Sunil Ahluwalia, Product Line Manager, Intel Corporation
Sunil Ahluwalia is product line manager of Intel’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet products. He is responsible for marketing products along with Storage and Security technologies for the Data Center. Ahluwalia has over 12 years of management experience in the software and semiconductor industry during with he held various positions in strategic planning, product marketing, and product development. Prior to his current assignment, Ahluwalia was Strategic marketing manager in the Server platform group; in this capacity he led a cross functional group to develop a server market segmentation model that redefined server product roadmap. Prior to joining Intel in 2000, Ahluwalia served as Director, Professional Services for Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. There he lead the expansion of Trillium’s services business and established an overseas development center in Bangalore, India. Ahluwalia received an MBA from University of Oregon's Charles H. Lundquist College of Business. He also holds a bachelor of technology degree in computer science and engineering from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India.

William (Bill) Allcock, Manager, Advanced Integration Group, The Argonne National Laboratory Leadership Computing Facility
Bill Allcock joined Argonne in 2000 and has since been responsible for research and storage management of large-scale data sets, including storage systems, underlying network protocols, appropriate application level protocols and tools, and providing additional services within the network to facilitate large-scale data manipulation. Allcock currently designs, manages and selects equipment for the petascale storage system at the Argonne National Laboratory Leadership Computing Facility. Previously, Allcock was the technology coordinator for the GridFTP software team as part of the Globus project. GridFTP is software for secure, high speed, robost transport of massive data sets. Prior to joining Argonne, he worked in the paper industry with controls engineering, colloidal chemistry, instrumentation design, and process engineering. Allcock earned a master's of science degree in paper science from the Institute of Paper Science and Technology in Atlanta, Ga.

Robert Amatruda, Research Director, Tape and Removable Storage, IDC
Robert Amatruda is a Research Director in IDC's Storage program, covering the tape hardware and removable magnetic storage markets. Robert is responsible for tracking and forecasting the tape markets on a worldwide basis, as well as coordinating similar research and analysis with regional IDC analysts. This includes evaluating tape hardware and component companies and creating detailed market models that examine the tape industry from both an OEM and branded product perspective. As a recognized leader in tape research within the storage market, Mr. Amatruda’s insights, analysis, and market data are sought frequently by clients in order to validate strategic product and market issues. He is a frequent key note speaker at trade events and is often quoted in such industry periodicals as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, InfoWorld, The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, and Forbes.

Most recently, Mr. Amatruda initiated coverage on the Virtual Tape market in 2006, collaborating with a interdisciplinary team of analysts to develop IDC’s first taxonomy, TAM, and market model.

Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Amatruda worked for the Cahner's Publishing Company as a staff Economist specializing in the semiconductor and electronics industries. In addition to Cahner’s, he was a Research Analyst with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Policy Development, and Research Department where he tracked the commercial construction and employment sector.

Jonathan Amit, Chief Technology Officer, Storwize Inc.
Jonathan Amit is the CTO and co-founder of Storwize. With 15 years of experience, Jonathan is a leading expert in IP networking, storage protocols, data structures and real time applications. He is responsible for the design and architectural development of Storwize’s revolutionary real-time, random access compression technology. He has done extensive research in the area of data manipulation for faster I/O and improved compression ratios and has filed numerous patents.

Omer Asad, Senior Architect, Office of the CTO, NetApp
Omer Asad is a Storage Architect in the CTO office at NetApp. Omer leads strategic technology initiatives within NetApp targeted towards High Performance Computing and Enterprise Grid computing.

Praveen Asthana, Director, Enterprise Storage, Dell
Praveen Asthana is global director of Dell's multi-billion dollar enterprise storage business. In this role, he is responsible for product development, product marketing and strategic partnerships. Dr. Asthana brings extensive storage industry experience to Dell. He spent over a decade in IBM's storage systems group developing and marketing a broad range of storage products. Prior to Dell, he was vice president of marketing for Zambeel, an emerging enterprise storage company located in Silicon Valley. Dr. Asthana holds two U.S. patents in storage technology and has written widely on storage business and technology issues. Dr. Asthana has a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London.

Richard Austin, IT Industry Consultant, IT Industry Consultant
Richard is a 30+ year veteran of the IT industry in positions ranging from software developer to security architect. Before beginning part-time work with Knowledge Transfer, he was focused on technology and processes for successfully protecting the 14PB storage area network infrastructure within the global IT organization of a Fortune 25 company. He earned a MSc degree with a concentration in information security from Kennesaw State University, a DHS/NSA recognized Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, and serves as a part-time faculty in their CSIS department where he teaches in the Information Security and Assurance program. He holds the CISSP certification and serves on the governing board of SNIA's Storage Security Industry Forum and is an active member of SNIA's Security Technical Working Group. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and also belongs to the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, CSI, HTCIA, ISACA and ISSA (where he also serves on their international ethics committee). He is a frequent writer and presenter on storage networking security and digital forensics.

Rich Avila, Director, Server & Network Operations, California State University East Bay
Rich currently works for Cal State East Bay as Director of Server Operations and Systems Support. His career as a director also includes twenty plus years of planning and implementing shared technology infrastructures for banking, retail, telecommunication and manufacturing companies. Rich has built and maintained nationwide networks and merged and built numerous data center sites over his career.

James Baker, Research Manager, Storage Software, IDC
As research manager for IDC's Storage Software, James Baker focuses on replication and storage management software. He is responsible for in-depth analysis of these markets, including associated products and companies. He assists both vendors and users in assessing storage software technological innovation, acquisition and investment decisions, as well as tracking and forecasting worldwide markets. With 30 plus years in the storage industry, Mr. Baker has extensive storage experience and knowledge. Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Baker worked 11 years at EMC Corporation in product management roles for both the Engineering and Marketing organizations. He was responsible for product lifecycle management for several of EMC's most influential products, including SRDF, TimeFinder, AutoSwap, LDMF, and others. He is also a published author. He holds BS and MBA degrees from University of Illinois.

Mary Baker, Sr. Research Scientist, HP
Mary Baker's research interests include distributed and mobile systems, digital preservation, and networks. Before joining HP Labs as a senior research scientist, she was on the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering faculties at Stanford University where she led the MosquitoNet project. Her research group helped design and test the distributed protocol for the LOCKSS digital preservation system. Baker received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a founding member of the editorial board for IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, chaired the 2008 Usenix Conference on File and Storage Technologies, and is currently on the technical advisory board for Lockheed Martin's TSAT/TMOS next generation battlefield global communications system.

Randy Baldemor, Vice President, Business Development, DiscoveryBox
Randy Baldemor is vice president of business development at DiscoveryBox, where he is responsible for managing the sales and marketing department. In that role, he also oversees the development and implementation of the company's sales and marketing strategy. Mr. Baldemor obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law in 1999, where he earned a graduate certificate in Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, With Honors, from the University of Florida at Gainesville. He is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association.

Christian Bandulet, Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Christian Bandulet is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems working in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a member of the Sun Data Management Ambassador Group Board which is steering the storage engineering and product development teams at Sun Microsystems. He is also member of Sun's worldwide Storage Technical Field Advisory Board. With over 20 years' IT experience he worked as a soft- and hardware engineer in Germany and in the US. His expertise reaches from UNIX kernel development to database engineering. As an acknowledged industry expert Christian has delivered workshops and presentations at many international conferences. Christian has the reputation for taking complex issues and delivering them in a way that makes them easily understood. Christian has written many blueprints, articles and white papers about advanced storage technologies like object storage and grid storage. He's focused on large scale storage projects for key customers, competitive studies, research analysis of advanced technologies and monitoring of trends in the storage and server industry.

Keith Bankston, Lead Solutions Architect, CSC - Architecture & Innovation
Keith is regional storage lead for the Americas architecture group and is responsible for storage strategy across the architecture group as well as the lead storage architect for the leverage storage and backup service. He has 22 years of experience in Information Technology, including roles as a developer, engineer, consultant, manager and architect.

Dr. Geoff Barrall, CEO and Co-Founder, Data Robotics, Inc.
Having spoken at Storage Networking World 2005, Dr. Geoff Barrall is intimately familiar with the audience and brings a wealth of knowledge to the storage industry. Dr. Geoff Barrall is a founder of Data Robotics Corporation and the designer of its core technology. Prior to joining Data Robotics, Dr. Barrall founded five companies, the most recent being BlueArc Corporation, the number three supplier of Enterprise NAS in the US. Dr. Barrall is an executive consultant to the senior team at Brocade Communications and sits on the board of advisors for Data Domain and NeoPath. Dr. Barrall earned his PhD in Cybernetics from the University of Reading, UK.

Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Clodoaldo Barrera is a Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technical Strategist for IBM System Storage. His responsibilities include development strategy for IBM’s disk and tape subsystems, storage management software, and SAN and NAS solutions. Prior to his current position, Mr. Barrera was the development executive for IBM’s serial storage product development, and for future storage systems development. Before joining IBM’s Storage Division, Mr. Barrera was a programmer and a development manager in printer product development. He has also served for two years on the IBM Corporate Development Staff in Armonk, New York. Mr. Barrera is a founding member of the Storage Networking Industry Association, and served as a Director and Secretary of the Board. He has also served as a board member of the Fibre Channel Association. Mr. Barrera is a graduate of Stanford University, and holds a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. He is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society and of the ACM.

Rick Bauer, SNIA Technology & Education Director
Rick serves as Technology Director and Education Director for the SNIA. He is responsible for the management of all technical and educational initiatives of the association. Rick also manages SNIA’s Technology Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which is part of an ever-expending global SNIA network of SNIA labs in Japan, China, and India. Rick is a member of many technical and marketing workgroups within the SNIA, and is a frequent presenter at SNIA and other technology events worldwide. He is one of the founding staff members of the SNIA Green Storage Initiative. Prior to his work at SNIA, Rick served as CIO for several organizations over a 16 year career in technology, involving education, data process, digital imaging, and systems integration. Rick served as founding chair of SNIA’s End User Council while serving as CIO for The Hill School, one of America’s leading educational institutions, named “the most wired school in America” by Yahoo’s Internet Life magazine in 2002. Rick has master’s degrees in business and technology management from the Wharton School of Business and the Graduate School of Engineering at The University of Pennsylvania, and has additional master’s degrees from Harvard University and The University of Florida.

Brian Beard, Memory Strategic Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor
Brian Beard is a manager in SSI's Memory Strategic Marketing group where he is responsible for Flash, SSD, and DRAM products. Brian holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Before Samsung, he lived and worked for 5 years in Japan, Taiwan, and China performing various roles in engineering, project management, and product marketing in the semiconductor equipment and IT manufacturing industries.

David Black, Senior Technologist, EMC Corporation
Since joining EMC in 1998, David has been involved in a variety of strategic technology projects and standards efforts, including leading development and standardization of iSCSI and other IP Storage protocols in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). His current activities focus on storage and networking protocols, security, and standardization including leading industry standardization efforts for Fibre Channel security and development of a standard fixed content API for Centera and similar systems. Prior to EMC, David worked on operating system research and development at the Open Software Foundation, which later became The Open Group.

Colette Bliobenes, Information Management Consultant, Iron Mountain, Data Protection
Colette’s been in Records and Information Management for over 12 years beginning as Client Services Manager for Kestrel Records Management before it’s acquisition by Pierce Leahy Archives. Iron Mountain Records Management Inc., headquartered out of Boston, MA, later purchased Pierce and Colette moved from the paper record division of the company into the Data Protection and Digital side of the business. For the last 8 years, Colette has been a Data Protection Consultant to Iron Mountain’s local customers for traditional services as well as the ever-growing line of Digital solutions.

Jamie Blomquist, Product Marketing Manager, Compellant
Jamie Blomquist is responsible for the planning and launch of Compellent’s enterprise network storage products. With more than 12 years experience in IT, Blomquist designed a tool at Compellent to analyze potential cost savings from the implementation of various storage technologies such as automated tiered storage and thin provisioning. Before joining Compellent in 2006, he was the director of information technology at Rider Bennett, LLP, a law firm, where he led the strategic planning, development and management of the company’s IT programs, teams and infrastructure. Blomquist began his career as a network systems administrator. Blomquist holds a master of business administration in marketing and strategic management from the University of Minnesota, and a bachelor’s degree in history and bachelor’s degree in education from the University of North Dakota.

Mark Bramfitt, Principal Program Manager, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Mark Bramfitt is Principal Program Manager in Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Customer Energy Efficiency Group which is responsible for designing and delivering programs and services to help customers manage their energy use in the IT industry segment. Mark also leads the Utility IT Energy Efficiency Coalition, promoting the adoption of high tech program and service models by utilities throughout North America. He serves on the board of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and is PG&E's representative to The Green Grid.

Matthew Brisse, Director of Business Development, Quantum Corporation
Matthew Brisse serves as the Director of Business Development for Quantum. He joined the company in 2006 and is responsible for Quantum’s business development and technology partnerships. Matthew drives Quantum’s Green Initiatives and serves as the technical liaison to SNIA’s DMF. Matthew currently serves on the board of Directors to SNIA’s DMF forum. Prior to joining Quantum Matthew was a storage technology strategist for the Office of the CTO for Dell. He was on the board of directors for the SNIA for the past 4 years. He has over 25 years of storage-related experience.

Diane Bryant, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Intel Corporation
Diane M. Bryant is Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Intel Corporation where she is responsible for Intel's Information Technology organization. Intel's IT organization delivers strategic value by providing professional support, applications, and solutions that enable Intel's growth and transformation.

Previously, Bryant held several positions including general manager of the Server Platforms Group, responsible for Intel's server, workstation, and storage business encompassing all elements of the platform including hardware, software and services. She was also director of the Corporate Platform Office, responsible for driving the transformation of Intel to a platform directed company, and GM of the Enterprise Processor Division responsible for the architecture, design and delivery of Intel's Xeon and Itanium processor families. Before joining the Enterprise group in 1998, Bryant was Director of Engineering of the Mobile Products Group responsible for Intel's mobile processors and chipsets.

Bryant received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from U.C. Davis in 1985 and joined Intel the same year. She holds four U.S. Patents.

Jason Buffington, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft - Storage Solutions
Jason Buffington has been working in the networking industry since 1989, with a majority of that time being focused on data protection. He is a Certified Business Continuity Planner as well as prior Microsoft MCSE-MCT. In 2005 was awarded Microsoft's MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Storage. Jason has received high marks as a former SNW speaker at SNW-US 2002, 2003-EU and US, 2004-US, and 2006-EU and US. He has also spoken around the world at large events and been published in several periodicals, including Storage Networking World, StorageInc., Storage Management Solutions, Network World, CTR, DRJ, TechTarget/SearchStorage and Enterprise Storage. With over 17 years of storage experience, Jason recently joined Microsoft as Senior Technical Product Manager for Data Protection Manager. He has previously held posts at DoubleTake and Cheyenne/CA ARCserve and channel-partners prior to joining Microsoft.

Phil Bullinger, Executive Vice President, Engenio Storage Group, LSI
Phil Bullinger is responsible for the engineering, operations, strategic planning, and business development efforts of the LSI server-attached and SAN-attached storage system products, including disk array controllers and subsystems as well as RAID storage adapters. Prior to his promotion in August 2005, Bullinger was vice president and general manager of the LSI RAID Storage Adapters Division, a position he held since 2001. He joined LSI in 1998 as part of the Symbios, Inc., acquisition.Bullinger graduated magna cum laude from Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering and magna cum laude from National Technological University, Fort Collins, Colorado, with a master's degree in management of technology.

Eric Burgener, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group
Eric brings a wealth of cross functional expertise that spans over 20 years in the high tech industry. He advises clients on data protection, archiving, data reduction technologies including deduplication and compression, DPM and WAFS/WDS. Eric has particular experience with emerging technologies, having worked extensively with high availability computing, heterogeneous replication, storage management and virtualization, and continuous data technologies during the early formative years for these technologies from the vendor side. Eric joins The Taneja Group from Mendocino Software, where he was the Vice President of Marketing. He holds a BA degree from Bowdoin College and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mark Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems
Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Storage Group, has more than 30 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than fifteen year's experience with Java technology. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is a co-chair of the SNIA NDMP and XAM SDK working groups, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Sun Microsystems on the DMTF Technical Committee as well as the DMTF Board of Directors where he serves as VP of Alliances. Mark was one of the original developers at Redcape Policy Software, Inc., a small, Boulder, CO, startup that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in June 1998.

• The transition to Linux and commodity hardware from high cost specialized hardware and software
• The formation of key strategic alliances with partners such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
• The unification of DreamWorks Animation and PDI/DreamWorks Animation on a single proprietary toolset and infrastructure
• The development and licensing of the company’s Virtual Studio Collaboration system which has enabled revolutionary cross-site collaboration

Denise Chatam, Chief Security Officer, Lone Star College
Dr. Denise Chatam serves as Chief Security Officer with Lone Star College System, formerly Dean of Technology and Institutional Research. Dr. Chatam has more than 20 years experience in information technology leadership and security. She has authored a book called "Cybercrime: Secure IT or Lose IT" and has facilitated workshops and training sessions nationally on cybercrime, information security, and emergency management.

Gilles Chekroun, Sr. Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems
Gilles joined Cisco 13 years ago. His background is linked to IBM networking technologies and he started at Cisco as a network design engineer. Later on, Gilles joined the EMEA Consulting group in the IBM team and led many projects in the financial sector. For the last five years, Gilles focuses on Storage, SAN extension technologies for designing and implementing Disaster Recovery Centers and Data Center Technologies like InfiniBand and others. He is a member of the Cisco Emerging Markets Advanced Technology team. Gilles is also Technical Chair of the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Benelux committee. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Kent Christensen, Practice Manager, Datalink
Kent Christensen is responsible for keeping abreast of technology developments in the data storage industry, particularly in the area of software-based services to support Datalink practice areas and service offerings. Mr. Christensen leads Datalink’s practice areas around virtualization and backup and recovery as well as oversees the company’s software-driven services and solutions. In this role, he concentrates on identifying and implementing virtualization and backup and recovery technologies that are central to Datalink solution offerings. He also helps identify and launch software solutions to enhance the delivery of Datalink professional services, managed services, and support services.

Mr. Christensen consults with customers throughout the United States and assists them in assessing their data storage strategies. He also works with Datalink’s technology partners, evaluating their new technologies and providing input on their product roadmaps. In addition, Mr. Christensen evangelizes storage services, consolidation and virtualization concepts and technologies within Datalink.

Mr. Christensen is a 20+ year veteran of the IT storage industry and holds a Bachelor of Science from the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota.

Patrick Chu, PhD, Research Staff Member, Seagate Research
Dr. Patrick B. Chu is a Research Staff Member at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, PA. He led the Servo Dynamics group as a Research Engineering Manager for about 3 years and is currently a technical contributor in the Interfaces and Architecture group. Prior to Seagate, he worked at Tellium, Inc., an optical network company, in Oceanport, NJ as a Senior Member of Technical Staff. He has also worked at Tanner Research and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. He has published over 20 refereed journal, conference and invited papers and served as principal investigator on contracts from DARPA and the Army. He has 2 issued patents and over 10 patents pending. His past work included MEMS accelerometers, optical devices, actuators, and fuze; MEMS-based optical switch; HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording), and Probe storage. His current interests include green data storage systems, MEMS design and fabrication, and control systems. He is a member of IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu Honor society and serves the SNIA as the chair of the Unplugged Fest Subgroup in the Green Storage TWG. Patrick was born in Hong Kong and received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles. His thesis was on micro-corner-cube reflector for low-power free-space optical communication.

Guy Churchward, Vice President and General Manager, Data Protection Group, NetApp
Guy Churchward is Vice President and General Manager of the Data Protection group at NetApp and is responsible for product strategy and development of the NetApp® data protection portfolio targeted at both disk-to-disk and disaster recovery needs. Churchward has extensive experience in the information technology industry as a business executive, with broad international experience in engineering, sales, marketing, strategy, and market development. Before joining NetApp, Churchward was vice president and general manager of Engineering at BEA Systems, Inc., where he oversaw product strategy and development for WebLogic server and Java virtual machine technologies, including virtualization, real-time, and event processing. Prior to that, he was vice president of Marketing Development for Mainspring Ventures, Inc., a consulting firm he also founded. He has held executive management positions at Sun Microsystems and Caplin Cybernetics.

David Clark, Senior Product Marketing Manager, QLogic Corporation
David Clark, Senior Staff Product Marketing Manager at QLogic Corporation brings more than 25 years of storage industry experience in product management and development. David's experience includes Director of Technical and Product marketing at iStor Networks, Manager of Qualification at 3PARdata and Manager of the Development Team providing PowerVault SAN solutions at Dell. Dave has a BS from Arizona State University and has extensive knowledge including iSCSI, Ethernet, Fibre Channel Technologies supporting SAN and iPSAN solutions.

Richard Clark, President and CEO, APTARE
Rick has 20 years of leadership experience in the enterprise software industry. He co-founded APTARE in 1993 with the sole purpose of developing scalable Web-based applications for large enterprises. As CEO, Rick is responsible for setting the strategic vision and direction of the company. Rick holds several patents covering Web-based architectures for enterprises. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with Honors and a Bachelor of Science degree from Auckland University, New Zealand. Rick is a frequent presenter at conferences and trade shows. Most recently, he presented at Storage Networking World (2006 and 2007), the Dow Jones Enterprise Innovations Conference (2007), and he participated in a panel at the Data Protection Summit (2007).

Joshua Corman, Principal Security Strategist, IBM Internet Security Systems
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.

Roger Cummings, Technical Director, Symantec Corporation
As Technical Director in the Advanced Technology Standards group of the Symantec CTO Office, Roger Cummings participates in the development of new technologies and advanced products, and represents Symantec in a number of industry bodies developing standards. He is a past member of the SNIA Technical Council, and a former Co-Chair of SNIA's Security Working Group. He is active in INCITS committees T10 & T11, and also participates in IEEE & IETF. He has as total of more than 30 years experience in the computer industry in the UK, Canada and the United States. Roger Cummings holds a B. Sc (Eng) from Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. He has published more than twenty articles in a variety of publications, from Infostor to Laser Focus World, and is the author of two booklets in the SNIA Technical Tutorial Series - "Storage Network Security" and "Storage Network Management.”

Marty Czekalski, Senior Staff Program Manager Seagate Technology, Seagate Technology
Marty Czekalski brings over twenty years of senior engineering management experience in advanced architecture development for Storage and IO subsystem design, ASIC, and Memory Systems. He is currently Sr. Staff Program Manager within Seagate’s Enterprise Market Development Group. Previous industry experience includes engineering management roles at Maxtor, Quantum and Digital Equipment Corporation. Additionally, at Digital Equipment Corp., he was a key member of the Storage Strategy Task Force and the Next Generation IO Task Force, setting the directions for storage and interface strategy. Mr. Czekalski has participates in multiple interface standards committees and industry storage groups. He was a founding member of the Serial Attached SCSI Working Group during that lead to the development of Serial Attached SCSI. He currently serves as Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the SCSI Trade Association. Mr. Czekalski is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, active with the T10 committee and the Trusted Computing Group. Mr. Czekalski earned his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his BE degree in Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

David Dale, Director, Industry Standards, NetApp
David Dale is Industry Evangelist and Director of Industry Standards at Network Appliance where he is a technology spokesperson, represents NetApp in the storage industry, and drives NetApp’s involvement in Industry Standards Associations. With over 20 years experience in the computer industry he participates in the industry as Vice-Chair of the SNIA Board of Directors, Chair of the SNIA IP Storage Forum; board member of the SNIA Data Management Forum; a regular contributor to industry journals, a frequent participant in IT seminars, and a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events around the globe. David was educated in England, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from the University of London.

Stephen Daniel, Technical Director, NetApp
Mr. Daniel has spent the last 7+ years as NetApp's lead technologist for databases on NetApp primary storage. He has worked extensively on both performance and correctness issues. At present NetApp supports over 4000 customers running business and mission critical database applications on NAS storage.

David Deming, President and Founder, Solution Technology
David Deming is the president and founder of Solution Technology. He is a certified experiential facilitator and coach who has an extensive background in both the storage networking industry and personal growth techniques and technology.

Lawrence Di Gioia, Director of Information Services, City of Altamonte Springs
As Director of Information Services for the City of Altamonte Springs (Florida), Lawrence Di Gioia leads the city's asset management initiatives --serving as master security officer -- and is responsible for supporting the cities 24/7 operations, including public safety, utilities and telecommunications. Prior to this appointment, Di Gioia served as the city's deputy finance director and technology manager. Before joining the City of Altamonte Springs, Di Gioia worked for the New York State Office of Court Administration where he was challenged with establishing and managing the NYC Surrogate Court's Information Systems department. Di Gioia has more than a decade of industry experience. He earned his master's degree from Hofstra University and a bachelor's degree from the S.U.N.Y. at Old Westbury.

Jack Domme, Chief Operating Officer, Hitachi Data Systems
As chief operating officer of Hitachi Data Systems, Jack Domme leads a worldwide executive team responsible for corporate and product strategy, worldwide sales, IT management, and logistics planning and operations. Domme was promoted to executive vice president in August 2006, after serving as senior vice president. He joined Hitachi Data Systems as vice president, Storage Management Software, where he led the company's software business segment, with responsibility for software business strategy, strategic alliances, product architectures, and development of the Hitachi Storage Management Suite of software. Before coming to Hitachi Data Systems, Domme served as vice president of product and sales engineering at Storage Networks, Inc., where he defined the company's integrated software vision, architecture, and roadmap. Jack Domme has been recognized by the industry for his leadership and his innovative approaches to information delivery.

Lee Donnahoo, Storage Architect, Microsoft
Lee has been a Storage Engineer/Architect in Microsoft IT since 2001, performing new product evaluations, SAN design, as well as storage troubleshooting and Windows beta testing (affectionately called "Dogfooding"). In that time Microsoft have run several large projects including Datacenter Consolidation, deploying backup to disk, and our consolidated "storage utility", where Lee was a key contributor and designer. Current projects include the further deployment of a tiered-storage model, storage performance monitoring and trend analysis, and a complete overhaul of storage security within Microsoft IT. Lee is currently attending University of Washington in his "spare time", working toward a degree in Business Administration.

Laura DuBois, Program Director, Storage Software, IDC
Laura DuBois serves as Program Director for IDC's Storage Software practice. The Storage Software program covers areas such as storage and device management, storage replication, data protection and recovery, storage infrastructure, file systems and archiving software segments. Ms. DuBois is responsible for the research, consulting and client relationships, and she oversees IDC's team of storage software analysts.

Ms. DuBois has over a decade of experience in the storage industry with focus on backup and recovery, replication, storage management, compliance and content addressed storage. Prior to joining IDC, Ms. DuBois held various leadership positions in product management and software engineering for companies such as EMC Corporation, StorageNetworks and Hitachi Data Systems. Her expertise is often called upon at industry forums and conferences, and she is frequently quoted in trade and press publications.

Ms. DuBois holds an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and a Master's degree of Business Administration from Boston College.

Stephen Edel, Program Director, Storage Portfolio Management, IBM
Stephen Edel has 31 years of experience in the storage industry in manufacturing, development and marketing. He currently is involved in driving strategic initiatives in areas including Storage Replication, Continuous Data Protection, Data Retention, and High Density Storage Solutions. Stephen holds a number of patents and has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and an AA from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Ron Emerick, I/O Architect, Sun Microsystems
Ron Emerick is an IO Architect / Technologist in Sun Microsystem Systems Group. He is a technical lead in IO Infrastructure and Architecture for Sun systems. Ron is an active member of the PCI SIG and has been involved in IO architectures for many years.

Burzin Engineer, Vice President of Infrastructure Technology, Shopzilla, Inc.
Burzin N. Engineer is Vice President of Infrastructure Technology at Shopzilla, Inc. Burzin has more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry. His experience ranges from system and database administration to network/storage design and architecture. His technology focal points revolve around solving today's largest IT problems such as server consolidation, virtualization, data mobility and ILM. At Shopzilla, Burzin is responsible for all facets of IT, including network, storage, systems and internal IT. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He can be reached at bengineer@shopzilla.com.

Kevin Esposito, MBA, JD, Director, Electronic Discovery, MetaJure, Inc.
Kevin L. Esposito, MBA JD is Director of Electronic Discovery at MetaJure, Inc. where he drives the analysis and implementation of processes and toolsets that are designed to decrease the cost of complying with legal discovery obligations.

Kevin was previously co-founder of the Discovery Response Team at Pfizer Inc in New York and helped to lead Pfizer’s corporate records retention efforts. As the Director of Electronic Discovery at Pfizer, Kevin was responsible for the day to day operation of the IT side of their discovery process and coordinated all electronic discovery worldwide.

Kevin knows first hand the dynamics of internal communications between Information Technology and Legal staff. Kevin developed and managed global technology support organizations for United Parcel Service for over a decade before becoming an attorney. For the past ten years he has been finding innovative ways to apply computer technology to business processes within the legal arena. He is a frequent speaker at legal and technology conferences and specializes in bridging the communications gap that exists between business people, technologists and lawyers.

Kevin is a member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (www.edrm.net) where he served as the first co-chair of the Code of Conduct subcommittee.

He is also a senior faculty member at the University of Phoenix, where he is author or co-author of courses related to both technology and The Law. He also served as Visiting Lecturer in Electronic Commerce at LaSalle University in Philadelphia. He maintains offices in New Jersey and Washington.

Jacob Farmer, Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer
Jacob Farmer is the CTO of Cambridge Computer, an integrator and consulting firm specializing in data protection and storage technologies. Jacob has been focused on backup systems and data storage for over 20 years, spending the last 17 years with Cambridge Computer. In addition to consulting for end-users and storage technology manufacturers, Jacob is a senior technical advisor and frequent contributor to InfoStor Magazine. He also runs a free educational road show covering a variety of timely storage industry topics that is delivered through a partnership with the Usenix Association and through Microsoft's regional offices. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University.

Mike Feinberg, Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC Corporation
Mike Feinberg is Senior Vice President of the Cloud Infrastructure Group at EMC Corporation. 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.

Feinberg joined EMC to lead the Technology Ventures Group which was formed in May of 2006 with the objective of addressing emerging customer and technology trends and delivering products and solutions that will revolutionize existing IT paradigms. In February of 2008, EMC created a new division to focus on the emerging opportunities for cloud-based solutions and services. Feinberg currently serves as Senior Vice President of the Cloud Infrastructure Group, reporting to Paul Maritz, President and General Manager of the Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division.

Prior to joining EMC in May 2006, Feinberg served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for HP Storage, where he was responsible for strategy and technical direction. Before that, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of StorageApps, a network-based storage virtualization company. Previously, he held strategic roles for Morgan Stanley IT, including Vice President for Infrastructure Engineering. Feinberg started his career at IBM and Data General. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Math and Computer Science from Binghamton University and a Masters Engineering Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Thomas Fenady, Senior Director, Information Technology, Activision, Inc.
Thomas U. Fenady is the Senior Director of Information Technology for Activision Publishing Inc., a $1.5 billion international publisher of interactive entertainment software products. Thomas joined Activision in 2004. His current responsibilities include global infrastructure and architecture, security, and compliance. Fenady's career in the information technology industry spans 15 years including positions held at Rubin Postaer and Associates, BBDO Advertising, and Apple Computer.

Michael Fishman, Chief Technology Officer, Backup Platforms Group, EMC
Mike Fishman has spent over 20 years with EMC as a specialist in information solutions working on backup, restore, replication and content management. Mike's responsibilities are divided between investigating strategic technologies for future products and architecting and delivering data protection solutions for data consumers. Michael has been involved since inception with the EMC Disk Library product operating as Chief Technologist. Michael is active within the Storage Networking Industry Association. Mike has chaired technical working groups, worked on the SMIS specification and is currently the education chair for the SNIA Data Management Forum.

Mark Fleming, Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Mark Fleming has been working in the IT industry for 12 years, and in storage at IBM for the past 7 years. His focus has been on enterprise storage products, and he is a technical advocate for several large enterprise storage customers. Mark’s focus is on system level test, and he loves trying to break products to make them better for customers! Lately he’s been focusing more on SMB storage, and finds things like high availability very exciting. When not working with storage, he can be found outside with his family, traveling for pleasure, or just hanging out with his kids.

Jon Flower, Vice President of Technology, Adaptec, Inc.
Jon Flower is the vice president of technology at Adaptec, responsible for developing and implementing technologies to expand the company's leadership beyond the data storage I/O market. He leads the Adaptec engineering team at several levels, ranging from product concept development and architectural design, to the development of engineering and test specifications. At Adaptec, Mr. Flower has also served as the chief technology officer (CTO), specializing in new business initiatives, as well as the CTO of the Storage Systems Division at Adaptec. Before joining Adaptec, he was the vice president of architecture at Tricord and prior to that, the vice president of engineering at Pixion. Mr. Flower holds a B.A. in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from California Institute of Technology.

David Flynn, Chief Technology Officer, Fusion-io
As CTO of Fusion-io, and one of the company's founders, David Flynn is the visionary behind Fusion-io's innovative technology. Mr. Flynn is responsible for providing business-focused oversight of the company's research and development efforts, as well as driving the company's short- and long-term technological direction. Mr. Flynn has a history of successfully architecting complex computer-related solutions, including some of the world's largest and fastest supercomputers and the world's smallest personal Linux servers; embedded Web 2.0 interactive TV; image processing; relational databases; file systems; and thin-client computing products. Prior to joining Fusion-io, Mr. Flynn served as Project BlackDoga's chief scientist and vice president, engineering. He has also held positions at Linux Networx and Network Computer Incorporated (NCI), a spin-off of Oracle Corporation.

Nitin Garg, Product Manager, Cisco Systems
Nitin Garg is a Product Manger with Cisco's Datacenter Business Unit with focus on Storage Networking. He has over 10+ years of experience in networking, and semiconductor industries.

Matthew Geddes, Consultant
From Adelaide, South Australia, it was early in Matt's career that it became necessary to see various flavour of operating system peacefully coexisting under a single network protocol. For reasons too tedious to list here, the protocol deployed was most-often CIFS. Necessity dictated that Matt dive deeper and deeper into the magical world of CIFS. He cannot find a way back out and in 2006 he relocated to Silicon Valley, where he is currently serving as principal CIFS developer for agami Systems, working out of the company's Sunnyvale headquarters.

Howard Goldstein, President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc (HGAI)
Howard Goldstein has over 30 years' experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI Express and others.
Goldstein holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Telecommunications from Pace University. He is a frequent speaker at Interop and Storage Networking World. He is the founder and principal member of Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. an Education & Technology Company offering instructor led training. Visit www.hgai.com for more information. Howard Goldstein has expertise in many aspects of the human side of technology offering innovative consulting and education services on Professional Vitality and Career Development, Adult Learning, and Presentation Development & Delivery Techniques. Howard believes that content and context delivery is as important as content development and is a master of both.
Goldstein is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee. He has helped develop the SNIA Certification Program as well as other SNIA Education initiatives. He has been active in the publications world as technical editor of Building Storage Networks and Resilient Storage Networks and Storage Series editor for Digital Press.

Dror Goldenberg, Director of Architecture, Mellanox Technologies
Dror Goldenberg, Director of Architecture at Mellanox Technologies, is responsible for Mellanox' silicon products and software architecture. Prior to joining Mellanox, Dror served as an officer in the Israel Defense Force's elite R&D team in the area of communication protocols, and worked in the Intel Microprocessor Group. He holds a BSEE and an MBA from the Technion Institute of Technology Israel.

Ed Grassie, Director, IT Infrastructure, BBM Canada
As National Director of IT, Ed Grassie is responsible for the management of BBM Canada's I.T. infrastructure and staff, coast-to-coast managing the design and daily operation of the company's critical data collection system that produces the radio and TV viewer ratings purchased by BBM Canada's advertising industry clients. During his tenure at BBM Canada, Grassie has overseen the conversion of the organization's core infrastructure to VMWare, moving all infrastructure, application, and database servers to a SAN environment. This project resulted in a reduction of physical servers from 100+ individual servers to 15 blade servers, and eliminating the need to expand the company's existing datacentre. Grassie also led the design and implementation of a new disaster recovery plan ensuring full business continuity for BBM Canada. Prior to joining BBM Canada, Grassie held management-level positions at various companies.

Robert Griffin, Director of Solution Design, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
Robert Griffin is Director of Solution Development for the Data Security Group at RSA. He represents EMC to several standards organization, focusing his efforts particularly in the areas of key establishment and key lifecycle management. Robert has extensive experience in security strategy, corporate governance, business process transformation and software development. His particular focus is on information technologies in the financial services industry, in which he has had the primary architectural responsibility for a number of production systems environments and major software engineering projects. He has presented at many professional and industry conferences and instructed courses within both professional and university settings.

Tom Hammond-Doel, Vice-Chairman FCIA, Fibre Channel Industry Association
Tom Hammond-Doel has delivered cutting-edge solutions for the Fibre Channel industry since near its inception. Tom is a Senior Alliance Manager for the Engenio Storage Group of LSI, responsible for internal and external technical guidance, and promotion of a more successful storage industry through his work with forming alliances with partners and industry associations. He is a recognized advocate for the storage networking industry, speaking at industry events, evangelizing storage networking to other industries, and helping develop and drive industry-level marketing and standards requirements. Tom has held seats on both FCIA and SNIA boards, and is currently Vice-Chairman of the FCIA. He is the author of numerous industry articles, editorials and white papers, and holds multiple storage related patents. Tom lives in Everett, Washington.

Patrick Harr, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nirvanix
Patrick Harr joined Nirvanix from Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, where he served as entrepreneur-in-residence focusing on content, storage, and media services investments. His prior leadership roles include president and CEO of Preventsys Inc., a security risk and compliance management firm that was acquired by McAfee in 2006, and Vice President of the $300M Enterprise Products Group at McDATA Corp., an enterprise storage networking solutions company. Harr joined McDATA through the acquisition of Sanera Systems, a storage networking startup, where he ran marketing, business development and sales. Prior to Sanera, Harr ran worldwide marketing at CacheFlow and was the GM of Novell’s Internet and Security Services Group. Harr received a Masters in Business Administration degree in marketing and entrepreneurial studies from the University of Maryland and his B.A. from Tulane in political economy and Russian.

Eric A. Hibbard, CISSP, CISA, Sr. Director, Data Networking Technology, Hitachi Data Systems
Eric Hibbard is the Senior Director of Data Networking Technologies in Hitachi Data Systems, reporting directly to HDS Corporation's Chief Technology Officer. In his role, Mr. Hibbard is responsible for storage security strategy, identifying and defining new storage security architectures, and designing new storage networking infrastructures. Hibbard is also a senior security professional who serves as the International Representative for the INCITS Technical Committee CS1 Cyber Security and the Vice Chair of IEEE P1619 Security in Storage Working Group. His positions and participation in storage and security organizations like INCITS/T11, ISACA, ISSA, the Trusted Computing Group along with activities like the IEEE-USA Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC) and the Information Security Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) afford him a unique perspective on issues germane to securing storage ecosystems.

Eric has almost 30 years experience in information and communications technology (ICT), working for government (DoD, NASA, DoE), academia(University of California), and industry (Raytheon and QSS Group), in non-vendor positions for at least 25 of these years. Almost all of his work experience is associated with high performance computing environments where he held both R&D as well as senior operational management positions.

Mr. Hibbard currently holds the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification as well as the Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP), the Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP), and the Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) concentration certifications. He also holds the ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and the SNIA Certified Storage Engineer (SCSE) certifications. His educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science and a Certificate of Proficiency in Data Communications.

Chuck Hollis, Vice President, Global Marketing CTO, EMC Corporation
A 13-year EMC veteran, Chuck is a key member of EMC’s management team, working on strategic aspects of marketing, business development and technology. He is a well-known industry blogger (http://chucksblog.emc.com) and also is leading EMC’s social media proficiency initiative.

Chuck is a popular industry speaker with a variety of audiences, covering many aspects of the fast-paced evolution of IT: cloud, virtualization, security, social computing – and, of course, storage.

Previously, Chuck ran EMC’s Technology Alliances organization, building strong partnerships that deliver customers superior multi-vendor solutions. Prior to that, he was VP of Strategic Marketing, where he helped map out key aspects of EMC’s transformation strategy, messaging and field execution.

Chuck has also been EMC’s VP of Storage Platforms Marketing, responsible for EMC's overall platform product strategy and offerings across all major market segments. Chuck has also had significant field roles, including Director of Sales Operations, leading the Professional Services and Systems Engineering organizations for EMC in Europe.

Chuck originally came to EMC as part of an initial team to help EMC enter the open systems market. Since then, he has been at the forefront of many of EMC's go-to-market initiatives, including specific application markets (ERP, NT and DW) as well as storage-based initiatives (Enterprise Storage, storage software and Enterprise Storage Networks).

EMC, Chuck worked at several UNIX and database companies in Silicon Valley. Chuck has received degrees in Computer Science and Economics from University of California at Santa Cruz.

Walter Hubis, Software Architect, LSI Corporation
Walt is a Software Architect with LSI Corporation, Engenio Storage Group, with responsibility for defining secure storage and network attached storage products and solutions. Walt has over twenty years of experience in storage systems engineering in both development and managerial positions and has authored several key patents in RAID and other storage related technologies. He is currently the Chair of the Trusted Computing Group Key Management Services Subgroup and chair of the IEEE SISWG P1619.3 Key Management subcommittee and INCITS T10 workgroups. Walt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.

John Hufferd, Sr. Executive Director of Technology, Brocade Communications
As a Senior Executive Director of Technology in the Office of the CTO, John Hufferd is responsible for defining Brocade’s technology direction and strategy; including iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NAS (CIFS, CIFS) etc. John has over 40 years in the storage and networking industries and prior to joining Brocade; John was retired from the IBM Corporation, where he was focused on Storage Networking Strategies. John has held positions on the board of advisors for 6 different companies and has authored the definitive book on iSCSI called "iSCSI -- The Universal Storage Connection", published by Addison-Wesley. He is currently a member of the T11 Standards group defining the standard for FCoE.

Woody Hutsell, Executive Vice President, Texas Memory Systems
Woody Hutsell joined Texas Memory Systems (TMS) in 2000 as Marketing Director and is today the company's Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors. In these roles, Woody oversees all commercial storage sales and is responsible for TMS's world-wide marketing strategy, including partner, channel and end user initiatives. Prior to joining TMS, Woody spent eight years at Deloitte Consulting serving in roles from analyst to project manager for large custom software development projects. Woody departed as a Senior Manager in Deloitte Consulting's IT practice. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas in Information Technology and is based at the company headquarters in Houston, Texas.

Dan Iacono, Sr. SAN Systems Engineer, HP
Dan Iacono has been with HP for more than 6 years as a part of HP acquisition of StorageApps. At StorageApps, he was the lead systems engineer for complex installations and level 3 support of the CASA storage virtualization appliance. At HP, Dan provides 3rd level support for large scale multi-vendor Storage Area Networks (SAN), proactive and remedial customer consulting, and custom Perl scripting. In 2005, Dan was awarded the prestigious HP MVP award for his work as the HPS Storage Profession Global Lead. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Brocade certified Fabric Professional (BCFP), Designer (BCSD), SAN Manager (BCSM), McData certified Implementer (CSNI), Designer (CSND), Professional (CSNP), and Expert (CSNE). Also, he is a certified Cisco Associate (CCNA), Microsoft (MCP), and Redhat (RHCE). Dan holds a bachelors degree in Telecommunications from Penn State University and an MBA at La Salle University.

Jason Iehl, Data Protection Solutions Architect, NetApp
Jason Iehl is a data protection solutions architect for NetApp where he is responsible for the strategic and tactical execution of advanced solutions positioning, implementation and delivery of existing and emerging data protection technologies. He provides technical product and industry training as well as architects backup and recovery solutions. In addition to his responsibilities at NetApp, Jason has been an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) where he is a co-chair of the Data Protection Initiative (DPI). He also co-founded of the Virtual Tape Library Special Interest Group and Data Deduplication and Space Reduction Special Interest Group with the Data Management Forum (DMF).

Jack Igoe, Director, Product Management, Advanced Storage Products, NEC Corporation of America
Jack Igoe brings to NEC over 30 years of experience within the storage industry. Prior to joining NEC, he was Director, Product Marketing, at FalconStor Software and Director of Product Management at COPAN Systems. Previously, Igoe worked at Hitachi Data Systems holding a variety of product marketing and management roles in both the U.S. and Japan. He also spent many years at McDATA, StorageTek, and GTE in technical, marketing, and managerial roles. Igoe earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Penn State University, a master's degree in Theater Arts from San Jose State University, and studied Computer Science at the Masters level at the University of Pennsylvania.

Doug Ingraham, Senior Director, Product Management, Data Center, Infrastructure, Brocade
As Senior Director of Product Management for the Brocade Data Center Infrastructure (DCI) division, Doug Ingraham is responsible for defining and executing the company's strategic data center product efforts. He joined Brocade in February 2007, bringing over 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry. Prior to Brocade, Ingraham worked at McDATA, where he was responsible for the company's core enterprise SAN product families. Before that, he served as Senior Director of SAN switching at CNT, where he was responsible for the company's entire switching line. In addition, Ingraham previously held management positions at Cisco and StorageTek. He is a frequent speaker at industry tradeshows and has contributed articles for publications such as InfoStor, ComputerWorld, and Network World.

Brandon Jackson, Chief Information Officer, Gaston County, North Carolina
Brandon Jackson is Chief Information Officer for Gaston County, NC. Brandon is responsible for the strategic direction of technology deployment, as well as daily operations supporting thirty-five departments ranging from Finance and HR, to Public Health, Social Services, and Public Safety. Brandon’s team is accountable for over one hundred application systems utilized by a widely diverse organization, along with data and voice communications infrastructure that supports them.

Brandon has been with Gaston County for four years. Utilizing fourteen years of private sector technology management experience with organizations ranging in size from start-up to Fortune 500, Brandon has introduced a new vision for technology direction for Gaston County. With a focus on service delivery, he and his team have implemented extensive infrastructure and application changes resulting in new and enhanced services for Gaston County’s citizens, as well as significant efficiency gains for employees. Brandon attributes this success to a philosophy focused on aligning technology planning and solutions with business goals and objectives. His vision and the efforts of his team have resulted in national and local press coverage, as well as awards from public sector organizations and technology trade, including a finalist nomination for Computerworld/SNIA “Best Practices in Storage” in Spring 2008.

Dr. M. K. Jibbe, Manager and Test Architect Lead, LSI Corporation
Dr. M. K. Jibbe manages the test architect group at LSI Corporation (ESG) in Wichita, Kansas USA and is the acting manager of the Product Certification team at LSI Corporation in India. As an architect lead, Dr. Jibbe and his group define and design the test requirements and test processes for all the LSI Storage products. Dr. Jibbe is the Interoperability Test Architect at LSI Corporation (ESG). In this role, Dr Jibbe's group verifies that the Engenio Storage products are compliant to different standards, and interoperable with all the 3rd party Vendors supported by LSI Corporation. Also, he defines the test requirements for the Vendor's self certifications with the Engenio RAID products Dr. Jibbe has been awarded 16 US / Canada patents, 26 others in Patent Pending State, and published over 43 papers in different technical Conferences held in USA and Europe. The patents and papers are related to areas such as hardware development (Chips emulating RAID technology), Modeling, Software development related to RAID technology, protocols and Networks, and different test tools and mechanisms. Dr. M. K. Jibbe is an Adjunct Professor at The Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Dr. Jibbe teaches classes related to hardware simulation, MPP, SCSI protocol, Computer Architecture, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS protocol, Programming Languages and Standards, and other Basic Electrical and Computer engineering classes such as Electromagnetic, Circuit Design and Analysis, and Digital Designs

Chander Kant, CEO and Founder, Zmanda Inc.
Chander is the CEO and a founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Ashvin Kamaraju, Vice President of Engineering, Symantec Corporation
In his current role, Ashvin Kamaraju is leading the development efforts for clustered storage in the Storage & Availability Management Group at Symantec Corporation. Prior to that he has managed the engineering organization responsible for development of the VERITAS File System and VERITAS Volume Manager. He has over 10 years of exerience in file systems and under his leadership his team successfully developed and released significant new products/features such as Cluster File Systems, Storage Tiering in File Systems, Snapshots and Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) storage clusters.

Karthik Kannan, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Kazeon
Karthik is responsible for driving all marketing and business development activities, including setting the company's outbound marketing strategy as well as establishing a healthy partner ecosystem. Prior to Kazeon, Karthik spent some time providing independent consulting services to clients in the storage and related spaces and remains on the advisory board of two storage startup companies. Prior to that, he worked at Network Appliance for six years, his most recent role being Director of Product Management for the Archival and Compliance businesses. Karthik has over 15 years of high tech experience and has worked at Juniper Networks and Goldman Sachs prior to NetApp. He has an MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana Tech University and an undergraduate degree from BITS, Pilani, India.

Joshua Konkle, Technical Evangelist, NAS, NetApp
Joshua Konkle is the Technical Evangelist for NAS and Engineering Applications at NetApp. His role includes championing technologies and solutions that can help customers be more productive. His background crosses both UNIX and Windows environments, including Security. He has spoken on numerous storage and security related topics at various industry and technical venues. Joshua is a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) and NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA). When not travelling, Joshua enjoys brisket at Rudy's and drinks at The Oasis in Austin, TX.

Bob Laliberte, Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group
Bob is an ESG analyst focusing on storage management software, infrastructure, professional services and business continuance.

Prior to joining ESG, Bob was director of marketing for CentrePath, a software and services company focused on data center networking solutions. Bob managed the development of the CentrePath core services, including its remote management offering and professional services. Additionally, Bob was responsible for product marketing and management for the CentrePath cross domain event correlation software solution. During his tenure, he ran product marketing, business development, services and sales operations. Before CentrePath, Bob held a variety of domestic and international marketing, product management and sales roles at a number of technology and service vendors.

Bob has a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from the College of the Holy Cross.

Jeremy Lawrence, Director of Information Technology, The Mind Research Network
As director of IT for the Mind Research Network (MRN), Jeremy Lawrence has managed a major network upgrade and overseen construction of a new data center to house the MRN's computing assets. He and his staff are responsible for managing and ensuring the smooth operation of approximately 200 computers and 60 Terabytes of networked storage.

Michael Lewis, Director of News Operations, LiveXposure
LiveXposure is a joint venture formed by Photo News Media, Layer8 Technologies, and Zygo Digital LLC to provide wireless news broadcasting capabilities to journalists around the world. Michael Lewis is the Director of News Operations for LiveXposure and provides live video footage to global news outlets from hard-to-reach locations around the world.

Chris Lionetti, Senior SAN Engineer, Microsoft Corporation
Chris Lionetti works for Windows Live Operations as a SAN Subject Matter Expert and qualifies hardware for use in Microsoft Datacenters worldwide. This position is ultimately responsible for architecture and support of all SANs deployed that are used to run Microsoft’s online presence. This online presence ranges the gambit from Hotmail, MSNBC, XBOX Live, Microsoft.com, Search, etc. Chris has been in this position for the past 5 years, and worked in SAN development and Custom Engineering at Dell for the 5 years previous. Prior to Dell Chris was employed as an Engineer at Hewlett Packard for 4 years.

Robert Lockhart, Sr. Solutions Architect, nCipher Inc.
As Sr. Systems Architect at nCipher and the Technical Editor on the P1619.3 key management industry standards committee, Robert Lockhart is responsible for creating best practices around storage security, encryption and key management. Prior to nCipher, Robert held management positions at NeoScale, a storage encryption firm, ThruPoint, a provider of information technology consulting services, Cereva Networks, which developed storage systems for Internet service providers, and Lucent Technologies where he designed and implemented data center architectures involving local, metropolitan and wide area networks and associated security requirements based on network function, applications and user requirements. Robert has extensive knowledge of encryption algorithms, methods and operational uses and has more than 18 years of technology experience in networking and security.

Graham Lovell, Senior Director of Open Storage and Networking, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Graham Lovell leads Sun's global business growth for the Open Storage initiative. In this role, Lovell is responsible for rapidly growing a new storage business that empowers customers to think differently about how they design, implement and deploy new storage infrastructures based on open source principles and industry standard components. Prior to his current role, Lovell held a leadership position developing Sun's x64 business, including the highly successful Thumper storage server. Lovell has over 17 years of experience at Sun and previously held leadership positions in Solaris product marketing, Education market development and Public Sector business development across Europe. Lovell has also held marketing and technical positions at several minicomputer companies. He holds a BA in Technology from the British Open University and resides in Austin, Texas with his family.

Ray Lucchesi, President, Silverton Consulting
Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting and has worked in data storage for over 25 years mostly in marketing, engineering, and directing new disk and tape automation products. At Silverton, Ray has helped both Fortune 500 and startup storage vendors improve product development and marketing. He also helps data centers select and use data storage more effectively. Ray speaks at major storage conferences and writes articles for storage publications. At StorageTek, Ray focused on marketing and product strategy as well as ILM architecture and previously directed microcode development for disk subsystems. Ray holds two key storage patents, is an officer of the IEEE Denver Section ExComm, is a registered member of TASA and was voted a 2007 Spring “Top Speaker – SNIA Tutorials”.

Ynema Mangum, Product Line Manager, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Ynema Mangum is a product line manager for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems. Her role is to help shape the confluence of people and cloud computing.

Ynema was a panelist at SxSWi 2008, Interactive Austin 2008, and has produced over 100 podcasts on all kinds of technology topics. She contributed to the book PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences by Deirdre Breakenridge published by FT Press in 2008 and is on the FG2 Social Web Advisory Panel. Ynema is a change agent. She considers herself a quiet influencer and a connector whose collaborative nature ensures success in introducing new concepts and services into the mainstream -- even in the most complex environments.

Carlos Martinez, Product Marketing Manager, HP
Carlos Martinez is a Product Marketing Manager for HP’s StorageWorks Division. In this worldwide role, he leads a team responsible for product requirements, pricing strategy and product lifecycle management for HP's StorageWorks security products. Martinez has held a range of marketing, management and engineering positions over his 23-year HP career. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University and an MBA from Colorado State University.

Stephen Martino, Director of Information Technology Infrastructure, Harvard Medical School
As Director of Information Technology Infrastructure, Stephen is responsible for ensuring 7 x 24 x 365 support for the Medical School’s Server Hosting Facilities, High Speed Data Networks, Voice-Data cable plant, Messaging, Storage and Server Infrastructures for 18,000 faculty and 3,000 students. He has direct reports of the Manager of Computer Operations Group, the Manager of Network Operations Group, the Manager of Telecommunications Group, and the Manager of Windows Servers and Messaging Group.

Harry Mason, Director, Industry Marketing, LSI Corporation
Harry Mason, director, industry marketing for LSI Storage Standard Products division, is responsible for participation in semiconductor, storage and I/O industry associations and alliances in support of industry standards development. Mason has been the president of the SCSI Trade Association (STA) for six of the past seven years. He was instrumental in the formation of the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) initiative, and has spent a good portion of the last four years in support of market conditioning for SAS adoption. Mason has 24 years of semiconductor industry experience. Mason came to LSI through the company’s 1998 acquisition of Symbios Logic. Prior to Symbios Logic, he worked for NCR Microelectronics and Texas Instruments. While with these companies, he held various senior positions with responsibilities that ranged from product line management to strategic marketing. He served as the business unit director for storage products for a number of years. Mason graduated with a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Missouri at Columbia

Paul Massiglia, Data Storage Consultant
Paul Massiglia has been associated with enterprise data storage engineering and marketing for over 28 years, with Digital Equipment Corporation, Adaptec Inc., Quantum Corporation, VERITAS/Symantec (where he created and directed VERITAS Publishing), and agámi Systems. He has been vice-chairman of the RAID Advisory Board, a SNIA BoD member, as well as a member of other storage industry organizations including the Fibre Channel Association, the Fibre Channel Loop Community, and the SCSI Trade Association. As Chief Technology Strategist for agámi Systems, he advises the company on technology issues, manages the company's patent program, develops technical collateral, and consults with agámi customers. The author or editor of thirteen books on data storage-related topics, Mr. Massiglia is also a frequent participant in and speaker at industry conferences such as SNW.

Jorge Mata, Chief Information Officer, Los Angeles Community College District
Jorge Mata is the Chief Information Officer for the Los Angeles Community College District, the largest community college district in the United States educating more than 130,000 students at nine campuses, spread throughout 36 cities in the greater Los Angeles area. An early adopter of Virtualization technology, Mr. Mata is a visionary IT leader with significant experience in designing, building and implementing cutting-edge IT solutions. He has spoken at a number of national IT conferences including the 2007 Gartner Mid-Market CIO Summit (where VMware said he was a "phenomenal" speaker) and at the InterOp/Mobile Business Expo NY(2007) and Las Vegas(2008)

Mike Matchett, Director of Product Marketing, Akorri
Mike Matchett, Director of Product Management at Akorri, has more than 17 years experience in IT systems management. He joined Akorri from BGS Systems and BMC Software where he was the principal “BEST/1” UNIX capacity planning consultant for many years before turning to product management where he most recently rolled out the PATROL Perceive products and BMC's Capacity Planning Managed Services. Before BGS, Mike implemented secure IT networking projects for federal agencies. Previously Mike had served as a USAF intelligence officer in Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Mike received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1987.

Brian McKean, Solid State Storage for the Enterprise, LSI Corporation
Brian McKean is a storage architect in the Advanced Development Group at LSI Engenio Storage Group. He has been developing products for the computer storage industry since 1990. Products Brian has contributed to include disk array subsystems, printers, disk drives and magneto-optic drives. He holds 17 storage systems related patents. Brian has a BSME from Purdue University and a MS ECE from University of Texas.

Madge Meyer, Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation
Madge M. Meyer is Executive Vice President and head of global infrastructure services at State Street Corporation. In this role, Ms. Meyer is responsible for State Street’s technology infrastructure solutions and services across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

Prior to joining State Street in 2001, Ms. Meyer served as first vice president for Merrill Lynch’s Enterprise Technology Services. Earlier in her career, she held several executive positions at IBM with responsibilities for global technology infrastructure strategy and implementation, application development, outsourcing service delivery and worldwide network services.

In 2004, Ms. Meyer was named to Computerworld's Premier 100 list, which honors individuals who have had a positive impact on their organization through technology, and in 2007 she was named to the YWCA Boston’s Academy of Women Achievers. In 2008, she received the Visionary Award from Symantec, while the Computerworld Honors Program celebrated her technological leadership by naming her as a Laureate, and also honored her team with their 21st Century Achievement Award.

Ms. Meyer received her Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and chemistry from the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor. She is currently a member of the board for the Wall Street Technology Association, a member of Simmons College’s School of Management Business Advisory Council, and an advisory board member of the Asian American Civic Association.

Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld
Ron manages the events business, awards programs, and strategic programs for IT management in existing and emerging technology sectors. Milton leads the team responsible for maintaining IT executive relationships, creating content, sponsor sales, operations, marketing, and audience development for these 40-50 events and 8 awards programs per year. Ron founded brands such as Premier 100®, Storage Networking World®, Business Intelligence Perspectives® and Green IT Symposium®. Ron frequently emcees industry conferences and moderates IT industry technology panels and roundtables at both multi-day conferences and regional events. He is also responsible for the same businesses at InfoWorld® and the Computerworld Honors Program®.

He has 25 years of experience in information technology, serving in both vendor and information technology management positions. Before his current role at IDG, Ron was Senior Vice President of CXO Media and General Manager of CIO Magazine's Executive Program Division. Prior to joining Computerworld in 1999, he was President and CEO of IDG's Internet Commerce (ICE) business unit, which he founded in 1996 as a start-up business, and was a pioneer in using e-commerce systems and web marketing. He was a 1996 recipient of the coveted IDG Chairman's Award for the most successful start-up business globally. Before joining IDG, Milton spent five years as Vice President/Partner of GLA Computer Systems, a software developer and channel integrator. He also held a variety of general management positions in channel management, field sales and marketing at Honeywell Information Systems and Bull HN. He holds degrees from Sir George Williams University and Concordia University.

Daryl Molitor, Senior Architect, JCPenney
Daryl Molitor is a senior architect at JCPenney. In his current role, Daryl is responsible for the strategic planning, design and configuration of all storage related products in the enterprise. Prior to his current position, Daryl managed the Strategic Storage Resource Group, whose role was to set direction for the JCPenney storage environment. Daryl attended Stout State University and is a lifelong JCPenney Associate.

Bill Montgomery, Manager, Information Systems, Lulu.com
Bill Montgomery is Manager of Information Systems for Lulu.com, the premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet. Montgomery oversees IT Operations and Infrastructure. In the past five years, Montgomery has grown Lulu's IT infrastructure from its infancy to support over a million customers in 80 countries. He has enabled Lulu's rapid growth and business agility with a highly flexible IT infrastructure, utilizing boot-from-SAN technology, blade servers, iSCSI storage, and server virtualization. Last year, Lulu made a strategic move to deploy file storage virtualization. Mr. Montgomery holds a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and is a returning Storage Networking World speaker.

Bruce Moxon, Vice President, Strategic Technology, Office of the CTO, NetApp
Bruce Moxon is vice president of Strategic Technology at NetApp, where he works with both enterprise and technical computing customers deploying grid computing and data management solutions. He brings extensive experience in distributed computing for both scientific and commercial applications and writes, speaks, and teaches extensively on the continuing evolution of grid computing. Prior to joining NetApp, Moxon was chief solutions architect at Panasas, where he worked with customers deploying scalable storage solutions for Linux® clusters. He has architected and developed solutions for a number of high-throughput computing environments, including Perlegen Sciences' SNP discovery system, Bank of America's CRM and analytics systems, and NASA's Earth Observing System. Moxon has a BS degree in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MS degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California.

Philip Murphy, Senior Director of Engineering, QLogic Corporation
Philip Murphy, senior director of engineering at QLogic Corporation, is responsible for platform development encompassing all QLogic Fibre Channel and InfiniBand switching products including blades, edge switches, and director-class systems. Prior to joining QLogic, Mr. Murphy was vice president of platform engineering at SilverStorm Technologies which he co-founded in 2000 and was eventually acquired by QLogic in 2006. SilverStorm's core focus was on providing complete network solutions for high performance computing clusters. Prior to co-founding SilverStorm, Mr. Murphy was director of engineering at Unisys Corporation and responsible for all I/O development across the company's diverse product lines.

Bruce Naegel, Senior Product Manager for SIGSEC, Symantec Corporation
Bruce Naegel is Senior Product Manager for SIGSEC at Symantec Corporation. He has over 20 years of experience in both the hardware and software side of the Storage Industry. He has led mass storage industry standards groups and has been published on various mass storage objects.

Paul Needham, Director, Product Management, Database Security, Oracle
Paul Needham is Director of Product Management for Database Security at Oracle. He is responsible for the development of Oracle Database security features and products spanning, Oracle Database Vault to Oracle Transparent Data Encryption. Mr. Needham first joined Oracle in 1991 as part of Oracle Consulting, where he worked closely with customers to help them identify their security needs and challenges. In 1998, he joined the Database Security team in Oracle's Server Technology development division. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Needham was responsible for various government projects at BDM International, a multinational information technology company. He also served as an intern at the National Computer Security Center at the National Security Agency, studying database security. Mr. Needham graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor's of science degree in computer science.

Philippe Nicolas, Technology Evangelist, Brocade Communications
Philippe Nicolas is a Technology Evangelist dedicated to File Storage at Brocade. He has almost 20 years of experience in operating systems and computer storage-related technologies. Previously, he spent nearly 10 years at Veritas Software and Symantec, both in technical and technical marketing positions. Prior joining VERITAS in 1997, he served various technical positions at SGI and Compaq, also in the storage, availability, and data-management software domain. In parallel, Philippe Nicolas started the SNIA Europe France regional committee in 2001, and he served as Chairman for France since its inception. He also created the SNIA Advanced Data Sharing Technologies Tutorial early in 2002 presented at every US and European Storage Networking World conference since that time. He's Director member of the SNIA Europe Board of Directors since November 2007 and received in 2005 the Outstanding Service Award, from the SNIA Europe, for his industry and association contribution. He also owns three French blogs on File Storage.

Gary Orenstein, Vice President, Marketing, Gear6
Gary Orenstein has broad storage networking experience and has been involved in numerous growth companies. Prior to Gear6, he served as Vice President of Marketing for Compellent, a modular enterprise storage provider. At Compellent, he helped successfully launch the company and product to widespread channel and customer adoption. Before Compellent, Gary was a co-founder of Nishan Systems, a company that led the IP storage market and was acquired by McDATA. Gary is also the author of IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core -- a book that outlines the business value of enterprise storage technology. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Dartmouth College.

Ken Osterberg, Director, Enterprise PLM Portfolio Strategy, Seagate
Ken Osterberg is Director of Enterprise Portfolio Strategy at Seagate Technology, the worldwide leader in hard disk drives. He is responsible for the Enterprise's roadmap strategy, product planning, and long term product portfolio at Seagate. During his past 20+ years of leadership at Seagate, Ken has held positions in Engineering, Product Marketing, Product Planning, OEM Subsystems, and Market Development. Before joining Seagate, he held various engineering positions in the defense industry. Ken holds an MBA in Strategy and Marketing from the Carlson School of Management, as well as an MSEE and BSEE Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota.

Brenda Patterson, Certified Records Manager, Sunland Group
Brenda is a Certified Records Manager with 20+ years experience in the RIM field. She has worked in the oil & gas and transportation industries and is currently working as the Records Manager for Sunland Group, an engineering firm, in the construction industry.

Brenda received her CRM in 1991 and has successfully maintained her credentials for 3 – 5 year cycles by attending classes on electronic issues and other technology topics. Brenda moved 13,000 – 20,000 lateral filing inches (LFI) from one facility to another facility three times. She has planned, organized and implemented an offsite storage facility ultimately reaching 25,000 boxes and developed and implemented the computer programs for tracking this information and boxes.

Brenda has been an active Dallas ARMA member since 1984 and has served on numerous committees and on the Board as an officer.

Ian Patterson, Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of Information Technology, Scottrade, Inc.
Ian Patterson is the Chief Information Officer for Scottrade, Inc., a leading branch-supported online investment firm based in St. Louis, Mo. He has more than 20 years of experience in the analysis, design, development and implementation of hardware, software and security.

Prior to joining Scottrade, Ian was a Senior Manager of IT Strategy at Deloitte. He also previously held positions at Pivotpoint and Electronic Data Systems and supported clients such as General Motors, Del Monte Foods, Graybar and W.W. Grainger. Ian arrived at Scottrade in 2005 and has since led the IT expansion and growth that will allow the St. Louis-based online brokerage to continue to grow its business and serve its customer accounts.

Ian has led the design and implementation of the firm’s new $25 million data center, the largest technology investment ever made by the company. Scottrade’s data center and security systems are among the most advanced in the country and are capable of processing one million transactions each day while maintaining a fast and secure Web experience for customers.

Ian supervises all customer application development, mainframe books and records operations, internal enterprise applications, security and a 24/7 operations, who support the data center and internal network for more than 360 branch offices. All voice, data, development, desktop support, computer technology and functionality is run in-house and managed by Ian.

In 2007, Ian was named to Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders, a list of the country’s leading IT executives. Also in 2007, under Ian’s leadership, Scottrade was named to the CIO 100, a list that recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology, and to the InformationWeek 500, a list of the most innovative users of information technology in the U.S. In the latest recognition in 2008, Scottrade was named the 16th Best Place to Work in IT by Computerworld for its Above & Beyond program, which rewards associates who exceed expectations on the job.

Outside of Scottrade, Ian continues to contribute to the IT community by serving on the CIO Executive Council, the St. Louis CIO Board and the St. Louis Information Technology Coalition. He also contributes to the St. Louis community as a member of the Board of Directors for the Shakespeare Festival – St. Louis.

Ian has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with an emphasis in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.

“This is such an exciting place to work. There are so many new ideas floating around daily that you would have to be crazy not to get wrapped up in the enthusiasm and see how quickly Scottrade is evolving and growing.” – Ian Patterson

Harriet Pea, Whitmore Pea Consulting
Harriet Pea is a technical services veteran with 20+ years of cutting-edge experience in IT management, operations, and customer support with public and private companies such as Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, Boeing, Hewlett Packard, Bank of America, and Freightliner. Successful in planning, developing, and managing the delivery of complex internal and external enterprise and networking systems worldwide. Accustomed to playing a key role in technology planning, infrastructure development, process improvement, staff development, and training in fast track, startup, and transitioning organizations.

Rob Peglar, Vice President Technology, Xiotech Corporation
Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 31-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is a member of the SNIA Board of Directors, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a 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 of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and 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.

Mark Peters, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Mark is an analyst at ESG, focused on storage systems, as well as on the challenges of power, cooling and space efficiencies throughout data centers. Mark's 20+ years of experience in IT have always emphasized the storage business. Prior to his current role he ran his own business consulting on corporate communications; before that his career was in high-tech commerce, working at Xerox, Memorex-Telex, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, and a software startup. His senior management roles emphasized sales, marketing, product management, and business development, both in the US and internationally. British, with a Masters degree from Oxford University, he's been based in Colorado since.

Michael Peterson, President, Strategic Research Corp.
Michael Peterson is President of Strategic Research Corporation based in Santa Barbara California. For the past 20 years he has been an energetic leader and catalyst for the storage industry, publishing insightful books and industry reports, consulting with the entire industry in business and market development, pioneering IT research on storage and management practices, creating innovative conferences, speaking internationally as an industry visionary, forming industry trade groups, and even developing new solutions and companies. Michael is the founder of the SNIA and was the past president from 1998 to 1999. He continues to help SNIA, working as Chief Strategy Advocate for the Data Management Forum with responsibility for guiding its initiatives (Data Protection, Information Lifecycle Management, and Long-term Archive & Compliance Solutions), market education, and helping to produce SNIA’s Enterprise Information World Conference.

Robert Petrocelli, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, greenBytes
Robert Petrocelli founded greenBytes in 2007 and serves as chief technology officer. He leads the engineering team in the design and development of all software and products for the company. Prior to establishing greenBytes, Petrocelli founded Heartlab Inc., a medical information technology company, which was sold to AGFA in 2005. Petrocelli attended Brown University for his Ph.D studies and holds an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Physics from the University of Rhode Island. His expertise includes advanced technological knowledge in the medical device field, digital imaging/algorithms, digital storage, and high performance networks. Petrocelli received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 and has made the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America list four times.

James Pinkerton, Principal Architect, Microsoft Corporation
James Pinkerton is a Principal Architect in the File Access group of Microsoft's Storage Solutions Division (part of the Server and Tools Business). He partcipates in Standards development in SNIA (as co-editor of the XAM Specification), and has extensive experience working in IETF on Networking standards.

Casey Powell, Chief Executive Officer and President, Xiotech
Casey Powell joined Xiotech as president and CEO in 2005. Before Xiotech he was the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. He played a pivotal role in developing a partnership with IBM on a next-generation version of UNIX, which culminated in IBM's acquisition of Sequent in a deal valued at $810 million. Previously, Powell held several executive positions at Intel Corporation, including GM of microprocessor operations. Most recently he was CEO of Stonefly Networks. In addition he served on the National Board of Directors of the American Electronics Association. Powell holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y.

Steve Reichwein, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, QLogic Corporation
Steve Reichwein is the senior manager of product marketing for QLogic’s Storage Solutions Group. He is responsible for the product strategy and market development for routing solutions that encompass multi-protocol array access, virtual server connectivity and SAN-over-WAN bridging.

Reichwein joined QLogic in 2006 to help build QLogic’s initiatives for end-to-end routing solutions. Previously, he has worked at Quantum and MTI Technology, with ten years experience in the storage industry as a product manager. In addition to his product strategy experience, Reichwein has spent 15 years as a design engineer for major corporations such as Sony, Westinghouse and Hughes Aircraft.

David Reinsel, Group Vice President, Storage and Semiconductor, IDC
David Reinsel is group vice president of IDC's storage and semiconductor research groups. Mr. Reinsel and his team of analysts provide timely and industry-leading insight and analysis for IT professionals, investors, resellers, distributors, and manufacturers worldwide. His research teams are responsible for delivering annual and quarterly forecasts and analyses on the storage hardware, storage software, and semiconductor markets. In addition to his research responsibilities, Mr. Reinsel provides custom research and consulting for IDC clients on industry trends, product requirements, and marketing strategies and speaks at numerous conferences worldwide. Mr. Reinsel has more than 16 years of experience within the IT industry. He came to IDC in 2000 from Hutchinson Technology Inc. and quickly established himself as one of the industry's leading analysts on hard disk drives. In 2002, Mr. Reinsel published IDC’s first ever detailed report on HDD component technology and in 2003 co-authored the industry's first extensive report on external drives, as well as an in-depth report that probed the impact of serial ATA drives and tiered storage on data centers. In 2006, Mr. Reinsel was a recipient of IDC's most prestigious research award for his professional excellence in market research. Mr. Reinsel earned a bachelor's degree in education in the field of mathematics from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Steve Remsing, Senior Research Specialist, The Dow Chemical Company
Mr. Remsing has a B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University and over 15 years IT experience spanning both the private and public sector. He is currently with the Information Research department with The Dow Chemical Company where he specializes in enterprise storage technologies. He has been with Dow for eight years. He enjoys sharing what he is working on with others and has spoken a SANS conference and a previous SNW conference.

Matthew Reynolds, Chief Information Officer, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canaday Falk & Rabkin
Matthew Reynolds is Chief Information Officer at Howard Rice joining the Firm in September 2000. Mr. Reynolds is charged with developing consistent and progressive information technology policies and standard practices at Howard Rice. He oversees strategic planning, implementation and operational support of technology, which includes all aspects of data and voice communications, business systems (e.g., financial, human resources, records, conflicts, calendar, etc.) and core software products in use at the Firm. In addition, he is responsible for ensuring that the Firm’s increased application of advanced technology in delivering continuous improved service to the Firm’s clients is achieved in an effective, efficient, timely and cost-effective manner through the use of industry best practices. He is an integral part of the Firm’s administrative management team and routinely collaborates with his colleagues on Firm matters. He is strategically aligned with attorneys in the delivery of legal services and a major contributor to the continuous development of cross-functional operational procedures. Mr. Reynolds has valuable previous experience, serving as CIO of a large multi-national law firm for nearly four years overseeing all technological functions. Prior to that, he worked for over 10 years for PG&E, one of the largest utility companies in the U.S. in the Nuclear & Power Generation Business Units in various information technology and management positions. Throughout his career, Mr. Reynolds has been a frequent participant in various public speaking engagements on topics including legal technology and has published articles Law Technology News, legal trade magazines and other online sources.

While Mr. Reynolds is competent in all areas of law firm technology and management, his hallmarks are:

1. solving complex technological business problems by utilizing proven, but emerging technologies;
2. providing continuous operational stability with strict adherence to a Back Office preventive maintenance program, change management and internal escalation guidelines;
3. consistently exploring ways to improve administrative processes and implements change through effective use of technological tools and management skills; and
4. creating a cohesive IT team with excellent technological, communication and interpersonal skills.

Erik Riedel, PhD, Director, Seagate Research
Dr. Erik Riedel is Director of Interfaces & Architecture at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, PA. His group focusses on novel storage devices and systems with increased intelligence to optimize performance, improve security, improve reliability, automate management, and enable smarter organization of data. The group's work targets all Seagate product families from those in large-scale enterprise storage clusters to ad-hoc collections of consumer and mobile storage devices working together. Erik is a member of the SNIA Technical Council, helping to lead industry-wide education, technology promotion and standardization efforts. He also serves on the technical advisory board for The Technology Collaborative supporting technology startups in Pennsylvania. Before joining Seagate, Erik was a researcher in the storage program at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA working on networked storage, distributed storage and security. He has authored and co-authored ten granted patents and a number of pending patent applications, as well as numerous technical publications on a range of storage-related topics. Erik holds B.S., M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. His thesis work was on Active Disks as an extension to Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD).

Errol Roberts, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems
With more than 20 years of networking, and telecommunications experience, Errol brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Errol Roberts is in the Systems Engineering Group at Cisco with a focus on Optical Transport, Data Center architecture and technologies for Service Provider and Enterprise environments. In his role, Mr. Roberts influences technical direction and technology solutions to address customer requirements and industry trends. Mr. Roberts consults with customers on emerging technology business application, adoption, development, and architecture impact. Prior to joining Cisco, Errol worked in the of area software development and system administration. Errol holds a Graduate (MSc) degree from New York University.

Bob Rogers, Chief Technology Officer, Application Matrix
Bob "Mister" Rogers has more than twenty-five years of storage, systems and performance management experience. Mr. Rogers is presently Chief Technology Officer and founder of Application Matrix, a startup focusing on service level management (SLM) and Business Service Management (BSM) tools. At BMC Software, he was Chief Storage Technologist of the Storage Division. As Chief Architect at SOFTWORKS, he orchestrated the development of storage software for heterogeneous platforms and was instrumental in leading the company through its 1998 Initial Public Offering (IPO) and EMC's acquisition in 2000. Mister Rogers led several of IBM's product introduction programs including ADSM (now the Tivoli Storage Manager), HSM, and DFSMS (IBM's Systems-Managed Storage) prior to joining SOFTWORKS. Mr. Rogers is a prolific writer, speaker, sought-after consultant in his field, and one of the founding members of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) ILM Technical Working Group.

Alan Rose, Program Manager for Oncor, CLEAResult Consulting, Inc.
Mr. Rose has nine years of combined experience in information technology sales and marketing, and energy efficiency consulting. He currently manages various public- and private-sector energy efficiency programs for electric utilities in Texas, including the Oncor Electric Delivery Datacenter Energy Management Program, an innovative program to help corporate and third-party datacenters become more energy efficient.

Michael Rowan, Consultant and Storage Expert, Consultant and Storage Expert
Michael Rowan is a consultant and storage expert. He was the founder and CTO of Revivio, the first company to produce and sell an enterprise class CDP product, a product that was acquired by Symantec in 2006. Prior to establishing Revivio, Rowan was a founder and CTO of StorageCom, a software company developing replication and CDP functionality for the mid-tier enterprise. Rowan was also one of three partners at CLAM Associates (now Lakeview Technologies), where he was a key contributor in the company's rapid growth from a startup to an industry. At CLAM, Rowan was responsible for the overall architecture of all new products and was the technical visionary for product idea generation and proof-of-concept implementation. The company's product set included IBM's HACMP (high availability for open systems), IBM's HAGEO (geographic disk replication), and IBM's Concurrent Logical Volume Manager, among many others. During his tenure at CLAM, the HACMP solution was consistently ranked "best-of-breed" by D.H. Brown, Inc.

Miklos Sandorfi, Chief Technology Officer, SEPATON
Mr. Sandorfi has an extensive background in the development of enterprise-class storage systems. Prior to SEPATON, he served for more than a decade at EMC, where he was responsible for technological advances in product categories including client/server, mainframe and Open Symmetrix. Mr. Sandorfi contributed to developing the Fibre Channel protocol in its infancy, and was instrumental in bringing Fibre Channel connectivity to EMC products. Most recently, he was responsible for the FICON (ESCON-over-Fibre Channel) architecture and implementation in Symmetrix. He has 13 granted and eight pending patents for inventions in SEPATON ContentAware, Fibre Channel and Disk Subsystem I/O technology space.

Chris Saneda, Chief Information Officer, Virginia Credit Union
Chris Saneda is the CIO and Senior Vice President for the Virginia Credit Union. Chartered in 1928 as a not-for-profit financial cooperative, the Virginia Credit Union (VACU) ranks among the 75-largest credit unions in the United States. Throughout his career Chris has led both technology and organizational transformations. In 2002, while CIO for the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC), Chris led change initiatives that resulted in recognition from CIO Magazine as being one of the nation’s Top 100 organizations for the integration of people, process, and technology. He was instrumental in the 2003 startup of Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) and spent the ensuing two years leading the effort to merge infrastructure operations and management of 90 distinct state agencies into a single entity. In 2008, his leadership contributed to VACU being named Laureate in Computerworld’s Honors Program for use of information technology to benefit their organization and community. Chris has worked in several industries, including defense, aerospace, manufacturing, and government. He holds a degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, and a master’s degree in information and telecommunications from The Johns Hopkins University. He is also a graduate of The Johns Hopkins Leadership Development Program, holds a certificate in Project Management, is ITIL Foundations certified, and is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.

Chris Santilli, Chief Technology Officer, COPAN Systems
Chris brings 25 years of storage system design experience from DEC, StorageTek and Compaq Computers. He has led engineering teams in architecting, development and delivery, beginning with diagnostics and controllers for 14- inch Winchester drives; then the first host-based RAID; the first controller based RAID product at DEC and comprehensive SAN management software. Under his leadership at DEC/Compaq he architected and delivered the industry’s first external SAN management appliance, SANworks Management Appliance. At DEC, Chris was responsible for engineering solutions to meet OEM requirements. His efforts led to a new revenue stream for DEC Chris holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Colorado Technical University, and a BS in Computer Science from USC.

Wolfgang Schlichting, Research Director, IDC
Wolfgang Schlichting has been an analyst in IDC's Storage program since 1996. In his role as research director, he sizes and forecasts the Personal Storage (external HDD), optical and removable storage markets. Currently, he publishes IDC's Personal Storage QView, which tracks and forecasts the external HDD markets regionally. Mr. Schlichting is a regular speaker at a number of conferences including IDC's Storage briefings at CES and CeBIT and Storage Visions. He is quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BusinessWeek, Investor's Business Daily, and other major Newspapers, and is a frequent contributor to a variety of trade publications. Mr. Schlichting studied physics at the Eberhard-Karls Universitat Tubingen and received a Master of Science degree in optical sciences from the University of Arizona.

Lawrence Schwartz, Senior Manager, Symmetrix, EMC Corporation
Lawrence Schwartz is a Senior Manager responsible for Symmetrix Platforms at EMC Corporation. Lawrence has been with EMC since 2004. Prior to EMC, Lawrence held several roles in the high tech industry including Senior Engineer at Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent), Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Program Manager at Hughes Space and Communications (now Boeing). Lawrence holds domestic and international patents for contributions in the electronics and mechanical fields. Lawrence holds a B.S. and M.S. in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Blair Semple, Security Evangelist; SNIA Storage Security Forum, NetApp
With over 10 years of specific storage security experience, Blair is the Education and Alliances Officer for the SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum, and the Storage Security Evangelist at NetApp focused on information security and, more specifically, storage security. He is responsible for delivering global outbound communications on the state of the storage security market, emerging standards for storage security, Introduction to Encryption, the work being done in the IEEE P1619 and other communities. In addition, Blair works directly with NetApp customers defining the requirements, challenges and benefits of storage security along with the value that NetApp solutions bring to this environment. Prior to joining NetApp, Blair was with Kasten Chase in a variety of roles including Technology Officer and Business Development Director. From 1996 - 2004 he was the company's primary interface with the National Security Agency's RASP program. Working together with NSA, Kasten Chase created a multifaceted technology solution that supported over 20,000 users requiring access to classified data via mobile laptops. The RASP solution included both encrypting PCMCIA modems and the first laptop security solution certified by NSA to protect classified information. A large part of Blair's role involved educating military, intelligence and other government personnel on aspects of storage and communications security for mobile users in the U.S., and around the world. A physics major at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo Canada, Blair has continued his education in information security including having attained both CISSP and ISSEP certifications - the latter credential demonstrating competence in the rigorous requirements for information security engineering and currently held by only 300 or so individuals worldwide.

Gideon Senderov, Director, Technical Marketing and Product Management, NEC America
Gideon Senderov has over 16 years of experience within the storage industry in product management and engineering. As director of technical marketing of the Advanced Storage Products Group at NEC Corporation of America, Senderov is responsible for the technical marketing and product management of NEC’s revolutionary HYDRAstor grid storage platform.

Prior to joining NEC, Senderov held senior product management leadership positions for storage virtualization and storage management software solutions at Attune, MonoSphere, Brocade, TrueSAN and ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell). Previously, Senderov spent seven years at IBM Storage Systems in SCSI and FC firmware development and product and test engineering for ESS (Shark) and RAMAC storage subsystems.

Senderov earned a BSEE at the University of Florida, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and an MBA with honors from Santa Clara University.

Shishir Shah, Vice President and General Manager, Storage Solutions Group, QLogic Corporation
Mr. Shah is Vice President/General Manager of the Storage Solutions Group at QLogic Corporation. With 11 years of service at QLogic, Mr. Shah's focus for the first 9 years was driving HBA software strategy and helping to grow the HBA business in Fibre Channel and iSCSI markets. Mr. Shah has spent the past 2 years developing new solutions to expand markets for QLogic products. With 23 years experience in the storage industry, Mr. Shah has held senior management positions with QLogic, Western Digital and Unisys.

Jackson Shea, Technical Lead for Storage Administration, The Regence Group
Jackson Shea is the Technical Lead for Storage Administration at the Regence Group, the largest affiliation of health-care Plans in the Pacific Northwest/Mountain State region. It includes Regence BlueShield of Idaho, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah and Regence BlueShield (in Washington). Collectively, these four Plans serve nearly 3 million people in four states with more than $6.5 billion in combined revenue.

As Technical Lead at The Regence Group since 2003, Jackson has orchestrated a number of initiatives to standardize practices in support of storage provisioning in a vendor heterogeneous environment, data migrations, tiered storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery automation. Prior to The Regence Group, Jackson was a Solaris System Administrator for ten years at Enron Broadband Services, The Regence Group and Oregon Health Sciences University with a specialization in the Veritas technologies. Jackson holds a B.S. in Philosophy from Lewis & Clark College with minors in Chemistry and Communications. He is currently on the governing board of the SNIA End User Council and a co-founder of the Portland Storage Networking User's Group.

Chuck Siemon, Chief Information Officer, Whole Health
Chuck Siemon, CIO of Whole Health, is responsible for the management and delivery of the firm's information and data. He has over 20 years of project leadership, application architecture, design, development, implementation, and support experience in commercial and in-house settings, and has extensive experience in health care. Siemon was previously senior IT manager with Kaiser Permanente, Progressive Insurance Company and Control Data Corporation. He has a BS in Mathematics from Allegheny College.

Martin Silverman, Director, IT, EvensonBest
Not your average computer geek, Martin Silverman is a former member of the Whitehouse Press Corps. and a former Emergency Medical Technician. He credits these past experiences and a strong business and a technical background for helping him to devise and implement an extensive DR & Business Continuity plan that kept his company up during and after 9/11, a gas explosion that ripped through his headquarters, and the northeast power grid failure.  He has been featured in NetworkWorld and ComputerWorld Magazines and will share his real-world experience and out-of-the-box ideas and perspectives. www.evensonbest.com

Wolfgang Singer, Sr. Certified IT Specialist, IBM
Wolfgang Singer is working for IBM's Systems and Technology Group in Vienna, Austria. He specializes in Network Attached Storage, iSCSI, Storage Virtualization and advanced technologies. He worked for four years at the International Technical Support Center in Raleigh, where he was responsible for several networking products. Mr. Singer submitted patents and is the author of several international publications.

Marty Smith, Chief Information Technology Officer, ChoicePoint
Marty Smith is Chief Information Technology Officer for ChoicePoint, (NYSE: CPS), a leading provider of identification and credential verification services. The company serves the information needs of business, government and nonprofit organizations including the nation’s largest insurance companies and more than half of the Fortune 100.  

Mr. Smith is responsible for all of the organization’s technical infrastructure and data center operations, leading a department of more than 400 associates.  The Information Technology department at ChoicePoint ensures the integrity and continual availability of corporate data, proprietary information and related intellectual property through information security and access management.    

Mr. Smith is a member of the senior executive team at ChoicePoint and in this capacity, he provides leadership, vision and direction for all of the company’s data center operations, corporate-wide applications, and business unit architecture and application transformations in support of the organization’s strategic business objectives and requirements.  

In recent years, ChoicePoint has reaffirmed its commitment to the protection of data by integrating privacy and information security into its business model.  Mr. Smith has been instrumental in the development and implementation of the organization’s comprehensive information security and privacy framework.  ChoicePoint’s work in these areas has been copied by other businesses and has been acknowledged to be the gold standard by privacy advocates and regulators alike.  

In addition, Mr. Smith oversees corporate applications including Human Resources, Credentialing and Customer Service; oversight of ChoicePoint’s business units’ application architecture and technical support to the company’s information security function.  

Prior to joining ChoicePoint, Mr. Smith spent eight years at The Home Depot(R), the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, including five years as the head of Architecture in which he was responsible for enterprise infrastructure planning and governance.

David Stevens, Storage Manager, Carnegie Mellon University
David Stevens is the Storage Manager for the Division of Computing Services at Carnegie Mellon University. In this position, he is responsible for the institution's storage area networks and backup services as well as the employees charged with maintaining the storage and backup infrastructure. Mr. Stevens has been with Carnegie Mellon since 1998, and has held a variety of roles, including Systems Manager and Research Systems Programmer. Mr. Stevens is also a Governing Board member of the SNIA End User Council, and serves as the End User Technical Lead for the Security and IP Storage Hands-On Labs at Storage Networking World conferences.

Robert Stevenson, Managing Director of Storage Research, TheInfoPro
As Managing Director of TheInfoPro's Storage Sector, Robert leverages over 15 years of technology strategy, operations, management and technology background experience to maintain responsibility for all research and consulting services covering the storage and storage networking markets. Prior to joining TheInfoPro, Robert worked for Nielsen Media Research as a technology strategist and storage architect in the office of the CTO where he helped build out their 1 PB SAN. He also spent time as a managing consultant for Sun Microsystems where he focused on network storage and high performance computing. In addition, he has held senior management and top advisory positions at Motorola, and Ernst and Young Management Consulting.

Edgar St.Pierre, Sr. Technologist, EMC
Edgar has 30 years of experience in software engineering, including the last 12 years in storage software development and the preceding 18 years in the communications industry. At EMC, he has been responsible for requirements analysis and software architecture for several data protection products in EMC's information management product portfolio. He currently works in the Office of the CTO contributing to technology and product strategy related to data protection and data management, and is actively involved in storage industry standards development.

Joe Szeremet, Solutions Consultant, EMC Corporation
Joe is a ten year veteran with EMC who has specialized in "whole" solutions while supporting large enterprise accounts. These solutions are generally comprised of layered application, custom services and differentiated hardware and solve long standing discrete problems. Throughout the years Joe has designed and deployed Federated Enterprise Archives, Records Management Systems and Next Generation Virtual Datacenter Designs to name a few endeavors. Joe has recently spent 4 years working in Tokyo Japan supporting EMC's rapid growth throughout the region. These experiences coupled with his engineering background have helped him to be well rounded and versed in Strategic IT Planning.

Simon Taylor, Senior Director, Information Access & Management, CommVault
Simon is the Senior Director for the CommVault Information Access & Management business worldwide including Information Risk, eDiscovery, Compliance, Information Search, Archiving, and Data Trend Analysis. He was worked for large multi-national companies in various management roles including business analysis, project management, pre-sales, sales, product marketing and business development. He has over 20 years experience in IT software covering business intelligence, data warehousing, application and information management. He specifically has over 7 years experience in data retention and archiving, working for or with some of the leading companies in this field to gain specialist knowledge in information risk and compliance.

Greg Tevis, Tivoli Storage Technical Strategist, IBM
Greg has 26 years of experience in Storage hardware and software development and architecture. He has been appointed as an IBM Master Inventor and currently has 21 patents issued or pending. Greg currently is in charge of Technical Strategy for Tivoli Storage software and has been involved with all of IBM's recent storage acquisitions (Novus Consulting Group, Arsenal, XIV, FilesX, and Diligent).

Nathan Thompson, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Spectra Logic Corporation
Nathan C. Thompson is the founder of Spectra Logic Corporation and has served as chief executive officer and chairman since the company's establishment in 1979. Under Thompson's direction, Spectra Logic became the world's leading provider of automated AIT storage tape libraries, and leveraged that innovation to enter the 1/2" market. He received an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Colorado, College of Engineering, in 1983. Today, Thompson is a recognized leader in the storage industry, having authored numerous articles on the art and science of backup. Thompson is a member and director of Young President's Organization (YPO) and serves on two University of Colorado boards: the CU Business School Demming Center board and the University of Colorado Engineering advisory board. In 1996, Ernst & Young and USA Today named him Entrepreneur of the Year.

Brian Trudeau, Chief Information Officer, Amerex Energy
Brian Trudeau is the Chief Information Officer for Amerex Energy, and has held that position since 2002. Prior to his time at Amerex, Brian served as the director of information technology for Applied Logic Associates, and as a project engineer for Energy Northwest. Brian is well-versed in a number of technology specialties, including Ethernet and TDM network design and trading systems.

Bill Trussell, Managing Director of Networking Research, TheInfoPro
As Managing Director for TheInfoPro's Information and Security Sectors, Bill utilizes over 25 years of experience within senior management positions in network engineering and security operations in the manufacturing and air transportation markets to foster all research and consulting practices for these two markets. Prior to joining TheInfoPro, Bill was responsible for the global networking and security infrastructure for Agere Systems, a large semiconductor design and manufacturing firm where he lead the program to spin off the Agere network infrastructure from Lucent Technologies. Prior to Agere Systems, Bill held network management positions at USinternetworking, NetExpress and Aeronautical Radio and is a co-founder of IFR Development, LLC. Bill has served as a consultant in business process automation and IT infrastructure projects to airport authorities, major airlines, and other small and mid sized enterprises.

Joshua Tseng, Director,Technical Marketing, Riverbed Technology
Josh Tseng is the Director of Technical Marketing at Riverbed Technology. Riverbed is widely recognized as the market leader in WAN optimization solutions. Since joining Riverbed, Mr. Tseng has been actively driving awareness of the Riverbed Steelhead solution as a technical spokesman. Prior to Riverbed, Mr. Tseng worked closely with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and coauthored several IETF standards related to iSCSI and IP storage. Mr. Tseng has held positions in network engineering, marketing, and product management at various companies over the past 13 years, including at Hewlett Packard.

Mark Urban, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Blue Coat
Mark Urban is the senior director of product marketing for Blue Coat’s Application Delivery business. He has worked in networking and advanced applications for ten years, helping Global 500 enterprises and carriers successfully navigate and implement advanced networking solutions for secure, high performance application delivery. Prior to Packeteer, Mark worked at FORE Systems/Marconi. He began his career at M&I Capital as an investment analyst and transitioned to the role of IT manager to move the company onto a networked infrastructure.

Richard Vanderbilt, Sr. Alliance Manager, LSI Corporation
Richard Vanderbilt has nineteen years in the storage industry in various engineering and marketing positions, currently Sr. Alliance Manager for LSI. Richard has presented at Symantec Vision, CAworld, IOUG and other industry conferences.

Dave Vellante, Co-founder, The Wikibon Project
David Vellante is an active advocate for IT Professionals. As a co-founder and principal contributor to Wikibon, he facilitates the sharing of best practice knowledge in the IT community through the use of social collaboration technologies. He has been a CEO at three companies, was Senior Vice President at IDC, founder of the company's Storage Research Group and a Computerworld Board member. Since late 2006 he has authored more than 300 articles on storage and related topics published in dozens magazines and Web sites

Richard Villars, Vice President, Storage Systems, IDC
As Vice President, Storage Systems, Richard Villars is a senior member of IDC's Storage research team which assess the development and adoption of storage hardware and software solutions. He develops IDC's viewpoints on the evolution of storage networking infrastructure and next-generation storage technologies. He advises clients on the impact of tiered storage, blade servers, and regulatory compliance on organizations' storage and information management practices. Mr. Villars is a frequent speaker at industry and Wall Street conferences. Most recently he has spoken to IT managers in the US and Japan on managing storage capacity growth, improving data protection and application recovery practices, and designing storage solutions for large content repositories.

Mr. Villars has spent 19 years at IDC assessing emergence of network technologies and products as well as advising companies on the impact of networking on existing IT and general business practices . He launched IDC research on ethernet, TCP/IP, the Internet, storage area networks, network-based storage virtualization, network management, and directory services. He has testified about the impact of ebusiness on small business before the US Senate Committee on Small Business and spoke about the influence of ecommerce on high tech manufacturing.

Mr. Villars is co-author of the book eCommerce for Dummies. He has a bachelor of science in foreign service (B.S.F.S.) from Georgetown University with a concentration in science, technology, and international affairs.

Brad Vincent, Worldwide Product Manager, HP
Brad Vincent is a worldwide product manager for data protection software at Hewlett-Packard Company. He has 14 years of experience at HP, along with several years of experience in the data protection and recovery arena. During this time, Brad has worked with many HP customers, large and small, in identifying and deploying an appropriate data protection solution to meet each customer's specific needs. He is now able to apply that experience through a general understanding of the overall market needs for data protection and recovery, along with knowledge on emerging market needs and trends in the areas of storage and data protection. Brad holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of California at Davis.

Paul von Behren, Chief Technologist, Symantec
Paul von Behren is a member of the Standards/Open-source group in the CTO office at Symantec. His job responsibility includes storage management standards, particularly SMI-S. Paul is the Chair of SMI Governing Board and Implementation Committees, leads SMI-Lab, and is the co-chair of the SMI-S Core Technical Working Groups. He is an SMI Distinguished Engineer and Leader. He is the primary author of the Multipath Management API sponsored by SNIA and now an ANSI standard. Outside of SNIA, Paul has been involved in SCSI, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI standards definitions. Prior to joining Symantec, Paul worked on storage utility and API development at Sun Microsystems and network software at StorageTek.

Shawn Wagner, Senior Program Manager, HP
Shawn Wagner is the Global Program Manager for HP's Utility Ready Storage Solution. Having been apart of the HP team for over 7 years, Shawn has held a variety of positions leading up to the management of a leading industry utility solution where she manages end to end delivery from the metering technology, financial models and pricing strategy , customer requirements, and global interconnects. After serving 10 years in the US Air Force, Shawn completed her bachelor's in BA with emphasis in Marketing and Information Systems.

Russell Warren, Storage Management Development, IBM
Russ currently works on the storage software team as a team lead in product manager for the storage software projects. These initiatives cover managing the IBM storage hardware, including device configuration, to managing a SAN-wide heterogeneous storage environment. Russ has extensive experience (29 years) in systems, network and applications management. Russ worked in Tivoli and IBM enterprise management on business systems management, applications management, network management, LAN management, and systems management. Russ has worked on NetView, both z/os and distributed, the Tivoli Framework, LAN network management, and internet management applications, and business impact management.

Bret Weber, Chief Architect and Fellow, LSI Corporation
Bret Weber is a Fellow for LSI Corporation and in his current role as Chief Architect for Engenio Storage Group is responsible for the high-level architectural decisions for the RAID and storage product portfolios. Prior to assuming his current role, Weber was director of architecture for the Engenio Storage Group. Weber has over 25 years of experience in the storage industry with NCR, AT&T, Symbios Logic, and LSI, and has been involved with RAID since the first RAID products were developed. He also has 30 issued patents in the area of storage software and hardware.

Ralph Weber, Consultant, ENDL
Ralph Weber has been the editor of the SCSI Primary Commands standard since its inception in 1992. He also edited versions 2 and 3 of the SCSI Architecture Model and all of the Object-Based Storage Devices standards since OSD r04. Recently, donated a pound of finger flesh to defining Security Associations for used in SCSI commands and the CDB extensions needed to support Capability-based Command Security. He lives in Dallas, consults on SAN standards, and edits the ENDL Letter (www.endl-letter.com).

John Webster, Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata
Mr. Webster is Principal IT Advisor at Illuminata, Inc, an internationally recognized industry analyst firm. He is responsible for on-going analysis of storage and information management topics, including storage utility and grid services, integration strategies, storage virtualization, ILM, objects-based storage, shared file systems, and distributed data protection. Mr. Webster's most recent book is Inescapable Data -¬ Harnessing the Power of Convergence. Mr. Webster's prior positions include Senior Analyst, Data Mobility Group; Vice President, Marketing, Storage Computer Corporation; Director of Computing Research, Yankee Group. In addition to being past Chairman of the Greater Boston Regional Computer Measurement Group, he is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). He is a graduate of Boston University.

Dr. Joseph White, Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks
Dr. Joseph L. White is currently a Distinguished engineer with Juniper Networks. Dr. White has previously worked for Decru (NetApp) as a Techincal Director and McDATA as part of the Office of the CTO. He joined McDATA in 2003 through the Nishan Systems acquisition. In 1998, he co-founded Nishan Systems, one of the first companies to champion IP storage within the industry and deliver enterprise quality, high performance, multi-protocol SAN switches, routers, and gateways. Prior to Nishan, Dr. White worked as a physicist at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center focusing on data acquisition, data analysis, and control systems programming for high energy physics experiments. He holds a PhD in High Energy Particle Physics from Rice University.

Laurence Whittaker, Chair, SNIA End User Council
Laurence Whittaker has served on the End User Council Governing Board, since its founding 5 years ago. He has over 25 years IT experience working for large enterprise companies, mostly in strategic planning, technology procurement and storage management. He currently supervises a technology planning and performance team for a large private company.

Patrick Wilkison, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, STEC, Inc.
As Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Wilkison leads STEC's SSD product and marketing initiatives. His responsibilities include new product development, business development, product management, sales support and marketing communications. Previously, Wilkison managed the Business Development and Strategy group for STEC. Additional experience includes Mergers and Acquisitions advisory work for technology companies while working with Lehman Brothers Investment Banking Division. He also held numerous functions in the Army as an Aviator. Pat Wilkison earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Michael Willett, Sr. Director, Security, Seagate
Dr. Michael Willett received his BS degree from the US Air Force Academy and his Masters and PhD in mathematics from NC State University. After a career as a university professor of mathematics and computer science, Michael joined IBM as a design architect, moving into IBM's Cryptography Competency Center. Later, Dr Willett joined Fiderus, a security and privacy consulting practice; subsequently, accepting a position with Wave Systems, working on programmable cryptographic chips used in the deployment of smart card technologies. Currently, Michael is a Senior Director in Seagate Research, focusing on security functionality on hard drives. Dr Willett represents Seagate on the Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors, Technical Committee, and the Trusted Storage Work Group. Michael also chairs the Privacy Framework Project of the ISTPA, developing an operational framework for implementing fair information privacy practices.

Steve Wilson, Director of Technology and Standards, Brocade
Steve Wilson is Director of Technology and Standards at Brocade. Steve’s responsibilities include the development of technologies and architectures for storage networking and storage management. Steve is a principal contributor to the ANSI T11 Fibre Channel standards and SNIA technical activities.

Prior to Brocade, Steve held technical leadership positions with Amdahl, ISS/Sperry Univac, Memorex, and Trilogy Systems. The emphasis of his technical work at these companies was the development and implementation of computer, storage, and systems management technologies.

Steve has been involved with the SNIA since 1998. He established and chaired the SNIA Fibre Channel Work Group in its various forms from June 1998 until April 2002 and now serves on the Technical Council. Most recently he championed the formation of the File Area Network (FAN) taskforce and now serves as chairman of that group.

Steve continues to contribute to the ANSI Fibre Channel standards and is currently editor of the Fibre Channel Switching standard (FC-SW-5). Other Fibre Channel related activities include contributing to the FCoE and Inter-Fabric routing efforts in T11. In addition, Steve serves on the FCIA Board of Directors.

Steve is the recipient of the INCITS Technical Excellence Award for his work on the Fibre Channel switching standards and received his degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1978.

SW Worth, Sr. Standards Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
SW Worth is a Senior Standards Program Manager at Microsoft, and an elected member of the SNIA Board of Directors. From 2002 through 2006 he was the worldwide lead for the SNIA Tutorials. Before joining Microsoft in late 2003, SW Worth was Technical Marketing Manager at Crossroads Systems. From 1991-1999 he was an internal IT consultant with a large integrated electric and gas utility in the northeastern United States. He has a background in environmental engineering, and worked in paper mills in several U.S. states and in France.

Alan Yoder, Ph.D., Senior Technical Staff, NetApp
Alan Yoder, Ph.D. is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at NetApp, Inc., in Sunnyvale, California. Alan has been at NetApp since earning his Ph.D. in distributed systems in 1997, working on protocols, management frameworks, management applications, management partnerships, the Manage ONTAP™ SDK, and other projects. He also has experience in construction and industrial accounting, CAD design and programming, GUI design and development and project management. He holds Bachelors, MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Goshen College and the University of Notre Dame.
Alan co-chairs the Disk Resource Management TWG at SNIA, chairs the Enterprise Grid Alliance Data Provisioning Working Group and participates actively in several other Working Groups in the SNIA and DMTF.

Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems
Hubert Yoshida is responsible for defining the technical direction for Hitachi Data Systems and currently leads the company's effort to help customers address their Data Life Cycle requirements to address compliance, governance and operational risk issues. He was instrumental in evangelizing Hitachi's unique approach to storage virtualization which leverages existing storage services within the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform and extends it to externally attached, heterogeneous storage systems. Yoshida is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Mathematics. He was a Marine Corps Platoon Commander during the Vietnam War and was discharged with the rank of Captain. He has also served on the advisory boards of several technology companies and currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Data Storage Institute of the Government of Singapore.