Agenda - Speaker Bios - Computerworld Storage Networking World

October 13-16th, 2008
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Dallas, Texas

Monday, October 13, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Speaker Bios

Speaker Bios

Spring 2008 speakers included:

Sunil Ahluwalia, Product Line Manager, LAN Access Division, Intel Corporation
Sunil Ahluwalia is product line manager of Intel’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet products. He is responsible for marketing products along with Storage and Security technologies for the Data Center. Ahluwalia has over 12 years of management experience in the software and semiconductor industry during with he held various positions in strategic planning, product marketing, and product development. Prior to his current assignment, Ahluwalia was Strategic marketing manager in the Server platform group; in this capacity he led a cross functional group to develop a server market segmentation model that redefined server product roadmap. Prior to joining Intel in 2000, Ahluwalia served as Director, Professional Services for Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. There he lead the expansion of Trillium’s services business and established an overseas development center in Bangalore, India. Ahluwalia received an MBA from University of Oregon's Charles H. Lundquist College of Business. He also holds a bachelor of technology degree in computer science and engineering from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India.

Richard Austin, IT Industry Consultant
Richard is a 30+ year veteran of the IT industry in positions ranging from software developer to security architect. Before beginning a career as an independent consultant, he was focused on technology and processes for successfully protecting the 14PB storage area network infrastructure within the global IT organization of a Fortune 25 company. He earned a MSc degree with a concentration in information security from Kennesaw State University, a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, and serves as a part-time faculty in their CSIS department where he teaches in the Information Security and Assurance program. He holds the CISSP certification and is an active member of SNIA's Storage Security Industry Forum and Security Technical Working Group. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and also belongs to the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, CSI, HTCIA, ISACA and ISSA (where he also serves on their international ethics committee). He is a frequent writer and presenter on storage networking security and digital forensics.

Christian Bandulet, Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Christian Bandulet is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems working in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a member of the Sun Data Management Ambassador Group Board which is steering the storage engineering and product development teams at Sun Microsystems. He is also member of Sun's worldwide Storage Technical Field Advisory Board. With over 20 years' IT experience he worked as a soft- and hardware engineer in Germany and in the US. His expertise reaches from UNIX kernel development to database engineering. As an acknowledged industry expert Christian has delivered workshops and presentations at many international conferences. Christian has the reputation for taking complex issues and delivering them in a way that makes them easily understood. Christian has written many blueprints, articles and white papers about advanced storage technologies like object storage and grid storage. He's focused on large scale storage projects for key customers, competitive studies, research analysis of advanced technologies and monitoring of trends in the storage and server industry.

	Mack Basil, Global Offering Executive, IBM Corp. Mack Basil is a Global Offering Executive with IBM’s Worldwide Storage & Data Services product line. Mr. Basil has twenty-five years of experience spanning technical development, sales and marketing, and product management – including sixteen years of technical sales experience in highly competitive markets covering multiple industries.
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Rick Bauer, SNIA Technology & Education Director, Storage Networking Industry Association
Rick serves as Technology and Education Director for the SNIA. He is responsible for the management of all technical and educational initiatives of the association, including standards development, coordination with SNIA member volunteer leadership, interoperability development and testing, as well as technical and educational curriculum development and deployment. Rick manages SNIA’s Technology Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which is part of an ever-expending global SNIA network of technology labs in Japan, China, and India. Rick is a member of many technical and marketing workgroups within the SNIA, including SNIA’s Green Storage Initiative, and is a frequent presenter at SNIA and other technology events worldwide. Prior to his work at SNIA, Rick served as CIO for several organizations over a 16 year career in technology, involving education, data process, digital imaging, and systems integration. Rick served as founding chair of SNIA’s influential End User Council while serving as CIO for The Hill School, one of America’s leading educational institutions, named “the most wired school in America” by Yahoo’s Internet Life magazine in 2002. Rick has master’s degrees in business and technology management from the Wharton School of Business and the Graduate School of Engineering at The University of Pennsylvania, and has additional master’s degrees from Harvard University and The University of Florida.

Mike Baxter, Vice President, Technology, itravel2000.com
itravel2000.com is Canada's largest online travel retailer and in the top 10 globally. Entering into their 14th year of business, itravel200.com's growth continues at a staggering rate and is projected to hit the 500M mark in sales in 2008. Mike's role spans not only the core technology requirements of a 200 employee call center and head-office but several branch offices across Canada, the UK and Mexico. He is responsible for the architecture, and day-to-day of a large technology infrastructure for the entire Travelzest Family including terabytes of data, spread across the organization's offices and data centers. Mike is also responsible for all product development, engineering and online marketing and is enthusiastic about sharing his vast knowledge and experience with the technology community as a whole.

Wendy Betts, Manager, Distributed Systems Storage Management, Hewitt Associates, Former Chair of the SNIA End User Council Governing Board
Wendy Betts is the Manager of the Distributed Systems Storage Management group at Hewitt Associates, a global HR outsourcing and consulting firm. Her responsibilities include all Storage Area Network, Network Attached Storage as well as all of the tape backups in all of Hewitt’s global locations.

Wendy graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Operations Management Information Systems. She also attended Keller Graduate School of Management where she earned her MBA with an emphasis in Finance.

Wendy has worked at Hewitt Associates since 1998, where she started working in the Human Resource Outsourcing area as a systems analyst. She then transitioned to Information Systems and worked as a Financial Analyst to calculate the computer usage charges for end-users. While in this role she was assigned a project to calculate the computer storage costs for the firm, which led her into managing a program to determine the storage strategy for the firm.

Wendy is a member of and former Chair of the SNIA End User Council Governing Board and is a member of several vendor customer executive councils. Wendy spends her time in trying to play golf and going to live theater in her free time.

	Heidi Biggar, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group Heidi is one of ESG’s go-to analysts for data protection and disk-based backup and information management, covering such topics as disk backup (including VTL) and archiving from a hardware perspective. Heidi is a 13-year veteran of the storage industry and former senior technical editor at InfoStor magazine. She joined ESG in July 2005.
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David Black, PhD, Senior Technologist, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation
Since joining EMC in 1998, David has been involved in a variety of strategic technology projects and standards efforts, including leading development and standardization of iSCSI and other IP Storage protocols in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). His current activities focus on storage and networking protocols, security, and standardization including leading industry standardization efforts for Fibre Channel security and development of a standard fixed content API for Centera and similar systems. Prior to EMC, David worked on operating system research and development at the Open Software Foundation, which later became The Open Group.

Roger Bouchard, Worldwide Security Practice Lead, Brocade
Roger Bouchard has been in the computer industry since 1978 with a wide range of experience from programming, analysis, consulting, education and management. He has taught IT security courses since 1994 and has been focused exclusively on the storage industry since 1996. Prior to joining Brocade in December 2000, he was the Director of Professional Services for the storage practice of a major storage solutions reseller in Canada. Mr. Bouchard has been a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Security for Brocade since 2002 and is currently the Worldwide Security Practice Lead. He has developed and delivered several SAN Security Audits and Hardening engagements across North America and written SAN Security whitepapers. He has received his CISSP certification in 2005 and is an active member of the SNIA (TWG) and the SSIF.

Larry Boucher, Chief Executive Officer, Alacritech
Larry Boucher founder, president and chief executive officer of Alacritech, has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in Silicon Valley. Mr. Boucher is a recognized leader in the areas of server adapter, storage and networking technologies. Prior to Alacritech, Mr. Boucher was founder, chief executive officer and a director of Auspex Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of network file servers, where he pioneered the networked file system design that is the basis of today's network-attached storage (NAS) model. Prior to Auspex, he founded Adaptec, Inc. was its CEO for six years, and served as a member of its Board of Directors until 2001. Previously, he was director of design services at Shugart Associates, where he conceived the idea of the SCSI interface and authored its initial specifications.

Brian Brockway, Senior Director, Product Management, CommVault
Brian Brockway, Senior Director of Product Management, joined CommVault in 2003. He is responsible for product management and strategy for the Simpana™ 7.0 Software Suite, which includes data protection, archiving, replication, search, and storage resource management capabilities. Before CommVault, Brian held numerous positions in the industry, including director of analyst relations at Interwoven; vice president of software research at SoundView Technology Group; and senior consultant at Gartner Consulting. Brian earned his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo. He graduated with distinction from the Masters of Business Administration program at NYU, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Frank Bunn, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager; EMEA Solutions Marketing, Branch/Niederlassung, Symantec Corporation
Frank Bunn is a Senior Industry Marketing Manager at SYMANTEC for the EMEA Central Region, and also sits on the Board of Directors of SNIA Europe. Since starting his IT career in 1982 he has worked as a trainer, post- and presales system engineer, and consultant at Nixdorf Computer, Siemens-Nixdorf, and Network Systems Corporation. Before joining VERITAS Software in April 2001, he was a product manager at StorageTek, managing and introducing the SAN solutions product line to the Central European market. Mr. Bunn is a frequent speaker at international IT events, author of technical articles and white papers, and is co-author of both the VERITAS published book "Virtual Storage Redefined" and of a booklet in the SNIA Technical Tutorial Series - "Storage Virtualization."

Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives and Chief Information Officer, Library of Congress
Ms. Campbell was appointed to the position of Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives in 2000 by the Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington. He noted that "Laura has already made many significant contributions to the realization of the Library's digital future. Her demonstrated leadership, technical knowledge and network of expert colleagues in the public and private sectors will bring added strength to our decision-making process."

Creation of the position of associate librarian for Strategic Initiatives responds to a recommendation contained within the 2000 National Academy of Sciences report “LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress.” Responsibilities of the position include overall strategic planning for the Library, oversight of the Information Technology Services directorate, and leadership of the $100 million National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (www.digitalpreservation.gov), which was established to build a nationwide network of partners to preserve important digital content that is at risk of being lost. Ms. Campbell is also director of the National Digital Library Program, a cooperative national effort to digitize and make available online primary source materials of American history and culture. The program’s award- winning Web site, American Memory (memory.loc.gov), offers more than 11 million items from the collections of the Library of Congress and those of its partners.

Ms. Campbell is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University (B.A., 1973), the University of Maine (M.A. in management, 1979) and Georgetown University (M.S. in accounting, 1983). In 2007, Ms. Campbell was the recipient of the EMC Information Leadership Award from the Computerworld Honors Program.

Mark Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Storage Group, has more than 25 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than ten year's experience with Java technology. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is a co-chair of the SNIA Policy working group, chairs the DMTF Policy and Management Framework working groups, serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Sun Microsystems on the DMTF Technical Committee as well as the DMTF Board of Directors where he serves as VP of Alliances. Mark was one of the original developers at Redcape Policy Software, Inc., a small, Boulder, CO, startup that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in June 1998.

	Tyler Carter, Product Marketing Manager, NBU Product Line, Symantec Corporation Tyler Carter is Senior Product Marketing Manager for Veritas NetBackup from Symantec. He specializes in disk-based backup technologies. Tyler has a Master’s in Business Administration and Engineering from Brigham Young University.
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Doug Chandler, Director of Research, IDC
Doug Chandler is Research Director for IDC's Infrastructure Services research group. Mr. Chandler provides insight and analysis for IT professionals, investors, resellers, distributors, ISVs, OEMs and services firms. He delivers forecasts and analyses on storage services segments including storage-related consulting, integration, management and support services. He also focuses closely on the managed storage and online storage services markets. Mr. Chandler launched IDC's storage services research seven years ago. His research has been quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, BusinessWeek and Investor's Business Daily, and he presents regularly at industry events. He has worked in the IT industry for 20 years, first covering the storage industry in 1988 as an editor at PC Week. Mr. Chandler received his M.S. in Reporting on Science and Medicine.

Gilles Chekroun, Senior Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems
Gilles joined Cisco 13 years ago. His background is linked to IBM networking technologies and he started at Cisco as a network design engineer. Later on, Gilles joined the EMEA Consulting group in the IBM team and led many projects in the financial sector. For the last five years, Gilles focuses on Storage, SAN extension technologies for designing and implementing Disaster Recovery Centers and Data Center Technologies like InfiniBand and others. He is a member of the Cisco Emerging Markets Advanced Technology team. Gilles is also Technical Chair of the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Benelux committee. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Sheila Childs, Director of Marketing, EMC Corporation
Sheila Childs is a Director of Marketing in EMC’s Information Management Software Group, a worldwide leader in the development and delivery of enterprise storage management solutions. In this position, she focuses on bringing EMC’s archiving and intelligent information management software solutions to market. In addition, Sheila has held technical and management positions in product strategy, product development, product management and customer support/services. She has delivered value-focused storage management software for backup/recovery, HSM, remote device access, device and media management, SAN management and most recently, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). Sheila has been involved with the Storage Networking Industry Association as a participant in technical working groups, on various committees and as a Board member. She co-chaired the Interoperability Committee from 1999-2001, which has brought successful interoperability demos to a number of Storage Networking World conferences, and initiated the SNIA-Conformance Test Program (SNIA-CTP). She has been active in many initiatives including the startup of the Technology Center and the SNIA Storage Management Initiative. She has been a member of the Board of Directors for four years; her elected positions include a year as Vice Chair and two years as Chairman. She chaired the SNIA Data Management Forum in 2005.

Rick Chin, Senior Vice President, Information Technology, Pinnacle Financial Corporation
Rick Chin is Senior Vice President of Information Technology for Pinnacle Financial Corporation, an independently owned mortgage lender that employs 1600 employees across 100 branch offices in the United States. Rick is responsible for all IT operations within the organization to manage and protect the company’s critical data assets and ensure business continuity across the enterprise.

Rich Clifton, Vice President and General Manager, Networked Storage Business Units, NetApp
Rich Clifton is the Vice President and General Manager of the Networked Storage Business Units. Clifton has played a pivotal role in managing relationships with strategic software partners, enterprise applications, and database solutions since his arrival at NetApp in 1999. Clifton's primary responsibilities as the vice president of the Networked Storage Business Units include aligning and driving products, sales, services, and partnerships with NetApp to leverage market opportunities in primary storage (NAS and SAN) As part of this role, Clifton is heavily involved with strategic partnerships and alliances. Clifton previously was the vice president and General manger of the Enterprise Data Center and Applications Business Marketing at NetApp, where he forged and managed business and technical relationships with strategic partners in the areas of database, applications and fabric-attached storage.

Dan Cobb, Chief Technology Officer, Information Management Software, EMC Corporation
Dan Cobb is Chief Technology Officer of EMC’s Information Management Software Group (IMSG). In this role, Cobb sets the technical direction and evangelism for EMC’s data protection, file system archiving and data classification software. Prior to his role as CTO, Cobb was part of the EMC IMSG product management team, driving the product strategy of EMC’s data protection software. Cobb joined EMC in 2003, serving as a technology consultant for EMC’s storage platform products – EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra.

In 2000, Cobb was a founding team member of Storigen Systems, where he managed system architecture and platform integration for Storigen's inventive content delivery engine, later acquired by EMC. Before Storigen, Cobb was a consulting engineer at Avid Technology, leading emerging technology ventures for Avid's Networks & Storage and Office & Consumer business units.

Andy Cohen, Associate General Counsel and Compliance Practice Lead, EMC Corporation
Andrew Cohen is Associate General Counsel, Director of EMC Corporation. His responsibilities include managing the Legal Department's Litigation and Employment Group, actively litigating commercial and employment law, managing outside counsel, conducting internal investigations, advising EMC on all aspects of litigation, employment, and certain corporate compliance responsibilities. In this role, Cohen has implemented best practices in the areas of electronic matter management, electronic billing and knowledge management. Also, Cohen spearheads EMC’s focused efforts to help companies prepare themselves to quickly present all relevant information upon request, while also yielding tremendous business benefits along the way, for EMC Global Services. He is a member of the Sedona Conference’s working group on electronic document retention and production, as well as regional and national bar associations, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the New England Labor Counsel.

Thomas Comella, Vice President of Technology & Information Systems and Chief Information Officer, Neighborhood Centers
A seasoned information systems/information technology executive, Thomas Comella brings more than 20 years of extensive experience in large-scale projects and programs to Neighborhood Centers Inc. He has a successful track record in leading major migrations/implementations to new technology while reducing costs. Mr. Comella has experience as Director of Information Systems and Communications for OakBend Medical Center; Manager of KPMG, LLP; Chief of Operations for the Department of Defense Health Affairs Advanced Technology Integration Center; Chief Technical Officer for Air Combat Command; Chief Information Officer for Davis-Monthan AFB Hospital; Director of Medical Logistics for Griffiss AFB Hospital; LAN Administrator; System Programmer/Analyst for Air Force Management Engineering Agency; and System Programmer/Analyst for Air Training Command.

Keith Coughlin, Senior VMware Specialist, EMC Corporation
Keith Coughlin has spent Seventeen years in the High Tech and Information Technology industries, with ten years in Technical Sales and Marketing positions. He has experienced success in many different organizations, from the United States Air Force to storage industry leaders EMC, Dell and EqualLogic. His recent career focus has been selling and marketing software, hardware and professional services to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction. Keith currently works at EMC Corporation as a Senior vmware Specialist.

Richard Coulson, Intel Senior Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel Corporation
Richard Coulson is responsible for the conception, architecture and development of non-volatile memory based enhancements to the computing platform including Robson non-volatile disk cache technology. Couslon also defines, architects and analyzes the performance of emerging storage interfaces and devices. Coulson joined Intel as senior engineer in 1983, promoted to staff engineer in 1987, transferred to BiiN in a joint venture between Intel and Siemens as I/O engineering manager in 1988, became I/O engineering manager for Sequent Computer Systems Inc. in 1989. He rejoined Intel in 1993 as manager of the I/O Achitecture Group, Platform Architecture Labs and was named an Intel Fellow in 1996. Coulson has received 30 patents and holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Colorado, 1980 and master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford, 1983.

Jason Cox, Software Engineer and System Architect, Seagate Technology Research
Jason Cox is a Software Engineer and System Architect working in Seagate Technology Research, and is primarily involved in defining security subsystem architectures for hard drives. Jason participates in the Trusted Computing Group Storage Working Group as editor of the TCG Storage Architecture Core Specification, and is also a contributor to the Storage Interface Interactions, Key Management Services, and Storage Conformance SWG Subgroups.

Roger Cummings, Technical Director, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Symantec Corporation
As Technical Director in the Advanced Technology Standards group of the Symantec CTO Office, Roger Cummings participates in the development of new technologies and advanced products, and represents Symantec in a number of industry bodies developing standards. He is a past member of the SNIA Technical Council, and a former Co-Chair of SNIA's Security Working Group. He is active in INCITS committees T10 & T11, and also participates in IEEE & IETF. He has as total of more than 30 years experience in the computer industry in the UK, Canada and the United States. Roger Cummings holds a B. Sc (Eng) from Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. He has published more than twenty articles in a variety of publications, from Infostor to Laser Focus World, and is the author of two booklets in the SNIA Technical Tutorial Series - "Storage Network Security" and "Storage Network Management.

Marty Czekalski, Senior Staff Program Manager, Seagate Technology
Martin (Marty) Czekalski is the Vice President of the SCSI Trade Association Interface & Emerging Architecture Program Manager at Seagate Marty Czekalski brings over twenty years of senior engineering management experience in advanced architecture development for ASICs, memory, and IO subsystem design. He is currently Sr. Staff Program Manager within Seagate's Enterprise Market Development Group. Previous industry experience includes engineering management roles at Maxtor, Quantum and Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Czekalski participates in several interface standards committees and industry storage groups. He was an Executive Committee Member and a Founding Member for the Serial Attached SCSI Working Group during its existence as the Serial Attached SCSI founding organization. He currently serves as Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the SCSI Trade Association. Mr. Czekalski is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, active with the T10 committee and the Trusted Computing Group. Mr. Czekalski earned his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his BE degree in Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

David Dale, Director, Industry Standards, NetApp
David Dale is Industry Evangelist and Director of Industry Standards at NetApp where he is a technology spokesperson, represents NetApp in the storage industry, and drives NetAppt's™ involvement in Industry Standards Associations. With over 20 years experience in the computer industry he participates in the industry as a member of the SNIA Board of Directors, Chair of the SNIA IP Storage Forum, a regular contributor to industry journals, a frequent participant in IT seminars, and a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events around the globe. David was educated in England, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from the University of London.

	David Deming, President and Founder, Solution Technology David Deming is the president and founder of Solution Technology. He is a certified experiential facilitator and coach who has an extensive background in both the storage networking industry and personal growth techniques and technology.
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Scott Dennull, Director, Infrastructure & Support Services, CareSource
Scott Dennull joined CareSource Management Group as the Director of Infrastructure & Support Services in 2004. CareSource Management Group offers a full spectrum of services for the administration of public-sector health care programs. In his three year tenure, he has overseen the development of Technical Solution Strategies, Enabling Technology Roadmaps, IT Service Portfolio, and worked with the business to create a Business Service Portfolio. Scott spent 20 years in a large international company holding various IT professional positions prior to joining CareSource. He earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Grace College in 1984. In addition, he has completed the Toastmasters International Communication and Leadership Programs earning the Competent and Able Toastmaster certifications. Scott has spoken at various industry conferences (ex. ComputerWorld IM, ITIM, and AFCOM) on the various Infrastructure topics.

Doc D'Errico, Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Software Group, EMC Corporation
With a dozen years at EMC and over 25 years in the information technology industry, Doc has become a respected expert and technical leader. He holds twelve storage technology related patents, has submitted nine others and is recognized for driving EMC and the industry to better and broader ways to deal with system interoperability and standardization. Doc is also the author of the Introduction to the Universal Command Guide and is a sought after speaker at many customer and Industry events.

Doc takes a strong leadership position in the development of EMC’s strategy and direction as it pertains to connectivity, interoperability and software & systems integration, enabling time-to-market while reducing support costs associated with product introduction in the field. Doc is also an Executive Sponsor to a number of EMC’s most strategic Customers, EMC's Six Sigma Corporate Quality Initiative, participates as a board member of EMC Global Centers-of-Excellence, and is a member of EMC’s CTO Council.

Sean Derrington, Director, Storage Management and CDP/R, Data Center Management Group, Symantec Corporation
Sean Derrington is Director of Storage Management and CDP/R in Symantec Corporation’s Data Center Management Group and is responsible for product marketing, product strategy, and outbound marketing for Veritas Storage Foundation and Storage Management products.

Derrington joined Symantec through the company’s merger with Veritas software. Prior to joining Veritas, Sean was senior program director of META Group's Server Infrastructure Strategies. During his eight years at META Group, he was the lead consultant and analyst covering storage and storage management market. Derrington earned a bachelor’s degree in material science and engineering and a bachelor’s degree in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

	Walter Dey, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems Walter is eleven years with Cisco, working as Technical Consulting Engineer. He has 26 years experience in the IT industry. Since 5 years, he does Technical Consulting for Cisco Systems EMEA and Emerging Markets, covering AT (Advanced Technologies): Fibrechannel and IP Storage (FCIP,iSCSI), Infiniband (High Performance Computing) and High Speed Optical Networking (10+ Gbps). Walter has a Master in Mathematics and Physics from ETH Zuerich, and a PhD in Experimental High Energy Physics, CERN Geneva and ETH Zurich. He was Vice Chair, IP Storage Initiative, SNIA Europe, and since October 2007 on the Board of Directors SNIA Europe.
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	Tilak Dhar, Storage Administrator, Stanford University Tilak Dhar is a Storage & Backup Administrator, in Stanford University’s central IT group. He is involved in implementation and support of Cisco SAN, EMC, NetApp, Nexsan Storage, IBM Servers, Tape Library and Tivoli Storage Manager.
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Russell Dietz, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hifn, Inc.
Russell Dietz brings more than 20 years of technology experience in the data communications, Storage, security, embedded and distributed systems industries to his role as CTO. Mr. Dietz is an active member of the IEEE P1619 working group, Internet and Engineering Task Force (IETF), and Optical Internetworking Forum. Mr. Dietz has 10 patents issued in the distributed application and network performance areas.

Jerry Duggan, Senior Software Architect, Hewlett-Packard
Jerry Duggan is a Senior Software Architect at Hewlett-Packard, where he has been working in the Storage Management field for the past ten years. He has also been active in the SNIA and the Storage Management Initiative for many years. Jerry started the SMI-Lab within the SNIA, where vendors from across the industry come together to prove implementability of the SMI-S standard. He has also served as chair and co-chair of the Storage Management Initiative. Jerry holds a Bachelor's in Mathematics & Computer Science from New Mexico State University and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Karen Dutch, General Manager, Advanced Storage Products, NEC Corporation of America
Karen Dutch has over 30 years of experience within the storage industry and developed advanced storage solutions for both open systems and mainframe platforms. As general manager of the Advanced Storage Products Group at NEC Corporation of America, Dutch is responsible for the strategy, marketing, and sales of next generation storage products.

Previously, Dutch served as vice president and general manager of the Open Systems Group at Softek Storage Solutions where she defined and oversaw product management, marketing, and development for their storage management and data protection solutions. Prior to Softek, Dutch was vice president of marketing for InterSAN, Inc. She also served as director of solutions marketing for Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. and spent many years at IBM, holding a variety of technical and managerial roles in both the U.S. and Europe.

Dutch earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from Duke University.

Mark Eastman, Director, Solutions Marketing, Quantum Corporation
As Director of Solutions Marketing, Mark Eastman brings more than 10 years of technology marketing experience to Quantum. Eastman’s focus in this role is to develop technology and solution marketing initiatives with strategic software and hardware partners utilizing Quantum products. Eastman joined Quantum as part of the 2006 ADIC acquisition where he served as Business Line Director, Automation Systems.

Tony Edelbrock, Senior Systems Administrator, Tucson Electric Power Company
Tony Edelbrock, Senior Systems Administrator, has 15 years experience, former technical trainer with 12 industry certifications. Tony's team is responsible for storage, virtualization and systems disaster recovery for Unisource Energy and continues to push the products in different ways to achieve corporate objectives.

Ron Emerick, IO Architect, Sun Microsystems
Ron Emerick is an IO Architect / Technologist in Sun Microsystem Systems Group. He is a technical lead in IO Infrastructure and Architecture for Sun systems. Ron is an active member of the PCI SIG and has been involved in IO architectures for many years. Prior to joining Sun, Ron was a Storage Area Network Specialist, designing and implementing SANs throughout the country. He has over 25 years of Industry Experience in IO, Storage and Application and OS Development.

Ian Erikson, Client Technology Specialist III, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ian Erikson serves as a Client Technology Specialist in the SKI Research Computing Group at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Working at the Center since 1999, he joined a group formed in 2003 dedicated to serve the needs of MSKCC's researchers. As well as designing research computing solutions for Sloan Kettering institute, he also is responsible for meeting their growing storage and archive needs. He has worked hand in hand with storage vendors to develop compatible solutions to meet his large Mac user base. He was a key architect of the solution which won the SNW Fall 2007 Best Practices in Storage award for "Planning, Designing and Building a Strategic Storage Infrastructure".

Andrew Fanara, Team Leader, ENERGY STAR® Product Specifications Development Group, USEPA
Mr. Fanara works on the ENERGY STAR Product Specifications Development Team. ENERGY STAR is part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Protection Partnership Division. The ENERGY STAR Program is intended to help businesses and individuals protect the environment by identifying products with superior energy efficiency and water savings.

Mr. Fanara’s team is responsible for writing product specifications and for teaming with manufacturers to encourage the design, manufacture, and sale of products that meet them. More than 50 product categories have been created for the residential and commercial sectors. To date, American consumers have purchased more than 2 billion ENERGY STAR qualified products. In 2006 alone, Americans -- with the help of ENERGY STAR – prevented the emission of 37 million metric tons of greenhouse gases; this is equivalent to the annual emissions from 25 million vehicles and a national savings of $14 billion in energy bills.

Mr. Fanara is currently leading the effort to develop an ENERGY STAR specification for servers. He is also responsible for managing policy coordination with countries using ENERGY STAR in their markets. This includes Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Canada, China, and the European Union; many of which are coordinating with EPA on data center energy efficiency efforts.

Previously in his tenure with the agency, Mr. Fanara worked on the EPA’s Green Lights Program, which assisted commercial enterprises with the implementation of energy-efficient lighting upgrades. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has worked for the EPA for more than 10 years.

Jacob Farmer, Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer
Jacob Farmer is the chief technology officer for Cambridge Computer, an integrator and value added reseller specializing in data protection and storage management. Founded in 1991, Cambridge is best known in the industry for its award winning training center, which teaches classes on storage networking and data protection. Jacob is a regular speaker at industry events and travels the country consulting and teaching classes for both end users and storage manufacturers. Jacob is the senior technical advisor and a regular columnist for InfoStor Magazine, a trade magazine dedicated to the storage sector. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University.

Mike Feinberg, Senior Vice President of the Technology Ventures Group, EMC Corporation
Mike Feinberg is Senior Vice President of the Technology Ventures Group at EMC Corporation. The Technology Ventures Group was formed in May 2006 to create an environment for product incubation, partnership investment and acquisition. Prior to joining EMC, Feinberg served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for HP Storage, where he was responsible for strategy and technical direction. Feinberg started his career at IBM and Data General. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Math and Computer Science from Binghamton University and a Masters Engineering Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Mark Fleming, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation
Mark Fleming has been working in the IT industry for 12 years, and in storage at IBM for the past 7 years. His focus has been on enterprise storage products, and he is a technical advocate for several large enterprise storage customers. Mark’s focus is on system level test, and he loves trying to break products to make them better for customers! Lately he’s been focusing more on SMB storage, and finds things like high availability very exciting. When not working with storage, he can be found outside with his family, traveling for pleasure, or just hanging out with his kids.

Jered Floyd, Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Permabit Technology
Jered Floyd, Chief Technology Officer and Founder, is responsible for exploring strategic future directions for Permabit's products, and providing thought leadership to guide the company's enterprise archive initiatives. He has previously deployed Permabit's effective software development methodologies and was responsible for developing Permabit product's core protocol and initial server and system architectures.

Floyd holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the Technical Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Long-Term Archive and Compliance Storage Initiative and frequently speaks at events on technology and software development practices.

Scott Fuhrman, Senior Systems Engineer, Supervalu
Scott Fuhrman joined Supervalu in 2005 as a Senior Systems Engineer for the Storage Management Group and is directly responsible for daily operations for open systems storage. Prior to this, he was a Senior SAN Administrator consultant for CRI Advantage, responsible for managing storage networks for HP. Scott holds numerous vendor certifications from the Linux Professional Institute, HP, EMC, Brocade, and SNIA, and has worked with Fibre Channel SANs since 2000.

Joseph Furmanski, Project Director, CCTS Engineering, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Joseph Furmanski has worked in various capacities in technology management for the past 15 years at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Currently he is the Project Director for the Engineering Group in UPMC's Computing and Communications Technology Services Group. Prior to UPMC, Mr. Furmanski worked in various Systems Integrtions postions with Digital Equipment Corporation for more than 9 years. Mr.Furmanski did his undergraduate work in Information Systems at the University of Pittsburgh.

David Fusfeld, Director, Information Technology, Acsys, Inc.
David Fusfeld currently serves as Infrastructure Manager for Acsys, Inc. of Farmington, Connecticut. He is in charge of the company’s 24x7 web hosting operations for clients—as well as all IT infrastructure operations—including LAN, WAN, telephony, Internet, intranet, and extranet. His responsibilities include supporting, managing, and growing these infrastructures. Dave brings over 10 years of experience in IT consulting to small and medium-sized businesses as well as large educational institutions. This experience includes network, systems, and desktop deployment and support. Dave is MCSE-certified and has a wealth of experience with Windows, Linux, and Novell systems.

Tom Georgens, President and Chief Operating Officer, NetApp
Tom Georgens has responsibility for all product operations and field operations worldwide. Georgens joined NetApp in October 2005 and served as the company's executive vice president of product operations from January 2007 until February 2008. Previously he served as NetApp's executive vice president and general manager of enterprise storage systems.

Before joining NetApp, Georgens spent nine years at Engenio, a subsidiary of LSI Logic, the last two years as CEO. He also served in various other positions, including president of LSI Logic Storage Systems and executive vice president of LSI Logic. At Engenio, he built the business into a successful OEM storage provider for companies such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, Silicon Graphics, and NCR. Prior to Engenio, Georgens spent 11 years at EMC in a variety of engineering and marketing positions.

Georgens holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Engineering degree in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from Babson College.

Joe Giannetti, Vice President of Corporate Technology, Classified Ventures
Mr. Giannetti is responsible for running the Corporate Technology team for Classified Ventures which provides centralized IT services to CV’s various Internet businesses. Joe’s team supports high traffic Internet sites such as Cars.com, Apartments.com, and HomeScape.com. The scope of his responsibilities include Data Center, System Engineering, Storage, DW/BI, Corporate Applications, Security, Disaster Recovery, Telephony, and End User Services. He has fifteen years of Information Technology experience in a wide range of disciplines and industries.

Rick Gillett, Vice President, Data Systems Architecture, F5 Networks
Mr. Gillett joined F5 Networks (formally, Acopia Networks) with over 23 years experience in defining, designing, and introducing breakthrough products which have generated in excess of $10B in sales. With 22 patents to his credit, he has a broad range of technical expertise across storage, networking, and computing disciplines. Prior to joining Acopia, Rick co-founded and was CTO of Storigen Systems, a venture-backed startup company that pioneered solutions for remote facility information management. Rick has also served as Corporate Fellow and CTO of Avid Technology's Network and Storage Solutions Division, and as corporate consulting engineer and CTO of Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha/VAX Server Division (now part of Hewlett Packard). He has a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of New Hampshire and has completed General Electric's Cooperative Engineering Program and Babson's Executive Education.

J. Wolfgang Goerlich, CISSP, CISA, Network Operations and Security Manager, Munder Capital Management
J Wolfgang Goerlich, CISSP, CISA, is an information security professional who focuses on performance and availability. Mr. Goerlich is currently with Munder Capital Management, where he is the Senior Systems Integrator responsible for Information Security. With ten years of experience, Mr. Goerlich has a solid understanding of both the IT infrastructure and the business it enables.

Dror Goldenberg, Director of Architecture, Mellanox Technologies
Dror Goldenberg, Director of Architecture at Mellanox Technologies, is responsible for Mellanox' silicon products and software architecture. Prior to joining Mellanox, Dror served as an officer in the Israel Defense Force's elite R&D team in the area of communication protocols, and worked in the Intel Microprocessor Group. He holds a BSEE and an MBA from the Technion Institute of Technology Israel.

Ed Goldman, Vice President, Technology Strategy, Information Resources Shared Services, Marriott International, Inc.
Edward Goldman is Vice President of Technology Strategy at Marriott International, Inc. and has accountability for the information technology strategy for all Marriott brands and business units. In this position, he is responsible for identifying what role specific technologies will play today, and in the future, to enable Marriott to achieve our company's objectives. Prior to this role, Mr. Goldman had accountability for Marriott’s enterprise operations which included all systems and networks within the corporate data center and its business recovery strategy. Mr. Goldman has been with Marriott for over 10 years and has held a variety of leadership roles within the organization. Some of these included the development of Marriott’s Enterprise Architecture initiative, management of senior technical associates responsible for the design and implementation of systems architecture, leadership of the project managers for infrastructure and the development of systems administration and automation. He joined Marriott from NASD in 1996 where he served as a director in the Systems and Operations group. Prior to that role, Mr. Goldman served as a senior technical resource for several IT consulting companies such as Boeing Computer Services, Operations Research International and IBM Corporation. Mr. Goldman holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland and an MBA in information systems from Mt. St. Mary's College.

Howard Goldstein, President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc
Howard Goldstein has over 30 years' experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI Express and others. Goldstein holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Telecommunications from Pace University. He is a frequent speaker at Interop and Storage Networking World. He is the founder and principal member of Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. an Education & Technology Company offering instructor led training. Visit www.hgai.com for more information. Howard Goldstein has expertise in many aspects of the human side of technology offering innovative consulting and education services on Professional Vitality and Career Development, Adult Learning, and Presentation Development & Delivery Techniques. Howard believes that content and context delivery is as important as content development and is a master of both.

Goldstein is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee. He has helped develop the SNIA Certification Program as well as other SNIA Education initiatives. He has been active in the publications world as technical editor of Building Storage Networks and Resilient Storage Networks and Storage Series editor for Digital Press.

John Greiner, IT Manager/Technology Consulting Lead, Temple Independent School District
John Greiner has been in the IT business for almost 10 years. Graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in 2005. He has been working as the Network Supervisor for Temple Independent School District for over 8 years maintaining the districts network, servers, and applications. John has helped the district implementing and manage a new VOIP system and has grown the districts servers from 5 distributed servers to over 80 centrally located servers. He has implemented numerous software and database applications, including Oracle, SQL, and Microsoft Exchange. Created and maintains all of the backups and Disaster Recovery plan. John is constantly looking for new ways to streamline and automate the processes throughout the district to increase efficiently and reduce operational cost.

Noemi Greyzdorf, Research Manager, IDC
Noemi Greyzdorf is a Research Manager with IDC's Storage Software. Ms. Greyzdorf's primary focus is to analyze and track Storage Management, File Systems, and Storage Device Management Software markets. The key objective of her research is to provide insights to clients in the areas of market direction, end user demands, positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies. Prior to joining IDC, Ms. Greyzdorf was a storage-focused senior solutions consultant and account executive at Cambridge Computer Services in Waltham, Mass. While at Cambridge Computer, she worked with enterprises on identifying and resolving storage, data protection, and disaster recovery challenges. Ms Greyzdorf also held product management and product strategy positions at Diligent Technologies and Genuity. Ms. Greyzdorf received her Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business.

Emilio Griman, Vice President, Operations, Arsenal Digital
As Vice President of Operations, Emilio directs Arsenal Digital’s information technology operations, ensuring delivery of its data protection products to both international and domestic markets. He has a proven, 20-year track record of aligning business goals with technical change, including selecting components for and executing major implementation, integration and improvement initiatives.

Emilio manages a team that oversees network operations, desktop support, security, quality assurance, service delivery and implementation, telecommunications and production operations. He has generated unusual high-level automated deployment techniques, resulting in fewer errors, accelerated deployment, version consistency and decreased down time – all translating to reduced costs of administration.

Formerly the Director of Shared Services at Dell, Inc., Emilio created and established its Asia Pacific disaster recovery plan. Additionally, he directed the company’s Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI efforts, ensuring compliance within two months. And he implemented an Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) approach, which reduced Dell’s infrastructure project time by 25%, reduced costs by 11% and accelerated delivery by 20%.

Previously, Emilio held positions at BancTec Payment System, Transnet and Logica.

Emilio holds a Masters Degree in Science and Petroleum Engineering from the Universidad Del Zulia and a Bachelors Degree in Science and Computer Science from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Devin Hamilton, Principal Systems Engineer, Storage Architect, Data Domain
Mr. Hamilton has provided expertise and services in and around data storage for over 13 years. Since Joining Data Domain in 2005 Devin has cultivated relationships with hundreds of Data Domain customers in the Northwest United States. With focus on data protection including replication for Disaster Recovery, Deduplication of data, Backup to Disk, Bandwidth Optimization, and interoperability, Devin has engineered various storage solutions for every size business environment over the last 10 years. Representing SNIA, Devin is excited to share both new technology concepts as well as knowledge about recent active solutions for data protection.

Tom Hammond-Doel, FCIA Vice-Chairman, Fibre Channel Industry Association and Senior Alliance Manager, LSI
Tom Hammond-Doel has delivered cutting-edge solutions for the Fibre Channel industry since near its inception. Tom is a Senior Alliance Manager for the Engenio Storage Group of LSI, responsible for internal and external technical guidance, and promotion of a more successful storage industry through his work with forming alliances with partners and industry associations. He is a recognized advocate for the storage networking industry, speaking at industry events, evangelizing storage networking to other industries, and helping develop and drive industry-level marketing and standards requirements. Tom has held seats on both FCIA and SNIA boards, and is currently Vice-Chairman of the FCIA. He is the author of numerous industry articles, editorials and white papers, and holds multiple storage related patents. Tom lives in Everett, Washington.

Lynn Patrick Herbert, CRM Manager, Command Media Integrated Systems, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Thirty-seven years of government, private industry, and aerospace experience in active and inactive data to include Policies and Procedures, Records Management, Personnel Records, Program Management, Sarbanse-Oxley compliance, Litigation Support, Business Continuity & Vital Records, Workflow and Enterprise Integration. Taught office automation, records management, micrographics, supervision, and accounting at community college and university levels.

Currently managing Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems command media (policies and procedures and forms). Ensures approval and compliance to contractual, regulatory and quality standards, customer satification, document creation, storage, intranet website online availability and archiving of inactive data. Maintains ISO/AS9100B, CMMI, and government compliance for controlled documents.

Established Records Retention Schedules for vital and archival data. Managed litigation records support, in-house active and inactive storage facilities, commercial records storage contracts and disaster recovery services. Designed imaging systems for employee files, dams and channel maps, and paper records. Implemented new telecommunications system, forms programs, and security badge systems.

Bachelor of Arts and Master of Business Administration. ARMA International member. Certified Records Manager, Business Continuity Planner, and ISO Quality Systems Auditor. Certificates in Disaster Recovery Planning, Transportation Demand Management, Legal Records Support, and Electronic Documents.

Walter Hubis, Software Architect, LSI Corporation
Walt is a Software Architect with LSI Corporation, Engenio Storage Group, with responsibility for defining secure storage and network attached storage products and solutions. Walt has over twenty years of experience in storage systems engineering in both development and managerial positions and has authored several key patents in RAID and other storage related technologies. He is currently the Chair of the Trusted Computing Group Key Management Services Subgroup and active in the IEEE SISWG P1619.3 Key Management subcommittee and INCITS T10 work groups. Walt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.

John Hufferd, Senior Executive Director of Technology, Brocade Communications
John Hufferd, Senior Executive Director of Technology, Office of the CTO, Brocade Communications Systems As a Senior Executive Director of Technology in the Office of the CTO, John Hufferd is responsible for defining Brocade's technology direction and strategy; including iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NAS (CIFS, CIFS) etc. John has over 40 years in the storage and networking industries and prior to joining Brocade; John was retired from the IBM Corporation, where he was focused on Storage Networking Strategies. John has held positions on the board of advisors for 6 different companies and has authored the definitive book on iSCSI called "iSCSI -- The Universal Storage Connection", published by Addison-Wesley. He is currently a member of the T11 Standards group defining the standard for FCoE.

Woody Hutsell, Executive Vice President, Texas Memory Systems
Woody Hutsell joined Texas Memory Systems (TMS) in 2000 as Marketing Director and is today the company's Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors. In these roles, Woody oversees all commercial storage sales and is responsible for TMS's world-wide marketing strategy, including partner, channel and end user initiatives. Prior to joining TMS, Woody spent eight years at Deloitte Consulting serving in roles from analyst to project manager for large custom software development projects. Woody departed as a Senior Manager in Deloitte Consulting's IT practice. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas in Information Technology and is based at the company headquarters in Houston, Texas.

Jason Iehl, Data Protection Solution Architect, NetApp
Jason Iehl is a data protection solution architect for NetApp where he is responsible for the strategic and tactical execution of advanced solutions positioning, implementation and delivery of existing and emerging data protection technologies. He provides technical product and industry training as well as architects backup and recovery solutions for enterprise end-users.

In addition to his responsibilities with NetApp, Iehl has been an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) where he is a co-chair of the Data Protection Initiative (DPI) and co-founded the Virtual Tape Library and Data Deduplication and Space Reduction Special Interest Groups with the Data Management Forum (DMF).

Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Disk Drives, IDC
Jeff Janukowicz is a research manager in IDC’s storage group where he provides insight and analysis on the hard disk drive (HDD) components and solid state disk (SSD) markets. In this role, Jeff provides expert opinion, in-depth market research, and strategic analysis on the dynamics, trends, and opportunities facing the industry. His research includes market forecasts, market share reports, and technology trends for clients, investors, suppliers, and manufacturers.

Mr. Janukowicz brings more than 12 years of experience within the technology industry to IDC, including more than six years in storage and nine years in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining IDC, Jeff was a strategic marketing manager for Agere Systems where he was responsible for market research, business planning, and marketing activities. In addition, he has held various marketing and engineering positions during his career.

Jeff Janukowicz has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree in Management of Technology from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School and School of Engineering.

	David Jessel, Storage Segment Manager, AMD David Jessel is Storage Segment Manager in Embedded Computing Solutions Division at AMD. He has over 25 years in the semiconductor industry including product engineering, marketing and business development positions at ATT, DEC, and now AMD.
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Joseph Jeter, Chief Sales Officer, Asigra, Inc.
Joseph Jeter is the Chief Sales Officer of Asigra, Inc.. Mr. Jeter oversees Asigra’s Alliance, Government and Channel Sales organizations.

Prior to joining Asigra, he was Managing Partner of IT Infrastructure Transformation Services, part of Unisys Global Outsourcing. He also spearheaded Unisys security, high-speed internet, and Worldwide IT Solution Development organizations.

Prior to Unisys, Mr. Jeter was Vice President of North American Operations at Network Programs, a company specializing in Voice over IP (VoIP) and telecommunications operations support systems (OSS) software development. He also spent 14 years at Verizon Communications, in roles ranging from network engineering to international business development.

M. K. Jibbe, Manager and Test Architect Lead, LSI Corporation
Dr. M. K. Jibbe Dr. Jibbe is the Interoperability Test Architect at LSI Corporation (ESG). In this role, Dr Jibb's group verifies that the Engenio Storage products are compliant to different standards, and interoperable with all the 3rd party Vendors supported by LSI Corporation. Also, he defines the test requirements for the Vendora's self certifications with the Engenio RAID products. Dr. Jibbe has been awarded 16 US / Canada patents, 16 others in Patent Pending State, and published over 43 papers in different technical Conferences held in USA and Europe. The patents and papers are related to areas such as hardware development (Chips emulating RAID technology), Modeling, Software development related to RAID technology, protocols and Networks, and different test tools and mechanisms. Dr. M. K. Jibbe is an Adjunct Professor at The Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Dr. Jibbe teaches classes related to hardware simulation, MPP, SCSI protocol, Computer Architecture, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS protocol, Programming Languages and Standards, and other Basic Electrical and Computer engineering classes such as Electromagnetic, Circuit Design and Analysis, and Digital Designs.

	Wendy Johnson, Senior Product Manager, Sun Microsystems Wendy has been a tape automation product manager for two years at Sun Microsystems, in the Storage and Systems marketing groups. She currently supports the SL-series tape libraries, with a specific focus on the feature/functionality of the SL8500 Modular Library System.
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Jenny Jolinski, Manager, Corporate Records, Darden Restaurants
Jenny R. Jolinski, CRM, CDIA+ Manager, Corporate Records for Darden Restaurants. Jenny Jolinski has almost 20 years in Records Management. Currently, Jolinski is the Manager, Corporate Records for Darden Restaurants, the leading casual dining company (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze, Smokey Bones, Seasons 52, Longhorns and Capital Grille). She began her tenure with Darden in 1997 after 10 years with one of the nation’s largest publishers, Harcourt, as their records manager, librarian and archivist.

Jolinski is active in the Orlando Chapter, ARMA International (1987- ) serving several terms on the Board of Directors as the President and VP, Programs, as well as memberships in related organizations: AIIM, Society of American Archivists (SAA), and Association of Contingency Planners (ACP). She holds a B.S. from the University of Southern Colorado and an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1992, she received her CRM designation and 2003 her CDIA+ designation.

William Kramer, Division Deputy and General Manager, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Bill Kramer is the General Manager of NERSC and Head of the High Performance Computing Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The NERSC Facility is the DOE Office of Science "Keystone" computing facility that supports a broad and diverse computational science portfolio. At NERSC, Bill led the acquisition, testing, and introduction of the early, very large HPC computational systems (e.g. IBM SP and Cray systems, one of the first production Linux clusters, and one of the largest open HPSS mass storage systems. He was instrumental in managing the paradigm shift for NERSC from a traditional storage implementation to the one of the first production highly parallel, facility wide file system in the HPC community. He contributes to LBNL's "Science Driven Computer Architecture" initiatives and has helped build 3 efficient computing facilities Bill has taught at two universities, industry and conference on a range of topics, including cluster computing, computer security, computer graphics and visualization, data intensive computing, and high performance computing. Bill’s research interests include large-scale system management, scheduling, performance evaluation, and the integration of high performance networks and computers. He was the General Chair of the SC 05 conference in Seattle and was named as one of HPCWire’s “People to Watch in 2005. Prior to Berkeley Lab, Bill worked at the NASA Ames Research Center, the University of Delaware and Inland Steel Company.

Bob Laliberte, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Bob is an ESG analyst focusing on storage management software, infrastructure, managed services and business continuance.

Prior to joining ESG, Bob was director of marketing for CentrePath, a software and services company focused on data center networking solutions. Bob managed the development of the CentrePath core services, including its remote management offering and professional services. Additionally, Bob was responsible for product marketing and management for the CentrePath cross domain event correlation software solution. During his tenure, he ran product marketing, business development, services and sales operations. Before CentrePath, Bob held a variety of domestic and international marketing, product management and sales roles at a number of technology and service vendors.

Bob has a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from the College of the Holy Cross.

Rich Lechner, Vice President, Optimizing IT, IBM Corporation
Rich Lechner is Vice President of IBM’s IT Optimization business unit in 2007. Lechner oversees an extensive portfolio of solutions that combine hardware, software and IBM services to help customers simplify, better manage, do more with their existing infrastructures. He is responsible for IBM’s virtualization, grid and platform management offerings. Prior to this role, Mr. Lechner has held a number of business leadership positions at IBM. From November, 2005, Mr. Lechner served as Vice President of IBM Virtualization where he was responsible for overseeing and growing the industry’s largest and broadest portfolio of software, server and storage virtualization solutions.

Marty LeFebvre, Application Hosting Lead, North America, Tata Consultancy Services
Marty began his career in computing, working at Nielsen Media Research in 1984 as an Assembler Programmer/Analyst on the mainframe. In time, Marty moved into the PC and Open Systems arena, working on development teams for data collection and data delivery. Later, Marty left application development and began working in the systems management arena. Marty lead the introduction of enterprise mail service, Unix servers, IP networking, and Internet connectivity at Nielsen Media Research. Currently, Marty is working for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), as the Application Hosting Lead for North America, supporting the Nielsen company, one of TCS’s largest clients. Marty is a former member of the governing board of SNIA’s End User Council, and a founder and former President of the Tampa Bay Storage Networking User Group.

Julie Lockner, Vice President Sales Operations, Solix Technologies, Inc
Julie Lockner has over 14 years experience architecting, marketing and selling business application software. She has held various engineering, sales and marketing positions in companies such as EMC, Oracle, and Raytheon. In her current role as vice president of sales operations at Solix Technologies, she is responsible for driving sales and managing the product strategy organization for Solix's data management suite. Prior to joining Solix, Ms. Lockner was a software portfolio architect for EMC where she defined the application data management software strategy. Ms. Lockner is on the board of the SNIA Data Management Forum and is a highly sought after speaker.

Ray Lucchesi, President, Silverton Consulting
Ray is president of Silverton Consulting based in Colorado. He has worked in the data storage industry for over 25 years directing development and marketing of new enterprise disk and tape automation products. At Silverton, Ray has helped storage vendors improve their product development and marketing activities and customers better use storage technology. At StorageTek, Ray focused on ILM product strategy. Earlier, Ray managed the team developing host software for StorageTek's first automated tape library. After that, he directed embedded code development for StorageTek's enterprise disk subsystem. Ray holds a BS from BU, is an IEEE senior member on the IEEE Denver Section ExComm, and a registered member of Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys (TASA). Ray is an inventor of two key patents in tape automation and has authored numerous storage articles.

Ken Male, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TheInfoPro
As Founder and CEO of TheInfoPro, Ken Male recognized the importance that market intelligence plays in both making sound decisions and understanding the conditions of an IT sector's competitive landscape. In 2001, leveraging his 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Ken developed TIP's voice of the customer approach to research. Today, thousands of IT professionals, technology investors and technology companies rely on TIP's grass roots research, delivered transparently, without spin or bias. Prior to launching TheInfoPro, Ken held distinguished positions with IT providers and market research firms including Gartner, Giga, Jupiter, DEC, and EMC.