Adam Weinroth
VP Strategic Marketing at Demand Media

As Demand Media’s Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Adam oversees the company’s branding and positioning, social marketing, thought leadership programs, and industry evangelism at the corporate level. Previously, Adam held several senior leadership roles in marketing and product management at Pluck, Demand Media’s successful enterprise software business. Adam joined Pluck in 2005 when it acquired Easyjournal, a successful community blog publishing platform created by Adam, and serving several hundred thousand registered users. Prior to creating Easyjournal in 2002, Adam held leadership roles in new product development and technology marketing with Mediatruck and IntelliQuest. Adam has a BBA in Marketing and an MBA focusing on Technology Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin. As an accomplished entrepreneur, internet product strategist and marketing executive, Adam’s perspectives on social media and web 2.0 make him an in-demand speaker at technology and media events and a frequently tapped source by media outlets covering the industry, including Chicago Tribune, Reuters, New York Times, Fast Company, The Guardian, Computerworld, E-Commerce Times, Columbia Journalism Review, iMedia Connection, MediaPost, Marketing Sherpa, Online Journalism Review and more.

Alex Hsu
Senior Executive Director, Information Technology Services at UCLA, External Affairs, Finance & Information Management

Alex L. Hsu is Senior Executive Director of Information Technology Services at UCLA External Affairs which is the advancement, communications, government relationship, endowment and alumni relationship division of UCLA. Hsu assumed the current role in 2008, having previously served as Executive Vice President/Chief Technology Officer for Countrywide Bank from 2001 to 2008. Hsu’s prior experience includes executive IT management positions at Countrywide Home Loans, Bank of New York and Bank of America. Hsu holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, Master in Business Administration and Master in Project Management. Hsu is currently a PhD candidate.

Andrew Kreig
Washington commentator, non-profit executive, attorney and radio host

Business executive and attorney Andrew Kreig returns to his roots in investigative reporting as a Senior Fellow at the Brandeis University Schuster Institute following a dozen years leading the Wireless Communications Association International in Washington, DC as its president and CEO. An author and journalist active in civic affairs, he will report on the U.S. Department of Justice and other vital institutions of government oversight. Also, he is an affiliated Research Fellow with the Information Economy Project at George Mason University's School of Law, managing director of Eagle View Capital Strategies and a radio show host. Also, he holds volunteer posts as ICT sector advisor with the International Katrina Project and as co-chair of the Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition. Specialties include strategic direction and market awareness for early-stage organizations and concepts.

Anshu Agarwal
Vice President, Product Marketing at Ankeena Networks

Anshu Agarwal has led successful marketing teams for several world-class technology companies. Prior to joining Ankeena, Agarwal served as VP of Marketing for FusionOps and as VP of Industry Marketing at Level 3 Communications, where she managed the company’s Social Media & Technology vertical marketing activities. Agarwal also played a key role in the acquisition of the content delivery assets of Savvis and making them part of Level 3’s portfolio. Prior to Level 3, Agarwal was at Akamai Technologies and at Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai in 2005), where she was responsible for inbound and outbound marketing activities. She managed the company’s successful new product roll-outs, sales training, demand planning and go-to-market strategies. Agarwal was also instrumental in establishing Speedera’s India operations in Bangalore. Agarwal was recently named as one of Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s 2010 Women of Influence for her dedication to the technology industry, her efforts in education and her contribution to her community. Agarwal previously spoke at OTTcon 2010 in a joint presentation with Juniper Networks discussing "Optimizing End-to-End Network Transport for Over-The-Top Video Delivery.” Agarwal holds a B.S in Electronics from IIT/Roorkee, India; an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers; and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Illinois.

Anyck Turgeon
Chief of Information Strategy & Security at Crossroads Systems

Over 20 years of excellence selling, developing, and implementing new software/hardware solutions worldwide, with special focus on information security, data protection, data management/warehousing and portals, . Sole women (out of 11 recipients worldwide) to win the 2008 Shaping Information Security award as well as the "Women/Member of the Year in Information Security" awards. Provided technical and business communities at over 120 companies, including 35 leading Fortune 500 firms, as well as with government leaders and global organizations like at the United Nations. Co-created and architected "Business Information Assurance" and currently working on Personal Data Management, Storage, Protection, SecurityPrivacy and Exchange Strategies.

Barbara Rembiesa
President at International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, Inc. (IAITAM)

Before founding IAITAM, Barbara, was the CEO of Astria Software Services, Inc., a company dedicated to education and consultative services in the ITAM arena. Barbara has implemented and supervised asset tracking projects, discovery tool implementations and has been brought in as an industry expert to consult major savings and loans, universities, manufacturers and high tech industries throughout the United States. She has successfully represented corporations in negotiations with compliance agencies for software violations through IAITAM and Astria. Barbara has implemented and designed disaster recovery programs for professional software testing and storage facilities including, but not limited to, off-site storage facilities, and has helped over 200 companies successfully implement improved software and hardware acquisitions programs. As President and Co-founder of IAITAM, Barbara brings over 20 years of industry knowledge and experience to the management of IAITAM, and provides key guidance to its Members.

Barry Friedman
National Practice Director at Siwel Consulting

Barry Friedman is the National Practice Director for Software Asset Management Solutions at Siwel Consulting. With over 20 years of experience, Barry is a leading expert on SAM including risk mitigation, contract negotiations, licensing models and best practices. Barry’s insight and no nonsense approach to SAM provides valuable guidance to Siwel’s clients allowing them to manage their assets more effectively and efficiently. Barry was previously National Practice Director for ITAM at Siemens IT Services, Director of ITAM at CS Technologies, and VP of ITAM and ITIL at AIG. Barry can be contacted directly at bfriedman@siwel.com. For more information on Siwel, please visit www.siwel.com.

Chris Vein
CIO at City and County of San Francisco

Skilled generalist recognized for leading high-profile public and private sector organizations to new levels of service delivery. Specialties include delivering strong and effective leadership often in chaotic environments through strategic change management using skills in corporate governance, strategic and business planning, operations, and finance and administration. Chris provides leadership for all information technology and telecommunications technology and related services for the City and County of San Francisco with a $6.2 billion budget, supporting 50+ departments, 28,000+ employees. Concurrently service as Executive Director of the Department of Technology with a $95 million budget and 280+ employees.

Cliff Dodd
CIO at WageWorks

Information Technology & Services executive with 20 plus years of progressive experience developing and deploying business strategies, operating practices and technology platforms that change the fundamental way a business thinks, acts and conducts business. Cliff Dodd is frequently a sought after CEO/Board advisor and corporate executive in leading strategic business reviews, identifying underlying issues and creating technology enabled solutions that move a business forward. Having served as CIO for numerous Fortune 500 companies spanning the financial services, telecommunications and healthcare industries, Cliff Dodd has been highly effective at driving change in large, complex enterprises delivering effective solutions and increased business value resulting in enhanced operations and bottom-line results. Specialties include IT Governance & Change Management, IT/Organization Strategy, Complex Project Management, Process Reengineering, Delivering Results, IT Outsourcing, Business Intelligence Implementation, Flexible/Creative Staffing Alternatives.

David Friedman
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation

David Friedman is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Business Productivity Security Group. He is responsible for Release Management of Forefront Server Protection Products, which includes Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint. Dave joined Microsoft in 2007 and has more than 10 years of experience in the high tech industry. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dave was an IT Manager at Symbol Technologies where he spent over 5 years managing enterprise PLM and ERP systems. Dave holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Farmingdale and a Masters Degree of Computer Science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

David G. Hughes
Chief Executive Officer at Reflexion Networks, Inc.

David is a security industry veteran, with extensive operating experience with software companies ranging from startups to mature market leaders. As President of Sophos Americas, the US subsidiary of the UK-headquartered anti-virus software vendor, he and his team led the company to rapid growth in revenues and profitability, and established Sophos as a widely-respected information security brand in the United States. Prior to Sophos, he served as Vice President of Strategy for the Lotus Development division of IBM, where he also held a number of senior management positions in direct and channel sales and market development. David sat on the Advisory Board of PureSight, Inc., a leader in intelligent content recognition for wired and mobile networks, at the time it was acquired by bcgi (NASDAQ: BCGI). He holds degrees from Harvard and Stanford and is a veteran of the U.S. Navy.

David L Bradford
Director of Interpersonal Dynamics for High-Performance Executives and Leadership at Stanford University

Dr. Bradford's interests are in the areas of leadership, interpersonal influence, and executive teams. In all of these, he has focused on the question, "What does it take to achieve high performance?" The results have suggested that, especially in knowledge-based organizations, excellence is most likely when leaders build strong teams where the members' role is significantly expanded so that they share responsibility for the management of the unit (including making the core decisions jointly and holding each other accountable for performance). His recent work on influence has led to exploring the conditions for a "feedback rich organization" where team members, through a structured process, give each other face-to-face feedback to improve individual and team performance.

David Laizerovich
President and CEO at Critical Watch

As president and CEO of Critical Watch, David Laizerovich is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of the company. His insight and entrepreneurial talents have led to numerous opportunities to mold the company’s technology and services into a powerful set of solutions with tangible value to clients and sustainable assets for the corporation. Prior to joining Critical Watch in 2000, Laizerovich was vice president and general manager of the telecommunications business SBU for IEX Corporation. There, he developed the overall SBU direction, strategic and tactical planning and was instrumental in the development of new products. Additional responsibilities included P&L for operations, sales and marketing, research and development and manufacturing. Under his direction, a small software development project group grew into a product-based entity with market-leading products. IEX was acquired by Tekelec Corporation in 1999. Prior to IEX he held various marketing and engineering positions with Motorola. Laizervoch holds four US patents. He has a bachelors degree in electrical engineering/computer science from the University of Connecticut and a masters degree in business administration from the University of Hartford.

Dean Lane
Partner at Office of the CIO

Dean Lane, has almost 30 years of hands on experience in the IT industry, having been a CIO at four different companies: Allied-Signal, Morton-Thiokol, Plantronics, and Masters Institute of Technology. Additionally, he held the positions of Senior IT Director at Symantec, and Corporate Director of Materials at Allied-Signal. Dean has also been a consultant for Ernst & Young, AT&T and the Gartner Group. His experience is global, and he is considered an expert on outsourcing and offshoring. Dean has been certified in the (CGEIT) Corporate Governance of Enterprise IT by ISACA.

F. Joseph Miller
Sr. Director, Information Technology XOMA

A visionary leader and change agent Joe started his career as a scientist at Syntex (Roche) and was an early proponent and leader in the emerging laboratory automation and laboratory information management field. Successful implementation of these systems within Syntex launched his Information Technology leadership career which spans 25 years including CIO / Top IT leadership roles at Enseco – Corning , Synergen, Cygnus Therapeutics, Protein Design Labs, Xilinx and XOMA. In addition to his posts in IT he served as founding VP and head of the U.S. Division of LabSys, Ltd (Lab Automation & LIMS software vendor), Principal Consultant with Systems Consulting Consortium and as a independent Leadership Coach. Joe’s current focus is leading IT at XOMA, a biopharmaceutical company and proven leader in the discovery, development and manufacture of therapeutic antibodies headquartered in Berkeley. He and his wife Barb have three children (two out of college one in) and reside in San Ramon.

Gary L. Reback
Antitrust Lawyer at Carr & Ferrell LLP

Reback worked his way through Yale University programming computers for the school’s economics department. After graduating magna cum laude in 1971, Reback attended law school at Stanford University where he studied antitrust under Professor William F. Baxter and served as an editor of the law review. He clerked for a federal appellate judge in Atlanta, Georgia and worked for several years at a large law firm in Washington, D.C. He moved back to Northern California in 1981, just as Silicon Valley was beginning to blossom. Reback specializes in antitrust and intellectual property litigation and counseling. He has taken a leading role in many of the most celebrated antitrust cases of the last three decades and has represented a number of Silicon Valley’s best known companies. Over the years, Reback has been named to the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” list by the National Law Journal, the “Elite 100” by Upside magazine, the “Top 100” by MicroTimes, and “Lawyers of the Year” by California Lawyer magazine. He has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle and BusinessWeek, among other publications. California Law Business called Reback “the leading proponent of [Silicon] Valley’s emerging technologies in the courts.” The National Law Journal has referred to Reback as the “antitrust champion” and the “protector of the marketplace.” “If there’s one person who’s going to help define antitrust law for the 21st Century,” wrote Wired magazine, “it’s Gary Reback.”

George Adams
Chief Executive Officer at SSH Communications

Proven leader with 20+ years track record launching and building successful new businesses, high-performance teams, leadership products, and strong customer bases, and/or turning around early stage companies and public company businesses to deliver revenue/ profit growth, with international experience in ICT software, hardware and services, Internet and enterprise networking and security, and Web 2.0 for embedded, portable, desktop, server and IBM mainframe systems.

George Lin
Vice President and Chief Information Officer

George Lin is a founding partner of GML & Associates. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Dolby Laboratories responsible for Dolby’s worldwide IT organization and led the company’s global business process optimization, integration, and automation efforts. Before joining Dolby, George was CIO of Advent Software, a leading financial software and services company. Prior to Advent, he led the consolidated IT organization of EMC Software, a division of EMC Corporation, the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. Before it was acquired by EMC, George was CIO of Documentum, a premier provider of enterprise content management solutions. Named a Premier 100 IT Leader by Computerworld magazine in 2003, George won CIO Decisions magazine’s Mid-Market Leadership Award in 2006. Under his leadership, Dolby Laboratories was honored with CIO magazine’s CIO 100 Award in 2008. George is a contributing author of two CIO leadership and IT management books. He serves on the CIO advisory board of the Fisher IT Center at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business and guest lectures at local graduate schools. George graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Glenn Noga
Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Polycom, Inc.

Glenn Noga is CIO of Polycom, Inc. responsible for overseeing all aspects of the global organization’s IT infrastructure and IT management processes, including creating and managing a converged, global IP network for high-quality voice, video and data communications. Prior to joining Polycom, Glenn served in CIO/CTO capacities for leading companies including Handspring, Miadora.com, and Robert Half International. He also spent 16 years with Andersen Consulting, rising to Partner within the global consulting organization. While at Andersen, Glenn worked with a range of global companies in a variety of industries, including computer software, transportation, and manufacturing. In 2008 Polycom received CIO Magazine’s CIO 100 Award, InfoWorld’s InfoWorld 100 award in the Technology Category, and became an InformationWeek 500 Honoree for the transformation of the company's global IP network into a "best-in-class" converged infrastructure for collaborative communications that includes voice, video and data traffic. Polycom was named to the InformationWeek Top 250 Innovators list for a second consecutive year in 2009 for its next-gen Web project, which involved retooling the company’s online presence including a number of intranet and extranet sites. Glenn has a Bachelors and Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Herbert M. Gottlieb
CEO at Gottlieb & Associates

It all started when Herbert M. Gottlieb, CPA, had a vision during an early software enforcement audit. As a financial/accounting computer consultant he was working with a client, a law firm in California, poised with the SPA (now SIIA) to conduct one of the early software raids in 1991. Herb became is known as one of the industry thought leaders in software asset management. Soon after working with SIIA, Herb helped create the Certified Software Managers course—and taught it to over 2,500 IT professionals. It was their input, along with the contribution of attorneys and his own expertise in license compliance, that guided Herb in the founding of Attest Systems, publishers of GASP, a widely used discovery tool. In 2009 Herb opened, Gottlieb & Associates which offers SAM consulting services and subscriptions to valuable SAM data on their website www.samlists.com.

Hongwen Zhang
President and CEO at Wedge Networks

Dr. Zhang co-founded Wedge Networks in 2002. Prior to being appointed president and CEO, Dr. Zhang was Chief Technology Officer at Wedge and was pertinent in developing the high performance architecture of Wedge’s award-winning security appliance, BeSecure Web Gateway. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary; a MSc in Computer Engineering from the Institute of Computer Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, PRC), and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Fudan University (Shanghai, PRC). With more than 18 years of high tech leadership experience, Dr. Zhang is a co-inventor and holder of several patents in the area of computing and networking. Prior to establishing Wedge Network’s, he was a co-founder of the 24C Group Inc., which pioneered the first digital receipts infrastructure for secure electronic commerce. Dr. Zhang was previously principal of Servidium Inc., now ThoughtWorks Canada Inc., a global leader in agile development methodology.

Howard Hastings
ITAM Evangelist CSM, ASM, IAITAM Fellow at CA, Inc.

Howard Hastings is CA’s ITAM Evangelist and board chairman of TagVault.org. Howard joined CA when it acquired DecisionRight in 2007 where he was co-founder and VP of Solutions. At DecisionRight, Howard helped draft the initial versions of the ISO 19770-2 (“Software Data Tag”) and 19770-3 (“Entitlement”) standards. Previously Howard held leadership positions with Remedy, Comdisco and ReliaStar Financial. An IAITAM Fellow, Howard was SAM Practitioner of the Year in 2007 (IBSMA), is a frequent speaker and writer for trade publications, has been an expert witness for software copyright infringement and counterfeiting litigation, and has taught and performed multiple updates of the Certified Software Manager (CSM) and Advanced Software Manager (ASM).

Ido Sarig
Chief Marketing Officer at BDNA

Ido spent much of his professional career with Mercury Interactive, where he was one of the first employees. As Mercury's Vice President of Technology Strategy he was responsible for the company's technology roadmap, and for evaluating new technologies and business opportunities for Mercury. Under his leadership, Mercury acquired Kintana, Appilog, Performant and Allerez. Prior to that, as Mercury's Vice President of Product Marketing he launched Topaz, the first Application Performance Management solution for real-time monitoring of a user’s experience on the Web. Ido was a Venture Partner with Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, where he focused on enterprise software. Ido holds an MBA, Magna Cum Laude, from Tel Aviv University . He earned his BS, Cum Laude, in Computer Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Isaac Garcia
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Central Desktop

As co-founder and CEO of Central Desktop, Isaac oversees business strategy and sales for the company. Isaac has a proven record in both early-stage technology companies and enterprise sales & marketing. He started his technology career in 1996 as the first sales rep at Quote Desk Software, which was later acquired by CNET Networks, Inc. in 2000. As a founding partner at Upgradebase, Isaac served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing where he oversaw all business development and sales for the company. During his 3 year tenure at CNET, Isaac served as a Director of North America Enterprise Sales for CNET Channel. As Director, he was responsible for the acquisition, sales and management of global partnerships with Microsoft, Google, EBay, Yahoo, Insight and BestBuy. Isaac led and managed CNET's global partnership with Microsoft to launch the Windows Marketplace campaign in 14 countries, the largest sales and marketing campaign ever launched by Microsoft. Isaac received a BA in English from Ambassador University and attended the University of Northern Colorado Graduate School where he studied English Literature for a Master of Arts.

Javier Torner (Dr.)
Chief Information Security Officer at California State University

Dr. Javier Torner is the Information Security Officer at California State University San Bernardino where coordinates and oversees the implementation of information security initiatives and measures for the campus telecommunications network and computer systems. Dr. Torner is the Activities Director for a US Department of Education Cooperative Title V Grant Improving Access to Information Systems at Hispanic Serving Institutions which addresses information security issues at the participating institutions. Dr. Torner is a Professor of Physics with a specialty in high energy and computational physics.

Jeff Bell
Director Corporate Marketing at Zetta

Jeff runs corporate marketing for Zetta including branding, public relations, corporate communications and lead generation. Prior to Zetta, Jeff was VP of Marketing at Pivot3 launching them into market with an award-winning, revenue-producing new product category. As VP of Marketing at Pillar Data Systems, he helped achieve the largest first year storage company revenue with 100 new customers and $12M. As VP and GM of the Unisys, he redefined and modernized the storage business, growing revenues to $400M and increasing gross margins by over 50%.

Jeff Kushner
Director of Marketing at Modulo

Jeff Kushner is responsible for Modulo’s marketing strategy, including product and corporate marketing, brand management and communications. Kushner joins Modulo with over 25 years experience in marketing, product management and engineering experience in the IT Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) management, IT security, system management, and IT operations management. Kushner has held various positions with industry leaders including BindView (now Symantec), BMC Software, Compuware Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Electronic Data Systems.

Jim DeLong
Vice President, COO and Senior Analyst at Convergence Law Institute, LLC

From 2003 to 2007, Mr. DeLong was a Senior Fellow with the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a market oriented think tank in Washington, DC, where he directed its activities concerning intellectual property rights, particularly its website and blog, IPCentral.Info and its Center for the Study of Digital Property. Before joining PFF, DeLong was a Senior Analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Vice President, and before that the Vice President and General Counsel of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest. Earlier jobs included a long stint as an independent lawyer and consultant, working primarily on environmental and energy matters; and tours as Research Director of the Administrative Conference of the United States; as Assistant Director for Special Projects in the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission; and as a Senior Analyst in the Office of Program Evaluation at the United States Bureau of the Budget. He started his career as a litigation lawyer with the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers. Mr. DeLong is a magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was Book Review Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a cum laudegraduate of Harvard College, where he majored in U.S. History. He is the author of many scholarly and popular books, articles, commentaries, legal briefs, speeches, and blogs, and has often testified before congressional committees. He belongs to the bars of the District of Columbia, California (inactive), the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Jim Frome
Chief Strategy Officer and EVP

Jim Frome is responsible for setting the marketing, sales and technology strategy for SPS Commerce. Since joining SPS in 2000, Mr. Frome has expanded and secured the company's leadership position in Web-based EDI. Mr. Frome has been named a "Pro to Know" by Supply & Demand Chain, written numerous whitepapers including Trading Partner Integration Centers – The SaaS Model for EDI, and is a frequent speaker at customer and industry events. Mr. Frome has more than 24 years of experience in technology marketing and management positions. Previously, he served as a divisional vice president of marketing at Sterling Software, and director of product management at Information Advantage. Prior to Information Advantage, Mr. Frome held several marketing and product development positions in which he focused on building business partnerships and resellers for IBM’s AS400 division.

Jim Machi
Senior Vice President, Marketing at Dialogic

Jim Machi is Senior Vice President, Marketing, responsible for developing marketing strategy and driving marketing communications for Dialogic. He is also responsible for long term product planning and strategy for all Dialogic products. Machi joined the business in 1998 as Director of Product Management, working to develop the company's IP telephony roadmap and strategy and was recognized by Internet Telephony Magazine as one of the "Top 100 Voices of IP Communications" in October 2006, and by VoIP-News as one of the "50 most influential people in VoIP" in November, 2006. In February 2010, Dialogic became a founding member of the Video Convergence Forum and Machi is Co-Chair of Global Marketing. Machi holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Joe Gottlieb
Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Technology Alliances at McAfee, Inc.

Joe is Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Technology Alliances at McAfee, responsible for developing and implementing corporate strategy throughout the company, and creating the Security Innovation Alliance, McAfee's technology partnering program. Prior to McAfee, he served as Director of Strategy and Business Development at Nokia Enterprise Solutions for the Security & Mobile Connectivity Business Unit. Previously, Joe was with META Group as EVP of Marketing, Sales and Online Services and before that as VP and Service Director of the Open Computing and Server Strategies service where he led a team of analysts providing market research and consulting services. He began his career as a network consultant for Ernst & Young, and holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

John Weinschenk
President and CEO at Cenzic

John Weinschenk is a technology executive who has led several companies to unprecedented success. John's career is marked by an unusually broad background in both engineering and business. John has led technical groups in key security and enterprise software firms, and has brought his in-depth understanding of the latest technologies, market dynamics, and business models to leadership roles in business-strategy and marketing divisions at leading corporations. He brings a unique and rich experience to his role in leading Cenzic from technology innovator to market leader. John holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a BS in engineering from Union College. John is also a graduate of Stanford University's Executive Management Program, and is a frequent speaker at universities, seminars, and conferences in the US and abroad.

Keith Rupnik
Director of Education & Content at International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, Inc. (IAITAM)

Keith Rupnik has been in technology since the early 1980s. He has worked in the financial, manufacturing, publishing and life sciences industries. His experience includes responsibilities in product development, product management, marketing and sales and business development, from startups to Fortune 500s. He is currently Director of Education and Content Development at the International Association of IT Asset Managers. Keith has been with IAITAM since 2006 where he teaches all three certification ITAM courses and contributes to the development of course materials and IAITAM’s publications.

Laura Yecies
CEO at SugarSync/Vice President of Marketing & GM, Consumer Check Point Software

Laura Yecies Chief Executive Officer Laura is a consumer software and Internet services industry veteran with two decades of experience leading top consumer brands such as ZoneAlarm, Yahoo and Netscape. Yecies was General Manager of the ZoneAlarm consumer and small business division at Check Point Software, responsible for all facets of business development, marketing, sales, and product when she first was a speaker at Technosium. She led key initiatives to drive ZoneAlarm’s technology vision and significantly increase revenue & brand awareness. Previously, at Yahoo, Yecies served as General Manager of the Yahoo Mail division. Earlier, Yecies was Vice President of the Netscape browser division at AOL. Prior to Netscape, she was charged with developing & leading the market entry strategy for Informix Software Corp. in Latin America. Yecies received her M.B.A. from Harvard.

Lorraine M. Frost
Associate Vice President, Information Resources and Technology at California State University

Lorraine has over 8 years of Information Technology experience. She completed her PMP certification on May 18, 2009. The Associate Vice President's office oversees the divisional budget, is fully engaged in the Accessible Technology Initiative, assists in the sponsorship of the SecureIT conference, manages disaster recovery and business continuity planning for the division, and responds to the plethora of requests for technology surveys.

Mark Miller
Vice President of Sales at Scalable Software Inc.

Mark Miller is responsible for Scalable Software Sales worldwide. Mr. Miller joined Scalable from Bindview Development, where he served in senior management roles for 11 years including CIO, VP of Operations, Sales Director and Technical Support Manager. Prior to joining Bindview, Mr. Miller served as Systems Manager for the Base Mainframe for the USAF while stationed in Germany and Turkey in direct support of operation Desert Storm.

Michael Scheidell
Founder and CEO at SECNAP Network Security

Michael Scheidell is the company's founder and chief executive officer. A recognized expert, speaker and author in the network and data security community, Mr. Scheidell has a strong history of innovation and leadership. He also serves as the company's chief technologist, leading the SECNAP development team in the ongoing pursuit of the next generation of security technology. Since founding SECNAP in 2001, he and his team have aggressively developed a suite of IT security and anti-spam products with impressive results, including unrivaled intrusion detection and prevention technology and the revolutionary SpammerTrap email security solution. Security technology developed by Mr. Scheidell was awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in October, 2009.

Michelle Reese
Global Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Adaptive Engineering, LLC

With more than a decade of industry experience in sales, marketing, and business development, Michelle Reese leads the overall global sales strategy for Adaptive Engineering. Michelle has extensive executive sales experience selling complex software solutions into the communication service providers market and delivering excellent results through the building of strong sales and partner organizations. She most recently held the Senior Director of Sales position with Sigma Systems, Inc. where she closed an expansive multi-million dollar contract with Charter Communications and contributed in a single fiscal year over $22 million of new business revenue. Before this Michelle held other senior roles in the software industry, becoming known for her straight shooting business acumen and un-paralleled consensus building, at Dell Computer Corporation, Orchestream, PLC (now Oracle), Metasolv (now Oracle), and Primal Solutions. In addition to her work with customers, Michelle led partnering initiatives with Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Juniper Networks, and Nortel Networks. Michelle holds a Bachelor’s Degree with honors from Valparaiso University.

Norbert Kubilus CCP MBCS
Managing Director at Kubilus Ferri Group

Award-winning senior technology and operations executive with expertise in managing organizations in transition and through turnaround situations. Norbert's management and consulting experience ranges from start-up to Global 1000 companies, as well as with non-profits and government agencies. With excellent business process and strategy development skills, he is effective at building culturally diverse, team-centered operating units. His approach to operations is customer-centric, and he has the ability to initiate and leverage profitable alliances with vendors, suppliers and other business partners to drive value. Norbert also enjoys an international reputation as an expert in implementing state-of-the-art technology to achieve competitive advantage.

Rake Narang
Editor-in-Chief at Network Products Guide

As industry's leading technology research and advisory publication, Network Products Guide plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com

Randall Skoglund
Executive Director at Americans for Technology Leadership

Randall Skoglund is executive director of Americans for Technology Leadership, a broad-based coalition focused, in part, on public policy issues affecting the technology industry. In the early years, the consumer was typically best served by letting innovation flourish without the heavy hand of government regulation. This has been the core principle of ATL throughout its existence. It is not an ideology, though, and as the technology industry has matured it is important to explain a limited and responsible view for the role of government regulation. The burden of proof still rests with those who would regulate technology. Sometimes it is necessary for the government, working with the industry, to set standards and establish rules of the road always with an eye toward demonstrable consumer benefits.

Rob Chaplinsky Bridgescale Partners
Managing Director and Co-founder at Bridgescale Partners

Rob Chaplinsky is the Managing Director and co-founder of Bridgescale Partners and brings more than 12 years of investing experience and more than 15 years of marketing experience to technology companies. Prior to forming Bridgescale, Rob was as a general partner at early stage venture capital firm, Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV). At MDV, Rob was the lead investor and board member in launching companies such as Accelerant Networks (acquired by Synopsys), Brion Technologies (acquired by ASML), Cooligy (acquired by Emerson Electric), Pivotal Technologies (acquired by Broadcom), Pixim Technologies and Quake Technologies (acquired by AMCC). Before joining MDV, Rob was technology research analyst at Hambrecht & Quist. In that capacity, Rob led investment research on some of the industry's most dynamic public and private semiconductor companies in the United States and Asia. During that time, Rob also made personal investments in successful private companies including FormFactor (NASDAQ: FORM), Galileo (sold to Marvell), Netboost (sold to Intel) and Quantum Effect Design (sold to PMC Sierra). At Bridgescale, Rob is the lead investment representative in Bluecat Networks, Cortina Systems, IMVU, Incentium, Proofpoint and Open-Silicon. Rob earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Robert D. Rodriguez
Chairman and Founder Security Innovation Network (SINET)

Robert D. Rodriguez is the Chairman and Founder of the Security Innovation Network (SINET) www.security-innovation.org whose focus is on the advancement of IT security innovation into the industry and government markets. Previous to this he spent over twenty-two years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. During this tenure he held a number of leadership roles within Executive Protection, Protective Intelligence and Criminal Investigations. He served as a supervisor on the Presidential Protective Detail, Counter Assault Team, Protective Intelligence and Criminal Investigation operations. His executive protection experience spanned 11 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald W. Reagan, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle and numerous Heads of State.

For the last two and a half years of his career Mr. Rodriguez managed Secret Service operations for the Northern District of California and spearheaded the development of the Secret Service’s first public-private partnership cyber initiative in the Bay Area. He was at the forefront of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) effort to establish partnerships with key government; public, private and international stakeholders relative to the IT security of their critical infrastructures. In 2003 Mr. Rodriguez chaired a DHS and Secret Service sponsored National IT security symposium at Stanford University and he continues to influence executives of Fortune 500 companies to engage in public-private partnerships. Since 2005 he has been coordinating the public private partnership outreach for the DHS SRI International Cyber Security R & D Center. As an advisor to these programs Mr. Rodriguez brings together representatives from disparate groups (academia, science, private industry, investment banking, government, system integrators, intelligence communities, entrepreneurs, policy makers, innovators, DoD, law enforcement and venture capital) to collaborate on IT security challenges and needs. He was the catalyst behind private industries input towards the design of a Computer Security academic module/curriculum for Stanford University and assisted in the coordination of a National Science Foundation supported academic internship program with industry partners. Mr. Rodriguez is the Chairman of fourth annual IT Security Entrepreneurs’ Forum (ITSEF IV) held every year at Stanford University. A critical focus is "bridging gaps" between innovative early stage and emerging IT security solution providers from across the nation and the system integration, industry and Federal Government markets. In addition, ITSEF V will take place in Washington DC in October 2010. The primary focus of ITSEF V will be to match the Federal Government’s most critical needs and requirements with the "best of class" cyber security solutions. Representatives from the System Integration, Academic, Science, Federal Government, Private Industry, DoD, Venture Capital and Investment Banking communities will be in attendance.

Sam Bhaumik
Senior Managing Director, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGC)

Samir Bhaumik joined Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGC) in November 2004 as a Managing Director and was promoted to Senior Managing Director in September 2006. He served as Vice President - Western Region of the New York Stock Exchange from March 2003 to October 2004. Prior to working for the New York Stock Exchange, Sam was Senior Vice President of Comerica Bank, previously Imperial Bank, from April 1993 to February 2003. Sam received a B.A. from San Jose State University and an M.B.A from Santa Clara University. He serves on the advisory boards of Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and the American Electronics Association-Bay Area council.

Sana Madan
Managing Editor at Consumer Guide and Info Security Products Guide

Info Security Products Guide sponsors leading conferences and expos worldwide and plays a vital role in keeping end-users informed of the choices they can make when it comes to protecting their digital resources. It is written expressly for those who are adamant on staying informed of security threats and the preventive measure they can take. You will discover a wealth of information in this guide including tomorrow's technology today, best deployment scenarios, people and technologies shaping info security and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent security decisions. The Info Security Products Guide Awards recognize and honor excellence in all areas of information security. To learn more, visit www.infosecurityproductsguide.com and stay secured.

Scott Draughon
Chief Executive Counsel

Richard Scott Draughon is one of Florida's foremost authorities on information technology law and policy. Scott is the President, founder and Chief Executive Counsel for Draughon Professional Association, one of the larger technology law firms in the state of Florida. He is also the founder and author of MyTechnologyLawyer.com, an online interactive resource for managing the legal affairs of the technology enterprise.

Scott Gordon
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development

AccelOps provides an integrated data center and cloud service management solution delivered as a virtual appliance or SaaS. Scott Gordon serves as the vice president of marketing and business development for AccelOps. Scott has 20 years of marketing, product management and business development experience across enterprise software, networking, data management and security domains. He has lead marketing at start-ups including SenSage, Protego and Internet Tools, as well as held director and senior product management positions at Axent, McAfee, Cheyenne Software and Computer Associates. Scott is ITIL, CISSP and ISSMP certified and holds a masters degree in marketing, as well as degrees in marketing and MIS.

Scott Young
Vice President Marketing and Product Management

Scott brings over 17 years experience working as a senior executive in technology industries including enterprise software, internet services, and semiconductors. Prior to joining Ensim, Scott was Vice President of Marketing at PostPath (acquired by Cisco), developers of the industry’s first natively compatible alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Prior to PostPath, Scott was CEO of UserLand Software, a leading provider of weblog and web publishing solutions. Previous positions include Chief Technology Officer and SVP of Products and Corporate Strategy for Vicinity Corporation a leader in location based services [Nasdaq: VCNT] where he also served as SVP of Operations.

Steve Shillingford
President and CEO

Steve has more than 15 years of experience in sales, operations and management in technology companies. He joined Solera Networks in early 2007 from Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for some of the largest deals in the company during his tenure, all in the Rocky Mountain region. Steve was named top salesperson within Oracle in 2005 as a result of his success in growing the company's presence in the region and his consistently strong performance in meeting revenue objectives. Prior to joining Oracle in 2000, Steve held several sales and operational management positions at Novell. Steve holds a B.S. with honors in Psychology from Brigham Young University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School and University of California at Berkeley.