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Anatoly Altshuler, Ph.D., Sc.D.Vice President, Financial Services StrategyTATA Consultancy ServicesAnatoly is vice president of TCS Financial ServicesStrategy practice. Anatoly’s group focuses on strategic initiatives, services and new generations of products forthe banking, brokerage, capital markets, investing, andasset management industries. Anatoly has over 10 years

of experience in the financial services technology industry. Prior to joining TCSin 2002, Anatoly was Head of Development and Chief Software & SystemsArchitect at OMGEO (DTCC and Thomson Financial Company) in Boston wherehe led development of Central Trade Manager, the first Global STP VirtualMatching Utility for Securities Trade Settlement in production. Prior to OMGEO,Anatoly was with KPMG Peat Marwick in Boston as Manager of AdvancedSolutions Group, Financial Services Practice. Anatoly was elected in 1988 asHarvard Faculty Affiliate. He holds Doctorate Degrees in Computational andTheoretical Physics from Academy of Sciences and MS&AI, Moscow.

Deepak BajajCourse Coordinator, Project ManagementUniversity of Technology SydneyDr. Deepak Bajaj is the Course Coordinator of ProjectManagement at the University of Technology Sydney(UTS)in Australia. Dr. Bajaj has 17 years of combinedexperience in contracting, consulting and academia. HisPh.D. was in the area of strategic risk management on

projects. He brings a diverse technical, research and business background. Hehas published extensively in the area of project risk management and is authorand co-author of book chapters. Dr. Bajaj is the author of a number of researchpublications and has made presentations within Australia and internationally inthe field of project management, risk management and information technology inthe construction industry. Dr. Bajaj is leading the way in the establishment ofmasters and doctorate level education on International Project Management inAustralia, India, China, Taiwan, France and New Zealand.

Shiv K. Bakhshi, Ph.D.Research Manager, Wireless & Mobile NetworkInfrastructure, International Data Corporation (IDC)As research manager for the Wireless & Mobile NetworkInfrastructure practice at IDC, Dr. Bakhshi follows theglobal wireless and mobile infrastructure industry, with aspecial focus on the opportunities and challenges facingnetwork equipment vendors selling to mobile networkoperators worldwide. Additionally, he oversees research

pertaining to infrastructure issues involved in mobilizing the enterprise. He haspresented his research in various industry forums in North America, WesternEurope and Asia.

Marcia BalestrinoSenior Vice President, Information & Technologyand Chief Information Officer Girl Scouts of the USAMarcia Balestrino is the Senior Vice President,Information & Technology and Chief Information Officer forthe Girl Scouts of the USA located in New York City. Sheis responsible for ensuring that the national organizationefficiently and effectively utilizes technology to support

the mission of girl scouting. She is also responsible for providing over 300 GirlScout local affiliates with technical tools to support their work with membersand to enhance their interactions with the national organization.

Robert BauerChief Technology OfficerXerox Global ServicesRobert Bauer is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of XeroxGlobal Services, Xerox's consulting arm, specializing indocument, content and knowledge management. As CTO,Bauer helps develop collaborative work and knowledge-based productivity tools that help Xerox clients manageinformation and improve work processes. Bauer previouslylead Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

David BauerFirst Vice President,Chief Information and Security OfficerMerrill Lynch and Co., Inc.David Bauer is First Vice President and Chief InformationSecurity and Privacy Officer for Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc.He is additionally responsible for the firm’s messaging anddirectory services. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mr. Bauer held

senior technical and management positions at Metromedia Fiber Network,Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Bauer was a technical manager atBellcore, a co-founder of Bellcore’s information security business, and a memberof technical staff at Bellcore and Bell Labs. Mr. Bauer has a masters degree inComputer Science from Rutgers University.

CeBIT America has partnered with CNET Networks, aleading global media company for buyers, users andsellers of information technology, to create a world-class conference which has attracted world-class presenters. Here you will find gathered the biographiesof leaders from all strata of the ICT (Information &Communications Technology) spectrum which haveassembled at this event in New York to share withyou the insight and wisdom culled from their collec-tive years in the industry.


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Evan BauerPrincipal Research Fellow Robert Frances Group Business Advisors to IT ExecutivesEvan Bauer has 25 years of experience in the architecture, design, implementa-tion, and maintenance of complex information systems. He is an independentconsultant advising both public and private sector organizations on technologyinnovation. Evan also serves as a Principal Research Fellow of the Robert FrancesGroup’s "Business Advisors to IT Executives," where he focuses on enterprisetechnology strategy. His industry experience includes CTO for Global Infrastructureat CSFB, Principal Technology Architect for Trading and Sales at Bankers Trust, VPand Senior Research Fellow at Giga Information Group, and Principal DatabaseConsultant at Digital Equipment Corporation. Evan is a member of the technicaladvisory boards of Interwoven (NASDAQ: IWOV), nLayers, and Egenera.

Lawrence A. BayePrincipal, Business Advisory & Risk ServicesGrant Thornton LLPMr. Baye has more than 20 years of consulting experience,working in the private and public sectors. His areas offocus include assessment and implementations of businessprocess, internal control and management reportingimprovements by leveraging information technology as an

enabler. He is the co-chair of the Sarbanes-Oxley Task Force which helps GrantThornton to position its clients to respond to the emerging internal control, financialreporting, governance and other requirements faced by public companies.

David BerlindEditorial Director, ZDNetCNET Networks, Inc.David Berlind is Executive Editor of Tech Update Today, ZDNet's daily flagshipnewsletter that reaches almost 200,000 influential information technology andbusiness readers, and the weekly ZDNet newsletter that reaches over 800,000readers. With a background in enterprise IT and 12 years as a tech journalist,Berlind is considered a respected technology commentator.

Jay BestCo-ChairpersonMIT Wireless Forum of New YorkPresident, Best Mobile ComputingJay has worked in mobile and wireless for 5 of his 16 yearsas a technologist. In 2002, Jay started Best Mobile Computingto provide software and services that revolutionize com-munication with field employees. Prior to that, Jay was an

executive with Vettro, a New York-based mobile and wireless software company,where he designed and managed products for financial service companies likeCiti Group, Chase and Charles Schwab.

Charles BookmanSystem AdministratorUniversity of the PacificEver since the days of the punch cards and cassette tapedrives, Charles Bookman has been tweaking on computers.He's been using Linux since its early days, and has beenespousing open sourced software ever since. Charles

Bookman currently works at the University of the Pacific where he works ontheir HPC clusters, trying to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

Curtis BrownChief Technology OfficerPrinceton ReviewMr. Brown is the CTO for the Princeton Review, a 20 year old company thatprovides test preparation courses and educational services and programs forindividuals and schools both nationally and internationally. Earlier in has career,Mr. Brown held the positions of CTO for Oxygen Media, CTO for Skymall Inc.,and VP of IT for CDNow. He also serves as an instructor with ColumbiaUniversity in their Executive Information Technology Management program.

Andrew Brust President Progressive Systems Consulting Andrew Brust is President of Progressive SystemsConsulting, Inc., a Manhattan-based company specializing inthe development of, and developer training in, customapplications using .NET, SQL Server, and other Microsofttechnologies. Andrew is Microsoft's MSDN Regional

Director for New York and New Jersey, a contributing editor to Visual StudioMagazine, and a regular, highly rated speaker at VSLive and other conferences.Andrew has over 15 years of experience programming and consulting in the Financial,Public, Small Business, and Not-For-Profit sectors. Mr. Brust is a Vice-Chairman ofthe New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) Board.

Jack CaffeySoftware Engineering Managing Practice Principal,Consulting & Integration Software EngineeringHewlett-Packard Company Jack is an innovative leader with over twenty-five years ofexperience in building organizations at Hewlett Packard.His assignments have included computer sales, marketingand professional services. Jack is currently the ManagingPrincipal for America’s Software Engineering based in Cupertino, California.



John CampiVice President of Global Sourcing& Logistics and Chief Procurement OfficerDuPontJohn Campi joined DuPont in April 2002 as VicePresident of Global Sourcing & Logistics and ChiefProcurement Officer. Mr. Campi has more than thirtyyears of experience in the industry and consulting, and is

internationally recognized as a leader in the field of Advanced Cost Management.He also has extensive experience in supply chain management. Prior to joiningDuPont, Campi led the transformation of the Sourcing organization at GeneralElectric’s Power Systems Business.

William ClarkResearch DirectorGartnerBill Clark is a Research Director at Gartner Research. Hisresearch areas include mobile applications, wireless localarea networks (WLAN), personal area networking(Bluetooth), cellular phones, wireless communications,

and mobile software. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Clark worked at Ericsson for 10years, where he served as both an architect and product development managerfor wireless communicators, GSM phones, and the infrastructure of public andprivate wireless networks. He also co-founded and served as CEO and CTO of awireless startup company focused on WLAN applications. Mr. Clark earned abachelor of science degree in computer sciences from Purdue University and amaster of business administration from Duke University.

Martin ColburnExecutive Vice Presidentand Chief Technology OfficerNASDMartin Colburn is the Executive Vice President and ChiefTechnology Officer for NASD. As such, Mr. Colburn is respon-sible for all technology-related efforts for the NASD. He man-

ages the NASD technology staff and oversees all technology-related, third-party servicecontracts. Prior to the commencement of his work with NASD in August 2001, Mr.Colburn was the Chief Operating Officer and the Chairman of the Australia Asia JointVenture from 2000-2001 for Metiom, Inc. From 1996-2000, he worked for FannieMae as the Senior Vice President of the Technology Management Center. From 1993-1996, Mr. Colburn was the Vice President for Customer Service, Technology. Hebegan his stint with Fannie Mae in 1988 as a Director of UNIX Technical Services.From 1985-1988, Mr. Colburn was the Vice President for Advanced TechnologyPlanning for Sovran Bank. He began his technology career with the MarriottCorporation in 1980. Mr. Colburn received a bachelor of science in finance fromthe University of Maryland, College Park. Additionally, he holds a degree inElectrical Engineering from George Washington University and also holds anAdvanced Business Management certificate from Harvard Business School. Mr.Colburn was a Corporal, Special Services with the United States Marine Corpsfor three years prior to his technology career.

Charlie A. CorteseManaging Director, Information TechnologyLehman BrothersCharlie Cortese is a Managing Director of Lehman BrothersTechnology division. For the last 11 years, he has held anumber of positions at Lehman Brothers, including Head of

Derivatives Technology, Head of Europe and Asia Technology, Head of InvestmentBanking and Corporate Technologies, and currently heads all of Lehman Brothers’Offshore Outsourcing efforts in Technology.

Paul CucciaFormer CIOSotheby's Holdings and Ogilvy & MatherWorldwidePaul started at PepsiCo prior to spending 10 years at Clairoldeveloping retail and manufacturing systems. Paul thenmoved to Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, where he became CIOin 1994. He was most recently CIO at Sotheby's Holdings,where his organization introduced world-class systems andprocesses to better compete in an evolving auction market.

Steven CurcuruResident WizardApplied InnovationSteve Curcuru has had a broad-ranging career of more than30 years in the fields of audio, video, and high technology.and the Internet. There have been numerous articles innational publications about his group's pioneering work atWHDH-TV in Boston. WHDH has been honored by Network

World, LAN Times, and Computer World magazines for its innovations in PC net-working, and is featured in a case study on broadcast innovation at the Smithsonian.

Emmanuel DanielManaging Director and Editor-in-ChiefThe Asian BankerEmmanuel Daniel is the founder of The Asian Banker, and isamongst the most authoritative writer, commentator andconsultant on developments in the financial services industryin the Asia-Pacific region to banks, governments and serviceproviders. He was the winner of the Citibank Excellence inJournalism award for the Asia-Pacific region in 1999.



Thomas A. D’AuriaChairman and CEOInformation Methods IncorporatedThomas A. D’Auria is the Chairman and CEO ofInformation Methods Incorporated and Managing Partnerof the IMI Group. Tom has over 30 years experience ininformation technology with more than 20 years in thepublic and university sectors. IMI provides significant

added value to state and local projects due to its detailed knowledge of the publicsector’s IT environment. IMI’s principals have held senior management positionsin the state and local data processing community. Tom has a proven record ofworking in the public sector on strategic planning, project management, disasterrecovery, and business continuity planning. He has also managed technical development groups, has been responsible for the design of client server applications, and acted as the technology designer and construction manager for public safety agencies for more than 15 years.

Mary Ann DavidsonChief Security OfficerOracle Corp. Mary Ann Davidson is the Chief Security Officer at OracleCorporation, where she is responsible for Oracle’s productsecurity, corporate infrastructure security and securitypolicies, as well as security evaluations, assessments andincident handling. She represents Oracle on the Board of

Directors of the Information Technology Information Security Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) and is on the editorial review board of Secure Business Quarterly.Prior to joining Oracle in 1988, Ms. Davidson served as a commissioned officerin the US Navy Civil Engineer Corps, during which she was awarded the NavyAchievement Medal. Ms. Davidson has a BSME from the University of Virginiaand an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Sean DerringtonConsultant, Enterprise Servers and StorageAppergy, Inc.Mr. Derrington is an acknowledged expert in the assessment, design and selectionof storage and storage management technologies, including storage area networks,network attached storage, fibre channel, backup/recovery, storage resource management, disk subsystems, and storage monitoring technologies andprocesses. He also is knowledgeable in emerging storage technologies (e.g.,iSCSI, Infiniband). Prior to consulting for Appergy, Mr. Derrington was SeniorProgram Director of META Group’s Server Infrastructure Strategies. During his 8 years at META Group, he was the lead consultant and analyst covering storageand storage management. He has a B.S. in Material Science and Engineeringand a B.S in Engineering and Public Policy, both from Carnegie Mellon University.

Bharat DesaiChairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-FounderSyntel, Inc.Bharat Desai is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and co-founder of Syntel (NASDAQ: SYNT), a worldwide providerof applications outsourcing and e-Business solutions to Global2000 firms. Under Desai’s direction, Syntel has grown overthe past 23 years to become a leading information technolo-

gy services company. Desai received the “1999 Michigan Entrepreneur Award” fromthe Harvard Business School and was recognized as “Entrepreneur of the Year” in1996 by USA Today, NASDAQ, and Crain’s Detroit Business. He holds a M.B.A. inFinance from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Technology degree inElectrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India.

Michael DisabatoSenior AnalystBurton GroupWith over 25 years experience in wireless technologiesand network management, Disabato is a champion forend-user organizations and service providers. Prior tojoining The Burton Group, Disabato was Senior Manager,Network Engineering for WorldCom Conferencing. He wasalso employed by McDonald's Corporation as Enterprise

Architect for Security and Networks as well as Manager of the Applied TechnologyLab. He previously owned a successful consulting firm that dealt primarily withorder entry, point-of-sale, and network systems. His background includes appli-cations development and extensive experience in wide area and local area net-works. He has presented at the International Symposium on Integrated NetworkManagement, SuperNet, and Networld+Interop. In addition, he has publishedseveral articles. Disabato was awarded a Masters of Science in InformationSystems from Roosevelt University, where he also completed his undergraduatestudies. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.

Craig DonatoPresident & Chief Executive OfficerGrand Central CommunicationsCraig Donato is CEO of Grand Central Communications,which provides a network-based service that enablesenterprises to break through the boundaries of e-businessand forge deep, systemic relationships with customersand partners. Craig was recently recognized by NetworkWorld as one of the 50 most powerful people in the net-

working industry. Prior to Grand Central, Craig oversaw network programmingand ran several business units for Excite@Home.

Richard V. DuceyPresidentSpectraRepRick is president and co-founder of SpectraRep, a divisionof the BIA Financial Network (BIAfn). SpectraRep(www.spectrarep.com) specializes in next generation multicast

broadband data delivery solutions via satellite and digital television. At SpectraRep,Rick is charged with business development and sales, relationship building withstrategic partners, network design & implementation and development of the busi-ness model. Rick is also Executive Vice President of Strategic Consulting for BIAfn.



Dan FarberVice President and Editor-in-Chief, ZDNetCNET Networks, Inc. A well known technology journalist, Dan Farber is Vice President of Editorial forCNET Networks and Editor in Chief of ZDNet, which reaches more than 5 millionenterprise decision makers with the content, context, and resources they need tomake critical business decisions.

Dan FinebergDirector, Occasionally ConnectedComputing (OCC) ProgramsSolutions Market Development GroupIntel CorporationDuring his 14 years at Intel, Dan Fineberg has held positions in the company’s Systems Group, ArchitectureLabs, Enterprise Group, IT Group and Solutions Market

Development. As leader of Intel’s Web Services Marketing Program Office, hedrove the development of Intel’s Web services marketing strategy and orchestratedits execution across multiple business groups. Before that, Dan managed a rangeof programs aimed at building demand for Intel-based enterprise and e-Businesssolutions. As Business Strategy Manager for Intel’s IT Customer Services organ-ization, Dan drove the development and implementation of plans to improve theeffectiveness of IT services to Intel’s business groups. To support that effort, andto change the conversation from TCO to business value, Dan led the cross-groupdevelopment of Business Value of IT metrics delivered by Intel to Gartner Groupfor their BVIT service in 1998. Currently, as strategic program manager forOccasionally Connected Computing, Dan is responsible for accelerating the adoptionof reconnectable, mobile business applications from software developers, worldwide.

Stephen ForteChief Technology Officer and Co-FounderCorzen, Inc.Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a Manhattan based provider ofonline market research data. Stephen is also the Microsoft

Regional Director for the NY Metro region. He speaks regularly at industry confer-ences like CTTM, Tech*Ed and Advisor DevCon, and has written several books ondatabase development. Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Surveyin New York City, as well as co-founder and CTO of the New York based softwareconsulting firm The Aurora Development Group.

Sergey FradkovPrincipalVEL Technologies, LLCSergey Fradkov is an expert on developing mobile andwireless applications. As CTO of w-Technologies, Inc., hehas built a market leading wireless middleware platform,

Mobilero, used by major corporations to create wireless applications. Currently Mr. Fradkov’s new venture, VEL Technologies, assists customers in doing remotesoftware development in Russia.

Mark Evan FriedbergCIOCRP IndustriesMark Friedberg has over 15 years experience in sales andbusiness development, management consulting, and manufacturing operations. He has held managementpositions at Motorola, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Network

Associates, and General Electric. Currently he is CIO of CRP Industries. Mr.Friedberg earned an MBA and a masters in engineering degree from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Co-chairman of the MIT WirelessForum (www.mitwf.org) and is a Certified Wireless Network Administrator.

Gene GablePresidentGene Gable IndustriesGene Gable has spent 25 years in publishing and graphicarts and is currently president of Gene Gable Industries.After a decade in typesetting and design services, hechronicled the desktop-publishing revolution from his

post as a journalist and as publisher of Publish magazine. He served on theboard of PC World and PC Games magazines and was earlier publisher ofSporting Times magazine. As president of Seybold Seminars and Publications,he led all conference, trade-show, and publishing operations serving the globalprint and Web industries. He has written and spoken extensively on the graphicarts, management, and most recently his hobby of restoring vintage letterpressprinting and line-casting equipment.

Adam Garfein, Ph.D.PresidentDevane CorporationAdam Garfein, Ph.D., is the founder of Devane Corporation(www.devane.com), a strategy and e-business consulting firm.Devane specializes in helping organizations align strategy,processes, and information technology for competitiveadvantage. Devane's clients encompass a variety of industries

including software, Internet, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, automotive, con-struction management, universities, state government, and the federal government.

Morgan GerhartGeneral ManagerAppergy, Inc.Mr. Gerhart is a leading expert in the design, selection,and implementation of application infrastructure elements,with a specific emphasis on the role and use of middleware

infrastructure within the enterprise. Prior to joining Appergy™, Mr. Gerhart wasvice president of META Group’s Server Infrastructure Strategies and AdaptiveInfrastructure Strategies practices. At META Group Mr. Gerhart was lead application integration analyst and a primary developer and presenter of METAGroup’s Adaptive Infrastructure Strategies program. He has a bachelor of sciencefrom Cornell University.



Gary GunnersonIT ArchitectGannett Company, Inc.As IT Architect at Gannett Company, Inc., Mr. Gunnersonevaluates and recommends computing and networking solu-tions. He lead USA TODAY to the web in 100 days, designeddark fiber networks, managed satellite, microwave and SMATVinstallations, and managed PCs and LANs. He also speaksand writes on industry topics.

Arup Kumar GuptaPresidentTCS AmericaArup Gupta is the president of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)America. In that role, he manages all of TCS’ operations inNorth America and reports to the CEO of TCS, headquarteredin Mumbai, India. TCS currently has 50 offices across North

America, with a staff of more than 6,000 technical consultants at client locations.

Phillip Hallam-Baker, Ph.D.Principal ScientistVerisign, Inc. Dr. Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, C.Eng. FBCS, is an internationallyrecognized expert on electronic security and authenticationtechnologies, and a co-author of the Web Services Interoper-ability Organization's (WS-I) WS-Security specification. Dr. Hallam-Baker holds a doctorate in Computer Science

from Oxford University Nuclear Physics Department and a degree in ElectronicEngineering from Southampton University. He is principal scientist at MountainView, Calif.-based VeriSign Inc.

Brendan HanniganVice President, Marketing and StrategySockeye NetworksBrendan Hannigan has more than 14 years of data network-ing experience and is responsible for charting Sockeye’sbusiness strategy while building its partner relationships.Previously, he was an analyst with Forrester Research work-ing with technology leaders such as Exodus, UUNet, Cisco

and others. He earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in computer science fromUniversity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Dr. Larry R. HarrisChairman of the BoardEasyAsk, Inc.Dr. Larry R. Harris - Founder and Chairman of EasyAskInc., and the company's Chief Scientist and technicalvisionary, Larry is internationally recognized as an experton database systems and computerized natural language.In his role at EasyAsk Larry works closely with customers,

partners and the EasyAsk sales team to assess market requirements, and withthe development team to create and implement a roadmap that keeps EasyAskon the leading edge.

Conrad HerrmannChief Technology OfficerZone LabsConrad Herrmann, Zone Labs Chief Technology Officer, hasa strong history of shipping award-winning products. Hewas software architect at Borland International for several market-leading products, among them Borland C++

and the Borland Database Engine. Mr. Herrmann's time in the high-technologyindustry include a number of years with startup companies, including SurpassSystems, which was acquired by Borland, and MultiScope, acquired by Symantec.

Patrick J. HyndsCTOCriticalSitesPatrick Hynds, Microsoft Regional Director for Boston, is anMCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA, MCP+Site Builder and MCT and ranks among the worldwide leaders in Microsoft exams, having passed over 50 to date. Patrick was chosen by Microsoft to share his knowledge at Tech Ed in Hong Kong,where he gave six presentations.

Tony IamsVice President, Systems Software ResearchD. H. Brown Associates, Inc.Tony Iams leads DHBA's Systems Software research pro-gram and has built it into the preeminent source ofresearch on commercial operating systems. His team ofanalysts focuses on evaluating the features and functionsof the Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems, and

regularly publishes in-depth reports on the functional tradeoffs between thesesystems. By applying a detailed analysis methodology, the team identifiesstrengths and weaknesses of current products and guides IT decision makers onthe most effective system software technology choices.

Anant Kumar JainIndependent Telecom ConsultantAnant Kumar Jain is a Telecom Consultant with 15 yearsR&D, Engineering and Consulting experience. He is currentlyinvestigating emerging technologies and applications drivingthe evolution of telecom infrastructure and services, anddoing their market analysis through competitive intelligence.He consults for government, industry and/or academia in

defining a Telecom Roadmap. He tracks all global projects on Next GenerationNetworks (NGN) in terms of technologies, applications and infrastructure chosenand their outcomes. He has a paper on “Intelligent Multiservice Networks” published in Bell Labs Technical Journal. Jain has recently presented at SupercomIndia 2003, EntNet@ Supercom 2003 and USTA’s TEC@ Supercom 2003. Hehas a MBA and Masters in Engineering, and has worked for Lucent and TataConsultancy Services (India). He is a Member of the IEEE Standards Board.



Ignatius JohnSenior Technology AnalystAXA Rosenberg GroupIgnatius has been involved in the Information Technologyfield for 23 years, of which 13 years were focused in building technology in the quantitative investment manage-

ment area and 5 years in financial brokerage services. Currently he is a SeniorTechnology Analyst at AXA Rosenberg, California, where they are developing straightthrough processing (STP) systems for the global investment process and building adisaster recovery site for the firm.

Raymond KarrenbauerCheif Technology OfficerING Americas - Technology Managment OfficeRaymond Karrenbauer is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the ING USFSFinancial Services and represents ING Americas technology interests as the Headof the Technology Management Office (TMO). He has responsibility for leadingenterprise architecture, strategy, shared application services, information man-agement, and technology planning. As CTO, Mr. Karrenbauer delivers and sup-ports an adaptive approach to business and technology, which exploits theimportance of time-to-market opportunities. On a global basis, he is an influen-cial member of the ING Group IT Architecture Council (ITAC), IT StandardsCouncil (ITSC), Strategic Infrastructure Council (SIC), and Information SecurityStrategy Council (ISSC), which compromise the totality of the worldwide ITdirection setting forums. Prior to his current position Mr Karrenbauer was ChiefTechnology Officer of Cyberian Outpost, and before that, Vice President of MetaGroup Consulting.

Nick KatsivelosIndependent Solution Architect & PrincipalCollaboration Solution Analyst for Appergy, Inc.Nick Katsivelos is an architect, designer and developer ofsoftware for computer-mediated collaboration. His currentwork applies advanced technology to promote team

collaboration and enhance organizational agility and is built upon a 15 yearcareer in the specification and engineering of systems for, among others, Viacom,Dow Jones, and The New York Times. He holds a BA in Economics from Franklinand Marshall College and an MBA from Columbia University.

Ed KrachManagerOEM Systems EngineeringAvocent CorporationEd Krach is a network professional with more than 20years of global computer industry experience. He is recog-

nized in the U.S. and abroad as an expert on network and data center solutions.He serves as a technical consultant for Avocent OEM projects, and leads theAvocent Systems Engineering Team.

Ronald E. R. Lovell IIStorage Practice leaderGreenwich Technology PartnersAs Storage GTP’s Practice Leader, Ronald E. R. Lovell II isresponsible for designing and managing their storage

consulting practice, which provides strategic storage consulting to enterpriseclients, in a variety of industries. Prior to joining GTP, Mr. Lovell was Director ofStorage Consulting at StorageNetworks, where he was responsible for designingand managing the delivery of storage-related Information Technology consultingservices to StorageNetworks clients.

Scott MacGoneSpecial AgentFederal Bureau of InvestigationFBI Special Agent, Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Squad.

John MageeVice PresidentOracle9i Application Server Oracle CorporationJohn Magee is Vice President of Oracle9i ApplicationServer and Oracle9i Developer Suite at Oracle. Mr. Mageehas over 14 years experience in the enterprise softwareindustry and has held positions in product development,

product management, and product marketing. In his current role, he managestechnical product marketing for Oracle's application server and developmenttools products, and is responsible for evangelizing Oracle technology iinitiativesaround J2EE, XML, and web services.

Anne Thomas ManesResearch DirectorBurton GroupAnne Thomas Manes is a Research Director with BurtonGroup (http://www.burtongroup.com), a research and consulting firm. Anne is a widely recognized expert on WebServices. NetworkWorld named Anne one of the 50 mostpowerful people in networking in 2002, and EnterpriseSystems Journal listed her among the 2001 Power 100 IT

Leaders. She is the author of “Web Services: A Manager’s Guide”. Anne developedher expertise working at a number of the world’s leading hardware and softwarecompanies. You can reach Anne via e-mail at [email protected].



Patrick McBrideCTO and Co-FounderMETA Security GroupFormerly the SVP and Service Director of Meta Group’shighly successful Service Management Strategies practice,Patrick brings world-class strategic thinking, broad industryrelationships, and an experienced IT and information securityperspective to the Team. Pat was the 40th employee at

META Group where he gained the experience in building and managing growthcompanies that directly translated to META Security Group's current success.Prior to his stint at Meta Group, Pat engineered a comprehensive enterprise systemsmanagement capability for Travelers Insurance – now a division of Citigroup.

John McDowallChief Technology Officerand Vice President, EngineeringGrand Central CommunicationsJohn has over 20 years experience in developing prod-ucts and site architectures, building development teams,and setting the overall technical vision for the company.Prior to joining Grand Central, John was Chief Technology

Officer and Vice President Engineering at mySimon. Before joining mySimon,John served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President software develop-ment at 2Bridge Software, and as Senior Architect at TIBCO, an enterprise inte-gration platform developer. John holds an M.S. in Engineering from theUniversity of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Engineering from University ofGlasgow, United Kingdom.

Michael McKayUniversity of Michigan/TEL SystemsMichael Pigg McKay has 20 years experience in commu-nications and collaboration systems. He was a networkmanager for EDS, telecommunications manager for aFortune 100 auto manufacturer, and communications

systems planner for the University of Michigan Hospitals, where he designed allcommunications systems for new hospitals. He was VP, technical services forSBC's subsidiary, Clover Technologies. He's now at University of MichiganBusiness School and works for Thalner Electronics Labs, Ann Arbor MI, wherehe heads marketing and sales for conferencing and collaboration.

Chris McMahanCIOWireless Retail, Inc.Chris McMahan provides overall direction for technologyand product development required to support WirelessRetail's business strategies. His background includes over10 years of management experience leading groups of tech-nical professionals in industries such as banking, manufac-

turing, and distribution. Chris earned an Accounting and Information Systemsdegree from the University of Texas in San Antonio.

Dennis MoreauCTOConfiguresoftDr. Dennis Moreau has more than 20 years of experiencein designing, developing and managing complex enterprisesoftware systems. Prior to Configuresoft, he was CTO atBaylor College of Medicine (BCM). He has also been a co-

founder and researcher within a number of advanced computational/softwareresearch laboratories. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Paul MuellerVice President, Technology ServicesSchneider National, Inc.Paul Mueller is Vice President, technology services atSchneider National, Inc., a leading provider of transportationand logistics solutions where he oversees global technologyinfrastructure and communications services. Since joiningthe company in 1992, Mueller has been instrumental in

integrating a number of innovative technologies at Schneider including satellite-based mobile communications and tracking solutions as well as expanding thedelivery of networked business services to well over 500 company and customerlocations worldwide. Mueller has more than 20 years of industry experience.Prior to joining Schneider, Mueller was with both AT&T and NCR, where hedesigned and implemented computing and networking solutions.

Dewang NerallaDirector, Co-Founder and Chief TechnologyArchitectFinancial Technologies (India) LimitedDewang Neralla is the Technology Evangelist at FTIL andoversees the introduction of new Technology Strategy,Architecture and Platform for developing Straight ThroughProcessing (STP) solutions. In addition, Dewang spear-

heads and leads a specialist group of technologists at FTIL’s ‘.NET Center-of-Excellence’, India’s first Center of Excellence on .NET Framework, for securitiesindustry transaction technologies. With over 10 years experience in designingand managing Securities Industry Transaction Technologies, Dewang has heldmanagement and executive positions and served in various capacities includingPlatform Roadmap and Development, Technology Design & Architecture anddefining and guiding the overall enterprise technology vision.

Ertem OsmanogluPartnerGreenwich Technology PartnersErtem Osmanoglu has extensive experience in the review, design, and implementation of secure electronic commerce infrastructures including certificate authorities, PKIs, and general network and host security. Prior to joining GTP, he was with the Information Security practice ofPricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Osmanoglu provides e-business strategy, risk management, and infrastructure consulting to Global 2000 companies.



Steven PeltzmanChief Information OfficerMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA)Steven Peltzman is responsible for directing the strategy andoperations of all of MoMA's technology, including infra-structure and applications, web sites, museum technologies(technology-related exhibits and kiosks), and technology-related business development. Previously, Steve spent seven

years as a USAF Officer developing stealth technology and tactics in the B-2 andJoint Mission Planning Program Offices. After leaving the USAF, he held executivetechnology management roles in startup and public internet companies includingEarthWeb.com, MarketMedical.com, & Green Harp, Inc. Steve holds a BS inAeronautical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Joel PlautAssistant Vice PresidentAIGJoel Plaut heads up eBusiness Engagement Management within the AIG DataCenter, managing all new eBusiness projects. This includes coordinating with the divisional business and technology areas as well as operational systemsarchitecture, network design, performance metrics, setting SLAs, standardizingerror handling/reporting/monitoring and operational deployment plans, as wellas managing 3rd party hosting.

Laird PopkinChief Technology OfficerT.I.G. VenturesLaird Popkin is Chief Technology Officer of T.I.G. Ventures, consulting to a global media company on eCommerce and Peer-to-Peer technologies. Popkin chairs the Informationand Content Exchange (ICE) Authoring Group, which is theXML-based open standard for business-to-business content syndication. Popkin was also the CTO at 3Path,

Inc., and prior to that at Sotheby's Holdings and SOTHEBYS.COM, where he was responsible for launching the leading online commerce site for fine art, anddeveloping worldwide corporate technology strategy and standards. Prior toSotheby's, Popkin was the Chief Technology Officer at News America DigitalPublishing/News Internet Services, the Internet division of the News Corporation.

Laura RamosDirector, GigaForrester ResearchLaura has more than 19 years of experience in thedesign, development and marketing of both computerhardware and software. Prior to joining Giga, she was thedirector of product marketing at Verity and a small startupproducing automatic classification technology. At both,she defined the product requirements for and drove the

launch of products that automatically classify text-based documents into a taxon-omy of business concepts. She has also held director positions at Resumix andVitria Technology, where her interest in automation software started when shedefined and marketed products that automatically matched resumes to jobdescriptions and produced business rules to automate information flow betweenback-office applications. Laura’s previous positions included product managementof middleware products and object-oriented technology at Sybase and natively

compiled RISC operating systems at Tandem, where she also held positions inhardware development, management and computer-aided design. Laura holds anM.B.A. from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and a B.S.in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

Paul D. RobertsonDirector of Risk AssessmentTechnical Director, TruSecure Forensics LabsTruSecure CorporationPaul has over 19 years experience in computer, networkand information security. Paul has extensive experience inTCP/IP and Internet services, including firewall design,implementation and testing. Paul is well known by securi-

ty experts for his participation on various fora. Previously, as a lead securityanalyst for Gannett Company, he put www.usatoday.com on the Internet. Paulspent over 4 years at a DBMS vendor primarily as an assembly language developer.During his military tenure, he provided secure computer and telecommunicationssupport for the President, Vice President, National Security Advisor and seniorWhite House Staff. Paul is also moderator of the Firewall Wizards mailing list.

John RoeseChief Technology OfficerEnterasys NetworksIn his role as CTO, Roese is Enterasys Networks' ChiefTechnologist and Technical Visionary, responsible for the company's strategic technical direction. Roese overseesthe development of the company's technology architec-tures, including comprehensive Quality of Service, security,management and transport services. Additionally, Roese is

responsible for Enterasys Networks' initiatives in the Internet2 /NGI effort andfor coordinating Enterasys' substantial intellectual property portfolio.

Scott RosenbloomChief StrategistWRQScott is a strong proponent of service-oriented integration. Helooks for ways to help customers address current integrationneeds while building a foundation for future initiatives. At

WRQ, he helps to shape the future of the WRQ Verastream® product line. Previously,Scott spent 10 years at IBM in software design, development and consulting.

Robert V. RugareVice President Technology ConsultingCap Gemini Ernst & YoungBob has more than 25 years of industry experience. As thehead of the portals practice, he is the company’s leadingexpert on content management, Web services, and the components of cultural change needed to make a successfulPortal implementation possible.



Derek RuthsCo-Founder and CTOAdvanced RealityDerek Ruths co-developed the Presence-AR peer-to-peer collaboration platform, and has performed sponsored researchfor Rice University’s Center for High Performance Software.He has published several technical papers on scientific visual-

ization, collaborative systems, and virtual reality environment design and development.

Salvatore SalamoneFounder & Principal AnalystSalamone ResearchSalvatore Salamone is the founder of Salamone Research;a consulting firm that helps corporations evaluate net-working and Internet technology, products, and services.He has over 15 years experience in the networking indus-try, is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and isauthor of three books on networking.

Enrique SalemPresident and CEOBrightmail Inc.Enrique drives Brightmail's strategy and vision. Prior toBrightmail, Enrique served as senior Vice President ofproducts and technology at Oblix. Prior to that, he led thesecurity business unit at Symantec Corporation, helping togrow the unit's revenue from $200 million to $460 millionover a three year period.

Stephen SaltzmanDirector, Strategic InvestmentsIntel CapitalPrior to joining Intel Capital, Stephen was the GM of Intel'sWireless LAN Operation. He also worked at Intel in the late1980s, when he helped Intel's PC Enhancement Operationgrow from $6M to over $250M in three years. Inbetween, Stephen was founder and CEO of Now Software,

which became the largest Macintosh-only software publisher in the world duringhis tenure. He is a former Inc. Magazine-Ernst & Young Software Entrepreneur ofthe Year finalist and a former Oregon High-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.

Gunjan SamtaniDivisional Vice President, ITUBSOne of the most renowned technology evangelists andauthors in the financial industry, Gunjan Samtani isDivisional Vice President, IT, UBS. Prior to joining UBS,Gunjan has worked as Associate Director, GlobalInformation Technology, Bear Stearns and CIO of

EquityMaster. In all the above roles, Gunjan has been responsible for pioneering,

architecting, managing and directing several critical, multi-million dollar businessapplications. He has published several dozen articles and books in the fields offinance and technology. He possesses multiple M.S. degrees in the fields ofComputer Science, Management Information Systems and ComputationalFinance. His email address is [email protected].

John R. SchrammManager of Strategic SecurityArchitecture and EngineeringEnterprise Information Security & Recovery (EISR)FleetBoston FinancialJohn R. Schramm, CISSP, CISA, is manager of strategicsecurity architecture and engineering at FleetBostonFinancial. He has performed security assessments,

architected enterprise security solutions, created methodology for acquisitionand integration of new technologies and advised Fleet’s architecture reviewboard on matters of information security.

Gerry SeidmanPresident and Chief Technology OfficerInternet Access MethodsGerry is President/CTO of Internet Access Methods, andfounder of IAM Consulting, a Java training/consultingcompany. He has been a featured speaker at conferencesaround the world on topics including management briefingand distributed dynamic systems. He has been involved in

the development of Java products/projects since Java's earliest versions.

Marty SeyerVice President & General Manager,Microprocessor Business UnitAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc.Seyer is Vice President and General Manager of AMD’sMicroprocessor Business Unit. Before joining AMD, hewas President and CEO of Penguin Computing, Inc., aleading vendor of AMD processor-based Linux servers.Seyer is a Certified Teradata Engineer and is the author of

seven books on subjects including computers, operating systems, computerinterfacing and networking, including "RS-232 Made Easy.”

Daniel SheehanVice President and Chief Information OfficerADVO, IncDaniel Sheehan has more than 15 years experience as a senior-level information technology executive with large,multi-national companies, including The Coca-ColaCompany, Georgia Pacific, and Morton International.

Sheehan’s primary expertise lies in leading the development and implementationof integrated enterprise-wide architectures to improve business efficiency andenhance customer value.



Robert ShimpVice PresidentPlatform MarketingOracle CorporationRobert Shimp is Vice President of Platform Marketing for Oracle Corporation.Among other responsibilities, he leads Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux and GridComputing marketing teams.

During his career, Mr. Shimp has been involved with the development andintroduction of well-known brand name products including Hewlett-Packard’sHP-UX operating system an HP Precision Architecture, MIPS Microprocessors,the UnixWare operating system, and Oracle9i Databases.

Mr. Shimp holds bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and public policyfrom Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds a Master of BusinessAdministration degree and a Juris Doctorate from the University of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill.

Igor ShindelPrincipal ConsultantResult ArchitectsIgor Shindel helps clients with strategic technology deci-sions: developing business cases, rapidly engineeringrequirements for complex applications, and selection ofstrategic products. Prior to founding Result Architects, Mr.

Shindel served as CTO at Time Warner Digital Media and VP Technology andFinance at Time Inc. New Media. He studied computer science at New YorkUniversity and management at Henley Management College, UK.

William P. SimmelinkGeneral Manager, Voice over Packet GroupTexas InstrumentsWith over 20 years of experience in the telecommunica-tions industry, Bill Simmelink has been the GeneralManager of TI's Voice over Packet business unit since1999. Prior to that, he served as Vice President, BusinessDevelopment for Telogy Networks, which was acquired by

TI in 1999. Simmelink previously worked as an Assistant Vice President atHughes Network Systems, and was also a manager of pre-sales technical support at AT&T. He received a B.S. in mathematics from Purdue University.

Anuja K. SinghSenior Systems ConsultantCNT (Computer Network Technology)Anuja has been working in the Storage Enterprise field forover 10 years. As a Systems Consultant for CNT, she hasdelivered technical solutions around Data availability,

SANs and Server and Storage consolidation to achieve varied business objec-tives like BCDR, M&As, ease of management, ROI and cost reductions. Anujahas an M.S. degree in Electromagnetics from Colorado State University.

Jai SinghVice President and Editor-in-ChiefCNET News.comJai Singh is Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of CNETNews.com. Having joined CNET in January 1996, hefounded the award-winning technology news organizationin September of that year and has since built an operationwith four domestic bureaus (San Francisco, Boston, New

York and Washington) and more than 40 reporters and editors. Additional corre-spondents report from London, Paris, Munich, Singapore and Sydney. In March2001 Jai was inducted into TJFR Group’s Business Journalism Hall of Fame. Hehas thrice been voted “most influential online journalist” by Technology Marketingmagazine. Before joining CNET, Jai was executive editor of news at InfoWorldand previously worked at PC Week. In the mid-1980s, Jai headed a 24-hour-a-day news operation for one of the pioneering online services, The Source,owned by the Readers Digest Corporation.

Dr. Sandeep SinghalCo-founder and Chief Technical OfficerReefEdge, Inc.Sandeep Singhal is a recognized expert in the mobileintranet and Internet, handheld computing, and distributedsystems and a featured contributor to the recent bookWireless Local Area Networks-The New WirelessRevolution. Currently, Sandeep serves as chief product

architect at ReefEdge, responsible for the company's technical strategy. Prior toReefEdge, he was Chief Architect for IBM's Pervasive Computing Division.

Andy SingletonPresidentAssemblaAssembla founder Andy Singleton packages offshore talent, open software, andonline applications into a dynamic development capability. He previously foundedPowerSteering Software, a provider of online project management systems tosome of the world’s largest companies. He has engineered more than 20 newIT products in his career.

Sridhar SolurGlobal Solutions Principal, Office of the CTOHewlett-Packard CompanySridhar Solur is the Global Solutions Principal in the officeof CTO in Hewlett Packard focusing on Mobile Security.He has over 9 years experience as a senior consultant in wireless technologies, Network architecture,

planning design and implementation. He represents HP in security standardsbodies and is an author of several industry publications on Wireless technologies,wireless security, IP Telephony, Quality of service and Public WLAN. He hasarchitected and designed some of the largest wireless networks for HP’s customerssuch as airports, hospital and carriers.



Patricia A. SteadmanCEO and Co-FounderIncognito SoftwarePatricia Steadman has been a proponent of responsibleInternet management since 1992, when she co-foundedIncognito Software. She is responsible for architectingone of the only extensible, secure, scalable proprietaryDNS solutions available on the market and for bringing

the issue of security vulnerabilities to the enterprise, ISP and broadband market-place. Patricia earned her BSEE at Lehigh University and completed a degree inComputer Science at Columbia University.

David E Stern, CISSPInformation Security ConsultantGreenwich Technology PartnersDavid Stern is an Information Security Consultant at Greenwich TechnologyPartners in NYC. David graduated Polytechnic University in 1997 with a Bachelorin Computer Science. During college he joined as one of the first employees ofan Internet startup that developed content management and firewall appliancesfor schools. Since then, David has become immersed in the world of InformationSecurity, obtaining his CISSP certification in 2001. As a senior member of thesecurity practice at GTP he has played a significant role in developing their top-notch security assessment methodology that now includes wireless risk assess-ment. He is also involved with FBI InfraGard, USSS ECTF, and the HTCIA.

Chris StoneVice Chairman, office of the CEONovell, Inc.Stone rejoined Novell in March 2002 after departing in1999 to establish Tilion, a web services startup. Stonehas responsibility for all engineering, support, marketing,product management, alliances, global sales and consulting.Earlier in his career, he founded the Object ManagementGroup and spent 10 years at Data General Corporation.

Catherine (CAT) SuschCorporate Vice President, ArchitectureUBSCAT has been with UBS for two years working in theirFirm Wide Architecture group leading ApplicationArchitecture and Development Strategies. She has over 17 years of experience in technology focusing the majorityof her career applying object-oriented and web based

technology from both an application development and application architectureperspective. She has worked in such diverse industries as Financial Services,Automotive, media/entertainment, as well as scientific. Prior to joining UBS, CATwas a Principle at Ernst & Young Consulting, leading their Java Service Line.

Rajiv TandonSVP Banking, Financial Services, and AutomotiveSyntelRajiv Tandon joined Syntel, Inc. in 1992 and currently serves as Senior VicePresident, Banking, Financial Services, and Automotive. Formerly SVP of NorthAmerican Operations, Rajiv draws upon over 17 years of global IT experiencewith a variety of health care, commercial insurance and automotive clients. Hehas significant experience in managing global teams in the delivery of complexapplication outsourcing and e-Business solutions. Prior to joining Syntel, Rajivheld executive and technology posts at Deloitte & Touche, as well as TataConsultancy Services, one of India’s largest IT services organizations.

Justin TaylorChief Strategist, Directory ServicesNovellJustin Taylor has worked for Novell since 1997. CurrentlyJustin works on Novell's Corporate Strategist Team as theChief Strategist for directory service. Thru his role asChief Strategist, Mr. Taylor is reshaping the industriesvision of directory services in the Web services world as

the co-visionary behind Novell's Destiny project. Justin is also Novell's chiefrepresentative to the Liberty Alliance where he is a board member. Before com-ing to Novell Justin has held executive level positions in the IT education indus-try as well as roles as an educator and consultant.

Roger ThorntonFounderFortify SoftwareRoger Thornton is a veteran of the Silicon Valley who hasspent the last 15 years developing products and establishingnew businesses at some of the world’s leading technologycompanies. He began his career at Cypress Semiconductor

before moving to engineering and marketing management roles at Centerline Software,Apple/Taligent, Sun/JavaSoft. For the past seven years Roger has been providinghands-on consulting in large-scale system architectures and engineering managementfor startups and Fortune 500 clients including E*TRADE, eBay, ATT Wireless and ahost of others. Roger is most recently the founder of Fortify Software, which isdeveloping application security technologies for enterprise customers and is backedby the venture firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers.

Arthur TisiChief Executive Officer and Co-Founder@Thought, Inc.Arthur Tisi is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of@Thought Inc., (atthought.com) a New York based business strategy and technology services firm dedicatedto the Non-Profit, NGO, Not-For-Profit and Higher

Education sector @thought’s for-profit division serves a diverse group ofFortune 100 clients. For the seven years prior to founding @Thought, Tisi wasChief Technology Officer for Circline Inc. a successful Internet startup (www.circline.com). From 1993 to 2000, Mr. Tisi was the Chief InformationOfficer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (www.metmuseum.org).Tisi oversaw all technology initiatives at the museum and was responsible forimplementing a vast number of new strategic technologies tied to expenditureson technology initiatives totaling close to $100 million over seven years.



Alan TreflerChairman, Founder and CEOPegasystems Inc.Trefler has guided Pegasystems’ technology vision since hefounded the company in 1983. He was granted a U.S.Patent in 1998 for the distinctive Inherited Rule BaseArchitecture, which provides the framework for the compa-ny’s process automation management solutions. Trefler has

consulted extensively in the use of advanced technologies, customer service pro-cessing, expert systems and work automation. He is an active member with a num-ber of industry associations, including AIIM, IEEE, TAWPI, the Greater BostonChapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, ASQ and BPMI.org.

Ray VelezManaging Director, Systems ArchitectSBI and CompanyRay Velez’ expertise includes consulting in enterprise systems,architectures, and strategic IT planning, with a technologyfocus on high-volume websites and corporate portals. Rayhas worked on several of SBI's largest client implemen-tations

in industries including financial services, utilities, healthcare, and consumer pack-aged goods. Prior to SBI, Ray worked at Scient and Cambridge Technology Partners.

Bob WaltersPresident and CEOTerosBob Walters has 15 years of software industry experience withstartups and public companies including Securant Technologies(now RSA Security), Linuxcare, Informix Software, and RedBrick Systems. He is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer andaircraft carrier pilot. Mr. Walters graduated from the U.S. NavalAcademy and was a Guggenheim Fellow at Princeton University.

Alan C. Warren, Ph.D.CTO and Co-FounderJuice SoftwareDr. Alan Warren is the CTO and a Founder of Manhattan-based Juice Software. At Juice, Alan has led the architectureand development of an enterprise-class, XML messaging-based platform that connects Business Users with diverse,distributed information systems. This RealTime platform pushes

both open source and custom, highly-optimized XML processing code to the limits, andis deployed in Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical and Financial Services companies today.

David YachVice President, SoftwareResearch in MotionMr. Yach joined Research in Motion in December 1998,taking the position of Vice President, Software. Mr. Yachoversees and manages the development of software thathas helped Research in Motion become a world leader inthe mobile data communications market. Mr. Yach holds a

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, an M.B.A.from Wilfrid Laurier University and has a solid portfolio of technical, operationaland managerial experience from several senior-level positions in software devel-opment. Prior to joining Research in Motion, Mr. Yach held the position of VicePresident and Chief Architect at Sybase Inc.

Andre YeeCTO and Vice President, ProductsNFR SecurityAndre Yee is the CTO & Vice President, Products for NFRSecurity. In this capacity, he is responsible for the tech-nology strategy and product development at NFR. Mr. Yeeis a noted author and featured conference speaker ontopics related to security and distributed computing tech-

nologies. He has authored several articles on intrusion detection/prevention. Hisbooks include “Integrating Your eBusiness Enterprise (SAMS, 2001) andMastering Java (Sybex, 1996). Mr. Yee is listed as an inventor on two patents.

James M. Yoch, Jr.Knowledge Manager and VirtualCollaboration SpecialistUnisys CorporationJames is a Knowledge Manager and Virtual CollaborationSpecialist within the Knowledge Network of Unisys Corporation.He has played a central role in the implementation of theenterprise knowledge portal and the design and deployment

of knowledge communities at Unisys. James focuses on connecting people across organi-zational and geographic boundaries using virtual meeting and collaboration technologies.He has previously worked as an internal and external Web editor at Unisys since 2000.

Amit YoranVice President, Managed Security ServicesOperationsSymantec CorporationAmit Yoran is Vice President of managed security servicesoperations at Symantec, where he leverages extensiveinformation security experience in both the public andprivate sectors. In the private sector, Yoran provided

24x7x365 managed security monitoring for small to medium enterprises, as well as anumber of Fortune 500 companies. Considering public sector experience, Yoran hasworked with a number of agencies, including the Pentagon, where he worked withnational and international law enforcement and intelligence organizations to preventand respond to security breaches of national infrastructure networks.

Bob ZurekVice President, Advanced TechnologyAscential SoftwareBob Zurek is responsible for Ascential's overall productstrategy. He is instrumental in developing and driving itsenterprise integration strategy, including its parallel pro-cessing framework, data quality and Web services strate-gies. Previously, Zurek was a senior analyst with ForresterResearch. Prior to Forrester, he held senior managementpositions at LumaPath, Centive Systems and Sybase.

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