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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Taufik Ma joined Emulex in May 2006 as part of the company’s acquisition of Aarohi Communications and serves as vice president of product management. At Aarohi, Ma was the vice president of marketing and business development and helped drive the expansion of the company's business into existing and adjacent markets. Taufik brings over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and systems business. Prior to Aarohi, Ma was General Manager of the Enterprise Platforms and Services Division at Intel Corporation, where he lead the BladeCenter collaboration with IBM, pioneered Intel's white box SAN platform and built their telecom server business. While at Intel, he also managed the planning, development, product integration and OEM engagement for key technologies including PCI-Express, Intel Virtualization Technology, Fully-Buffered-DIMMs and demand-based switching.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.