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Vern Bell

President

VAST Data Systems

Vern Bell

Senior Storage Specialist

VAST Data Systems, presented by StoreVault, a NetApp Division

Tim Bergmann

Chief Education Officer

True Solutions Inc

Adonis Bitar

Senior Sales Engineer, Interactive Solutions

Telligent

As Telligent's Senior Sales Engineer, Adonis Bitar has hands-on experience with hundreds of successful implementations of the Community Server social computing platform. He works closely with many of Telligent's largest clients, including Dell, Microsoft and General Mills. Adonis utilizes this deep knowledge and experience to evangelize and present the opportunities for social computing in the enterprise.

Chris Brogan

Vice President of Strategy and Technology

CrossTech Media

Chris Brogan has over 16 years of telecommunications and enterprise technology experience, including software release engineering, project management, data center planning, and solutions architecture. He left the enterprise behind in 2006 to work on events in the burgeoning field of Internet video, social media, and social computing technologies. Chris is co-founder of the PodCamp unconference series, which launched over 30 events all over the world to promote the understanding and use of podcasting, videoblogging, and other social media technologies to build relationships and extend communities. He has blogged since 1998 (when it was called "journaling"), and keeps a blog at http://chrisbrogan.com/

Kevin Brown

President and CEO

IPcelerate

Kevin is responsible for the strategy, go-to-market execution and business operations for IPcelerate. Kevin is a pioneer in the VOIP market, with 25+ years experience in executive and management positions in the voice and data communications market. He has lead initiatives at Selsius Systems, IBM,Xerox and Cisco Systems. Kevin is the author of two books on networking and VOIP, and was recently selected as one of the "Top Manager's to Watch in 2006" by Business Week magazine.

KEVIN BROWN

PRESIDENT & CEO

IPCELERATE INC.

Josh Buis

President

Clearview Managed Services

Mr. Buis brings a strong discipline to Clearview surrounding managed services and IT/Facilities Outsourcing. He began his career at IBM, where he cut his teeth in the IT Outsourcing world. Following that, he served time at Yahoo! Broadcast growing their corporate webcasting business. He then spent over six years at AT&T/SBC representing their Data Center Hosting portfolio and was instrumental in the success of that business line bringing their facilities to capacity.

Angelo Comazzetto

Product Evangelist

Astaro

Angelo Comazzetto has spent the last 5 years educating customers on the best ways to apply Astaro technology to their networks. With over 12 years of technical experience and a strong speaking background, Angelo specializes in ensuring customers get the most from their Astaro products. He can be found speaking at various tradeshows and events, and also crafts videos and technical publications found on online. Angelo holds two Bachelor's of Science Degrees from DeVry Institute of Technology in Phoenix Arizona, one in Business Information Systems and the other in Business Administration. He resides with his family in the Boston area.

Jerry Dodson

Sales Director

SkyPilots Networks

David Driskill

Senior Engineer

Verio

Andrew Ellis

President

Power Factor Inc.

Andrew Ellis President, Power Factor Inc., has been serving the industry for over 20 Years and founder of Power Factor Inc. established 1996. Address is 2526 Manana Dr. Suite 102, Dallas, TX 75220 800-706-7009 andy@powerfactorinc.com

James Gaskin

Author and Columist

Have you ever thought to yourself, technology is great---when it works? At one time or another we've all had the urge to throw the PC out the window or rip the network connection out of the wall. However, when the success of your business depends on information technology to perform even the most basic functions, unanswered questions can be fatal. In this interactive roundtable discussion, we bring together local experts, consultants and providers who will help diagnose your specific problems and offer advice about the IT challenges you face every day. Under the expert guidance of author and columnist James Gaskin, you;ll get the help you need to tackle even the most daunting of IT-related tribulations.

Rick German

CEO & President

Stoneware, Inc.

Rick German is the chief executive officer and president of Stoneware, Inc. As one of the original founders of the company, Rick German has been a key proponent in virtual desktop computing based on web 2.0 technologies.

tim harrington

speaker

insource

Anthony Huang

Founder and Chairman

TECHXANS

An innovative entrepreneur, Anthony Huang has a solid track record of starting and selling four profitable technology related business ventures and has served as CIO for two technology ventures. In 2000, Tony launched Techxans connecting Senior IT Executives with networking and education. In 2008, Anthony launched the Techxans Channel, broadcasting Internet TV segments to a technology audience of over 357,000+.

Jesper Jurcenoks

Co-founder

netVigilance

Jesper a.k.a. "JJ" is the Co-founder of netVigilance, leading the Technical team with a practical "lead by example" inspiring the team with his direct and creative approach to any obstacle. Jesper utilizes his blend of technical expertise and corporate management experience to steer netVigilance in a highly competitive market. Before founding netVigilance "JJ" Owned and Operated a successful ISP and Web-Hosting company, and ran a highly respected systems integration firm called "InterSpace" in Northern Europe for seven years. Prior to that, he was a team leader and senior consultant for several multinational corporations including Minolta and Compaq Computers (Now Hewlet-Packard). In the late 1980's, JJ Pioneered the field of "Thin Clients" and Satellite emails from vessels in the Atlantic Ocean. JJ demonstrated an industrious nature at an early age, getting his first job when he was merely 11, a job he kept for 3 years. When he was 15, JJ earned his first salary as a Computer pre-Sales engineer, a job that was interrupted a year later when Jesper relocated to Switzerland to pursue his education. JJ is fluent in English, Danish, German, Swiss German, and can also read Norwegian and Swedish.

Lisa Kirtley-Noorlag

Forrester Research

Lisa Kirtley-Noorlag is a Relationship Manager at Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology. With Forrester's focus on the business implications of technology change, Lisa collaborates with C-level executives of Fortune 1000 companies by guiding their business strategists and IT professionals to create a unified technology plan that gains business advantage.

As an executive and partner working in global companies, Lisa has witnessed, firsthand, the transitions that occur as technology becomes an integrated part of everyday business and how it applies to the other business units. She's learned the success imperatives that are top of mind for IT leaders and has the privilege of witnessing what great leaders do differently in times of change.

With 18 yrs. of expertise in sales, marketing, management and consulting, Lisa is known for her ability to quickly identify strategic issues and solve them with a cross functional team in a timely and tactful manner. She has consistently delivered relevant and actionable business, marketing & I/T solutions to her clients. An avid networking and relationship builder, Lisa participates on DFW SIM, DFW Texchans and the American Marketing Association. She enjoys traveling for pleasure while keeping a keen eye out for global business practices and IT solution opportunities.

David Lethe

President

SANtools, Inc.

David is a storage subsystem architect and consultant with 25 years of experience. As a former employee of several RAID manufacturers, he wrote disk diagnostic software, configurators, and monitoring software, and helped OEMs incorporate his work into products for resale. His company, SANtools, now offers such products to everybody.

Philip McKinzey

Regional Sales Manager, South Central Region

Unitrends Corporation presented by Computer Tech

Philip McKinzey has been involved in implementing technology systems for small, midrange and large enterprise accounts for over 15 years. He has served in consulting, sales and marketing roles for technology companies including Toshiba, EMC and Verizon. In his current role as Regional Sales Manager for Unitrends Corporation, he advises small to medium enterprise (SME) organizations on implementing turnkey Business Systems Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions.

Steve Miller

Vice President

Insource Technology Company

Steve leads the Microsoft-focused, Unified Communications practice at Insource where he has been a senior management executive for 12 years. Before heading the UC practice Steve led the Application Development & Integration practice where he managed numerous large scale development projects. His 30 years of technical and operational experience give him a unique and balanced perspective of the information technology arena. Steve has worked in many industry verticals including energy, finance, insurance, marketing and government. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Computing Science from the University of Alberta.

Corey Nachreiner

Network Security Analyst

WatchGuard

Corey Nachreiner, Senior Network Security Analyst for WatchGuard's LiveSecurity Service, has been with WatchGuard since 1999. Corey began his tenure in WatchGuard's Technical Support organization, where he quickly advanced. He created a new role in the organization, working between Support and Engineering to solve critical issues. Later recruited onto the LiveSecurity team, Corey has since written hundreds of concise security alerts and easily-understood educational articles for WatchGuard users and appeared in security training videos, generating hundreds of letters of praise from thankful customers. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Corey is often quoted by other online sources, including C|NET, eWeek, and Slashdot. Before WatchGuard, Corey attended Western Washington University in pursuit of a Computer Science degree and Creative Writing minor. During that time he also ran his own small computer consulting business and explored WWU's network. In his free time, Corey enjoys "modding" any technical gizmo he can get his hands on, and considers himself a hacker in the old sense of the word.

Tim O'Connor

CrossTech Partners

Timothy O'Connor

Systems Consultant

CrossTech Partners

Gary O'Neal

Founder and Senior Partner

Coolhires Ltd.

In 2000, after a successful career in the technology industry, Gary O'Neal had a passion for building successful organizations by identifying, hiring, and retaining the best talent in the industry. The problem was that very few firms approached this task with a systematic methodology that would provide consistent results. And even fewer recruiting and staffing firms were willing or able to establish the long-term strategic relationships with their clients that could solve anything more than their "hair on fire" needs. So, in 2000, O'Neal formed Coolhires Ltd. to revolutionize the recruiting industry.

Charlie Provenza

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Colubris Networks

Dean Richardson

Vice President of Sales

ArcMail Technology

Serge Savchenko

Director

Genio Solutions Sale, Hummingbird the Open Text Connectivity Group

Serge Savchenko is a business development professional with over 20 years experience in information technologies. As Director of Genio Solutions sales, he helps organizations to identify inefficiencies in business processes and to implement cost-effective solutions. Mr. Savchenko holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from York University, Toronto, Canada. Over the years, Mr. Savchenko has represented a number of advanced solutions from the likes of Nortel Networks, Wyse Technology, Dell, DataMirror/PointBase, Empress Software, and others. Mr. Savchenko's area of expertise spans database technologies, data integration and business intelligence.

Emil Sayegh

Vice President of Product Management and Marketing

Rackspace

Emil Sayegh is the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at San Antonio-based Rackspace, a leading global provider of hosted IT services. At Rackspace, Emil oversees the development, marketing and management of new products and services that support Rackspace's global customer base of both SMB and Enterprise companies in need of reliable hosting for their critical business applications.

Since joining the company in 2006, Emil has directed the successful launch of multiple projects including Rackspace's Hosted Microsoft Exchange, software-as-a-service portfolio and virtualization product set.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Emil spent more than 15 years in the IT industry in various product marketing and development roles. Most recently, Emil was the services marketing director at Dell where he oversaw the global services roadmap and marketing organization. Additionally, Emil served in leadership positions at several notable IT companies including RLX Technologies, Compaq Computers and W.L. Gore and Associates. Emil holds nine patents in the fields of Fiber-Optics,Electronics, and Telecommunication.

Val Serrie

DMBGroup, Inc

Val Serrie has worked 30 years in the systems industry. He is experienced in designing, developing and architecting systems and databases in: business intelligence, data warehousing, hotel, travel, airline, retail, banking, oil, consumer packaged goods, laboratory, customer loyalty, and many financial analysis systems. He has also performed various management roles including project management, department manager, and Regional Director. Mr. Serrie is also a published author and has been a speaker for various companies on a wide range of topics over the past 25 years.

Michael Serulneck

Solutions Activist

RedDot - The Open Text Web Solutions Group

Michael Serulneck, RedDot's Solutions Activist, has 12 years experience (the last five with RedDot) designing, delivering and supporting Enterprise Content Management solutions for customers such as Verizon Wireless, Amgen, Bank of NY, the Government of Alberta, the US Dept. of Energy, UNICEF, Multiquip, and dozens of other organizations in both the private and public sectors. The last two years, Serulneck has worked directly with RedDot customers to help them build on and optimize successful ECM initiatives. The theory being that if your customers are more successful, then your company will be more successful; what a concept! RedDot Solutions currently enjoys a 98% customer retention rate. Serulneck holds several degrees and certifications, though he is most proud of his Bachelor's Degree in English and American Literature from New College of Florida.

Mark "Doc" Shipley

Edu Corp Training and Consulting

Mark "Doc" Shipley is a senior consultant with over 20 years of information technology experience. Doc is a certified instructor for IBM, LPI, Red Hat, and VMware. His experience in IT and his passion for teaching provide Doc's clients and students with the advantage of understanding the best solution after considering all the options. As a senior technologist with EduCorp Training and Consulting, Doc has prepared custom courses for client deliveries and supported on-going consulting engagements across the U.S. Doc attended Texas Tech University where he studied Mechanical Engineering which led to his involvement with the Texas Archeological Research Labs.

Tom Simon

Founder, CTO

iPrismGlobal, Inc

Tom Simon is the founder and CTO of iPrismGlobal, Inc., (link http://www.iprismglobal.com), creator of the iOffice. He has worked for decades building sophisticated systems for computer based teaching, distance learning and virtual teaming. He pioneered online working and learning projects for Xerox, H-P, IBM, Management Centre Europe (MCE), European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), East Midlands, Northwest and South Yorkshire UK Economic Development, InterSystems and others. He is an experienced speaker and provides vivid live examples that show real world solutions to one of the most challenging problems facing employers today. That is, how to manage the people AND technology in a completely mobile workforce.

ryan speir

speaker

arcmail

Pam Terry

Executive Director

Techxans (Moderator)

Pam Terry has been in the technology industry since 1994 having worked in a sales, management or marketing position. Pam's industry experience includes technology sales for data centers, Internet broadband, voice, Managed Services, web design and application development. Most recently Pam was with Time Warner Telecom and ERGOS Technology prior to becoming full time as Executive Director of Techxans.

Charles Tracey

Systems Engineer

Astaro

Charles Tracey is an Astaro Systems Engineer. He is responsible for pre and post Sales support at the US Headquarters. Charles has over 20 years experience first as Network engineer then Network Manager for a variety of Manufacturing companies including Boston Scientific, EDS and Dynsico. At these companies he was responsible for all areas of Network Management from the Remotes Sites, to the Demarc, to the Desktop. Projects included evaluating, installing and attaining a variety of security products including Firewalls, Web Filters, Spam Filters, Ssl(s). He earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from Northeastern University in Boston, Ma in 1985.

DAVID TROUP

CEO & FOUNDER

MAILFOUNDRY

Labeled a "serial entrepreneur" by colleagues, David has been starting successful companies since he was in high school during the first PC revolution. David founded MailFoundry to bring continuity back to email in a world where, as he puts it, "anti-spam has ruined email." David operates as a hands-on CEO, overseeing new product development and engineering as well as field marketing and business development. With a BS degree in Artificial Intelligence and a lifetime of applications "visioneering", David not only knows the ins and outs of the architecture and coding behind his products, he has the understanding and vision of where communications and technology are headed and how they are changing the way we work and live.

Eric Vaughn

Director of Channels

Neverfail

Robert Wong

Senior Product Manager

Hummingbird, The Open Text Connectivity Solutions Group

Robert Wong is a senior product manager of Hummingbird, the Open Text Connectivity Solutions Group. Robert has been involved in the X Window industry for over 12 years and managed the Hummingbird Exceed product family.