Business Technology Conference

Alex Henthorn-Iwane joined Packet Design in September 2004 and brings 19 years of systems engineering, product management and marketing experience in network infrastructure, management and security technologies and products. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at CoSine Communications, a maker of virtualized edge routing and security infrastructure equipment for the Service Provider market. Previously, Henthorn-Iwane was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises (acquired by Lucent); and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

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.

Raj Kanaya brings a long track record of general management and market development success to Infineta Systems. As CEO, Raj is responsible for the overall vision, direction, and revenue attainment for the company. Previously, Raj was VP of product strategy and alliances for the Application Networking Group at Citrix Systems. He joined Citrix though its acquisition of NetScaler where he served as VP of product management for a product line that went from sub-$2 million to $60+ million in revenues over three years. Raj was a GM of a BU at Lucent and led business development at Nexsi Systems. Earlier in his career, he was a Bain & Co. consultant where he advised large companies in technology and LBO funds on turnarounds, new market entries, and acquisitions/divestitures. Raj has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and earned his B.S. in computer science magna cum laude from UCSD.

Ted serves Content & Collaboration professionals. With 23 years of experience in the technology industry, Ted advises clients in a wide variety of industries on the effect of technology on the workforce and workforce productivity. His research focuses on workforce technologies, including instant messaging and Web conferencing, smart mobile devices that increase collaboration and team productivity, telepresence and videoconferencing, cloud email and collaboration tools, and the consumerization of IT.

Rich brings more than 20 years of experience leading and contributing to technology-based companies. He is responsible for leading Akorri's engineering and R&D teams. Before founding Akorri, Rich was the founder and Executive Vice President at Pirus Networks, where he was responsible for the company's overall leadership, technical strategy, and product architecture leading up to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Previously, Rich was Director of Advanced Technology at Nortel. Earlier in his career, Rich held founding and engineering management positions at Aptis, Arris, Chipcom, Data General, and Concord Data Systems. Rich holds an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BSET from Northeastern University. Rich is an active member of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Northeastern and was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 2004.

In his role of Vice President of Product Management, John Stetic works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin's product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell's acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University and Executive Education from Harvard Business School. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: • VMworld • VMworld Europe • Gartner Data Center Conference • BrainShare, Novell's annual user conference

Sal DeSimone is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in EMC’s Ionix IT Management Software Group. EMC, with 2007 revenues of $13.2 billion and more than 26,000 employees worldwide, is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

Shay Mowlem is director of virtualization strategy for the HP Software & Solutions organization. In this role, Mowlem is responsible for virtualization product strategy and leads the messaging and go-to-market activities related to virtualization solutions across HP Software & Solutions. Mowlem joined HP by way of the Opsware acquisition, where he was responsible for solutions and strategic marketing.

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.

In his current role at cisco, John is responsible for identifying system requirements for enterprise and service provider data centers and driving consistent development of features across the portfolio of products that are produced by Cisco for these markets. John’s areas of expertise include , cloud computing, data center design, low latency architectures, high availability, diagnostics and testing methodologies. Prior to joining Cisco in 1997, was general manager of business units at VBand Systems and various consultancies whose practices focused on the financial services community.

Bowman Hall joined IBM in 1996 after IBM's acquisition of Tivoli Systems, Inc. Bowman has had multiple technical and management roles within the IBM Software Group in technical support, education, consulting services and technical sales, based at various times in the US, UK and Spain. Since 2009, Bowman has been responsible for Cloud Computing Client Engagements with the IBM Software Group, where he leads early adopter customer projects and cloud software implementations. Prior to joining IBM, Bowman was responsible for managing distributed systems at Carnival Cruise Lines. Bowman attended the University of Texas at Austin where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics.

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

Ken Oestreich is VP Marketing for Egenera. With over 20 years in enterprise software and data center automation, he’s now helping define the market for converged infrastructure and unified computing. Prior to Egenera he led Product Marketing at Cassatt Corp., where he developed the market for utility computing and internal cloud computing. Previously, Ken was with Sun Microsystems, driving business management for an incubator business unit, coordinating Java and software strategy, and driving Developer Marketing. He began at Sun developing the market for CORBA middleware and web services. Ken also helped found the Liberty Alliance, an industry-wide body defining federated identity standards for the internet. Prior to Sun, he held marketing and sales development positions in early-stage technology and consulting companies. Ken began his career in Electrical Engineering, controlling adaptive optics with Litton Industries. He holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia University.

Khalid's research primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Security & Risk professional. He is a leading expert in information security program governance; security services; strategy; and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) initiatives. Khalid's research focuses on building and maintaining effective security programs and making information security leaders more successful in their role. Khalid covers security service providers offering managed as well as pure consulting services. He also covers security governance and risk management topics such as security metrics, budgets, strategy, compliance, awareness, training, and organizational structure. Khalid also advises clients on security standards, industry and government regulations, and IT compliance. Khalid has codeveloped Forrester's information security framework and assessment methodology. Khalid has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as Boston Globe, CSO Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Khalid is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences.

Patrick Sweeney has over 20 years experience in high tech product management, product marketing, corporate marketing and sales development. Mr. Sweeney is SonicWALL’s Vice President, Product Management, where he oversees its Network Security, Content Security, Business Continuity and Policy & Management product lines. Previous positions include Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Minerva Networks, Senior Manager of Product Marketing & Solutions Marketing for Silicon Graphics Inc, Director of Worldwide Sales & Marketing for Articulate Systems, and Senior Product Line Manager for Apple Computer. Mr. Sweeney holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, CA.

William Brown was appointed chief information officer in September 2008 and oversees the company's deployment of information technology to serve critical business objectives. He has overall responsibility for core systems development, computing services and service provisioning for Iron Mountain customers. Joining Iron Mountain in August 2005, Brown has more than 25 years of management experience in information technology, operations/logistics and electronic commerce. Prior to Iron Mountain, he was a co-founder and executive vice president of PCs Compleat, a PC retailer/distributor acquired by CompUSA. He has also held senior management positions at PC Connection, Send.com, JWP/Businessland and Merisel. Brown holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Bridgewater State College and an MBA from Babson College.

John Antanaitis is the Vice President of Product Marketing for the Video Solutions division at Polycom. He leads a global team responsible for marketing Polycom’s industry leading video solutions including desktop video collaboration, high-definition personal, room and immersive telepresence systems, and infrastructure solutions for video network management and recording, streaming and video content management. Antanaitis joined Polycom in 2002 after spending five years in Marketing and General Management for Stanley Tool Works and Fortune Brands. Prior to that, he spent almost ten years with Motorola, working in various functional disciplines including engineering, operations and marketing. He has a Masters of Management (MBA) with majors in Marketing and Operations Management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

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.

Jim Fairweather serves as vice president of worldwide sales, HP Halo Visual Collaboration Solutions. Fairweather has responsibility for the development and execution of global sales and channel strategy and management of the HP Halo sales team.

Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Eric Chiu is CEO and founder of HyTrust, is the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. He has in-depth knowledge about what’s needed to achieve the same level of operational readiness in virtual as in physical I.T. infrastructures. Previously Eric served in executive roles at Cemaphore, MailFrontier, mySimon, and was a venture capitalist at Brentwood/Redpoint, Pinnacle, and M&A at Robertson, Stephens and Company.

Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird, responsible for the company’s efforts to increase user awareness around the security implications of moving from “P to V to C”. 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. As a systems engineer at UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), she 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.

Michael Rowan is a serial entrepreneur with deep technical knowledge and a strong vision for customer-centric product innovations. Prior to co-founding Viridity Software, he was the creator of the continuous data protection (CDP) technology segment, founding two companies focused on CDP as well as being the author of over a dozen CDP-related patents. Michael was the founder and CTO of Revivio (acquired by Symantec), the developer of the first enterprise class CDP solution for the market. Prior to Revivio, Michael was the founder and CTO of StorageCom (acquired by Vyant Technologies/Mendocino Software), also a CDP product company. Michael was also the founder and CTO of CLAM Associates, a company that developed IBM's open systems high availability product line, including HACMP (clustering), HAGEO (geographic clustering), HA-DR (storage replication), and the Concurrent Logical Volume Manager (CLVM). At CLAM, Michael was the technical visionary and product architect for all new product development. CLAM was eventually acquired by Lakeview Technologies. Michael began his career, after attending and working for Purdue University, at the Free Software Foundation.

Robert Petrocelli founded GreenBytes® in 2007 and serves as chief executive officer. Prior to establishing GreenBytes, Petrocelli founded Heartlab, Inc. in 1994, a medical information technology company that was sold to Agfa in 2005. Petrocelli was awarded a patent on archival technology utilized for the long-term storage of patient data, including cardiology images, demographics and reports. Petrocelli received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 and has made the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America list four times.

Richard Goode is the Senior Director of Sustainability at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role Rich leads the company’s efforts in setting CO2 reduction targets, and creating and implementing sustainability programs across all Alcatel-Lucent. Rich also integrates sustainability issues into the planning, business and decision-making functions of the company, challenging established ways of doing things to build lasting business value. Rich has lectured on climate change and sustainability issues at Harvard University, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Boston University. Rich is the founder of the Boston-area Sustainability Group and is a graduate of Presidio School of Management.

Gopinath KN (Gopi) has more than 12 years of experience in systems, networks and security. He has devoted the previous eight years of his life to understand wireless security issues and build cutting-edge security systems. He has several patents and technical publications to his credit. Gopi is a speaker and an author. He has delivered multi-day training sessions and speaks at popular international conferences. As an author, he contributes regularly to highly influential publications such as Network World, CWNP Blog, InfoSecurity Magazine, IDG Connect and Wireless Security Blog. Gopi has been a member of Bell Labs research, MH, NJ, and is currently Director of Engineering at Airtight Networks.

Prior to co-founding AirMagnet in 2001 (now part of Fluke Networks through a 2009 acquisition), Mr. Kuan served as an advanced technical staff member at Packet Design LLC, since the company’s inception, where networking technology innovations were incubated and focused in the areas of Internet routing and wireless security. Prior to Packet Design, Mr. Kuan was the founding engineer at Precept Software, where he developed IP multicast and IP video streaming technologies. When Precept was later acquired by Cisco Systems, Mr. Kuan led Cisco Video Internet Service Unit (VISU) development team under the Cisco CTO’s Office. His career and experiences were devoted to computer networking especially in TCP/IP during the infancy of the Internet when ARPANET was just formed. Mr. Kuan's additional experience includes engineering design at Empirical Tools and Technologies, systems architecture at The Wollongong Group, and PC mail at the Networking and Communication Systems, Stanford University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Engineering from National Taiwan University and a Master in Computer Science from Stanford University. Mr. Kuan also holds 10 US patents in the field of wireless security and performance management.

Matt Carrier offers more than a decade of experience in mobile communications and technology. He acts as a mobility evangelist on the importance of mobile collaboration, management and security, and application enablement within the enterprise. Matt's vast experience as a technical consultant in the U.S. and Europe has provided him with an in-depth understanding of the worldwide mobile and wireless market. Matt has advised many Fortune 500 companies on best practices and security strategies for mobile implementations. Matt is an experienced speaker and has delivered technical sessions at a variety of industry events including IBM Lotusphere and Sybase Techwave.

As the Group Product Manager for the Mobile Security and Management Group at Symantec, Khoi Nguyen is responsible for setting the strategic direction of major new product releases, helping to define the business strategy, setting the product roadmap, and managing the product management team. Nguyen earned his master’s in business administration from the UCLA Anderson School and MS in computer science from UCLA. During that time, Nguyen researched and designed new Internet protocols for “self-configuring and adaptive” Web Cache servers that were designed to reduce both network bandwidth and user response time on the Web. Nguyen is the co-author of “Adaptive Web Caching” in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems. Prior to Symantec , Nguyen co-founded Silvan Networks, which was funded by Sequoia Capital and developed peer-to-peer networking appliances for Internet Service Providers and Enterprises. Nguyen has also previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Management Consultant in the Internet Strategy Practice. Nguyen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Kevin Donovan, Vice President of Corporate Business Development, joined VASCO in 2000 and has been a key member of VASCO’s team which has become the market leader in global authentication. Kevin has successfully managed global partner and customer relationships with some of the world’s best known organizations. Mr. Donovan has spoken at numerous security and banking summits. Kevin holds a degree from the University of Massachusetts in Marketing and an MBA from the University of Baltimore.

Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University.