technologies can offer and when/where they work best.

In every engagement, Marcia translates her corporate experience into the credibility that executives demand. She has confronted and overcome the same pressures and responsibilities leaders face, bringing to bear the agility and advantages of social media. When a strategy runs off course, innovation bogs down or an enterprise-wide system under-performs, Marcia delivers on the promise of new social technology to unleash the way people really think and behave. She overcomes resistance and skepticism with fact-based examples of success. Clients have spanned industries and diverse markets, including Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield, IBM Lotus, Standard & Poors/McGraw Hill, WD-40 Company, Kaplan, and the United National Development Programme.

Her latest book, The New Social Learning: Transforming Organizations Through Social Media, co-authored with Tony Bingham, addresses modern organizational challenges such as widely dispersed employees and striking differences in work styles, particularly across generations. With case studies from Deloitte, IBM, Mayo Clinic, TELUS, Chevron, and even the CIA, Conner shows how social media can transform the workplace by harnessing the experiences of colleagues working across the globe as easily as if they were side by side.

Bryan has two years of experience in the legal industry at Howrey LLP, focused on building and leading teams in the support and development of enterprise applications. His accomplishments include an SAP implementation, a social networking deployment and standing up an enterprise search capability. Prior to Howrey, Bryan spent 20 years at Booz Allen Hamilton in a wide variety of IT roles with the last 13 years in leadership positions.

Talayne Simon is the IT Manager for Ridgeline Energy Services with over 10 years experience implementing and managing business networks and infrastructures. Some of the environments managed include law firms, engineering firms and retail organizations, all of which have had multi site requirements. Extensive work has been done with respect to wide area networking.

Jennifer Fox, Director, Learning & Development, is responsible for all learning, performance and talent management strategies and initiatives at Getty Images. Having previously worked at corporate headquarters for Starbucks and Nordstrom, she relocated to New York in 2007 to take on the challenge of redefining the systems, tools and programs that enable employees at Getty Images to do their best work. Whether it is coaching a high-potential employee through 360 feedback, conducting a talent review succession planning session or her latest accomplishment of introducing social software to the global workforce, Jennifer is passionate about blending a common sense approach with creative solutions. Originally from Calgary, Canada, she brings to her role over 18 years of business, leadership and project management experience, including owning her own retail business at the age of 19.

Michael Rowan is a serial entrepreneur with deep technical knowledge and a strong vision for customer-centric product innovations. Prior to co-founding Viridity Software, he was the creator of the continuous data protection (CDP) technology segment, founding two companies focused on CDP as well as being the author of over a dozen CDP-related patents. Michael was the founder and CTO of Revivio (acquired by Symantec), the developer of the first enterprise class CDP solution for the market. Prior to Revivio, Michael was the founder and CTO of StorageCom (acquired by Vyant Technologies/Mendocino Software), also a CDP product company. Michael was also the founder and CTO of CLAM Associates, a company that developed IBM's open systems high availability product line, including HACMP (clustering), HAGEO (geographic clustering), HA-DR (storage replication), and the Concurrent Logical Volume Manager (CLVM). At CLAM, Michael was the technical visionary and product architect for all new product development. CLAM was eventually acquired by Lakeview Technologies. Michael began his career, after attending and working for Purdue University, at the Free Software Foundation.

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

Richard Goode is the Senior Director of Sustainability at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role Rich leads the company’s efforts in setting CO2 reduction targets, and creating and implementing sustainability programs across all Alcatel-Lucent. Rich also integrates sustainability issues into the planning, business and decision-making functions of the company, challenging established ways of doing things to build lasting business value. Rich has lectured on climate change and sustainability issues at Harvard University, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Boston University. Rich is the founder of the Boston-area Sustainability Group and is a graduate of Presidio School of Management.

Sandy Hwang is a project manager in NYSERDA’s New York City Office, working in the Energy Efficiency Services Division. She is part of the Industrial and Process team, which leads NYSERDA’s effort on designing and providing incentives for data center efficiency projects in New York State. Sandy is the key contact for data centers in the New York downstate region.

Previously, Sandy worked as a Project Engineer for Air Liquide US in the Industrial Customers and Hydrogen Technologies Divisions. With this position she worked on projects such as the optimization of hydrogen plant production within an oil refinery, design of high-pressure hydrogen fueling stations for hybrid buses, and troubleshooting impurity issues in electronic specialty gas-purification processes.

Sandy has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a Certified Energy Manager.

Sumir Karayi founded 1E in 1997 with the goal to drive down the cost of IT for large organizations by identifying and eliminating waste. Sumir has been at the forefront of the Green IT movement since the beginning. Pioneering PC power management and establishing a market-leading role, 1E is now helping its clients save costs with a number of IT efficiency solutions including server reduction and energy management technologies.

Under Sumir’s leadership, 1E has become a successful, global organization. 1E remains privately held and is headquartered in London and New York and with 14 million licenses deployed world-wide. 1100 organizations in 42 countries have trusted 1E to help them work effectively, productively and sustainably. To date, 1E’s energy efficiency solutions have helped organizations save in excess of $530m in energy costs alone, cutting CO2 emissions by 4.3 million tons. In 2010, 1E, was listed among the Sunday Times International Track 100 league table of top private companies, was heralded as one of the top 20 companies for CIO’s to watch by CIO magazine, awarded Best Green IT Supplier at the Green IT Expo, and is the Microsoft 2010 Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year for NightWatchman Server Edition.

Sumir gained a BEng in Electronic Engineering and MSc in IT from Warwick University.

Jeff McNaught leads Wyse's marketing activities and customer support. Mr. McNaught is widely considered the most quoted spokesperson for thin computing in the world. With the experience of hundreds of speaking engagements, articles, and press interviews, he is considered an authority on the topic of thin computing. Mr. McNaught spearheaded the development of the award-winning Wyse Winterm thin clients and played an instrumental role in the creation of the Winterm line, the first Windows terminal to ship in volume. Mr. McNaught joined the Wyse team in 1987 after holding positions at ITT, Netexpress, and Cromemco. He earned his MBA from Pepperdine University.

Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com.

As CEO and Co-founder of Mashery, Oren Michels has led the team responsible for working with over 100 leading brands to power over 10,000 apps created by 50,000+ developers. Oren is a leading evangelist for the API movement in general and has pioneered and chaired the annual Business of APIs conference, now in its 5th year. A frequent speaker at events in both the US and Europe, Oren has taken the stage at events such as Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Gluecon, the GCA/Savvian Summit, Digital Hollywood, eComm, WeMedia, Interop, Dow Jones Venturewire, CTIA, John Battelle's Conversational Marketing Summit, and the Forbes CIO Summit.

Prior to Mashery, Michels served in Executive roles for a number of successful startups including Feedster, WiFinder, Colt HR, and Winebid.com. He also served as President and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company.

Oren began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School.

Bret Piatt leads the Technical Alliances team for Rackspace Hosting. In this role he is responsible for helping cloud companies build solutions that integrate the Rackspace Cloud. He is also actively involved in the cloud computing community helping open source projects such as OpenStack gain awareness and adoption.

Prior to his current role, Bret was part of the Product Management teams for both Rackspace and AT&T where he was responsible for launching offerings such as the Rackspace PCI Toolbox and the AT&T Premises–Based Cisco ASA Firewall Service. A self-described “lifelong geek”, Bret’s professional technical experience comes from his time at SBC where he designed monitoring and management systems, optimized networks for enterprise customers, and performed lab testing on new products from potential suppliers and partners.

Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Eric Chiu is CEO and founder of HyTrust, is the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. He has in-depth knowledge about what’s needed to achieve the same level of operational readiness in virtual as in physical I.T. infrastructures. Previously Eric served in executive roles at Cemaphore, MailFrontier, mySimon, and was a venture capitalist at Brentwood/Redpoint, Pinnacle, and M&A at Robertson, Stephens and Company.

Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird, responsible for the company’s efforts to increase user awareness around the security implications of moving from “P to V to C”. Ms. Newberger has over 20 years of experience in technology development, systems engineering and marketing, including UNIX development as a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. As a systems engineer at UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), she led the definition of SVR4.2 MP, the award-winning source code product which is at the heart of current mainstream UNIX. Ms. Newberger also worked at Novell in product planning for next-generation technologies and as the Director of Product Management at SCO. She holds MS and BA degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York.

Khalid's research primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Security & Risk professional. He is a leading expert in information security program governance; security services; strategy; and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) initiatives. Khalid's research focuses on building and maintaining effective security programs and making information security leaders more successful in their role. Khalid covers security service providers offering managed as well as pure consulting services. He also covers security governance and risk management topics such as security metrics, budgets, strategy, compliance, awareness, training, and organizational structure. Khalid also advises clients on security standards, industry and government regulations, and IT compliance. Khalid has codeveloped Forrester's information security framework and assessment methodology. Khalid has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as Boston Globe, CSO Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Khalid is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences.

Patrick Sweeney has over 20 years experience in high tech product management, product marketing, corporate marketing and sales development. Mr. Sweeney is SonicWALL’s Vice President, Product Management, where he oversees its Network Security, Content Security, Business Continuity and Policy & Management product lines. Previous positions include Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Minerva Networks, Senior Manager of Product Marketing & Solutions Marketing for Silicon Graphics Inc, Director of Worldwide Sales & Marketing for Articulate Systems, and Senior Product Line Manager for Apple Computer. Mr. Sweeney holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, CA.

William Brown was appointed chief information officer in September 2008 and oversees the company's deployment of information technology to serve critical business objectives. He has overall responsibility for core systems development, computing services and service provisioning for Iron Mountain customers. Joining Iron Mountain in August 2005, Brown has more than 25 years of management experience in information technology, operations/logistics and electronic commerce. Prior to Iron Mountain, he was a co-founder and executive vice president of PCs Compleat, a PC retailer/distributor acquired by CompUSA. He has also held senior management positions at PC Connection, Send.com, JWP/Businessland and Merisel. Brown holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Bridgewater State College and an MBA from Babson College.

Gopinath KN (Gopi) has more than 12 years of experience in systems, networks and security. He has devoted the previous eight years of his life to understand wireless security issues and build cutting-edge security systems. He has several patents and technical publications to his credit. Gopi is a speaker and an author. He has delivered multi-day training sessions and speaks at popular international conferences. As an author, he contributes regularly to highly influential publications such as Network World, CWNP Blog, InfoSecurity Magazine, IDG Connect and Wireless Security Blog. Gopi has been a member of Bell Labs research, MH, NJ, and is currently Director of Engineering at Airtight Networks.

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

Kevin Donovan, Vice President of Corporate Business Development, joined VASCO in 2000 and has been a key member of VASCO’s team which has become the market leader in global authentication. Kevin has successfully managed global partner and customer relationships with some of the world’s best known organizations. Mr. Donovan has spoken at numerous security and banking summits. Kevin holds a degree from the University of Massachusetts in Marketing and an MBA from the University of Baltimore.

Jesse Frankel, Director of Systems Engineering and Product Management at AirMangt, has extensive experience in delivering critical wireless security solutions for enterprise, clinical and government networks. Frankel has been working in various areas of wireless LAN technology and applications for more than 10 years. Previously, he was VP Systems Technology at Wayport, provider of broadband Internet access services for business travelers. At Telxon (acquired by Symbol Technologies in 2000), Frankel held various management and R&D positions for the design and manufacture of wireless mobile application systems and devices. He also spent time in pioneering development work bringing spread spectrum wireless LAN technology into the mainstream for commercial applications, and the design of the first fully integrated wireless handheld mobile computers. Frankel is a frequent presenter and panel host on topics of WLAN design and network performance optimization. He also sits on several technical advisory boards in the WLAN technology industry. Frankel holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Case Western Reserve University.

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. Prior to Extreme Networks, Shehzad held various technology and executive management roles spanning his career. 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. Shehzad holds an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California.

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

With more than 20 years in networking industry marketing and engineering roles, Keith provides Talari with his strong sense of strategic planning in leading the company's marketing, product management, and business development efforts. Prior to Talari, Keith was most recently vice president of marketing and customer engineering for multimedia routing technology vendor Ubicom. He formerly served as senior director of product management and marketing at Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC), where he was instrumental in developing AMCC's broadband access strategy and securing the company's position as the market share leader in the network processor market. Previously, Keith was director of marketing at network processor pioneer MMC Networks (acquired by AMCC) and also held positions in engineering and management at Fujitsu and GEC/Plessey. Keith holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) degree in Electronic Computer Systems and a Post Graduate Diploma in Engineering from the University of Salford, U.K.

Raj Kanaya brings a long track record of general management and market development success to Infineta Systems. As CEO, Raj is responsible for the overall vision, direction, and revenue attainment for the company. Previously, Raj was VP of product strategy and alliances for the Application Networking Group at Citrix Systems. He joined Citrix though its acquisition of NetScaler where he served as VP of product management for a product line that went from sub-$2 million to $60+ million in revenues over three years. Raj was a GM of a BU at Lucent and led business development at Nexsi Systems. Earlier in his career, he was a Bain & Co. consultant where he advised large companies in technology and LBO funds on turnarounds, new market entries, and acquisitions/divestitures. Raj has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and earned his B.S. in computer science magna cum laude from UCSD.

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.

Ken Oestreich is VP Marketing for Egenera. With over 20 years in enterprise software and data center automation, he’s now helping define the market for converged infrastructure and unified computing. Prior to Egenera he led Product Marketing at Cassatt Corp., where he developed the market for utility computing and internal cloud computing. Previously, Ken was with Sun Microsystems, driving business management for an incubator business unit, coordinating Java and software strategy, and driving Developer Marketing. He began at Sun developing the market for CORBA middleware and web services. Ken also helped found the Liberty Alliance, an industry-wide body defining federated identity standards for the internet. Prior to Sun, he held marketing and sales development positions in early-stage technology and consulting companies. Ken began his career in Electrical Engineering, controlling adaptive optics with Litton Industries. He holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia University.

As Vice President of Product Marketing for CA Technologies, Patrick Ancipink ensures that the customer is used as the design point to build an integrated Service Assurance portfolio that links applications, transactions and services with the underlying infrastructure. Patrick leverages more than 15 years of product management and strategic marketing experience in enterprise systems and network management to help CA Technologies strike the balance between deep technical domain expertise and service-oriented IT management.

Patrick joined CA Technologies in 2009 with the acquisition of NetQoS, where he was the Director of Product Marketing and helped the company grow from niche vendor to category leader in application aware network performance management.

Previously, Patrick held positions ranging from product to brand to campaign management at AlterPoint (acquired by Versata), BMC Software, and IBM Tivoli Software. The early stages of his technology career coincided with the evolution from character-based proprietary systems to the earliest graphical user interfaces for client/server IT management and the emergence of the World Wide Web. Patrick has a BA in American Studies from Yale University.

Steven Shalita is Vice President, Marketing, and leads the global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. 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 marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company’s $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company’s entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco’s $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco’s global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments.

As Vice President of Product Marketing for CA Technologies, Patrick Ancipink ensures that the customer is used as the design point to build an integrated Service Assurance portfolio that links applications, transactions and services with the underlying infrastructure. Patrick leverages more than 15 years of product management and strategic marketing experience in enterprise systems and network management to help CA Technologies strike the balance between deep technical domain expertise and service-oriented IT management.

Patrick joined CA Technologies in 2009 with the acquisition of NetQoS, where he was the Director of Product Marketing and helped the company grow from niche vendor to category leader in application aware network performance management.

Previously, Patrick held positions ranging from product to brand to campaign management at AlterPoint (acquired by Versata), BMC Software, and IBM Tivoli Software. The early stages of his technology career coincided with the evolution from character-based proprietary systems to the earliest graphical user interfaces for client/server IT management and the emergence of the World Wide Web. Patrick has a BA in American Studies from Yale University.

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

John Antanaitis is the Vice President of Product Marketing for the Video Solutions division at Polycom. He leads a global team responsible for marketing Polycom’s industry leading video solutions including desktop video collaboration, high-definition personal, room and immersive telepresence systems, and infrastructure solutions for video network management and recording, streaming and video content management. Antanaitis joined Polycom in 2002 after spending five years in Marketing and General Management for Stanley Tool Works and Fortune Brands. Prior to that, he spent almost ten years with Motorola, working in various functional disciplines including engineering, operations and marketing. He has a Masters of Management (MBA) with majors in Marketing and Operations Management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Ken Davison has more than 25 years of experience in the telecom industry. For the last 15 years, Mr. Davison has held numerous senior management roles in marketing, sales, product management and business development, with responsibility for corporate worldwide activities. Prior to joining Magor Communications, Mr. Davison held senior positions at Siemens AG (Unisphere Networks), Newbridge Networks (VP of Europe and Corporate VP of Marketing) and several telecom start-ups including Gridpoint Systems, Meriton Networks (acquired by Xtera Communications), DragonWave and Critical Telecom.

Jim Fairweather serves as vice president of worldwide sales, HP Halo Visual Collaboration Solutions. Fairweather has responsibility for the development and execution of global sales and channel strategy and management of the HP Halo sales team.

Prior to this appointment, Fairweather held several other executive positions in the communications industry. He was the vice president of sales at Polycom, Inc., leading the global sales team. Fairweather has also held executive sales and management positions at Honeywell Bull, Stratus Computer, MCI WorldCom and PitureTel.

Throughout his career, Fairweather has been very active in community and industry groups. He is a member of Massachusetts Telecommunications Council and served as a regional chairman and president for The Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He also managed the first political implementation of video conferencing at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston, MA.

Fairweather holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Bentley College and graduated from the University of Michigan School of Business Executive Sales Management Program.

Paul manages the LifeSize federal channel partner program and sales support organization. He has more than 15 years of sales leadership experience in the federal market, most recently as vice president of Americas channels for TANDBERG. He has also worked for Northrop Grumman and Cisco.

Mike is the Director of Product Marketing for the TSBU, responsible for marketing and positioning the Cisco TelePresence portfolio, across the immersive, multipurpose, desktop, soft client, and infrastructure product lines. Mike recently joined Cisco through the Tandberg acquisition where he ran global product marketing and pricing for the Americas theater and helped lead the integration of the Cisco/Tandberg marketing teams. Previously, Mike was a sales and marketing consultant at McKinsey & Co. serving clients in the technology, retail, and airline industries and held corporate finance and brand management positions at Dell. Mike has an MBA with emphasis in Marketing and Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Accounting from BYU.

Joe Graves was named Stratus Technologies' CIO in 2002. During his tenure, Graves has recreated Stratus' IT environment using innovative approaches such as virtualization and software-as-a-service (SaaS). He joined Stratus, an industry leader in technologies for infrastructure availability, in 1986 as a software engineer. In the mid-90's, he managed the program to deliver several new platforms. In 1999, Graves transferred to IT. Prior to becoming CIO, he was responsible for managing IS operations, followed by IT application development. Prior to Stratus, Graves held various software engineering positions with Sequoia Systems and Data General. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Allen Stewart is a Principal Group Program Manager in the Windows Server and Solutions Division. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, virtualization management, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen is responsible for ensuring early deployment readiness and testing of all of Windows Server releases with Customers. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and he is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book “Inside Hyper-V” from Sybex Press.

A highly regarded virtualization and data center IT industry veteran, Scott Lillis is the senior systems engineer for the North East Region of Veeam Software. Lillis possesses more than 18 years of IT experience, focused on emerging technologies and enterprise solutions. Previously, Lillis was vice president of technology at a solution provider. He also served as Director of Datacenter Automation for a value added reseller. Additionally, Lillis has held senior technical and management roles with The Hartford and CSC/UTC. He also founded the first public Internet service provider in Connecticut, Paradigm Communications. Lillis holds numerous industry certifications, including VMware VCP, NetApp NASAP, Microsoft MCP, A+, Network+.

Jeremy Merrill is a Technical Marketing Engineer focusing on Data Protection Solutions. His primary focus has been around backup and recovery, disaster recovery and virtualization. Prior to joining NetApp, Jeremy worked in customer training and storage managed services.

Christopher has over fifteen (15) years of experience in the IT industry with a focus on public sector markets. He has over a decade of experience in a pure consulting role serving as Vice President of a leading New England IT consulting organization where he delivered in excess of 300 engagements in the government and education space focusing on building project design, technology master planning, infrastructure and system design, RFP development and budgeting and capital improvement expertise. In the years prior to joining CBE, Reily served as a Director of a successful consulting/engineering organization with an emphasis on virtualization and related technologies. In addition, Reily is a Senior Visiting Lecturer currently at Salem State College in the Master’s of Education, Information Technology program. Now in the role of CTO at CBE Technologies, Christopher provides Technical Consulting Services to the Sales Organization, delivers executive level Consulting Services to select clients focusing on Operational Readiness and serves in the leadership role of assessing, evaluating and packaging the technology solution sets that CBE delivers to its customers.

Guy Chapman has operational oversight of virtualisation and storage for intenal IT at SunGard Financial Systems, a Fortune 500 company with revenues in excess of $5.5 bn and one of the 20 largest software companies in the world. The busy virtual infrastructure serves a large development and test community, with over 1,500 virtual machines distributed around the UK and Europe. His current project is to move to a more cloud-like model with self-service on-demand provisioning and granular chargeback. Guy's past experience includes real-time control system programming, working with small businesses on early adoption of the Internet, and consulting for organisations such as The Healthcare Commission, Tyco International and Cincinnati Machine.

Rich brings more than 20 years of experience leading and contributing to technology-based companies. He is responsible for leading Akorri's engineering and R&D teams. Before founding Akorri, Rich was the founder and Executive Vice President at Pirus Networks, where he was responsible for the company's overall leadership, technical strategy, and product architecture leading up to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Previously, Rich was Director of Advanced Technology at Nortel. Earlier in his career, Rich held founding and engineering management positions at Aptis, Arris, Chipcom, Data General, and Concord Data Systems. Rich holds an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BSET from Northeastern University. Rich is an active member of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Northeastern and was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 2004.

Shay Mowlem is director of virtualization strategy for the HP Software & Solutions organization. In this role, Mowlem is responsible for virtualization product strategy and leads the messaging and go-to-market activities related to virtualization solutions across HP Software & Solutions. Mowlem joined HP by way of the Opsware acquisition, where he was responsible for solutions and strategic marketing.

Richard is responsible for long-term cross portfolio product strategy within the Ionix/SSG software group. Previously he consulted for companies on network management product strategy. Prior to that, Richard was CTO for Clarus Systems, a privately held Unified Communications company. Richard spent over 8 years at Micromuse, Inc (now IBM), where he was Vice President of Strategic Technologies. He also serves as an advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-ups.

As the Director of Product Management at Novell, Steve is responsible for the health and evolution of the Virtualization and Workload Management product lines. Additionally Steve works on the continued integration with the broader Novell product portfolios to provide our customers with best of class solutions to their most critical IT management business problems. Before joining Novell in 2009, Steve spent close to 20 years in the financial industry managing complex datacenters from operational, implementation, engineering and architectural perspectives.

Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Eric Chiu is CEO and founder of HyTrust, is the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. He has in-depth knowledge about what’s needed to achieve the same level of operational readiness in virtual as in physical I.T. infrastructures. Previously Eric served in executive roles at Cemaphore, MailFrontier, mySimon, and was a venture capitalist at Brentwood/Redpoint, Pinnacle, and M&A at Robertson, Stephens and Company.

Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird, responsible for the company’s efforts to increase user awareness around the security implications of moving from “P to V to C”. Ms. Newberger has over 20 years of experience in technology development, systems engineering and marketing, including UNIX development as a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. As a systems engineer at UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), she led the definition of SVR4.2 MP, the award-winning source code product which is at the heart of current mainstream UNIX. Ms. Newberger also worked at Novell in product planning for next-generation technologies and as the Director of Product Management at SCO. She holds MS and BA degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York.

Allan Andersen is vice president of product management in CA Technologies Virtualization and Automation Customer Solutions Unit. He is responsible for the strategic positioning and product management activities for client and datacenter automation solutions.

Allen Stewart is a Principal Group Program Manager in the Windows Server and Solutions Division. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, virtualization management, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen is responsible for ensuring early deployment readiness and testing of all of Windows Server releases with Customers. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and he is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book “Inside Hyper-V” from Sybex Press.

A Senior Professional Services Executive with over fifteen years of diverse industry experience and a proven track record of success in transforming global organizations for growth and profitability. Extensive experience managing complex, concurrent business and technical consulting practices and services across a variety of environments, industries, and market segments. Special skills working with emerging technologies and software companies looking to take innovative products to market at a global level. Dmitry has worked with companies like Marimba, BMC, VMware and several start-ups in the Virtualization space.

Russel Wilkinson is a 6+ year veteran of VMware, Inc. and has been directly involved with customers' virtualization of Fortune 10 websites and multi-thousand seat desktop deployments. Initially brought on as a Sr. Systems Engineer, Russel spent 2 1/2 years working with customers in Michigan & Indiana driving customer adoption of ESX/Virtual Center and was quickly promoted to Staff SE. Russel was one of the initial members of the Global Accounts team as a Solutions Consultant where he worked with General Motors, Chrysler, & Ford to standardize on "virtualize first" approaches for server deployments. He has spent the last two years working as a Desktop Specialist Systems Engineer as a key member of the team aiding in customer adoption of VMware based desktop solutions including VMware View and ThinApp.

Based outside Detroit, MI, when Russel isn't found meeting with customers and evangelizing hosted desktop strategies he is responsible for chauffeuring his daughter to various ice skating competitions around the upper Midwest.

Jeff McNaught leads Wyse's marketing activities and customer support. Mr. McNaught is widely considered the most quoted spokesperson for thin computing in the world. With the experience of hundreds of speaking engagements, articles, and press interviews, he is considered an authority on the topic of thin computing. Mr. McNaught spearheaded the development of the award-winning Wyse Winterm thin clients and played an instrumental role in the creation of the Winterm line, the first Windows terminal to ship in volume. Mr. McNaught joined the Wyse team in 1987 after holding positions at ITT, Netexpress, and Cromemco. He earned his MBA from Pepperdine University.

Tom Flynn is the Chief Technologist for Thin Clients and Solutions with 22 years of experience in the computing industry. Tom conceived the HP MultiSeat solution for education and small business and is the leading the HP zero client strategy. Tom is the inventor of the Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) which is based on the Blade PC and has numerous patents pending. Tom is currently focusing on the rapidly evolving client virtualization technologies and the impact of those solutions on commercial, healthcare and educational offerings.

Tom is a well rounded technologist and a seasoned executive having held leadership positions in services organization, service provider organization, enterprise servers and storage organization, and the personal systems group. Prior to joining the personal systems group, Tom was the Director, Computing on Demand Solutions within Enterprise Servers and Storage. Tom led the technology team in the Service Provider Business Unit that helped create the Supplier Enablement portfolio. Tom joined Hewlett Packard in January 1995 as a founding member of Enterprise Consulting Services where he held a number of roles including principal consultant and manager of the Enterprise Solutions Centers.

Prior to joining HP, Tom held various roles at Amoco Production Company. These included the lead technical architect for the Business Process Re-engineering project, implementation manager for a company-wide decision support system, and team leader for exploration related applications supporting both domestic and international regions.

Tom holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Corpus Christi State University. Tom served with distinction in the US Army prior to attending university.

As executive vice president of products and technology, Parmeet brings more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership experience to Pano Logic and is responsible for leadership of the company's product development. Prior to joining Pano Logic, Parmeet was CEO and co-founder of MobileVerbs, Inc., a next generation mobile marketing platform, acquired by iLoop Mobile Inc. Before MobileVerbs, Parmeet was CTO of the Applications-on-Demand business unit at IBM, which had acquired Corio, an enterprise application service provider. At Corio, Parmeet held a number of executive positions, including CTO, Senior Vice President and President of Corio India. Parmeet started his career at Oracle, where he served as Director of Tools Development. Parmeet has also served as a consulting advisor to a number of technology companies. Parmeet holds a number of patents and has been widely published in industry and technical trade publications. He holds an M.S. and B.S. from MIT.

Joe Graves was named Stratus Technologies' CIO in 2002. During his tenure, Graves has recreated Stratus' IT environment using innovative approaches such as virtualization and software-as-a-service (SaaS). He joined Stratus, an industry leader in technologies for infrastructure availability, in 1986 as a software engineer. In the mid-90's, he managed the program to deliver several new platforms. In 1999, Graves transferred to IT. Prior to becoming CIO, he was responsible for managing IS operations, followed by IT application development. Prior to Stratus, Graves held various software engineering positions with Sequoia Systems and Data General. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Allen Stewart is a Principal Group Program Manager in the Windows Server and Solutions Division. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, virtualization management, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen is responsible for ensuring early deployment readiness and testing of all of Windows Server releases with Customers. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and he is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book “Inside Hyper-V” from Sybex Press.

A highly regarded virtualization and data center IT industry veteran, Scott Lillis is the senior systems engineer for the North East Region of Veeam Software. Lillis possesses more than 18 years of IT experience, focused on emerging technologies and enterprise solutions. Previously, Lillis was vice president of technology at a solution provider. He also served as Director of Datacenter Automation for a value added reseller. Additionally, Lillis has held senior technical and management roles with The Hartford and CSC/UTC. He also founded the first public Internet service provider in Connecticut, Paradigm Communications. Lillis holds numerous industry certifications, including VMware VCP, NetApp NASAP, Microsoft MCP, A+, Network+.

Jeremy Merrill is a Technical Marketing Engineer focusing on Data Protection Solutions. His primary focus has been around backup and recovery, disaster recovery and virtualization. Prior to joining NetApp, Jeremy worked in customer training and storage managed services.

Christopher has over fifteen (15) years of experience in the IT industry with a focus on public sector markets. He has over a decade of experience in a pure consulting role serving as Vice President of a leading New England IT consulting organization where he delivered in excess of 300 engagements in the government and education space focusing on building project design, technology master planning, infrastructure and system design, RFP development and budgeting and capital improvement expertise. In the years prior to joining CBE, Reily served as a Director of a successful consulting/engineering organization with an emphasis on virtualization and related technologies. In addition, Reily is a Senior Visiting Lecturer currently at Salem State College in the Master’s of Education, Information Technology program. Now in the role of CTO at CBE Technologies, Christopher provides Technical Consulting Services to the Sales Organization, delivers executive level Consulting Services to select clients focusing on Operational Readiness and serves in the leadership role of assessing, evaluating and packaging the technology solution sets that CBE delivers to its customers.

Guy Chapman has operational oversight of virtualisation and storage for intenal IT at SunGard Financial Systems, a Fortune 500 company with revenues in excess of $5.5 bn and one of the 20 largest software companies in the world. The busy virtual infrastructure serves a large development and test community, with over 1,500 virtual machines distributed around the UK and Europe. His current project is to move to a more cloud-like model with self-service on-demand provisioning and granular chargeback. Guy's past experience includes real-time control system programming, working with small businesses on early adoption of the Internet, and consulting for organisations such as The Healthcare Commission, Tyco International and Cincinnati Machine.

Rich brings more than 20 years of experience leading and contributing to technology-based companies. He is responsible for leading Akorri's engineering and R&D teams. Before founding Akorri, Rich was the founder and Executive Vice President at Pirus Networks, where he was responsible for the company's overall leadership, technical strategy, and product architecture leading up to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Previously, Rich was Director of Advanced Technology at Nortel. Earlier in his career, Rich held founding and engineering management positions at Aptis, Arris, Chipcom, Data General, and Concord Data Systems. Rich holds an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BSET from Northeastern University. Rich is an active member of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Northeastern and was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 2004.

Shay Mowlem is director of virtualization strategy for the HP Software & Solutions organization. In this role, Mowlem is responsible for virtualization product strategy and leads the messaging and go-to-market activities related to virtualization solutions across HP Software & Solutions. Mowlem joined HP by way of the Opsware acquisition, where he was responsible for solutions and strategic marketing.

Richard is responsible for long-term cross portfolio product strategy within the Ionix/SSG software group. Previously he consulted for companies on network management product strategy. Prior to that, Richard was CTO for Clarus Systems, a privately held Unified Communications company. Richard spent over 8 years at Micromuse, Inc (now IBM), where he was Vice President of Strategic Technologies. He also serves as an advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-ups.

As the Director of Product Management at Novell, Steve is responsible for the health and evolution of the Virtualization and Workload Management product lines. Additionally Steve works on the continued integration with the broader Novell product portfolios to provide our customers with best of class solutions to their most critical IT management business problems. Before joining Novell in 2009, Steve spent close to 20 years in the financial industry managing complex datacenters from operational, implementation, engineering and architectural perspectives.

Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Eric Chiu is CEO and founder of HyTrust, is the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. He has in-depth knowledge about what’s needed to achieve the same level of operational readiness in virtual as in physical I.T. infrastructures. Previously Eric served in executive roles at Cemaphore, MailFrontier, mySimon, and was a venture capitalist at Brentwood/Redpoint, Pinnacle, and M&A at Robertson, Stephens and Company.

Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird, responsible for the company’s efforts to increase user awareness around the security implications of moving from “P to V to C”. Ms. Newberger has over 20 years of experience in technology development, systems engineering and marketing, including UNIX development as a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. As a systems engineer at UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), she led the definition of SVR4.2 MP, the award-winning source code product which is at the heart of current mainstream UNIX. Ms. Newberger also worked at Novell in product planning for next-generation technologies and as the Director of Product Management at SCO. She holds MS and BA degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York.

John Cash is an Enterprise Product Advocate based in Dallas, TX. In his role, Mr. Cash promotes the vision and value proposition behind BlackBerry’s award winning portfolio of enterprise mobility solutions. Mr. Cash has over 19 years of product management, sales, and enterprise IT leadership spanning multiple industry segments including manufacturing, financial services, and government/military. Prior to joining RIM in 2009, Mr. Cash worked for Nokia, overseeing early market sales of Nokia’s enterprise voice and mobility solution for the US. Other previous career assignments were with Capital One, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the US Army. Mr. Cash has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Liberty University.

Alexander Wolfe is editor-in-chief of InformationWeek.com. In his two decades as a technology editor, he has written for Electronics Magazine, Byte.com, and TechWeb. He spent nine years at CMP's Electronic Engineering Times, where he wrote the "Wolfe's Den" column and broke the 1994 story of Intel's Pentium floating-point division bug.

Michael Brandenburg is a technical editor for TechTarget’s Network Media group, contributing features and other content for searchnetworking.com, searchenterprisewan.com, and searchunifiedcommunications.com.

Prior to TechTarget, Michael has covered the enterprise wireless and mobility markets for Network Computing as a contributing editor and blogger, as well as deep focus on the enterprise WLAN and networking markets as an enterprise network analyst for the competitive analysis firm Current Analysis. Michael’s early technology background comes from a history of "in the trenches" roles, with over 15 years of technology experience, serving in developer, system administrator, and IT management roles.

Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. 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 and on Webcasts/Webinars/podcasts, and is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the INTEROP conferences (Las Vegas and New York) and is also the Track Chair for the Wireless and Mobility conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for InformationWeek.com, and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University.

Kevin Keith serves as Director of Professional Services serving all AirWatch Mobile Device Management (MDM) customers globally. Mr. Keith manages technology specialists across all major mobile device platforms, dedicated to supporting customers with creation and implementation of their MDM strategies using the AirWatch management console.

Prior to joining AirWatch, Mr. Keith launched the American operations of Microlise LLC, a global leader in mobile workforce management and vehicle based asset tracking technology. As vice president, operations, for Mircolise America, Mr. Keith was responsible for managing the strategy for penetration of Microlise’s solutions in the Americas as well as day to day operational management. Mr. Keith also all U.S. based strategic partnerships.

Prior to joining Microlise America, Mr. Keith served as Executive Director for Professional Services at Manhattan Associates, the global leader in supply chain planning, optimization, and execution solutions. Mr. Keith held several leadership roles in his 8 years at Manhattan Associates, including management of tier 1 client delivery, introduction of several new software offerings in the market, and responsibility for creating the professional services methodology that supported more than 300 professional services resources. Mr. Keith served in quality assurance and oversight roles for more than 100 customers globally during his time at Manhattan Associates.

Mr. Keith received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida.

Ahmed Datoo's experience in the technology industry spans strategic planning, brand marketing, software engineering and product management. Prior to Zenprise, Mr. Datoo was at EDS, where he was a global Director of Product Development. While at EDS, he built and launched several workflow automation and monitoring automation modules that generated multi-million dollar savings globally. Prior to EDS, Mr. Datoo was on Loudcloud's product management team where he focused on monitoring, storage and performance networking products. Previously, he was a brand manager at Yahoo! where he co-developed the print and radio promotions for Yahoo! Shopping. Mr. Datoo began his career as a strategy consultant at Accenture where he created high tech product development strategies for telecos, media conglomerates and hardware manufacturers. Mr. Datoo holds an MBA, M.A., and B.A. from Stanford University.

Ojas' team is responsible for product management and marketing at MobileIron. MobileIron is a software company focused on solving the security and management problems CIOs face as enterprise data moves to the smartphone. Before MobileIron, Ojas was Vice President of Global Mobile Products at Yahoo!, responsible for Yahoo’s mobile search, email, messaging, and content services. He started in mobile in 2000 as Vice President of Product Marketing at AvantGo, one of the first software developers for Palm and PocketPC handhelds. 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 a 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 Computer Engineering degree from M.I.T. and an MBA from Stanford.

As a member of the product marketing team at iPass, Chris Witeck drives the roadmap, and defines product requirements based on market and customer needs. Before joining iPass, Mr. Witeck served as director of Remote Access Product Management for SonicWALL, where he was responsible for SonicWALL’s family of SMB and Enterprise SSL VPN products. Prior to SonicWALL, Witeck was the director of product marketing for Aventail where he was responsible for product strategy and product launches for Aventail’s SSL VPN product line. Mr. Witeck holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of Washington

Michael Saitow is an energetic leader with over 12 years of executive level experience operations, logistics, marketing & IT. He is responsible for the business process engineering surrounding both sales and operations and for M. S. Walker, Inc., a $250 million Wine & Spirits distributor with facilities throughout the northeast United States. He has held multiple senior-level positions in the service, sales, on-line, and financial vertical markets. Mr. Saitow was the Project Manager for the Company's distribution facility migration in 2005, including the implementation of HighJump Software, which has significantly reduced the Company's expenses related to operations and improved customer satisfaction. Mr. Saitow is an avid surfer, skier and rock, ice and mountain climber.

Sean Poccia is the Sr. Director of Information Services for Comag Marketing Group, a jointly owned subsidiary of Hearst Corporation and Conde Nast LLC. Prior to joining Comag, Mr. Poccia served as the Director of IS for Shaw Areva MOX Services under contract with the National Nuclear Security Administration and the US Department of Energy. Mr. Poccia started his professional career serving his country in the United States Marine Corp in Washington DC. After joining the civilian workforce Mr. Poccia joined General Motors and served as an engineer with a focus on digital systems integration. Since those early days, Mr. Poccia has honed his skills and worked developing and deploying enterprise level systems with SAP, JDE, Indus and most recently Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Mr. Poccia is a seasoned Six Sigma Master Black Belt and PMP and is considered a leader in lean manufacturing and Supply Chain Management. Mr. Poccia has a B.Sc. in Computer Science.

Cecilia Fung is the Director of Customer Service Applications of Pitney Bowes Inc., a complete end to end solution provider of marketing, software and mailing solutions. Ms. Fung manages the service management system that connects with BlackBerry and Pocket PCs for 2,000 field service reps in US. She has spoken in several mobility events previously because of the successful implementation of mobile solutions in the field service area. Currently she is also implementing workforce optimization systems in US, International and Canada service teams that enables automated scheduling and job assignment. In her previous role as Director of Quality and Process Improvement, she received the National Women of Color Award in Science and Technology - IT Leadership, a prestigious award for women from corporation and government in the nation. She also led the IT organization to achieve Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 for software development, ie. Institutionalized process for the entire IT organization across the globe as well as successfully outsourced all applications and maintenance development to their India partner. She worked with PriceWaterhouseCoopers as senior consulting manager prior to Pitney Bowes in many strategic, outsourcing and systems implementation engagements. She has an International MBA in York University and Institut des Enterprise de Provence as well as an undergraduate degree in Psychology and French Literature from University of Manitoba. She has lived in many countries across the world and speak several languages fluently.

John Cash is an Enterprise Product Advocate based in Dallas, TX. In his role, Mr. Cash promotes the vision and value proposition behind BlackBerry’s award winning portfolio of enterprise mobility solutions. Mr. Cash has over 19 years of product management, sales, and enterprise IT leadership spanning multiple industry segments including manufacturing, financial services, and government/military. Prior to joining RIM in 2009, Mr. Cash worked for Nokia, overseeing early market sales of Nokia’s enterprise voice and mobility solution for the US. Other previous career assignments were with Capital One, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the US Army. Mr. Cash has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Liberty University.

Michael Voellinger is the Executive Vice President and the Mobility Practice Leader of Telwares Inc., a global IT and telecom consultancy. Mr. Voellinger is also the Executive Vice President and Producer of the CIO Global Forum, a bi-annual event that has achieved and maintains national recognition as one of the best leadership and management forums for the enterprise CIO. A highly sought after industry analyst, Michael brings more than 16 years of experience to his role as one of the nation's top wireless strategists and considered to be a thought leader in mobile communications. His analysis is continually sought out by leading corporations, government, and financial institutions and his commentary can be found in leading media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, CIO Magazine, Smartmoney.com, Dow Jones Newswire, CNN Money, as well as numerous security and industry publications.

John Barcomb has spent 21 years in the wireless industry holding various positions in technical and sales roles. Currently, John is the Manager of Advanced Solution Engineering who's team supports all technical resources with Sprint sales teams across the country. His team supports many aspects of wireless technologies as well as advanced support for product development efforts. John has personally worked on network and product development with numerous carriers. His efforts have focused on new products and services being made available on the the networks he has supported. John has held positions with US West, AirTouch, Qwest Wireless and Sprint. He has worked in the following roles: Data Sales Development Manager, Technical Applications Manager, Design Engineer and Manager.

Jamie brings over 15 years of experience in investment banking and entrepreneurial startups to his role as CEO of KineticD, formally Data Deposit Box. Jamie's prior business accomplishments are long and varied. He was at Salomon Brothers in London, where he helped build the equity derivatives department into an important profit centre. He then embarked on his future as an entrepreneur, acquiring Wood Printing & Graphics, and later co-founding integrated marketing communications company Sonar Group. Jamie then established a solid foundation for Truition, an eCommerce service company for clients such as Dell Financial Services, CompUSA and Sirius Satellite Radio. Jamie holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario.

Andrew Rubin co-founded Cymtec, co-formulating Cymtec Systems' business concept and authoring the original business plan. Andrew is responsible for all day-to-day operations of the organization. Prior to Cymtec Systems, he served as the Business Development Manager for a St. Louis-based telecommunications company, offering primary services including VoIP international long-distance. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.S.B.A. in Finance, and was awarded 1st Place in the Olin Cup Competition for Entrepreneurship.

In his role as CEO, Alan Snyder brings a wealth of senior management and consulting experience that shapes BoxTone's approach to Mobile Service Management. Throughout his professional career, Alan has been at the forefront of planning, designing, deploying, supporting, and expanding advanced business software and technology solutions for major corporations and government institutions. Before joining BoxTone, he served as President and CEO of Idea Integration, a business unit of MPS Group and multi-national provider of e-business development and integration solutions. In addition to leading the company through several successful acquisitions, he helped Idea generate $240 million in revenue in 2000 and eventually become the largest integration partner for BEA. Earlier in his career, Alan was a principal with IT consulting firm Perspective Technology, where he provided hands-on leadership to help successfully grow the company until it was acquired by MPS. He also served as a senior consultant at Accenture, where he developed and delivered IT solutions for Government Agencies. Alan received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University.

Kevin has overall strategy and business development responsibility for Motorola’s portfolio of Enterprise WLAN, Wireless Broadband and Voice over WLAN products and services. Prior to his current role, Kevin led overall Marketing for Motorola’s WLAN Division. Kevin also held positions as Director Product Management roles in Motorola’s Enterprise Mobile Solutions team where he had overall product management responsibility for the VoWLAN program and Enterprise Devices at Motorola where he had overall business and product ownership for the Motorola Q. Prior to Motorola, he held the Director Product Management role at U.S. Robotics with responsibility for the company’s full product line, VP Product Management at NTT / Verio and Director Product Management at Ameritech Cellular. Areas of expertise include enterprise communication platforms, Wi-Fi, VoIP, Cellular devices, systems and infrastructure, IP, telco and datacom backbone and end points. Kevin holds a BSEE from the University of Illinois and a KMI / MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

Gopinath KN (Gopi) has more than 12 years of experience in systems, networks and security. He has devoted the previous eight years of his life to understand wireless security issues and build cutting-edge security systems. He has several patents and technical publications to his credit. Gopi is a speaker and an author. He has delivered multi-day training sessions and speaks at popular international conferences. As an author, he contributes regularly to highly influential publications such as Network World, CWNP Blog, InfoSecurity Magazine, IDG Connect and Wireless Security Blog. Gopi has been a member of Bell Labs research, MH, NJ, and is currently Director of Engineering at Airtight Networks.

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

Kevin Donovan, Vice President of Corporate Business Development, joined VASCO in 2000 and has been a key member of VASCO’s team which has become the market leader in global authentication. Kevin has successfully managed global partner and customer relationships with some of the world’s best known organizations. Mr. Donovan has spoken at numerous security and banking summits. Kevin holds a degree from the University of Massachusetts in Marketing and an MBA from the University of Baltimore.

Jesse Frankel, Director of Systems Engineering and Product Management at AirMangt, has extensive experience in delivering critical wireless security solutions for enterprise, clinical and government networks. Frankel has been working in various areas of wireless LAN technology and applications for more than 10 years. Previously, he was VP Systems Technology at Wayport, provider of broadband Internet access services for business travelers. At Telxon (acquired by Symbol Technologies in 2000), Frankel held various management and R&D positions for the design and manufacture of wireless mobile application systems and devices. He also spent time in pioneering development work bringing spread spectrum wireless LAN technology into the mainstream for commercial applications, and the design of the first fully integrated wireless handheld mobile computers. Frankel is a frequent presenter and panel host on topics of WLAN design and network performance optimization. He also sits on several technical advisory boards in the WLAN technology industry. Frankel holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Case Western Reserve University.

Bob Friday is Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Wireless Networking Business Unit of Cisco’s Wireless, Security and Routing Technology Group (WSRTG). Within this group, Friday drives strategic wireless initiatives for the aggressively growing WiFi (wireless LAN) and Borderless Network businesses. He is focused on the trends and transitions in the convergence of WiFi and Cellular networks in enterprise and SP networks, the ecosystem of enterprise mobile app developers and the evolution of 802.11n. Friday’s career has been focused on developing unlicensed wireless networking technology and products. He came to Cisco as the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Airespace, the wireless LAN leader acquired by Cisco in 2004. At Airespace, he leveraged his wireless service provider experience by introducing a centralized controller architecture for enterprise 802.11 wireless networks. He was responsible for location technology, mesh, wireless routing technology, radio hardware development, and radio resource management algorithms. Prior to Airespace, Friday was Chief Scientist at Metricom, a wireless wide area network infrastructure company, and was directly responsible for the performance and capacity of the company’s nationwide wireless wide-area Ricochet network. Friday has been awarded 13 patents and holds a BSEE from Georgia Tech, and a MSEE from San Jose State University.

Douglas J. Haider is a Consulting Engineer with Xirrus. Mr. Haider has over ten years experience in wireless networking, security, and audit. He started his career as an Intelligence Officer with the United States Air Force where he held various positions including Deputy Branch Chief at the Air Force Information Warfare Center.

Mr. Haider holds a B.S. from Vanderbilt University where he majored in Physics. He also earned a M.S. from the University of LaVerne with a concentration in Business and Organizational Management. He holds over a dozen information security and wireless certifications including the CISSP, CISM, and CWNE.

Douglas is a SANS Stay Sharp Instructor, a SANS Certified Mentor, and a frequent speaker on wireless technologies. He is also a wireless blogger for Computerworld, CWNP, and WiFiJedi.com.

Sanjit Biswas is responsible for Meraki’s strategic direction and day-to-day operations. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he co-led the research project that won several academic awards and later became the foundation of Meraki’s wireless mesh technology. Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford, and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

As Vice President of Engineering, Patrick is responsible for all engineering and development activities at Bluesocket. He brings over 12 years of embedded software development experience as well as technical leadership experience to Bluesocket. Patrick was instrumental in introducing wireless access points into the Bluesocket product offering and continues to facilitate the enhancement and expansion the AP product line. Prior to Bluesocket, Patrick held key development roles at 3eTI in Rockville, Maryland and Seneca Networks in Gaithersburg, Maryland. While at 3eTI, he architected their enterprise AP and also worked closely with military customers to introduce the wireless technology into their secure networks. Prior to that, he worked at GE Transportation Systems in Erie, PA designing control systems for their most advanced locomotive system. While at GE, he completed the corporation's renowned Technical Leadership Program and then became the leader of GE's Advanced Course technology program in Erie. Patrick earned a BSEE from Gannon University in Erie, PA and MSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia with a concentration in Communication Systems. He also received a Management of Technology certificate from Georgia Tech.

Devin Akin has over 10 years in the wireless LAN market and over 15 years in information technology, co-founding CWNP, the de facto standard for vendor-neutral Wi-Fi training and certification, and Peachtree Wireless Solutions, a vendor-specific training and services company. Devin served as CTO for both companies until 2009, authoring several exams, whitepapers, and courseware as the principal subject matter expert, and he served as the primary speaker, instructor, blogger, and consultant for CWNP. He regularly assisted a wide variety of Wi-Fi industry manufacturers with product and marketing strategy, quality assurance, and workforce education and regularly keynoted vendor summits and wireless user conferences.

Devin's background includes working as a network design engineer for EarthLink, AT&T/BellSouth, Foundry Networks, and Sentinel Technologies as well as working as an RF engineer in the U.S. Army. He has authored and edited several books with Wiley-Sybex and McGraw-Hill and holds some of the industry's most esteemed certifications, including CWNE, MCNE, MCSE, CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, and INFOSEC. He is considered an authority on Wi-Fi technology.

Joe Epstein, a Meru wireless innovator and industry thought leader, is responsible for articulating the technology vision of the company. Additionally, he chairs the Voice over Wi-Fi Technical Certification Task Group for the Wi-Fi Alliance, and has made significant contributions to IEEE 802.11 standards. Epstein authored the book, 'Scalable VoIP Mobility: Integration and Deployment', which discusses 802.11n and how the standard directly impacts voice mobility. He has a BS in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley.

Marten Terpstra is director of Technology and Architecture and director of Customer Engineering for Avaya Data Solutions.

In the Technology and Architecture role, Terpstra is responsible for the overall product and solution technology across the Avaya data portfolio. These responsibilities include the creation of long-term technology direction, innovation and IPR, cross portfolio technology alignment, and strategic technology partnerships and vendor relationships.

In addition to his technology role, Terpstra’s Customer Engineering responsibilities include the direction and execution of all data product sustaining activities, as well as serving as the Data Solutions research and development prime for customer escalations. In this role, Marten is closely aligned to the Global Services organization to ensure Avaya customers receive outstanding product support.

With more than 20 years of experience in the data communications industry, Terpstra has held several research and development positions, including consulting engineer on several carrier data products and research and development director for a 400-person development team.

Terpstra received his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam. He is based in Billerica, MA.

Austin has over 20 years’ experience designing, building and operating enterprise and telecommunications networks. He is an expert in IP switching and routing, wireless LANs and network security and over the past six years has been involved in the design and deployment of hundreds of secure wireless LANs for Aruba customers. Prior to Aruba, Austin held network and systems engineering roles at Citigroup, Riverstone Networks, ICG Satellite Services and the USAF.

Scott Lindsay serves as the Sr. Director Advanced Technology for HP Networking. He is responsible for driving technology strategy and innovation leadership for the areas of Mobility, UC&C and Network Management. Prior to HP, Mr. Lindsay was Sr. Director Global PLM for 3Com's Mobility and Voice businesses. Before 3Com, he has held several sales, marketing and business development roles for companies focused on networking, and has led two start-up networking communications companies to successful acquisitions by Hewlett Packard and by 3Com. Previous leadership roles include VP of Marketing for Engim, a developer of wide-band Wi-Fi chip sets, and VP of Marketing and Business Development for Scope Communications, which developed hand-held networking test and measurement equipment, as well several other companies focused on networking communications, wireless and sensor solutions. Mr. Lindsay has also spent time working in the VC community with Granum Partners. He received a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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

Joel Brand is responsible for all aspects of product management for Bytemobile. For more than 20 years, Brand has actively participated in defining and building infrastructure solutions that enable service providers to introduce network-based value-added services. Before joining Bytemobile, he was responsible for the service provider business of Ruckus Wireless. Prior to that, he worked for SoftBank in Japan , where he was in charge of its MMS and graphical 3D Virtual World infrastructure for social networking applications. Brand has also held product management and engineering leadership positions atTahoe Networks, Octel Communications, Amdocs, Nortel Networks, and the Israeli Defense Force. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Israeli Institute of Technology as well as MBA from National University in San Diego.

Tom Lasiter is a WiMAX Industry Marketing Manager for Intel’s PC Client Group. Tom has been involved in early phase development of Intel’s WiMAX, telecommunications infrastructure, and service provider initiatives in strategic marketing, business development and sales management roles since 2000. He has an MBA from the University of Missouri and MSEE from Oklahoma State University.