Conference: Application Delivery Track

Gary Hemminger is Director of Product Marketing at Foundry Networks. Gary has over 20 years of network experience, with development, systems engineering, product management, and marketing roles in the switching and routing, network management, storage area networking, supercomputing & clustering space. Gary was Vice President of Marketing at IP Infusion, where he helped to define and deliver a next generation, platform independent Advanced Layer 2, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, and DiffServ protocol stack that powers many telecommunications and enterprise vendor equipment offerings. As Director of Product Management at PolyServe, Gary created the strategic plan for the delivery of next generation, highly-scalable clustered server and storage area networking software products. At Network Systems Corporation, Gary was Director of Supercomputer Marketing, where he helped to design and build a number of national supercomputer initiatives, including the National Research and Education Network. Gary attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with distinction in general scholarship, with a BA in Computer Science. Gary also attended Stanford University, where he received an MS in Computer Science. Early in his career Gary was awarded the prestigious Bank of America Achievement Award in Mathematics.

Liad Ofek Manager, Technical Marketing Cisco's Application Delivery Business Unit Liad Ofek holds the technical marketing responsibilities for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product line. Mr. Ofek leads a team of product Marketing experts and responsible for system level solution definition and outbound technical marketing efforts. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Ofek was the VP of Technical Services for Expand Networks where he established the Pre/Post sale support team; Liad was personally involved with the creation and evolution of the WAN Optimization market. Prior to Expand Networks, Liad worked for Netcom, a leading networking and IT service provider in Israel. At Netcom, Liad managed the technical support team and was responsible for deploying and supporting leading edge networking technology from Cisco and other vendors. Mr. Ofek has over 12 years of experience with customer support and training and has real-world understanding of WAN optimization and deep networking knowledge (CCIE). Liad earned a B.Sc. in Communications Engineering from Holon Institute of Technology

Jim Frey has over 15 years of experience bringing network and application management solutions to the enterprise, government, and telecommunications sectors. As NetScout's Vice President of Marketing since 2002, Jim oversees global outreach to track, understand, and educate the market about the value of performance management from the network perspective. Prior to joining NetScout, Jim was Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Micromuse, overseeing solutions programs built around the Netcool product suite. Before that, he held product marketing roles with OSI/Agilent advocating the NetExpert line of Operational Support System solutions. Jim gained his first exposure to the network management sector at Cabletron Systems, where he spent six years in product development and product management roles for the SPECTRUM suite of products.