2008 Conference Presentations

David is a seasoned executive with fifteen years of experience in the marketing and selling of enterprise, consumer and service provider networking equipment on a global level. Prior to Xangati, David held product marketing and marketing communications executive positions for CoSine Communications and Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel Networks). David holds a BS in Economics from The Wharton School, UPENN.

Jim brings 20 years of product development and marketing experience - focused on network and service management products for enterprise, telecom and government organizations to his role as vice president of marketing at NetScout. Previously, Jim was VP of strategic marketing at Micromuse. Prior to that, his roles included director of worldwide product marketing at Agilent Technologies, and manager of Cabletron?s SPECTRUM service provider products group. Jim has spoken at numerous events worldwide on network performance, service level management, OSS, VoIP, and IP QoS. He holds an MSc. degree in Computer and Information Sciences from RPI.

Jim McQuaid is Director, Product Management at NetQoS. A graduate of the University of Michigan, McQuaid has worked in network performance analysis, digital signal processing and measurement and control for a variety of established and startup companies including Analog Devices, Bay Networks, Ganymede and NetQoS. McQuaid is the co-author of RFC 1944 and 2544 and was the Chair of the IETF Benchmarking Methodologies Working Group from 1995 to 1998. In recent years McQuaid has focussed primarily on application and network performance. Outside of work, he is an active filmmaker.

Sheila Childs Director, Software Product Marketing EMC Information Management Software Group Sheila Childs is a Director of Marketing in EMC?s Content Management Software Group, a worldwide leader in the development and delivery of enterprise content management and archiving solutions. 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.

Sunil Potti is Vice President of Product Development for the Acceleration and Virtualization Group at F5 Networks. Sunil brings many years of experience in delivering enterprise applications and next generation application infrastructure technologies to the market. In his current role, he is responsible for delivering F5?s application acceleration products including WAN optimization and web acceleration solutions. Prior to F5, Sunil was Director of Engineering at Cisco Systems where he led the Application Oriented Networking product group. He has also held positions at Synchrony and Sybase.

Tim Richards is Senior Product Manager for WAN Acceleration products at Juniper Networks, where he defines product features, direction and strategy for the company?s application acceleration product portfolio. With more than 15 years of people management, product management and field experience in the networking industry, Richards brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Richards joined Juniper Networks as part of the acquisition of Peribit Networks in 2005, where he held a key technical role in the EMEA Sales Operation. Prior to Peribit Networks, Richards held various managerial and senior technical roles at Lucent Technologies, IBM and 3Com. Richards earned a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.

Steve Guthrie has spent the past decade in the networking and telephony markets as an active participant in the emergence of LANs, WANs and IP technologies and most recently with unified communications such as IP voice, video, presence and messaging. As the director of product marketing for CA?s Network and Voice Management Solution, which includes the eHealth performance manager, SPECTRUM fault manager, and eHealth for Voice phone system manager offerings, Guthrie is responsible for understanding how enterprises, public-sector agencies, telcos and managed service providers use network and voice management solutions and for communicating these experiences and industry best practices to help other organizations optimize their converged network investments and achieve high end-user satisfaction. Additionally, he works in conjunction with product management to understand the needs of large enterprises, telcos and MSPs and define solutions that span these customers? existing networks as well as the networks they are building to support the fast-growing demand for IP services for voice, video and data. Prior to joining CA, Inc., Guthrie was director of global product marketing for Integrated Research. of Sydney, Australia, which develops and sells the PROGNOSIS IP telephony management software solution for large enterprises and managed service providers. Prior to this, he was vice president of marketing at Xelor Software, a start-up based in the Boston area that was focused on solving new and complex business problems associated with time-sensitive, real-time IP communications contending for valuable and expensive bandwidth with data-centric applications. Prior to his appointment at Xelor, Guthrie was director of marketing at Pingtel, where he was recognized for his role in making the Pingtel phone a ubiquitous symbol of IP telephony and SIP-based communications.

Sung Moon is Director of Technical Readiness and Serviceability for Avaya Global Services. His responsibilities include training Avaya?s support engineers for new solution launches, driving serviceability features into Avaya?s converged solutions, and supporting critical and complex escalations. Sung?s technical background is primarily in enterprise networking and IP telephony, and he holds a CCNP certification. Prior to becoming a director Sung was an R&D engineer and manager of a critical escalation team at Avaya. Prior to coming to Avaya, Sung served in the USAF as a communications engineer, worked in the Defense industry as a Service Provider for the DoD, and worked in the financial industry as an enterprise network engineer for a prominent brokerage firm. Sung earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Southern Illinois University.

VP Marketing, Embotics Corporation A dynamic, successful and well rounded 30 year veteran of the high tech marketplace with international expertise, David has spent the past 11 years in the security industry, working and writing about security technologies and trends ranging from authentication and access control to security middleware, Public Key Infrastructure, virtual private networks, deperimeterization, and compliance. Prior to Embotics Corporation, David previously held VP Worldwide Marketing roles at Apani Networks, Array Networks, Rainbow Technologies and Kyberpass Corp, and was President of Cablecom International. A long time member of Mensa, Mr. Lynch holds degrees in Nautical Science (City of London), Computer Technology (Montreal) and an MBA from the University of Toronto.

Paul Prince brings more than 20 years of computer industry experience to his current role as Director of Enterprise Technologies, within Dell?s Office of the CTO. In this position, Mr. Prince is responsible for leading Dell?s initiatives on virtualization, as well as directing the company?s Client and Server Architecture teams, and overseeing development of the core technologies associated with those platforms. Paul Prince holds a bachelor of science degree in physics from Abilene Christian University, and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah.

David L. Black, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Engineer at EMC Corporation and has been the chair of a number of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Working Groups, including the IP Storage (ips) Working Group. In the latter role, he has overseen standardization of block storage over IP protocols (e.g., iSCSI, FCIP, iFCP). At EMC he contributes to technology and product strategy and serves as a consulting engineer to product groups across the company. Prior to EMC, Dr. Black performed operating systems research and development at the Research Institute of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), later part of The Open Group. Dr. Black holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University along with an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Michael Frendo, senior vice president, High-End Security Systems (HSS) Business Unit at Juniper Networks, has more than 20 years of technology, engineering, and product partnership experience. In his current role, Frendo is responsible for the leadership of the current and next generation security and network traffic visibility technologies and products . Prior to joining Juniper, Michael was responsible for leading system architecture, worldwide product development and customer engagements for the entire product line at McDATA Corporation. Previously, Frendo was the vice president for Systems and Software Engineering at Cisco Systems. Frendo holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering form McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

Jack Pouchet - Bio Jack Pouchet, BA, MBA Business Administration, Director Energy Initiatives for Emerson Network Power / Liebert is based in Southern California and works closely with major OEMs in the server market, large data center users, and leading mission critical engineering firms to help define, architect, and create opportunities for advanced power and cooling technologies that improve day-to-day operational efficiencies. Jack brings over twenty years of related OEM power supply, power generation, distribution, and power product sales and marketing experience to Emerson Network Power giving him a unique end-to-end perspective of the entire AC and DC power path. An active member of several industry and sustainability associations including The Green Grid and the Union of Concerned Scientists, Jack is frequently engaged with Federal and State agencies in research and legislation centered on alternative / renewable energy as well as energy efficiency including support of the EPA in their report to Congress on data center operations under H.R. 5646. As a scientist/inventor Jack has corporate IP and patent submittals in place for alternative/renewable energy components, systems, and architectures specifically addressing the IT, networking, data center, and electric utility markets.

Andrew Hillier has over 15 years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for the world's largest financial institutions and utilities. A co-founder of CiRBA, he leads product strategy and defines the overall technology roadmap for the company. Prior to CiRBA, Hillier pioneered a state of the art systems management solution which was acquired by Sun Microsystems and now serves as the foundation of their flagship systems management product, Sun Management Center. Hillier has also led the development of solutions for major financial institutions, including fixed income, equity, futures & options and interest rate derivatives trading systems, as well as in the fields of covert military surveillance, advanced traffic and train control, and the robotic inspection and repair of nuclear reactors. Hillier holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from The University of New Brunswick.

As founder and CEO of PlateSpin, Stephen leads the long-term business strategy for the company. Stephen is a seasoned IT veteran, with a strong history of creating products and solutions that exceed customer expectations. He brings nearly 25 years of experience in marketing, sales, development and service of successful commercial software products in a variety of technology and market segments. Prior to founding PlateSpin, Stephen was Vice President, Product Management at FloNetwork Inc., a leading direct marketing and email software/services ASP. Under his leadership, the company established itself as the number one supplier of scalable software services to direct marketers and on-line publishers in an ASP context. Prior to that, Stephen held a number of senior management and business unit management positions in a variety of business, marketing and technical roles with companies such as Fulcrum Technologies (now part of OpenText) and NCR Corporation and as an independent technology consultant. Stephen is a product of Queen's University, where he studied both Math and Computing Science and more recently completed business leadership training at the Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario.

Hank has more than 25 years of hands-on experience in information technology and truly understands all sides of the IT equation. His background spans managing, organizing, and optimizing IT infrastructures and organizations and he has extensive experience helping IT executives and organizations implement IT governance and operational frameworks. Hank has helped dozens of companies implement IT service management best practices. Prior to joining EMA, Hank was the Chief Technology Officer for itSM Solutions, an IT service management training and coaching organization where he oversaw development and delivery of IT management training programs. Previously, as CIO at e-commerce financial services provider Celexis, he aligned with business, guided restructuring projects, led teams to improve customer satisfaction, and designed processes and programs to measurably improve efficiency and control costs. During his time as CTO at management software company Opticom, he directed product architectures and led marketing and software development groups to align with service management best practices to improve sales and market positioning. Hank leverages his unique perspective to help transform clients from good to great by applying business-aligned IT service management principles. Hank?s down-to-earth approach stresses break-through improvements in quality, cost control, and alignment between IT and the business. Hank?s industry credentials include membership in ISACA, itSMF, ASQ, and PMI. He holds ITIL Service Manager with distinction in Service Delivery, Six Sigma Green Belt, and COBIT certifications. His formal studies include Computer Science, Communications Technology, and he is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology.

Byron Henderson has led Product Management, Marketing, and Sales teams in the Networking field for 25 years. He has overseen the development and launch of new technologies in voice and data integration, security, switching, routing, and wireless. Since 2005, Mr. Henderson has been VP of Marketing at MeshDynamics, an innovator in Third-Generation wireless mesh technologies based on highly distributed radio intelligence in a multiple-radio node architecture. In this role, he has helped define new product capabilities to address an emerging enterprise market for this technology. Prior to MeshDynamics, he held a variety of Product Management and Marketing roles at Cisco Systems. Mr. Henderson helped launch Cisco's highly successful Voice-over-IP product lines, both wide area and PBX replacement. His teams were also responsible for product definition, launch, marketing, and technical support of a variety of other technologies from switching to routing to security and 802.11 wireless. Mr. Henderson joined Cisco Systems through the acquisition of StrataCom, a leading voice and data wide area switching manufacturer. Mr. Henderson led a team focused on the definition, development, and deployment of voice integration products for Frame Relay and ATM environments. Mr. Henderson's experience includes Product Management and Marketing executive positions at Fibermux Corporation (later ADC) and MICOM Corporation (later NorTel), as well as product definition, marketing, and product management consulting roles with a variety of networking vendors.

Darwin is a WLAN pioneer, beginning with WLAN technology development in 1994 at Netwave Technologies, which was acquired by Nortel Networks in 1998. Since that time Darwin has led several WLAN development projects at Nortel and is now part of Nortel's Enterprise Technology, Strategy and Architecture Team. His current activities include WLAN research, standards making and product strategies. Darwin has been a regular participant and contributor to the 802.11 standards making process for the past 13 years, with over 50 submissions and direct involvement in the creation of 802.11, 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11d, 802.11e, 802.11F, 802.11g, 802.11h, 802.11i, 802.11j, 802.11k, 802.11r and 802.11ma (802.11-2007) including a role as task group vice-chair. He continues to be involved in 9 active task groups and 3 study groups in 802.11, including the Very High Throughput (Gigabit Wireless) effort. Darwin graduated with honors in Electronic Engineering at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and is the holder of seven patents.

Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 30-year industry veteran and published author, he has global responsibility for the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He currently serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as Board member of the Green Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture, design, implementation and operation of large heterogeneous SANs, archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a nine-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University?s Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization.

Marcus Sachs is the Director of the SANS Internet Storm Center, an all-volunteer watch dog organization focused on early warning and analysis of developing Internet threats and vulnerabilities. He has been the SANS ISC director since September 2003 and is also one of SANS? top rated instructors. He is currently employed by Verizon where he is an Executive Director of Government Affairs for National Security Policy in Washington, D.C. He is also a member of the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency. Mr. Sachs' professional experience includes a 20 year military career as an officer in the United States Army followed by two years of federal civilian service at the White House and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. After retiring from the military in 2001 he was appointed by the President to serve concurrently on the staff of the National Security Council as the Director for Communication Infrastructure Protection, and on the staff of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Mr. Sachs joined the National Cyber Security Division of the US Department of Homeland Security in June 2003, where he was responsible for developing the implementation plan for the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. While working for DHS, he developed the initial concept and strategy for the creation of the United States Computer Emergency Response Team. Mr. Sachs holds a Master of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Information Security from James Madison University, a Master of Science in Science and Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the Army's Command and General Staff College, the Army Engineer School, the Army Computer Science School, and the Army's Airborne and Air Assault schools. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University.

Michael O'Reirdan is a Comcast Distinguished Engineer with a particular interest in the issues of Spam, Bots and associated network abuse. Michael is also Chairman of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). Michael has been with Comcast since 2003 and in that time has also been responsible for the introduction of the residential network provisioning platform as well as the core X.500 platform which is at its core. Prior to working with Comcast, Michael held a number of positions with Cable and Wireless in the United Kingdom, USA and Australia. These mainly related to ISP platform design and prior to that, Michael was involved with a variety of messaging platforms such as X.400, ccMail and Fax delivery. Michael is an Irish citizen, a diver, a pilot and a resident of New Jersey.

Lawrence Vertal brings more than 20 years of operational management, strategic relations, corporate governance, and marketing experience to his role as Senior Strategist for AMD. In this role, Mr. Vertal is responsible for both the strategy and execution of selected corporate and commercial initiatives. Mr. Vertal has more than two decades of operational management, strategic relations, corporate governance and marketing experience with technology companies. His range of success spans from startups to Fortune 100 corporations. He has served on the board of directors of The Green Grid consortium since its founding. Mr. Vertal was named by InformationWeek as one of the 15 Innovators & Influencers for 2008. Prior to joining AMD, Mr. Vertal was vice president of marketing for Conita Technologies. While at AST Research he was responsible for the multiprocessor systems business and served as worldwide representative of the executive office. At MAI Systems, Mr. Vertal oversaw development and marketing of four generations of parallel processing systems. Vertal was also the founder of Condor Data and a founding partner of Apollo Enterprise Solutions, LLC Mr. Vertal holds a bachelors degree in Bacteriology with a minor in Philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles followed by graduate research in Chemistry focused on paramagnetic resonance.

Gavriella Schuster has worked at Microsoft over the last 13 years in a variety of roles. She is currently a senior director in the Windows Product Management Group where she is leading the efforts on building the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, which includes SoftGrid application virtualization. Other roles at Microsoft include work in the US subsidiary driving licensing sales and marketing, Enterprise Services, field business development, training initiative development, segment marketing, worldwide training channel strategy and worldwide operations. She carries with her 13 years of experience in managing and deploying program and product initiatives, 15 years of sales and account management experience, 6 years of licensing marketing and sales experience, 9 years of experience in channel management within the software industry. Prior to coming to Microsoft she worked 5 years at Adobe Systems.

Henrik Rosendahl was the CEO of Thinstall prior to the acquisition by VMware. Mr. Rosendahl led the launch, strategic partnerships and world wide market expansion of Thinstall?s Application Virtualization Suite. Prior to Thinstall Henrik was the Executive Vice President of Premitech inc. as leading provider of end-user based performance management.

Hank has more than 25 years of hands-on experience in information technology and truly understands all sides of the IT equation. His background spans managing, organizing, and optimizing IT infrastructures and organizations and he has extensive experience helping IT executives and organizations implement IT governance and operational frameworks. Hank has helped dozens of companies implement IT service management best practices. Prior to joining EMA, Hank was the Chief Technology Officer for itSM Solutions, an IT service management training and coaching organization where he oversaw development and delivery of IT management training programs. Previously, as CIO at e-commerce financial services provider Celexis, he aligned with business, guided restructuring projects, led teams to improve customer satisfaction, and designed processes and programs to measurably improve efficiency and control costs. During his time as CTO at management software company Opticom, he directed product architectures and led marketing and software development groups to align with service management best practices to improve sales and market positioning. Hank leverages his unique perspective to help transform clients from good to great by applying business-aligned IT service management principles. Hank?s down-to-earth approach stresses break-through improvements in quality, cost control, and alignment between IT and the business. Hank?s industry credentials include membership in ISACA, itSMF, ASQ, and PMI. He holds ITIL Service Manager with distinction in Service Delivery, Six Sigma Green Belt, and COBIT certifications. His formal studies include Computer Science, Communications Technology, and he is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology.