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James serves Infrastructure & Operations professionals providing insights and best-practice use of emerging infrastructure technology and services trends including cloud computing (IaaS and public and private clouds), strategic rightsourcing, infrastructure consolidation, and application-specific infrastructure optimizations. Staten is the author of best-practice analysis on maturing your virtualization practices, building a cloud computing consumption strategy, and optimizing Web site infrastructures for blazing fast performance. He also advises clients on IT's role in business empowerment and HERO enablement.

Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world's first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy's open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud.

Ravi Rajagopal is a seasoned technology executive with 20 years of experience in the areas of sales, delivery, operations, and financial management. He has led and managed worldwide organizations that deliver innovative and practical technical business solutions

As Vice President & Client Partner, Flagship Accounts, Ravi manages multiple Accounts – large global corporations and governments, and advises CIOs on both on strategy and implementation of IT including Cloud.

Ravi is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University. He is currently teaching a graduate course on Cloud Computing that provides the fundamental knowledge related to the principles, economics, technology & management of cloud computing.

Ravi joined CA in 2006, and prior to CA, Ravi held several senior management positions at AT&T. During his 17 years of progressive leadership tenure at AT&T he led multiple business organizations including the worldwide network consulting and professional services organization that provided vision, defined strategy & developed technology driven solutions to address the business needs for corporations and governments around the globe. He sold & delivered hundreds of millions in services engagements. He built enduring C level client relationships, and received numerous awards including outstanding sales achievement, gold standing ovation, and has been elected to the AT&T leaders’ council.

Ravi is active with multiple charitable organizations. He is co-founder of an international organization involved in helping underprivileged and physically and mentally challenged children in India.

Ravi holds multiple degrees including a masters’ degree in computer science from Queens College of City University of New York, a master’s degree in theoretical physics from University of Mysore, India, and has completed extensive graduate work in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, New York.

Guy is Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Anaplan, Inc. Anaplan is a next-generation cloud-based modeling platform designed to enable high-performance analytics, planning, forecasting, and reporting in a single environment. The Anaplan Platform’s pioneering use of cloud technology enables – for the first time – businesses to connect their data, people, and processes in the same user interface to work faster, smarter, together.
Guy has 20 years experience in the Business Analytics Sector. He was the founder (1990), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Enterprise Performance Planning leader Adaytum. After expanding from market leader in the UK to Europe, the US and Asia Pacific, Adaytum was sold to Cognos in 2003.

As Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Bruce Richardson is responsible for helping Infor define corporate initiatives that champion the specific needs of the mid-market.
With more than 30 years of experience in the software industry, Richardson possesses key insights and perspectives on the enterprise software market, especially around customer needs and requirements, which he will use to help Infor continue to differentiate itself as a software provider that consistently listens to its customers.
"As a student of the market for the last 30 years, I understand the dynamics of the business software marketplace—the forces that are driving the industry and shifting the balance of power in favor of customers," said Richardson. "Infor gets it. Their leadership is changing how business software providers engage with customers. It's amazing what Infor has been able to accomplish in seven years— a large and loyal customer base, a global footprint, an exciting lineup of products, a great management team, and a bright future with enormous growth opportunities."
Richardson comes to Infor from AMR Research, where he served as Chief Research Officer, overseeing all aspects of analysis at the company, including opinions and reporting of key trends and strategies in areas such as ERP, supply chain management, cloud computing, service-oriented architectures, software-as-a-service, software appliances, virtualization and visualization. Richardson has covered and analyzed the enterprise software market for decades and made many early market predictions that have since proven accurate, such as the rise of the advanced planning market and the evolution of manufacturing resource planning (MRP) to enterprise resource planning (ERP).
He will continue to share his insights and opinions at blogs.infor.com/inside/ in his "The View from Inside" weekly blog.

David is the Founder and CEO of Yammer, Inc. He has been involved in the internet space for ten years as an entrepreneur, executive and investor, starting with PayPal in 1999. David was PayPal's Chief Operating Officer and product leader, taking the company from startup to IPO and eventual sale to eBay for $1.5 billion. Subsequently, he founded Geni.com, which is creating a family tree of the whole world, enabling millions of family members to connect, share, and preserve their lives. He also produced and financed the movie "Thank You For Smoking". He has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Matthew is the co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, Inc. He holds a degree in English and Computer Science from Trinity College. He graduated with highest honors from the Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar and was awarded the Dubliner Prize for Entrepreneurship. He earned a JD from the University of Chicago and is a member of the Illinois Bar. He teaches technology law as an adjunct professor at the John Marshall Law School where he serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law. He is also the co-founder of Project Honey Pot.

Since 1996, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce. He is currently considered one of the leading thinkers in SaaS and sits on the Software Executive Board at the SIIA.
Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting, IP networking, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution.Mr. Ryan joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. Prior to co-founding SiteSmith, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Professional Services for GlobalCenter, a pioneer in the hosting and Internet services marketplace. Mr. Ryan has been a guest speaker at numerous industry events, including CIO, venture capital, Internet, hosting, and software conferences. He attended UCLA and is an advisor to the UCLA CLAS fund.

Clarence Hinton currently serves as Vice President of Corporate Development for BMC Software where he is responsible for developing and prioritizing strategic initiatives that serve to drive continued profitable growth for the company. In this role, he is also responsible for the assessment and execution of all mergers and acquisitions.

Previously, he held operational, strategic and financial roles at Dell, to include venture investing experience at Dell Ventures where he led investments in enterprise software, supply chain services and network infrastructure companies. While at Dell, he also led cross-functional teams in the development of aggressive growth strategies, to include the launch of Dell’s printer product category.

Prior to joining Dell, he was a consultant at Bain & Company and a business manager at Capital One where he held profit and loss responsibility for an emerging business unit within the company.

Clarence received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Engineering with honors from the University of Pennsylvania.

Pari Natarajan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Zinnov, a leading globalization advisory firm. Based in Bangalore, India, Pari has successfully assisted Fortune 1000 companies and reputed SMB product organizations on global innovation and expanding their business footprint in fast growing emerging markets.
Pari’s thought leadership and domain knowledge on enterprise/SMB and consumer needs in the emerging markets has enabled multiple companies to launch their cloud/SaaS products in India, China and other emerging markets.

Prior to co-founding Zinnov, Pari held management positions at Praja and Centric Software. He holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Iowa State University.

As the founder, President and CEO, Ajit is responsible for building the Aryaka vision and guiding the company’s strategy. He has more than 25 years of experience in management, sales, support and professional services. Prior to Aryaka, Ajit founded AAyuja Inc., a Strategic Technology Sales Acceleration company, serving as its CEO. Ajit achieved notable success for the creation of a world-class Internet company, Speedera Networks, in 1999. Under his leadership, Speedera became one of the fastest growing private companies in Silicon Valley and in the North American technology industry in five short years, as ranked by both Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2004, he successfully launched Speedera India in Bangalore to drive the company’s accelerated global expansion. Speedera was acquired in 2005 by Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) for a stock transaction worth more than $500 million. Ajit has also held various positions at Oracle, Sybase and Resonate.
Ajit holds 12 patents for technology that brings together content delivery and global traffic management. He is well-known among his industry peers, and has been a speaker at a number of key conferences around the world, including the Red Herring and TiEcon conferences, Kagan Digital Media Summits, Datacenter Ventures events, Streaming Media conferences, and other popular trade shows and exhibitions. He is a founding board member of the IIT-Roorkee Heritage Fund.
Ajit holds a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

James co-founded Lookout (formerly Flexilis) in 2007, along with John Hering and Kevin Mahaffey. As Chief Information Officer, James is responsible for all technical operations including global infrastructure, IT and security. Prior to Lookout, James was a co-founder of Daily Wireless, an online news and information source covering all aspects of the wireless marketplace for business (acquired by Focus Research, Inc.). James holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Anant Jhingran is an IBM Fellow, VP and CTO for IBM's Information Management Division. He is deeply involved in the IBM's middleware in the cloud (including co-chairmanship of IBM's Cloud Computing Architecture Board), and for the technical strategy of products and solutions in databases, content management, business intelligence and information integration. Prior to this job, Dr. Jhingran lead the IBM team designing and building solutions to meet the requirements of business analytics on structured and unstructured data. He has also been the director of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center and before that, senior manager for e-Commerce and data management at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from UC at Berkeley in 1990. Anant has received several patents and awards for DB2, and is also a member of IBM Academy of Technology.

Sadagopan Singam is Global Vice President – Cloud Computing for HCL Technologies. He has led international teams and initiatives throughout the US, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa. Sadagopan’s blog, focus is on business, enterprise software, IT services & web presence.

Mr. Manesh Patel is Sanmina-SCI’s Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. In his current role, Mr. Patel is responsible for the global Information Technology (IT) team that supports all aspects of Sanmina-SCI’s operations.
Mr. Patel joined Sanmina-SCI in July 1997 and progressed through a number of senior IT management positions until the Company’s merger with SCI in 2001. During this period, Sanmina-SCI experienced revenue growth from $600 million to over $4 billion which provided Mr. Patel opportunities and challenges across all aspects of IT solutions, management and organization. He was instrumental in providing leadership in the development and implementation of the IT strategy that enabled international expansion, customer-focused services, and the successful integration of over 10 mergers and acquisitions.

In September 2006, Mr. Patel assumed the position of Chief Information Officer and has continued the globalization of the IT organization in conjunction with Sanmina-SCI’s multi-billion dollar operations worldwide. Prior to joining Sanmina-SCI, Mr. Patel was with the European operations of Ford Motor Company and moved to Silicon Valley in 1989 to lead the IT organizations of two start-up companies over
a period of eight years.

Mr. Patel holds a Bachelor of Science degree
in Aeronautical Engineering from Manchester University in England, and completed his Computer Science Masters coursework at San Jose State University in California

Robin is a software entrepreneur and investor. He invests in a broad range of software sectors including cloud computing SaaS applications, open source, virtualization, and security.

Prior to joining Mayfield in 1999, Robin was a founder and/or key member of several successful software startups including CATS Software, Infinity Financial Technology, acquired by SunGard (SDS) and Risk Management Solutions.

Robin earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A.S. dual degree in industrial engineering and economics from Stanford University.

Robin has been recognized as the Top Open Source investor by Infoworld magazine and is a frequent speaker at technology and venture industry events.

Asheem joined Greylock from Check Point Software, where he was vice-president of business development and product management. During his 6+ year tenure, Check Point grew from $10M to $500M+ in annual revenues. Asheem founded the business development and product management organizations, led corporate marketing during high growth years and directed Check Point's product/business strategy, product management and industry partnerships. Asheem is also credited with creating, growing and leading Check Point's OPSEC Alliance into the largest and most successful security partner program in the IT industry. Prior to Check Point, Asheem was vice-president of marketing with CoroNet Systems (a venture-backed startup acquired by Compuware), where he helped create and define a new product category for application-aware network monitoring. Previously, Asheem held strategic marketing and product line positions with SynOptics/Bay Networks and AT&T Bell Laboratories. During his 3+ year tenure at SynOptics/Bay, the company grew from $175M to $900M+ in annual revenues. At AT&T Bell Labs, Asheem represented AT&T at IETF standards committees for TCP/IP management protocols.

Born and raised in India, Asheem holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

Promod has 20 years of experience in the venture capital industry and currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He joined Norwest Venture Partners in 1990. He was ranked as a top investor on the annual Forbes Midas List for nine years, and in 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade. In 2006, Promod was presented with a Global Leadership award from NASSCOM.
Promod focuses on investments in semiconductor and components, systems, software and services. He was an early investor and a board member of Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Cast Iron Systems (acquired by IBM), Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola) and Extreme Networks (Nasdaq: EXTR).

Bruce has responsibility for the growth and management of CloudTP’s Private Cloud Business. In this role, he has responsibility for the strategy, delivery, and partnerships involved with creating compelling solutions for our customers in building enterprise private clouds.

Prior to CloudTP, Bruce was Vice President, Portfolio & Innovation for Siemens where he had responsibility for both internal and external innovation activities. This encompassed customer innovation activities, service delivery strategy, enterprise architecture, technical R&D, engineering and the management of SIS’ service roadmaps. As part of his role, he worked extensively in developing the next generation services for Siemens in the areas of Cloud Computing, Virtualization, and End User Workplace Services. He brings deep industry experience in deploying technical and business solutions to corporate enterprises.

Throughout his career, Bruce has held various senior management positions in Portfolio, Outsourcing and Professional Services Management, General and Sales Management with Siemens, Exodus Communications, ENTEX Information Services, and others.

Bruce graduated from Bucknell University in 1986.

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

Pete Lindstrom has 20+ years of experience in finance and information technology with the US Marine Corps, Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), GMAC Mortgage, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Burton Group, Hurwitz Group, and Spire Security, his current firm. As a security professional, he has been an IT Auditor (external and internal), Security Operations Director, and Industry Analyst. His research focuses on applying old concepts of security and risk to new technologies and architectures. Pete is a frequent speaker and writer and is the Chief Operating Officer for the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).

Mario joined the Secure Information Services group at Terremark Worldwide, Inc. in January 2006. He manages the Analytics team within the group, which develops leading-edge security analysis techniques, in support of threat intelligence, incident response, and managed security services. He also manages various security-related projects across the company, and consults with Terremark clients on topics of security, technology, and risk management. Formerly, Mr. Santana founded an identity management technology company, and worked in IT for over 20 years.

Joe drives the company's overall busines direction, strategy and execution, reporting to the Board of Directors. He is an expert at creating high-growth, venture-backed businesses in emerging technology markets and helped build over $3b in market valuation as an executive for industry leaders.

Bringing 24 years of software experience to Agiliance, Joe was CEO at Workshare (security) for nearly 5 years, growing new sales by 400% and customers from 3,500 to 11,000 including 62% of the F1000, establishing a household name in content security. Previous to Workshare, Joe was CEO at Liquid Engines (financial management), now a division of Thomson Reuters (TRI), creating a strategic cash and tax planning solution for global enterprises, Prior, Joe was co-founder and CEO at NetDialog (SaaS CRM), and sold it to Kana (KANA) for $100m in 1999. Prior to Kana, he was General Manager at Autodesk (ADSK) Discreet (3D graphics), growing that business unit market share from 20% to 65% over 3 years. Joe was also Worldwide Marketing VP at Macromedia (ADBE) from inception, to private-private merger, through its public offering, and International Sales and Marketing Director at Interleaf (BVSN), then Inc's 7th fastest growing company in America.

Joe received a MS in Computer Engineering from Tufts University in Boston, MA and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.

Larry Clinton is President and CEO of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA). ISA’s mission is to integrate advanced technology with the business needs of the owners and operators of the Internet and to create enlightened public policy that leads to a sustainable and secure Internet. ISA represents major corporations from the Aviation, Banking, Communications, Defense, Insurance, Manufacturing, Technology and Security industries.

ISA has articulated its pro-market approach to cybersecurity through the two editions of its “Cybersecurity Social Contract.” ISA Social Contract was quoted first in the Obama Administration’s Cyberspace Policy Review. In addition, ISA has taken on projects to address cyber security from an enterprise-wide, risk management perspective. The two most recent publications on this topic are “The Financial Management of Cyber Risk,” and “50 Questions Every CFO should be asking about Cyber Security.”

Mr. Clinton is known as one of the most reliable sources on cyber security. He has been featured on CBS News, Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN, and CNBC. He is regularly called upon to testify before both the U.S. House and Senate. Prior to his work with ISA, he was the Vice President of the US Telephone Association (now the US Telecom Association) prior to joining ISA in 2002.

Subra Kumaraswamy has more than 18 years of engineering and management experience in information security, Internet, and e-commerce technologies. In his current leadership role at Sun, he is responsible for securing Sun infrastructure services for employees and customers. Subra has held leadership positions at various Internet-based companies, including Netscape, WhoWhere, Lycos, and Knowledge Networks. He was the cofounder of two Internet-based startups, CoolSync and Zingdata. He also worked at Accenture and the University of Notre Dame in security consulting and software engineering roles. In his spare time, Subra researches emerging technologies including cloud computing, social networks to understand the security and privacy implications for users and enterprises. Subra is one of the authors of Cloud Security and Privacy, which addresses issues that affect any organization preparing to use cloud computing as an option. He's a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance as well as cochair of the Identity & Access Management and Encryption & Key Management workgroups. Subra has a master's degree in computer engineering and is CISSP certified.

Val Rahmani, CEO of Damballa, has over 25 years of customer-driven business and technical leadership. Val became the CEO of Damballa in November 2009. Prior to that, she served as General Manager of IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division after leading IBM's $1.3 billion acquisition of the company.

Prior to ISS, Val held several general management roles within IBM, including multi-billion dollar hardware, software and services businesses. Her IBM experience includes UNIX, mainframe, storage, green IT, business continuity and security. She led teams focused on government, telecommunications, wireless and media markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She also ran a strategy unit, where she focused on emerging markets, global alliances and services business models. Val was born in the United Kingdom and first came to the United States as Executive Assistant to Lou Gerstner, soon after he became Chairman and CEO of IBM.

Val is an accomplished speaker, keynoting security industry events such the RSA conference. Val holds an MA and a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry from Oxford University in England, and is a member of the British aerobatics team. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Roger Bodamer EVP, Products and Engineering Roger heads the West Coast Operations for 10gen, the company that develops and supports the open source database MongoDB. He has over 20 years of experience of building and delivering g

Juan Paul is Vice President of Engineering at Shopzilla, having successfully lead or played a substantial role in the delivery of virtually every software application in the company, including the large scale affiliate program, and initial launch of the company’s latest products, beso and TaDa.

Earlier in his career, Juan Paul was the quintessential face of the DevOps role. Highlighting the need for software configuration management in the mid-90′s, blossoming internet economy allowed Juan Paul to bring Experian‘s credit reporting software quality into a modern age, create the successful initial public launch of the leading commercial real estate site in the country, Loopnet.com, and allow for Gateway to reposition it’s internet presence for PC sales. Juan Paul’s sites, and he speaks of them with great pride and ownership, account for millions of active visitors per day with nary a technical commonality except for a penchant for automation and unworldly quality standards.

Juan Paul holds a degree in Management Information Systems and Corporate Law and Public Policy from Syracuse University.

Alex Honor is the founder of various open source automation projects. Has been involved in the development and management of large scale online systems for over 15 years, including critical roles at E*TRADE, NASA Ames Research, Open Design, and DTO Solutions. He is a frequent speaker at regional user group meetings on issues of system scalability and deployment automation.

Andrew Shafer is a lead engineer and infrastructure consultant at Cloudscaling where he helps organizations leverage and create next generation cloud computing resources and platforms. Since 2004, he has been a regular participant in the Salt Lake City Agile Roundtable and a team member or manager in an Agile setting. Andrew brings with him a background in computational science, embedded Linux, database administration, web frameworks, and operations. In addition to technical expertise, Andrew is focused on finding ways to balance prescriptive processes with the uniqueness of projects and teams.

James Urquhart manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems. Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by the MIT Technology Review, and author of the popular cloud computing blog, The Wisdom of Clouds (http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds), Mr. Urquhart brings a deep understanding of these disruptive technologies and the business opportunities they afford. James has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Mathematics from Macalester College.

Teyo has worked as a Unix systems administrator at startups, medium sized businesses and large corporations. Over the course of his 12 year career, he has been focused on automated configuration management as a means to provide robust and scalable computing environments. Teyo has traveled all over the world training sysadmins and developers on how to build automated infrastructures using the Puppet framework.

John Keagy is CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid, a Global Leader in Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure hosting. Keagy is an Internet infrastructure pioneer, having built and sold several successful Internet service providers since 1991. At ServePath, now known as GoGrid, , Keagy drove the early growth of the dedicated server hosting market by introducing multiple firsts, including multiprocessor servers and hosted load balanced server networks. John Keagy's entrepreneurial skills and strategic vision have led ServePath and now GoGrid's rapid growth. The company was named to Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 in recognition of its growth (#11 in Silicon Valley and #77 in North America) in previous years.

With over 15 years of hosting experience under his belt, John broke new ground with his vision of Cloud Computing, long before the term was even coined. As a result, GoGrid was revealed in 2008 winning many accolades including Best of Show at LinuxWorld 2008. In 2006, Keagy saw the impending shift to the cloud as ServePath's second growth opportunity. Keagy's vision became a two year development effort resulting in GoGrid, the hosting service launched in March of 2008 that enables customers to deploy, scale and manage load balanced virtual and physical servers and appliances in the cloud in just minutes through a web-based control panel or REST-like API.

In 1994, John founded the West Coast's largest, profitable, dial-up Internet Service Provider which was the first to deliver local internet access in over 30 cities. John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley where he earned the Kennedy Award in Business Administration. He is also an alumnus of the Stanford Business School Executive Program.

John lives with his wife, two children and dog in San Francisco and is an avid instrument-rated multi-engine pilot.

Jeremy Edberg is currently the Operations Manager for reddit.com, an Alexa top 300 web site, whose entire operations are run on EC2. For the 10 years before reddit, he had worked as a Systems Administrator, Programmer, and Security Engineer for such companies as eBay, PayPal, and Sendmail and UC Berkeley. He graduated with a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley.

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.

Shaun McAravey is Chief Technology Officer and founder of NVoicePay. McAravey has more than 20 years helping organizations make appropriate technology choices by carefully evaluating emerging technologies, and selecting technologies that provide significant technical benefits with lower adoption risks. McAravey is also President and CTO of SoftSource Consulting. SoftSource is a 25-person, high-performing engineering shop developing and delivering next generation technology products for clients including Corillian, Intel, Nike and WebMD. Prior to that, McAravey was Chief Technology Officer of STEP Technology. Shaun is a frequent speaker at technical conferences. He has presented at the Microsoft Global Executive Roundtable, Microsoft Global Summit, Microsoft Technical Briefings, SD West and other national developer conferences.

Joe brings over 20 years of industry experience in the software and systems management industry. Prior to joining Coradiant, Joe was the VP of Technology at Symphoniq, focusing on architecture. Before Symphoniq, Joe helped lead Oracle’s Enterprise Manager Group efforts into providing end-user monitoring. Joe was a cofounder of Envive, which provided performance management solutions for SAP’s R/3 and later Web applications. Envive was later acquired by Keynote Systems. At Keynote, Joe had responsibility for three product lines for load testing and monitoring of web applications. Joe also held research and development roles at IBM and Xerox. Joe graduated from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and earned his master’s degree from Stanford University in Computer Science with a focus in artificial intelligence.

Imad Mouline has served as Chief Technology Officer since January 2006. From 2001 to October 2005, he was Chief Technology Officer of S1 Corporation, a provider of software for the automation of financial transaction processing. He was Director of Engineering of Interleaf, Inc., a provider of software tools for e-content management, from 1993 until its acquisition by Broadvision, Inc. in 2000, after which he served as Director of Engineering for the Office of the Chief Technology Officer for BroadVision, Inc., a provider of self-service applications, until 2001. Mr. Mouline holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jason's primary responsibilities include software architecture and development, benchmarking and client interaction. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from BYU. Prior to CloudHarmony, Jason's experience includes an Extreme Blue intership with IBM (details here and here), designing a user interface for Solera Networks, open source work, and more. Jason is a commercial instrument rated helicoptor pilot. During offtime, Jason enjoys spending time with family, skiing and other outdoor activities.

Al Sargent is Sr. Product Marketing Manager, vFabric Cloud Application Platform, VMware. In this role he works closely with VMware’s engineering teams towards the continued delivery of Hyperic and other products. Prior to joining VMware, Al held product and engineering roles with Wily Technology (now part of CA), Mercury Interactive (now part of HP), Oracle, as well as leading venture-funded cloud computing and SaaS startups. Al holds a Bachelor of Science, Symbolic Systems, from Stanford University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

James Watters is currently the Sr. Manager of Cloud Solutions Development at VMware where he is responsible for developing partner run public cloud computing solutions. He is active in the SF Bay Area technology community and organizes the SF Cloud Club. Prior to VMware James held positions in sales, corporate strategy, product management and engineering at Sun Microsystems and Level 3 Communications. Over his career James has focused on strategic issues around scaled data-center infrastructure, open source and virtualization software.

Lew Tucker is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco, where he is responsible for helping to shape the future of cloud and enterprise software strategies.
Tucker has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence to software development and systems architecture. Prior to joining Cisco, he was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering and the development of Sun Cloud. Other accomplishments in his career include Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine.
Tucker’s interest in distributed systems stems from his tenure at Thinking Machines, an early leader in supercomputing technology, where large-scale problems could only be addressed by using thousands of individual processors. Today, as the Internet evolves, companies are following a similar trajectory and building out large-scale cloud computing platforms. Transformation of systems into scalable platforms remains a long-term interest.
Tucker holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Cornell University, a master’s degree in computer science with a specialization in artificial intelligence from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and a doctorate in computer science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

Christopher Brown joins Opscode from Microsoft, where he was a Director of Engineering for the Edge Computing Network within Global Foundation Services. Prior to Microsoft, Christopher was a Founding Member, Architect, and Lead Developer for Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2"). He holds several patents in the areas of Internet routing, VM/runtime hosting, content delivery and cloud computing.

As CTO of BML, David Linthicum focuses on emerging technology spaces and the industry's move toward cloud computing. Linthicum is a widely recognized technology thought leader who has appeared in InfoWorld, Intelligent Enterprise, and eBizq.net, covering SOA and enterprise computing topics. He is a regular columnist in Government Computer News, Cloud Computing Journal, SOA Journal and Align Journal, and is the editor of Virtualization Journal. In addition to daily communications, Linthicum is the author of 13 books on computing.

John Treadway is the Global Director of Cloud Computing Solutions at Unisys. In this role, John is responsible for cloud services and solutions business lines, and leads the Unisys Cloud Strategy Council. Prior to joining Unisys in 2009, John was an entrepreneur and consultant on enterprise technology marketing and strategy. John has been both a user of cloud computing in his companies, and a consultant on cloud computing. John blogs at http://cloudbzz.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/cloudbzz.

In his role as director of IT Services for the City of Asheville, NC, Jonathan Feldman fosters innovation, including incorporating cloud services, while making sure that parachutes are ready and packed. Asheville is a rapidly growing city; it was recently named Fodor’s top travel destination and has been recognized nationally and internationally (including the receiving International Economic Development Council New Media Award) for improving services to citizens and reducing expenses through IT innovation.

Jonathan’s 20 years’ experience with government, military, law enforcement, financial services and healthcare technology informs his work with IT innovation. He’s written, taught and consulted extensively on security, human resource management and IT soft skills, notably as co-author of “Maximum Security” and author of “Teach Yourself Network Troubleshooting.” As a consultant and award-winning Network Computing and InformationWeek contributing editor, he has worked with dozens of public- and private-sector organizations, helping them calculate the real business benefits, risks and appropriate governance of new technologies and surrounding practices and policy.

Jonathan is a frequent speaker at venues including Interop and PC Expo. He has been active in the IT community with groups such as Infragard and GMIS International, and holds an MS degree from Georgia Tech.

Scott is currently a solutions architect at MassMutual Financial Group focusing primarily on infrastructure architecture, but is also involved in developing cloud computing strategy. He has 17 years of IT experience having worked in a wide variety of roles including unix, windows, and security architecture/engineering. Prior to joining MassMutual Scott spent the bulk of his career at Medtronic, the world's largest medical device manufacturer. Most of Scott's career has been spent in larger global enterprises however he has also spent time designing and managing infrastructure environments at academic institutions including Wabash College and the University of Minnesota. Scott has been a proponent of open source solutions since he first used Linux in 1994.

Francesco is an entrepreneur who brings more than 20 years of experience in e-commerce, software development and professional services. He has a proven track record of success building and launching venture-backed businesses from founding through IPO or acquisition in rapidly growing industry sectors.

Francesco has held leadership positions at WINS Global Services (a leading provider of business process outsourcing services), Cambridge Technology Partners, Scient, JPMorgan Chase, Trinity Partners, WNS Global Services and IronRidge. He received his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Patrick McFadin is the Director of Systems and Architecture at Hobsons Inc. Hobsons delivers a powerful suite of education-oriented Software as a Service (SaaS)-based applications to K–12 schools and colleges, which include Web-based course and career planning, recruiting, enrollment, and retention tools; services supplied to education organizations around the world. Patrick’s role is to research and develop new technology for use in a highly agile environment with a particular emphasis in DevOps. He has over 20 years of experience ranging from open source development to enterprise infrastructure management.

Patrick has a BS in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and can be found at various meetups, conferences and always on Twitter @PatrickMcFadin.

Mark is the Vice President of Community at Cloud.com, makers of open source cloud computing software. He is responsible for driving all of the community efforts around the company's open source, cloud computing software and ecosystem. Before that he was the force behind the Zenoss Core open source management projects adoption and community involvement, growing community membership to over 100,000 members. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration." (Thomson, 2006) Mark has also held executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including Earthlink, (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.

James Urquhart manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems. Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by the MIT Technology Review, and author of the popular cloud computing blog, The Wisdom of Clouds (http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds), Mr. Urquhart brings a deep understanding of these disruptive technologies and the business opportunities they afford. James has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Mathematics from Macalester College.

Bret Piatt leads the Technical Alliances team for Rackspace Hosting. In this role he is responsible for helping cloud companies build solutions that integrate the Rackspace Cloud. He is also actively involved in the cloud computing community helping open source projects such as OpenStack gain awareness and adoption.

Panelist - Martin Buhr, Vice President, Sales and Business Development, Nimbula

Martin is an accomplished Sales and Business Development executive who brings a solid track record to Nimbula. Most recently, Martin spent four and a half years with Amazon Web Services (AWS) where he first led business development and sales for Amazon EC2, and then served as Business Director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Before joining Amazon, Martin served business development and strategy functions in the Windows Networking and Connected Devices group at Microsoft. Prior to that, Martin was Vice President of Business Development for Neomar, a startup backed by Research in Motion and subsequently sold to Good Technologies / Motorola. Martin has also held sales and business development roles at IDT and Ericsson Wireless Systems. He holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Adrian Cockcroft is an architect at Netflix leading the Cloud Systems group. He authored Sun Performance and Tuning, Resource Management and Capacity Planning for Web Services while being a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He was also a founding member of eBay Research Labs, where he contributed to the Skype Java API and built mobile application prototypes.

Duncan Johnston-Watt is a serial entrepreneur and industry visionary with over twenty years experience in the software industry. Immediately prior to founding Cloudsoft Duncan was CTO at Enigmatec Corporation, the enterprise data center automation company he founded in 2001.
A Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate for his pioneering work introducing Java Enterprise to financial services, Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University and a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Leeds University.

Tim is responsible for Xtium's technology direction and execution. His 19+ years of hands-on expertise in architecting, engineering, securing and managing technology solutions has focused on networking, storage, virtualization and information security. Tim is one of Xtium's original founders responsible for building strong relationships with its eco-system partners VMWare, EqualLogic, Microsoft, Dell and Citrix. His practical approach to IT management is drawn from years of working with many leading companies, including GMAC Mortgage, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Bank of America, Fiserv, Alpo Pet Foods, Compensation Risk Managers, ECRI and the Midlands Companies. Earlier, Tim held several leadership positions with large and mid-sized companies, including AirClic, Zeneca, Bell Atlantic and CGI Systems. Tim holds extensive technical and information security certifications.

Founder and & VP of Products at CloudSwitch, Ellen Rubin is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market for fast-growing companies. Prior to founding CloudSwitch, Ellen was Vice President of Marketing at Netezza (NYSE: NZ), the pioneer and global leader in data warehouse appliances that power business intelligence and analytics at over 200 enterprises worldwide. As a member of the early management team at Netezza, Ellen helped grow the company to over $125 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Ellen defined and created broad market acceptance of a new category, "data warehouse appliances," and led market strategy, product marketing, complementary technology relationships and marketing communications.

Prior to Netezza, Ellen founded Manna, an Israeli and Boston-based developer of real-time personalization software. Ellen played a key role in raising over $18 million in venture financing from leading US and Israeli venture capital firms, recruiting the US-based management team and defining product and market strategy. Ellen began her career as a marketing strategy consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Harvard College.

My main focus is research and analysis on various high impact topics in the fields of Open Source, Cloud Computing and the interface between them. I also evangelize Open Source and Cloud Computing in various media outlets, blogs and other public forums. I offer strategic advise to both Cloud Computing and Open Source providers and, also, help other companies take advantage of Open Source and Cloud Computing. In my opinion, Open Source commoditized software and Cloud Computing commoditized computing resources. A combination of these two developments offers a strong competitive advantage to companies of all sizes and shapes. Due to various factors, including fear, the adoption of both Open Source and Cloud Computing are relatively slow in the business sector. So, I take it upon myself to clear any confusion in this regard and educate, enrich and advise users/customers to take advantage of the benefits offered by these technologies. I am also a managing partner in two consulting companies based in India and was a Lead Analyst at Diversity Limited, New Zealand Till August 2010. I blog about Open Source topics at Open@Krishworld and Cloud Computing related topics at Cloud Ave.

I have joined with a group of researchers to try and understand the big picture emerging through the convergence of open source, cloud computing, social computing and semantic web. We call this Computing Convergence. We expect this convergence to fundamentally shift the human lives to a higher plane. While evolutionary biology takes care of adjusting the human nature to this paradigm shift, we will soon be offering our knowledge and services to businesses to foresee the shift and elevate themselves to stay competent in the new age marketplace. As a member of this research incubator, I use my expertise on open source and cloud computing with the knowledge gained through the expertise of my fellow researchers to understand the big picture and share it with others in an open way.

I also have academic interests on various aspects of technology, science and society. On the technology side, I am interested in open source, cloud computing, social and semantic web technologies. My interests in science range from condensed matter and statistical physics to self organized systems to neuroscience to evolution. Having a career away from science keeps me only at the periphery of these fields. My other academic interests include Social Empowerment, Indian and American politics, Perils of religious fundamentalism, Atheism and the Impact of Science on the Society.

Ditlev has over a decade’s experience in the web hosting industry, a reputation for astuteness and incredible market insight. He has led the development of many acclaimed web hosting brands. As CEO of OnApp, Ditlev's commercial and technical leadership saw the company expand from its July 2010 launch to 50+ clients and 40+ people in just 12 weeks.

Ditlev moved into the rapidly-growing Internet sector in the mid-1990s, after a number of roles working for the European Parliament. He quickly developed a reputation as an entrepreneur and a specialist in start-up and turnaround scenarios. He has led UK2Group’s hosting companies as MD and CEO since February 2006, and played a key role in the group’s transformation into the major player in the hosting industry it is today. Ditlev is a Danish national and an incurable technophile. He lives in the UK but travels frequently to see clients and speak at events across the globe.

Carlos Viniegra is Head of the Digital Government Unit at the Ministry of Public Administration (Mexico) and teaches Economics at the Law School of Universidad Panamericana. Previously, he was Director General of Information and Energy Studies at the Ministry of Energy and is the former CIO at both the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. Mr. Viniegra holds a BA in economics from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and an MBA from
IPADE. He also holds diplomas in enterprise technology from ITESM as well as parliamentary theory and practice from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana. He can be reached at cviniegra@funcionpublica.gob.mx.

Jeroen Tjepkema is the co-founder and CEO of MeasureWorks, providing web performance management solutions. MeasureWorks measures, analyzes and improves the quality of experience of retail, financials, travel agencies and other online services. For all, their online services are perceived as mission critical to reach their business goals. By observing their visitors closely, we find out how user experience impacts conversion. And then enable our customers to manage their online presence proactively.

Prior to MeasureWorks, Jeroen worked as a principal analist and program manager for several European enterprise companies, from the roll-out of cable internet and digital television in the late '90s to the development and implementation of one of the largest online banking solutions in Europe. For more info check LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/nl/jeroentjepkema

Pano is involved in a variety of cloud organizations, including the Canadian chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance. Currently working with CA Technologies, he has held a variety of positions with carriers and technology providers including Bell Canada, Merck, and UUNET/Worldcom/MCI. Pano taught e-commerce at McGill's Desautels faculty of Management and writes extensively about cloud adoption, business, governance, and economics at http://thecaseforcloud.blogspot.com/. You can find him on LinkedIn (http://ca.linkedin.com/in/panoxinos) and on Twitter (@pmxinos).