Sam Altman is the founder and CEO of Loopt, a start up that has developed a location-based social networking mobile application.

Rafat Alvi is the CTO and VP of Engineering at Eduify, a startup that makes Web-based software for students that help them research faster, write better and get help on-demand.

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.

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 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.

David Austin was born and raised in Syracuse, N.Y. He headed west after college and landed a job at The Oregonian in Portland. At the newspaper, he covered sports, police, the environment, local government, and breaking news. In 2008, he joined Multnomah County.  As communications director, he supervises a team of six people who make sure the public and taxpayers see the stories of the people who make government service at Multnomah County work. He has a wife, two kids, a dachshund, and a red-footed tortoise. On most days, you can find David watching sports on TV, running, playing basketball or tennis, or sleeping. In his free time, he volunteers teaching journalism at a local high school.

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.

Genevieve Bell is an Intel Fellow, Intel Labs Director, and is in charge of the chip-maker's Interaction & Experience Research.

Amir Ben-Efraim is the president and CEO of Altor Networks, a company that makes virtual network security software.

In 2001 Lee H. Berke founded LHB, which specializes in developing direct relationships between sports properties and media platforms. LHB’s client roster includes more than 25 teams throughout the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL, including the San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Brewers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Angels, Memphis Grizzlies, and New Jersey Devils. Mr. Berke’s background in developing sports media businesses also includes co-authoring the original business plan for the New York Yankees’ YES Network and heading up marketing for Madison Square Garden and MSG Network.

Beau Brendler is a journalist, technologist, and consumer activist with a 20-year career in major media and public service. He is Managing Editor of, and also writes the weekly Webwatcher column for, AOL's Consumer Ally. Brendler has twice been elected as North American regional representative of the Internet user community ("at large") to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a position he currently holds. He was a founder of ABC News' multimedia and Internet efforts in 1997, and as editorial director of ABC News.com, led newsrooms on two coasts to win most of online journalism's major awards.

He is a frequent speaker on the topics of computer security and cybercrime, consumer issues and the Internet, online marketing and advertising, online travel and e-commerce. He has presented research, led workshops or participated in panels for the FTC, ICANN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, APEC-TEL and OECD, the Society of Professional Journalists, and more, and led consumer advocacy projects in the Netherlands, Thailand, and Malaysia. His work and interests, which include photographing rare animal species, have taken him to 81 countries around the world.

Stephen Brobst is the Chief Technology Officer, Teradata. Previously, Brobst successfully launched three start-up companies related to high-end database products and services in the data warehousing and e-business marketplaces: Tanning Technology Corporation, NexTek Solutions (acquired by IBM) and Strategic Technologies & Systems (acquired by NCR).

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.

Attorney General Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr. was elected statewide to serve as the chief law officer of California. He is currently running for Governor of California.

David Buckholtz is Vice President of Enterprise Technology and Quality at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Reporting to the CIO, he is responsible for technology strategy, methods, and shared platforms in support of improving systems capability and leverage across the studio. He also manages IT governance, global sourcing, service management, integration, platform engineering, organizational development, quality assurance, and production acceptance teams, as well as strategic planning and cooperation with sister and parent Sony organizations. Before joining SPE, Mr. Buckholtz spent five years at the General Electric Company (GE). His roles at GE included chief architect for consulting services at GE Information Services, technology lead for several GE corporate digitization initiatives, and lead for various strategic customer initiatives. He is a Six Sigma Blackbelt.

Adam founded Model Metrics in an effort to accelerate the adoption of Cloud Computing within enterprise organizations, with the goal of bringing these companies all the value of the technology, from rapid implementation to ease of use, enhanced analytics, and tremendous ROI.

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.

Ann Cavoukian, PhD, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, is recognized as one of the leading privacy experts in the world. Noted for her seminal work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in 1995, her concept of Privacy by Design seeks to embed privacy into the design specifications of information technology and accountable business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In October, 2010, regulators from around the world gathered at the annual assembly of International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Jerusalem, Israel, and unanimously passed a landmark Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an essential component of fundamental privacy protection. This was followed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's inclusion of Privacy by Design as one of its three recommended practices for protecting online privacy - a major validation of its significance.

An avowed believer in the role that technology can play in the protection of privacy, Dr. Cavoukian's leadership has seen her office develop a number of tools and procedures to ensure that privacy is strongly protected, not only in Canada, but around the world. She has been involved in numerous international committees focused on privacy, security, technology, and business, and endeavours to focus on strengthening consumer confidence and trust in emerging technology applications. She serves as the Chair of the Identity, Privacy, and Security Institute at the University of Toronto. She is also a member of several boards, including the European Biometrics Forum, Future of Privacy Forum, and RIM Council, and has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute. She was honored with the prestigious Kristian Beckman Award in 2011 for her pioneering work on Privacy by Design and privacy protection in modern international environments. In the same year, Dr. Cavoukian was also named by Intelligent Utility Magazine as one of the Top 11 Movers and Shakers for the Global Smart Grid industry, received the SC Canada Privacy Professional of the Year Award, and was honored by the University of Alberta Information Access and Protection of Privacy Program for her contributions to the field of privacy.

Staci Cenis hails from the mighty metropolis of Hay, Wash.(OK, it's not that mighty.) She is the project manager for the Multco Commons project. She joined Multnomah County in 2008. Before that, Staci spent five years at Affiliated Computer Services as a release manager. She has also worked for Intel. She is a PMP, ScrumMaster, and Six Sigma Green Belt. In addition to all the fun she has at work, Staci can be found coaching soccer or at the park with her kids, where she strongly disagrees with the "everybody is a winner" philosophy. She serves on the FC West Soccer board and is a dedicated white water rafter and runner.

Aneesh Chopra is the first federal Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the United States. As CTO, he serves as a policy advisor to President Obama and is responsible for promoting technological innovation to help the country meet its goals with regard to job creation, national security, and healthcare. Prior to his appointment to the Obama administration, which was confirmed by the Senate in August 2009, Chopra served as Virginia’s fourth Secretary of Technology. Before he worked in government, he was the managing director for the Advisory Board Company, a healthcare think tank for hospitals and healthcare systems.

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.

Cohen is best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, BitTorrent. In 2004, he founded BitTorrent Inc., where he serves as chief scientist.

June Cohen has been responsible for bringing the TED Conference online including videos, podcasts and other TED content.

Phillippe Courtot is chairman and CEO of security software provider Qualys.

Kevin Cramer has been the Copy Chief of the Light Reading network of Websites since its foundation in 2000. Not a former Navy Seal, previous editorial stints include Women’s Wear Daily and Data Communications magazine. He won a highly coveted CMP Editorial Excellence award in 2006 for his hand in the creation of Larry, the Light Reading Attack Monkey. He lives in New York City with his angry cat and his bitter, bitter memories.

Jack Dangermond is the founder and president of ESRI, the technical and market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software.

Kim Davis is the Community Editor and Security Clan Moderator for Internet Evolution. He became a professional journalist in his teens, following punk bands for the New Musical Express. When the scars healed, he co-founded and edited an academic philosophy journal, Cogito, ergo collecting a doctorate in the subject from the University of Bristol. His career as a writer and editor has continued to be shrewdly focused. As writing became blogging, he was introduced to the magical kingdom of the Internet where everybody knows your password. He plans to reflect philosophically on the future of the Internet while downloading as little malware as possible.

John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting, a cloud provider.

Bob Evans, TechWeb's Senior Vice-President and Content Director, is responsible for content strategy across TechWeb's online, live event, and print brands. In this role, he oversees not only all content operations but also Audience Development and Software Development. Bob was editor-in-chief of InformationWeek during its years of massive growth and has also been Editorial Director for InformationWeek and Techweb. He's an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and speaks at many business and technology events.

Nicole Ferraro is the Editor in Chief of Internet Evolution. Here she uses her limitless powers to exercise sarcastic wit through the editor's blog, where one can read about the trials and tribulations of exisiting in an era defined by a dot 0 suffix. When not floating around on "The Internet" she spends her time writing, reading, playing piano and guitar, brushing her teeth, wandering around Manhattan, and contemplating her unsettling life-long obsession with The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She received her M.A. and B.A. from Fordham University in the Bronx.

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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.

Jon Fisher is a serial entrepreneur, economics commentator, and business professor. He also co-founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Bharosa and AutoReach.

Raimund Genes is the Chief Technical Officer for Trend Micro, a security software company focused on anti-virus and content protection for the enterprise.

Ben Golub is CEO of Gluster, an open-source storage software provider. Previously, he was CEO at social networking site, Plaxo.

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David Hayden is the founder and CEO of Pana.ma, an asynchronous voice-mail messaging platform.

Swayne Hill is the CEO of Cloud 9 Analytics, which makes on-demand operational performance management swoftware. Prior to that, Swayne served as Managing Director in the Asia Pacific region at Cognos.

Marianne James is CIO of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She has honed her understanding of the business through her 22 years at CCHMC, in roles ranging from finance to research to IT. She’s part of the senior management team that meets weekly with the CEO.

As ThinkerNet Editor for Internet Evolution, Mary moderates ThinkerNet, the interactive forum where Internet luminaries can blog and exchange opinions.

Prior to joining Internet Evolution, Mary was Site Editor of Byte and Switch and a longtime Senior Editor of Light Reading. She has spent over 20 years reporting and writing on information technology and networking.

Mary lives in rural Nova Scotia.

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Chris Jones is a corporate Vice President for Windows Live at Microsoft in charge of Hotmail.

Kevin Jones is a social/organizational strategist, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is currently consulting with NASA to develop its enterprise social media strategy.

Scott Klososky, a former CEO of three successful startup companies, specializes in looking over the horizon with how technology is changing the world. Currently he serves as the founder and the Chairman of the Board of Alkami Technology. He is also the author of three books, including The Velocity Manifesto:  Harnessing Technology, Vision and Culture to future proof your organization.

Paul Kocher is president and chief scientist of Cryptography Research.

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.

David Koretz is a serial entrepreneur who founded four companies by the age of 19. He is currently President & CEO of BlueTie, and President of Mykonos Software.

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.

Ginny Lee is the Senior Vice President and CIO of Intuit. She is responsible for further developing the company's technology and business infrastructure.

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.

Bill Loumpouridis serves as President and CEO for EDL Consulting, a leading eCommerce and Systems Integration firm serving a rich client base that includes manufacturing, media, and high tech clients.

Carl Malamud is the President and Founder of Public.Resource.Org. The author of 8 books, Malamud was previously founder of the Internet Multicasting Service and the Chief Technology Officer at the Center for American Progress. He is the winner of the Berkman Award from Harvard "for his extraordinary contributions to the Internet's impact on society," the Pioneer Award from the EFF, and the Bill Farr Award from the First Amendment Coalition.

Marissa leads Google's product management efforts on search products – Web search, images, news, books, products, maps, Google Earth, Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Health, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and Web server teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google's search interface; internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages; defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut; and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design.

Wayne Mekjian is Head of Information Services, Wells Fargo, responsible for guiding the effective use of information technology and managing IT resources to deliver technology solutions across the enterprise. His primary responsibilities include application development, data strategy and management, and enterprise support. Support services aligned to his organization include Project Delivery Services, Efficiency Management, and Risk & Compliance. Wayne has 39 years of experience in banking, leading large-scale and complex technology and operations initiatives. Prior to his current position, he served as Chief Information Officer for Wells Fargo’s Home and Consumer Finance Group and served in several executive capacities at Norwest. Prior to joining Norwest, he held several senior-level positions with First Interstate Bank in bank operations management, systems development, project management, and data processing.

Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University. He is also the founder, director-counsel, and chairman of Software Freedom Law Center.

Jim Morris is president and CEO of security software maker GlobalScape.

Bob Moul is President and CEO of Boomi, a Dell business that offers software-as-a-service integration for cloud computing infrastructure.

Fritz Nelson is Vice President, Editorial Director for InformationWeek, and Executive Producer of Techweb TV, the multimedia production arm of Techweb.

He has been an employee of Techweb for 17 years, including as Editor-in-Chief of Network Computing, Publisher, Publishing Director, and Vice President and Group Director. He started at Techweb for Network Computing magazine, serving as its reviews editor, features editor, executive editor, and editor before moving into the company’s senior management team.

Prior to joining Network Computing, Fritz worked with Martin Marietta’s Computing Standards group – a team that tested and evaluated technology, and whose objective was to set corporate computing and networking standards. He was a technical writer for USBI, a subsidiary of United Technologies that manages parts of the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle program. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a BS in journalism.

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.

Bolaji Ojo, currently the editor in chief of EBN, has spent the last 25 years covering business issues on four continents, specializing over the last 11 years on the electronics industry supply chain. In addition to supply chain issues, his primary focus also includes business finance.

Mike Olson is founder and CEO of Cloudera, a company that develops and distributes Hadoop, the open-source software that powers the data processing engines of the world’s largest and most popular Websites.

Steven Peterson is a web developer by day and an independent iPhone developer by night. His public transit predictions application, Routesy, helps thousands of Bay Area residents with their commute on a daily basis. Prior to building Routesy, Steven helped build Yahoo!'s open source YUI User Interface Library and developed web applications for companies like Tommy Hilfiger and MetLife.

Edward Pleet is the Product and Business Development Manager for Connected Services at Ford Motor Co. And yes, he does drive a Ford.

Since 1996 I have been the president of Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing, a consulting firm in the Washington, D.C. area (Chevy Chase, Md.) that specializes in helping companies to enhance existing services or develop new services in wireless data. My firm focuses on business development, marketing, white papers, tutorials/workshops and corporate weblogs.

I'm especially interested in wireless multimedia, such as the business models and worldwide societal ramifications of camera phone photos and videos, live streaming broadcasts, omnipresent wireless broadband, and mobile location technologies and their integration with social networking.

I've been analyzing wireless communications for more than 30 years. I started by helping to develop and run the first trade association in the United States for the independent providers of pagers and mobile phones.

In the past, I created the world's first: Wireless data newsletter, wireless data conference, cellular conference and FM radio subcarrier newsletter. I also helped develop and write for the first cellular magazine.

I've been blogging since 2001, and Forbes magazine listed one of my sites as one of the top five technology blogs

Website: www.WirelessInternet.com

Please feel free to contact me, either by leaving a comment on my columns or by sending me e-mail to reiter@wirelessinternet.com. Thank you very much for reading.

Jodee Rich is the CEO of PeopleBrowsr, a social networking and analytics tool.

Mike Riegel is a Vice President at IBM in charge of ISVs, startups, developers, and academic programs.

In addition to being the CEO of OpSource, a SaaS provider, Mr. Ryan also sits on the Software Executive Board at the SIIA.

Simon Saba is the founder and CEO of SABA Motors, an all-electric roadster.

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 is a successful Internet entrepreneur, award-winning technology writer, and the founder of Internet Evolution (www.internetevolution.com).

Prior to launching Internet Evolution, Saunders was the founder and CEO of Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), an online startup, which was sold to United Business Media in 2005 for $33 million. 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 community of telecom professionals and investors around the globe.

Prior to Light Reading, Saunders was an executive editor at Data Communications, where he directed that doomed publication's editorial content. Coincidence.

Saunders newest venture is Deus Ex Machina (DEX), a marketing services company that uses a structured system of clearly defined and proven Web 2.0 publishing best practices called Community in a Box (CiaB) to allow customers to build vibrant communities, direct them, and use them as the basis of incredibly powerful integrated marketing programs. The latest community based on CiaB, Enterprise Efficiency (www.enterpriseefficiency.com) was launched in May.

Saunders has been recognized with many awards for his work, including six Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Awards from The American Business Press, three awards from the Computer Press Association, and 14 awards from Min's, which in March 2008 inducted Saunders into its Digital Media Hall of Fame.

In October 2008 the lead developer at Twitter publicly called Saunders "a troll" – something Steve still considers his happiest moment in 21 years of publishing. In April 2009 Saunders was named to the No. 2 spot on Folio magazine's Folio 40 ranking of magazine industry influencers and innovators, one ahead of President Barack Obama. The magazine subsequently revised the list following a public outcry, demoting Saunders to the No. 3 spot.

Saunders has been Folio's e-media columnist since 2009. He also is the author of three books, The Data Communications Gigabit Ethernet Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1998), The McGraw-Hill High-Speed LANs Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1995), and The True Story of King Arthur (48hourbooks, 2009). Gripping reads, all. Especially the last.

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.

Michael Singer is a Senior Editor, evangelist, and Web personality at Internet Evolution. 

As leader of the Executive Clan and Midmarket Clan, Michael is looking for ThinkerNet contributors to pontificate about executive issues... What's top of mind for CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs?

Prior to joining Internet Evolution, Michael worked as News Editor for InformationWeek, as well as for ABC-7 News, KTVU-FOX 2, and CNET News.com.

In his spare time, Michael thinks a lot about String Theory, six-string guitars, and string cheese.

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.

Martin Sole is Creative Director for Teshka, a UK based Media Agency.

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.

Sebastian Stadil is the founder and CEO at Scalr and the founder of the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group

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.

Thomas Steding is the president and CEO of RedCondor, a security software company offering a managed spam filtering service that blocks spam, viruses, spyware, and phishing schemes.

Richard Stiennon is founder and Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest and maintains the popular security blog, www.threatchaos.com. Previously, Stiennon was VP of Research at Gartner Inc., where he covered security topics. His first book, Surviving Cyber War, was published earlier this year.

Sherry Swackhamer is the CIO and Director of County Assets for Multnomah County, Oregon. She was raised in a ranching community in rural, southeast Oklahoma. After college, she worked in the oil and gas industry, spent nine-plus years in management consulting, nine-plus years in government contracting, and arrived at Multnomah County in 2003. At the County she led a variety of IT teams, has been the CIO for three years, and in her current director role, she has the added responsibility for two additional non-IT teams: Facilities and Property Management; and Fleet, Records, Electronics, Distribution and Stores, managing more than 300 FTE. As you might expect, she is always up for a good challenge. Sherry is married (to a CIO!) and has an 18-year-old daughter, a freshman in college. With the departure of her daughter to college, the family just sold their horse, Codee. With no horse and no daughter, Sherry is in the midst of re-creating her empty-nester life. She enjoys biking, hiking, reading, and buying shoes and art.

Terry Sweeney is a writer and editor based somewhere in the smog-laden environs of Los Angeles. He has covered technology for more than 20 years, with broad expertise in storage, networking, security, wireless, and celebrity stalking.

From October 2005 to June 2007, he was Editor in Chief of Byte and Switch (www.byteandswitch.com), storage networking's most widely read Website, which, when you think about it, is really not saying much. He was also a Founding Editor of the sinister IT security Website, Dark Reading (www.darkreading.com), as well as Storage Pipeline (absorbed in a nearly bloodless coup by the insatiable Byte and Switch). He did not leave under a cloud.

Sweeney was also News Editor at Internet Week and spent three years in Paris working for Communications Week International. When the Germans occupied the city he fled to Geneva, Switzerland, where he served as Editor in Chief of the print, online, and video content for the ITU's Telecom 99 conference. He later ran guns to freedom fighters in the Belgian Congo. Maybe.

He has contributed to The Washington Post, Crain's New York Business, Red Herring, Blue Herring, Rogue Herring, Information Week, Network World, SearchStorage, and Chicken Fancier, among other business and IT titles. He also designed a prototype flying machine and a fully functional submarine. No. Wait... That was someone else...

Sweeney surely did, however, graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1982 with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and a minor in Portuguese, for no discernible reason.

Chris Tolles is CEO of Topix, a localized online news community. Previously, he was at Spoke Software, a business social networking company, where he was a co-founder and VP of marketing. Before Spoke, Chris was a Director of Marketing at AOL/Netscape for AOL Music, Netscape Search, and Directory Products.

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.

David C. Vladeck is the current Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Prior to joining the FTC, he was a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center for seven years. He served there as the Director of the Center on Health Regulation and Governance of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Before his time at Georgetown, Vladeck spent more than 25 years at Public Citizen Litigation Group, first as a staff attorney, and then for ten years as its director.

Editor of the CMO Clan. Content maven and social media strategist, hiding from direct sunlight in San Diego. 

Jane Williams works in the county's human resources realm as part of the talent development team. Combining technology with engaging learning is her primary passion, be it in working with county staff or with her son on the iPad. She supports education, is involved with an advisory council on special education, and chairs a local women's club. Don't run afoul of Jane. She's an avid runner who also knows how to kickbox. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening and entertaining. This year, she wants to teach her son how to ski. Why? "To bring out the Canadian in him," Jane says.