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Chris and her team brought AT&T’s Synaptic Cloud Services to market including Synaptic Hosting, Synaptic Storage as a Service, Synaptic Compute as a Service & AT&T Platform as a Service. Her professional experience ranges from industry expertise in Cloud Compute, Storage and Platform as a Service, Managed Hosting and Application Management, Portals, E-Servicing and Knowledge Management. She has held several positions in product, offer, sales, marketing and operations. In 2010, Chris achieved “Top 10 Woman in Wireline” and received a “Leaders Quadrant” rating by Gartner Group in 2011.
Chris speaks extensively in the industry about Cloud services. She has authored many articles on Cloud, Utility Computing, Business Continuity, Managed Hosting, Storage, e-Servicing and knowledge management. Chris holds a BA from Shippensburg University and has completed MBA programs with MIT, Southern Methodist and Mays Business School. Chris is based in Bedminster, NJ. She can be contacted at ccostello@att.com.

Chris is the Chief Marketing Officer at Apptio and holds responsibility for all corporate marketing initiatives including demand generation, online operations, inside sales, communications, and analyst relations. He is an accomplished sales and marketing executive with 17 years of experience in building global marketing organizations, creating new market categories, and executing differentiated go-to-market strategies. Prior to Apptio, Chris was an operating partner in Austin Ventures' CEO-in-residence program where he focused on identifying new growth strategies and defining disruptive business models. Chris joined Austin Ventures from NetIQ where he was Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Products. At NetIQ, he led the acquisition team in overhauling the company's corporate strategy and product portfolio, which drove substantial margin improvement and created innovative revenue streams that captured new markets.

Chris also serves as the President and Secretary for the TBM Council. In this role, he facilitates day-to-day activities and pushes forward the Council’s agenda to help CIOs transform IT operations via TBM methodologies and best practices.

Mr. Caindec is responsible for marketing at Dimension Data's Cloud Business Unit. With more than $5.8 billion in annual revenues, Dimension Data provides global ICT and systems integration solutions. Prior to Dimension Data, Mr. Caindec was SVP and CMO of OpSource, a leading cloud and managed hosting provider acquired by Dimension Data. Prior to OpSource, Mr.Caindec was CMO of Reliance Globalcom, a global communications provider with more than $1.6 billion in annual revenues. Mr. Caindec has held executive and senior management positions in marketing and business development at British Telecom, MCI, Internap, Yipes (acquired by Reliance Communications), CyberCash and ATMnet. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. Caindec has also been quoted in publications such as ZDnet, NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, Light Reading, GigaOm, Telephony, Capacity Magazine, Wall Street & Technology and The Whir. Mr. Caindec has a BS in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Panorama Capital and advisor to numerous technology and communications companies.

Jared Wray is the architect of the Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services. Wray oversees the company’s development, support and operations teams and is responsible for the company’s intellectual property strategy and new product development. Leveraging the tenets of virtualization, automation, abstraction, Wray designed the enterprise cloud architecture with unique intellectual property at every layer of the stack. The result today is an agile, self-optimizing, enterprise grade cloud platform for customers’ mission-critical, production applications. Wray relies on his extensive experience directly managing and scaling large Web infrastructures and consulting for a number of financial, consulting, and technology companies such as companies such as Corbis Corporation, Ascentium, and Microsoft. A serial entrepreneur, Wray previously founded Dual, an interactive development firm with clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo.

Lori MacVittie is the senior technical marketing manager for F5 Networks. With more than a decade of experience in managing enterprise architecture and ISV application development, her expertise in cloud computing and application delivery are second to none in the tech industry.Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was the senior technology editor at Network Computing Magazine, where her extensive knowledge of programming and systems development enabled her to shape the then-emerging application delivery market. She holds a B.S. in Information and Computing Science from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University.

Kerry Cole is a Director in the Information Technology group of Ricoh, a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. She is responsible for Ricoh USA’s IT Process Improvement program focusing on ensuring Ricoh’s IT processes are designed effectively and that they meet information security, governance and compliance requirements including Sarbanes-Oxley and ISO 27001.

She is responsible for Ricoh’s Business Continuity Management program as well as litigation and e-Discovery technology support. Kerry participates in company initiatives such as records retention and policy development, and advises the organization on IT and information risk-related topics. In her 22 years with the company she has held IT leadership positions in a variety of areas including Enterprise Project Management and Business Intelligence.

Ms. Cole is an ISACA member and holds several certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC.)

Erin Banks is a Senior vSpecialist for EMC Corporation focusing on Security and Virtualization in the U.S. Federal Government and Public Sector. She has been in the network and security industry for over ten years supporting Fortune 500 organizations and most recently Federal System Integrators and Civilian entities. She is a published author and speaker on Security and Virtualization topics. She holds the CISSP and CISA certifications as well as many other industry certifications. Erin received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. She is an avid runner, consumer of information, and enjoys evangelizing about information technology and security issues and is based out of Massachusetts. You can find her on Twitter at @banksek or her blog www.commondenial.com

John Poole is a senior sales, marketing, and business development executive with more than 23 years in the voice, data, and video networking industries.

Through his efforts to establish a video B2B strategy and solution for Polycom, John helped drive the vision, development, and realization of the OVCC. He is presently serving as the OVCC Vice President and Sr. Director at Polycom responsible for business development of their global cloud and carrier solutions organization.

Residing in the Boston area, John's diverse experience covers the gamut of communication technologies including circuit and packet voice, IP networking, computer-telephony integration, optical networking, enterprise software, network security, Telepresence, and hosted unified communications.

In the past, John served numerous telecommunication companies such as Alcatel Lucent, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, and AT&T. In these leadership roles John established a global success record growing various lines of business including Enterprise and service providers with corporate alliance partners such as Microsoft, Juniper, Oracle, Avaya, EMC, and Siemens.

Functional Expertise

12 years of market analysis and strategic consulting expertise with a focus on enterprise communications and next-generation technologies. Particular expertise in:
Market and competitive intelligence
Market forecasting

Trend analysis and strategic insight
Strategy development and client growth consulting

Industry Expertise

Experience base covering a broad range of industry sectors, leveraging long-standing working relationships with leading industry participants’ Senior Executives. Areas of focus include:

Enterprise telephony and messaging
Unified communications and collaboration
Hosted/cloud-based communications and SaaS
SIP trunking and VoIP access services

What I bring to the Team

Extensive knowledge of various enterprise communications technologies and markets
The ability to leverage a broad set of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools to develop comprehensive and in-depth market, product and competitive analyses

Strong management and interpersonal skills based on 7 years of team leadership and over 15 years of extensive client interactions and project management

Career Highlights

Before Frost & Sullivan, market research and competitive intelligence roles at visitalk.com, Platinum Technology and the Bulgarian-American Enterprise Fund.
Education

Master of International Management from Thunderbird, School of Global Management, Glendale, AZ, U.S.A.

Master of English and American Literature and Linguistics from Kliment Ohridsky University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Master of Financial Management from National University of Business Administration and Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria

Andrew Reitter is a Sr. Manager of Technology Strategy for the Collaboration Technology Group at Cisco. In this role he focus on areas related to video codec and conferencing strategy. Andrew also meets regularly with customers to discuss their needs as well as the long term direction of Cisco’s Collaboration architecture with an emphasis on visual communications. Prior to this role Andrew led a team of technical marketing engineers focused on Telepresence infrastructure and the integration into broader unified communications environments. Andrew came to Cisco through the acquisition of Tandberg and was with Tandberg for 7 years. While at Tandberg he has held several positions including that of Senior Technologist reporting to the CTO focusing on bringing video conferencing and unified communications solutions together. In this role he was instrumental in the relationship between Tandberg and Microsoft and a key contributor to design of the integrated architecture with this technology partner. Prior to Tandberg, Andrew worked in the tele/data communications industry for companies such as Ericsson, Raychem and Terayon in various roles covering the entire product life cycle from hardware design to manufacturing. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

John Poole is a senior sales, marketing, and business development executive with more than 23 years in the voice, data, and video networking industries.

Through his efforts to establish a video B2B strategy and solution for Polycom, John helped drive the vision, development, and realization of the OVCC. He is presently serving as the OVCC Vice President and Sr. Director at Polycom responsible for business development of their global cloud and carrier solutions organization.

Residing in the Boston area, John's diverse experience covers the gamut of communication technologies including circuit and packet voice, IP networking, computer-telephony integration, optical networking, enterprise software, network security, Telepresence, and hosted unified communications.

In the past, John served numerous telecommunication companies such as Alcatel Lucent, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, and AT&T. In these leadership roles John established a global success record growing various lines of business including Enterprise and service providers with corporate alliance partners such as Microsoft, Juniper, Oracle, Avaya, EMC, and Siemens.

Eric Kintz is Vice President and General Manager of Logitech for Business, the group within Logitech focused on business productivity and Unified Communications solutions. In this role, he is responsible for business product research and development, as well as worldwide business marketing and sales.

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

Jeff Monroe has been in the data center industry for more than 15 years. He has been involved in all aspects of data center development and operations, and has put in place some of the largest and most sophisticated data centers in the industry, with a total value exceeding $1.8 billion USD.

Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Monroe was a co-founder of the DuPont Fabros Technology wholesale data center business. He was responsible for developing and implementing the wholesale operational model and was instrumental in all aspects of the business. This included data center strategy, acquisitions, design, construction, operations, leasing, and business development.

Mr. Monroe has been a keynote speaker and panelist at events such as the Data Center Dynamics and IDC Next-Generation Data Center conferences and the Electrical Power Research Institute’s Annual Forum.

Peter Feldman, CEO and Principal of DataGryd, has 20 years of experience in data center development, management, and design; he has been at the forefront of developing collocation business models and implementing energy-efficient technologies in the industry. Feldman has held CTO, President, and founding roles at several successful startups, including the TelX group, a national leader in datacenter collocation services. Prior to founding DataGryd, Mr. Feldman was the primary technical and business development interface with companies such as United Technologies Power for their hydrogen and natural gas fuel cell technology and CCHP micro-turbines for data centers, and AMSC (formerly American Superconductor) for developing superconducting cable technology for direct and alternating current in data centers. Additional professional experience includes optical and wireless network engineering for rural broadband, IT infrastructure management, and wireless network infrastructure. Feldman is a member of a number of professional trade organizations, and has industry related patents.

Steve is responsible for the Global Go to Market of the Huawei Enterprise IP Product Line. This multi billion portfolio includes branch and high end routing, campus and data center switching, wireless LAN, network management, and optical and microwave transmission products. Steve is committed to helping Huawei achieve its enterprise goal of $15b by 2015!

Prior to his current role at Huawei, Steve was Senior Director at Cisco Systems. During a 16 year period he was responsible for product management of physical security products and was a founder of Cisco’s Physical Security Business Unit in the Emerging Technology Group, network security .. where he was a founder of the VPN and Security Business Unit, and high end routing where he was responsible for the launch of Cisco’s 7500 and 7200 lines which became a $4b product line for the company.

Previous roles included product management and marketing responsibilities for data communications, mobile and networking products at AT&T and British Telecom.

Steve has an MBA from the University of Aston, UK and a BSc in Management Science from UMIST, UK. He is a father of two, a naturalized US citizen, lives in the California Bay Area, and enjoys soccer, motorcycling and shooting.

Chris and her team brought AT&T’s Synaptic Cloud Services to market including Synaptic Hosting, Synaptic Storage as a Service, Synaptic Compute as a Service & AT&T Platform as a Service. Her professional experience ranges from industry expertise in Cloud Compute, Storage and Platform as a Service, Managed Hosting and Application Management, Portals, E-Servicing and Knowledge Management. She has held several positions in product, offer, sales, marketing and operations. In 2010, Chris achieved “Top 10 Woman in Wireline” and received a “Leaders Quadrant” rating by Gartner Group in 2011.
Chris speaks extensively in the industry about Cloud services. She has authored many articles on Cloud, Utility Computing, Business Continuity, Managed Hosting, Storage, e-Servicing and knowledge management. Chris holds a BA from Shippensburg University and has completed MBA programs with MIT, Southern Methodist and Mays Business School. Chris is based in Bedminster, NJ. She can be contacted at ccostello@att.com.

Chris is the Chief Marketing Officer at Apptio and holds responsibility for all corporate marketing initiatives including demand generation, online operations, inside sales, communications, and analyst relations. He is an accomplished sales and marketing executive with 17 years of experience in building global marketing organizations, creating new market categories, and executing differentiated go-to-market strategies. Prior to Apptio, Chris was an operating partner in Austin Ventures' CEO-in-residence program where he focused on identifying new growth strategies and defining disruptive business models. Chris joined Austin Ventures from NetIQ where he was Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Products. At NetIQ, he led the acquisition team in overhauling the company's corporate strategy and product portfolio, which drove substantial margin improvement and created innovative revenue streams that captured new markets.

Chris also serves as the President and Secretary for the TBM Council. In this role, he facilitates day-to-day activities and pushes forward the Council’s agenda to help CIOs transform IT operations via TBM methodologies and best practices.

Mr. Caindec is responsible for marketing at Dimension Data's Cloud Business Unit. With more than $5.8 billion in annual revenues, Dimension Data provides global ICT and systems integration solutions. Prior to Dimension Data, Mr. Caindec was SVP and CMO of OpSource, a leading cloud and managed hosting provider acquired by Dimension Data. Prior to OpSource, Mr.Caindec was CMO of Reliance Globalcom, a global communications provider with more than $1.6 billion in annual revenues. Mr. Caindec has held executive and senior management positions in marketing and business development at British Telecom, MCI, Internap, Yipes (acquired by Reliance Communications), CyberCash and ATMnet. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. Caindec has also been quoted in publications such as ZDnet, NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, Light Reading, GigaOm, Telephony, Capacity Magazine, Wall Street & Technology and The Whir. Mr. Caindec has a BS in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Panorama Capital and advisor to numerous technology and communications companies.

Jared Wray is the architect of the Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services. Wray oversees the company’s development, support and operations teams and is responsible for the company’s intellectual property strategy and new product development. Leveraging the tenets of virtualization, automation, abstraction, Wray designed the enterprise cloud architecture with unique intellectual property at every layer of the stack. The result today is an agile, self-optimizing, enterprise grade cloud platform for customers’ mission-critical, production applications. Wray relies on his extensive experience directly managing and scaling large Web infrastructures and consulting for a number of financial, consulting, and technology companies such as companies such as Corbis Corporation, Ascentium, and Microsoft. A serial entrepreneur, Wray previously founded Dual, an interactive development firm with clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo.

Cameron Camp has been building critical technology infrastructures for more than 20 years, beginning as an assembly language programmer in 1987 and eventually becoming an evangelist for Linux and Open Source technologies with an emphasis on the security sector. Camp is an accredited speaker and frequently contributes instructional technology articles and blog entries.

Jay Leek, CISM, CISSP, CISA is currently the Chief Information Security Officer for Blackstone. Prior to joining Blackstone, Jay established, built and headed up global information risk and security programs for Equifax and Nokia. Over the past 19 years, Jay has also worked as a product manager for information security vendors as well as a consultant to numerous telecommunications companies, government agencies and financial institutions assisting them with business development, strategic planning and architectural design required to meet their information risk and security objectives. He is also a frequent speaker on information security related topics at domestic and international conferences.

Rob Raffaele is a key technical resource at American Water. With an enterprise focus, he is responsible for data networking and infrastructure security in both the business network and industrial control(SCADA) environments. Through architecture and design, Rob has driven standardization and delivered several advanced technologies to American Water. American Water is the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company. The company employs approximately 7,000 dedicated professionals who provide drinking water, wastewater and other related services to an estimated 15 million people in more than 30 states and parts of Canada.

Manish is the Chief Technology Officer of Tavant Technologies and one of its co-founders. Tavant is a software services firm that provides solutions to companies in the media, gaming, ecommerce, consumer lending, capital markets, and manufacturing industries.

Before joining Tavant, Manish played a technical leadership role at Amazon.com in scaling the growing product catalog system. Earlier, Amazon.com acquired Junglee, where Manish served as the Chief Architect and built one of the first white-labeled comparison shopping solutions. Prior to that, he worked at IBM's Almaden Research Center on extensions to relational database systems for handling spatial information and accessing external data as virtual tables.

Manish holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a master's degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Michael H. Hart is a Senior Systems Administrator for Rolex Watch USA Inc., where his major responsibilities lie within the virtualization infrastructure (compute, storage, and network). He also plays a major role in all aspects of the architecting and delivery of IT department services. Michael previously served as the IT Platform Systems Supervisor for Marubeni America Corp, where he was responsible for network, server, and storage infrastructure for more than 40 branch offices across North, South, and Central America, and maintained a global network reaching Europe, and Japan/Asia. Michael has 12+ years of professional IT experience, with a focus on Virtualization, WAN optimization, Networking, and Managed Services in medium to large international enterprise business environments.

Jeff Monroe has been in the data center industry for more than 15 years. He has been involved in all aspects of data center development and operations, and has put in place some of the largest and most sophisticated data centers in the industry, with a total value exceeding $1.8 billion USD.

Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Monroe was a co-founder of the DuPont Fabros Technology wholesale data center business. He was responsible for developing and implementing the wholesale operational model and was instrumental in all aspects of the business. This included data center strategy, acquisitions, design, construction, operations, leasing, and business development.

Mr. Monroe has been a keynote speaker and panelist at events such as the Data Center Dynamics and IDC Next-Generation Data Center conferences and the Electrical Power Research Institute’s Annual Forum.

Peter Feldman, CEO and Principal of DataGryd, has 20 years of experience in data center development, management, and design; he has been at the forefront of developing collocation business models and implementing energy-efficient technologies in the industry. Feldman has held CTO, President, and founding roles at several successful startups, including the TelX group, a national leader in datacenter collocation services. Prior to founding DataGryd, Mr. Feldman was the primary technical and business development interface with companies such as United Technologies Power for their hydrogen and natural gas fuel cell technology and CCHP micro-turbines for data centers, and AMSC (formerly American Superconductor) for developing superconducting cable technology for direct and alternating current in data centers. Additional professional experience includes optical and wireless network engineering for rural broadband, IT infrastructure management, and wireless network infrastructure. Feldman is a member of a number of professional trade organizations, and has industry related patents.

Steve is responsible for the Global Go to Market of the Huawei Enterprise IP Product Line. This multi billion portfolio includes branch and high end routing, campus and data center switching, wireless LAN, network management, and optical and microwave transmission products. Steve is committed to helping Huawei achieve its enterprise goal of $15b by 2015!

Prior to his current role at Huawei, Steve was Senior Director at Cisco Systems. During a 16 year period he was responsible for product management of physical security products and was a founder of Cisco’s Physical Security Business Unit in the Emerging Technology Group, network security .. where he was a founder of the VPN and Security Business Unit, and high end routing where he was responsible for the launch of Cisco’s 7500 and 7200 lines which became a $4b product line for the company.

Previous roles included product management and marketing responsibilities for data communications, mobile and networking products at AT&T and British Telecom.

Steve has an MBA from the University of Aston, UK and a BSc in Management Science from UMIST, UK. He is a father of two, a naturalized US citizen, lives in the California Bay Area, and enjoys soccer, motorcycling and shooting.

Born and raised in Italy, Dante is the co-founder and CEO of Embrane, where he leads and inspires the team to turn the company’s vision into execution, drives the values and the culture that define the company, and sometimes stocks the break-room. His professional life before that is pretty simple: a little over 10 years at Cisco. He was part of one of the most successful teams at Cisco, building the Catalyst 6500 family of switches. He later became part of the founding team of Andiamo, a spin-off that Cisco created to enter and disrupt the storage networking market. More recently, he led the worldwide marketing campaign for Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 strategy. While at Cisco he wore several hats: engineer, product manager, marketing manager and sales manager. He even spent three years in Europe, evangelizing Cisco’s Data Center story to the market. When he is not thinking about how to power the agile network, Dante enjoys traveling, scuba diving, and cooking homemade pizza from scratch.

Steve Riley is Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Riverbed Technology. He specializes in enterprise cloud computing architecture and information security. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, concentrating on performance and security, both on-premise and in cloud. He is co-author of Protect Your Windows Network, contributed a chapter to Auditing Cloud Computing, has published numerous articles, and conducted technical reviews of several data networking and telecommunications books. Before Steve joined Riverbed, he was the cloud security strategist at Amazon Web Services and a security consultant and advisor at Microsoft. Steve is a global moderator of Kubuntu Forums, a support community for Ubuntu’s KDE-based distribution. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. Contact him at steve.riley@riverbed.com; check out his occasional writings at http://blog.riverbed.com

Faraz Aladin is Director of Enterprise Backbone Marketing.. He has more than 20 years of industry experience with the last 15 at Cisco. He has worked in multiple business units at Cisco that deal with switching as an integral part of the overall solution offering. He is a CCIE and holds an engineering degree in digital electronics from Bombay University.

Pepe (Joseph) Garcia is currently a Group Product Manager at VMware. He has more than 20 years of experience in the networking industry. Pepe has held various positions in hardware and software development, network architecture and deployment, and product line management at various companies in Silicon Valley. His experience includes companies like NASA, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and more recently Nicira. He hold an electrical engineering degree from Stanford University.

As one of the co-founders of SevOne, Vess Bakalov serves as Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for leading the company’s product development and design, and overall vision of the technology architecture.

Prior to SevOne, Mr. Bakalov served in a number of senior technical positions at BankOne, including Assistant Vice President and Network Architect. He also led the network management team for the Credit Card Services division of the company, which was the largest issuer of VISA credit cards in the U.S. During his time at BankOne, Mr. Bakalov also taught undergraduate and graduate courses as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Delaware.

Mr. Bakalov began his career as a technical advisor for a fast-growing CLEC. There, he led the design and engineering effort behind that company's first DSL deployment. He was also in charge of architecting and developing the network management and instrumentation strategy for the firm.

Adam Powers is a leading innovator and evangelist in the field of network flow analysis and anomaly detection. During his ten year tenure at Lancope Inc as Chief Technology Officer, Powers' contributions helped lead Lancope's flow-based StealthWatch System to wide-spread success in over 600 large enterprises around the globe. In addition to his role as CTO, Powers has over 8 years experience in enterprise network security operations and design, much of which was spent managing high uptime, large-scale data centers for Inflow Inc, now Sungard. His early years were spent overseeing Banyan Vines systems in the United States Marine Corps where he was twice meritoriously promoted achieving the rank of Sergeant in just three years. Adam currently resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is Chief Security Officer for Plixer International, makers of the Scrutinizer NetFlow Analysis Technology.

As AppNeta CTO, Matt is responsible for guiding technology and product vision and managing the advanced research, development, QA, customer support and information technology teams. Prior to joining AppNeta, Matt was the CTO of the Information and Event Management business unit of RSA, The Security Division of EMC. He joined EMC after the acquisition of Network Intelligence Corp. where Matt was a founder. In that role, he was also part of EMC's Office of the CTO, where he and his peer group had responsibility for EMC's overall strategic technology direction. Prior to NIC and RSA, Matt held senior technology and sales management positions with NetApp, Solbourne Computer and Harris Corporation.

Paul Barrett is responsible for the NetScout’s voice and video technology strategy. Paul was CTO at Psytechnics prior to its acquisition by NetScout and was responsible for all research, development and standards activities at Psytechnics. He joined Psytechnics shortly after its creation in 2001 and worked for ten years at BT Laboratories before that. Paul has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has been actively involved in international standardization for most of that time. His standards work has encompassed many aspects of voice and video communications, including four generations of GSM and 3G codecs. Paul is currently a Vice Chairman of the ITU Study Group responsible for "Performance, QoS and QoE". He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the IET and IEEE, and holds a Masters Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.

Roi Keren brings more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry to Centerity. Before joining Centerity, Roi functioned as regional sales manager of SuperDerivatives in UK and Ireland (based in London). In this role, Roi managed sales and pre-sales team - responsible for the business development with banks, hedge-funds and financial divisions of global enterprises.

Prior to SuperDerivatives, Roi functioned as the EMEA and Middle East regional sales manager of Shunra Software- WW leading WAN emulation solutions Company. Previous to Shunra, Roi functioned as sales manager of Hewlett Packard service division (HPS) for the Telecom & Industrial districts in Israel. Roi holds a BA in Business Management from Tel Aviv College and MBA from Manchester University.

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.

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.

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.

Dale Henninger is the manager of Global Network Services at General Mills in Minneapolis, MN. His organization is responsible for the standards, architecture, management, and support of the global Wide Area and Local Area networks for over 220 locations around the world. Dale has over 20 years of networking experience at Fortune 500 companies such as Thomson Reuters and ING as well as experience with his own Internet startup in the late 1990s. Dale has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.

Isabelle Guis is responsible for outbound marketing at Big Switch Networks and is the Chair of the Market Education committee at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF).

She has extensive global experience spanning several networking companies where she held a variety of positions from R&D to product management and marketing for both enterprise and service provider market segments. Prior to joining Big Switch Networks, she was the General Manager of Avaya’s Small and Medium Enterprise Communications Business Unit with worldwide responsibilities for product design, development, marketing and indirect sales. At Cisco, she was instrumental in the post-acquisition integration of the WLAN start-up Airespace with Cisco Go-To-Market and also led several Mobile Vertical Solutions from design and testing to launch.

Isabelle holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Supelec in France and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Matthew Davy is exective director of the Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE) and Indiana University’s chief network architect. Before coming to Indiana University in 1999, he served as a lead network engineer for Tier 1 Internet Service Providers focused primarily on backbone traffic engineering. He has spent the last thirteen years providing leadership in the design of large-scale, advanced research and education networks including Indiana's statwide I-Light network and Internet2's nationwide network. He is responsible for the strategic design and planning of the university’s enterprise network, which includes over 120,000 users and 100,000 data connections across eight campuses. He founded InCNTRE in 2011 to focus on supporting network research related to software-defined networking by building collaborations among university network researchers and engineers and the networking industry.

Dan Savu is a software engineer and networking expert with more than 10 years of experience.
He holds a B.Sc. in computer engineering and a M.Sc. in project management, having a mixed experience as a network instructor, software developer and project manager. Between 2002 and 2008 he was a CCAI (Cisco Certified Academy Instructor) and project manager/developer for various projects including the Romanian Arthroplasty Register. Dan joined CERN as a Marie Curie fellow in 2008 and worked as a researcher for the ATLAS networking team, the largest particle physics detector. Starting 2012 he is part of CERN's Communication Engineering team being involved in the ViSION project, a collaboration with HP Networking to investigate the potential benefit of software defined networking for CERN.

Cameron Camp has been building critical technology infrastructures for more than 20 years, beginning as an assembly language programmer in 1987 and eventually becoming an evangelist for Linux and Open Source technologies with an emphasis on the security sector. Camp is an accredited speaker and frequently contributes instructional technology articles and blog entries.

Jay Leek, CISM, CISSP, CISA is currently the Chief Information Security Officer for Blackstone. Prior to joining Blackstone, Jay established, built and headed up global information risk and security programs for Equifax and Nokia. Over the past 19 years, Jay has also worked as a product manager for information security vendors as well as a consultant to numerous telecommunications companies, government agencies and financial institutions assisting them with business development, strategic planning and architectural design required to meet their information risk and security objectives. He is also a frequent speaker on information security related topics at domestic and international conferences.

As Bluelock’s Chief Technology Officer, Pat is responsible for commercializing and making the company’s “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS) cloud computing model a business reality. With more than 15 years of experience as an information technology professional, he defines Bluelock’s services, spearheads its strategic vendor alliances and oversees the solution strategy.
After starting his career in network management and systems integration and then transitioning into managed IT services, data center outsourcing and disaster recovery, Pat is uniquely qualified to develop and continue to grow Bluelock’s innovative Virtual Datacenter services.
He is currently serving on the advisory council for the School of Information Technology at Harrison College as well as the CIO council for NPower Indiana. He is also the co-founder and former president of the local Association of Internet Professionals, a former board member of the technology peer group for TechPoint, Indiana’s only statewide information technology association and has served on the board of Directors for both the Zionsville Boys and Girls Club and NPower Indiana.

Joe Andrews joined VMware in January 2007 and is responsible for product marketing for the Service Provider segment at VMware, bringing more than 19 years of experience in technology marketing, sales and IT business operations. Previously at VMware, he served as a manager focused on developing and bringing to market SMB solutions, packaging and pricing, customer research, partner enablement and outbound demand generation programs.

Prior to joining the company, Andrews worked at Intuit, where he served in small business product management, channel marketing and IT business operational roles. He has also held various field marketing and sales roles at iMarket Inc., a software division of Dun and Bradstreet. Andrews holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Brandeis University.

Born and raised in Italy, Dante is the co-founder and CEO of Embrane, where he leads and inspires the team to turn the company’s vision into execution, drives the values and the culture that define the company, and sometimes stocks the break-room. His professional life before that is pretty simple: a little over 10 years at Cisco. He was part of one of the most successful teams at Cisco, building the Catalyst 6500 family of switches. He later became part of the founding team of Andiamo, a spin-off that Cisco created to enter and disrupt the storage networking market. More recently, he led the worldwide marketing campaign for Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 strategy. While at Cisco he wore several hats: engineer, product manager, marketing manager and sales manager. He even spent three years in Europe, evangelizing Cisco’s Data Center story to the market. When he is not thinking about how to power the agile network, Dante enjoys traveling, scuba diving, and cooking homemade pizza from scratch.

Steve Riley is Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Riverbed Technology. He specializes in enterprise cloud computing architecture and information security. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, concentrating on performance and security, both on-premise and in cloud. He is co-author of Protect Your Windows Network, contributed a chapter to Auditing Cloud Computing, has published numerous articles, and conducted technical reviews of several data networking and telecommunications books. Before Steve joined Riverbed, he was the cloud security strategist at Amazon Web Services and a security consultant and advisor at Microsoft. Steve is a global moderator of Kubuntu Forums, a support community for Ubuntu’s KDE-based distribution. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. Contact him at steve.riley@riverbed.com; check out his occasional writings at http://blog.riverbed.com

Faraz Aladin is Director of Enterprise Backbone Marketing.. He has more than 20 years of industry experience with the last 15 at Cisco. He has worked in multiple business units at Cisco that deal with switching as an integral part of the overall solution offering. He is a CCIE and holds an engineering degree in digital electronics from Bombay University.

Pepe (Joseph) Garcia is currently a Group Product Manager at VMware. He has more than 20 years of experience in the networking industry. Pepe has held various positions in hardware and software development, network architecture and deployment, and product line management at various companies in Silicon Valley. His experience includes companies like NASA, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and more recently Nicira. He hold an electrical engineering degree from Stanford University.

Roberto De La Mora marketing responsibilities include the solutions related to Voice and Video Communications, VoIP Infrastructure, IP Endpoints, Cloud Collaboration and Desktop Virtualization.

In this capacity Mr. De La Mora provides guidance and strategic direction for WW field marketing teams and business units, and supports the sales organization by defining the value proposition of the solutions under his charter, as well as the competitive and market positioning for them. His team develops the programs and initiatives required to successfully execute on the strategy, ensure the alignment of the channels, sales, technical operations and support teams, serves as a liaison between Cisco’s Business Units and customers and sales teams.

Frequently Mr. De La Mora participates in industry events and user forums as a speaker on business value of technologies such as Unified Communications, Collaboration, Conferencing, Desktop Virtualization, Video, Mobility and Cloud. He also interacts frequently with key customers as one of Cisco’s business technology experts.

Mr. De La Mora is an experienced international executive with a 22-year career distinguished by achievements in sales growth, channel management, business and market development, marketing and product management, with a track record of rapid promotion and delivery of measurable results. He worked for companies such as Siemens, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, and he joined Cisco at the end of 2003 as the responsible for Unified Communications for Latin America.

Mr. De La Mora holds an MBA from the Instituto Mexico-Aleman de Capacitacion Industrial y Comercial in Mexico City, Mexico, with post-graduate diplomas in Production & Materials Management, Sales Management and Industrial Finance and Accounting. He graduated with honors as a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the UNIVA, in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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.

Gene Schmidt is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for SMB Solutions, focused on channel sales enablement for Citrix VDI-in-a-Box. Schmidt is an accomplished marketing professional with 20+ years of experience helping software, services and SaaS channel sales teams to be successful in selling to Small and Mid-sized Businesses (SMB), as well as enterprises. Schmidt has worked mainly in the SaaS and mobility markets for the last 10 years, as a co-founder of eConvergent (SaaS Call Centers) and as the Director of Marketing for Intellisync and Nokia (mobile device management and mobile messaging platforms). Schmidt continues to progress his passion for creating compelling sales materials and tools that exceed the channels’ expectations.

Chad Jones is an expert in virtualization, infrastructure and cloud technologies with over 17 years’ experience driving strategic product initiatives for the G2000 Enterprise. Prior to DynamicOps, he served as Vice President, Product Management for Neocleus, an innovator of type-1 client hypervisors, which was acquired by Intel. Before Neocleus, Chad was one of the creators of SoftGrid from application virtualization pioneer Softricity, which was acquired by Microsoft. As part of Microsoft, Mr. Jones oversaw the App-V product as part of the MDOP group which has sold over 37 million licenses to date. In a bit of historical irony, Chad was Chief Architect for an Application Service Provider named FutureLink where he designed global cloud services before cloud was known as cloud.

Scott Hammond comes to Cisco Systems from the acquisition of newScale in 2011, where he held the position of President and CEO. newScale was the leading provider of self-service, service catalog, and lifecycle management software for enterprise IT and private / hybrid cloud computing. Prior to newScale, Hammond was the founder, President and CEO of Digital Market, Inc. (DMI), the leading provider of Web-based sourcing and procurement solutions for direct materials. In 1999, DMI merged with Agile Software. Hammond then became a corporate officer and VP of e-Services and e-Procurement at Agile Software.

Hammond also pioneered yet another successful start-up, EcoSystems Software, as a co-founder. In 1993, EcoSystems was acquired by Compuware Corporation. His prior experience also includes industry leaders such as Xerox, Hewlett Packard, and Oracle Corporation. Hammond holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

Mr. Roberts has two decades of experience in networking, computer engineering and strategic product development. Prior to his current strategy and evangelism role at ServiceMesh, Mr. Roberts was Vice President of Strategy and Marketing at Vyatta, a leader in the software-defined networking market. Prior to Vyatta, Mr. Roberts was the co-founder, CTO, and Vice-President of Strategy at Inkra Networks, focused on virtualized, software-defined networking for data centers.

Prior to Inkra, Mr. Roberts was Vice-President of Product Management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Additionally, he forged key strategic alliances and OEM relationships. Mr. Roberts has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, ZeitNet, and AMD, where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and WiFi product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. He began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in numerous networking and software technologies, Mr. Roberts holds twelve patents, and is the author of three books. Mr. Roberts holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Former GM Cloud Products at Citrix, former CEO Reflectent Software, former VP Sales & Marketing at Avid Technology and WebLine Communications (Cisco)

Wayne Rash is a Senior Columnist with eWEEK, and formerly Editor-in-Chief for FierceMobileIT. He is a frequent contributor on topics related to IT for Forbes, TechWeb and CSO, and is a former Executive Editor of eWEEK, former Senior Analyst for InfoWorld and former Editor of InternetWeek and CommunicationsWeek. He was a long-time columnist for Byte Magazine. He is also a frequent guest on NPR’s Tech Tuesday.

For more than 20 years, Egan’s provocative insights, analysis and actionable predictions have served as early warning indicators – calls to action – for Enterprise CxO’s, Product Vendors, Mobile Operators and Device Makers. Bob’s is focusing on enterprise deployment and business benefit strategies, competitive insights and product architecture.

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 is the founding Chairman of SourceMedia’s Mobile Banking and Emerging Applications Summit, the WiMax Congress and Gartner’s Enterprise Mobility Conference.

Bob’s experience includes his company leadership roles including:
Founder and Chief Analyst at the Sepharim Group, 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 Nightly News, CNBC, the BBC TV and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.

Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. Founded in 1991, the company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a wide variety of topics. He is a well-known and often-quoted industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, as well as Webcasts, Webinars, and podcasts. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the INTEROP conferences (Las Vegas and New York) and is the Chair of the Wireless and Mobility track. He serves as a monthly columnist for InformationWeek.com and the Enterprise Mobility Foundation (theemf.org), and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University.

Tim Scannell is the Editorial Director of TechnologyGuide, a family of product review and evaluation Web sites that provide a range of consumer and business information for influencers and buyers of technology products.

Scannell has been an editor and writer for more than 30 years. He founded and operated Shoreline Research, a market research company; a Quincy, MA; was co-founder of a consulting and channel marketing and training company based in Scotland; and was a member of the core start-up team of Softbank Corp.'s U.S. division, assisting with the launch and contributing to the Japanese editions of PC Week Japan, LAN Times Japan, MacUser Japan, and PC Magazine Japan.

Sean Coffey received the BE degree in Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland, and the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. He was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, specializing in information theory and digital communications, and in 2000 he joined Alantro Communications, a wireless networking startup based in Santa Rosa, California.

At Alantro, and subsequently at Texas Instruments after its acquisition of Alantro, he played a key role in the development of IEEE 802.11g, and later led TI’s standardization and early-stage development program for IEEE 802.11n. In 2005, he joined Realtek Semiconductor Corp., where he has worked on ultra-wideband systems and on IEEE 802.11ac. He is currently Director of Business Development and Standards at Realtek.

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.

Mark is a 20-year veteran and trailblazer in the voice over wireless network industry, first at SpectraLink and currently Polycom. At SpectraLink, Mark was instrumental in defining the market for the on-premises, business use of mobile telephony. He also pioneered the ability to carry real-time Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) networks. He is lead-, or co-inventor, on several SpectraLink and Polycom patents enabling VoWi-Fi.

Mark has also been a major contributor to VoWi-Fi standards development and acceptance for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA). In IEEE 802.11, Mark is currently Chair of the Architecture Standing Committee. He has served as Vice-Chair of the WFA Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) Admission Control task group and Chair of the WMM Refresh task group. He is currently Vice-Chair of the WFA Voice-Enterprise Market Segment group. Mark has also worked in networking and communications at DEC, Burroughs, InterActive Systems and Netwise, and has taught at Boston University. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

Perry Correll is a Senior Technologist as well as the Director of Product Marketing at Xirrus. His extensive networking background extends from original Ethernet Thicknet technology, through the switching revolution and now is involved in pushing advancements in Wi-Fi technology to displace wired solutions. Previous roles included technologist and management roles at Cabletron, Xylan and Alcatel.

Adam Powers is a leading innovator and evangelist in the field of network flow analysis and anomaly detection. During his ten year tenure at Lancope Inc as Chief Technology Officer, Powers' contributions helped lead Lancope's flow-based StealthWatch System to wide-spread success in over 600 large enterprises around the globe. In addition to his role as CTO, Powers has over 8 years experience in enterprise network security operations and design, much of which was spent managing high uptime, large-scale data centers for Inflow Inc, now Sungard. His early years were spent overseeing Banyan Vines systems in the United States Marine Corps where he was twice meritoriously promoted achieving the rank of Sergeant in just three years. Adam currently resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is Chief Security Officer for Plixer International, makers of the Scrutinizer NetFlow Analysis Technology.

David Duncan is director, software and security solutions for Imation. He was founder of ENCRYPTX, which was acquired by Imation in 2011. Among other projects, ENCRYPTX developed DRM and ERM solutions for controlling content and access.

Previously, he consulted with InterTrust Technologies, a leader in the DRM field. He was a cryptologist for NSA designing and building trusted computer systems for highly classified programs. As a computer security architect he worked on the ASAS battlefield and command and control system (Army), ENSCE Intelligence system (Air Force) and US Continuity of Government Emergency Operations Mobilization System. He is the author of Bayesian Decision Support System for Computer Security Threats.

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.

Dimitri Sirota is an accomplished entrepreneur and a pioneer in the security field. Prior to co-founding Layer 7 Technologies, Dimitri co-created the award-winning Virtual Private Network provider eTunnels Inc. Dimitri spearheaded its early marketing and business development activities, establishing eTunnels as a leader in secure connectivity for the extended enterprise. He has also worked in senior product marketing and channel development roles at AT&T and Telus. Dimitri holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from McGill University and a Master of Science in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia.

Neil Cohen has more than has 30 years of experience creating, building and managing brands for start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, including SEGA, Hilton, Arby’s and McDonalds.
Prior to Visage, Neil has been the principal of Cohen & Company, a San Francisco- based brand and marketing strategy firm that has done work for Yahoo!, Blue Shield, Friendster, San Francisco State University, SFO, Audience, Alibaba and more than 100 startups.
Neil has held Vice President positions at SEGA, Hilton, Arby’s and Zircon Corporation and was a founding partner of Gelman & Gray Communications (purchased by Chiat Day) Douglas Consulting Group (purchased by Cohn & Wolf).

Neil currently teaches Marketing at SF State University and previously taught at the University Of Southern California School Of University College of Business Journalism. He has been a guest speaker at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University Of Chicago Graduate School Of Business. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Florida, Gainesville and a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Purnima Padmanabhan is a nationally acclaimed thought leader in the fields of mobile strategy, desktop management, and virtualization. She has extensive experience developing and marketing innovative products and services based on a well-researched and intuitive understanding of industry and market dynamics. As the Chief Operating Officer at MokaFive, Purnima is responsible for overall strategy—including the company's product vision, developing its go-to-market plans, product management, product marketing, and user experience. Before MokaFive, Purnima served as the Director of Product Management for BMC's Service Automation business, where she drove business strategy, M&A, and product definition. Prior to BMC, Purnima held various marketing roles at Marimba, a software-distribution vendor, and Loudcloud, a managed-services provider. At McKinsey & Company, she advised Apple on its go-to-market strategy, which resulted in the company's decision to open Apple stores across the country. Purnima holds a Masters' degree in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, as well as a Masters' degree in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California.

Michael J. Miller is senior vice president for technology strategy at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment firm, and writes the Forward Thinking blog at pcmag.com. From 1991 to 2005, Miller was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine, responsible for the editorial direction, quality and presentation of the world's largest computer publication. Until late 2006, Miller was the Chief Content Officer for Ziff Davis Media, responsible for overseeing the editorial positions of Ziff Davis's magazines, websites, and events. As Editorial Director for Ziff Davis Publishing, Miller took an active role in helping to identify new editorial needs in the marketplace and in shaping the editorial positioning of every Ziff Davis title.

Mirril McMullen is director, IT Solutions Architecture, Pfizer Inc. He drives the Production Services for Voice, Data, External Connectivity, Mobility, Video, Wireless and Conference Services for Pfizer clients.

• Responsible for Service Roadmaps, Strategies and Standards.
• Managing Architecture Staff
• Create and Manage Global Infrastructure Business Cases
• Lead Teams for Global Implementations of Enabling Services

Tom Sivo started at the Interpublic Group in January 2005 as the Director of Global Infrastructure. He was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in May 2006 and manages the global infrastructure teams that provide five key services: Messaging, Network, Hosting, Centralized Service Desk, and Mobility/Desktop Ops. He oversees the delivery of these services as well as the development of standards across Interpublic to build an efficient IT architecture. His organization supports the enterprise to serve Interpublic’s external clients with competitive technology. Tom leads the effort to optimize IT infrastructure to deliver cost savings, improve the use of assets, provide greater service delivery, and make IT less complex to manage.

Prior to Interpublic, Mr. Sivo began his IT career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and worked for several application and infrastructure services organizations within AT&T over a19 year period. His success includes a major re-engineering of AT&T’s financial systems which enabled the enterprise to retire and replace approximately 150 systems with a robust environment enabling significant efficiencies in AT&T’s financial business process. He was responsible for all environmental aspects of ensuring that AT&T’s financial applications were available to the business, performing to specification, and ensuring continuity of the business in case of a disaster.

He received a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute.
Mr. Sivo was born, raised, and still living in New Jersey, is married to Cathy and is a proud father of his son, Matthew. He enjoys playing soccer and tennis, and reading during his commute to and from New York City.

IT efforts at Seton Hill are headed by Phil Komarny, Vice President of Information Technology and CIO for the University. Phil has served as the institutional catalyst for initiatives that have positioned Seton Hill as a leader in strengthening learning through the use of mobile technology. In addition to providing daily support of the University’s entire technology infrastructure, he develops new software and website applications, and manages institutional use of Facebook, Twitter, blogs and podcasts. In 2011, Phil was selected by the Pittsburgh Technology Council in the non-profit category as a finalist for the CIO of the Year.

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.

Jeffrey Schwartz is executive editor of 1105 Media's Redmond magazine, an editor-at-large for Redmond Channel Partner magazine, and author of a blog covering enterprise cloud computing called The Schwartz Cloud Report. Earlier in his tenure with the Enterprise Computing Group of 1105 Media, he held senior editorial postions with Application Development Trends, Visual Studio Magazine and Redmond Developer News. He has covered all aspects of enterprise IT for more than two decades and has spent much of that time writing about mobile computing technology. Before joining 1105 Media’s Enterprise Computing group, he held several senior editorial roles with such publications as VARBusiness (now part of CRN), InternetWeek and CommunicationsWeek.

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.

David joined AirTight Networks as Chairman and CEO in 2004 and led the company through three successful rounds of funding with top tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Under his management, AirTight became the global leader in wireless security and compliance solutions with over 1,000 major enterprise customers globally and top ranking in all four of Gartner's wireless security market assessments (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010). He has driven AirTight's efforts to forge close strategic technology and go-to-market partnerships with a significant number of leading security and networking companies, including HP, Juniper, McAfee, Verizon, Qualys, Rapid7, Enterasys, Meru, Trapeze and Aerohive. Prior to AirTight, David was the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Proxim, the pioneering leader in wireless local area networking. David joined Proxim in December 1992 as Vice President of Marketing, became President and CEO in July 1993 and took the company public on NASDAQ in December 1993, making Proxim the world's first publicly traded WLAN company. He grew Proxim from $4 million to over $100 million in annual revenues. Before Proxim, David was Vice President of Marketing and Customer Services at Vitalink Communications, a pioneer in wide area data networking, and served in various executive capacities from 1990 to 1992. From 1985 to 1990, he was a senior manager in McKinsey's San Francisco office, where he played a leadership role in the firm's high technology and health care practices. David holds an A.B. in Economics, as well as J.D. and M.B.A. degrees, all from Harvard University.

Mr. Jain joined SpiderCloud in September 2011. Prior to SpiderCloud, Mr. Jain was vice president of marketing, sales and service for Airvana's CDMA femtocell business and his tenure at Airvana spanned ten years, including the company’s inception. At Airvana, Mr. Jain held several leadership roles in marketing, business development and sales for 3G EVDO macro cellular products and femtocells. Prior to Airvana, Mr. Jain held both technical and business positions at Qualcomm, Ericsson, and McKinsey & Company. He holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, an MS in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Irvine, and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

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.

Since becoming CEO of Wave Systems in 2000, Mr. Sprague has played an integral role in driving the industry transition to embed stronger, hardware-based security into the PC. During his time as CEO he has guided Wave to a position of market leadership in enterprise management of self-encrypting hard drives and Trusted Platform Module security chips. A popular speaker and IT security thought leader, Mr. Sprague speaks at dozens of conferences andevents each year—educating global audiences about the latest PC hardware security advancements and industry standards (both on behalf of Wave, and in his leadership role with the Trusted Computing Group). His expertise lies in leveraging advancements in hardware security for strong authentication, data protection, advanced password management, enterprise-wide trust management services, and more. Mr. Sprague earned a BS from Cornell University.

Jack Walsh is the Mobile Security & Special Projects Program Manager at ICSA Labs. He is responsible for mobile, machine-to-machine, smart grid, and malware analysis initiatives. In 13+ years at the Labs, Jack has had many roles including firewall lab technical lead, network IPS program manager, and anti-spam program manager. Prior to ICSA Labs, Jack tested commercial products at the National Security Agency and co-authored the first US Government Firewall Protection Profile. Jack earned a B.S. in ElectricalEngineering at Penn State and a M.S. in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins.

David Lowe is the Vice President of Enterprise Sales for Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile). In his current role, David is responsible for growth and management of an enterprise sales strategy and a team focused on selling Samsung mobility solutions to Fortune 1000 accounts.

Previously, David has held channel sales and business development positions at Research in Motion (RIM), Iperia and Nuance Communications. At RIM, David directed all North American channel sales and strategy for BlackBerry's Business Solutions team, which encompasses BlackBerry's suite of enterprise products for Fixed Mobile Convergence, Collaboration and Messaging.

Overall, David has more than 25 years of global industry experience and success. Based in Rochester, New York, David holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Saint Bonaventure University in St. Bonaventure, NY.

Jon is responsible for Symantec’s mobile security and management products and services. In this role, he focuses on both the enterprise and service provider routes to market, building solutions for on-premise, cloud and carrier deployments. Prior to this role, Jon served as Director of Core Security at Symantec, responsible for Symantec’s security suites as well as the mail and Web security product lines.

Milind has over fifteen years of high tech and networking industry experience. Currently, he is responsible for product management and product marketing of the wireless LAN portfolio at Fluke Networks. The portfolio includes AirMagnet Enterprise, a scalable WLAN security and performance monitoring solution. He has a Masters in Engineering and a MBA.

For 20+ years, Joel Brand has defined and built infrastructure solutions that enable service providers to introduce network-based value added services to their customers. As ConteXtream’s vice president of marketing, Brand is responsible for evangelizing software-defined networking and its importance to the future of cloud and service provider network architecture. Prior to ConteXtream, Brand was vice president of product management at Bytemobile, where he led the company to dominate the video optimization market, delivering solutions to 130 wireless operators in over 60 countries and serving nearly two billion subscribers. Previously, as director of product management at Ruckus Wireless he was responsible for strategic vision of the company in the carrier space that led to leadership position in the Wi-Fi offload market. Brand has B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Engineering from the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion). He received his MBA from National University in San Jose.

Bill Rubino is a currently responsible for product and solution marketing for Wireless LAN Access Points, in addition to driving various Enterprise Mobility Launch and Thought Leadership activities. Bill has been working in the networking industry for over 20 years and has held a number of different positions for a variety of networking companies. Prior to Cisco, Bill was a Principal Industry Analyst for The Connected Analysis Group where he focused on emerging wireless technologies. Bill also worked at Motorola where he was Senior Product Manager responsible for Motorola’s Outdoor Wireless Broadband Product Portfolio. Bill has previously worked in a variety of positions at Nortel Networks, Sycamore Networks, Bay Networks, Wellfleet Communications, and Proteon. Bill is also the co-author of two patents associated with switching and routing. A lifelong Red Sox fan, Bill resides in Orlando, FL with his wife and young son.

Fanny Mlinarsky is President of octoScope, a wireless solutions and services company. Her background includes hands-on product development and R&D management. Prior to octoScope Fanny was Founder and CTO of Azimuth Systems, a wireless test equipment vendor. Fanny has been an active contributor to the wireless standards being developed at 802.11 and 3GPP. She has published over 22 articles, 19 white papers and 6 test reports on wireless technologies and standards. She has delivered numerous presentations at industry forms and has developed highly rated online wireless technology courses.

As Director of Business Development at Ruckus Wireless, Steven has worldwide responsibility for the advancement of the Company’s carrier business in the mobile infrastructure and wireless broadband access markets. Steven’s subject matter expertise in wireless reflects more than15 years of experience in telecom networking and senior managementroles with a variety of public and privately-held companies. Most recently,Steven was the vice president of product management and marketing at Zhone Technologies, responsible for Zhone’s last-mile aggregation solutions. Prior to Zhone, Steven was the vice president of marketing for ArrayComm, where he helped the company capitalize on the emerging HSPA and WiMAX markets. Steven has also held senior management positions at LGC Wireless, Lucent Technologies, software startup Banter, Inc., Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and Honeybee Robotics. Steven holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Columbia University, a BS in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering from George Washington University, and a BA in Physics from Carleton College. Steven has a passion for expert photography.