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John Humphreys brings more than a decade of technology experience to his role as VP, Marketing and has global responsibility for brand awareness, lead generation, sales enablement, product marketing, and channel development.

John Humphreys is Vice President of Marketing at Egenera, where he heads a department that is responsible for brand awareness, lead generation, sales enablement, partnerships, product and channel marketing. Prior to joining Egenera, Humphreys was senior director, Data Center and Cloud Marketing at Citrix Systems. There he drove efforts around virtualization and cloud and had responsibility for developing marketing strategy, defining packaging and pricing, leading program execution, driving customer engagements and pre-sales activity, and acting as a primary spokesperson. Prior to Citrix, Humphreys was founded and was vice president of the virtualization practice at IDC, a global information technology research firm.

Humphreys began his career as an exploration and production geologist after earning a Bachelor of Arts at Miami University (Ohio) and a Master of Science Degree at the University of Wyoming.

Prashanth Shenoy is a Borderless Networks solutions senior marketing manager at Cisco, leading Cisco's Enterprise Routing and WAN optimization solutions marketing. Previously he was responsible for marketing strategies and initiatives for key IOS technologies for enterprises and Service Provides, including technologies such as MPLS, IPv6, QoS, and multicast. Prashanth joined Cisco in 2000 as part of the core engineering team that designed and developed the routing and forwarding engines for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series of switches. Prashanth Shenoy holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from Texas A&M University and a MBA from University of California, Berkeley.

Nik Rouda is Riverbed's director for solutions and verticals, helping customers accelerate applications, improve disaster recovery, and succesfully adopt public and private cloud computing. He has over 15 years marketing and technical sales industry experience with leading enterprise network, storage and security vendors. Nik has a BS in Geophysics from Brown and an MBA from Cambridge.

Nahmias has over 15 years of experience in networking, security, desktop and server virtualization in engineering, product management and deployment roles for market leaders such as Check Point Software Technologies, Nice Systems, Microsoft and Net Optics.

Dr. Michael Rothschild has more than 19 years of experience in marketing and product management for technology based organizations with specific focus in networking, and security compliance. At Dell, he is responsible for setting strategy for networking solutions which deliver business critical, high-value converged applications for enterprises. Prior to Dell, Rothschild held senior management positions and has an established track record in networking and security. Rothschild is a Professor of Marketing in New York City and has published several works on marketing strategies. He holds advanced degrees in marketing and information systems and is the Captain of his town’s EMS.

Richard Reiffer is VP Cloud Practice for Zenith Infotech, Ltd. Rich started early working with mainframe systems for Burroughs Corporation and continued his career into the early days of the PC. Rich found himself involved with Steve Jobs on the roll out of the NeXT Computer and later worked on the roll out of the NetFRAME computer system which was later acquired by Micron. Rich was fundamental in the formation of LANDA (Local Area Network Dealers Association) with the Ray Noorda (Novell) and as an organization they grew from nine original members to over 1400 at its peak. Prior to joining Zenith, Rich was the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at Trivalent. Under Rich’s leadership the Trivalent Group placed among the top 100 in the MSP Mentor’s listing of Managed Services Providers in addition to obtaining the MSP Alliance Seal of MSP Ethical Conduct. Rich himself has gained status as a Certified Managed Service Professional (CMSP), a universally recognized accreditation from the MSPAlliance.

Suresh Sathyamurthy is the Group Product Manager for Windows Azure Platform in the US Marketing & Operations Group at Microsoft. Suresh and his team are responsible for the business management and marketing of Windows Azure Platform in United States. Suresh led Microsoft’s Identity & Security Business in US for over three years before taking over the Windows Azure Platform Business last year. His team is accountable for managing the business in US, developing the partner ecosystem, enabling direct and indirect sales teams and marketing to end-customers & partners. Prior to Microsoft he worked in three technology Start-ups and was the co-founder for two of them. Suresh has an Bachelors in Electronics and Tele-communication Engineering from Bharathiar University (India) and an MBA from the University of Washington (USA).

Abe Pachikara is U.S. Cloud Computing Developer and ISV Adoption Lead at Microsoft. He helps developers and decision makers understand how cloud can make a material impact on scenarios important to them, such as: apps running in iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices; social apps and games; Web, HPC and line of business apps. Abe orchestrates field programs and engages with folks in technical and business roles at start-ups, enterprises, public sector and academic, to get them up to speed, “kicking the tires” and ecstatic about how the enterprise-grade cloud computing solution offered by Microsoft ("Windows Azure Platform") can address their business problems.

Bradley Wilson is a senior level professional with 20 years of progressive experience in global sales, business development and service delivery within the ICT market. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario, he brings his experience leading teams and business units for Jacobs Rimell (Amdocs), Alcatel-Lucent, Aprisma Management Technologies (Cabletron) and TTS Meridian Systems (Nortel) to the Huawei Technologies Enterprise Group.

Troy Petersen has been working in technology marketing and product management for more than 15 years, first as a journalist and later as a communications, product and marketing professional. His experience includes working for news media, hardware and software companies, and international tech companies/brands such as Roxio and Logitech. As director of consumer marketing for Safari Books Online, Troy is responsible for identifying and growing new market opportunities, creating brand awareness and demand for Safari Books Online and for ensuring a great customer experience.

Tom Buoniello serves as AppRiver's Senior Vice President of Product Management, a position that puts him on the leading edge of the company's efforts to bring new products to market and to find new customers for its current suite of security services. He brings to the position more than two decades of experience in information technology with a strong focus on security.

Prior to joining AppRiver, Buoniello was a Senior Solution Architect for the Global Strategic Alliances Team at Internet security giant AVG. There, he built and nurtured partner relationships worldwide, introducing them to the company's products and services. Before moving to AVG, Buoniello led the email services product management team for MessageLabs, which was later acquired by Symantec.

Buoniello brings to AppRiver a solid track record in uncovering partnership opportunities that complement internally developed technology, increase revenue, market share, and establish a competitive advantage in the email and messaging security marketplace.

Bruce Miller is Vice President, Product Marketing for Xirrus. He has over 20 years of experience bringing LAN and WAN technologies to market in both marketing and engineering roles. At Xirrus, he leads the product marketing and training functions. Prior to Xirrus, he held product management and engineering roles at companies including Ixia, Lucent Technologies, Cabletron, and NetVantage. Bruce holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Toby Owen is a Senior Manager for Hybrid Cloud Solutions at Rackspace Hosting. Toby has been working in the IT industry for over 14 years. He has held technical and manager roles in operations and support, as well as technical consulting for small and large businesses. Prior to joining Rackspace he led the Web Services team for Wells Fargo, with responsibility for internet banking infrastructure and support. He holds a bachelors of science in Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and an MBA from the University of Texas.

Hart Hoover is a Linux Administrator at Rackspace Hosting. Hoover started his career as a Racker in 2007 as a Linux Systems Administrator, providing technical support for managed servers. In 2009 he joined the Rackspace Managed Cloud Servers team where he helped design the support model for the future of cloud hosting. He specializes in RHEL, CentOS and Ubuntu server environments.

Scott Nocent is a Systems Engineer specializing in Virtualization and Disaster Recovery software for NetIQ corporation. He has experience in creating, teaching, supporting and implementing Disaster Recovery and Virtualization solutions for corporations across the globe. Scott holds a B.E.Sc in Software Engineering from The University of Western Ontario specializing in distributed systems design and implementation.

Paul Chan has been with Storageflex Inc since 1995 and is a home grown success story. Initially Storageflex's Financial Strategic Account Manager, Paul Chan rose through the ranks to become Vice President of worldwide Sales by 1997. He went onto champion other roles including Director of Marketing, Vice President of Engineering as well as CFO. Since 2002, Paul Chan became the President and CEO. Paul is responsible for guiding Storageflex to capture new revenue streams for the company with new products, government contracts and by entering new strategic overseas markets to deliver Archive, Acceleration, Backup, Compliance, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery and Encryption Technologies

Bill Lowry is Vice President, Cloud Services at Terremark, where he leads strategic sales engagement and evangelism for the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, working with large enterprises to help apply the power of the cloud to their IT strategies. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lowry was Vice President of Sales for Revere Security. Mr. Lowry has more than 20 years of experience integrating security, storage, network and data center technologies into solutions for utilities, telecommunications providers and Fortune 500 enterprises, with strategic roles at companies including EMC, 3Com, Brocade, and Data Return. He earned a B.A. In Advertising from Texas Tech University and resides in Dallas with his wife and children.

Michael is Converga’s Solutions Director for its Digital Mail, Records, Contract, and Case Management service offerings. His role is to lead both Sales Consulting and Project Delivery for these solutions, ensuring continuity across the presales and professional services teams. Michael also has extensive experience delivering solutions for Converga in the Accounts Payable and Purchase to Pay domains.

Michael’s expertise is concentrated in the subject matter areas of finance/accounting, legal, procurement/contracting and shared services. He is a domain expert whose focus is the improvement of clients’ shared service operations, most notably in the areas of business process, SOX compliance and ERP system management.

Over the past 20 years, Michael has developed extensive expertise around business applications and financial controls, with a focus on back office or shared services functions. These include human resources and payroll; contracting and procurement; accounts payable and receivable; and logistics and support services. Michael’s experience in these areas includes line management, management consulting and the delivery of technology solutions at large organizations, including Federal, State and County Government.

Michael holds a BA in Economics and History from Duke University and an MBA with an emphasis in Operations Management from Washington University. He is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and Six Sigma professional.

As Regional Manager, Technical Project Management, at mindSHIFT Technologies, Marc Cohen is responsible for the implementation process for all of the network services solutions provided to mindSHIFT clients. Marc’s role includes directing the project management team responsible for implementing the client solution to meet specifications, managing resources for implementation and delivering the final product on time and on budget.

Before joining mindSHIFT in 2006, Mr. Cohen served as Manager, LAN Services at Random House Publishing, where he was responsible for all Microsoft-related applications and infrastructure.

Mr. Cohen is a graduate of Dowling College and holds a MBA in Information Systems Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.