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Dan Ackerman, CISSP

Systems Engineer

McAfee, presented by Discovery Business Systems

Dan Ackerman is a Senior Security Engineer with McAfee specializing in Threat Mitigation. Dan has been in the Security Industry for over 10 years and has experience with multiple levels of security solutions. He currently works with clients in order to design security architectures that will help them not only Mitigate their Risk from Active Threats but also to Operationalize those technologies into an efficient Security Process.

Rick Beckers

President & CEO

Pinnacle Business Solutions

Rick Beckers, President/CEO - Pinnacle Business Solutions For over 25 years Rick Beckers has been designing, installing, and supporting technology systems. During this time he has served in IT management for Fortune companies, and championed enterprise class projects for some of the nation's largest integrators. Pinnacle Business Solutions was created with the intent of taking all of the lessons learned from these experiences and delivering it at a cost structure that allows small and medium sized companies the ability to have world class systems for a fraction of the cost.

Tom Bellinson

Vice President

PhyleTec LLC

Currently Vice president of PhyleTec, a hosted enterprise software development and sales company.Previously, Tom started and ran IT consulting services business for over five years (+$5 Million sales, 13 employees). He was also the CIO of an Engineering services firm (sat on executive committee, supervised two senior managers) with a total staff of 25. He led ISO-9000 certification project and started an IT consulting profit center. He has also provided structured software selection for a variety of companies including manufacturers, recruiting services firms and home healthcare companies.

Ron Birotte

Sales Engineer

CBeyond

Ethan Blynn

Regional Sales Manager

Syncsort, Inc

Ethan Blynn is the Midwest Regional Manager for Syncsort where he specializes in High-Performance Solutions for Business-Critical Applications. Ethan holds degrees in Business and Computer Science and has held a number of technical, sales, and management positions within the information technology industry over his 25-year career. He manages an organization that is directly responsible for technology deployments of Disaster Recovery and Backup Applications for both public and private sector accounts.

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

Laurie Cavanaugh

MES Solutions Provider

Wonderware Central

Laurie Cavanaugh is the MES Solutions Representative for Wonderware Central. She has over 19 years of experience providing process automation and management solutions across a variety of industries and applications. Laurie uses a results-oriented approach to identify how process changes will result in the highest return for her clients.

Jerry Dodson

Sales Director

SkyPilots Networks

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.

James Humphrey

Disaster Recovery Specialist

Neverfail

Scott Kube

Vice President

CBeyond

Jon Lawrence

Enterprise Account Manager

APC - MGE

Jon Lawrence

Enterprise Account Manager

APC - MGE

Jon Lawrence has been in information technology since graduating from the U.S. Air Force electronics school over 30 years ago. He holds an MBA with a concentration in Technology Management and has participated in thousands of technology projects and implementations.

Jeff Livesay

Liberty Center One

Dan Lohrmann

Chief Information Security Office (CISO)

State of Michigan

Dan Lohrmann is the Director of Michigan's Office of Enterprise Security and was named the State's first CISO in May 2002. Dan was named CSO of the Year by SC Magazine for 2008.

Dan is an executive board member of the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), which coordinates cybersecurity actions among the 50 states, and founder of the Michigan State and Local Government ISAC. Lohrmann also serves on several state and federal security councils and working groups. He represents the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) on the IT Government Coordinating Council (GCC) led by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Dan's first book: Virtual Integrity: Faithfully Navigating the Brave New Web is due out this fall from Brazos Press.

He is also the Chairman of the Board and past President of the Michigan InfraGard Member's Alliance (IMA) for 2008.

Prior to this position, Lohrmann served as the Senior Technology Executive for e-Michigan, where he published the award-winning academic paper entitled: The Michigan.gov Story - Reinventing State Government Online. He also served as CIO for the Michigan Department of Management & Budget in the late 1990s.

Dan has over 23 years of experience in the computer industry, beginning with the National Security Agency (NSA). Dan worked for three years in England as a Senior Network Engineer for Lockheed Martin (formerly Loral Aerospace) and for four years as a Technical Director for ManTech International in a US/UK military facility.

He is a distinguished guest lecturer for Norwich University in the field of Information Assurance. Dan has been a keynote speaker at IT conferences around the country, and is a regular presenter at Secure World conferences. He has been featured in numerous daily newspapers and security magazines. He's published articles on security, management, technology integration, and building e-government applications and portals.

He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and a Bachelors Degree in CS from Valparaiso University in Indiana.

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Corey Nachreiner

Network Security Analyst

WatchGuard

Dean Richardson

Vice President of Sales

ArcMail Technology

Troy Roberts

Colubris Networks

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.

DANIEL SHOEMAKER

Diirector

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT, MERCY

Dr Shoemaker, Professor and Chair Computer and Information Systems, is also Director of UDM's National Center of Excellence in Information Assurance and a member of the National Software Assurance Common Body of Knowledge working group. He first participated at SEI in 1987. Since then he has authored numerous articles and books on strategic IT process development, including an internationally marketed book on IT process engineering. His latest book is McGraw-Hill's capstone for the field of Information Assurance.

Bob Slevin

Data Sales Engineer

Verizon Wireless

Brian Tenerowicz

Founder and President

Tener Technologies

Brian Tenerowicz is founder and president of Tener Technologies (Tenertech), an IT services and solutions provider in Ferndale, Mich. A Microsoft Certified Professional, he oversees network administration, technical support and Web and software development for small-to-mid-sized businesses throughout the Midwest. Prior to founding Tenertech, Tenerowicz was director of technical services at Cloudstream, Inc./Midwest Business System, a high-performance information technologies company in Southfield, Mich. In this role, Tenerowicz was responsible for project management and supervision of all technical staff. Tenerowicz holds a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Michigan.

Charles Tracey

Systems Engineer

Astaro

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.

Desi Whelan

Sales Engineer

StoreVault, a NetApp Division