Conference: Application Delivery Track

Apurva Davé is Senior Director, Product Marketing for Riverbed Technology. Previously, he served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. Apurva holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University.

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

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

Steven is Vice President, Marketing, and leads our 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.

Tanvir has responsibility for product management for CA's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit, covering network, systems, database, data center automation and virtualization management solutions. Tanvir previously was Chief Technology Officer at TRG, where he helped raise $90 million in equity, acquired 15 companies in the span of 22 months and built TRG into one of the largest offshore-controlled business process outsourcers. He was responsible for the global technology infrastructure, software development, and IT service delivery to Fortune 500 companies. He also served on the boards of TRG portfolio companies in the US and UK. Previously, he was director of product management for CSG Systems and Lucent Technologies, managing OSS/BSS customer care and billing software solutions for the wireline/IP, mobile, cable and utilities industries. At Kenan Systems Corporation, subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies, Tanvir served as general manager for the Energy & Utilities business unit, which he grew into a $10 million revenue stream within two years. Previously, Tanvir was a strategy consultant with Booz?Allen & Hamilton in their Communications, Media and Technology practice. He served in a variety of technical and managerial roles at AT&T including the creation of the first desktop, multipoint voice, video and data collaboration service. Earlier in his career, Tanvir served as Mission Director for the launch of the Telstar IV communications satellites at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Tanvir holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard College. He also earned an M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.