2011 Track Chairs

Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO of CyberRiskPartners. CRP offers Cloud Computing providers and data-intensive traditional businesses the visibility, quantification, and risk transfer solutions to manage cyber risk on an ongoing, targeted, and actionable basis. Through the CRP proprietary platform we deliver risk dispersion market options to enable Cloud clients to grow with emerging applications such as cloud computing, API's, SAAS, and social media. CloudRisks is a specialty hedging platform networked with various Cyber Insurance companies that enables Cloud Computing companies to deal with the future of financial, technical, and legal aggregation. www.cloudinsure.com

With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman's experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo Networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award-winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine.

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.

Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies.

Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry's largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O'Reilly Strata.

Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O'Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).

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.

Damon Edwards is the co-founder and president of the DTO Solutions consulting group. DTO Solutions specializes in automated infrastructure and process improvement consulting for large-scale, mission critical IT operations, including Intuit, Dun & Bradsteet, E*Trade, LinkedIn, iControl, SilverSpring Networks, and AT&T. Damon is also a frequent contributor to the dev2ops.org blog, focusing on automation and process issues faced by cloud, software-as-a-service, and e-commerce organizations.

Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5's entire product suite. Her role includes authorship of technical materials and participation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations, among other efforts. MacVittie has extensive programming experience as an application architect, as well as network and systems development and administration expertise. Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning Senior Technology Editor at Network Computing Magazine, where she conducted product research and evaluation focused on integration with application and network architectures, and authored articles on a variety of topics aimed at IT professionals. Her most recent area of focus included SOA-related products and architectures. 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.

Steve Orrin is the Director of Security Solutions at the Intel Corporation and a regular speaker at nationally recognized conferences on Security, Privacy, and Web Services topics. Previously Orrin served as Chief Security Officer of Sarvega, Inc., (acquired by Intel, inc.) a computer and network security startup which deployed the world's first XML appliance in production in 2001. Prior to his work at Sarvega, Orrin was vice president of security and technology at Watchfire, Inc. responsible for the product development of Watchfire's web application security and privacy software product lines. He has also acted as CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software. Steve was also CTO and co-founder of LockStar Inc., a provider of end-to-end security and web services solutions designed to help organizations deploy web-enabled legacy applications for ebusiness. Steve co-founded LockStar after he left SynData Technologies, Inc. where he was CTO and chief architect of its desktop email and file security product. A recognized expert and frequent speaker on enterprise security, he has developed several patent-pending technologies covering user authentication, secure data access and steganography and has one issued patent in steganography. Steve is a member of several leading industry organizations and is published in several scientific and medical journals. Steve holds an honors degree in research biology from Kean University.

Madhavan R. Rangaswami is a Co-Founder of Sand Hill Group LLC., (a consulting and private investment company) and serves as its Partner. Mr. Rangaswami served as a Managing Director of Sand Hill Group LLC since February 1997. He is a Strategic Advisor to several fast-growing software companies. He is a co-founder of Zoho Corp. From March 1995 to March 1996, Mr. Rangaswami served as a Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at the Baan Company NV, an enterprise software company. Previously, he held executive positions at Avalon Software Inc., a software company and Oracle Corporation. He serves as a Director at BDNA Corp., Vysr Inc., and Zoho Corp. He served as a Director of Sand Hill Group LLC since April 1998. He serves as a Member of Advisory Council at Horn Group Inc. He serves as a Advisory Board Member at InformationWeek. Mr. Rangaswami holds an MBA from Kent State University and a Degree in Law and Accounting from the University of Madras.

Shlomo Swidler is a prominent cloud computing developer, trainer, and consultant. He is among the top experts contributing to the Amazon EC2 Developer Forums. His blog is a highly-regarded source of practical techniques for developers, and has served as the inspiration for a number of features in commercial products. Shlomo is also an active participant in the Oped Grid Forum's Open Cloud Computing Interface working group, providing an open, community-developed interface to cloud computing resources. Shlomo was an early adopter of cloud computing, when, in 2007 as CTO of MyDrifts, he architected and implemented a large-scale deployment completely hosted in the cloud, designed to scale itself automatically according to load. Prior to founding MyDrifts, Shlomo led a team of developers at Sun Microsystems in the Java ME Developer Tools division, where he managed development efforts both for internal and for customer-facing projects. Shlomo also led development teams at a number of startups during the dot-com era. He has an Engineering degree from The Cooper Union in New York.

Joe Weinman leads a global team focused on strategy and industry solutions for the communications, media, and entertainment verticals in HP's Worldwide Industry Solutions organization. He is a long-time veteran of the industry, having held positions of increasing responsibility at the world's largest telecommunications company, and is a frequent keynoter, a prolific inventor, and an author/blogger. He is a well-known cloud computing evangelist, creating “Cloudonomics,” at the intersection of cloud computing, ROI / business value, and economics.