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Craig Aaron
Craig Aaron is the communications director of Free Press, the national, nonpartisan media reform group. He works in the Washington office on issues related to media ownership, public media, and the future of the Internet. He writes and speaks regularly on new media and journalism issues and blogs at both SavetheInternet.com – the groundbreaking campaign to protect Net Neutrality – and StopBigMedia.com. Craig previously worked as an investigative reporter for Public Citizen's Congress Watch, where he launched the WhiteHouseforSale.org Website. And he is a former managing editor of In These Times magazine and editor of the book, Appeal to Reason: 25 Years In These Times.
Jonathan C. Abbott
As Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Jon Abbott is responsible for WGBH's local television and radio operations; for all administrative, financial, and service departments, including marketing, communications, and design; and for WGBH's strategic planning. He also oversees WGBH's sister station WGBY in Springfield, Mass. Abbott was promoted to his position in 2004 from VP of Television Stations and General Manager, a role he took on in 1998.
Abbott came to WGBH from PBS, where he was Senior VP for Development and Corporate Relations from 1992 to 1998. Prior to that, he spent five years managing marketing and development for San Francisco public station KQED. He got his start in broadcasting in 1981 at Columbia University's WKCR-FM
Parry Aftab
Parry Aftab has devoted her expertise, since 1995, to enhancing cyber-security for business and governmental entities, as well as preventing and investigating cyber-crimes, especially those that arise in the workplace or relate to Internet predators. In this field, she often wears two hats – one is her commercial role of the cyber-lawyer focused on keeping businesses safe in cyberspace and improving e-commerce and trust, while the other is her pro-bono hat where she is heavily involved in Internet safety and security for children, senior citizens, and victims of cyber-stalking and abuse. In her pro bono role, she runs the world's largest online safety and help group that works closely with all major law enforcement agencies worldwide.
Sandeep Amar
Sandeep Amar operates and manages the matchmaking portal simplymarry.com, a Times Group company in India. Previously, he worked with Citigroup in India as assistant VP of e-business and managed CitiFinancial's portal in India. He also served as assistant VP of marketing at ZEE Telefilms, a broadcasting media company in India and was manager of brand and business for economictimes.com, the Web portal of India's financial daily, The Economic Times.
Sandeep holds an MBA from FMS, Delhi. He is also a black belt in six sigma martial arts. He is co-author of Crack the Cat (Asian Books Private Ltd.), a book on data interpretation for standardized tests.
Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson is Chief Executive of Bango, a mobile Web solutions firm that enables content providers to market, deliver, and sell their products and services directly to mobile phone users on all networks worldwide.
Anderson co-founded Bango in 1999 after realizing that the convergence of the Internet, with the ubiquity of mobile phones, could open up huge opportunities for content and service providers. Anderson positioned the company to benefit from the opening up of the operator portals in 2004 and the transition of the mobile content business from a messaging model to a customer-friendly, browse-and buy Internet model.
In 2005, Ray led the successful flotation of the company, and he continues to build and steer the Bango team forward into one of the most exciting markets in history.
John Andrews
Mr. Andrews has more than 25 years of experience holding executive positions in technology-oriented companies, both private and public. A seasoned executive, with year-after-year success achieving revenue, profit, and business goals within startup, large corporate, private and public, dynamically changing environments, he is currently the President and CEO of Evans Data Corp. He is considered a technology industry thought leader and has recently been a keynote speaker and presenter at many global IT conferences.
Prior to Evans, Mr. Andrews was CEO at Giga Information Group, where he led the company’s sale to Forrester Research in 2003. Prior to Giga he led several early-stage companies, raising over $70 million and taking one company public. During his five-year tenure as CIO at CSX, his leadership and entrepreneurial skills helped that company integrate its Conrail Acquisition. While he was CIO, CSX was named one of the top IT achievers three years in a row by CIO magazine. Mr. Andrews was nominated CIO of the Year by InformationWeek and is the recipient of InternetWeek's Visionary Award as well as being named one of 10 industry visionaries by Computerworld. Prior to CSX, he held several senior executive positions with GTE over an eight-year period, having led lines of business in telecommunications, government, and healthcare.
He is a member of Aladdin Knowledge Systems Customer Advisory Board, ShipXpress Board of Directors, and Advisory Board Member for the Leadership Capital Group. Mr. Andrews has an MBA from the University of Puget-Sound, Seattle, and a BA in Business Administration and Finance from Whitworth University, Spokane.
Jart Armin
Jart Armin is a leading activist, analyst, and researcher of organized cyber-crime and cyber-warfare. He is an advocate of Web 2.0 development and Open Systems Internet security, in association with StopBadware. He is a partner of an international group that provides COMINT (real-time community intelligence) and risk analysis to commercial and governmental organizations. As a graduate and post-graduate in engineering systems, social sciences, and education, he regularly presents to academic and Internet security conferences.
Armin is also editor and spokesman for the renowned watch blog on the RBN (Russian Business Network), RBNexploit.com, which was first to report the cyber-attacks on Georgia; and HostExploit.com, which exposes so-called “evil networks” on the Internet – hosts and registrars.
Robert D. Atkinson
Robert Atkinson is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington-based technology policy think tank. He is also author of the State New Economy Index series and the book, The Past and Future of America’s Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth (Edward Elger, 2005). He has an extensive background in technology policy, has conducted ground-breaking research projects on technology and innovation, is a valued adviser to state and national policy makers, and is a popular speaker on innovation policy nationally and internationally. Before coming to ITIF, Dr. Atkinson was Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and Director of PPI’s Technology & New Economy Project. Previously, he served as the first Executive Director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, a public-private partnership including as members the Governor, legislative leaders, and corporate and labor leaders. Prior to that he was Project Director at the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He is a board member or advisory council member of numerous organizations. He has testified before a number of committees in Congress and has appeared in various media outlets including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, and NBC Nightly News. He received his PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989.
Pam Baker
Pam Baker is the author of eight books and freelance writer whose articles appear in CIO.com, NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, IT World, Linux World, CIO Update, E-Commerce Times, CRM Buyer, LinuxInsider, TechNewsWorld, Success Magazine, CIO Today Magazine.
Steven J. Bandrowczak
As the global Chief Information Officer, Bandrowczak leads Nortel's IT Business Transformation efforts. He is not only responsible for managing one of the largest enterprise networks in the world, he is also accountable for the business process solutions that are critical to the company's operations. As a leading and innovative CIO within the high-tech industry, Bandrowczak shares his expertise with corporate officers around the world, often as a keynote conference speaker. He also shares case studies on how Nortel has used its own solutions to transform the business and evolve product and service quality.
Prior to joining Nortel, Bandrowczak served as CIO for Lenovo Group, a global producer of PC products and value-added professional services. At Lenovo, he helped lead the company through the initial stages of its $11 billion IBM spinoff in 2005, enacting a 24-month plan to build the company's IT infrastructure. In 2004, he was named one of the Top 100 CIOs by Computerworld. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Long Island University, New York. He is based at Research Triangle Park, N.C., and lives in New York with his wife and daughter.
Richard Banfield
Richard is an experienced entrepreneur with a strong background in business development and early stage marketing roles. He is currently the CEO of Fresh Tilled Soil, a premier Web design and development company based in Boston. He is also a founding partner of R3 Partners, which develops niche Web products for small businesses. R3's products include Referral Monitor and You Should Meet. Prior to founding the Startup Business School and Fresh Tilled Soil, Richard was involved in building and launching several technology and Web-based businesses. Most recently he was a partner at UDesignWePrint, an online consumer-focused print site, and was responsible for all business development, marketing, and design of the company's Web application.
Richard's entrepreneurial experience includes being a founding partner at the Ignition Technologies, a Web applications developer, where he was responsible for business development and marketing. He started his business career as a Sales Manager of South Africa's first online sales company, Oracle Online Sales. He left Oracle Online to create the international e-marketing business, Acceleration Media, with offices in New York, London, Johannesburg, and Cape Town. Richard was also VP of Website Channel for Boston-based WinWin Technologies, where he managed business development teams in several countries. Richard has a BS from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Cyan Banister
Cyan Banister is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Zivity. Her dream to connect the social web with sexy photos is the kernel that became the business. She brings more than 10 years of management experience to Zivity; from scaling operational infrastructure to building teams and championing company culture. Cyan held a senior management role at IronPort where she supervised throngs of employees and oversaw a slew of departments. Her mission for Zivity is putting models first and creating an environment that nurtures artistic freedom. "Freedom of expression without judgment" is her motto.
Todd Barrish
Todd Barrish is Executive Vice President and General Manager of Dukas Public Relations. Throughout his career, Todd has been highly successful in ensuring that his clients benefit from creative, integrated public relations programs that deliver strong, measurable results. His expertise includes brand marketing, and high-level media and analyst relations, as well as corporate reputation and issues management programs.
Prior to joining DPR, Todd served as a Director at Connors Communications, a leading boutique public relations agency focusing on emerging technology clients. During his five-year tenure, Todd led the strategic initiatives for Connors premier accounts, including Vonage, Education Testing Services, TowerStream, and others, while regularly sourcing and securing new clients for the company. His tactically executed media relations campaigns resulted in regular high-profile media placements in leading outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Fortune magazine, among many others.
Todd spent the early part of his career gaining corporate communications experience from Cohn & Wolfe's Technology Division, where he worked on the public relations campaigns of both Fortune 500 technology firms and new ventures. He also has significant experience in the financial services industry. He is a founder and current member of the Board of Directors of Foresight Research Solutions LLC, a New York-based broker-dealer and independent research company.
A native of Virginia, Todd graduated from Radford University with a Bachelor of Science degree. He regularly lectures on a variety of public relations topics.
Brian Barritt
Brian Barritt is a Space Communication Network Architect and contracted consultant at the NASA Glenn Research Center, where he is responsible for the modeling and simulation of space communication networks and systems. Prior to NASA, he worked at Boston Scientific on the development of embedded software to support secure, wireless communications with implanted medical devices.
Brian is currently completing an MBA at the University of Minnesota. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
Jonathan Salem Baskin
Jonathan Salem Baskin is the author of Branding Only Works on Cattle, for which he was dubbed a "merry iconoclast." He is a frequent, regular columnist, blogger, and speaker on marketing, brands, and business strategy, with a focus on how innovations have implications both for digital and offline domains. His previous jobs include leading marketing communications for Nissan, Blockbuster, and Limited Inc., and running a global consulting firm serving corporate clients on four continents. Jonathan holds a degree in English Literature from Colby College.
Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open-source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Websites.
Brian is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation.
Hal Bennett
Bennett is a corporate restructuring advisor for many leading corporations, including DuPont, Silicon Graphics, 3M, and Sun Microsystems. He successfully implemented a program with DuPont to outsource innovation by creating a new business model for DuPont Ventures.
Bennett started his restructuring career by turning around Research Systems Inc. (RSI), a scientific software company, which was acquired by Kodak two years subsequent to his involvement with it. He gained extensive experience in starting and growing companies in Silicon Valley, including Aprex, West End Partners Imaging, and Digital Research. He has a degree in Mathematical Physics from Stamford University and has several U.S. Patents.
Richard Bennett
Richard Bennett is an ITIF Research Fellow specializing in broadband networking and Internet policy. He has a 30-year background in network engineering and standards. He was Vice Chair of the IEEE 802.3 task group that devised the original Ethernet hub standard, and contributed to WiFi standards for 15 years. He was active in OSI, the instigator of RFCs 1001 and 1002, and the inventor of the Distributed Reservation Protocol for Ultra-Wideband. Along with Bob Metcalfe, he co-founded the Open Token Foundation, the first network industry alliance to operate an interoperability lab. He's worked for leading applied research labs, where portions of his work were underwritten by DARPA. The inventor of two issued patents on networking, he has several patent applications pending. He frequently speaks at network industry gatherings and policy conferences in the U.S. and Europe, such as Supernova and eComm, and has testified before Congress, the FCC, and the California Legislature.
Steven C. Bennett
Steven C. Bennett is a partner in the New York City offices of international law firm Jones Day, which has more than 2,400 lawyers at 30 locations. His practice at Jones Day focuses on domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration. Steve is chair of the firm's e-Discovery Committee and a founding member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on International E-Discovery. He co-teaches courses on advanced civil procedure (e-discovery) at Rutgers and New York Law School. His book, A Privacy Primer for Corporate Counsel (Aspatore/West), was published in 2009. His column, "Computer Law," appears in the New York State Bar Association Journal.
Lee H. Berke
Lee H. Berke founded LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media in 2001, which specializes in developing direct relationships between sports teams/properties and new media platforms. LHB's client roster includes more than a dozen teams throughout the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Charlotte Bobcats, Memphis Grizzlies, and Pittsburgh Penguins. LHB is also developing regional sports programming for the Verizon FiOS video service.
Mr. Berke's background in developing sports media businesses also includes co-authoring the original business plan for the New York Yankees' YES Network, heading up marketing for Madison Square Garden and MSG Network, and developing television and marketing relationships for the launch of the WUSA.
Rohit Bhargava
Rohit is Vice President for Interactive Marketing at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. He's also a founding member of the pioneering Digital Influence Group at Ogilvy – a leading agency in helping clients navigate the social media universe. He publishes the award winning Influential Marketing blog (www.influentialmarketingblog.com) and has been featured in publications worldwide, including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, PRWeek, The Globe & Mail (Canada), Marketing China (China), and AdWeek (Australia).
Rohit first introduced the emerging concept of Social Media Optimization (SMO) on his blog, which has since grown into an internationally recognized marketing theory being practiced by thouands of marketers and organizations worldwide. He is a popular marketing industry speaker and is currently authoring a book focused on the necessity of putting personality into marketing, called Personality Not Included, which will be published by McGraw-Hill in early 2008. Prior to joining Ogilvy PR, he was Executive Producer of Interactive at Leo Burnett in Sydney, Australia, and has worked internationally in the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, India, and South Africa. He believes that admitting you are marketing is a good thing and that there is such a thing as Blog Karma.
He is married and lives in Washington DC with his wife and three-year-old son.
Tony Bishop
Tony is the CEO of Adaptivity Inc. An innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations, he most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure. Previously, he was Chief Architect and SVP for Solution Architecture of DataSynapse and Director, Financial Services Practice, at Platform Computing.
Tony and his team have been recognized by the industry with awards from InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Waters, and Wall Street & Technology, among others, for their efforts in building world-class technology to differentiate their business. He has 19 years working as a user and as a supplier in various design, strategy, and architecture roles across multiple industries. He is the recipient of 40 under 40 Most Innovative IT Leaders, Premier 100 IT Leaders as selected by ComputerWorld in 2007, and a member of Wall Street Gold Book 2007.
Ian Blaine
Ian Blaine, 37, is CEO and co-founder of thePlatform Inc., where he oversees all aspects of the business. In his capacity as CEO, Mr. Blaine has been at the forefront of online video for more than seven years and built thePlatform into the leading video application service provider for content providers, broadband media sites, and mobile businesses. Under his leadership, thePlatform has grown to manage and publish online video for some of the most respected consumer brands, including: BBC, CNBC, CBS's College Sports TV, Court TV, Comcast, Hearst, Helio, NBC-Universal and News Corp's Hulu.com, Primedia, Scripps, Sony/BMG Music, Vongo, Telstra, Verizon Wireless, and dozens of other companies.
In June 2006, Mr. Blaine led thePlatform through its acquisition by Comcast and now also serves as Senior Vice President of Content Publishing for Comcast Interactive Media. Immediately prior to forming thePlatform, Mr. Blaine successfully launched and sold an Internet company called Uniplanet to NBCi in 1999. Before that, he spent more than nine years at the publishing division of Aldus/Adobe where he gained vast experience in product development and product management.
Blaine is a Seattle native and graduated from the University of Washington in 1992. He resides in Seattle with his wife and two children, where he is involved in various civic activities.
Greg Blonder
Greg Blonder, based in Summit, N.J., joined Morgenthaler as a Venture Partner in 2000 from AT&T Ventures and became a Partner in 2001. Previously, Greg led a number of research divisions at Bell Labs, including the Material Science, Optical Devices, and Consumer Expectations Research Labs. He was also Chief Technical Advisor for the AT&T Corporation before joining AT&T Ventures.
He is currently a director of foonz, IGA Worldwide, Inplane Photonics, FiveStar Technologies, Lamina Ceramics, and Princeton Lightwave. Greg holds more than 80 patents, in areas ranging from semiconductor devices, user interfaces, and medical devices to Internet transaction services.
Alex Blum
As the CEO of KickApps, Alex is responsible for building a world-class technology, marketing, business development, finance, and operations team with the goal of providing Web publishers the tools to easily enable their sites with user-generated content, social networking, premium video, and content syndication capabilities.
Before joining KickApps, Alex was President and COO of JumpTV, a leading multicultural Internet Protocol television network. Prior to JumpTV Alex spent eight years at AOL, most recently as the Vice President of Product Marketing for AOL's Audience business where Alex and his team were responsible for re-launching the AOL Portal and delivering an entire suite of Web-based applications including: AOL's Video Player, Video Portal, Streaming Video advertising platform, AIM, and AIMpages social networking service. Prior to that, Alex was General Manager of AOLTV, where he established strategic relationships with DirecTV, TiVo, OpenTV, and Philips Electronics. Prior to joining AOL, Alex spent 10 years in the software industry participating in three successful startup opportunities.
Alex has an MBA from the Albers School of Business at Seattle University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Richard Boire
Richard Boire is the founding partner at the Boire Filler Group, Pickering, Ontario, which uses advanced data mining techniques to help businesses understand existing and potential customers. A recognized expert in the database and data analytical industry, Richard has worked at and with clients such as Reader’s Digest, American Express, Loyalty Group, and Petro-Canada. He writes numerous articles for industry publications, is a sought-after speaker on data mining, and works closely with the Canadian Marketing Association in a number of areas.
René Bonvanie
René Bonvanie is Senior Vice President Worldwide Marketing, Partner Programs, and Online Services at Serena Software Inc., a leading global independent software company focused solely on application lifecycle management for distributed and mainframe systems. Bonvanie brings nearly 25 years of executive management and marketing experience in the enterprise software industry to Serena. His responsibilities include developing business and marketing strategies to capitalize on future trends in application development, such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web services, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). He also leads Serena's efforts to develop partner relationships and go-to-market activities for new products and services.
Before joining Serena, Bonvanie served as SVP and GM of AppExchange and Developer Relations at Salesforce.com. Prior to that, Bonvanie served as Senior VP Global Marketing at SAP, Chief Marketing Officer at Business Objects, SVP Worldwide Marketing at Veritas Software Corp., VP Product Marketing at Oracle Corp., and in senior sales and marketing positions at Ingres.
Bonvanie holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He lives with his wife Marie and three sons in Foster City, Calif.
Jean-Paul Boucher
Over his 15-year career in information technology, Jean-Paul Boucher has worked with all branches of the federal, state, and local governments to develop and deploy various technology services ranging from continuity of operations policies to enterprise server management. He presents wireless technology capabilities and limitations, develops policy guidance, consults on a variety of classified and unclassified projects, and performs pilot and enterprise implementations, including some of the largest wireless solutions in the federal sector. From writing wireless policies like DoD Guidance 8100.2 and assisting with GAO audits of wireless technology in government organizations to deploying emergency communications infrastructure for Capitol Hill, the FBI, and the NIH, Mr. Boucher has performed full life-cycle management and technology projects. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1998 with a BA in History.
Jessica Bowman
Jessica Bowman is a search engine optimization (SEO) strategist and consultant who has created SEO programs for Yahoo, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Business.com. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Information Systems Management from Washington University, is a champ at the board game Connect Four, and plans to move to Europe... one day.
Peter Bowman
Peter Bowman has been involved in the media and communications industry for more than 20 years. In 1993, he began his Internet career as President of DESIGNfx Interactive. Later, he became Vice President of Internet Development after DESIGNfx went public in an IPO roll-up in 1998 and grew to nearly 500 employees. Currently, Peter serves as Executive Vice President at Avericom, a digital media marketing and production company he founded in 2000.
Stowe Boyd
Stowe is an internationally recognized authority on social tools, and their impact on business, media, and society. He is based in San Francisco, but travels extensively as a software product theorist, working with numerous social tools startups and established players. Stowe is perhaps best known for his analysis at /Message, and his public speaking, which has included Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Next, Reboot, Lift, Shift, Supernova, Defrag, FutureSonic, 140 Characters, and dozens more. Stowe is also the founder and head of Microsyntax.org, a non-profit researching information patterns in streaming applications like Twitter.
Mark Bregman
Mark Bregman is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Symantec, responsible for the Symantec Research Labs, emerging technologies, architecture and standards, and developing the technology strategy for the company. He also guides Symantec's investments in advanced research and is responsible for the development centers in India and China.
Bregman joined Symantec through the company's merger with Veritas Software. At Veritas, he served as CTO, responsible for cross-product integration, advanced product development, merger and acquisition strategy, and the company's engineering development centers in Pune (India) and Beijing. He also served as Veritas's Executive VP in charge of product operations since joining the company in 2002.
Bregman holds a BS in Physics from Harvard College and an MS and Doctorate in Physics from Columbia University. He is a member of the Visiting Committee to the Harvard University Libraries, a member of the American Physical Society, and a senior member of the IEEE. He also serves on the Board of Directors of ShoreTel.
Matt Bross
Matt Bross is well known as a visionary and an innovator. He's passionate about harnessing technology to help improve people's lives and enable organizations to become more successful.
As BT Group CTO, Matt is responsible for technology strategy, vision, and innovation across BT. He is the leading force behind BT's 21st Century Network transformation program, and he heads up a global BT technology, research, and development organization that spans the U.S., Europe, and Asia/Pacific.
Matt has had a long and distinguished career in communications and innovation, including senior positions at ConTel, MasterCard, and Williams. He is married, has five children, and is proud to have one of the coolest jobs on the planet.
Gabriel Brown
Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Gabriel Brown focuses on wireless technologies and services, including 802.11 wireless LAN, ultrawideband, WiMax, and 3G. He has covered the wireless data industry since 1998, previously as Chief Analyst of the monthly Unstrung Insider, published by Heavy Reading's parent company Light Reading; he was additionally responsible for the overall editorial planning of Light Reading's entire line of Insider research newsletters. Prior to joining Light Reading, Gabriel was the editor of IP Wireline and Wireless Week at London's Euromoney Institutional Investor. He often presents research findings at industry events and is regularly consulted by wireless networking technology leaders.
Marc Canter
I'm a software guy - started a company called MacroMind which became Mcromedia.
Now I'm CEO of Broadband Mechanics - creators of PeopleAggregator - a white label social networking platform.
Sandy Carter
Sandy Carter is IBM's Vice President, SOA and WebSphere Marketing, Strategy, and Channels. Her blog, SOA Off the Record, is a place where IBMers exchange viewpoints, share their perspectives to provide more insight around service-oriented architecture solutions, and delve into a range of SOA-related subjects. She invites you to speak out on SOA through comments in the blog – from where your organization stands on SOA adoption, to your challenges and experiences – to share with the larger community the impact of SOA on your marketplace.
Daniel Castro
Daniel Castro is a Senior Analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He has experience in the private, non-profit and government sectors. His research interests include technology policy, health IT, green IT, e-government, security, and privacy. Mr. Castro has an M.S. in information security technology and management from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Vinton G. Cerf
Vinton G. Cerf is a co-designer of the architecture of the Internet. He and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, have been jointly awarded the U.S. National Medal of Technology, the ACM Alan M. Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Japan Prize for their development of TCP/IP, the protocol series on which the Internet is based.
Currently Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, Cerf previously held a range of senior technology roles at MCI. He also was VP of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) ; Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007; and Founding President of the Internet Society from 1992-1995. Cerf is Honorary Chairman of the IPv6 Forum and serves on several national, state, and industry committees focused on cyber-security.
Cerf sits on the boards of the Endowment for Excellence in Education, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Advisory Committee, and Avanex Corp. He also serves as First VP and Treasurer of the National Science & Technology Medals Foundation. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the Annenberg Center for Communications at USC, and the National Academy of Engineering.
Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and PhD degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He holds honorary degrees from 15 universities worldwide.
Ross Chevalier
Ross Chevalier is CTO and CIO of Novell Canada Ltd., responsible for maintaining relationships with customers and partners to help them leverage Novell's offerings. He also acts as a customer and market advocate, interacting with all of Novell's product business units.
Ross has 25 years of industry experience and has been involved in all aspects of networking including systems integration and IS management. Prior to joining Novell Canada, Ross held a variety of senior consulting positions including, most recently, Vice President, Professional Services, at Brains II, one of Canada’s leading systems integrators.
An avid writer, Ross is the editor of Novell Canada’s electronic newsletter for technology professionals, which targets IT personnel, systems engineers, and architects across Canada. Ross is also a dedicated guitar collector and spends his leisure time restoring and working on classic cars and motorcycles.
Adam Christensen
Adam Christensen manages IBM's social media communications, working on the strategy, policies, and execution of IBM's social media efforts across the company. He is the editor of the Smarter Planet blog. Prior to his current role, Adam held a number of positions within IBM corporate communications. Before joining IBM, Adam worked at Brodeur Worldwide in New York City, leading that firm's financial services practice. He’s held related jobs at Novell in Provo, Utah, and Coltrin & Associates in New York City. He resides in Stamford, Conn. Adam can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/adamclyde. His personal blog is http://adamchristensen.com.
Scott Clavenna
Scott Clavenna, Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Greentech Media, has been leading high-tech market research firms for over 15 years. In his capacity as a trusted analyst and consultant, Scott has helped dozens of companies enter and succeed in complex and intensely competitive markets worldwide. He also has authored more than 30 reports that helped define important emerging market segments in optical and broadband communications. Prior to founding Greentech Media, Scott was chief analyst at Heavy Reading, the market research arm of Light Reading, the dominant online media company in the telecommunications market. Before creating Heavy Reading, Scott founded PointEast Research, providing strategic consulting and market intelligence to a broad mix of startups, venture capitalists, and major suppliers in the communications/IT industry, and worked as director of research for Light Reading. In 1997, Scott co-founded Pioneer Consulting, which quickly grew into the leading market research firm covering the optical and broadband communications industry.
Scott Cleland
Scott Cleland is one of nation's foremost techcom analysts and experts, at the nexus of capital markets, public policy, and techcom industry change. He is widely respected in industry, government, media, and capital markets as a forward thinker, free market proponent, and leading authority on the future of communications.
Cleland is the founder and President of Precursor LLC, a techcom industry research and consulting firm whose mission is to help companies anticipate change for competitive advantage. He is also Chairman of NetCompetition.org, a wholly owned subsidiary of Precursor LLC and an e-forum on Net Neutrality funded by a wide range of broadband telecom, cable, and wireless companies.
Tom Clement
Tom Clement is a Senior Development Manager with Serena Software with responsibility for Serena's Mashup Composer. Before coming to Serena in 2005, Tom was a Director of Software Engineering at Apptero and Avinon. In his 21 years of software engineering experience he has held a variety of roles including Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies and Senior Software Architect at Mosaix. He holds a degree in Mathematics from Middlebury College and a law degree from the University of Texas.
Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin, President of Coughlin Associates, has been working for over 30 years in the data storage industry in engineering and management positions at companies including Ampex, Polaroid, Seagate, Maxtor, Micropolis, Syquest, and 3M. He has more than 60 publications and six patents to his credit. Tom is active with IDEMA, the IEEE Magnetics Society, IEEE CE Society, and other professional organizations.
Tom was Chairman of the 2007 Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section and current chair of the IEEE Region 6 Central Area. He was former Chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and the Magnetics Society. He is the founder and organizer of the Annual Storage Visions Conference, a partner to the annual Consumer Electronics Show, as well as the Creative Storage Conference. Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis (including reports and a newsletter) as well as Data Storage Technical Consulting services. For more information go to www.tomcoughlin.com.
Susan Crawford
Susan Crawford is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, teaching Internet law and communications law. Last term (fall 2007) she was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and starting on July 1, 2008, she will join the faculty at Michigan. She is a member of the board of directors of ICANN and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the Internet that takes place each Sept. 22. Ms. Crawford received her BA (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and JD from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City.
George Crump
George Crump is President and Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland, an IT analyst firm focused on the storage and virtualization markets. With 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the U.S., he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, and SAN. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland he was CTO at one of that nation’s largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
Rob Crumpler
Rob Crumpler joined BuzzLogic as President and CEO in October 2005, bringing with him more than 20 years of experience with fast-growth technology companies, including Microsoft and Intuit. While at Microsoft, he played a key role in defining the advertising technologies and business models that drove the revenue growth of MSN. During his seven-year tenure at Microsoft, he also helped the company pioneer new ad models, such as cost-per-action, as part of the MSN Finance Channel's advertising strategy.
Prior to Microsoft, Crumpler founded and served as President and CEO at On The Go Software, an industry leader in the expense reporting and travel management space, which was acquired by Intuit in 1996. While at Intuit, he led the development of the OFX Consortium, which fathered Open Financial Exchange, the de facto standard for financial reporting and transactions on the Internet. He received a BS in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Dan Cypra
Dan Cypra graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2002 and received his Master of Business Administration in 2003. He is an Internet gambling industry expert and writes for several of the leading poker news sites on the Web. He looks forward to keeping readers of Internet Evolution.com up to date on the latest from this fluid industry.
Michael Dahan
Dr. Michael (Mike) Dahan is an Israeli-American political scientist, specializing in the political, social, and cultural contexts of technological use and diffusion, particularly in the Middle East. Michael is a frequent commentator in the Israeli press and with the Pew Internet Project. He lectures at a number of universities and colleges in Israel and resides in Jerusalem.
Diann Daniel
Diann Daniel is a freelance editor and writer based near Boston. Adept at navigating the changing journalism landscape, she covers a range of business and tech topics, as well as those focused on health and wellness. On a tech note, her coverage areas have included business intelligence, innovation, and Web 2.0. She also led CIO.com’s editorial slideshow and video efforts. In other arenas, she has lent her editorial talents to textbooks, health-focused publishing, and more.
Patrick J. Dempsey
Patrick J. Dempsey is currently Chief Information Security Officer for Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. From 2003 to 2007, he was a special agent with Federal Bureau of Investigation, assigned to the Newark (N.J.) Division's Cyber Crime Squad. As a special agent for the FBI, he investigated dozens of crimes and worked with numerous law enforcement groups throughout the United States and ten international locations to track down hackers and other types of cyber criminals. He has investigated and arrested criminals involved in: computer intrusions, virus writing, Internet fraud, telecommunications hacking, telecommunications fraud, identity theft, and theft of intellectual property.
Dempsey has conducted training and presentations regarding information security to: various international law enforcement organizations; members of the international intelligence community; the Department of Homeland Security; the National Security Information Exchange; members of the insurance, legal, and actuarial and risk management industries. He received his MS degree in Information Systems from Drexel University in 2005. From 1997 to 2003, Dempsey was a systems and network engineer for Advanta Corp. in Springhouse, Pa.
Suki Dennison
Suki Dennison, an interior designer based in Bergen County, N.J., passed away in April 2009. She held a BA in English from NYU and a degree in interior design from the New York School of Interior Design and Berkeley College in New Jersey.
Mark Diamond
Mark Diamond is founder, President, and CEO of Contoural Inc., a provider of business and technology consulting services. Mark is one of the industry's thought leaders in litigation readiness, e-discovery, compliance, archiving, data protection, and ILM strategies and practices. Under his leadership, Contoural has grown to be an industry leader in developing business and technology strategies for data retention policies and information archiving. Providing innovative approaches, these strategies help simplify complex issues, ensure compliance, reduce risks, and lower costs.
A frequent industry speaker, Mark addresses how organizations can better align legal and business requirements with IT and storage spending. An expert in the business drivers around archival and the technical strategies for implementing them, he addresses what are the emerging best practices and outlines practical approaches for email and electronic document archival that reduce liability, lower costs, and ensure compliance.
Yihong Ding
Yihong is a researcher, thinker, and blogger. His active research areas include Semantic Web, Web annotation, data extraction, and ontologies. He is also known for his distinctive views on Web evolution and the future of the Internet. He publishes his thoughts on his blog, Thinking Space. He is also a contributing author to SemanticFocus.com, a premier Website for Semantic Web technologies. Yihong is employed as Informatic Architect at Fujifilm Medical Systems. He is also affiliated with DERI Innsbruck, a leading Semantic-Web research lab. He received his Master of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.
Cory Doctorow
Cory is an activist, a writer, a blogger, a public speaker, and a technology person. He is the co-editor of Boing Boing, a popular Weblog about technology, culture, and politics. He is in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, and he uses some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics.
He wrote science fiction novels – three published to date (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, 2003, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005), and a short story collection (A Place So Foreign and Eight More, 2003). He also contributes content to magazines like Wired, Popular Science, and MAKE and freelances for The New York Times and the Salon Website.
Patrick Donegan
Patrick is Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading, a market research organization offering quantitative analysis of telecom technology to professionals working in and around the telecommunications industry. He has been a telecom market journalist, analyst, and strategist for 16 years. In January 2006 he joined Heavy Reading from Nortel, having spent five years as a Senior Manager of Strategic Planning for the company's wireless business, spanning GSM, CDMA, UMTS, WiMax, and other wireless technologies. Prior to Nortel, Donegan spent two years in business research for Motorola's Corporate Strategy Office in EMEA and two years as a wireless analyst for the Yankee Group. As a journalist, Donegan was Deputy Editor of Public Network Europe from 1990-1995 and Editor of Mobile Communications International from 1995-1997. He is based in the U.K.
Paul Doyle
Paul Doyle has worked for more than 20 years in both logical and physical security, including counter-terrorism operations. He is also a co-founder of the Information Assurance Consortium, a nonprofit dedicated to allowing organizations and individuals to conduct their affairs in a secure and verifiable manner. He co-chairs the AIIM C-22 Evidentiary Support Legal Standards Committee and is an active member of the American Bar Association's Information Security Committee. Doyle is also the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Proofspace, a leading data integrity solution provider.
Paul Dunay
Paul Dunay has spent more than 20 years in marketing, creating buzz for leading technology companies such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Avaya, and Cisco. He also has delivered work for American Express, Motorola, Genzyme, Novartis, Citigroup, Cendant, and Ernst & Young.
Paul currently is a Global Director of Integrated Marketing for BearingPoint. His unique approach to integrated marketing has been recognized as a 2007 and 2006 finalist and 2005 winner of the Driving New Demand award of the Information Technology Services Marketing Association (ITSMA) as well as a winner of BearingPoint's Best Overall Marketing Campaign award in 2004.
Paul has been a featured speaker for AMA, MarketingProfs, Marketing Sherpa, BtoB Magazine, ITSMA, CMO Council, and Marketing Operations Management, and his articles and research have appeared in CMO Magazine, Information Week, Marketing Sherpa, iMedia, and been quoted several times in BtoB Marketing Magazine.
Paul holds a degree in Leadership from the Yale School of Management, a degree in Strategy and Innovation from MIT, and a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Computer Science from Ithaca College. Visit his blog http://www.buzzmarketingfortechnology.com.
Russ Edelman
Edelman is the founder, president, and CEO of Corridor Consulting, a systems integration and consulting firm focused on Enterprise Content Management (ECM). He contributes to periodicals including InformationWeek, CIO Magazine, AIIM E-DOC, and KMWorld. He is a featured speaker at industry conferences and sits on a number of emerging technology committees in the ECM industry, including AIIM's Emerging Technology Group (EmTAG), established to provide feedback and direction to the AIIM board and its international constituency. He performs a similar function for ARMA's Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) group. Edelman is also the author of Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office – 8 Strategies for Winning in Business Without Being a Jerk.
Ev Ehrlich
Ev Ehrlich is the President of ESC Company, a firm that consults on economic matters to a broad range of firms and organizations in the financial, accounting, pharmaceutical, technology, professional sports, and other industries. He has served as Chief Economist and head of strategic planning of Unisys Corporation and as Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Clinton Administration. He was for eight years a regular commentator on National Public Radio and is the author of two novels.
Greg Elin
Greg Elin is the Chief Evangelist for Sunlight Foundation. He's been at Sunlight since its beginning in 2006, when he created the Sunlight Labs, the technology arm of the foundation where he both implemented and promoted Web service APIs for transparency data. He has worked on the cutting edge of communications technology for almost 20 years, spending the last 10 years developing software at the intersection of data, the Web, and social software. He is the creator of Fotonotes, an open source Web-based approach to image annotation that was popularized by Flickr and has been widely copied and adopted. Mr. Elin has a BA in communication from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School and a master's from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He became a Web data/software developer as it became clear new tools were driving innovation faster than policy.
Carla C. Emmons
Carla C. Emmons has 15 years of experience in the IT field. She has held technical positions in classic, old-school technology companies, Internet startups, enterprise software companies, education services companies, and the pharmaceutical industry. Often, her colleagues and development teams are scattered across different time zones and countries. She develops, tunes, and implements system lifecycles and communication processes for development and technical organizations big and small. She also advises CEOs and COOs on technical operations and product development strategies. Her blog, Miscellany of a Cheshire Cat, chronicles the more mundane challenges of the remote worker and working from home, distributed team management, and gardening – as well as providing, as a comic outlet, the life of a would-be super-hero.
Jon Emmons
Jon Emmons has built a reputation for breaking down the barriers of technology. On his blog, Life After Coffee, Jon writes about topics ranging from Oracle database administration to the benefits and challenges of working from home. Jon is most interested in how technology shapes our lives. He is also the author of two books, Oracle Shell Scripting and Easy Linux Commands. He often presents to both technical and non-technical audiences on subjects that span from database administration to integrating technology in our lives.
Through his work as an Oracle consultant, Jon continues to assist institutions with multimillion-dollar implementations. Beyond his technical duties, Jon also acts as a team manager, managing a team of database administrators and technical trainers who are distributed across North America. He is also co-founder of the Web 2.0 wish list site MasterWish.com. For his contributions to the Oracle community, Jon has been recognized with the Oracle ACE award. He is continually sought out as a consultant and speaker for his vision, attention to detail, and breadth of knowledge.
Jae Engelbrecht
Joseph A. (Jae) Engelbrecht, Jr. is a principal with Toffler Associates. He has over thirty years' experience advising senior executives in government, emphasizing intelligence and defense, and in telecommunications, aerospace, satellite manufacturing, and information services. He has developed hundreds of strategies from international, national, agency, corporate, and product perspectives. He has led dozens of future studies for high-level clients, including landmark inquiries focused on space and aerospace in 2025, on the Asia-Pacific region in 2030, and on global matters in 2020 and 2025. He designed the Toffler Associates Alternate Futures practice and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Bryon Evje
Bryon Evje is Chief Operating Officer of Broadband Enterprises and is responsible for expanding the company's online broadcast network across 1,700 Web publishers, whose aggregate monthly footprint includes 800 million video streams and approximately 25 million unique users.
In addition to overseeing the company's affiliate network, Evje has structured strategic programming partnerships and built the company's syndication and technology businesses. He is also responsible for helping shape the company's original production strategy and partnerships.
Prior to joining Broadband Enterprises, Evje was Vice President of broadband video distributor Wavexpress, with primary responsibilities including fulfilling operational and sales functions for one of the Web's pioneering video-on-demand (VOD) technology providers.
Graham Finnie
Graham has been researching telecommunications for more than 20 years, formerly as a journalist and latterly as an analyst and consultant. He joined Heavy Reading in September 2004 following a ten-year tenure at the Yankee Group. As Chief Analyst, Graham has been responsible for a wide range of research, focusing primarily on next-generation broadband services and IMS. He has also hosted numerous Webinars and Live events for Light Reading and is a regular speaker at other major industry events. As a journalist, Graham was Editor in Chief of the award-winning industry paper Communications Week International and has edited several other leading trade publications.
Jeff Fleischman
Jeff Fleischman is Chief Digital Officer at TIAA-CREF. Previously, he was Senior VP, Customer Experience, Global Direct Banking, at Citi. Prior to Citi, Jeff was General Manager/Senior VP, E-Business, for Monster.com, where he focused on leading the development of the e-business segment and managing the e-business P&L. His responsibilities also included developing a drive Web strategy and online experience to expand market reach, increase revenue, drive sales and cross-sell, and improve site satisfaction, as well as leading strategic initiatives to support channel growth. Before joining Monster, Jeff was with American Express in various roles in finance, risk management, and American Express Interactive. His most recent position was Vice President, U.S. Interactive Group, responsible for developing and managing the online channel for all U.S. businesses. Prior to American Express, Jeff held a variety of marketing and finance positions with Advanta, JP Morgan Chase, and Bankers Trust. Jeff earned a BS in Finance from Syracuse University and an MBA from Hofstra University.
Anne Flournoy
Anne Flournoy is a reformed Sundance filmmaker now making a comedy webseries The Louise Log. It's about a NYC woman who has a high-maintenance husband, an addiction to caffeine, problems with time management, and an over-active inner voice. Here's one three minute episode to start with which won a PBS competition: http://is.gd/3JF3Y
You can find all the others at http://TheLouiseLog.com. Please let me know what you think! Thank you.
David Foote
David Foote is co-founder, CEO and Chief Research Officer of Foote Partners LLC, an independent IT research and advisory firm founded in 1997 that serves more than 1,400 clients on five continents. He worked at Gartner, META Group, and several Silicon Valley technology companies, and now leads a team of senior analysts and consultants whose popular advisory services and proprietary survey research (90,000 IT professionals, 1,960 U.S. and Canadian employers) are aimed at managing IT's impact on businesses and their customers. A popular featured opinion columnist, Web/podcaster, and frequent contributor to dozens of online, print, radio, and television media sources, Foote can be contacted at dfoote@footepartners.com and on Twitter at @FPView.
Maggie Fox
Maggie Fox, founder of Social Media Group, one of North America's agencies devoted exclusively to helping business navigate the world of Web 2.0, is a communications and content expert who has never met a medium she didn't like. Over the course of her career, she's marketed, written, and produced television content for some of the biggest and best-known brands in North America, including Sears, Deloitte, and Disney.
Pioneers in their field, SMG has worked with some of the best-known brands in Europe and North America, including Ford Motor Company, SAP, Yamaha Motor, and Harlequin Publishing. Maggie often speaks to the press and business groups about the importance and use of social media in the enterprise.
Cynthia Francis
A serial entrepreneur, Cynthia Francis has extensive experience building and leading pioneering companies in digital media management and online media technologies. In 2003, after more than a decade of leadership in digital asset management, she co-founded Reality Digital where she shapes the company's success as CEO. Previously, she served as Chief Operating Officer for the Content Group and Chief Marketing Officer/ VP of Business Development for eMotion Inc. Both Content Group and eMotion provided large-scale digital media management solutions for enterprise customers. Early in her career, Cynthia held positions at Apple Computer and Eagle River Interactive. She is a frequent speaker at leading industry events, including OMMA, NAB, iMedia, Digital Hollywood, Streaming Media, and others. She holds two degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
Matthew Fraser
Matthew Fraser is a Web 2.0 strategist who speaks and consults on a wide range of issues – from the social impact of networks like Facebook to the role of Web 2.0 in politics, business, and government. An adjunct professor at the American University of Paris and senior fellow at INSEAD, he is the author of Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World. His upcoming book is titled The BELL Strategy: Case Studies in Branding, Engaging, Learning and Leading in the Enterprise 2.0. He can be reached at fraser.matthew@orange.fr.
Aaron Roe Fulkerson
Aaron is a multifaceted entrepreneur and technology advocate. He is a recognized expert in enterprise systems, collaboration, social media, software in general and open source. He is regularly invited to speak at conferences and seminars, contribute to industry blogs, and lecture on these topics at universities. Aaron co-founded MindTouch Inc. in 2005 and, as Chief Executive Officer, has guided MindTouch from a grass roots open source project to the No. 1 downloaded enterprise wiki in the world with an impressive customer list of Fortune 500 corporations, mid-market companies, and government agencies. Prior to founding MindTouch, Aaron was a member of Microsoft's Advanced Strategies and Policies division and worked on distributed systems research. He also previously owned and operated a successful technology consulting firm, Gurion Digital LLP, for five years. He has held senior positions at three software startups and has helped to launch several non-profits and businesses outside the software industry. Aaron received his BS in computer science from University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. He resides in San Diego, Calif., with his wife and daughter.
Deborah Gage
Deborah Gage is an award winning journalist who has covered business and technology from Silicon Valley for 15 years. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Baseline magazine, eCompany and numerous other publications. She has also covered politics for Minnesota Public Radio.
Kenneth Geers
Kenneth Geers, CISSP, is the U.S. Representative to the Cyber Center of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. Mr. Geers has written extensively on the connection between network security and national security issues. He has studied in Belgium, Israel, Cyprus, Russia, and at the Defense Language Institute, where he earned the Provost's Award for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement. Unorthodox education includes religious and beer-making studies at the Rochefort Trappist monastery and a conflict resolution course at the Ayia Napa monastery. At the University of Washington, his Master's thesis examined nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. Kenneth is a frequent speaker at international computer security conferences, and is the author of Cyber Jihad and the Globalization of Warfare; Hacking in a Foreign Language; Behind Saudi Arabia's National Firewall; IPv6 World Update; 35P10N463; and Greetz from Room 101.
Thomas August Gerace
Thomas Gerace is the founder and CEO of Gather.com, a social networking site for adults that supports in-depth dialogues on a variety of topics. He is also founding chairman of the Social Media Ad Council. He was formerly the SVP of marketing for National Leisure Group (NLG), a $1.0 billion annual seller of travel. He also founded and served as president of Be Free, a publicly traded online marketing services company. Tom also worked as a senior business analyst at the Harvard Business School. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Social Studies, magna cum laude, in 1993. Tom serves on the Board of Advisors for Imagitas and on the Board of Visitors for the Fenway Community Health Center. He is also a director of the Open Gate Foundation.
Ranulph Glanville
Ranulph Glanville is a researcher and thinker whose areas of interest span design, social action, cybernetics, and art/music practice.
He is professor of architecture and cybernetics in the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and (as he says) a "freelance, vagrant professor of odd jobs" who practices in all continents except Antarctica. He lectures, teaches, and works with senior academics and managers, advising and setting up doctoral programs. He also supervises PhD students in a wide range of fields.
Amongst his many appointments, he is currently President Elect of the American Society for Cybernetics. Recently, he celebrated the 40th anniversary of the totemic Cybernetic Serendipity Exhibition and the opening of cybernetician Gordon Pask's archive, curating the exhibition "Pask Present" in Vienna.
Ranulph lives with his Dutch physiotherapist wife by the sea in Southsea, U.K. His son works in video and media.
Jim Goede
Jim Goede worked in high tech for 30 years in a range of positions, including product marketing and management, for companies ranging from very large public entities (Cisco, NEC) to small startups (Civcom). About seven years ago, he decided to do something completely different and is now a professional farrier (horseshoer) in Southern California.
Gail F. Goodman
Gail F. Goodman is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Constant Contact. A small business expert and visionary, Gail has revolutionized the way that small businesses and organizations can effectively and affordably communicate with their customers, clients, and members. Since taking leadership of Constant Contact in April 1999, she has led the company to more than 300,000 customers worldwide and its initial public offering in October 2007, when common shares of Constant Contact began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "CTCT." Gail was named "Executive of the Year" at the 2009 American Business Awards, and was the 2008 New England Regional winner of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. Constant Contact was named "Best Overall Company" at the 2009 American Business Awards and ranked 180 on the Deloitte 2008 Technology Fast 500.
A frequent speaker at industry events, Gail develops and tracks best practices in small business success, email marketing, customer communications, and entrepreneurship. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, a member of the Board of Directors of HubSpot, and Chairman of the Board at Constant Contact. She holds a BA from The University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth.
Garrett M. Graff
Garrett M. Graff is Editor-at-Large at Washingtonian Magazine, where he edits the front-of-the-book "Capital Comment" section and covers media and politics. He was also the founding editor of mediabistro.com’s Fishbowl D.C. (www.fishbowldc.com), a blog that covers the media and journalism in Washington.
As the first blogger admitted to cover a White House press briefing, he is a frequent speaker on blogging and the intersection of politics and technology. He is currently writing a book, The First Campaign, about technology, globalization, and the future of American politics, due to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Fall 2007. He was formerly the Vice President of Communications at EchoDitto Inc., a Washington-based Internet consulting firm.
Ross M. Greenberg
Ross M. Greenberg is an experienced software author, journalist, technology writer, and online forum and community manager. He is a Schedule A certification holder with expertise in the design of data-driven Web applications and systems. He is fluent in most high-level languages, assemblers, and hardware and is expert in a range of computer viruses and computer security systems. Ross’s writing has appeared in many publications, including Linux Magazine, Microsoft Systems Journal, Network Computing, Computer World, InfoWorld, Byte, Dr. Dobbs, Computer Language, Virus Bulletin, Secure Computing, PC Magazine, and Tech Bytes.
Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield is a writer, consultant, and instructor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His consulting practice, Studies and Observations, helps clients manage challenges at the intersection of technology, design, and culture, with a strong focus on issues around ubiquitous computing. (Adam's 2006 book on the subject, Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing, has been acclaimed as "groundbreaking, elegant, and soulful" by Bruce Sterling, and "gracefully written, fascinating, and deeply wise" by Wired's Steve Silberman.) Before starting Studies and Observations, Adam was lead information architect for the Tokyo office of well known Web consultancy Razorfish.
Adam speaks frequently on issues of design, culture, technology, and user experience before a wide variety of audiences. In 2007 alone, he has given keynote presentations to the XTech conference, the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, the Monitor Group's IFA Forum, Nokia's Asia-Pacific CEO Summit, and AIGA's DUX07. He lives and works in New York City with his wife, artist Nurri Kim.
Seth Grimes
Seth Grimes is an analytics strategy consultant, a recognized expert on business intelligence and text analytics. He is contributing editor at TechWeb's Intelligent Enterprise magazine and a member of Internet Evolution's ThinkerNet. He is founding chair of the Text Analytics Summit. Seth founded Washington-based Alta Plana Corporation in 1997. He consults, writes, and speaks internationally on information-systems strategy, data management and analysis systems, industry trends, and emerging analytical technologies.
Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff focuses on computing infrastructure issues with a special emphasis on enterprise servers, data center interconnects, operating systems, server blades and appliances, virtualization, power and cooling, and the overall evolution of computing architectures. In addition to following Linux, he also covers broader open-source and software trends including their implications for business models, software licensing, client devices, collaboration, and application development and deployment.
Haff has more than 20 years of experience researching and using enterprise servers and workstations, their operating systems, architectures, processors, physical packaging, and supporting services. As a product-marketing manager at Data General, Haff helped launch many products and server designs, including AViiON servers that ranged from large-scale NUMA-architecture Unix systems to rack-dense Windows-based servers. Haff holds engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth as well as an MBA from Cornell University.
Deborah R. Hagar
Deborah R. Hagar consults on operational and business solutions for organizations in multiple industries. Her clients have included business, government, healthcare, and technology companies. Her firm, Hagar & Associates, has established collaborative partnerships with Gallup Organization, Saratoga Institute, and Watson-Wyatt, among others. She has served as an advisor to the Healthcare Advisory Board and to the National SubAcute Care Association. She is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Los Angeles. She is a senior adjunct professor with the University of LaVerne, where she has taught since 1980.
Tim Hanlon
As Senior VP Ventures at Denuo, A Publicis Groupe Company, Tim Hanlon is chiefly responsible for all U.S. client activity and agency initiatives in the field of emerging media technologies, including the firm's ground-breaking TV 2.0 Practice, centered around evolutionary television platforms such as interactive/enhanced television, on-demand video, digital video recording, interactive program guide navigation, addressable advertising, and digital broadcasting/datacasting.
Hanlon has more than a decade of traditional and interactive agency media experience, including roles as Vice President/Director, Strategy and Business Development for the Digital Marketing Group of Chicago-based marketing services agency Frankel, and Director of Interactive Media at Creative Alliance in Louisville, Ky. He also served as Advertising Media Manager for the in-house agency of credit card issuer MBNA America in Wilmington, Del. Hanlon has wide-ranging journalism experience, including production and writing stints at CBS News, Sports Illustrated, and the Voice of America.
Robert J. Hansen
I'm a thirtysomething doctoral candidate in computer science at the University of Iowa, where I spend my time musing on the intersection between software security and software engineering. Security needs to be a consideration throughout the software lifecycle, not just an after-the-fact band-aid that gets applied in response to customer outrage.
Prior to graduate school I was a software engineer in the Bay Area, a veteran of the dot-com boom and crunch, and a system administrator for a law firm.
I am an enthusiastic electronic privacy advocate and can often be found on the GnuPG Users, PGP-Basics and Enigmail mailing lists.
There's another Robert Hansen in the world of computer security -- the CEO of SecTheory, Robert "RSnake" Hansen. I'm not him. Further confusing things, both he and I have spoken at Black Hat.
Michael Harris
Michael is Founder and Chief Analyst of Light Reading's Cable Digital News. A cable industry analyst for more than a decade, Michael's work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, and BusinessWeek. The FCC has used his research in its reports on the broadband market. Michael has also been a frequent speaker at key broadband industry events, including the NCTA annual convention, BusinessWeek Telecom Summit, Forbes Telecosm, Pulver.com's Voice on the Net (VON), and Vortex.
Tom Hayes
Tom Hayes has been called a tastemaker for the new Net generation and one of the most influential executives and bloggers in high-tech today. He has spent a career making sense out of emerging technology trends, serving as a senior marketing executive at Silicon Valley stalwarts Hewlett-Packard and Applied Materials, and he now advises companies around the world on how to succeed in the new information economy. In the 1990s, Hayes was the founding chairman and CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley, the pioneering business network credited with catapulting Silicon Valley into leadership of the Internet Era. Profiles of Tom and his work have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Los Angeles Times, Wired, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, and publications and news outlets around the world. His often controversial rants and riffs on business can be found on his blog, Tombomb.com.
JUMP POINT: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business by Tom Hayes; McGraw-Hill; March 2008; Hardcover: $24.95; 257 pages; ISBN-10: 0-07-154562-X; ISBN-13: 978-0-07-154562-4
Kenneth Hess
Kenneth Hess is a freelance technical writer who writes on a variety of topics, including free software, Linux, Microsoft technologies, databases, and frugal solutions. His ten-year exploration with virtualization software produced Practical Virtualization Solutions (Pearson, 2009, Hess/Newman), a book covering a wide range of virtualization technologies and solutions. Ken is a regular contributor to Linux Magazine, DaniWeb, and ServerWatch. You may contact him via his Website at www.kenhess.com.
Scott Hilton
Scott Hilton is employed by Kunzler & McKenzie Intellectual Property Law. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University in 2005 and will receive his JD from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in spring 2009. He has conducted research in Internet regulation and TCP/IP and spent two years in patent research and analysis on the 3GPP wireless standard for Coltera Intellectual Property. While at Coltera, Scott worked with and trained attorneys and engineers from many of the largest wireless companies in the world on intellectual property and technical matters. He later worked in-house for Fujifilm Microdisks drafting core patent applications and screening patents in the disk drive industry.
John Hinshaw
As Boeing Chief Information Officer and Vice President of the Information Technology organization, John Hinshaw is responsible for all IT strategy, operations, processes, and people of the world's leading aerospace company. He was named to this position in June 2007 and reports to John Tracy, Senior Vice President of Boeing Engineering, Operations & Technology.
John was previously Chief Information Officer of Verizon Wireless, where he held a number of key positions focused on enabling business growth, reducing costs, and creating business efficiencies. He was also responsible for leading the information technology organization supporting over 60 million customers. His responsibilities included managing the company's IT portfolio, including global supply chain, billing, sales, and customer care systems, and he was also responsible for successfully completing a significant consolidation of the company's core systems.
Jeremy Hitchcock
Jeremy Hitchcock walked into Dyn Inc. in 2001 as an unpaid shipper, responsible for putting little boxes inside of bigger boxes. Working his way up from the mail room, the 27-year-old techie is now the CEO and CFO of Dyn, a growing DNS provider
He has been a presenter at numerous conferences and events, including Web 2.0 and Interop, and he participates in many industry consortiums and organizations, including ICANN and NANOG.
Jeremy was recently listed as one of the "Forty under 40" emerging business professionals and leaders in the state of New Hampshire. He's served as trustee or advisor for the Community College System of New Hampshire, University of New Hampshire Manchester, Chester College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He's chairman of the Manchester Young Professionals Network. He also was named Young Entrepreneur for New Hampshire by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Jonathan Hochman
Jonathan Hochman is the Principal of Hochman Consultants, an Internet marketing company; Director of Search Engine Marketing New England; and an active speaker and contributor to trade journals. He has 20 years’ experience in international trade and marketing, with a focus on Eastern Europe and Asia, covering everything from consumer goods and services to commodities. Hochman received his BS and MS in Computer Science from Yale.
Thomas J. Holt
Dr. Thomas J. Holt is a criminologist specializing in computer crime, cybercrime, and technology. His research focuses on computer hacking, malware, and the role that technology and the Internet play in facilitating all manner of crime and deviance. He has been in academia for the last five years and works with computer and information systems scientists, law enforcement, businesses, and technologists to understand and link the technological and social elements of computer crime. Dr. Holt has been published in a variety of academic journals, and has presented his work at numerous security and academic conferences, including Defcon, the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference, and the American Society of Criminology meetings. He is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology.
Robert Housman
Robert Housman is Acting Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of the Cyber Secure Institute. He has more than two decades of experience in public policy, particularly in the national and homeland security areas. During the Clinton Administration he served as Assistant Director for Strategic Planning in the White House Drug Czar's Office. He is a contributing author of the Homeland Security Law Handbook. He teaches Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland, University College, School of Management and Technology. He has taught national security for Syracuse University's Maxwell School and law for the Washington College of Law, American University. He is also a partner with Book Hill Partners.
Greg Hughes
Greg Hughes is an IT and security executive manager with more than 12 years of experience in the financial services and software development markets. Often leveraged by the media as a source of thought leadership in his areas of expertise, Hughes writes based on practical experience from running critical global enterprise IT shops and data centers and managing top-notch teams of security and IT professionals, and from the perspective of a former law-enforcement officer. With his experience in both securing and operating large, high-risk IT environments, Hughes has a unique perspective on the world of IT and the realities about the security risks and business conflicts faced by IT professionals. He maintains a weblog at http://www.greghughes.net/.
Mathew Ingram
Mathew Ingram is a technology writer and blogger based in Toronto. He writes about the Internet and new media for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper – where he has been a reporter and columnist since 1994 – and also maintains a personal blog at mathewingram.com/work. Prior to working at The Globe, Mathew was a senior writer for the Financial Times of Canada, where he wrote about technology and investing. He is also a co-founder of Mesh, Canada's leading Web conference.
Ilya Joel-Pitcher
Ilya Joel-Pitcher is a Principal Consultant at Infosys with 10 years experience in information and communications technology, holding key positions in delivery, architecture, and consulting services. He belongs to the Infosys Telecoms, Media and Entertainment Solutions Group as a thought-leader and innovator providing consultancy services in the formulation of customer experience and Web 2.0 strategies. In this role, Ilya focuses on assisting enterprises with understanding, conceptualizing, and realizing business value in a world being reshaped by technology and convergent forces.
Prior to Infosys, Ilya worked for a number of innovative companies delivering Internet solutions and has six years experience in the telecom industry. He is extremely passionate about contributing to the necessary debate on notions of society and identity in a transforming world. Ilya received his BS in Mathematical Physics from the University of Melbourne.
Quincy "QD3" Jones III
For more than 20 years, Quincy "QD3" Jones III, a noted creative visionary, has been producing hits in music and film to celebrate, honor, and magnify the hip-hop culture. In 2002, QD3 started QD3 Entertainment, a documentary production company focused on chronicling the many dimensions of hip-hop.
QD3 has amassed one of the largest independent libraries of hip-hop content, with more than 1,500 hours of programming, much of it rare, exclusive, and never before seen footage. In June 2006, he formed QD3 Digital, a division of QD3, to take advantage of the technology explosion of broadband video, user-generated content, video on demand, and mobile platforms. As the creative and driving force, QD3 is building one of the first urban-oriented digital media entertainment companies.
Bruce Kaalund
Bruce Kaalund is the cyber security group leader for a large telecommunications company. His team works with vendors, developers, and engineers to help them meet cyber security requirements, and identifies any security risks that enter into production. Kaalund was an original member of the Cyber Security Focus Group of the Network Reliability & Interoperability Council (NRIC) Homeland Security Focus Group. This FCC-sponsored group developed and compiled cyber-security best practices for use by the nation's telecommunications and Internet service provider communities. He is a member of the Global Infrastructure Alliance for Internet Security (GIAIS), a partnership between Microsoft and the 30 largest ISPs in the world. He is also a regular presenter on cyber security topics. Kaalund has a diverse background in information technology and telecommunications that spans more than 25 years. This includes technical, management, and consulting positions in the public and private sectors. He holds Bachelor degrees in chemistry from Kentucky Wesleyan University and electrical engineering from Auburn University. In his spare time he attempts to improve his golf game.
Carl S. Kaminski
Carl specializes in strategy development, technology management, and organizational change at Toffler Associates. His current area of interest is the management of strategic processes in the areas of innovation management and product development. He has served on the adjunct faculty at Boston University in the areas of strategy and product development. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University. He has done post-graduate work in management at Northwestern University and has participated in MIT's Management of Technology Program.
Michael Kanellos
Michael Kanellos is the Editor in Chief at Greentech Media, where he covers emerging technologies and companies in the green world. Prior to joining the company in 2008, he worked for CNET Network's News.com for 11 years.
Among other jobs at CNET, he launched the company's push into clean technology. He has appeared on NPR, CBS, CNBC, Fox News, and other media outlets and has spoken at CES, the Japan Business Strategy Summit, Ceatec, the Irish Software Association, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, the Flash Memory Summit, and Clean Energy Venture Summit. A graduate of Cornell University and the University of California (Hastings), he has worked as an attorney, a travel writer, and a busboy at a pancake house.
Chander Kant
Chander is the CEO of Zmanda, the market leader in cloud backup. He provides a unique combination of technology and business leadership in storage software and cloud computing. An open-source enthusiast, he was named one of the Top 20 Linux Luminaries by LinuxWorld magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, he 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 managed storage software products at SGI. He 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. He can be followed on Twitter @chanderkant.
Mike Karp
Mike Karp has been an industry analyst for the last eight years, but has spent most of his 25-year career in the real world at large firms and startups that include Prime Computer, Symbios Logic, and Belcore. Much of his interest, writing, and research focuses on building efficiency into data center storage operations, on digital archiving, and on reducing the complexities associated with complex systems. Despite all that, he often finds humor in storage. His writing on storage is widely available on the Web.
Tim Karr
Timothy Karr is the campaign director for Free Press, the leading national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working on media and technology policy in the public interest. Tim manages all of Free Press's online initiatives — including SavetheInternet.com, StopBigMedia.com, and InternetforEveryone.org. Before joining Free Press, Tim was executive director of MediaChannel.org and vice president of the Globalvision News Network. He has also worked extensively as an editor, reporter, and photojournalist for the Associated Press, Time Inc., The New York Times, and Australia Consolidated Press. Tim critiques, analyzes, and reports on media and media policy for The Huffington Post and on his personal blog, MediaCitizen.
Michael Kassner
Michael P. Kassner is a writer and consultant specializing in information security. Michael also proudly partners with his son Matthew in their consultancy MKassner Net.
MKassner Net (Consulting) provides IT solutions through research, lectures, and on-site projects. MKassner Net (Publications) communicates relevant information developed during research through hard copy and/or electronic publications. Current contracts include several major on-line news media outlets.
Michael can be reached here, follow him on Twitter or visit his Web site.
Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is a Silicon Valley author, broadcaster, and entrepreneur whose provocative book, Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture, was recently acclaimed by The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani as "shrewdly argued" and written "with acuity and passion." Andrew is a prominent media personality who has appeared on the Colbert Report, McNeil-Lehrer Newsnight show, The Today Show, Fox News, CNN International, NPR's Weekend Edition, BBC Newsnight, and many other television and radio shows in America and overseas.
He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, Fast Company, and Entertainment Weekly and has been featured in numerous publications including Time Magazine, The New York Times, US News and World Report, BusinessWeek, Wired, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times, The Independent, and MSNBC.
Andrew is also a pioneering Silicon Valley media entrepreneur, having founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a well known first-generation Internet music company. Educated at the universities of London and California, he now lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two children.
William J. Kelleher
Kelleher received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984. He is the author of two books on American politics: Progressive Logic is about the core principles of American progressives; The New Election Game is about how to institute Internet voting in the U.S. Kelleher lives and teaches in the Los Angeles area.
Steve Kenney
Steven Kenney is a partner with Toffler Associates. He has more than 20 years of experience leading strategy initiatives for private sector and government clients. Kenney leads Toffler Associates’s portfolio of consulting for federal agencies on a variety of transformation and change management efforts in the U.S. and internationally.
Kenney has advised the director of strategic planning for the U.S. Air Force since 1998. He also advises the top leadership of high technology corporations on identifying new market opportunities and developing and implementing effective strategies for pursuing them. Kenney’s areas of expertise include scenario-based planning, human capital strategy, and making organizational change effective. He has a BA from the University of California and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University, and he has completed executive education at the Harvard Business School.
Dennis A. Kirk
Dennis A. Kirk is a principal and strategy consultant with Toffler Associates, where he leads the firm's future human capital practice. Dennis serves Toffler Associates clients in intelligence, infrastructure, information services, government, and microfinance. He has served as subject matter expert on human talent, education, and the information economy. He is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources by the Society for Human Resource Management.
Scott Koegler
Scott Koegler is a former CIO and author of the book Multisite Systems Integration, which describes methodologies for integrating distributed networks, based on one of the projects he developed for a health care provider. His main topics of focus currently include, EDI technology, nonprofit topics, and technology for medical practices.
Paul Korzeniowski
Paul Korzeniowski is a freelance writer who has been dissecting technology and business issues for two decades. He served on the staffs of ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, and Internet Week before branching out on his own. Since then, his work has appeared in numerous business and technology publications, including Business 2.0, Entrepreneur, Investors Business Daily, Newsweek, and InformationWeek. One day, when he had too much time on his hands, he determined that he has had more than 1 million words published in his career. Yet for some reason, he still feels compelled to write more. He is based in Sudbury, Mass., and can be reached at paulkorzen@aol.com.
Steven Krein
Steven Krein is co-founder and CEO of OrganizedWisdom Health, a human-powered health content search engine. Steven, a long time entrepreneur, has been involved with building Internet companies for more than a decade. He was the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Internet promotion and technology company, Promotions.com, which was founded in 1996. Promotions.com went public on Nasdaq in 1999 and was acquired by iVillage in 2002. In less than four years, Promotions.com grew to more than $27 million in annual revenues and built a database of more than 20 million consumers.
Steven is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurism and health-focused social media, and has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, the Fox News Channel, CNBC Power Lunch, CNBC Marketwatch, and Bloomberg News. He received his JD degree from Widener University School of Law and his BA from the University of Maryland College Park. He is a board member of YPO (the Young President's Organization) Metro New York Chapter and lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
Richard Laermer
Richard Laermer is CEO of RLM PR and the author of 2011: Trendspotting, as well as Punk Marketing, Full Frontal PR, and 2002's Trendspotting. He is widely sought as a speaker and media trainer, has co-hosted TLC's TV show, Taking Care of Business, and is a commentator for Public Radio's Marketplace program. His Bad Pitch Blog with Kevin Dugan has won PRSA's Bronze Anvil Medal for Best Blog. He is the man behind Unspun Radio, available on iTunes and Celestial radio stations, and the blogger behind Laermer.com.
James Lambie
James Lambie is the Producer/Director for the online documentary series "Web Wide World" on Internet Evolution. He has spent over 10 years producing/directing news, current affairs, and corporate programming worldwide, including co-productions with CNN, CNBC, and regional broadcasters on every continent bar Antarctica. Much of this time has been spent covering all aspects of the ICT/telecom industry, especially in locations where there are opportunities for any kind of fishing.
Drew Lanza
Drew, based in Menlo Park, Calif., joined Morgenthaler in 2000 and became a Partner in 2001. Drew focuses on semiconductors and components, and he also works with materials and devices and large systems. He is currently a Director of Brion Technologies, Cortina Systems, Overture Networks, Ultradots Inc., and Unity Semiconductor. He also regularly attends Wave7 Optics and Xoomsys board meetings. Drew spent 15 years in senior operating positions in the telecommunications industry, starting companies in both the components and the systems sectors of that industry.
He served as Senior VP of Marketing at Mayan Networks, building aggregation systems for the metropolitan edge market. Prior to that, Drew was a founder and VP of Engineering at E/O Networks where he helped to design and produce a long-reach rural fiber optic telephony system. Drew started his optical telecommunications career in 1986 at Raynet, a pioneering company in the development of fiber-to-the-home technologies. His many roles at Raynet included VP of Marketing and VP of International Development. Drew was the founding CEO of Lightwave Microsystems, a leader in the design and manufacture of high-volume optical integrated circuits.
Ryan Lawler
Ryan Lawler is Senior Editor of Contentinople, where he covers all things related to the rapid movement of rich media onto the Web and the not-so-rapid monetization of it. Ryan got his start in the space covering content delivery networks (CDNs) for Light Reading, as well as stuff like optical networking and next-gen VOIP equipment. Prior to Light Reading, he worked as a reporting assistant at the New York bureau of the Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest daily newspaper in the world (if not the entire known universe).
Rob Leathern
Rob is founder and CEO of CPM Advisors (CPMa). CPMa is a leading online technology company that helps online advertisers buy, manage, and optimize display ad campaigns via its platform at http://cpmatic.com. Before starting CPMa in 2008, Rob held roles as COO of Consorte Media, VP of business development for Root Markets, and general manager of advertising at LinkedIn. Before LinkedIn, Rob was at NexTag, where he built up NexTag's display advertising and media business via an unprecedented automation of media buying and ad management, propelling the firm to a position as a top-five U.S. online display advertiser, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. After starting his career as an investment banker with ING Barings/Furman Selz, from 1999 to 2003 Rob was a senior e-commerce research analyst at Jupiter Communications, thereafter becoming the director of commerce analytics at Nielsen//NetRatings. Rob holds BA degree in computer science and economics from Dartmouth College, and received the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) designation in 2003. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Andrew Lee
Andrew Lee is chief research officer for ESET LLC. He was also founder and CEO of AVIEN, is a board member of AMTSO, a member of AVAR, and a reporter for the WildList organization. He was previously at the sharp end of malware defense as a systems administrator in a large government organization. Andrew is author of numerous articles on malware issues; a frequent speaker at conferences and events, including ISC2 Seminars, AVAR, CARO and Virus Bulletin; and was a major contributor to "The AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise."
Gideon J. Lenkey
Gideon J. Lenkey, CISSP, has consulted on information security matters since 1989. He specializes in assessments and tests of enterprise IT security and also enjoys tracking malicious hackers, corporate insiders, and extortionists. In 1994, he co-founded Ra Security Systems, a network security monitoring and consultancy in Milford, NJ. He has provided advanced training to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has won numerous recognitions from the agency for his curricula. In addition to consulting for both foreign and domestic government agencies, Lenkey's also the sitting president of the FBI's InfraGard chapter in New Jersey. He is a member of the Computer Security Institute.
Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson's The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for
Best First Novel. He has since published
Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To
Save Socrates (2006).
His science fiction and mystery short stories have
been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and
Sturgeon Awards. His
eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999),
Realspace (2003), and Cellphone (2004), have
been the subject of major articles in the
New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have
been translated into nine languages.
He appears on "The O'Reilly
Factor" (Fox News), "The
CBS Evening News," "Scarborough
Country" (MSNBC), the
“NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” (PBS), “Nightline” (ABC) and numerous
national and international TV and radio programs. He is interviewed
about media issues every Sunday, 7:20am, on KNX1070 Radio
in Southern California. He is
Professor and Chair of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.
Erez Liebermann
Erez Liebermann works in the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, Chief of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Section. Liebermann is responsible for handling computer crime and intellectual property matters, include hacking, computer intrusions, insider threats, viruses, phishing, and botnets, among others.
One of his recent cases included prosecuting an individual that planted a logic bomb in his company’s servers when he believed he would be laid off. He also prosecuted a conspiracy to hack into Voice-over-Internet-Protocol providers and steal access to VOIP routes, all in an effort to secure millions of dollars. His other case matters include white collar crimes, such as commercial fraud, tax fraud, and bank fraud.
Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Liebermann was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP. He received his JD degree from Columbia University School of Law and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia.
Stan Liebowitz
Stan Liebowitz is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics in the Management School at the University of Texas at Dallas. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins and UCLA. Professor Liebowitz has been on the editorial board of several economics/law journals and is affiliated with several policy and research institutes. He is currently President of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues. He has consulted and testified internationally on issues related to antitrust, intellectual property, and technology.
Professor Liebowitz’s research interests include the economic impact of new technologies, intellectual property and piracy, the economics of networks, pricing issues, and antitrust. In addition to five books, he has published numerous academic articles as well as policy reports and articles in popular outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.
Gary Little
In 1997, Gary joined the Menlo Park office of Morgenthaler Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with $2.5 billion under management. He focuses on Internet services, digital media, and software. Gary currently serves on the boards of Rhythm NewMedia, SNOCAP, JasperSoft, and Mule Source. He oversees Morgenthaler's investment in NexTag and served on its board from its initial funding in 1999 until June 2007. Additionally, Gary led Morgenthaler's investments in Netli (acquired by Akamai), TimesTen (acquired by Oracle), and KnowledgeNet (acquired by Thompson). Gary previously served on the boards of ORB Networks and imeem.
Gary came to Morgenthaler from Apple Computer where he served as Senior VP and GM of the $3 billion Power Macintosh division. Earlier, as VP of Sales, he oversaw channel distribution in North America and managed Apple's $1.2 billion small business market. Gary also served as Senior Director of Marketing for Apple's $2.9 billion Pacific division (Japan, Asia, Latin America, Canada) where he directed a $150 million marketing and merchandising budget.
Robert Lloyd
Robert Lloyd is Project Manager for One World Trust, where he is responsible for the Global Accountability Project and associated initiatives on the governance and legitimacy of global institutions. Lloyd has particular expertise in comparative research, measuring accountability, and self-regulation within the not-for-profit sector.
Before joining the Trust, Lloyd worked at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, on PRSPs, political economy of governance, and health systems in developing countries. He has also worked in community development in Guatemala. Lloyd has an MA (distinction) in Governance and Development from the Institute of Development Studies and a BA in Geography from King's College London.
Daniel J. Lohrmann
Daniel J. Lohrmann is the Michigan Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Infrastructure Services Administration within the Michigan Department of Information Technology (MDIT). In this role, Dan oversees all aspects of IT infrastructure and enterprise architecture for Michigan State Government agencies. He provides strategic vision and operational oversight for approximately 800 technology professionals in support of more than 50,000 state employees.
Maribel D. Lopez
Maribel is the founder of Lopez Research, an industry market research and strategy consulting firm, which specializes in mobility, unified communication and collaboration, video, social-based software services, and the new communication provider landscape. Its mission is to understand the evolution of these industries, provide thought leadership, and assist its clients in building winning market strategies.
Maribel has more than 17 years experience in the networking and telecommunications market. Prior to founding Lopez Research, she spent over 10 years at Forrester Research analyzing the telecommunications industry, including operator network and service strategies, fixed/mobile convergence, and enterprise adoption of voice and data networking services. Before she joined Forrester, she worked for Shiva Corporation, where she held positions in strategic marketing and product marketing, and was responsible for a competitive product evaluation laboratory. Prior to Shiva, she worked for International Data Corporation as a data networking industry analyst. Maribel started her career at Motorola holding positions in finance, marketing, and global corporate development.
Maribel is a frequent speaker on topics regarding the telecommunications industry, mobility, and next-generation communications services. She often speaks at events and is quoted in business and trade publications such as The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.
Frank MacDonald
Frank MacDonald is a writer living in Inverness, Cape Breton, where he was born and where he returned after fulfilling his mandatory tour of duty in plants, factories, construction sites, and kitchens in other parts of North America. He earns his living as a columnist and reporter with The Inverness Oran, a weekly newspaper he co-founded in 1976.
Frank's first novel, A Forest for Calum (Cape Breton University Press), was published in 2005 and was nominated for the Dartmouth Book Award. He has also published two collections of newspaper/magazine columns, Assuming I'm Right (Cecibu, 1990) and How To Cook Your Cat (Cecibu, 2003). In 1992 through 1994 Mulgrave Road Theatre in Nova Scotia produced and toured a one-man play written by MacDonald, also titled Assuming I'm Right. Frank has published poetry and short stories in a number of journals. He frequently lectures on regional topics and gives workshops in writing both fiction and non-fiction.
Mary Madden
Mary Madden is a Senior Research Specialist with the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington, D.C. She has worked with Pew since the spring of 2002 and has authored a wide range of reports covering changing trends in technology and media use. Her recent reports have examined the burgeoning field of online identity management, the adoption of online video, and the growth of teen content creation fueled by social media.
Perhaps more than any other realm, Mary continues to be fascinated by the Internet's impact on creative industries. She is the lead author of "Artists, Musicians and the Internet," a report that examines artists' experiences with the Internet and their attitudes towards copyright issues online. She is a frequent public speaker and has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others, regarding her research. She holds an MA in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University and a BA in English from The University of Florida.
Romi Mahajan
Romi Mahajan is chief marketing officer of Ascentium Corporation, an interactive marketing and technology consultancy. Prior to joining Ascentium, Mahajan spent over seven years at Microsoft. Earlier in his career, he started two boutique consulting companies specializing in technological and financial joint ventures between U.S. and Asian companies. A frequent speaker on the technology and media circuit, Mahajan currently serves on the Executive Customer Advisory Board of Ziff-Davis Enterprise and has been a panelist at the Windows Connections, United Business Media Leadership, Microsoft Tech-Ed, Web 2.0, Interop, and other conferences. His articles on technology have been published in Siliconeer, Silicon India, TechNet Magazine, and in a number of proceedings and journals worldwide.
David Malfara
David Malfara serves as President, CEO, and Director of Remi Communications Holdings LLC and its subsidiaries. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer, directing Remi's strategic efforts to offer broad-ranging, basic and advanced communication and IMS-based application services, over its metropolitan Ethernet and VPLS-based network infrastructure, to enterprise customers in the Northeast U.S.
Mr. Malfara is a founding Director of Boathouse Communications Partners LLC, a Philadelphia-based investment and management firm, and leads the firm's telecommunications interests. He also serves as a member of the Management Committee of The Pew Consulting Group, a Philadelphia-based consulting firm, and as a co-founder and partner of Pew Broadband Advisors. Over the past 30 years Mr. Malfara has founded or co-founded several successful companies, both public and private, including two nationwide telecommunications carriers: Z-Tel Network Services and Pace Communications.
Richard Martin
Richard is a science and technology journalist whose work has appeared in InformationWeek, Wired, Time, The Atlantic, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Far Eastern Economic Review, among other publications. His story "The God Particle and the Grid" (Wired, April 2004), about the world's most powerful particle accelerator, was selected for Best Science Writing of 2004. He has also received the White Award for Investigative Reporting, an "Excellence in Feature Writing" award from the Society for Professional Journalists, and a Rotary Journalism Fellowship. He is a founding editor of NewWest.Net, winner of a 2005 Online Journalism Award for General Excellence. His previous positions include technology editor of The Industry Standard and technology producer for ABCNews.com.
Michael Mascioni
Michael Mascioni is a market research consultant in digital media, and he writes freelance about digital media, video, and other subjects. Formerly, he was a senior analyst in the broadband entertainment group at Strategy Analytics. He was also program director of the Intertainment conferences on interactive entertainment and managing editor of the A&A Monthly on Interactive Entertainment.
Matt Mason
Matt Mason began his career as a pirate radio and club DJ in London, going on to become founding Editor-in-Chief of the seminal magazine RWD. In 2004, he was selected as one of the faces of Gordon Brown's "Start Talking Ideas" campaign and was presented the Prince's Trust London Business of the Year Award by HRH Prince Charles.
He has written and produced TV series, comic strips, viral videos, and records, and his journalism has appeared in The Observer Music Monthly, VICE, Complex, and other publications in more than 12 countries around the world. He recently founded the non-profit media company Wedia with his wife Emily. He lives in New York City.
Robert McGarvey
A busy freelance writer for 30 years, Robert McGarvey has written more than 1,500 articles for many of the nation's leading publications, from Reader's Digest to Playboy and from The New York Times to Harvard Business Review. He also has written 10 books. A member of the advisory board of Learning Streams, a startup social network for educators, McGarvey also is a recognized authority on social media. He may be reached via email at rjmcgarvey@gmail.com and on Twitter at #rjmcgarvey.
Mark McKinnon
According to Broadcasting and Cable magazine, McKinnon is one of "a handful of players behind every big decision, consensus or roadblock in Washington. putting a unique, sometimes hidden stamp on the outcome of today's debates."
McKinnon currently serves on the board of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and lectures at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended UT Austin and served as editor of The Daily Texan. He also spent several years in Nashville working as a songwriter with Kris Kristofferson and was wildly unsuccessful. He is a two-time Ironman finisher.
McKinnon has worked for both Democratic and Republican political campaigns including Texas Governors Mark White, Ann Richards, and George Bush, Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer, and in 2006, Senator John McCain's candidacy for President.
Andy Meadows
Andy Meadows is a 12-year veteran of the Internet era, with his most recent endeavor being founder of Live Oak 360, an Austin-based Web technology services company. Meadows' expertise lies in the areas of enterprise technology strategy and solutions, e-commerce, social networking, and open-source technologies.
Live Oak 360 specializes in customized application development, Web development, interactive consulting, conversion acceleration, and social networking applications to assist companies in managing their digital landscapes. Live Oak has worked with clients such as AMD, Motorola, Buffalo Technology, Time Warner Cable Media Sales, Green Mountain Energy, and World Vision. Prior to starting Live Oak 360 in 2002, Meadows was with Metadot and Nortel Networks.
Larry Medina
Larry Medina has spent 37 years in the Records and Information Management (RIM) profession and has experience in a wide range of industries in both the public and private sectors, including: utilities, engineering, construction, architecture, financial services, retail, strategic human capital management, energy, mining, minerals, defense contracting, and nuclear engineering. He has focused his efforts on disaster preparedness planning and recovery, as well as vital records program development, business process analysis, and reengineering. Larry’s areas of key interest include: criteria development for long-term persistent access to digital content; standards and best practices for records management and access control, conversion, and migration strategies; and information protection.
Larry is the former Chair of the ARMA Standards Development Committee. While on the ARMA Education Development Committee, he participated in the development and deployment of the RIM Core Competencies Model and supporting curriculum modules. He is a current member of multiple AIIM Standards Task Forces, and a Principal Member of the NFPA 232 Technical Committee on the "Standard for the Protection of Records”.
David Meister
David L. Meister has enjoyed a wide range of business successes and personal triumphs, across Madison Avenue, Wall Street, and Television airwaves. He was a key force in building a range of television channels including Sundance Channel, HBO, Cinemax, and Financial News Network (now CNBC). David Meister's entrepreneurial vision and business strategies have revolutionized the media and marketing industries.
Mr. Meister founded The Tennis Channel, the world's leading "tennis-caster," which he ran as Chairman and CEO for five years. During this period, TTC acquired rights to 44 of the Top 50 tennis events, by far the strongest concentration of any targeted network (e.g., Golf Channel, Speed Channel, HBO), and struck distribution deals with cable operators to access more than 50 million subscribers, with an unprecedented average contract life of more than 12 years. Previously, he created The Sundance Television Channel, bringing his idea to entertainment legend Robert Redford, and striking a deal with Viacom to co-venture the film channel.
Jason Meugniot
Jason Meugniot is owner and CEO of Guidance (http://www.Guidance.com), which designs, builds, and maintains e-commerce Websites. Clients include Foot Locker, Gearys Beverly Hills, Relax the Back, and Salvation Army.
Jason Mick
Jason Mick is a tech analyst and follower of all things cutting edge. As an editor and columnist at independent tech news site DailyTech, he loves keeping up with the good, the bad, and the ugly of green technology, the Internet, and big tech firms. Jason is currently in an MS/Pre-PhD program at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Joss Miller
Joss Miller has been programming since 1975. Starting with IBM midrange computers, Joss took on the PC in 1985 and has stayed on a parallel track in computing since. He holds MCTS and MCPD Microsoft certifications and specializes in cross-platform computing.
Sarah Milstein
Sarah Milstein is a consultant on Web 2.0 and editorial strategies and an MBA candidate at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She was previously the Chief Publishing Evangelist for O'Reilly Media. Prior to that, Sarah was O'Reilly's Managing Editor, Senior Editor, and Editor, leading the development of the "Missing Manuals," a best-selling series of computer books for non-geeks. She co-authored Google: The Missing Manual. Before joining O'Reilly in 2003, Sarah was a freelance writer and editor, and a regular contributor to The New York Times. She was also a program founder for Just Food, a local-food-and-farms non-profit, and co-founder of Two Tomatoes Records, a label that distributes and promotes the work of children's musician Laurie Berkner.
Chris Minnick
Chris Minnick is an e-publishing consultant, author, musician, and winemaker. He is the CEO of Minnick Web Services, which specializes in assisting magazine publishers with transitioning from paper to the Web, and with monetizing archived content online. Chris has written numerous books and articles on XML, e-commerce, and e-business. His syndicated column (distributed by Waterside Syndication) and nascent conference, both titled "Web 8.0," ridicule the concept of Web version numbers while exploring its logical milestones and ultimate goal.
Kevin Mitnick
With more than 15 years of experience in exploring computer security, Kevin Mitnick is a largely self-taught expert in exposing the vulnerabilities of complex operating systems and telecommunications devices. His hobby as an adolescent consisted of studying methods, tactics, and strategies used to circumvent computer security, and to learn more about how computer systems and telecommunication systems work.
In building this body of knowledge, Kevin gained unauthorized access to computer systems at some of the largest corporations on the planet and penetrated some of the most resilient computer systems ever developed. He has used both technical and non-technical means to obtain the source code to various operating systems and telecommunications devices to study their vulnerabilities and their inner workings.
In 2003, Kevin founded Mitnick Security Consulting LLC, a professional services firm that specializes in penetration testing and vulnerability assessments. He has performed consulting services and training at government agencies and Fortune 500 companies around the world. Kevin is also one of the most sought after keynote speakers on the subject of information security. He has authored two-bestselling books, The Art of Deception (Wiley, 2002) and The Art of Intrusion (Wiley, 2005).
Ananda Mitra
Ananda Mitra (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) is Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University with a co-appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences of the Wake Forest Baptist School of Medicine. He served on the Editorial Board of Critical Studies in Mass Communication and is a member of the International Advisory Board of New Media and Society (Sage Publications). He is the author of three books: Television and Popular Culture in India (Sage Publications, 1993), India Through the Western Lens (Sage Publications, 1999), and Research Methods in Park, Recreation and Leisure Services (Sagamore Publishing, 2000).
Mitra is currently working on a 10-volume encyclopedic series called The Digital World, which will be published in 2009. He has been the recipient of several grants, including one to conduct a five-year study of Wake Forest's Technology Initiative, a cross-campus collaboration grant, and a Social and Behavioral Science Research Award. He has served as co-PI on several grants funded by the National Institutes of Health and has served as a consultant to private industry, universities and colleges, and local government agencies across the United States
Paul Mockapetris
Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS), is Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board at Nominum Inc. His mission is to help guide DNS and IP addressing to the next stage. Paul created DNS in the 1980s at USC's Information Sciences Institute where he was later the Director of ISI's High Performance Computing and Communications Division.
Throughout his career, Paul has contributed to the computing research community and to the evolution of the Internet. His earliest work at UC Irvine on distributed systems and LAN technology preceded the commercial Ethernet and Token Ring designs.
At ISI, after working on the design of the SMTP protocol for email and its first implementation as part of the birth of the Internet in 1983, Paul took on the challenge of designing DNS, and then operated the original "root servers" for all Internet names. After the formal creation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1986, DNS became one of the original Internet Standards; the IETF continues to be the focus of new applications and extensions to DNS. Paul has been associated with the IETF since its creation, chaired several DNS and non-DNS working groups, and was Chair of the IETF from 1994 to 1996.
Richard Monson-Haefel
Richard Monson-Haefel is Vice President of Developer Relations at Curl Inc., which develops and maintains Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms. Previously, he was a Senior Analyst for Burton Group covering open source, Java EE, RIA/Ajax, and mobile development.
Monson-Haefel is also the author of Enterprise JavaBeans (O'Reilly), J2EE Web Services (Addison-Wesley), and the co-author of Java Message Service (O'Reilly). He served on the JCP Executive Committee, which oversees the JSRs (specifications), developed for the J2SE and J2EE platforms. He also served on the Groovy (JSR-241), J2EE 1.4 (JSR-151), EJB 2.1 (JSR-153), and EJB 3.0 (JSR 220) expert groups for the Java Community Process. Monson-Haefel was a founder of the Apache J2EE Application Server Project (Geronimo) and the OpenEJB project – an open-source EJB container.
Mike Moran
Mike is the author of a book on Internet marketing, Do It Wrong Quickly, published on the heels of Search Engine Marketing, Inc., which he co-authored. Mike frequently keynotes conferences on Internet marketing for marketers, public relations specialists, market researchers, and technologists. He serves as chief strategist for Converseon, a leading digital media marketing agency based in New York City. Previously, Mike worked for IBM for 30 years, where he managed technology and user experience teams for IBM's Website for eight years, including pioneering IBM's original search marketing strategy. Mike also holds an Advanced Certificate in Market Management Practice from the Royal UK Charter Institute of Marketing, and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. Mike can be reached through his Website ( mikemoran.com), which is also home to his Biznology newsletter and blog.
Jeff Moss
Jeff Moss, Founder and Director of Black Hat, is a respected thought leader in the field of information security. In 1992, Jeff founded DEFCON, which quickly became the largest and most influential hacker conference in the world. In 1997, he founded Black Hat, a pioneering sister conference to DEFCON that brings together hackers and security researchers with government and corporate security professionals from around the world.
Prior to Black Hat, Jeff was a director at Secure Computing Corp. where he helped establish the Professional Services Department in the United States, Asia, and Australia. He has also worked for Ernst & Young in its Information System Security division. He holds a BA in Criminal Justice from Gonzaga University.
Lynda W. Moulton
Lynda Moulton consults at LWM Technology Services on knowledge management strategies for enterprises, with a focus on search, taxonomies, and ontologies for managing content behind the firewall. She has over 30 years of experience with search and content technologies. Lynda is also an analyst and consultant for the Gilbane Group, blogging on search. She is a leader in the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and is widely published and a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars. Recent case work, typical project assignments, and writings can be found at http://www.lwmtechnology.com.
Chris Murphy
Chris covers the IT industry as an editor and writer, producing content across Information Week's channels: a 440,000-circulation weekly magazine, the InformationWeek.com Website, daily email newsletters, industry conferences, and a daily Internet-video program, The News Show. Before joining InformationWeek, he was editor of the Budapest Business Journal, a business weekly in Hungary. Chris also spent five years as a daily newspaper reporter. Chris holds a BA in Journalism and Economics from Michigan State University and an MBA from the University of Virginia.
Deborah Nason
Deborah Nason writes for national, statewide, and regional publications, focusing on emerging business issues. Deborah relocated to Connecticut two years ago, after serving as contributing editor and lead writer for five years for the Blue Ridge Business Journal in Roanoke, Va. She has owned several small businesses, lived all over the U.S., and has an MA in Management and HR Development. She is an active member of the American Society of Business Publication Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Society of Business Editors and Writers. Deborah's Website is www.c4sb.com.
Leo Nederlof
Leo Nederlof is an independent telecom consultant, operating out of his home office in Belgium. He has worked in the telecom industry for 15 years, mostly in industrial R&D. Originally from The Netherlands, Leo holds an MSc degree from Delft University of Technology and has been employed by, among others, Alcatel in Belgium and Corning in the U.S. His areas of expertise include communication systems and protocols, network architecture and technology, and modeling of networks and traffic. As an active member of the research community, he has authored many papers in magazines and journals, and presented, chaired, and moderated at many conferences.
In 2006, Leo returned with his family to Belgium to start his own consulting business, providing freelance services to vendors and operators related to network design and planning, integration of next-generation communications systems, evaluations of new technologies, etc. He is also providing technology analysis for investment firms.
Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based Website Craigslist. Newmark observed people on the Net, on the WELL and in Usenet, helping one another out. In early '95, he decided to help out, in a very small way, telling people about cool events around San Francisco like the Anon Salon and Joe's Digital Diner. It spread through word of mouth and became large enough to demand the use of a list server, majordomo, which required a name.
Craig wanted to call it "SF-events," but more knowledgeable friends suggested calling it "Craigslist" to reinforce its personal and down-to-earth nature. He still finds it awkward that such a visible site is named after him, but he'll get over it. Over time, people started posting items on the list in different areas, jobs, stuff for sale, and apartments, the latter in response to San Francisco's apartment shortage. Craig wrote software that could automatically add email postings to a site which became craigslist.org.
Brent Nixon
Brent Nixon, President of Cymphonix, has over 15 years of business strategy, product management, and operation experience within the technology industry. Prior to joining Cymphonix he spent six-and-a-half years at 3Com where he managed a variety of product lines and was 3Com’s Board of Director and Marketing Committee Representative on the Bluetooth SIG. He also served as Chair of the Mobile Work Group for the Audio Communications Riser (ACR) SIG. Prior to 3Com, Brent was co-founder and Vice President of Maxis Research Inc., a market research/information company offering information and data products and services to the automotive industry. Brent earned his MBA from the University of British Columbia as well as a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah.
Tom Nolle
Tom Nolle is the founder and president of CIMI Corp. He started his career as a software engineer, evolving to the role of project director and software architect. During this period, he was in charge of the team that built a major financial network and one of the software architects of a packet switch used throughout the world. He also designed and developed retail, distributed computing networks and multi-computer, network-distributed information publishing systems.
In 1979, Tom became an independent consultant, working first with equipment vendors to develop new and efficient devices for financial networks, and then with major financial institutions in deploying advanced network technology. CIMI was incorporated in 1982 as a continuation of this activity, and through the 1980s he led the firm in developing effective new strategies for market forecasting and surveying, as well as innovative techniques in distributed transaction processing, multi-processor protocol handling, and information storage and retrieval. CIMI, during this period, functioned as a network and systems integrator, software publisher, and strategic consultancy.
Avinoam Nowogrodski
Avinoam Nowogrodski, Co-Founder and CEO of Clarizen, brings over 20 years of experience in sales, engineering, and business management to Clarizen. He brings insight and expertise gained in those positions to Clarizen's vision of bringing collaborative project management to every business.
Prior to establishing Clarizen, Avinoam co-founded SmarTeam Corporation, a leading provider of collaborative product life cycle management (PLM) solutions. As CEO from 1995 to 2005, Avinoam's leadership molded SmarTeam into a leading enterprise PLM solution, which was sold and supported by IBM. In 1999 SmarTeam was acquired by Dassault Systemes (DS) and Avinoam served on the DS General Executive Management team for six years. At his departure from the company, SmarTeam had 3,500 customers across diverse industries and more than 100,000 users worldwide.
Avinoam Nowogrodski holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Oded Noy
Oded Noy is chief technology officer and co-founder of Zag. Noy developed the technology architecture that is helping the company achieve its core mission -- to create a better way to buy and sell cars, with upfront, transparent pricing, and a way to connect ready buyers with qualified dealers through trusted affinity organizations on the Internet. He has advised several pioneering Internet and technological startups, is the chairman for the CTO Forum's Los Angeles chapter, and is a member of InfoWorld's CTO Advisory Council.
Noy is an entrepreneur, inventor, and musician, with more than 20 years of experience rattling the cage by creating groundbreaking technologies. Before Zag, Noy co-founded Path Reliability, which developed pattern recognition technology to detect software errors. He has three software technology patents and two more pending. He takes an expansive view, believing technology serves a higher purpose: to solve real-world problems. His experience spans the precision technology needed as a former fighter pilot in the Israeli army, to the spiritual side of technology as a musician -- playing trombone, the Hammond B3, and the keyboards. He has written and produced three albums of his music.
John O'Connor
John O'Connor is a Principal with Toffler Associates. He combines experience as a consultant to Fortune 50 communications firms with his work advising senior leaders in defense and intelligence. He currently leads a team developing and executing large-scale organizational change strategies at a defense organization.
Andrew Odlyzko
Andrew Odlyzko is Director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center and Interim Director of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, both at the University of Minnesota.
Prior to moving to Minnesota in 2001, he devoted 26 years to research and research management at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs. He has written over 150 technical papers and has three patents. He has managed projects in diverse areas, such as security, formal verification methods, parallel and distributed computation, and auction technology. In recent years he has also been working on electronic publishing, electronic commerce, and economics of data networks. He may be best known for his early debunking of the myth of Internet doubling every 100 days, and for the thesis that connectivity and not content is king. All his recent papers as well as further information can be found on his home page at: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko.
Christopher Olson
I am a recent graduate of The Rowan University College of Communications, and am quite interested in the Internet and its effects on our Culture. I feel that the medium has had both positive and negative effects within our society, and I am anxious to discuss relevant ideas and concepts with the patrons of this forum.
Norman J. Ornstein
Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News and writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and other major publications, and regularly appears on television programs like The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose. At the 30th Anniversary party for The NewsHour, he was recognized as the most frequent guest over the 30 years.
He serves as senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission, working to ensure that our institutions of government can be maintained in the event of a terrorist attack on Washington; his efforts in this area are recounted in a profile of him in the June 2003 Atlantic Monthly. His campaign finance working group of scholars and practitioners helped shape the major law, known as McCain/Feingold, which reformed the campaign financing system. Legal Times referred to him as "a principal drafter of the law," and his role in its design and enactment was profiled in the February 2004 issue of Washington Lawyer. He is also co-directing a multiyear effort, called the Transition to Governing Project, to create a better climate for governing in the era of the permanent campaign, and is co-director of the AEI/Brookings Election Reform Project.
Marc Osofsky
Marc is the Vice President of Marketing for Optaros and leads the company's go-to-market efforts and solution development. He has over 15 years of experience in helping businesses leverage new technologies to achieve their business objectives.
Previous to Optaros, Marc was Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at OATSystems, the first company to implement radio frequency identification (RFID) in the retail supply chain. He was also VP of Marketing, Product Management and Business Development at Frictionless Commerce, a strategic sourcing software company acquired by SAP. Marc began his career as a consultant at both McKinsey and Accenture. As a consultant, he worked with leading companies in retail, financial services, high tech, and media/telecom to help them implement growth strategies leveraging new technologies.
Marc has an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA from Brown University.
Alex Payne
Alex Payne is API Lead at Twitter, where he works on the site’s stability, security, and developer outreach. Prior to Twitter, he worked on a range of information security and Web application development projects. He is a frequent speaker on those topics. His code has powered political campaigns, non-profits, and mission-critical applications for military and intelligence customers. Lately, Alex has spent his free time studying the history of programming languages, minimalism, and economics. He lives and works in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco.
Bryan Pelley
Bryan Pelley is a Principal with Toffler Associates®. He is an expert on tactical intelligence issues and has supported multiple strategic and performance planning projects for two national intelligence agencies. He has also developed performance management systems to track and monitor progress against strategic goals. Prior to joining Toffler Associates, Bryan was a consultant for BearingPoint and an information technology recruiter for Kforce.com. Additional work experience includes the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Embassy of Japan. Bryan is a former active duty and current Army Reserve officer who has served in combat and intelligence billets. He holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BA in International Affairs, cum laude, from the George Washington University.
Xuefei (Michael) Peng
Xuefei is a freelance analyst with Light Reading as well as a consultant and a writer based in Beijing. He has spent over 10 years in the telecom and IT sectors in China and in the U.S. His research covers a wide array of telecom subjects in China, such as multimedia communications services, IPTV, FTTH deployments, 3G, and mobile service providers. His experience also includes several years at ZTE, where he was involved in the company's international expansion strategy, and founding a mobile phone TV company. He writes and speaks regularly on news media and blogs and has been featured in Chinese publications, including Communications Weekly. He holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.
Sterling Perrin
As Senior Analyst for Heavy Reading, Sterling Perrin has more than 12 years experience in telecommunications as an industry analyst and journalist. His coverage areas at Heavy Reading include optical networking, cable MSO infrastructure and services, and digital content. Perrin joined Heavy Reading after five years at IDC, where he served as lead optical networks analyst, responsible for the firm's optical networking subscription research and custom consulting activities.
Prior to IDC, Perrin worked for Standard & Poor's, where he delivered global industry analysis on a range of IT segments. He is a former journalist and editor at Telecommunications Magazine and has also done consulting work for the research firm Current Analysis. Perrin is a frequent speaker at telecom industry events and is a highly sought-after source among the business and trade press.
Guy Piekarz
Guy Piekarz is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Unisfair, where he manages the overall operations, including defining and directing Unisfair's technology vision and strategic business goals.
Before founding Unisfair, Guy was a team leader in the R&D group of Veon Ltd. (acquired by Philips), which offers MPEG-4 products to create and deliver streaming audio, video, and graphics content over the Internet as well as emerging broadband and mobile IP networks.
Prior to joining Veon, Guy worked as a senior engineer in the Internet department at Amdocs Ltd. (Nasdaq: DOX), where he developed and designed new infrastructure platforms on which the company's Internet products are based.
Chris Poley
Chris Poley has been a professional trader for over 20 years, dealing in precious metals, cotton, foreign exchange, government debt securities, and equities. A past member of NYCE, FINEX, and NYBOT commodity exchanges, Chris currently works with Xerxes Trading LLC. He holds a BA in political science and history and an MBA in international finance.
David Potterton
David Potterton is Vice President of Research for the Global Banking, Insurance, Capital Markets, and Risk Management practices at Financial Insights, an IDC company. His advisory services cover retail banking, cash and treasury management, payment services, insurance, and core corporate banking technologies, as well as capital markets and risk. Previous employment includes jobs at JPMorganChase, JPMorgan Treasury Services, BankBoston, and Wachovia. Dave holds his MBA in Finance and Marketing from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, N.C., and his BA in Business Management and Economics from North Carolina State University at Raleigh. He also is a Certified Cash Manager.
Cheryl B. Preston
Cheryl B. Preston, Edwin M. Thomas Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, teaches contracts, business associations, commercial law, Internet regulation, legal theory, and gender and law. Professor Preston publishes in the fields of pornography regulation on the Internet; the relationship of law and popular culture images; law and religion; and feminist legal theory – primarily addressing the issue of how images of women relate to violence against women and to the lack of professional opportunities for women.
Before teaching, she was in private practice with O'Melveny and Myers in Los Angeles and Holme Roberts and Owen in Salt Lake City. She was also Senior Counsel for First Interstate Bank of Utah for a few years. Following graduation from law school, Professor Preston clerked for Hon. Monroe G. McKay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver.
Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger (www.katepullinger.com) works both in print and new media. Her most recent novels include A Little Stranger (2006), Weird Sister (1999), and the short-story collection My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison (1997). Her new novel, The Mistress of Nothing, will come out in July 2009. Her digital fiction projects include her multiple award-winning collaboration with Chris Joseph on "Inanimate Alice," a multimedia episodic digital fiction (www.inanimatealice.com) and "Flight Paths" (www.flightpaths.net) a networked novel created on the Internet. Kate Pullinger teaches in the online MA in Creative Writing and New Media program at De Montfort University.
Don Reisinger
Don Reisinger is a technology and video game columnist whose work has included popular columns for CNET.com, eWeek, ArsTechnica, and others. He has appeared numerous times on national television to share his expertise with viewers. You can follow his every move on Twitter at @donreisinger.
Alan Reiter
Alan Reiter has been analyzing wireless communications for 29 years. For 11 years he has been President of Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing, a consulting firm that helps wireless data businesses in the United States and abroad. The company examines wireless data products and services and creates marketing documents, white papers, and corporate Weblogs. Alan is especially interested in wireless multimedia, such as camera phones and mobile TV, wireless social networking, and the global implications of the more than one billion people who are able to wirelessly document in text, photos, and videos virtually everything that occurs around them.
Alan created the world's first wireless data newsletter, wireless data conference, and cellular conference. He was instrumental in helping to develop and write for the first cellular magazine. Alan was part of the five-person team that managed the first association in the U.S. for the independent providers of paging and mobile telephone services. He writes several Weblogs, and his first wireless data Weblog was named by Forbes as one of the top five technology blogs – a pronouncement with which he strongly disagreed but was nonetheless glad to promote as true.
Will Richmond
Will Richmond is president and founder of Broadband Directions LLC, a market intelligence and publishing firm specializing in broadband-delivered video. The firm's Broadband Video Focus market intelligence service is a trusted resource for many of the world's leading media and technology companies. Will also edits and publishes VideoNuze, a free online publication that provides analysis and news aggregation for broadband video decision-makers.
Will has worked in the broadband, cable TV, content, network infrastructure, and software industries for almost 20 years. He is an acknowledged thought-leader in the fast-growing broadband video area whose insights are sought out by C-level executives, venture capitalists, journalists, and others. Will has spoken or moderated at numerous industry conferences and currently serves on the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) New England board of directors. He has a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Lawrence G. Roberts
Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts, Founder, CEO, and President of Anagran Inc., is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on packet switching and network architectures. He led the team that designed and developed ARPANET, the world's first major computer packet network, which evolved into the modern Internet.
He founded the world's first packet data communications carrier, Telenet, which was sold to GTE in 1979 and subsequently became the data division of Sprint. After founding Telenet, Dr. Roberts was a founder and CEO of two ATM companies, NetExpress and ATM Systems. Most recently he was a founder and CTO of Caspian Networks, the leader in high-performance IP systems, where he designed and built IP flow routers.
Michael Robertson
In his 18-year career, high-tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson has spearheaded a cache of diverse, high-profile companies ranging from digital music to operating systems to VOIP to entertainment. Not one to shy from controversy, his quest to offer competing products and innovative technologies has brought him face to face with corporate giants – and corporate lawsuits. But his madness always has a method – producing relevant technology and products that bring choice and freedom back to the consumer.
Be it MP3, Linux, software, or hardware, Michael has built his career on supporting open standards that empower consumers. With companies like Linspire, SIPphone, and MP3tunes, Michael has entered industries that traditionally had only one or two dominant players. But with each industry he tackles, Michael's end goal is trying to bring competition and freedom of choice back to the marketplace. And restoring that freedom is the undercurrent of every venture he helms.
John J. Roese
As Chief Technology Officer for Nortel, Roese is responsible for leading the company's overall R&D strategy and execution and for directing future research across all product portfolios. He also works closely with the Chief Strategy Officer on emerging technologies, market opportunities, and strategic partnerships. Roese is the functional leader of Nortel's 12,000 scientists, engineers, and designers worldwide.
Prior to joining Nortel, Roese was Vice President and CTO for networking technologies at semiconductor company Broadcom Corp., where he was responsible for the long-term architecture and technical strategy for networking technologies. These technologies included optical, Power over Ethernet (PoE), switching, routing, security, broadband processors, fabrics, and software elements. Roese holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of New Hampshire.
Philip Rosedale
Philip Rosedale founded Linden Lab in 1999 to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience, where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Today this experience, known as Second Life, has a rapidly growing population of Residents from over 200 countries around the globe, who are creating and inhabiting a virtual world of their own design.
Philip has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology, having built his first computer in fourth grade, and started his first computer software company while still in high school. In 1995 he developed FreeVue, a low-bit-rate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PCs, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks. For three and a half years, Rosedale served at RealNetworks as Vice President and CTO, where he was responsible for the development and launch of RealVideo, RealSystem 5.0, and RealSystem G2. In 1999 Rosedale returned to San Francisco, joined Accel Partners as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and began the basic research that would become the technology behind Linden Lab. Rosedale holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of California at San Diego.
Tony Rutkowski
Mr Rutkowski is Vice President for Regulatory Affairs and Standards at VeriSign Inc. He deals with development, articulation, and implementation of its regulatory and standards strategies domestically and internationally for IP-enabled next-generation networks. He also participates significantly in diverse law enforcement and security-related forums, including several leadership positions.
He is a prominent engineer/lawyer whose career has spanned more than 40 years in industry and government in the U.S. and abroad, focusing primarily on pursuing cutting edge business and technology developments – beginning with leading design projects for Apollo launch support communications and control systems at Kennedy Space Center.
He has enjoyed commercial business positions with SAIC Network Solutions, General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American Engineering, General Electric, and Evening News Association; government and elected positions with the Federal Communications Commission, the International Telecommunication Union, and Cape Canaveral City Council; and educational positions with the Internet Society, MIT, and NY Law School.
Rob Salkowitz
Rob Salkowitz is a writer and consultant focusing on the social implications of new technology. He is the author of Generation Blend: Managing Across the Technology Age Gap (Wiley, 2008) and co-author, with Daniel Rasmus, of Listening to the Future: Why It's Everybody's Business (Wiley, 2009). He is currently working on a new book on youth and ICT-based entrepreneurship in emerging economies, titled Young World Rising, due out from Wiley in June, 2010. Rob lives and works in Seattle, WA.
Stephen Saunders
Stephen Saunders is an independent consultant (or "Insultant"), helping B2B publishers build and develop successful online businesses.
Stephen was the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), an online startup, which was sold to CMP Technology in 2005.
Founded in 2000, Light Reading rapidly became the largest and most influential source of news and analysis of the telecommunications industry – attracting a huge and influential readership of telecom professionals and investors around the globe.
Under Stephen's guidance, Light Reading monetized its vast audience by developing a unique, content-driven, integrated media publishing model – a model now being deployed by several other new online businesses, including Internet Evolution (www.internetevolution.com), Contentinople (www.contentinople.com), and Greentech Media (www.greentechmedia.com).
Prior to Light Reading, Stephen was an executive editor at Data Communications, where he directed that magazine's editorial content.
Stephen has been recognized with many awards for his work, including six Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Awards from The American Business Press, and three awards from the Computer Press Association. He also is the author of two books, The Data Communications Gigabit Ethernet Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1998) and The McGraw-Hill High-Speed LANs Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1995). Stephen lives in New York.
Esther Schindler
A long-time technology evangelist and community instigator, Esther Schindler has been in the computer press since 1992. Most recently, she spent two years as senior online editor at CIO.com, where her beat list included software development, open source, infrastructure, telecommuting, online community, She's also contributed as writer or editor to Software Test & Performance, InformIT.com, DevSource.com, and dozens of other publications.
Maksym Schipka
Maksym Schipka is the Senior Architect at MessageLabs. Since joining in 2003, he has been responsible for MessageLabs' anti-virus heuristics used for tracking and stopping existing threats, while also researching new and future exploits and technologies to protect against them. He has created, and is now heading, a new dedicated Research & Response team, part of a large R&D department, where the anti-virus and anti-spam research and response is taken to new heights.
With a zest for problem solving, Maksym thrives on the emergence of unidentified network security threats to unravel, and the design and development of new tools that enable MessageLabs to protect its customers. His most recent achievements include the LinkFollowing feature within MessageLabs Email Anti-Virus 5.1 service, which protects businesses against positively identified viral URL links embedded within email messages; zero-day detection of the most prolific exploits like WMF and GIF exploits; the evolution of MessageLabs heuristic virus scanner, Skeptic, for Web Security Services v.2; and the design of the next-generation heuristic scanners for MessageLabs. Maksym has a number of patents pending.
Howard Schmidt
Howard A. Schmidt has had a long, distinguished career in defense, law enforcement, and corporate security spanning almost 40 years. Schmidt has served as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Security Strategist for online auction giant eBay. He most recently served in the position of Chief Security Strategist for the US CERT Partners Program for the National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security.
Howard Schmidt retired from the White House after 31 years of public service in local and federal government. He was appointed by President Bush as the Vice Chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as the Special Adviser for Cyberspace Security for the White House in December 2001. He assumed the role as the Chair in January 2003 until his retirement in May 2003.
Prior to the White House, Howard Schmidt was chief security officer for Microsoft Corp., where his duties included CISO, CSO, and forming and directing the Trustworthy Computing Security Strategies Group.
Aaron Schulman
Aaron Schulman is a partner in Toffler Associates. He has over 20 years of consulting experience in the areas of strategy, organizational change, and futures analysis. He oversees the national security and government sector in Toffler Associates and advises senior leaders in their transformation, investment, and growth strategies. His clients include the U.S. intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, civilian government agencies, and commercial sector clients. Mr. Schulman received his MEd in consulting psychology from Harvard University, and his BA in psychology from The American University.
Mattathias Schwartz
Mattathias Schwartz is a writer. He contributes to The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Good Magazine, Megawords, and other publications, specializing in long-form articles in which fundamental philosophical questions arise in conversation. In late 2001, he founded The Philadelphia Independent, a monthly broadsheet newspaper. He would like to start a bank.
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife currently work at PodTech.net, a video-podcast startup. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk With Customers with Shel Israel.
Scoble has long been a prominent advocate of both RSS technology and the Tablet PC. In 2006, Robert joined Podtech.net, where his title is Vice President Media Development.
Mary E. Shacklett
Mary E. Shacklett is an internationally recognized technology commentator and President of Transworld Data, a marketing and technology services firm. Prior to founding her own company, she was Vice President of Product Research and Software Development for Summit Information Systems, a computer software company; and Vice President of Strategic Planning and Technology at FSI International, a multinational manufacturer in the semiconductor industry.
Mary has business experience in Europe, Japan, and the Pacific Rim. She has a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin and an MA from the University of Southern California, where she taught for several years. She is listed in Who's Who Worldwide and in Who's Who in the Computer Industry.
Vineeta Shetty
Vineeta Shetty is Chief Creatrix of Vistara, an independent communications consultancy based in Mumbai. Her experience in journalistic and business writing spans over two decades and covers the spectrum of news, analysis, commentary, intelligence briefings, market analysis, and promotional and strategic marketing communications. She has served as an advisor to companies like Nokia and Patni Communications; she was also Communication and Promotion Officer for development issues at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva. Prior to that, Shetty served as Executive Editor of Communication International magazine (now merged into Total Telecom). She held the post of Senior Associate at Pyramid Research and was also a reporter with Phillips Publishing.
Warren Shiau
Warren is a respected technology analyst and research consultant. His wide-ranging experience in IT-industry research and analysis includes positions at The Research Board division of Gartner Inc. in New York, and International Data Corporation (IDC) where he was the lead Canadian-market software analyst. Warren runs The Strategic Counsel's IT research practice.
Alex Shipp
As Senior Anti-Virus Technologist, Alex Shipp is the driving technical force behind the MessageLabs service. He was the lead architect of MessageLabs carrier class email system and is now the architect and lead programmer of Skeptic, MessageLabs's heuristic virus scanner. Shipp is a pioneer in using massive computing power to detect malware and holds several patents in this area. For the last seven years, his products have had the best track record in the world in preventing customers from being affected by malware in SMTP email. He is now expanding research into protection from malware arriving by HTTP and IM.
Shipp has 15 years of public speaking experience and has spoken on viruses, heuristic detection, and Internet Level scanning at events around the world, including the annual Virus Bulletin conference, AVAR (Anti-Virus Asia Researchers), RSA, and the Dutch Anti-Virus society. Shipp is also MessageLabs’s key media spokesman on all virus-related issues and has appeared on a host of national TV and radio programs.
David Silversmith
David Silversmith is Vice President Information Technology at FirstBook.org, an organization that provides new books to children in need. With more than 20 years experience managing both technology and customer service for information businesses, he was most recently CTO at Carfax, where he spent 12 years implementing and managing IT strategy. While there, he led the adoption of hosted Web analytics and implemented some of the earliest A/B testing applications to optimize visitor traffic. Silversmith also spent seven years at Nielson Claritas, a leading supplier of demographic information, establishing its technical support and training departments. He's also managed call centers supporting products such as Canon printers, one of the first PDAs (the Sony Magic Link), and dialup Internet service. Silversmith has a Master's in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a BA from Union College in New York. He has been extensively quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Inc. magazine on the subjects of Web analytics and customer self-service.
Simeon Simeonov
Simeon Simeonov is a technology partner at Polaris Venture Partners. He joined Polaris in March of 2002 and invests primarily in Internet, mobile and enterprise technologies. Sim’s blog is simeons.wordpress.com.
Prior to joining Polaris, Sim was vice president of emerging technologies and chief architect at Macromedia (now Adobe). Earlier, Sim was a founding member and chief architect at Allaire which went from a tiny startup to become one of New England’s most successful IPOs. Sim’s expertise covers the gamut from strategy definition and positioning to R&D execution to go-to-market and alliances development. He has played a key role in eight v1.0 product initiatives and eight M&A and spinout transactions. Sim’s innovation and leadership have brought about category-defining products with significant market impact: the first Web application server (ColdFusion), a pre-cursor to Web services and AJAX (WDDX), the best open-source Web services engine (Apache Axis) and the first rich Internet application platform (Flash/Flex). Sim has a track record of partnering with entrepreneurs prior to company creation.
Joel Smernoff
Joel Smernoff is the President and COO of Paltalk and brings his 15+ years of strategy, innovation, and operational experience to bear overseeing Paltalk's product design, business development, marketing, ad sales, finance, customer service, and other operations to support the company's rapid growth.
Prior to joining Paltalk, Joel was a key member of the founding team of AOL's first brand extension, AOL for Small Business, after holding an executive position on Netscape's Netbusiness team, overseeing team operations and product design. Previously, he has led the strategy and operations for a variety of companies in several industries, from small tech startups to large Fortune 500 companies.
Joel graduated from the University of Michigan with both a BSE in Naval Architecture and an MBA in Finance.
He is a member of the NYC chapter of the YPO and sits on the boards of Ugen Media, Balance Integration, and Takes All Types. When not helping to run Paltalk, he spends his time practicing yoga, kiteboarding, surfing, competitive sailing, and racing cars.
John Soat
John Soat is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology, and security. He writes frequently for InformationWeek and InfoSecurity Professional magazines. Before becoming a freelancer, he was executive editor of InformationWeek. He is an experienced online multimedia journalist, having spent almost two years as executive producer of The News Show, a daily online video program for the business-technology industry. He lives in Cleveland (don’t ask) and has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University.
Kim Solez, MD
Kim Solez, M.D. is one of the world's foremost kidney pathologists and medical Internet leaders. He has been at the University of Alberta since 1987, and is currently Professor and Director of Experimental Pathology as well as Director of NKF cyberNephrology, a joint venture of the National Kidney Foundation (U.S.) and the University of Alberta.
Having held leadership roles in medicine and technology for over 20 years and directed major music and arts events, Dr. Solez is convinced that very useful cross fertilization can come from mixing those disciplines. In particular, he feels that we can make medicine better, more human, and enjoyable to practice by injecting lessons from the humanities, art, and technology.
His forthcoming book Digitality is expected to hit the shelves in 2011. Digitality combines humorous autobiographical vignettes with techno-futuristic vision to anticipate what kinds of technology related experiences are yet to come as we and machines co-evolve.
As we plunge headlong into an increasingly intimate embrace with technology, and "merge" more and more with our electronic devices, understanding the relationship between ourselves and machines becomes more important. Can this ever closer association possibly be a good thing? Digitality represents a worldview in which this coming together of humans and machine will be a fun and surprising experience, replete with meaningful life experiences that we wouldn't have thought possible without technology. Digitality presents a future where technology augments our most human features and reveals surprising things about the human psyche.
Digitality is different from other technology books in that while the subject matter is quite metallic, the medium is very humanistic, as is the overall outlook. Dr. Kim Solez presents a worldview in which the artificial and real are not mutually exclusive, and explains how in some ways technology is actually making us more human. To date, no other popular books take quite as optimistic a position on the matters of human being - technology relations, or in as creative a way. The optimism in part stems from his interaction with his nine female muses, and they in turn contribute to his balanced view of what the future holds.
The Canadian iconic poet/singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen called Kim Solez a "great master of the surreal" juxtaposing things others would never think of juxtaposing. Dr. Solez hopes that by putting things together in new ways, standing things side by side that the reader never thought of being together, he can stimulate people to think about the future and our increasing association with machines and devices in a new more positive way.
Bill St. Arnaud
Bill St. Arnaud is Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc., Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization. At CANARIE Bill has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next-generation optical Internet initiative, called CA*net 4. He has been the principal architect of the User Controlled LightPath concept of applying service-oriented architecture to network elements to allow users to create their own Internet network topologies and architectures fully integrated with their specific application and instrument needs. Previously Bill was the President and founder of a network and software engineering firm called TSA ProForma Inc. TSA was a LAN/WAN software company that developed wide area network client/server systems for use primarily in the financial and information business fields in the Far East and the United States.
Marc Staimer
Marc Staimer is widely known as a leading analyst in storage, server, and virtualization markets. His 11-year consulting practice as president and chief dragon slayer (CDS) of Dragon Slayer Consulting in Beaverton, Ore., addresses both the end-user and vendor communities. Much of his practice involves strategic planning, product development, messaging, marketing, and end-user problem solving. Marc’s 28 years of marketing, sales, and business experience, combined with his years of research into the information technology community, give him unique market expertise.
Tom Stamulis
Is a manager for a security company delivering Governance, Risk & Compliance solutions to clients. Originally from the Boston area, he is an avid Red Sox fan. He has worked in information security for more than 20 years, focusing on financial, industrial, retail, insurance and government.
Currently, he is addressing the challenges pertaining to ISO 27002, SOX 404, COBIT 4.1, PCI DSS 1.1, GLBA, HIPAA, FFIEC, NERC and FISMA advising clients how to reduce their overall risk exposure externally and internally with improved governmental compliance.
Prior to joining private industry, he spent 20 years in the US Army in the Signal Corp and then as a Counterintelligence Agent.
he is an active member of the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA and is the Telecom Sector leader in Infragard. He holds a CISSP certification from (ISC)2, the CISM from ISACA and HISP certification related to ISO-27002.
You can see more of his bio on his LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=4966689&trk=tab_pro
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Steve Stasiukonis
Steve Stasiukonis is Vice President and founder of Secure Network Technologies Inc. His background in information security began as co-founder of Network Audit Systems, where he helped develop and launch a network security assessment tool called NetAuditor. In 1999, he sold the company to Armor Holdings and took over marketing Technology Risk Management, a suite of information security products and services used in the financial, manufacturing, and healthcare industries.
Scot Sterling
Scot has worked as a graphic designer and art director for more than 20 years in both staff and freelance capacities in such diverse locales as New York City, Dallas, Houston, Singapore, and Bangkok. His broad range of design experience includes producing print communication solutions for employers and clients in the diverse fields of corporate marketing communications, public relations, branding design consultancy, advertising, and editorial publications.
Mike Stopforth
Mike Stopforth is a South African Web 2.0 entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. He is CEO at Cerebra, a dedicated social and mobile media company; is the founder of the 27dinner social networking movement; and is a co-founder of Afrigator.com, Africa's social media aggregator.
He lectures at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business (where Cerebra recently hosted the executive training program, Technomadic Marketing), the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and Vega School of Branding.
Cerebra's clients include Toyota, Samsung Mobile, Standard Bank, Hollard Insurance, and the South African Breweries (SABMiller) to name a few.
Murali Subbarao
Murali Subbarao, Founder and CEO of Billeo, has more than 16 years of experience in the high-tech industry. Before founding Billeo, he was Senior Director, Strategy and Alliances, for the Financial Services Business Unit of Hewlett-Packard, developing solutions for Internet banking, CRM, B2B payments, and electronic exchanges for financial institutions worldwide. He also served as VP of Business Development at Arula Systems, a provider of remote management appliances, and as COO at Imeco Ultrasonics.
Subbarao has an MBA from UC Berkeley, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
Ralph Szygenda
Ralph J. Szygenda was named GM Group Vice President and Chief Information Officer effective January 7, 2000. He is a member of the company's senior management committee, GM's Automotive Strategy Board, and is responsible for the Information Systems & Services organization. Accountable for the management of all information technology efforts within General Motors, he is directly responsible for developing and implementing GM's global digital business strategy. Szygenda is a member of the board of directors of the Handleman Co., a distribution company of music and video entertainment. He joined GM in 1996 as VP and CIO.
Before joining GM, he was VP and CIO at Bell Atlantic Corporation, in Arlington, Va., a position he held since June 1993. His main initiatives involved reengineering Bell Atlantic's business processes and delivering information systems to meet the new electronic generation. Szygenda also served as a member of the board of directors of Sodalia Corp., a joint software business venture of Bell Atlantic and Telecom Italia.
Ken Trough
Ken Trough has been a social network moderator and technology expert
for over 25 years and has consulted globally in the field of business
intelligence for many Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions,
and government agencies. Ken has also been a leader in the electric
vehicle movement, serving on the board of the National Electric Drag
Racing Association, publishing an electric vehicle magazine, and
authoring several Websites on the subject. Ken is currently based in
Bellingham, Wash., and continues to write on the subjects of
technology, social networking, and personal improvement as well as
designing new and innovative personal electric vehicles.
Jack Uldrich
Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, independent scholar, sought-after business speaker, and best-selling author. His books include the best-selling, The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business, and the award-winning, Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark's Daring Westward Expedition. His latest book is Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies.
Mr. Uldrich's other written works have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist, Future Quarterly Research, The Wall Street Reporter, Leader to Leader, Management Quarterly, and hundreds of other newspapers and publications around the country. He also writes a regular column on emerging technologies for The Motley Fool, and is a frequent guest of the media worldwide – having appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio on numerous occasions.
In addition to speaking on future trends, emerging technologies, innovation, change management, and leadership, Uldrich is a leading expert on assisting businesses to adapt. He has served as an advisor to Fortune 1000 companies and is noted for his ability to deliver provocative, new perspectives on competitive advantage, organizational change, and transformational leadership.
Highly regarded for his unique ability to present complex information in an entertaining, understandable, and digestible manner that stays with his audiences long afterwards, Uldrich has spoken to hundreds of businesses and organizations, including General Electric, General Mills, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Pfizer, Invitrogen, St. Jude Medical, AG Schering, Imation, Fairview Hospitals, Touchstone Energy, The Insurance Service Organization, The National Kitchen & Bath Association, The National Paint & Coatings Association, and dozens more.
Jack Uldrich is also known for his willingness to work with clients well in advance of his presentations in order to deliver highly tailored presentations that are guaranteed to help his clients, not only profit today, but continue to prosper long into the future.
Johannes Ullrich
As Chief Research Officer for the SANS Institute, Ullrich is responsible for tracking threats to the Internet infrastructure by correlating firewall and intrusion detection system logs from contributors worldwide at the SANS Internet Storm Center. He developed the collection engine for this system, DShield.org, and grew it into a well respected early warning system, which uncovered a number of high-profile threats like Code Red, SQLSnake, Ramen, and other worms.
As part of the SANS Technology Insitute, Ullrich serves as Dean of Faculty for the newly established Masters of Science program. His interests are currently centered on Internet infrastructure security and large-scale correlation systems for rapid attack analysis and global incidents response.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, a.k.a. sjvn, has been writing about business and technology since you couldn't get fired for buying IBM; CP/M-80 was the cutting-edge PC operating system; 300 bit/s was a fast Internet connection; WordStar was the state-of-the-art word processor; and we liked it!
David Vellante
Advocate for IT professionals. Practitioner actively using social networks to foster collaboration and a sharing of free advisory knowledge. Former CEO and founder of three startups and former SVP of IDC's largest business.
Bob Violino
Bob Violino is a freelance writer, editor, and project manager who has covered business and technology for more than 20 years. He has covered topics including networking, information security, storage, outsourcing, enterprise applications, Web collaboration, and wireless computing and communications. Prior to becoming a freelancer, Violino held senior editorial positions at publications including InformationWeek and Communications Week. While at InformationWeek, he headed up the InformationWeek 500 special projects, examining the impact of technology on 20 industries and overseeing the production of the largest issues in the magazine's history. He has written and edited hundreds of articles and has interviewed many leading figures in technology, business, academia, and government.
Stephen Viscusi
Stephen Viscusi is an author, columnist, and radio talk show host in the workplace genre. He began his career as a headhunter and is still involved as a consultant in executive search.
Viscusi's books include Bulletproof Your Job: How to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out On Top at Work (HarperCollins) and On the Job: How to Make It in the Real World of Work (Random House) . He is a frequent contributor on the morning show circuit and NPR's "Talk of the Nation." His "Career Coach" column is featured regularly in U.25 magazine.
Lou Volpano
Lou Volpano is the managing partner of ascertain-ment, the only entertainment and media consulting company focused on finding the hidden value in America's largest export: copyrights and IP for private equity, VCs, and media companies. Current clients lead the markets in TelecomTV, direct response TV, and the Internet.
Volpano served as Director of Corporate Development for Kibel/Green Inc., a leading Santa Monica-based turnaround firm. In 2001, as Director of Strategic Marketing and Licensing Sales, he provided Discovery Channel's Great Chefs with the strategy to implement the global branding needed to enter the trademark licensing market. From 1990 to 1999, his consulting assignments included House of Blues and Billboard Live, and production companies Dick Clark Productions and RadioVision for which he managed the digital media content acquisition, for PPV/DVD, of 50 superstars for Columbia Records Celebrates the Music of Bob Dylan, a 30th anniversary tribute from Madison Square Garden in New York.
Aaron E. Walsh
Aaron E. Walsh is Director of the Grid Institute, a Boston-based research and development company founded in 2005 specifically to standardize, build, and maintain the media grid. In 2006 Walsh received the Teaching With New Media (TWIN) award for his work on the Media Grid and Immersive Education, and in 2007 he was named one of the 40 most innovative people in the information technology industry by Computerworld, a major IT news and analysis publication.
An international best-selling technology author, Aaron is active in the international standards community as Founding Chair of the Web3D Consortium (Web3DC) Universal Media Working Group; Founding Chair of the Web3D-MPEG Working Group responsible for the convergence of Web3D and Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) technology; Co-Chair of the Web3D Consortium's Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Task Group; and Web3D Liaison to MPEG and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
He teaches at Boston College, conducts related workshops and lectures at industry conferences, holds U.S. patents for modern graphical user interfaces for local and Internet information reference and retrieval, and has patents pending for network caching techniques and related distributed computing processes.
Todd Watson
Todd "Turbo" Watson is in his 17th year with IBM, where he began his career launching, editing, and writing for two IBM business magazines before joining IBM's Internet division in 1995. In 1998, he joined IBM's Corporate Marketing group as Digital Brand Manager to lead the development of the IBM e-business Website and interactive advertising campaign, work for which IBM was named "Best Interactive Marketer of the Year" by Advertising Age.
In that capacity, Todd was responsible for the cultivation of the IBM brand on the Internet and related digital media, focusing on the impact of digital convergence on IBM's global marketing communications efforts and conducting early explorations into broadband and pervasive/mobile marketing.
In 2001, he returned to his native Texas to lead the integration of the Tivoli business Web presence into IBM, before moving into his current role to drive the Web strategy and embrace of interactive marketing and social media to boost the growth in IBM's $18 billion software business. In 2005, Todd also began blogging for IBM through the On Demand Business Website, where he writes about the intersection of technology, business, and next-generation digital media.
Benjamin Wayne
Benjamin Wayne is the President and CEO of Fliqz Inc., a leading provider of plug-and-play video solutions for enterprise and mid-market companies, including MLB, VH-1, WebMD, Autobytel, Edmunds, Scripps Networks, Computer Shopper, Military.com, and T-Mobile. Prior to Fliqz, he was President & CEO of Collabrys, a leading provider of outsourced customer acquisition and retention solutions for Global 1000 corporations, which was acquired by E-Centives in 2004. Before that, he was the founder, president, and CEO of Smartshop.com, an online comparison shopping portal that was acquired by CNET in 2000. Benjamin holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and he was a Fulbright Research Scholar in South Korea.
David Weinberger
David Weinberger is a technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a Website and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing"). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society.
A philosopher by training, he holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and taught college from 1980 to 1986. He was a gag writer for the comic strip "Inside Woody Allen" from 1976-1983. He became a marketing consultant and executive at several high-tech companies, and currently serves as a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He had the title Senior Internet Advisor to Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.
Deb Westphal
Deb Westphal is managing partner of Toffler Associates. She advises CEOs and senior executives in private and public sector organizations globally on strategy, innovation, and growth in competitive environments. She has served on the board of directors of several nonprofit organizations. She holds a BS degree in electrical engineering and an MBA, and she has completed executive education at the Harvard Business School.
Tom Wheeler
Tom Wheeler has been CEO of multiple high-tech companies, as well as CEO of the National Cable Television Association and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association. Presently, he is a managing director with Core Capital Partners and a member of the boards of directors of numerous technology companies.
He is the author of Take Command!: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War, named one of the Top Ten Historical Leadership Books, and his op-ed commentaries on the historical analogues to current events have been published in The Washington Post, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and other leading publications. Wheeler was appointed a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by both President Clinton and President Bush. He is Chairman and President of the Foundation for the National Archives, the nonprofit organization dedicated to telling the American story through its documents, and a director of the Public Broadcasting Service.
Tom Wilde
Tom Wilde is a widely recognized leader in the field of Internet search and online advertising. Prior to becoming EveryZing's CEO he held numerous leadership roles in the field, including Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Consumer Division at domain portfolio company NameMedia; SVP and GM of MIVA Inc.'s North American division, responsible for both MIVA's U.S. online advertising network and its consumer business; and senior operating roles managing Terra Lycos's global search & publishing divisions. Tom has also served on the IAB Search Engine Committee and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Michael Wilson
In 2001, Wilson came out of "retirement" to join consumer virtual world There.com as an investor, and he currently serves as CEO. Previously, Wilson was one of eBay's first employees, responsible for building the organization and technology for the world's largest e-commerce site.
Wilson began his career at Macy's California, where he developed point of sale and electronic credit card authorization systems. He later joined Chevron, providing management and software support for Chevron's 10,000+ member online user community. After Chevron, Wilson was an early employee and key developer of the Mainframe and Macintosh product at Oracle Corporation. After several years, he moved on to Neuron Data, where he worked on bringing artificial intelligence together with modern relational and object-oriented database technology. He later worked for eShop (acquired by Microsoft in 1996), as chief architect and helped create an online shopping platform.
Wilson has also held key positions at daVinci Time and Space, and at The Well, leading the development of its Web-based community product, Well Engaged.
Ira Winkler
Mr. Winkler is recognized as one of the world's experts in Internet security, information warfare, information-related crime investigation, and industrial espionage. He is a specialist in penetration testing, where he infiltrates companies, both technically and physically, to find and repair an organization's weaknesses.
Prior to becoming founder and president of the Internet Security Advisors Group (ISAG), Mr. Winkler was Director of Technology at the International Computer Security Association (ICSA). ICSA (www.icsa.net) is a leading provider of security assurance, product certification, training, and information services, also functioning as an industry association with several thousand members. At the ICSA, Mr. Winkler was responsible for managing the Association's laboratories and led the team establishing certification criteria for Internet firewalls.
Mr. Winkler began his career at the National Security Agency (NSA), where he performed cryptanalysis and was responsible for systems design and implementing security elements in intelligence collection and analysis systems. Subsequent to his work at the NSA, he served as a consultant with government contractors, designing and implementing security systems throughout the intelligence community. While working with the government, he realized how vulnerable large computer systems are to unauthorized entry and alteration, and that this problem could cost businesses billions of dollars annually.
H. Michael Zadikian
Throughout his 25-year career, Michael has focused on the development and marketing of large-scale, high-speed, mission-critical networking systems. Prior to founding the Iris group of companies, he founded Monterey Networks, pioneering the industry's first wavelength router, designed to manage the vast amount of bandwidth the national fiber infrastructure delivers. In 1999, Monterey was acquired by Cisco Systems.
Prior to Monterey, Michael led Sourceom's product strategy, delivering the industry's first router small enough to be embedded in DSL modems, which triggered the nationwide Internet-access-over-DSL revolution in 1995. At Cisco, he was the architect of the company's Interworks Business Unit market strategy, which was the catalyst for transforming the enterprise networking market from the 80s mainframe-centric systems to today's routed networks. Michael has BS and MS degrees in Computer Science with honors from UCLA.
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