Enterprise Cloud Summit – Private Clouds

Mike is Editor of Network Computing. He has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. He previously was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant.

George Reese is the author of several books on cloud computing and enterprise technologies. His most recent book is O’Reilly’s Cloud Application Architectures. Professionally, he is the founder and CTO of enStratus, the only infrastructure management solution supporting enterprise security and governance for the hybrid cloud. George has also led a number of Open Source projects, including several MUD libraries and the mSQL-JDBC JDBC driver. He is the primary maintainer of Dasein Cloud, a cloud abstraction API for Java.

George holds a BA from Bates College in Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Kent has more than 19 years of engineering experience. As Senior Vice President of Engineering, Kent leads the product architecture, development, quality and on-demand infrastructure efforts for Tendril. Most recently Kent was Vice President of Engineering at BEA Systems Inc., where he held a number of roles managing Engineering and Product Management functions for some of BEA’s key product platforms. Kent holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA in Organizational Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Bret Piatt is Director of Corporate Development where he is responsible for identifying and pursuing new growth opportunities for Rackspace’s core business through M&A, strategic partnerships, or incubation efforts. He played a crucial role in the formation of OpenStack, the open source cloud software community, as well as building the Cloud Tools ecosystem for the Rackspace Cloud. Previously, Bret was on the Product Management teams for both Rackspace and AT&T, where he was responsible for security and compliance product lines. His technical experience comes from his time at AT&T/SBC, where he designed carrier scale monitoring and management systems, optimized networks for enterprise customers, and performed lab testing on new products from potential suppliers and partners. Bret has more than 12 years experience working for service providers on leading edge projects and technologies from the beginning of VPN services to the currently emerging public cloud computing market. He is a also frequent speaker on cloud computing and big data technology at major industry events.

As Chief Technology Officer, Justin Sheehy directs Basho's technical strategy, roadmap, and new research into storage and distributed systems. Justin came to Basho from the MITRE Corporation, where as a principal scientist he managed large research projects for the U.S. Intelligence Community including such efforts as high assurance platforms, automated defensive cyber response, and cryptographic protocol analysis. He was central to MITRE’s development of research for mission assurance against sophisticated threats, the flagship program of which successfully proposed and created methods for building resilient networks of web services.

Before working for MITRE, Justin worked at a series of technology companies including five years at Akamai Technologies, where he was a senior architect for systems infrastructure giving Justin a broad as well as deep background in distributed systems. Justin was a key contributor to the technology that enabled fast growth of Akamai’s networks and services while allowing support costs to stay low. Justin performed both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Computer Science at Northeastern University.

Patrick Chanezon joined VMware in 2011 in San Francisco, to create the developer relations team, and make VMware and Cloud Foundry the first choice of developers moving their apps to the cloud. Previously, he worked at Google from 2005 to 2011, where he managed the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team. Previously he has been a Developer Advocate, building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API. Previously he spent 5 years at Sun Microsystems as a software architect working on Sun Portal Server, blogs and syndication feeds, and received the CEO award for helping launch blogs.sun.com. Previously he spent 5 years at AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal, and 2 years at Accenture as a Lotus Notes guru. He co-created the ROME open source project, and the OSSGTP group in France.

Apart from programming and reading books, his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.

Patrick received a M.S. in computer science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon where he graduated in 1993.

Peder Ulander is vice president of product marketing for the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix, overseeing the company’s marketing strategy for its cloud infrastructure and server virtualization products. Ulander joined Citrix in 2011 when the company acquired Cloud.com, where he was chief marketing officer. Ulander has more than 15 years of marketing and sales strategy experience and has been named “The Most Interesting Man in the Cloud” by Cloudcast.net.
Prior to Cloud.com, he was head of strategy for Pure Networks and helped drive its acquisition by Cisco, where he then went on to oversee the Seattle-based Consumer Networking Software group. Ulander served as senior vice president of marketing at Sun Microsystems, where he managed the Solaris OS team and was responsible for launching Java into the open source market by re-licensing, building a community and launching the open source Java platform. Ulander has also held a number of management positions at software companies such as MontaVista Software and Cobalt Networks. He studied economics at Santa Clara University.

Mr. Leif Maiorini is the Senior Managing Director of IT Strategy & Planning of Cushman & Wakefield, a global commercial real estate services provider with operations in 61 countries. As SMD of IT Strategy & Planning, Mr. Maiorini is responsible for global IT strategy development & planning, enterprise applications and enterprise architecture. Mr. Maiorini is based in Cushman & Wakefield’s world headquarters in New York, New York.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Mr. Maiorini has served in various IT executive leadership capacities for more than 20 years; the previous 10 years as the CIO for CDG Management.

Leif holds and MSE in Technology Management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Graduate School of Engineering and a BA from LaSalle University in Computer and Information Sciences. Leif frequently serves as a speaker and panelist for a number of professional conferences and currently is a member of the executive leadership board of the Society for Information Management’s New Jersey Chapter.

Leif resides in Marlton, NJ with his wife and three children.

Dr. Craig A. Cuyar is the Global Chief Information Officer of Cushman& Wakefield, a global commercial real estate services provider with operations in 58 countries. He is based in New York, New York.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Dr. Cuyar has served as a CIO for sixteen years in a variety of professional services industries, including healthcare, advertising, and residential and commercial real estate. He was most recently the CIO for the Realogy Franchise Group, a global franchisor of some of the most recognized brands in the real estate industry including Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate®, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Coldwell Banker Commercial®, ERA®, and Sotheby’s International Realty®.

Dr. Cuyar has served as an adjunct faculty member and designed curricular materials for various academic institutions and is currently an adjunct faculty member teaching Supply Chain Management at Columbia University. He also mentors IT professionals for the CIO Executive Council and students enrolled in the Masters of Technology Management program at Columbia University

Dr. Cuyar holds Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA in Finance from the Rutgers Business School. He speaks regularly at professional conferences and serves on Executive Advisory Boards for Avaya, Savvis and Zillow. Dr. Cuyar is also the Immediate Past President of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society for Information Management and a current Board member for OSCRE.

Dr. Cuyar lives in Randolph, NJ with his wife and three daughters. In his spare time he enjoys travel, wine and fly-fishing.

Mason Katz is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Clustercorp. Prior to joining Clustercorp, he co-founded the open-source Rocks Clusters Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) located on the campus of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). He has 20 years of experience in distributed and networked systems. His first job was as an 8-bit embedded software engineer, where he integrated first generation GPS units into a national grid of weather sensors. It was here that he discovered his passion for creating highly automated, maintainable, and supportable systems. He then took his embedded experience into the OS kernel arena and spent several years developing research-oriented network protocol stacks (x-kernel and IPSec) for Linux. For the last half of his career his primary focus has been on the design of software to manage commodity Linux clusters. As a co-founder of the Rocks Cluster Group, he helped position Rocks as the de facto standard in Linux cluster management.

James Urquhart manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems. Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by the MIT Technology Review, and author of the popular cloud computing blog, The Wisdom of Clouds (http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds), Mr. Urquhart brings a deep understanding of these disruptive technologies and the business opportunities they afford. James has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Mathematics from Macalester College.

Manavinder Bains serves as Chief Counsel for Technology for NYSE Euronext, which is comprised of leading equities and derivatives exchanges across the United States and Europe. Manavinder manages a wide array of intellectual property and technology driven matters pertaining to the clearing and settlement of cash equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products as well as regulatory and commercial matters pertaining to global exchange driven solutions, market data, and clearance and settlement models. Manavinder also supports strategic initiatives respecting the cultivation, acquisition and leveraging of intellectual property assets as well as transactional, operational and regulatory matters pertaining to mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Manavinder served as a Vice President with Merrill Lynch handling a wide range of technology driven legal and business matters, including investments in technology companies. Manavinder has also served as in-house Corporate Counsel to a technology and telecommunications company and worked in private practice as an associate at a prominent New York City law firm.

Manavinder speaks frequently on issues pertaining to intellectual property. He has appeared on CNBC to discuss copyright litigation between Viacom and Google, and often presents at Continuing Legal Education conferences.

Manavinder has authored widely cited articles on the convergence of intellectual property law and technology published in the COLUMBIA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW (4 COLUM SCI & TECH L. REV. 4) as well as the STANFORD TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW (2006 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 6). In addition to citations in legal scholarship, other citations include mention in a written judicial opinion issued by a court in the 9th Circuit and an amici curiae brief filed with the Supreme Court of the United Sates.

B.A. University of California Berkeley, 1991

J.D. Emory University School of Law, 2001

Nolan M. Goldberg is an IP & Technology Counsel in Proskauer's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department and a member of the Patent Law Group, resident in the New York office. As an intellectual property litigator, his practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling. As a founding member of the Litigation Department's Electronic Discovery Task Force, Mr. Goldberg is often called upon to develop e-discovery strategies to be used in all types of litigations, with a particular focus on managing the overall burden and cost of the electronic discovery process and obtaining often overlooked electronic evidence, including computer forensics. Mr. Goldberg's complete professional bio can be found at http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/nolan-goldberg/

Gordon Haff is Red Hat's Cloud Evangelist. Prior to Red Hat, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in publications like The New York Times on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for bringing a wide range of computer systems, from minicomputers to large UNIX servers, to market while at Data General. Gordon has engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School.

Paul Weiss is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Eucalyptus Systems working with Enterprise customers across the globe. He worked at VMware for over 3 years and has worked with virtualization products for many years. He has also worked as a VMware Specialist at a Premier VMware Partner, a Senior Systems Architect with a primary focus on large Sun environments, and as a Sun Certified Instructor. Paul has over 16 years of Enterprise IT experience and is certified in many solutions like Solaris, Red Hat and VMware.

William Hayes, PhD Molecular Biology and Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech, is Director of Decision Support R&D IT at Biogen Idec. His group focuses on extracting, integrating and delivering information for more efficient analysis and decision making. He has extensive experience with text mining, data mining, bioinformatics, and grid computing in meeting the challenges of informatics-driven drug discovery.

Mike is Editor of Network Computing. He has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. He previously was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant.