Conference: Software-as-a-Service Track

George Symons serves as CEO of Yosemite Technologies. Mr. Symons brings broad experience in storage software development, business development and building global business to the role. As CEO, Mr. Symons is responsible for all global operations including sales, marketing, finance, professional services, product development and business development. Mr. Symons joined Yosemite from EMC, where he served as Chief Technology Officer for Information Management, responsible for defining EMC's product and technical strategy. He also played key roles in the integration of Legato enterprise backup and recovery products and Documentum content management software into EMC. Prior to EMC, Mr. Symons held positions within Legato including CTO, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, and Vice President of Development and Product Management. He was involved in the integration of products from SCH Technologies and OTG into Legato's product line, and later in the acquisition of Legato by EMC. Prior to that he was Vice President of Engineering at FullTime Software, VP of Marketing at Software Research and PROCASE Corporation, and also held product marketing and product management positions at Sun Microsystems. Symons has B.A. degrees in Computer Science and Management Science from University of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A from University of California, Los Angeles.

As Director of Product Management for Google Apps and Partner Products, Stephen Cho is responsible for providing Google's consumer products, especially Google Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs, Start Page, Sites, ...) and Search, to partners around the world (telco/ISP, media/portal, social network, mobile, OEM, ...). He was previously Director of Google's Global Online Sales and Operations responsible for millions of Google Apps users and online customers, and earlier was Director of New Content Initiatives, where he was responsible for business development efforts around video/YouTube, Google Maps/Earth, Google Books/Scholar, and new areas, including non-music audio, government content, and news. Prior to Google, Stephen was Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing for Cisco's Application-Oriented Networking Business Unit. He led product management, marketing, business development, sales strategy, and businesss operations and planning for a several hundred person division he helped found in 2003 which provided intelligent application infrastructure (messaging, middleware) in the network. Earlier, he was Senior Director of the Service Provider Solutions Practice in Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), which developed Cisco- and partner-based solutions for major service providers around the world leveraging Cisco's advanced technologies (IP Telephony, contact centers, content delivery networks, ...). And prior to this, he managed the Cisco IBSG Customer Care and e-Commerce solutions organizations. Before joining Cisco, Mr. Cho spent several years in strategy and technology consulting with McKinsey & Company in their Telecommunications, Multimedia, and Electronics Practices and as a leader of their North American Data Networking Initiative. Prior to this, he was with The Boston Consulting Group focusing on technology areas. Mr. Cho was a Fulbright Scholar and holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.