Interop Business Technology Conference

Doug Hazelman is Vice President, Product Strategy, and Chief Evangelist. Doug consults with customers, partners and industry analysts on key considerations for implementing virtual server infrastructures. He works with Veeam’s R&D team to enhance and develop new Veeam products to address market needs, and advises customers on best practices for managing virtual environments. Doug shares his expertise via theVeeam blog and other social media outlets.

Eric has worked on emerging technologies for almost his entire career, with early stints at pioneering companies such as Tandem, Pyramid, Sun, Veritas, ConvergeNet, Mendocino, and Topio, among others, on fault tolerance and high availability, replication, backup, continuous data protection, and server virtualization technologies. Over the last 25 years he has worked across a variety of functional areas, including sales, product management, marketing, business development, and technical support, and also spent time as an Executive in Residence with Mayfield and a storage industry analyst at Taneja Group. Before joining Virsto, he was VP of Marketing at InMage.

Ed Walsh is a Senior vSpecialist, VMware Affinity team at EMC. In this role, Ed is responsible for working with joint EMC-VMware customers to maximize the benefits of their virtualized infrastructure including cost reduction, and improved service levels. Current Ed is also the leader for the VMware Protection Focus Group at EMC.

Ed is a 21-year veteran of the high-technology industry. Prior to his current role, he was responsible EMC’s pre-sales engineering and service delivery for EMC’s NYS government customers. Before starting his focus on EMC’s NYS public sector account, he led the team that sold and delivered EMC services to the General Electric account globally.

Previously, Ed served as the senior director of IT at LexisNexis responsible for providing the delivery of IT infrastructure to multiple lines of business. Ed also spent three years at Keane Consulting where he was responsible for strategy, architecture, and deployment of Oracle ERP applications.

Mr. Walsh graduated from Siena College B.S. in Computer Science and holds an MS-Computer Management Systems from Union College.

Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada.

Kevin possesses over twenty-five years of consulting and software development expertise and has conceived, designed and overseen the development of software products and hosted services in the business, educational and recreational areas which have been used by millions of people in over 17 countries worldwide. He is an accomplished speaker and frequent presenter at various technical conferences and events where he prides himself on clear and direct messaging in a world filled with too many acronyms, adjectives and too much "marketing speak".
Kevin’s initial interest in technology was cultivated by the Commodore Pet; shortly thereafter he began creating videogames for the Commodore 64, including Jack Attack which was nominated for game of the year.

While ensuring effective communications is no “game”, Kevin believes that through a structured, methodical process, implementing technology that truly matches real user requirements can be lots of fun. He regularly shares his unique perspective with the readers of No Jitter.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada.

Kevin possesses over twenty-five years of consulting and software development expertise and has conceived, designed and overseen the development of software products and hosted services in the business, educational and recreational areas which have been used by millions of people in over 17 countries worldwide. He is an accomplished speaker and frequent presenter at various technical conferences and events where he prides himself on clear and direct messaging in a world filled with too many acronyms, adjectives and too much "marketing speak".
Kevin’s initial interest in technology was cultivated by the Commodore Pet; shortly thereafter he began creating videogames for the Commodore 64, including Jack Attack which was nominated for game of the year.

While ensuring effective communications is no “game”, Kevin believes that through a structured, methodical process, implementing technology that truly matches real user requirements can be lots of fun. He regularly shares his unique perspective with the readers of No Jitter.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

Brian Butte has focused on cloud, grid, and utility computing for the past nine years as an Enterprise Architect. Brian has architected multiple virtualization solutions for Fortune 500 clients including internal infrastructure as a service, workload overflow, internal storage clouds, and grid enabled ETL. Brian's varied background including plant floor automation, embedded systems, enterprise applications and call centers across multiple verticals gives him a unique perspective on the application of cloud technology. Brian is Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, member of the PwC Cloud Action Committee, PwC Cloud Solutions Team and subject matter expert within the Technology Advisory practice.

Peter Coffee, former technology editor of eWEEK, works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com, salesforce.com’s enterprise cloud computing platform. With 25 years experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies, Peter has been a keynote speaker, moderator or presenter at IT events throughout the U.S., England, Canada and Australia. Peter holds an engineering degree from MIT and MBA from Pepperdine University, with faculty appointments at Pepperdine, UCLA and Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.

Cimarron leads Apperian's product marketing organization for mobile enterprise solutions, including EASE (Enterprise App Services Environment). He has worked in technology for over 25 years, providing creative and visionary leadership for products and services in the technology, web and mobile areas. Cimarron made an indelible imprint on the mobile industry in creating the first iPhone magazine.

Prior to Apperian, he worked with Texterity, and built a product, sales, and marketing organization that led the digital magazine industry by providing solutions to b-to-b, trade association, and consumer publications.

Cimarron was also GM Internet Products at FaxNet, leading the group which was responsible for internet messaging solutions for the telecom industry. FaxNet was sold to Critical Path for approximately $240 million.

Cimarron has a BA in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from Harvard University.

Michael Dortch is a Research Director at FOCUS LLC (www.focusonsystems.com), covering the dynamics linking virtualization to data center modernization and public, private and hybrid cloud computing for business. He is also Principal Analyst and Managing Editor at DortchOnIT.com and a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research (www.constellationrg.com). DortchOnIT.com is "an independent voice for technology-dependent people" and consults with providers of disruptive business technologies. Constellation Research is a leading research analyst and advisory firm guiding organizations and their leaders through the hype and buzz of the latest disruptive technologies.

One of the "Top 500 Analysts Using Twitter" according to independent metrics, Michael has been empowering information technology (IT) buyers, sellers and users since 1979, by translating what technologists say and do into language that non-technologists can understand and use. He blogs regularly and is quoted widely on subjects ranging from cloud computing and software as a service to technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).

As Director of Research at Focus.com, Michael helped to grow that site into a community of more than 850,000 people including some 5,000 Focus Experts, and a Top 10 Media Web Site according to Crain's "B2B Magazine." He has also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. In 1990, Michael wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks," a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc.

Jay Mellman is Chief Marketing Officer of Rhomobile, the leader in tools for building and deploying smartphone applications. In his more than 20 years of experience across the technology industry, his has focused on software and how it can enable organizations to harness new capabilities for business advantage. Previous to Rhomobile, Mellman spent time at both HP and Cisco driving solutions in the networking space. Specifically, he led efforts to link network and IT infrastructures more closely with applications and the business. Prior to these larger companies, Mellman was a marketing leader in several emerging companies, including those focused on application delivery, network management, and next-generation database and development tools. With his broad background, Mellman believes that mobility and the changing role of the IT infrastructure is the next great area of innovation.

Scott Olson has spent the past 18 years building software and advising clients on the potential of software and mobility. He is a contributing writer for iPhone Life magazine, technical editor of iPad in the Enterprise: Developing and Deploying Business Applications, and his forthcoming book is tentatively titled Cross-Platform Mobile Development for the Enterprise. He leads the development team at ITR Mobility, and throughout his career has worked with many of the Fortune 500 companies including Best Buy, Target Corporation, Medtronic, and Prudential Financial. He believes that what is happening in the mobile software industry today will change the way people write and use software.

Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada.

Kevin possesses over twenty-five years of consulting and software development expertise and has conceived, designed and overseen the development of software products and hosted services in the business, educational and recreational areas which have been used by millions of people in over 17 countries worldwide. He is an accomplished speaker and frequent presenter at various technical conferences and events where he prides himself on clear and direct messaging in a world filled with too many acronyms, adjectives and too much "marketing speak".
Kevin’s initial interest in technology was cultivated by the Commodore Pet; shortly thereafter he began creating videogames for the Commodore 64, including Jack Attack which was nominated for game of the year.

While ensuring effective communications is no “game”, Kevin believes that through a structured, methodical process, implementing technology that truly matches real user requirements can be lots of fun. He regularly shares his unique perspective with the readers of No Jitter.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada.

Kevin possesses over twenty-five years of consulting and software development expertise and has conceived, designed and overseen the development of software products and hosted services in the business, educational and recreational areas which have been used by millions of people in over 17 countries worldwide. He is an accomplished speaker and frequent presenter at various technical conferences and events where he prides himself on clear and direct messaging in a world filled with too many acronyms, adjectives and too much "marketing speak".
Kevin’s initial interest in technology was cultivated by the Commodore Pet; shortly thereafter he began creating videogames for the Commodore 64, including Jack Attack which was nominated for game of the year.

While ensuring effective communications is no “game”, Kevin believes that through a structured, methodical process, implementing technology that truly matches real user requirements can be lots of fun. He regularly shares his unique perspective with the readers of No Jitter.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

Francois Tallet is a Product Manager in the Data Center Switching Technology Group, responsible for Layer 2 features on the Nexus 7000. He joined Cisco in 1997 as a customer support engineer in the LAN Switching team in Brussels. As a subject matter expert in Layer 2, he later moved to the Catalyst 6000 engineering team in the United States. He later was part of the IEEE 802.1 working group, introducing the Layer 2 Gateway Port concept in 802.1ah. He also led the development of the standard implementation of Multiple Spanning Trees protocol (MST, IEEE 802.1s) and designed a new version of the Vlan Trunk Protocol (VTP3) and the Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP). Tallet holds CCIE certification 3539 and holds two master's degrees in parallel computing and computer networking.

Edgard Vargas is a senior technical product manager, network solutions, for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. He has been with the company for more than 15 years, focusing on core switching and routing technologies. He currently leads the implementation program for Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) and data center protocols for the OmniSwitch product line. Edgard represented Alcatel-Lucent in a SPB interoperability test conducted in Ottawa, Canada. He is involved and actively works with IEEE SPB committee.

While at Alcatel-Lucent, Edgard has held various roles in different functional areas. He helped to develop the Andean and Caribbean market for Xylan LATAM as Pre-Sales Systems Engineer. Edgard was an instrumental part of the Alcatel-Lucent senior escalation technical support team in the US. During his tenure he has positioned, architected and implemented small, medium and large networks for enterprise, metro and service provider customers across all regions.

Prior to Alcatel-Lucent, Edgard worked as a technical manager for a systems integrator in Colombia and designed and supported several ATM and Frame Relay based government and service provider networks.

As a Brocade Solutioneer, AJ Casamento works with Brocade OEMs and end-user customers to help them understand and leverage the value of Brocade products and technologies. He also spends a great deal of time in seminars and road shows training audiences about SAN designs and applications.

Casamento has over 30 years of technical experience in hardware solutions, including systems architecture, systems development, and program management. Prior to his work at Brocade, he was the Western North American technical architect at Avnet Computer. Before joining Avnet, he was a partner in a consulting organization, where he provided services for companies such as HP, Sun, and IBM. Casamento began his career in the computer industry at Digital Equipment Corporation.

AJ Casamento arrived at Brocade in 1997 as Employee #92. Since then he has spent most of his time in the field with partners and customers ranging from C-level executives to SAN administrators. In his role as Solutioneer, he travels extensively in EMEA and APJ and truly understands data center challenges from both the managerial and end user point of view. He is equally expert at discussing the big picture, industry trends, and the Brocade product roadmap and then taking a technical deep dive on SAN architecture

Lisa has been involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of networking, security, and management products for over 25 years. Since joining Core Competence in 1995, she has advised companies large and small regarding security needs, product assessment, and the use of emerging technologies and best practices. Lisa teaches about wireless LANs, mobile security, and virtual private networking, and has written extensively for numerous publications, including Wi-Fi Planet, Information Security, and SearchMobileComputing. Lisa's columns are published monthly by eSecurityPlanet, searchNetworking, and the AirWISE Community Security Center. Lisa holds an MS, Computer Science from Villanova University, and a BS in Computer Science from West Chester University.

Philippe Winthrop is the Founder and Managing Director of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, the organization behind The Enterprise Mobility Forum, the fastest growing content portal and social network exclusively dedicated to enterprise mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe also launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice at market research firm Aberdeen Group. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices.

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.

Follow Shashi Kiran on Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/netkiran

As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer.

Paul Unbehagen is an active member of the IEEE and IETF. He has worked on the design, standardization, implementation, deployment, and support of many modern routing protocols (e.g., MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, and SPB)and currently has approximately 24 networking related patents. He has also participated in several IETF WGs to include IS-IS, BGP, L2VPN, and IPVPNs and is currently the author of the IP/SPB IETF draft. Paul is now participating in the design, standardization, implementation and productization of IEEE 802.1aq/Shortest Path Bridging.

Previously Paul has worked in numerous diverse networking environments to include the US Military, Bloomberg, MCI, and Nortel as well as a few startups. Paul thus has 16 years of deployment, operational, network design and architectural experience in live networks ranging from Government, Enterprise and Carrier.

Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business.

As a Principle Systems Engineer with Brocade, Scott is responsible for designing data center solutions for storage and compute architectures which align customer’s business goals and challenges with technology solutions. He brings a wealth of real world experience in designing solutions for complex business issues with proven experience in key areas such as Data Center Design, Cloud Computing, Converged Storage, High Performance Computing, and Video Production over IP networks.

Scott joined Brocade in 2010, bringing over 15 years of experience in the networking industry, having held senior architect, systems engineering and support positions in a number of networking companies and has consulted to many Financial Services and Sports Media Entertainment firms.

Dr. Steven Blake is a Senior Principal Engineer at Extreme Networks, where he is responsible for architecting solutions for data center network challenges, such as Virtual Machine mobility and service scalability. Blake joined Extreme Networks in 2008, bringing over 13 years of experience in networking technology, previously having held positions as a principal engineer and architect for IBM and Ericsson. He is a long-term participant in the IETF, having co-authored some of the core Diffserv RFCs, and currently serving as co-chair of the PCN working group. He is currently participating in the Open Networking Foundation, defining the evolution of the OpenFlow protocol.

Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada.

Kevin possesses over twenty-five years of consulting and software development expertise and has conceived, designed and overseen the development of software products and hosted services in the business, educational and recreational areas which have been used by millions of people in over 17 countries worldwide. He is an accomplished speaker and frequent presenter at various technical conferences and events where he prides himself on clear and direct messaging in a world filled with too many acronyms, adjectives and too much "marketing speak".
Kevin’s initial interest in technology was cultivated by the Commodore Pet; shortly thereafter he began creating videogames for the Commodore 64, including Jack Attack which was nominated for game of the year.

While ensuring effective communications is no “game”, Kevin believes that through a structured, methodical process, implementing technology that truly matches real user requirements can be lots of fun. He regularly shares his unique perspective with the readers of No Jitter.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

John Bivona has been focused on leading technology related business solutions and process improvements for global market leading companies for 20 years. John’s Bachelors Degree in Accounting coupled with diverse leadership positions and technical expertise has enabled him to utilize his unique understanding of how people, process and technology can work together more effectively and efficiently. During the past 5 years, John has concentrated his focus on Cloud Computing, CRM/SFA systems and Social Collaboration Technology.
John joined Nikon Instruments Inc., a market leader in optical instrumentation, in 2005. In his current role as CRM Manager, John oversees and manages strategic technology system roadmaps and critical implementation projects across multiple business groups and divisions of Nikon. John was responsible for leading Nikon’s Salesforce.com CRM deployment which enables it to build closer relationships with customers while providing real-time business intelligence. Most recently, John has lead Nikon to become a pioneer and leader of social collaboration technology.

Andrew Barendrecht has over 16 years experience contracting in knowledge and information management, performance improvement, collaboration and virtual working. Andrew’s Career started at the Technical University Delft in1993 as a web consultant moving on soon in 1995 to work for Shell deploying web based collaboration throughout 32 countries and consulting on the European Space Agency collaborative environment.

From 1999 onwards Andrew worked as Knowledge Manager facilitating business improvement workshops together with coordinating 2 large communities of practice for Wells and Engineering (5000+ global users). During this period he also facilitated a complete redesign of the EP intranet. In 2003 a move was made to the US where he became lead business analyst working on deployment of the Shell portal (3000 + users) and information management advisor in exploration, wells, engineering, commercial and subsurface enabling more efficient performance for each of these businesses.

After 2006 a move was made to become global lead on records management compliance (5000+ users) for Shell International EP. In 2007 Andrew became the KM/IT manager responsible for compliance, KM, Information and data management in Shell research and advised Chevron on their global SharePoint Design and deployment.

Andrew currently works as a collaboration and innovation consultant for multiple oil and gas companies providing enterprise activity solutions and collaboration performance projects.

Lawrence De Voe, Chief Technology Catalyst at Initiative, is responsible for developing and implementing technology strategy for the agency. He is also Mediabrands Technology’s Client Services Director leading a team responsible for ensuring positive client outcomes on technology projects projects. Before joining Mediabrands, Lawrence was a Director with the consulting firm Avanade, a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, where he was responsible for large software development programs for a variety of public and private sector clients. Lawrence’s specialization is leading business intelligence and analytics solutions, such as the portfolio of analytics tools he is responsible for at Initiative.

Prior to working at Avanade, Lawrence was VP, Business Development for 26NewYork, a boutique consulting firm focused on developing business intelligence solutions for financial services firms.

Lawrence is from New York where he lives with his wife and two children. He received his BA from Middlebury College and MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada.

Kevin possesses over twenty-five years of consulting and software development expertise and has conceived, designed and overseen the development of software products and hosted services in the business, educational and recreational areas which have been used by millions of people in over 17 countries worldwide. He is an accomplished speaker and frequent presenter at various technical conferences and events where he prides himself on clear and direct messaging in a world filled with too many acronyms, adjectives and too much "marketing speak".
Kevin’s initial interest in technology was cultivated by the Commodore Pet; shortly thereafter he began creating videogames for the Commodore 64, including Jack Attack which was nominated for game of the year.

While ensuring effective communications is no “game”, Kevin believes that through a structured, methodical process, implementing technology that truly matches real user requirements can be lots of fun. He regularly shares his unique perspective with the readers of No Jitter.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

Chris runs the Mobile and Wireless research practice, which covers hardware, software, and services for both enterprise and consumer mobility markets. Chris’ research focuses on mobile device management as well as application development platforms that target smartphones and tablets in the enterprise. He is primarily interested in the shift in enterprise computing from desktop to mobile.

Prior to joining 451, Chris covered worldwide smartphone trends for IDC. He focused on the convergence of mobile air interface technologies and advances in device component technologies which impacted the designs and capabilities of smartphones in both consumer and enterprise markets.

Chris has been quoted on mobile technology issues by publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CBS, ComputerWorld, Fox Business, InformationWeek, Investors Business Daily, MacWorld, TheStreet, Reuters and Wired. He sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for Mobile Enterprise Magazine, and is a columnist for FierceMobileIT. Chris has presented and moderated panels at numerous events such as CES, CTIA, venture capital tech days, as well as serving as director for 451’s Client Conference.

Chris earned his MBA and MS in Information Systems from Boston University. During his graduate course work, Chris conducted market research for Lucent Technologies, leading a team in the development of a demand creation strategy for 3G data services. Chris also received a BS in business from University of Richmond with a concentration in finance.

Paul DeBeasi is a research VP within Gartner IT Professionals Research. Mr. DeBeasi manages the research agenda for the Burton Network and Telecom Strategies coverage area. He performs wireless and mobility research in the areas of wireless LANs, mobile cellular, wireless security, and mobile device management.

Prior to becoming an analyst, Mr. DeBeasi spent 12 years working at communication companies (Cascade Communications, NetSuite, IPHighway) in product management roles. He worked as VP of Product Management for seven of those years. Before that, Mr. DeBeasi was an engineer for 12 years, working at various communication companies (Bell Labs, Prime Computer, Chipcom).

Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada.

Kevin possesses over twenty-five years of consulting and software development expertise and has conceived, designed and overseen the development of software products and hosted services in the business, educational and recreational areas which have been used by millions of people in over 17 countries worldwide. He is an accomplished speaker and frequent presenter at various technical conferences and events where he prides himself on clear and direct messaging in a world filled with too many acronyms, adjectives and too much "marketing speak".
Kevin’s initial interest in technology was cultivated by the Commodore Pet; shortly thereafter he began creating videogames for the Commodore 64, including Jack Attack which was nominated for game of the year.

While ensuring effective communications is no “game”, Kevin believes that through a structured, methodical process, implementing technology that truly matches real user requirements can be lots of fun. He regularly shares his unique perspective with the readers of No Jitter.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

John Bivona has been focused on leading technology related business solutions and process improvements for global market leading companies for 20 years. John’s Bachelors Degree in Accounting coupled with diverse leadership positions and technical expertise has enabled him to utilize his unique understanding of how people, process and technology can work together more effectively and efficiently. During the past 5 years, John has concentrated his focus on Cloud Computing, CRM/SFA systems and Social Collaboration Technology.
John joined Nikon Instruments Inc., a market leader in optical instrumentation, in 2005. In his current role as CRM Manager, John oversees and manages strategic technology system roadmaps and critical implementation projects across multiple business groups and divisions of Nikon. John was responsible for leading Nikon’s Salesforce.com CRM deployment which enables it to build closer relationships with customers while providing real-time business intelligence. Most recently, John has lead Nikon to become a pioneer and leader of social collaboration technology.

Andrew Barendrecht has over 16 years experience contracting in knowledge and information management, performance improvement, collaboration and virtual working. Andrew’s Career started at the Technical University Delft in1993 as a web consultant moving on soon in 1995 to work for Shell deploying web based collaboration throughout 32 countries and consulting on the European Space Agency collaborative environment.

From 1999 onwards Andrew worked as Knowledge Manager facilitating business improvement workshops together with coordinating 2 large communities of practice for Wells and Engineering (5000+ global users). During this period he also facilitated a complete redesign of the EP intranet. In 2003 a move was made to the US where he became lead business analyst working on deployment of the Shell portal (3000 + users) and information management advisor in exploration, wells, engineering, commercial and subsurface enabling more efficient performance for each of these businesses.

After 2006 a move was made to become global lead on records management compliance (5000+ users) for Shell International EP. In 2007 Andrew became the KM/IT manager responsible for compliance, KM, Information and data management in Shell research and advised Chevron on their global SharePoint Design and deployment.

Andrew currently works as a collaboration and innovation consultant for multiple oil and gas companies providing enterprise activity solutions and collaboration performance projects.

Lawrence De Voe, Chief Technology Catalyst at Initiative, is responsible for developing and implementing technology strategy for the agency. He is also Mediabrands Technology’s Client Services Director leading a team responsible for ensuring positive client outcomes on technology projects projects. Before joining Mediabrands, Lawrence was a Director with the consulting firm Avanade, a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, where he was responsible for large software development programs for a variety of public and private sector clients. Lawrence’s specialization is leading business intelligence and analytics solutions, such as the portfolio of analytics tools he is responsible for at Initiative.

Prior to working at Avanade, Lawrence was VP, Business Development for 26NewYork, a boutique consulting firm focused on developing business intelligence solutions for financial services firms.

Lawrence is from New York where he lives with his wife and two children. He received his BA from Middlebury College and MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Scott Davis is Chief Technology Officer for VMware’s End User Computing Business Unit and staff member in VMware’s Corporate Office of the CTO. He is involved in driving product and technology strategy spanning the breadth of VMware’s product lines, from Desktop to Data Center and Cloud initiatives. A recognized expert in virtualization, clustering, operating systems, file systems and storage, Scott has held senior engineering and business management roles with both startup ventures and established industry firms. Scott holds 14 US patents for clustering, storage and virtualization technologies and his products have won awards at Comdex, Demo and LinuxWorld.

Rajen is responsible for development of Chrome and Chrome OS for Business. From its inception in 2006 through 2010, Rajen was instrumental in bringing Google Apps to businesses, and led product development of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration products for businesses. He brings several years of experience in delivering innovative products to enterprise customers. Rajen joined Google from VMware (a subsidiary of EMC), where he managed the award-winning line of ESX Server datacenter virtualization software. He helped drive the rapid growth of the VMware platform and led the integration of the VMware and EMC product lines. Previously, Rajen was a lead engineer at Zaplet, a Kleiner Perkins start-up, creating an e-mail based collaboration platform. He also held program management positions at Microsoft within the Windows and Hotmail groups.

Rajen graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in computer science.

Edwin Yuen is a Director for Virtualization and Cloud Strategy in the Windows Server and Management team. Edwin came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, Edwin was one of the Services Engagement Managers of Softricity for six years, leading most of the initial Softricity implementations. Edwin has 14 years of technical consulting experience in both the commercial and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Kevin Strohmeyer is senior product marketing manager for the Enterprise Desktop and Applications group at Citrix. He is responsible for helping to drive the go-to-market strategy for the company’s market-leading Citrix XenDesktop® product line.

Prior to joining Citrix, Strohmeyer held senior product marketing positions at NComputing and Pano Logic, and held a variety of marketing roles at Sun Microsystems where he also helped launch Sun Ray. Strohmeyer is a virtual computing industry veteran with expertise across product management, product marketing and product portfolio strategy and brings over 12 years of experience to Citrix.

Strohmeyer holds a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in government from St. Mary’s College of California.

Cimarron leads Apperian's product marketing organization for mobile enterprise solutions, including EASE (Enterprise App Services Environment). He has worked in technology for over 25 years, providing creative and visionary leadership for products and services in the technology, web and mobile areas. Cimarron made an indelible imprint on the mobile industry in creating the first iPhone magazine.

Prior to Apperian, he worked with Texterity, and built a product, sales, and marketing organization that led the digital magazine industry by providing solutions to b-to-b, trade association, and consumer publications.

Cimarron was also GM Internet Products at FaxNet, leading the group which was responsible for internet messaging solutions for the telecom industry. FaxNet was sold to Critical Path for approximately $240 million.

Cimarron has a BA in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from Harvard University.

Michael Dortch is a Research Director at FOCUS LLC (www.focusonsystems.com), covering the dynamics linking virtualization to data center modernization and public, private and hybrid cloud computing for business. He is also Principal Analyst and Managing Editor at DortchOnIT.com and a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research (www.constellationrg.com). DortchOnIT.com is "an independent voice for technology-dependent people" and consults with providers of disruptive business technologies. Constellation Research is a leading research analyst and advisory firm guiding organizations and their leaders through the hype and buzz of the latest disruptive technologies.

One of the "Top 500 Analysts Using Twitter" according to independent metrics, Michael has been empowering information technology (IT) buyers, sellers and users since 1979, by translating what technologists say and do into language that non-technologists can understand and use. He blogs regularly and is quoted widely on subjects ranging from cloud computing and software as a service to technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).

As Director of Research at Focus.com, Michael helped to grow that site into a community of more than 850,000 people including some 5,000 Focus Experts, and a Top 10 Media Web Site according to Crain's "B2B Magazine." He has also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. In 1990, Michael wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks," a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc.

Jay Mellman is Chief Marketing Officer of Rhomobile, the leader in tools for building and deploying smartphone applications. In his more than 20 years of experience across the technology industry, his has focused on software and how it can enable organizations to harness new capabilities for business advantage. Previous to Rhomobile, Mellman spent time at both HP and Cisco driving solutions in the networking space. Specifically, he led efforts to link network and IT infrastructures more closely with applications and the business. Prior to these larger companies, Mellman was a marketing leader in several emerging companies, including those focused on application delivery, network management, and next-generation database and development tools. With his broad background, Mellman believes that mobility and the changing role of the IT infrastructure is the next great area of innovation.

Scott Olson has spent the past 18 years building software and advising clients on the potential of software and mobility. He is a contributing writer for iPhone Life magazine, technical editor of iPad in the Enterprise: Developing and Deploying Business Applications, and his forthcoming book is tentatively titled Cross-Platform Mobile Development for the Enterprise. He leads the development team at ITR Mobility, and throughout his career has worked with many of the Fortune 500 companies including Best Buy, Target Corporation, Medtronic, and Prudential Financial. He believes that what is happening in the mobile software industry today will change the way people write and use software.

Jayaram Bhat has been the CEO of Zenprise since January 2004. He has over 23 years of executive sales and marketing experience in high technology companies. Prior to Zenprise, Mr. Bhat consulted with CEOs of Information Technology companies in developing and managing the execution of breakthrough business strategies as well as helping to raise venture funding. His clients included VA Software (Nasdaq: LNUX), Euclid, CenterRun Software, and Tealeaf Technology.

From 1993 through 2001, Bhat served as Vice President of Marketing at Mercury Interactive Corporation, where he helped lead the company from a pre-IPO stage with $13 million in annual revenues to a dominant enterprise infrastructure software powerhouse with $361 million in revenues in 2001, more than 60% market share, and a market capitalization of over $6 Billion.

Prior to Mercury Interactive, Bhat served in various marketing and sales management positions at Cadence Design Systems, EDA Systems, and Daisy Systems. Mr. Bhat's career began in 1980 at Intel where he was product manager of the Intel 286 processor.
Bhat holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Operations Research from universities in India and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Bhat serves on the boards of Zenprise, Tealeaf Technology and Electric Cloud.

Brian Katz has over 20 years experience in managing and implementing IT processes. He started his career working with a multi-national New York financial company maintaining their email and communications systems which also involved supporting their mobile computing platforms. He later moved to an international pharmaceutical company managing servers and storage. Katz's current role is managing the companies mobile initiatives including working with business units defining bring your own device and company owned policies, investigating mobile device management requirements for employee and company owned devices, and working to identify applications to be supported on mobile platforms.

Chris runs the Mobile and Wireless research practice, which covers hardware, software, and services for both enterprise and consumer mobility markets. Chris’ research focuses on mobile device management as well as application development platforms that target smartphones and tablets in the enterprise. He is primarily interested in the shift in enterprise computing from desktop to mobile.

Prior to joining 451, Chris covered worldwide smartphone trends for IDC. He focused on the convergence of mobile air interface technologies and advances in device component technologies which impacted the designs and capabilities of smartphones in both consumer and enterprise markets.

Chris has been quoted on mobile technology issues by publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CBS, ComputerWorld, Fox Business, InformationWeek, Investors Business Daily, MacWorld, TheStreet, Reuters and Wired. He sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for Mobile Enterprise Magazine, and is a columnist for FierceMobileIT. Chris has presented and moderated panels at numerous events such as CES, CTIA, venture capital tech days, as well as serving as director for 451’s Client Conference.

Chris earned his MBA and MS in Information Systems from Boston University. During his graduate course work, Chris conducted market research for Lucent Technologies, leading a team in the development of a demand creation strategy for 3G data services. Chris also received a BS in business from University of Richmond with a concentration in finance.

Paul DeBeasi is a research VP within Gartner IT Professionals Research. Mr. DeBeasi manages the research agenda for the Burton Network and Telecom Strategies coverage area. He performs wireless and mobility research in the areas of wireless LANs, mobile cellular, wireless security, and mobile device management.

Prior to becoming an analyst, Mr. DeBeasi spent 12 years working at communication companies (Cascade Communications, NetSuite, IPHighway) in product management roles. He worked as VP of Product Management for seven of those years. Before that, Mr. DeBeasi was an engineer for 12 years, working at various communication companies (Bell Labs, Prime Computer, Chipcom).

Brian Butte has focused on cloud, grid, and utility computing for the past nine years as an Enterprise Architect. Brian has architected multiple virtualization solutions for Fortune 500 clients including internal infrastructure as a service, workload overflow, internal storage clouds, and grid enabled ETL. Brian's varied background including plant floor automation, embedded systems, enterprise applications and call centers across multiple verticals gives him a unique perspective on the application of cloud technology. Brian is Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, member of the PwC Cloud Action Committee, PwC Cloud Solutions Team and subject matter expert within the Technology Advisory practice.

Peter Coffee, former technology editor of eWEEK, works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com, salesforce.com’s enterprise cloud computing platform. With 25 years experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies, Peter has been a keynote speaker, moderator or presenter at IT events throughout the U.S., England, Canada and Australia. Peter holds an engineering degree from MIT and MBA from Pepperdine University, with faculty appointments at Pepperdine, UCLA and Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.

Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he served as technical lead for content networking product management. A senior member of the Office of the CTO, Dr. Day is part of the team responsible for Riverbed’s technology direction and strategy. He works closely with Riverbed customers, solving some of the most technically complex and challenging issues associated with application acceleration and Wide Area Network optimization. Dr. Day also invented the SSL optimization technique that is a core feature of Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products. This development has that made it practical for enterprises to accelerate secure SSL traffic. He holds 19 patents in distributed systems, presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony, and has chaired several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995.

Kevin Murphy has more than 15 years leading successful products into emerging markets defining and delivering distributed systems for telecommunications, CDNs, IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud solutions. Prior to Certeon, Mr. Murphy was the CTO of NEI where he was responsible for their software, cloud, and virtualization strategy as well as expanding the IP portfolio. Mr. Murphy also led the architecture, design, and implementation of GE Intelligent Platform's cloud and virtualization solution for the Proficy product line. Most recently Mr. Murphy was at VCE where he was responsible for defining the security and management of the Vblock Platforms. He holds 2 patents and a BSEE from UMass Lowell.

Stuart is the networking and virtualization research lead for Wikibon. Before becoming an analyst in 2010, Stuart's past positions (EMC, Lucent Technologies and APC) including sales, product management and strategic planning, Stuart has focused on the needs of customers by working with partners to deliver the solutions or information that the customers require. Stuart holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Bryant University. Stuart is engaged in the technical and social media communities; find him on the Wikibon blog and on Twitter @stu.

Stephen Foskett is an active participant in the world of enterprise information technology, currently focusing on enterprise storage and cloud computing. He is responsible for Gestalt IT, a community of independent IT thought leaders, and organizes the popular Tech Field Day events. A long-time voice in the storage industry, Foskett has authored numerous articles for industry publications, and is a popular presenter at industry events. His contributions to the enterprise IT community have earned him recognition as both a Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert. Stephen Foskett is principal consultant at Foskett Services.

Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird. 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 and UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), where he 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.

Dennis Moreau is specialist in the application of leading edge technologies to the solution of complex problems in the Information Systems and Utility Computing management domains. His primary focus is in developing enterprise scale solutions to improve IT efficiency and effectiveness for service, systems, security, compliance and configuration management/optimization. He works actively with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Mitre Corporation on the development of security configuration policy compliance standards and serves on the Advisory Board for the Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL), a key component of the Security Content Automation Program (SCAP).Dr. Moreau has over than 35 years of experience in evaluating, designing, and implementing complex systems and their management and security infrastructures. Prior to joining RSA’s CTO Office, he was a founder and the Chief Technology Officer for Configuresoft. He was also the Associate Vice President for IT and Chief Technology Officer for Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and has held faculty positions in Computational Medicine and Computer Science (tenured in 1993). Dr. Moreau speaks regularly at IT management and security conferences worldwide.

Renata Budko is the Co-Founder of HyTrust, as well as Vice President of Product Strategy. She leads the company’s innovation and strategy efforts applying her deep understanding of virtualization technology and enterprise IT processes to this role. Budko brings 15 years of experience in high tech, primarily in strategy and product management. Prior to HyTrust, she was Director of Product Management for Cemaphore Systems, responsible for the Microsoft Exchange disaster recovery and email archiving enterprise software product lines. Prior to this, she held Solutions Marketing and Technical Marketing management roles at VMware, helping define the blade, disaster recovery and VMware VDI strategies. She was also instrumental in VMware collaboration efforts between Intel VT and EMC. She previously held key marketing management roles at StarVox Communications, Hewlett-Packard, and Infra Telesystems, which she co-founded. Budko holds MBA and Master of Computer Engineering degrees from UC Davis, CA and BS in Physics from MIPT, Moscow. Ms. Budko has been a speaker at VMworld, HPWorld and EMC World events as well many regional and on-line events.

Lisa has been involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of networking, security, and management products for over 25 years. Since joining Core Competence in 1995, she has advised companies large and small regarding security needs, product assessment, and the use of emerging technologies and best practices. Lisa teaches about wireless LANs, mobile security, and virtual private networking, and has written extensively for numerous publications, including Wi-Fi Planet, Information Security, and SearchMobileComputing. Lisa's columns are published monthly by eSecurityPlanet, searchNetworking, and the AirWISE Community Security Center. Lisa holds an MS, Computer Science from Villanova University, and a BS in Computer Science from West Chester University.

Philippe Winthrop is the Founder and Managing Director of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, the organization behind The Enterprise Mobility Forum, the fastest growing content portal and social network exclusively dedicated to enterprise mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe also launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice at market research firm Aberdeen Group. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices.

Steven Shalita has more than 20 years of industry and technology experience across service provider and enterprise markets with a strong background in enterprise networking, MPLS, and IP transformation projects. His wide range of experience includes service management and assurance to service delivery architecture including data center, LAN/WAN, core, edge and metro technologies as well as leading initiatives targeting convergence, mobility, triple-play and business services carrier environments. Mr. Shalita has held senior marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, HP and Cisco. He returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing from 1997 through 1999.

John is an industry recognized Chief Technology Officer and ICT visionary. Currently John is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Futurewei, Huawei’s North American R&D organization. Huawei is the world’s second largest telecom solution provider serving over 2 billion people in more than 140 countries. Futurewei provides technical expertise across all Huawei products including wireless, wire line, core networking, silicon development, terminals, software and solutions. John is also the executive leader of Huawei’s Enterprise Global Competency Center, which provides Enterprise technology innovation and incubation as well as sales, marketing and operations support for Huawei’s Enterprise field sales and marketing teams worldwide.

Prior to Huawei, John was CTO of Nortel, the senior technology and R&D executive globally for the corporation, with functional responsibility for 12,000 R&D staff and $1.7B annual budget. Prior to Nortel John was CTO for networking technologies at Broadcom Corporation. Prior to Broadcom, John was CTO, CMO and CIO of Enterasys Networks. John started his career at Cabletron Systems where he grew within the company ultimately becoming the global CTO.

Haseeb Budhani is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Infineta Systems' product marketing and management, customer and partner relationships, and overall product roadmap. Most recently, he served as Vice President for NET's Broadband Technology Group, spearheading the group's product marketing, program management and business development functions. Haseeb has previously held senior product management, marketing and engineering roles at Personal IT, Citrix Systems, Orbital Data, IP Infusion and Oblix. He has served in key advisory roles for startups such as Chegg Inc. and Gift Venture. Haseeb holds an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Mr. Ennis has over 14 years experience building enterprise and service-provider networking equipment. Most recently, he served as Senior Director of Systems Engineering and Chief Technologist at CIENA. Prior to CIENA, Damon was in senior management and technical roles at FORE Systems.

Jim directs Virtela’s product and market strategy. He is a successful innovator and leader of world-class technology service businesses with a diverse background spanning more than 30 years in information technology services. Prior to Virtela, Jim led multiple IT technical teams in the development of leading-edge platforms used in support of IBM’s strategic outsourcing, services and software businesses.

As CTO of IBM’s Cloud Computing Operations, Jim was responsible for the design, development and management of IBM cloud data centers . Earlier in his career at IBM, Jim served as CTO of the Web Delivery Platform for SaaS initiatives and CTO for the Common Service Delivery Platform for managed business process services. He also was chief architect for IBM’s Universal Management Infrastructure platform and managed its worldwide deployment, for which he received the IBM Chairman’s award. Previously, he was chief architect for IBM eBusiness Hosting, where he led the business from start-up to more than $2 billion.

Prior to these positions, Jim held a number of management roles in support of large scale systems, networking and data center operations across IBM, Advantis Network, IBM Global Network, and Sears.

David is a seasoned senior executive with over 25 years’ experience in sales, marketing and business development. David has a strong background in WAN Optimization and has worked extensively in both enterprise and service provider markets.

Previously, he served as VP of Business Development at Expand Networks where he was responsible for their OEM relationship with 3COM/H3C as well as their acquisition of NetPriva, an Australian SoftWOC startup. David also led Expand’s entry into the virtualization market and managed their global analyst relationships.

Prior to Expand, David was the VP of Worldwide Sales at Procket Networks where he was part of the executive team responsible for Procket’s acquisition of by Cisco Systems. Prior to Procket, David was VP of Sales at several successful Silicon Valley startup companies such as Tasman Networks, CopperCom and Sentient Networks. He was responsible for OEM agreements with Lucent, DSC (Alcatel) and closed a $40M contract with Williams that led to Sentient’s acquisition by Cisco.

Before working in Silicon Valley, David was part of the initial management team at FORE Systems. He started FORE’s OEM and channel business, developing relationships with companies like Nortel, Cabletron, HP (Grenoble) and Anixter. David was also responsible for starting FORE’s worldwide service provider sales where he closed volume sales agreements with companies such as Bell Atlantic, AT&T, Cox Cable, MCI, MetroNet (ATT Canada) and Sprint.

As VP Global Business Development, David’s responsibilities will include development of strategic OEM and/or reselling partnerships with US based companies. He will also serve as the US interface for industry analysts. David’s role is a significant step forward as we increase our presence in the global market and develop new revenue channels with global US based networking companies.

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.

Neil Cohen is Akamai’s Vice President of Global Product Marketing where he develops the go-to-market strategy for application performance, web site optimization and digital media services. Over the past five years at Akamai, he has brought to market new services and partnerships applied towards strategic enterprise initiatives such as cloud computing, application acceleration, data-center optimization, virtual desktops, mobile web and Internet security. Neil has over 15-years of engineering, product management and marketing experience in the high-tech industry and a regular speaker and contributor for a variety of cloud computing technology forums and publications.

Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software used in routers, VoIP gateways, wireless base stations and broadband access equipment. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of programmable network processors, circuit design and semiconductor processes. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.

Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he served as technical lead for content networking product management. A senior member of the Office of the CTO, Dr. Day is part of the team responsible for Riverbed’s technology direction and strategy. He works closely with Riverbed customers, solving some of the most technically complex and challenging issues associated with application acceleration and Wide Area Network optimization. Dr. Day also invented the SSL optimization technique that is a core feature of Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products. This development has that made it practical for enterprises to accelerate secure SSL traffic. He holds 19 patents in distributed systems, presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony, and has chaired several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995.

Kevin Murphy has more than 15 years leading successful products into emerging markets defining and delivering distributed systems for telecommunications, CDNs, IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud solutions. Prior to Certeon, Mr. Murphy was the CTO of NEI where he was responsible for their software, cloud, and virtualization strategy as well as expanding the IP portfolio. Mr. Murphy also led the architecture, design, and implementation of GE Intelligent Platform's cloud and virtualization solution for the Proficy product line. Most recently Mr. Murphy was at VCE where he was responsible for defining the security and management of the Vblock Platforms. He holds 2 patents and a BSEE from UMass Lowell.

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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As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer.

Paul Unbehagen is an active member of the IEEE and IETF. He has worked on the design, standardization, implementation, deployment, and support of many modern routing protocols (e.g., MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, and SPB)and currently has approximately 24 networking related patents. He has also participated in several IETF WGs to include IS-IS, BGP, L2VPN, and IPVPNs and is currently the author of the IP/SPB IETF draft. Paul is now participating in the design, standardization, implementation and productization of IEEE 802.1aq/Shortest Path Bridging.

Previously Paul has worked in numerous diverse networking environments to include the US Military, Bloomberg, MCI, and Nortel as well as a few startups. Paul thus has 16 years of deployment, operational, network design and architectural experience in live networks ranging from Government, Enterprise and Carrier.

Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business.

As a Principle Systems Engineer with Brocade, Scott is responsible for designing data center solutions for storage and compute architectures which align customer’s business goals and challenges with technology solutions. He brings a wealth of real world experience in designing solutions for complex business issues with proven experience in key areas such as Data Center Design, Cloud Computing, Converged Storage, High Performance Computing, and Video Production over IP networks.

Scott joined Brocade in 2010, bringing over 15 years of experience in the networking industry, having held senior architect, systems engineering and support positions in a number of networking companies and has consulted to many Financial Services and Sports Media Entertainment firms.

Dr. Steven Blake is a Senior Principal Engineer at Extreme Networks, where he is responsible for architecting solutions for data center network challenges, such as Virtual Machine mobility and service scalability. Blake joined Extreme Networks in 2008, bringing over 13 years of experience in networking technology, previously having held positions as a principal engineer and architect for IBM and Ericsson. He is a long-term participant in the IETF, having co-authored some of the core Diffserv RFCs, and currently serving as co-chair of the PCN working group. He is currently participating in the Open Networking Foundation, defining the evolution of the OpenFlow protocol.

Brandon Ross’s career started at the University of Florida, as student where he worked as Data Media Specialist to help create the campus’s backbone network architecture. After graduation, Brandon joined MindSpring. As a Director of Network Engineering at MindSpring, he was responsible for the management of the entire network infrastructure including the backbone architecture, the company-wide network security, and routing protocol architecture. In 2000, Brandon left MindSpring to join NetRail as the EVP of Engineering. He was responsible for the management of all aspects of technology including operations, provisioning, network design and development, and software design and development.

In 2001, Brandon joined Sockeye Networks as the VP of Operations. As the VP of Operations, Brandon made some significant contributions by building an entire Operations department, solving several BGP issues that were required to operate the service and launched 24 hour support line. In 2003, Brandon left Sockeye and went over to Comcast as a Principal IP Engineer, where he designed and implemented 3 VOIP trial networks, After Comcast, Brandon joined Internap, as the Director of Backbone Engineering. He was responsible for leading a team of engineers on several projects including designing and managing large-scale networks, VoIP, and BGP. In 2007, Brandon joined Xiocom as the Director of Network Engineering, where he played an integral role in building and designing the backbone network for the Dominican Republic, from the south coast to north coast.

In June 2010, Brandon joined Torrey Point as a Network Architect. Brandon has a B.S. in Telecommunications from the University of Florida.

Fred Wettling manages architecture and planning for Bechtel Corporation, a global leader in engineering, construction, and project management. Fred is one of only 22 Bechtel Fellows, persons designated by Bechtel as world-class leaders in their field of expertise. He is also active within and outside of Bechtel promoting standards-based technology interoperability that support global enterprise business needs. Network World selected Fred as of the 50 most powerful people in networking in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. He is a member of the IEEE, North American IPv6 Task Force, and IPv6 Forum, and chaired the Network Applications Consortium for 5 years. He is a member of several industry Technical Advisory Boards and served on the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Fred has spoken at several conferences and is a co-author of the 2008 book “Global IPv6 Strategies”.

Yanick Pouffary is a Distinguished Technologist and Chief Architect in the Office of the CTO within HP Enterprise Services. Yanick draws upon nearly three decades of experience in the development of networking products and technologies. As Chief Architect, Yanick is tasked with developing network strategic vision and technology roadmaps for Network Services and Cloud Services offering. As HP IPv6 Global leader, Yanick is responsible for HP’s IPv6 strategy to adopt and deliver this technology. Yanick represents HP network technology interests in multiple industry standards development organizations and consortia.

Yanick Pouffary is a founding member of the IPv6 Forum (www.ipv6forum.org), an IPv6 Forum Fellow, North American IPv6 Task Force Technology Director (www.nav6tf.org) and General Chairperson for the IPv6 Logo Programs (Ready & Enabled & Education). Yanick draws upon nearly three decades of experience in the development of networking products and technologies. Yanick is a strategic adviser to government agencies to assist in the deployment of IPv6 around the globe. Yanick is one of the distinguished recipients of the IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award for her technology contributions to support the adoption and deployment of IPv6. In May 2009 Yanick was appointed member of the United Nations Strategy Council of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development.

Yanick holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Nice, France.

Steven Shalita has more than 20 years of industry and technology experience across service provider and enterprise markets with a strong background in enterprise networking, MPLS, and IP transformation projects. His wide range of experience includes service management and assurance to service delivery architecture including data center, LAN/WAN, core, edge and metro technologies as well as leading initiatives targeting convergence, mobility, triple-play and business services carrier environments. Mr. Shalita has held senior marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, HP and Cisco. He returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing from 1997 through 1999.

Loris oversees strategic technology roadmaps for the Riverbed Cascade business unit, which brings to market industry-leading Network Performance Management solutions. Loris joined Riverbed after the acquisition of CACE Technologies, the company he co-founded in 2005. As CTO of CACE, Loris designed and led the development of the company's award-winning packet capture and network analysis product line. Prior to and during his tenure at CACE, Loris has been a pioneer in the field of Open Source network analysis through his work on WinPcap and Wireshark. These Open Source tools have millions of users worldwide.

Steven Guthrie is an active participant in the management of IT-supported business services and service technologies as well as virtual systems management and cloud computing and the impact of new business and technology models these advancements bring to the market. As an Advisor, Service Assurance, he is responsible for understanding how enterprises, government agencies and service providers use application performance and infrastructure management solutions to improve the efficiency and cost of managing their networks, systems, databases and applications as well as business services and transactions that IT supports. With this insight, he communicates user experiences and industry best practices to help other organizations achieve exceptional customer experience, optimize their converged network investments, and provide reliable business services.

Steven Shalita has more than 20 years of industry and technology experience across service provider and enterprise markets with a strong background in enterprise networking, MPLS, and IP transformation projects. His wide range of experience includes service management and assurance to service delivery architecture including data center, LAN/WAN, core, edge and metro technologies as well as leading initiatives targeting convergence, mobility, triple-play and business services carrier environments. Mr. Shalita has held senior marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, HP and Cisco. He returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing from 1997 through 1999.

Steve Whittle has over 15 years experience in the networking and network management industry, and has worked throughout his career to design, build, deploy, and support advanced networking technologies for both enterprises and service providers. At Infoblox, Steve is responsible for planning and guiding the development of the Network Automation product. His prior experiences include engineering and field roles with Intelliden (now part of IBM), Nominum, and Nortel Networks (formerly Bay Networks).

Doug Hazelman is Vice President, Product Strategy, and Chief Evangelist. Doug consults with customers, partners and industry analysts on key considerations for implementing virtual server infrastructures. He works with Veeam’s R&D team to enhance and develop new Veeam products to address market needs, and advises customers on best practices for managing virtual environments. Doug shares his expertise via theVeeam blog and other social media outlets.

Eric has worked on emerging technologies for almost his entire career, with early stints at pioneering companies such as Tandem, Pyramid, Sun, Veritas, ConvergeNet, Mendocino, and Topio, among others, on fault tolerance and high availability, replication, backup, continuous data protection, and server virtualization technologies. Over the last 25 years he has worked across a variety of functional areas, including sales, product management, marketing, business development, and technical support, and also spent time as an Executive in Residence with Mayfield and a storage industry analyst at Taneja Group. Before joining Virsto, he was VP of Marketing at InMage.

Ed Walsh is a Senior vSpecialist, VMware Affinity team at EMC. In this role, Ed is responsible for working with joint EMC-VMware customers to maximize the benefits of their virtualized infrastructure including cost reduction, and improved service levels. Current Ed is also the leader for the VMware Protection Focus Group at EMC.

Ed is a 21-year veteran of the high-technology industry. Prior to his current role, he was responsible EMC’s pre-sales engineering and service delivery for EMC’s NYS government customers. Before starting his focus on EMC’s NYS public sector account, he led the team that sold and delivered EMC services to the General Electric account globally.

Previously, Ed served as the senior director of IT at LexisNexis responsible for providing the delivery of IT infrastructure to multiple lines of business. Ed also spent three years at Keane Consulting where he was responsible for strategy, architecture, and deployment of Oracle ERP applications.

Mr. Walsh graduated from Siena College B.S. in Computer Science and holds an MS-Computer Management Systems from Union College.

Stuart is the networking and virtualization research lead for Wikibon. Before becoming an analyst in 2010, Stuart's past positions (EMC, Lucent Technologies and APC) including sales, product management and strategic planning, Stuart has focused on the needs of customers by working with partners to deliver the solutions or information that the customers require. Stuart holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Bryant University. Stuart is engaged in the technical and social media communities; find him on the Wikibon blog and on Twitter @stu.

Stephen Foskett is an active participant in the world of enterprise information technology, currently focusing on enterprise storage and cloud computing. He is responsible for Gestalt IT, a community of independent IT thought leaders, and organizes the popular Tech Field Day events. A long-time voice in the storage industry, Foskett has authored numerous articles for industry publications, and is a popular presenter at industry events. His contributions to the enterprise IT community have earned him recognition as both a Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert. Stephen Foskett is principal consultant at Foskett Services.

Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada.

Kevin possesses over twenty-five years of consulting and software development expertise and has conceived, designed and overseen the development of software products and hosted services in the business, educational and recreational areas which have been used by millions of people in over 17 countries worldwide. He is an accomplished speaker and frequent presenter at various technical conferences and events where he prides himself on clear and direct messaging in a world filled with too many acronyms, adjectives and too much "marketing speak".
Kevin’s initial interest in technology was cultivated by the Commodore Pet; shortly thereafter he began creating videogames for the Commodore 64, including Jack Attack which was nominated for game of the year.

While ensuring effective communications is no “game”, Kevin believes that through a structured, methodical process, implementing technology that truly matches real user requirements can be lots of fun. He regularly shares his unique perspective with the readers of No Jitter.

Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com.

Dave’s background combines years of IT operational experience at Fortune500 companies such as Coors and GE as well as mid size organizations in travel and manufacturing. He has strong experience with channel development, from manufacturer, distributor, and dealer perspectives. Some of that experience came from forming a dealership focused on IT and telephony; one of several startups.

Dave holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. He also completed advanced certifications in Information Systems from Harvard. His undergraduate in business is from Humboldt State University in California. Dave tends to take a critical eye to technology and its role, often resulting with unique perspectives. Ha has taught graduate classes in telecommunications at the University of Colorado.

Verge1 offers clarity in technical analysis and strategic planning, technology roadmaps, and distribution solutions for end-users and vendors.

Erica Schroeder is responsible for global marketing of Cisco’s portfolio of video endpoints, infrastructure and medianet architecture. Earlier, Ms. Schroeder led worldwide marketing for Cisco TelePresence, marketing for the acquisition of Tandberg, and the global launch of several other emerging video technologies. She draws on years of experience as the West Coast Bureau Chief, columnist and editor for PC Week, covering networking, telecommunications, digital media and video, enterprise applications and data center technologies, and is a frequent speaker about business video technologies and collaboration. Ms. Schroeder holds a B.A. from Duke University.

With nearly 20 years in high-tech communications, John Antanaitis leads a global marketing team responsible for worldwide product positioning, messaging, new product launches and events for Polycom products, solutions and services. Mr. Antanaitis joined Polycom in 2002 after spending five years in marketing and general management functions for Stanley Tool Works and Fortune Brands. Prior to that, Mr. Antanaitis spent ten years with Motorola in various roles including engineering, operations and marketing. He has a master’s degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois.

Ofer co-founded Vidyo in 2005 and pioneered Personal Telepresence, enabling a new generation of software-based natural, multi-point HD video conferences on desktop computers, room and telepresence systems, and mobile devices. Vidyo was awarded this year’s Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for “technology that is creating an economic disruption.” Prior to Vidyo, Ofer spent eight years at RADVISION where he was responsible for the development of the first IP video conferencing bridge and gatekeeper technology and the first commercially successful video conferencing architecture. He also served as senior vice president of business development responsible for strategic sales and relationships. Ofer was a contributor and one of the editors of the H.323 standard. He has over fifteen years of experience in bringing disruptive technologies to market and holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Physics.

Bob Romano is vice president of Enterprise Marketing of RADVISION; a leading technology and end-to-end solution provider for unified visual communications. Romano is an industry veteran with more than 15 years experience in the visual communications industry and as a daily user of online conferencing technologies. He is an expert in how to effectively meet over distance. Prior to assuming his current role at RADVISION, Romano was president of VCON, Inc. He also held key management roles at First Virtual Communications and IBM. Romano holds bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Doug Hazelman is Vice President, Product Strategy, and Chief Evangelist. Doug consults with customers, partners and industry analysts on key considerations for implementing virtual server infrastructures. He works with Veeam’s R&D team to enhance and develop new Veeam products to address market needs, and advises customers on best practices for managing virtual environments. Doug shares his expertise via theVeeam blog and other social media outlets.

Eric has worked on emerging technologies for almost his entire career, with early stints at pioneering companies such as Tandem, Pyramid, Sun, Veritas, ConvergeNet, Mendocino, and Topio, among others, on fault tolerance and high availability, replication, backup, continuous data protection, and server virtualization technologies. Over the last 25 years he has worked across a variety of functional areas, including sales, product management, marketing, business development, and technical support, and also spent time as an Executive in Residence with Mayfield and a storage industry analyst at Taneja Group. Before joining Virsto, he was VP of Marketing at InMage.

Ed Walsh is a Senior vSpecialist, VMware Affinity team at EMC. In this role, Ed is responsible for working with joint EMC-VMware customers to maximize the benefits of their virtualized infrastructure including cost reduction, and improved service levels. Current Ed is also the leader for the VMware Protection Focus Group at EMC.

Ed is a 21-year veteran of the high-technology industry. Prior to his current role, he was responsible EMC’s pre-sales engineering and service delivery for EMC’s NYS government customers. Before starting his focus on EMC’s NYS public sector account, he led the team that sold and delivered EMC services to the General Electric account globally.

Previously, Ed served as the senior director of IT at LexisNexis responsible for providing the delivery of IT infrastructure to multiple lines of business. Ed also spent three years at Keane Consulting where he was responsible for strategy, architecture, and deployment of Oracle ERP applications.

Mr. Walsh graduated from Siena College B.S. in Computer Science and holds an MS-Computer Management Systems from Union College.

Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird. 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 and UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), where he 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.

Dennis Moreau is specialist in the application of leading edge technologies to the solution of complex problems in the Information Systems and Utility Computing management domains. His primary focus is in developing enterprise scale solutions to improve IT efficiency and effectiveness for service, systems, security, compliance and configuration management/optimization. He works actively with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Mitre Corporation on the development of security configuration policy compliance standards and serves on the Advisory Board for the Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL), a key component of the Security Content Automation Program (SCAP).Dr. Moreau has over than 35 years of experience in evaluating, designing, and implementing complex systems and their management and security infrastructures. Prior to joining RSA’s CTO Office, he was a founder and the Chief Technology Officer for Configuresoft. He was also the Associate Vice President for IT and Chief Technology Officer for Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and has held faculty positions in Computational Medicine and Computer Science (tenured in 1993). Dr. Moreau speaks regularly at IT management and security conferences worldwide.

Renata Budko is the Co-Founder of HyTrust, as well as Vice President of Product Strategy. She leads the company’s innovation and strategy efforts applying her deep understanding of virtualization technology and enterprise IT processes to this role. Budko brings 15 years of experience in high tech, primarily in strategy and product management. Prior to HyTrust, she was Director of Product Management for Cemaphore Systems, responsible for the Microsoft Exchange disaster recovery and email archiving enterprise software product lines. Prior to this, she held Solutions Marketing and Technical Marketing management roles at VMware, helping define the blade, disaster recovery and VMware VDI strategies. She was also instrumental in VMware collaboration efforts between Intel VT and EMC. She previously held key marketing management roles at StarVox Communications, Hewlett-Packard, and Infra Telesystems, which she co-founded. Budko holds MBA and Master of Computer Engineering degrees from UC Davis, CA and BS in Physics from MIPT, Moscow. Ms. Budko has been a speaker at VMworld, HPWorld and EMC World events as well many regional and on-line events.

Kevin Strohmeyer is senior product marketing manager for the Enterprise Desktop and Applications group at Citrix. He is responsible for helping to drive the go-to-market strategy for the company’s market-leading Citrix XenDesktop® product line.

Prior to joining Citrix, Strohmeyer held senior product marketing positions at NComputing and Pano Logic, and held a variety of marketing roles at Sun Microsystems where he also helped launch Sun Ray. Strohmeyer is a virtual computing industry veteran with expertise across product management, product marketing and product portfolio strategy and brings over 12 years of experience to Citrix.

Strohmeyer holds a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in government from St. Mary’s College of California.

Karri Alexion-Tiernan is the director of Product Management for Desktop Virtualization at Microsoft Corp. Alexion-Tiernan has been working in the enterprise and management space for many years. She has spent time architecting, deploying and managing servers and desktops, including managing software distribution for a large distributed enterprise of 60,000 seats using System Center Configuration Manager.

She has been at Microsoft for 10 years and thrives on learning all aspects of the company, including field-facing roles as a technical account manager and operations consultant; engineering roles, such as partner ecosystem program manager and principle program manager for System Center Configuration Manager; and for the past three years as director of Product Management, initially for Microsoft Application Virtualization and now responsible for Microsoft’s Desktop Virtualization offerings.

Alexion-Tiernan has a bachelor of science in computer science from Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. When she’s not thinking about virtualization and enterprise management, she is snowboarding, biking, hiking, or hanging out with her family at soccer and flag football games.

I joined RES Software in 2010 and since then, the company has emerged as a leader in the desktop virtualization space in the US market. Prior to RES, I held positions as Vice President of Strategy at Desktone, Senior Business Development Manager at Microsoft and Director of Business Development at Softricity. Additionally, I worked for Citrix Systems and NETLAN and carry with me 15+ years of experience in market and business development as well as corporate and product strategy. This is a very exciting time for RES Software and I am proud to be a part of this world-class team.

Scott Davis is Chief Technology Officer for VMware’s End User Computing Business Unit and staff member in VMware’s Corporate Office of the CTO. He is involved in driving product and technology strategy spanning the breadth of VMware’s product lines, from Desktop to Data Center and Cloud initiatives. A recognized expert in virtualization, clustering, operating systems, file systems and storage, Scott has held senior engineering and business management roles with both startup ventures and established industry firms. Scott holds 14 US patents for clustering, storage and virtualization technologies and his products have won awards at Comdex, Demo and LinuxWorld.

Rajen is responsible for development of Chrome and Chrome OS for Business. From its inception in 2006 through 2010, Rajen was instrumental in bringing Google Apps to businesses, and led product development of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration products for businesses. He brings several years of experience in delivering innovative products to enterprise customers. Rajen joined Google from VMware (a subsidiary of EMC), where he managed the award-winning line of ESX Server datacenter virtualization software. He helped drive the rapid growth of the VMware platform and led the integration of the VMware and EMC product lines. Previously, Rajen was a lead engineer at Zaplet, a Kleiner Perkins start-up, creating an e-mail based collaboration platform. He also held program management positions at Microsoft within the Windows and Hotmail groups.

Rajen graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in computer science.

Edwin Yuen is a Director for Virtualization and Cloud Strategy in the Windows Server and Management team. Edwin came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, Edwin was one of the Services Engagement Managers of Softricity for six years, leading most of the initial Softricity implementations. Edwin has 14 years of technical consulting experience in both the commercial and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Kevin Strohmeyer is senior product marketing manager for the Enterprise Desktop and Applications group at Citrix. He is responsible for helping to drive the go-to-market strategy for the company’s market-leading Citrix XenDesktop® product line.

Prior to joining Citrix, Strohmeyer held senior product marketing positions at NComputing and Pano Logic, and held a variety of marketing roles at Sun Microsystems where he also helped launch Sun Ray. Strohmeyer is a virtual computing industry veteran with expertise across product management, product marketing and product portfolio strategy and brings over 12 years of experience to Citrix.

Strohmeyer holds a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in government from St. Mary’s College of California.

Tyler “t.Rex” Rohrer is Founder of Liquidware Labs, a leading desktop transformation solutions company. His professional services experience and knowledge within VDI deployments is legendary. As an evangelist on the topic, he is a regular contributor to industry forums, and speaks nationally on topics such as application and desktop virtualization, and Cloud Computing. As an Economist, Technologist, Futurist, and Theoretical Physicist – his perspectives and counsel on advanced desktop architectures are sought after by the largest corporations in the world.

Jason Langone has been heavily involved with virtualization implementations for the last 8+ years with a focus on VDI for the last 3. Langone spoke at VMWorld 2006, won the VMware Vanguard Award in 2007 for Best Disaster Recovery Solution, spoke at CES Government 2010 and has been featured in various publications. Langone, a VMware vExpert, also founded the Washington DC Metro VMUG. Langone has successfully implemented large-scale virtualization, VDI and cloud solutions for both government agencies and Fortune 500 organizations. Langone currently runs the Virtualization and Storage division at MicroTech, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned and 8(a) small business based in Vienna, VA that provides industry leading VDI solutions.

A 25+ year high-tech veteran, Eric serves as VKernel's Vice President of Product Management. Jackson joined VKernel from Lab Escape, a private company that provides visual analytics solutions for large enterprises, where he led the creation of application-specific solutions through deep customer collaboration. Previously, Eric co-founded Ibrix, a venture-backed company offering scalable file system solutions that was acquired by HP in 2009, and served as Vice President of Products for XOsoft, a disaster recovery and high availability software firm which was acquired by CA in 2006. Additionally, Eric is the inventor and patent holder of several new technologies, including the Ibrix distributed file system and innovative techniques for automated computer chip design optimization.

Edwin Yuen is a Director for Virtualization and Cloud Strategy in the Windows Server and Management team. Edwin came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, Edwin was one of the Services Engagement Managers of Softricity for six years, leading most of the initial Softricity implementations. Edwin has 14 years of technical consulting experience in both the commercial and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Since joining IBM in 1996, Moe (Mohammed Abdula) held multiple technical and management roles with significant experiences in Product Development, Delivery, Portfolio Management, Business Operations as well as Technical Support and Services. Moe's experiences span multiple Software Group brands with global team
management expertise.

Recently, Moe joined the Tivoli organization to assume responsibility for Product Management and Strategy of the Service Automation and Cloud computing portfolios. Prior to joining IBM, Moe held a number of research associate roles and lectured on Early Object Oriented computing concepts. Moe attended the University of Leeds in the UK, where he received an honors bachelor's degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering.

Jay is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience launching, financing and operating software companies. He has been a pioneer in emerging high growth markets that include virtualization, systems management automation, and internet video. For the past 8 years he has been a virtualization evangelist and advocate, focusing on the strategic impacts of virtualization and automation within enterprise data centers. Jay is ITIL-certified and frequently spends his time serving as a trusted advisor for IT executives.

Andrew Borg is Senior Research Analyst and practice lead in Wireless & Mobility for Aberdeen Group. He is focused on identifying the enablers and friction points in the adoption of wireless and mobility technologies within the enterprise, and in the markets those enterprises serve. His particular interest is in documenting the behavioral and procedural adaptations that the most successful companies within an industry have made; and then in disseminating those best practices for a broader audience to benefit from. Topics from his most recent research agenda range from enterprise mobility management and multi-site wireless LANs, to emerging mobile platforms and wireless network technologies, mobile application delivery, mobile collaboration and video, and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications.

Andrew has more than 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. He served as Vice President of Marketing at Vaultus Mobile Technologies, Inc., and Managing Director, Next Generation Services, then Vice President, Knowledge Resources for RoweCom. Prior to RoweCom, he was Vice President Worldwide, Marketing & Sales, for Trident International, and Director of Corporate Communications Worldwide for Electronics for Imaging, Inc. He holds a Masters Degree from the New York Institute of Technology and a Bachelors from Harvard University.

Mark Lowenstein is a prominent wireless industry executive, consultant, analyst, and commentator. As Managing Director of Mobile Ecosystem, Lowenstein advises C-level executives on corporate, product, market, and industry strategy across the value chain of the wireless, communications, and digital media industries. Clients include wireless operators, equipment suppliers, device manufacturers, application and content developers, marketing and advertising firms, corporate end-users, and key members of the investment and venture capital communities.

From 2006-2007, Lowenstein was Vice President of Market Planning and Strategy at Verizon Wireless, where he led the company’s efforts in market segmentation, business planning, national pricing, and market intelligence for the consumer and enterprise markets.

Lowenstein’s consulting career began at the Yankee Group, where he founded and led the company’s top-ranked global wireless practices. As Executive Vice President, he supervised a global team of analysts, authored dozens of influential reports, and headed large-scale strategy consulting projects. As a member of the Yankee Group’s executive management committee, Lowenstein also oversaw the growth of the company’s Canada, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific practices, and led early stage electronic content and commerce initiatives.

As one of the wireless industry’s senior thought leaders, Lowenstein is a frequent keynote speaker at corporate and industry events worldwide and is broadly quoted in the print and broadcast media. Lowenstein writes a monthly opinion column for Fierce Wireless, the leading on-line publication for the wireless industry with a circulation of 75,000. His Lens on Wireless newsletter is read monthly by more than 8,000 industry executives and enterprise decision makers. Mr. Lowenstein has provided testimony to the FCC and has been retained as an expert witness in several cases pertaining to the wireless industry.

Lowenstein has served on the advisory boards of several prominent firms, including Telephia, Advanced Technology Ventures, and Seapoint Ventures. He has been an adjunct professor at Tufts University, and has served as a judge in numerous business plan competitions. He founded and leads the Boston Wireless Braintrust, a group of the 20 senior-most executives and thought leaders related to the wireless industry in New England.
Mr. Lowenstein holds a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.A. in International Communications and Technology Policy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He lives with his wife and two children in Brookline, MA.

Bob Egan, is managing director and partner with MGI Research. Bob is a globally recognized industry thought-leader and innovator on the strategic business use of mobile technologies. Egan’s provocative insights and analysis on mobility have served as early warning indicators, and opportunities, for enterprise executives, product vendors and mobile operators. Bob’s current focus is in the areas of mobile payments, enterprise mobility and mobile security.

As a vice president with Gartner, Mr. Egan received the firm's esteemed "Thought Leadership Achievement Award." Wireless Review has called Bob Egan the "Market Maker" and Adweek Magazine Technology Marketing Group named him one of the top six most influential industry analysts. Bob is a pioneer of Wi-Fi as a founding member of the first release of IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard.

Bob’s experience includes his company leadership roles including:
Global Head of Research & Chief Analyst at the Corporate Executive Board’s TowerGroup, President of the research firm Mobile Competency (acquired in 2005), Chief Strategy Officer of Corechange (acquired 2002), VP & Research Director at Gartner and Advanced Technology Director at Digital Equipment corporation (DEC).

His commentaries have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Business Week and Fortune magazine. His broadcast appearances include; ABC Night News, CNBC, the BBC TV and the MacNeil/Lehr NewsHour

Chris runs the Mobile and Wireless research practice, which covers hardware, software, and services for both enterprise and consumer mobility markets. Chris’ research focuses on mobile device management as well as application development platforms that target smartphones and tablets in the enterprise. He is primarily interested in the shift in enterprise computing from desktop to mobile.

Prior to joining 451, Chris covered worldwide smartphone trends for IDC. He focused on the convergence of mobile air interface technologies and advances in device component technologies which impacted the designs and capabilities of smartphones in both consumer and enterprise markets.

Chris has been quoted on mobile technology issues by publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CBS, ComputerWorld, Fox Business, InformationWeek, Investors Business Daily, MacWorld, TheStreet, Reuters and Wired. He sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for Mobile Enterprise Magazine, and is a columnist for FierceMobileIT. Chris has presented and moderated panels at numerous events such as CES, CTIA, venture capital tech days, as well as serving as director for 451’s Client Conference.

Chris earned his MBA and MS in Information Systems from Boston University. During his graduate course work, Chris conducted market research for Lucent Technologies, leading a team in the development of a demand creation strategy for 3G data services. Chris also received a BS in business from University of Richmond with a concentration in finance.

Paul DeBeasi is a research VP within Gartner IT Professionals Research. Mr. DeBeasi manages the research agenda for the Burton Network and Telecom Strategies coverage area. He performs wireless and mobility research in the areas of wireless LANs, mobile cellular, wireless security, and mobile device management.

Prior to becoming an analyst, Mr. DeBeasi spent 12 years working at communication companies (Cascade Communications, NetSuite, IPHighway) in product management roles. He worked as VP of Product Management for seven of those years. Before that, Mr. DeBeasi was an engineer for 12 years, working at various communication companies (Bell Labs, Prime Computer, Chipcom).

Steven Wastie brings over 18 years of experience leading global marketing, product management, and business development activities in highly competitive technology markets. Mr. Wastie has held executive positions at several category leading companies including Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at iPass where he was responsible for evolving the company¹s corporate strategy and driving the overall marketing and product management activities worldwide. At Juniper Networks, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Enterprise and Managed Services Marketing with the primary responsibilities of managing the Enterprise go-to-market strategy, solutions line management and marketing, vertical segment marketing, and strategic technology alliances and messaging. Mr. Wastie has also served as Vice President and General Manager at Inktomi, along with marketing and product management positions at Netscape.

Jim joined InnerWireless in 2000 with the founding management team in his current role. This role has included a hands-on involvement with the growth of the company, interaction with potential customers, relationships with solution partner companies, and guiding the development of InnerWireless’ products and technologies. Jim is responsible for the company’s intellectual property related to the in-building Distributed Antenna System product line – Horizon ™.

Previous experience in the wireless telecom space includes millimeter-wave broadband infrastructure development – specifically LMDS. Jim led and managed the engineering, product management, and core technology development as a core group was spun out of Texas Instruments to Bosch Telecom and then to a joint venture owned by Cisco and Motorola.

Jim began his career with Texas Instruments which afforded him a very broad and diverse set of experiences with multiple technologies. While most remain DoD activities classified, Jim’s work included involving wireless communications, GPS, advanced Radar, infrared imaging, and passive RF direction-finding. Jim’s education includes Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in engineering from the University of Alabama.

Steve Shaw is the vice president of marketing for Kineto Wireless, the key innovator and leading supplier of IP solutions for mobile operators. Steve is responsible for the go-to-market strategy of Kineto’s Wi-Fi Calling solution. A frequent speaker, blogger and general evangelist for mobile services over IP, Steve has nearly 20 years experience in product, marketing, and business development roles with telecommunications companies.

Chris joined ip.access in 2004 and is charged with positioning the company to become one of the world’s leading suppliers of picocell and femtocell solutions. He is actively involved in the work of the Femto Forum where he has been engaged in the business case development and consumer research project. Before joining ip.access Chris was head of marketing for 3G Lab who developed, high quality user interfaces for mobile phones. Prior to 3G Lab Chris was head of marketing programmes at Geneva Technology a leading company in the next generation billing systems market. Chris has over 20 years marketing experience in range of IT and electronics companies and holds an MA in Physics from the University of Cambridge.

Lisa has been involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of networking, security, and management products for over 25 years. Since joining Core Competence in 1995, she has advised companies large and small regarding security needs, product assessment, and the use of emerging technologies and best practices. Lisa teaches about wireless LANs, mobile security, and virtual private networking, and has written extensively for numerous publications, including Wi-Fi Planet, Information Security, and SearchMobileComputing. Lisa's columns are published monthly by eSecurityPlanet, searchNetworking, and the AirWISE Community Security Center. Lisa holds an MS, Computer Science from Villanova University, and a BS in Computer Science from West Chester University.

Philippe Winthrop is the Founder and Managing Director of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, the organization behind The Enterprise Mobility Forum, the fastest growing content portal and social network exclusively dedicated to enterprise mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe also launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice at market research firm Aberdeen Group. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices.

Cimarron leads Apperian's product marketing organization for mobile enterprise solutions, including EASE (Enterprise App Services Environment). He has worked in technology for over 25 years, providing creative and visionary leadership for products and services in the technology, web and mobile areas. Cimarron made an indelible imprint on the mobile industry in creating the first iPhone magazine.

Prior to Apperian, he worked with Texterity, and built a product, sales, and marketing organization that led the digital magazine industry by providing solutions to b-to-b, trade association, and consumer publications.

Cimarron was also GM Internet Products at FaxNet, leading the group which was responsible for internet messaging solutions for the telecom industry. FaxNet was sold to Critical Path for approximately $240 million.

Cimarron has a BA in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from Harvard University.

Michael Dortch is a Research Director at FOCUS LLC (www.focusonsystems.com), covering the dynamics linking virtualization to data center modernization and public, private and hybrid cloud computing for business. He is also Principal Analyst and Managing Editor at DortchOnIT.com and a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research (www.constellationrg.com). DortchOnIT.com is "an independent voice for technology-dependent people" and consults with providers of disruptive business technologies. Constellation Research is a leading research analyst and advisory firm guiding organizations and their leaders through the hype and buzz of the latest disruptive technologies.

One of the "Top 500 Analysts Using Twitter" according to independent metrics, Michael has been empowering information technology (IT) buyers, sellers and users since 1979, by translating what technologists say and do into language that non-technologists can understand and use. He blogs regularly and is quoted widely on subjects ranging from cloud computing and software as a service to technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).

As Director of Research at Focus.com, Michael helped to grow that site into a community of more than 850,000 people including some 5,000 Focus Experts, and a Top 10 Media Web Site according to Crain's "B2B Magazine." He has also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. In 1990, Michael wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks," a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc.

Jay Mellman is Chief Marketing Officer of Rhomobile, the leader in tools for building and deploying smartphone applications. In his more than 20 years of experience across the technology industry, his has focused on software and how it can enable organizations to harness new capabilities for business advantage. Previous to Rhomobile, Mellman spent time at both HP and Cisco driving solutions in the networking space. Specifically, he led efforts to link network and IT infrastructures more closely with applications and the business. Prior to these larger companies, Mellman was a marketing leader in several emerging companies, including those focused on application delivery, network management, and next-generation database and development tools. With his broad background, Mellman believes that mobility and the changing role of the IT infrastructure is the next great area of innovation.

Scott Olson has spent the past 18 years building software and advising clients on the potential of software and mobility. He is a contributing writer for iPhone Life magazine, technical editor of iPad in the Enterprise: Developing and Deploying Business Applications, and his forthcoming book is tentatively titled Cross-Platform Mobile Development for the Enterprise. He leads the development team at ITR Mobility, and throughout his career has worked with many of the Fortune 500 companies including Best Buy, Target Corporation, Medtronic, and Prudential Financial. He believes that what is happening in the mobile software industry today will change the way people write and use software.

As Wilocity's Vice President of Marketing, Mark leads the company's global marketing, product definition, strategic alliances and marketing communication for the company's introduction of groundbreaking wireless technologies to consumers and businesses. With a background in both engineering and marketing management, Mark has spent the past decade immersed in the wireless networking industry and has played leadership roles in guiding Wi-Fi development through his participation on several industry boards and standards bodies. Mark currently serves as the Marketing Chairman and Board Member for the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, which was formed to establish a unified specification for 60 GHz wireless technology. Mark is also the Chair of Wi-Fi Alliance's 60 GHz Gigabit Wireless Marketing Task Group. Prior to that, Mark was the Chairman of the Enhanced Wireless Consortium and of the Wi-Fi Alliance (TGn) Marketing Task Group.

Mark joined Wilocity from Intel, where he led the product definition and marketing activities for Intel's line of 802.11n Wi-Fi products, for the Centrino mobile technology platform. Previously, he was a Product Line Manager at Mobilian, a start-up company making Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chipsets and software; Mobilian was acquired by Intel in late 2003. Mark holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from the Harvard Business School.

Senior Standards Architect, Aruba Wireless Networks, responsible for WLAN standards strategy. Chair IEEE 802.11v Wireless Networks Management Task Group, Vice- Chair Wi-Fi Alliance Security Technical Task Group, Active participant and contributor to several WFA and IEEE 802.11 task groups, including IEEE 802.11i, IEEE 802.11r and IEEE 802.11v. Liaison from IEEE 802.11 to IETF.

Previous to joining Aruba Networks in 2005, was Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Agere Systems for Wavelan products and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Responsibilities included system architecture, software development, and capacity planning and performance analysis for Digital Switching Systems and fixed wireless systems. Awards include 5 patents, WFA 2005 Members Achievement Award, WFA Special Recognition Award for contributions to WPA, and IEEE Standards Association certificate for contributions to IEEE 802.11i, 802.11m. Member IEEE.

Bob Friday is Chief Technology Officer for the Wireless Networking Business Unit, part of Cisco’s Network Services Group. He manages strategic wireless initiatives for the fast-growing WiFi (wireless LAN) and WiMAX broadband (wireless WAN) businesses. Friday’s career has been focused on developing unlicensed wireless networking technology and products. He came to Cisco as the Chief Scientist and cofounder of Airespace, the wireless LAN leader acquired by Cisco in 2004. At Airespace, he leveraged his background in the outdoor wireless service provider market to introduce a centralized controller architecture for enterprise 802.11 wireless networks. He was also 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 WAN 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. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University.

Vijay Nagarajan is a Sr.Product Marketing Manager for Broadcom Corporation’s Mobile & Wireless Group. He is responsible for Broadcom's InConcert PC Product Line comprising of Bluetooth-WLAN combo hardware and software. Prior to his role at Broadcom, he was a Systems Engineer at Atheros Communications and Denver-based Tensorcomm Incorporated, working on various wireless technologies including CDMA-based 3G networks, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Mr.Nagarajan is also a well-cited Wireless Industry Analyst whose opinions and analysis of the mobile phone market and value chain have been referenced in several online publications including Forbes, EETimes, & thestreet.com.

Mr. Nagarajan has 10 issued patents and 20 pending patent applications on mobile receiver architecture and design techniques for 3G and 4G networks. Mr. Nagarajan also has multiple peer-reviewed international technical papers, including IEEE publications, in coding techniques for wireless and storage systems.

Mr. Nagarajan holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a BS degree from the College of Engineering, Guindy, (Anna University) India.

Jayaram Bhat has been the CEO of Zenprise since January 2004. He has over 23 years of executive sales and marketing experience in high technology companies. Prior to Zenprise, Mr. Bhat consulted with CEOs of Information Technology companies in developing and managing the execution of breakthrough business strategies as well as helping to raise venture funding. His clients included VA Software (Nasdaq: LNUX), Euclid, CenterRun Software, and Tealeaf Technology.

From 1993 through 2001, Bhat served as Vice President of Marketing at Mercury Interactive Corporation, where he helped lead the company from a pre-IPO stage with $13 million in annual revenues to a dominant enterprise infrastructure software powerhouse with $361 million in revenues in 2001, more than 60% market share, and a market capitalization of over $6 Billion.

Prior to Mercury Interactive, Bhat served in various marketing and sales management positions at Cadence Design Systems, EDA Systems, and Daisy Systems. Mr. Bhat's career began in 1980 at Intel where he was product manager of the Intel 286 processor.
Bhat holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Operations Research from universities in India and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Bhat serves on the boards of Zenprise, Tealeaf Technology and Electric Cloud.

Brian Katz has over 20 years experience in managing and implementing IT processes. He started his career working with a multi-national New York financial company maintaining their email and communications systems which also involved supporting their mobile computing platforms. He later moved to an international pharmaceutical company managing servers and storage. Katz's current role is managing the companies mobile initiatives including working with business units defining bring your own device and company owned policies, investigating mobile device management requirements for employee and company owned devices, and working to identify applications to be supported on mobile platforms.