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, University of Pennsylvania.

Jim McQuaid drives Strategic Product Initiatives 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, NetIQ 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, having recently completed a docudrama about the end of cheap oil (www.afterthepeak.com).

Kevin's 30 year career in IT technology encompasses software engineering, systems engineering, product management, sales, marketing and business development. As Vice President of Marketing for Mazu Networks, Conklin leads the team responsible for product strategy, management and marketing as well as corporate communications and marketing programs. With more than 15 years of executive management experience, Conklin has played an instrumental role in the success of various high technology companies. He was formerly the Chief Marketing Officer for SMARTS, a leader in IT fault analysis software. Conklin also served as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Executive Vice President of Business Development at Concord Communications, where he was part of the executive team that led the company's successful IPO by creating a new market niche for network health reporting. Prior to Concord, Conklin was Vice President of Product Development and Marketing at Artel Communications, a pioneer in network switching technology. Kevin is also the founder of Supercell Consulting Group, LLC, which provides executive level marketing, sales and business development strategic consulting and implementation services to growing technology companies.

John P. Pironti is the Chief Information Risk Strategist for CompuCom. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security programs, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, government, hospitality, aerospace and information technology on a global scale. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and a Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). He is also a published author and writer, and a frequent speaker on electronic business and security topics at domestic and international industry conferences. Before joining CompuCom, Mr. Pironti was a Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect and Principal Security Consultant for Unisys, Inc. Prior to that he has held technical and management positions at AT&T and Genuity Inc. Mr. Pironti has a B.S. degree in imaging systems management from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall.

Steve Brasen Analyst Steve's career at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) follows 19 years of industry experience in system operations and engineering. Prior to joining EMA, Steve managed an Enterprise Storage Operations team at Agilent Technologies, which involved supervising a global 24x7 support team, implementing support procedures and providing technical solutions to enhance the enterprise storage environment. Steve began his career as a Systems Administrator for UNIX International, learning the industry and assisting in the development of the open system standards for the first release of UNIX System V.4. He continued to enhance his career in operations as a Senior UNIX Administrator for AT&T and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). As a Senior Analyst for the Vital Records department of Wall Street firm, Salomon Smith Barney, Steve redirected his career to engineering and managing enterprise storage systems and applications. As a Systems Engineer at MCI Worldcom, Steve was instrumental in implementing the NIP switching system for British Telecom (BT) and designed operating system specifications for the Next Generation Service Node (NGSN). Steve's "in the trenches" experience in operations support provides EMA with a unique perspective on actual IT operations concerns, needs and solutions.

Alan Saldich joined Riverbed Technology in September 2002 and serves as its VP of Product Marketing and Alliances. Prior to joining Riverbed, he was director of enterprise solutions for Inktomi Corporation, where he began working following its acquisition of FastForward Networks in the fall of 2000. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Saldich served as FastForward Networks' director of business development. In addition, since 1988 Mr. Saldich has held senior positions in sales, marketing, business development and corporate finance at several high technology companies, including RasterOps (IPO, 1990) and Metricom. Mr. Saldich holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Gene serves as the Senior Product Manager for Shunra's flagship products, the Virtual Enterprise Suite and Appliances. Gene brings over 20 years of experience in wireline/wireless communications system design, development and marketing. Prior to joining Shunra, he was VP/GM at Eastern Research through its successful acquisition by Sycamore Networks. Gene also held management and engineering positions at Radisys Corp., Teleos Communications and AT&T Bell Labs. Gene holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Tulane U. and an M.B.A. from Drexel U.

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.

Terry Slattery is the founder of Netcordia, inventor of NetMRI, and has been a successful technology innovator in networking during the past 20 years. He has a long history of network consulting and design work, including some of the first Cisco consulting and training on the east coast. As a consultant to Cisco, he led the development of the current Cisco IOS command line interface. Prior to Netcordia, Terry founded Chesapeake Computer Consultants, which became a Cisco premier training and consulting partner. At Chesapeake, he co-invented and patented the v-LAB system to provide hands-on access to real hardware for the hands-on component of internetwork training classes. Terry co-authored the successful McGraw-Hill text "Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks," is the second CCIE (#1026) awarded, and is a sought after industry speaker and advisor. As CTO at Netcordia, he is working with other industry experts to design network analysis rules and to identify ways to help network engineers improve their networks.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a Senior Vice President and Founding Partner with Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, conducts strategic seminars and advises key clients. Andreas is a computer scientist, a master of data communications and distributed systems, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a self-professed geek, with an engineering, programming and consulting background. Mr. Antonopoulos honed his speaking skills in front of audiences ranging in size from five executives in a boardroom to hundreds of people in large conferences. With more than three hundred speaking engagements under his belt he is considered a world-class and charismatic public speaker and teacher. Before joining Nemertes, Mr. Antonopoulos was the Security Practice Director at ThruPoint Inc, where he was responsible for a global team of security consultants who deliver solutions to multinational clients. Prior to ThruPoint he was a Security Practice Lead at Greenwich Technology Partners, where he designed the security architecture of a global wire-transfer network interconnecting the world's banks.

Peter Laird is the Managing Architect for Oracle's WebCenter product group. In this role, Peter leads the architecture team and focuses on the future of the portal and enterprise application spaces. Prior to this role, Peter served as Chief Architect of the BEA SaaS Platform (a PaaS offering) and has continued to focus heavily on the cloud/SaaS/PaaS spaces. Prior to those roles, Peter was a long time architect and developer on BEA's WebLogic Portal product team.

Don O'Toole is a marketing and business development professional with more than 20 years experience in the information technology industry. Over the course of his career with IBM, he has held a variety of positions in IBM's software, hardware and services businesses. Don has extensive expertise in the software industry. He began his IBM career as part of the IBM SNA software development team in Research Triangle Park, NC. In 1993, he became a Brand Manager for IBM's TCP/IP software products. In 1995, he led the business development and market launch of IBM's Internet Connection software family, which included IBM's first web browser and HTTP server offerings. Don joined IBM's Internet Division in 1996 and was a key member of the team that developed IBM's e-business strategy. He has had leadership roles in a number of IBM's recent acquisitions including the purchases of Micromuse and Candle. Don also has led marketing initiatives for a variety of emerging software technologies including the launch of IBM's Web Services initiative in 2001. Currently, Don is Director of Strategy for IBM's Tivoli software brand. He is responsible for leading the strategic direction of Tivoli's Service Management software portfolio. Don holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS from Syracuse University. He is a current master's candidate at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies.

Dave Marcus serves as Director of Security Research and Communications for McAfee Avert Labs. In this role he brings McAfee's extensive security research to McAfee's customers and the greater security community. Marcus also serves as blogmaster for the McAfee Avert Labs Security Blog and co-host of AudioParasitics - The Official PodCast of McAfee Avert Labs. Marcus is also responsible for all publications from Avert Labs, including Avert Labs' journal of security vision The McAfee Security Journal. Mr. Marcus has more than ten years of technical experience in network solutions, information technology security, network performance and integration, and e-learning solutions. Prior to joining McAfee, Mr. Marcus held leadership and consulting positions focused on information technology security services, network solutions, enterprise management, knowledge engineering and management, information technology, and research and development program management. His industry experience crosses all IT-based industries with a determined focus on advanced intelligence gathering, digital forensic analysis, as well as intrusion detection/prevention and analysis on both the network and host. Marcus holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Florida Atlantic University. He has countless hours of industry specific training, including Advanced Intrusion Analysis Methods, as well as Penetration Testing/Vulnerability Assessment and Computer Forensics.

Sharon Chang is the Director of Product Marketing for HP's market leading Server Automation software. Sharon joined HP through the company's acquisition of Opsware in 2007. At Opsware, she led product marketing efforts for the company's Server Automation product since joining in 2004. Her background includes a variety of product management and product marketing roles with NEC Europe and the HP Network Server Division, now Industry Standard Servers. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from University of the Pacific and an MBA from University of Southern California.

Jonathan Siegal, Director of Product Marketing EMC Resource Management Software Jonathan Siegal is Director of Product Marketing for EMC Resource Management Software at EMC Corporate. With 2007 revenues of $13.2 billion, and approximately 37,000 employees worldwide, EMC is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information management and storage that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, at every point in the information lifecycle. Siegal joined EMC in May 2003 and has since led various product marketing groups across the EMC software portfolio. Today he drives product marketing for EMC Resource Management Software, which aims to effectively bridge the management gap between physical and virtual data centers. Prior to joining EMC, Siegal led product marketing at two networked storage start-ups including Cereva Networks and Acopia Networks. He also previously served as a senior product manager at GE. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Maryland and a Bachelors Degree from the University of Vermont.

Mike Grote Vice President, Product Management As VP, Product Management, Mike is responsible for product strategy, definition and positioning for all of Dorado Software's RedcellTM software products. Mike brings over sixteeen years experience in the network & systems management industry and has owned product management and marketing strategy responsibilities for global high tech companies including Sun Microsystems and GlobalSight Corporation. Mike holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Chico and an MBA from San Jose State University.

Joshua Corman serves as Principal Security Strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems. With over a decade in security and IT, Corman designs strategic and technical vision of security solutions for emerging issues. He has spoken at leading industry events such as RSA, Interop, InfoSec, LinuxWorld, and IT Security World. His Evolving Threat campaign encourages strategic approaches for dynamic threats.

Chris Wysopal, co-founder and chief technology officer of Veracode, is responsible for the security analysis capabilities of Veracode technology. Mr. Wysopal was recently named one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTO's and one of the 100 most influential people in IT by the editorial staffs of eWeek, CIO Insight and Baseline Magazine. In 2002 while at the company @stake, Mr. Wysopal, along with Steve Christey of MITRE, proposed an IETF RFC identified as the "Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Process," which became the foundation for the Organization for Internet Safety (OIS). Mr. Wysopal is a founder of OIS, which established industry standards for the responsible disclosure of Internet security vulnerabilities. Throughout Mr. Wysopal's career he has created the first security research think tank - L0pht Heavy Industries- while at Lotus Development Corp., managed, and later became the vice president of the Research Group at the company @stake, and later became the director of development at Symantec which was responsible for building the binary analysis technology to find vulnerabilities in software. Mr. Wysopal is co-author of the award winning password auditing and recovery application @stake LC (L0phtCrack) which is currently used by more than 6,000 government, military and corporate organizations worldwide. He also wrote The Art of Software Security Testing: Identifying Security Flaws, published by Addison Wesley and Symantec Press in December 2006. Mr. Wysopal earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Darren Orzechowski is Director, Marketing for EMC's Resource Management Software Group, responsible for the Voyence product line. Darren joins EMC from Voyence, where he was VP Marketing. Prior to Voyence, Darren held VP Marketing positions at Smarts and Aprisma, and managed corporate marketing for Cabletron. Darren holds a BS from the S.I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University and an MBA from Plymouth University.