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Trent works for the Internet Society as an Outreach Specialist for the Trust & Identity Initiative. His focus is building relationships with technologists and regulators on issues related to online identity and privacy. He draws on 15 years of experience that includes pioneering digital media production, designing e-commerce engines, as well as supporting various specifications, standards, and advocacy communities. Before joining ISOC, Trent founded a company offering a portable, privacy-respecting recommendation system. He incubated the idea as Chief Innovator for the Kraft Group where he earned 3 Super Bowl rings while running the online operation for the New England Patriots. As an Outreach Specialist at the Internet Society, Adams helps build relationships with technologists and developers and collaborate on tools and documents to communicate key issues related to trust and identity. He was a founding officer of the DataPortability Project and Chairs the Kantara Initiative Leadership Council. Prior to working for ISOC, Adams founded MatchMine, a 43-person media recommendation company, filing 3 patents on the technology. The system he designed was a uniquely portable, personalized, consumer-controlled, privacy-respecting recommendation system. He incubated the idea while working for 10 years as the Chief Innovator for the Kraft Group Sports Properties, including the New England Patriots.

Ken Agress is a research director with Gartner for Technology Professionals, focused on unified communications, contact centers, and real-time communications. He focuses on helping companies select the right technologies to address business needs by providing a flexible, scalable, and reliable infrastructure that offers services the enterprise can leverage under a range of conditions. This includes integration UC, social, and other communications systems with enterprise platforms to allow organizations to embed collaboration tools into many different applications.

Lalit Ahuja leads the Enterprise Architect practice at Pacific Life. He has been responsible for the SOA Governance strategy and implementation at Pacific Life. Lalit has over 12 years of experience in the IT industry in diverse roles spanning product development, consulting and enterprise architecture strategy. He has also consulted in the areas of marketing strategies development, financial valuation and post M&A IT operations management Lalit specializes in Financial Services, Insurance and Supply Chain domains. He has Masters degrees in engineering and business administration.

Trent Allie is the Enterprise 802.11 Wireless Architect of The Boeing Company, one of the world's largest global aircraft manufacturers, and the largest exporter by value in the United States. With over 5 years of experience in the field, Trent defines the company's 802.11 wireless direction, conducts product testing/certification, and leads implementation of new wireless technologies into the Boeing environment.

Bob Anderson is a Security Architect with Fidelity Investments. Bob has been working in the security software field for 20 years for commercial and financial companies. At Fidelity, Bob is heavily involved with authentication, authorization, encryption and secure coding. He serves as the security architect for the internal authorization system for its Asset Management systems. He has contributed to the development of operating systems and commercial applications, including Lotus SameTime.

Rafi Anuar leads the LifeSize Product Management team at LifeSize and has worked on numerous innovative products, including LifeSize® Video Center, which is transforming the video communications market. Prior to his work at LifeSize, Rafi held a variety of Product Management, Marketing, and Strategy roles at Motorola and D&B. Rafi holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from the McCombs School of Business.

Fred Bartkiewicz has over 19 years of experience in asset and risk management serving as a Managing Director at the investment-banking subsidiary of HypoVereinsbank, Managing Director at Invesco and SVP at GLL Real Estate Partners GmbH, a Munich based subsidiary of Generali. Fred is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point (’87) with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Hartford in Paris, France. In May 2010, Fred founded CyberRisk Partners with his brother Drew focusing on cyber risk analytics and cyber risk dispersion.

Technology background in both retail and manufacturing systems at Hallmark Cards. Have been working on SharePoint since 2006 when we piloted WSS 2.0. Lead the effort to transition the pilot to a production rollout. Managed the upgrade to 3.0. Lead the implementation effort to upgrade to MOSS 2007 and install new farm infrastructure. Lead analyst for establishing initial governance presence. Managed the technical upgrade/implementation of SharePoint 2010. Currently working on driving broader governance guidelines and recommendations throughout the business areas. Also, leading the effort to establish the technical governance. Additional background includes Assistant Records Manager of a large Kansas City law firm. I have a Computer Information Systems bachelor degree and an MBA focused on business law and general management.

As the Assistant Vice President of Infrastructure Management for the Investment Division of Manulife Financial, Mr. Benincasa leads a team of IT professionals that deliver services including desktop, midrange, database, and service management. With over 20 years experience as an IT professional, he has worked across various sectors including banking, health care, education, and insurance, and has direct experience with managing data centres and network services, vendors and outsourced service providers, and globally disbursed teams. Mr. Benincasa received a CIO Global Innovation Award in 2010 for leadership in implementing the very first VDI solution within Manulife Financial.

Mr. Eran Birk is a senior client security technical architect at the IT of Intel. Eran holds a Bachelor of Art from the University of Haifa in Computer Science and Statistics. He has worked at Intel for 12 years in different positions – i.e. Engineering, Management and Technical Architecture. In the last several years Eran was leading the Small Form Factors and Handheld initiatives at IT of Intel, and presently developing the architecture building blocks, to secure the Consumerization of IT initiatives. Mr. Birk is also a regular speaker and commentator at business seminars and conferences.

Bob Blakley is VP, distinguished analyst and agenda manager for Gartner IT1 Identity and Privacy.

François Blanc is Group Director, Information Systems at Valeo, a tier one supplier in the automotive industry. He has responsibility for a number of programs, including production and financial solutions, the human resources information system, product lifecycle management and extended enterprise collaboration. Prior to joining Valeo, Mr. Blanc was Information Systems Director for Matra-British Aerospace Dynamics. He currently serves on the board of Galia—a French organization that aims to improve the exchange of products and information between partners in the automotive industry—and is member of the Economic Intelligence Committee of CIGREF, an organization formed to promote the use of information systems to create value and support innovation in the enterprise.

Dan Blum, a Gartner VP and distinguished analyst, currently covers security architecture, cloud computing security, endpoint security, Web/email content filtering, and the cybercrime/threat landscape. He also has a background in identity management and other security technologies. Mr. Blum has written hundreds of research papers or articles and consulted for many Global 1000 companies on key strategic architecture and technology decisions. He has participated in and contributed to industry organizations such as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), International Information Integrity Institute (I4), Internal Standards Organization (ISO), National Institute of Standards (NIST), Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Syntaxes (OASIS) and Liberty Alliance. Mr. Blum has co-authored "The E-Mail Frontier," published by Addison-Wesley in 1994, and authored "Understanding Microsoft Active Directory Service," published by Microsoft Press in 2000. He has spoken at Gartner Catalyst, Gartner Security Summit, RSA Security, InfoSecurity Europe, I4 Forum, NIST IDTrust, Open Group Security Practitioners, and many other conferences. He blogs on the Gartner Blog Network.

Matthew Brisse is a research director for Gartner's IT Professionals service. He covers enterprise storage and cloud computing technologies. His specific areas of interest are in data deduplication, data management, data protection and capacity optimization.

Adnan Bukhari is multifaceted technology professional with unique blend of business and technical acumen. His comprehensive experience spans enterprise architecture, systems integration, solutions development, business continuity and strategy. His most recent experience is working with Sempra Energy & Utilities as Sr. SOA Engineer where he provided technology solutions to Field Force and Outage Management Systems Integrations. Before joining Sempra in 2008 he worked for Bea Systems as Sr. Business Consultant and provided consultancy on various projects to fortune 50 companies. His technology interests include, Business Process Management, Systems Integrations and Smart Grid.

Christopher Butwell is a Vice President with the Northern Trust Corporation, a leading provider of investment management, asset and fund administration, and fiduciary and banking solutions worldwide. He joined the company in 1999 and has held positions in Application Development, Web Security, Systems Infrastructure, and Enterprise Architecture. As a member of the company’s Technology Architecture and R&D Group he leads research into new technical capabilities that advance the firm’s strategic business objectives. Prior to joining Northern Trust, he held positions at Pitney Bowes, McDonald’s, and Baxter Healthcare.

F. Christian Byrnes is a managing vice president in Gartner. His team is distributed across the globe and covers the management of risk-related programs such as Information Security, Business Continuity, Privacy and Compliance. In addition, he consults with leading organizations worldwide on technology direction, security trends and best practices.

Larry Cannell is a research director for Gartner Research, in the IT1 Collaboration and Content Strategies service. Mr. Cannell covers social and collaborative software, search, and content management, as well as open-source collaboration and content solutions.

Krishnan has over 19 years of demonstrated expertise in system security, software design and development in complex systems environments. Krishnan is working as a Chief Security Architect at Genentech Inc., and responsible for the IT Security Architecture and Roadmap. Prior to Genentech, Krishnan has worked as Security Architect/Technical Lead role in various organizations like Stanford Hospital, CNA Trust, Reuters America, and TIBCO Finance. Krishnan specializes in cryptography, PKI, applications security, network security, database security, and application design and development, IT security audits and compliance. He holds an Bachelor Degree in Mathematics and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science.

Dr. Anton Chuvakin is a recognized security expert in the field of log management, SIEM and PCI DSS compliance. He is an author of books "Security Warrior" and "PCI Compliance" and a contributor to "Know Your Enemy II", "Information Security Management Handbook" and others. Anton has published dozens of papers on log management, SIEM, correlation, security data analysis, PCI DSS, security management. His blog "Security Warrior" is one of the most popular in the industry. In addition, Anton teaches classes and presents at many security conferences across the world; he recently addressed audiences in United States, UK, Singapore, Spain, Russia and other countries. He works on emerging security standards and serves on advisory boards of several security start-ups. Currently, Anton is running his own security consulting practice, focusing on logging, SIEM and PCI DSS compliance for security vendors and Fortune 500 organizations. Dr. Anton Chuvakin was formerly a Director of PCI Compliance Solutions at Qualys. Previously, Anton worked at LogLogic as a Chief Logging Evangelist, tasked with educating the world about the importance of logging for security, compliance and operations. Before LogLogic, Anton was employed by a security vendor in a strategic product management role. Anton earned his Ph.D. degree from Stony Brook University.

Marcus Collins is a senior analyst for Gartner's Burton Group Data Management Strategies. He covers enterprise architecture, data architecture, data and information integration, database management systems and database technologies, and semantic Web. In addition to providing a technical focus, Mr. Collins looks at data management through the lens of international business, having recently completed an M.B.A. in the EU.

Mark Cortner is a senior analyst with Gartner IT Professionals Research. Mr. Cortner provides in-depth research and analysis of real-time and unified communications applications and services. The topics he currently focuses on include voice over IP, unified messaging, video-based communications and collaboration, presence, mobile unified comunications, and network-based digital media technologies.

Matt Costello is an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company. He has led several enterprise initiatives, including the Supplier Portal, which provides a single portal presence for Boeing's supply chain and MyAccess, which will replace 40 homegrown systems with a one-stop shop for managing identities and access. Matt is currently responsible for co-developing authentication, authorization, identity management, and federation strategies that drive Boeing enterprise solutions. Matt has presented at several industry conferences focused on Identity Management and Provisioning and holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Central Florida.

Guy Creese is a vice president and research director for Gartner Research, in Burton Group's Collaboration and Content Strategies service. He covers a range of topics at the intersection of collaboration, content management, and communications. Technologies covered include content management, productivity suites, Microsoft SharePoint, content globalization, and Web analytics.

Luke Dahl is the manager of the Collaborative Engineering and Development Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has a B.A. in Communications from the University of North Dakota, an MBA from California State University - Northridge, and an M.S. in Information Technology from the University of Redlands. Mr. Dahl has been working with JPL for 13 years and has broad experience in both enterprise infrastructure and software engineering and development. He is responsible for the deployment of a rich collaboration and social networking suite of tools and continues to lead efforts to deploy new capabilities and functionality.

Scott is a partner in the K&L Gates LLP law firm. He provides transaction structuring and legal advice associated with emerging technologies including information/data law, compliance with privacy and data security law, e-commerce, online payment structures, standards setting, tax and intellectual property issues. Scott provides advice relating to structuring of online contracts, terms of use, privacy policies and electronic payment and tax administration systems; networked data risk and liability management; online and telecommunications entity organization and affiliation structuring; technology development and transfer; participation in technical standards setting organizations; and internet and telecommunications taxation.

Mario de Boer, Ph.D., is an analyst in the Burton IT1 Security and Risk Management Strategies team. He covers endpoint security, cryptography, risk management and compliance.

Paul DeBeasi is a research VP within Burton IT1 research. Mr. DeBeasi manages the research agenda for the IT1 wireless and mobility coverage area. He performs research in the areas of enterprise mobility, wireless LANs, mobile cellular, wireless security, and mobile device management.

Sumit Dhawan is group vice president and general manager of the Receiver and End User Services Group for Citrix. He is responsible for establishing Citrix Receiver as the market leader in self-service access to desktop, apps and data from any device, anywhere. He drives product and go-to-market strategy and plans for desktop virtualization solutions and cloud services with a focus to capitalize on emerging opportunities with the consumerization of IT. Prior to his current role, Dhawan has been one of the key leaders in driving product, marketing and Go-To-Market strategy for XenDesktop product and has positioned Citrix as a leader in the desktop virtualization market. Dhawan also led product strategy and roadmap for the company’s flagship product line, Citrix XenApp, and led the growth of this product line to generate $1 billion in revenue in 2007. Since joining Citrix in 1998, he has held leadership and strategy positions for a variety of product lines and markets. Dhawan has over 18 years of experience within enterprise software industry. Dhawan holds degrees in both business and science, with a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota. Dhawan graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Mark Diodati is a research vice president with Gartner's IT Professionals Research service. He covers mobility, identity in the cloud, authentication, federation, directory services, provisioning, identity services, Active Directory interoperability, Web access management, single sign-on and physical-logical convergence. His client interactions have made him one of the most sought-after analysts in the service.

Michael Disabato is a research vice president in Gartner IT Professionals Research. Mr. Disabato covers wireless and mobility technologies for end-user organizations and organizational change. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Disabato was a senior manager in network engineering for WorldCom Conferencing and held duties at McDonald's Corp. as an enterprise architect for security, network manager, and manager of the applied technology lab. With 35 years of experience in consulting, application development, networking, security, mobility and technology assessment, Mr. Disabato was named one of the 10 visionaries in 1993 by Communications Week Magazine and one of the 50 Most Influential People in Networking Industry by Network Computing Magazine.

Armando Escalante leads HPCC Systems and is also SVP and CTO of LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. In this position, Armando is responsible for technology development, R&D, Information Systems, Security and Operations. Previously, Armando was Chief Operating Officer for Seisint, originators of the HPCC Technology, which was acquired by LexisNexis in 2004. Prior to 2001, Armando served in multiple senior level positions with different companies, including: Bell Labs, EPSON America, Vignette and Unisys Corp. Armando has a degree in Electronics Engineering from USB, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from WCU. He also serves on several Boards.

Dustin has over 16 years experience in the education domain in the roles of a faculty member, administrator, and IT professional where he specializes in strategic technology alignment and integrating technology to enhance teaching and learning opportunities. In his current role of CIO, he is responsible for all phases of implementation of both instructional and administrative IT systems. Under his leadership, SCC has leveraged end-to-end virtualization strategies to transform the way IT services are delivered while increasing access and reducing TCO. This innovative strategy has received national recognition and numerous innovation awards. Dustin is a frequent session presenter on virtualization strategies.

Scott is Chief I&AM Strategist at Lockheed Martin. He has over eight years of experience in the I&AM field, including directory services, provisioning, federation, smart cards, document labeling, and access enforcement. In addition to his role in Lockheed Martin, Scott is Vice Chair of the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) Architecture Board. TSCP is comprised of aerospace and defense organizations working to develop common solutions for collaboration and information protection, including complex policies such as export control and proprietary information. In both roles, Scott is responsible for developing architectures that appropriately balance ease of use, information protection, and business flexibility.

Chris Fleck is Vice President of Mobility Solutions at Citrix Systems. Chris started his career at IBM working across multiple engineering and product organizations leading to Business Unit Exec of the IBM Industrial Computer Group. As a pioneer of new technologies, Chris founded an IBM spin-off to commercialize the initial Server Blade products as CEO of OmniCluster Technologies. At Citrix Chris is responsible for Strategic Alliances with mobility partners and solutions development. As part of the Citrix CTO Office he is also involved with or leading multiple strategic initiatives at the company. Currently his hot topics include Mobility, VDI and Cloud Computing. You can follow him on Twitter and his blog at TechInstigator.com

Tanya L. Forsheit is a Founding Partner of InfoLawGroup LLP and a former partner with Proskauer, where she was Co-Chair of that firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice group. Certified as an information privacy professional by the IAPP, Ms. Forsheit works with clients to address legal requirements and best practices for protection of customer and employee information in all forms of media, from paper, to e-mail, to computing in the cloud. In 2009, she was named one of the Los Angeles Daily Journal’s Top 100 women litigators in California. She is President-Elect of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.

Ms. Gallagher joined the Office of Governmentwide Policy in May 2010 as part of the Identity Credential and Access Management (IDAM) office. She is the lead for the Federal Identity Credential and Access Management (FICAM) work for Identity Management in the Government including the second phase of the FICAM Roadmap and Implementation Guidance. She is also responsible for the implementation of Government wide services to support the use of the Personal Identification Verification (PIV) and PIV Interoperable credentials within the government as well as the Federal Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Policy Authority Chairperson. She came to GSA from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where she worked in the Enterprise Architecture PMO in the Office of the Chief Information Officer as the lead architect for the segment architecture of the FICAM Roadmap and Implementation Guidance as well as the lead architect for the DHS ICAM segment architecture. Prior to her work with DHS, she was with the Department of Defense (DoD) in the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) where she was responsible for the integration of new technology into the DoD smart card, the Common Access Card (CAC) and implementation of functional requirements in the card issuance infrastructure. She was the PKI liaison to the DoD from DMDC and played a key role on the DoD PKI Certificate Policy Management Working Group, as well as being a member of the PKI Tactical, Technical and Business working groups. Prior to her association with DMDC, Ms. Gallagher was a representative to the DoD PKI Working groups and the DoD Information Assurance council from Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Her work with DISA consisted of identification of technical and functional requirements for operational and developing systems. Ms. Gallagher served three years at DISA Europe, in the DoD European Command, Office of the Comptroller providing both functional and operational financial management experience with various systems being utilized in the DoD. Ms. Gallagher has earned her BS Business Management/Information Systems, MS Information Systems, is CIO Certified and PMP Certified.

Ian Glazer is a research director on the IT Professionals Identity and Privacy Strategies team. His leads IdPS' coverage of identity and access governance and privacy. Topics within these two main areas include: access certification, entitlement management, role management, privacy practices, consumer privacy, and privacy and social media. Other topics he covers include user provisioning, authorization, identity data quality, and national identity programs.

As the leader of Presidio’s technical organization, Tom is responsible for setting strategic direction and managing the IT infrastructure. His day-to-day involvement in analysis, development and implementation has made him uniquely qualified to present strategies for development headed for the cloud. Presidio Health is a software company dedicated to the delivery of performance management solutions to healthcare professionals. Its solutions have helped doctors increase revenues by 20% through intelligent chart analysis and physician feedback. Presidio’s next wave of applications are designed to allow patients to actively participate in the monitoring of their healthcare through the use of smartphones and other web-based applications. Prior to Tom’s position with Presidio, he was CTO of Group Systems, a company dedicated to collaborative reasoning systems based on cognitive research out of the University of Arizona. Tom also spent many years in the hotel and travel technology industry where he founded a couple of companies and consulted for others.

Doron Grinstein co-founded BiTKOO in 2006, after spending eight years with the Walt Disney Company. At Disney, Doron designed and lead the development of several key technologies, including an early version of Keystone. Today, Keystone is BiTKOO's flagship product, and boasts the highest performing XACML fine-grained engine in the world. Doron is a serial inventor with numerous patents and pending patents in the U.S. and internationally. His passions and focus are in fine-grained authorization, federation, large scale distributed systems and cloud computing. Doron enjoys spending time with his wife and his two boys and occasionally writing code.

An Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer at Unum, Mr. Gunderson is a member of the Planning and Engineering team responsible for the Virtualization Platform within the Enterprise Hosting and Data Services group. Mr. Gunderson leads Unum’s third generation of the virtualization platform as it evolves into the private cloud. Strategic initiatives for Mr. Gunderson include integrating the US and UK server environments into a co-located datacenter and leveraging the private cloud model for automated server provisioning, sizing and costing. Learn how Unum provides Better benefits at work by visiting http://www.unum.com Learn more about Mr. Gunderson at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/curtis-gunderson/15/a60/509

Abdullah Haydar is the Chief Technology Officer of Open Dealer Exchange, LLC. He is responsible for Research & Development for all company products and services as well as management of all information technology operations. Prior to this position, Haydar was a senior-level technology leader at AAA –The Auto Club Group, and also served as a consultant across a wide range of industries, including property and causality insurance, health insurance, automotive and manufacturing. Haydar graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Gary Hein is a GVP with Gartner IT Professionals Research.

Trent Henry is a research VP covering security and risk management strategies. His primary research topics include information protection, compliance and control standards, data and content security, and internal cloud security.

Kyle Hilgendorf works as a principal research analyst in Gartner's IT1 service (Burton). He covers cloud computing (external and hybrid), managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, and virtualization (application, desktop and server).

Chris Howard is the chief of research for the Burton Group research product within Gartner. In that role, Mr. Howard ensures that the research agenda meets the needs of IT practitioners and influences the overall practice of enterprise technology. In addition, he contributes research focused on leadership strategy and various technical disciplines.

Sean is a virtualization expert with over 20 years experience developing forward-looking IT solutions for commercial and government enterprises that drive efficiencies and competitive advantage. He has earned numerous certifications from industry leaders, including VMware’s Certified Design Expert (VCDX). Building on an extensive background in financial services IT, Sean co-founded Brigh Technologies, Inc. in 2001 to promote Virtualization technologies. Brigh Technologies quickly became thought leader in the application of Virtualization solutions and was Vmware ‘s first VAC partner worldwide. In 2009, Brigh Technologies merged with Virtustream, Inc., a leading provider of professional services, cloud platforms, and managed services.

Jeff Jonas founded Systems Research & Development (SRD) in 1985 and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Jonas led the development of a number of unique systems including technology used by the Las Vegas gaming industry. One such innovation involved protecting the gaming industry from aggressive card count teams e.g., as depicted in the book “Bringing Down the House.” Today, Jonas designs next generation technology that helps organizations better leverage their enterprise-wide information assets. With particular interest in real-time “sensemaking” these systems fundamentally improve enterprise intelligence which makes organizations smarter, more efficient and highly competitive. Jeff Jonas blogs at: http://jeffjonas.typepad.com

Richard Jones is the managing vice president for Cloud and Data Center Strategies in the IT Professionals Research group at Gartner. He covers hardware infrastructure as a service (cloud computing), disaster recovery, business continuity, x86 server operating systems, high availability and clustering, and server and desktop virtualization. Mr. Jones brings 25 years of experience in technical analysis, engineering, and project and product management in the software industry.

Kevin K. Kampman is a research director in Gartner IT Professionals Research, covering Identity Management and Privacy. Mr. Kampman assists organizations in the optimization of identity capabilities for business objectives. His current research areas include role management, identity services, identity governance, business alignment, and the value proposition for identity.

Anil Karmel is a solutions architect working in the Network and Infrastructure Engineering division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has been in the IT Industry for over ten years, working with various Fortune 500 companies and government in the areas of Enterprise Virtualization, Messaging & Collaboration. As the architect of LANL's Virtualization and Collaboration solutions, Mr. Karmel deployed the laboratory’s first private cloud, “Infrastructure on Demand” and led the lab’s Enterprise Mobility efforts beginning with its’ Blackberry deployment. He has been invited to speak at numerous IT conferences and is frequently quoted in federal IT publications.

Sean Kenefick covers many aspects of application platform strategies, including the software development life cycle (SDLC), build and version control tools, and open-source platform and software solutions.

Nitin Keskar, Ph.D. is an experienced IT strategist and enterprise architect with a proven track record building high-ROI business solutions for clients from multiple industry verticals. He has held a number of key roles focusing on growing and transforming businesses, enabled by technology, building high-performance global teams and making the customer central to the business. Within Cisco, Nitin has contributed handsomely to external and internal customers alike. He has quickly built trusted advisory relationships with business and technology executives on the customer-side, delivered strategy & architectures for multiple initiatives, and demonstrated product- and services pull-through for Cisco. He helped shape the EEA program from its early days, and has crafted deliverables, dashboards and training materials. He has also demonstrated his thought leadership elsewhere in Cisco by creating intellectual capital, participating in multiple forums and helping with business development efforts. Nitin’s diverse technology background includes EA, SOA, MDM, BI, BPM, Web2.0, wireless/mobile applications, ECM, ERP/CRM and more. With a significant expertise in business-IT alignment, Nitin has successfully built productive relationships with internal/external stakeholders to formulate effective roadmaps for enterprise-class IT initiatives. Prior to joining Cisco, Nitin was the Director of Software Development at Sabre Holdings, responsible for strategy, architecture and end-to-end delivery of high-volume, multi-channel global business applications. Before that, he held leadership positions at Oracle and Sapient Consulting where he helped Global 1000 clients with enterprise-wide architecture and systems integration initiatives. He entrepreneural spirit is evident through his work at another consulting firm, eFORCE, that he helped build from the start-up stage to a mature business enterprise. Nitin has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and a significant R&D and engineering experience documented in one book, 25+ patents and 10+ technical publications. He has further demonstrated his thought leadership through invited presentations at industry conferences, as a board member of an industry-standards organization OTA and participation in CIO advisory boards. In the recent years, Nitin has focused on enterprise architecture, global technology management and business technology strategy that are the key themes of his writing in progress.

Kirk Knoernschild is an analyst covering many aspects of application platform strategies, including development platforms, programming languages and frameworks, mobile application platforms, and the software development life cycle (SDLC).

Ian Koenig joined LexisNexis assuming the role of Chief Architect in December, 2008. In the role, Ian has global responsibility for Enterprise Architecture, Architecture Governance, Technology Strategy and New Technology Research. Enterprise Architecture includes: Information architecture, Service Oriented architecture (SOA), Physical Architecture, Business Architecture and Application Architecture. Prior to Joining LexisNexis, Ian was an Independent Consultant, specializing in helping companies create Enterprise Architecture practices within their own organizations. Ian Koenig joined Thomson Financial in September 2005, assuming the role of Chief Architect. In that role, Ian had global responsibility for Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy and Architecture Governance. Prior to joining Thomson, Ian was the Chief Architect for Products and Platforms at Reuters, where he worked for 19 years (beginning in 1986). Thomson Financial and Reuters merged in April 2008 to become Thomson Reuters Throughout his 25+ year career, Ian Koenig has held technical positions of increasing scope and responsibility, beginning his career as a software developer at Reveal Software on Long Island in 1982. Ian was one of seven people who received the Windows Pioneer Award in 1994, recognizing Ian by the Industry as one of the individuals who significantly contributed to the ultimate success of the Microsoft Operating system. The award was presented by Bill Gates at Spring Comdex in 1994. Ian received Bachelors degrees in Mathematics and in Biology from the University of Rochester in 1982.

As an Enterprise Architect at Allergan, Mr. Kozlowski is part of the team responsible for the alignment of enterprise IT strategy with a company’s business goals. Mr. Kozlowski has over 20 years of experience as an information systems professional in diverse areas of IT, with tactical and strategic planning, software development, enterprise systems integration and implementation, web technologies, and network design, to name a few. Mr. Kozlowski has authored Cloud Architecture Implementation Reference Guide for Allergan. He is the chair of the SOA Review Council at Allergan, which is responsible for developing enterprise SOA policies and standards. Mr. Kozlowski received his Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Science at UCI, and holds an M.B.A. Degree from Pepperdine University. Learn more about Mr. Kozlowski at http://www.linkedin.com/in/kozlowskit.

Anton Krantz is responsible for video programs in the Microsoft Lync product group, which include interoperability with videoconferencing systems. He is a member of the board of the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum. The forum is focused on achieving industry-wide interoperability through testing and certification. He is actively involved in the H.264 task group, which specifies interoperability profiles for industry standard video systems. Anton has previously led development of IP phones as part of building Microsoft’s Unified Communications product line, culminating in the release of Lync 2010. Prior to his work in the Lync group, he was program manager for wireless in the Windows Networking group. He holds an electrical engineering degree and 33 patents in wireless networking, real time audio/video and unified communications.

Ramon Krikken is an analyst in the Burton Group Security and Risk Management Strategies team. He covers software/application security; service-oriented architecture (SOA) security; structured and unstructured data security management, including data masking, redaction and tokenization; cryptography, key management and PKI; security information and event management (SIEM) and security analytics; security metrics; and virtualization and cloud computing security as it pertains to the other categories.

Jim has more than 18 years experience in leading marketing strategy and execution. In his role as VP of global solution marketing for Polycom, Jim overseas all aspects of product, services and industry marketing. Prior to his current position, he spent 9 years in Polycom’s voice division in product marketing/management and general management and was instrumental in increasing market share and bringing breakthrough new products to market. Prior to Polycom, Jim led marketing for Palm’s wireless internet service. He also served in several senior marketing roles with GTE (Verizon) wireless. Jim has an MBA from CSU, East Bay, and a BA from UC Berkeley.

Jay Leek, CISM, CISA, CISSP is the Vice President of International Security at Equifax. In this role, Jay is responsible for ensuring security/fraud programs, risks affecting business interests and regulatory matters are managed internationally. Over the past 15 years, Jay has been managing global security teams, worked as an information security product manager and consulted with telecommunications companies, government agencies and financial institutions assisting them with business development, strategic planning and architectural design required to meet their security objectives. Jay acts as an industry advisor for information security organizations and government agencies and is a frequent speaker on information security related topics at domestic and international conferences.

Jim serves the National FINPRO Practice as a Senior Client Advisor in Technology and Network Risk. His focus with Marsh is improving corporate awareness to the numerous Federal and State compliance requirements of data management and assisting clients in identifying additional exposures not covered in traditional insurance policies and negotiating with carriers on terms and conditions to transfer this complex risk. Mr. Leonard brings more than 12 years of experience in assisting companies in identifying risk, creating security policies and procedures and training corporate security practitioners. Prior to joining Marsh, Jim spent six years with Kroll's Fraud Practice assisting companies in identifying data loss risks as well as managing Kroll’s Data Breach Response Team in the investigation, remediation and response to real time data breach events. During his tenure with Prior to joining Kroll in 2005, Mr. Leonard spent six years as the Vice-President of Flat Earth, a network security firm, performing architecture risk analysis in both physical and network security as well as vetting security solutions to meet the rigorous defense demands of public and private companies, government agencies, the US Military and NASA. Additionally, Jim has been invited to speak at more than 100 privacy, security, risk and Department of Homeland Security events throughout North America.

Brad MacQuarrie has been a Technical Architect in the Defence, Aerospace, and Security industry for over 5 years. He has also been an Enterprise Architect in the Retail Grocery industry and a Solutions Architect in the Financial Services industry. With over 15 years in the IT business, he has seen that ideas that allow the business people to just think about their services and have technology be transparent transcend industries. Notwithstanding the overuse of the term, “the cloud” offers a compelling metaphor for “put the tech somewhere and just give me an easy interface to run my business.”

Eric Maiwald is an analyst in security and risk management strategies where he covers infrastructure and mobile security. Mr. Maiwald also manages the research calendar for security and risk management strategies with Gartner's Burton unit.

Anne Manes is a VP and distinguished analyst and directs research for the Application Platform Strategies (APS) team in Burton Group Research. Ms. Manes leads research on application development and delivery strategies, with a specific focus on BPM, SOA, and cloud computing. The APS team comprises seven analysts. Ms. Manes sets the research agenda, acts as mentor to members of the APS team, maintains editorial control over all content produced by the team, and coordinates the research with other service teams in Burton Group Research and across Gartner.

William Maxwell has been working as an IT Professional for over 25 years. Throughout his career he has worked in various industries including Commercial Finance, Health Care, Education and Utilities. He also owned a small company providing software solutions and professional services for post secondary student administration. In addition, he has spent years in systems programming supporting IT infrastructure supporting hardware, operating systems and network configurations. Currently Mr. Maxwell works at San Diego Gas & Electric as a Software Component Architect. He has been a contributor on major IT project initiatives developing solutions to support the automation of integration of the Electric Grid with mobile, customer, Smart Meter and Smart Grid component solutions within the utility enterprise.

Damon McBeth is an IT Line Manager for the Vanguard Group. In that role, Mr. McBeth manages development teams and provides leadership in designing, developing and implementing Information Technology solutions in support of the business.

Patrick McGuirk is Director of Enterprise IT at Summit Business Media, the leading business-to-business media and information company serving the insurance, investment and professional services markets. He manages a team including network operations, service desk, developers, designers, analysts and project managers, as well as outsourced development teams. He has been implementing SharePoint for over five years, and developing Microsoft solutions for fifteen years.

Sanjay Misra is Senior Vice President of Shared Technology Services, which is part of Fidelity Investment’s Asset Management Group. He is responsible for delivering and supporting Platform as a Service, which is used to build business solutions for Fidelity’s asset management companies. Fidelity Investments is the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and a leading online brokerage firm. Mr. Misra joined Fidelity in 1996 and has over 24 years of IT experience.

Kunal Mittal serves as an Executive Director of Technology at Sony Pictures Entertainment where he is responsible for the SOA, Identity Management and Content Management programs. He provides a centralized engineering service to different lines of business and leads efforts to introduce new platforms and technologies into the Sony Pictures Enterprise IT environment. Kunal is an entrepreneur who helps startups defining their technology strategy, product roadmap and development plans. With strong relations with several development partners worldwide, he is able to help startups and even large companies, build appropriate development partnerships. He generally works in an Advisor or Consulting CTO capacity, and serves actively in the Project Management and Technical Architect functions. He has authored, and edited several books and articles on J2EE, Cloud Computing and Mobile technologies. He holds a Master's degree in Software Engineering and is a instrument rated Private Pilot.

Randy Nunez is a Senior Network Engineer for Ford Motor Company where he leads the Mobile Computing workstream in researching emerging mobile trends, performing proofs of concepts for technology prove-out, writing internal technical briefs, and delivering presentations to various audiences. He serves on the advisory board for the US Enterprise Mobility Exchange 2011 conference. He is also assistant organizer/planning committee member for Mobile Monday Detroit and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Mr. Nunez has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

Nicole Ozer is the Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director at the ACLU of Northern California and spearheads the organization’s online privacy campaign, Demand Your dotRights (www.dotrights.org). Prior to joining the staff of the ACLU, Nicole was an intellectual property attorney at Morrison & Foerster. She was recognized by San Jose Magazine in 2001 for being one of 20 “Women Making a Mark” in Silicon Valley. Nicole is the author of several legal and policy publications, including Privacy & Free Speech: It’s Good for Business, a primer of case studies and tips for baking safeguards into the business development process. Title: Privacy & Free Speech: It’s Good Business Presentation Date: Thursday July 28 Start Time: 3:25 PM Room: Sapphire CD (456) Abstract: Expensive lawsuits, bad press, loss of business partners, hauled to Washington for government investigations – none of this is conducive to business success. Drawing from materials highlighted in Privacy and Free Speech: It’s Good for Business, a primer produced by the ACLU of Northern California (http://dotrights.org/business/primer), this presentation will review real-life business case studies that have landed companies in hot water and good decisions that have avoided serious privacy and free speech problems down the line. It will also review tips for baking good privacy and free speech practices into the development process and making early decisions that are good for customers and the bottom line.

Alessandro Perilli is a research director for Data Center Strategies in the Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) research group. Mr. Perilli covers cloud computing (mostly private infrastructure as a service [IaaS] clouds) and server and client virtualization. His primary focus is on virtualization and cloud management, including: - Self-service provisioning (portals and service catalogs) - Orchestration - Capacity management - Performance management - Configuration and change management - VM life cycle management - Virtual infrastructure management - Chargeback - External cloud connectors (for hybrid cloud environments) Mr. Perilli also has a background in computer and network security and occasionally covers virtualization and cloud security.

Global IT manager with 10+ years of progressive experience in various roles, with a track record of success in delivering business value, managing complex and diverse transformational projects, and leading change in fast paced Global environments and sectors like Manufacturing, Finance, IT Consulting and Communications Management.

David Poll is a Project Manager for ManpowerGroup’s North American IS operations, and is a certified PMP. David comes from a background in application development and design.

James (Jamie) M. Popkin is the managing vice president of the Gartner for Technical Professionals Data Management Strategies team. He is also a Gartner Fellow Emeritus and chairman of Gartner U.S. Symposium/ITxpo. Mr. Popkin is currently covering text analytics, e-discovery, business analytics and information modeling topics with a background in search, enterprise content management, business intelligence and social software topics. He previously managed the IT Leaders Business Intelligence and Information Management Research group and was involved in the development of the Pattern-Based Strategy (PBS) research theme. Mr. Popkin can discuss business intelligence, performance management, data management and integration, and PBS topics. He also ran Gartner Research in Asia/Pacific and Japan, is the co-author of "IT and the East: How China and India are Altering the Future of Technology and Innovation" and was the founder of the Gartner China Outsourcing Summit. From this experience Mr. Popkin can discuss the ICT industries of China and India.

Bill Pray is a research director for the Gartner IT Professionals Collaboration and Content team. Mr. Pray joined Gartner in January 2010 as a result of the acquisition of Burton Group, at which time he held the position of analyst. He covers communications and collaboration solutions ? e-mail, calendars, instant messaging and Web conferencing ? and provides in-depth analysis and technical information to aid in the selection, implementation and management of these solutions.

Paul Proctor is a vice president, distinguished analyst, and the role agenda manager for enterprise and IT risk management. He helps organizations build mature risk and security programs that are aligned with business need. His coverage includes board reporting, KRI development, risk assessment and GRC technologies. His ground-breaking research in Risk-Adjusted Value Management helps organizations integrate risk and corporate performance.

Rag Ramanathan is director of product management for APIs at Savvis, where he is responsible for defining and launching the API program for Savvis’ cloud-related services. His role is to ensure common governance and security for internal and external APIs, and make clients and partners successful with APIs. Prior to joining Savvis, Rag held product leadership roles at start-up companies such as Mitia and Apigee (Sonoa), and large companies like Dun and Bradstreet (Purisma) and BEA Systems (Oracle), where he successfully launched and deployed enterprise products and client solutions. Rag holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a master’s degree in software engineering from San Jose State University.

Drue Reeves is vice president and research director, Cloud Computing and Data Center Strategies.

Lyn Robison is the research director for Burton Group's Data Management Strategies group within Gartner Research. Mr. Robison provides guidance on topics including data cloud, information quality, data strategy, data integration, and the upcoming information-based revolution in solution delivery in enterprise IT.

Mike Rollings is a research VP within the Professional Effectiveness team. His research discusses what IT professionals need to know about transformation, innovation, human behavior, contextual strategy, collaborative organizational change, communication and influence, and cross-discipline effectiveness (e.g., enterprise architecture, IT portfolio management, governance). His research can be read by IT professionals with access to Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) research. Mr. Rollings joined Gartner on 1 January 2010 as a result of the acquisition of Burton Group, at which time he held the position of research director for Enterprise Architecture on the Executive Advisory Program team.

Jon Rolls is vice president of product management for the Quest Desktop Virtualization Group. Jon joined the Quest family in 2004, and brings 15 years of software industry and Windows management experience, including product management roles with Citrix, ScriptLogic, and virtualization and web acceleration startups. Jon has a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics from the University of Warwick, England.

Craig Roth is a vice president and service director for Gartner Research, in Burton Group's Collaboration and Content Strategies service. Mr. Roth covers a wide range of knowledge and Web-related topics at the intersection of collaboration, content management, and communication. Technologies covered include enterprise portals, Microsoft SharePoint, content globalization, and attention management (information overload). He also covers executive issues around these topics, specializing in governance and business cases.

Lori Rowland is vice president and service director for the identity and privacy strategies team in the IT Professionals Research group at Gartner.

Gene Ruth is a research director that focuses on enterprise storage technologies. As an analyst, Mr. Ruth defines research plans and provides client recommendations. He is an expert in regard to storage technologies, storage trends and the application of storage technologies in an enterprise environment. He guides vendors in storage technology road map development and product usage scenarios. Recent publications focus on storage strategies and trends, emerging technologies, cloud storage, SSDs, storage operational paradigms, virtualization, storage efficiency, and storage management.

David is the Founder and CEO of Yammer, Inc. He has been involved in the internet space for ten years as an entrepreneur, executive and investor, starting with PayPal in 1999. David was PayPal's Chief Operating Officer and product leader, taking the company from startup to IPO and eventual sale to eBay for $1.5 billion. Subsequently, he founded Geni.com, which is creating a family tree of the whole world, enabling millions of family members to connect, share, and preserve their lives. He also produced and financed the movie "Thank You For Smoking". He has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Raj is an active member of the Information Security industry, through involvement with numerous initiatives to improve the awareness and application of security. He is currently working as the VP, Chief Technical Officer for McAfee EMEA, having previously worked as the Chief Information Security Officer for a large public sector organisation in the UK, consultant for Capgemini, and EMEA Technical Manager for Qualys. In addition, Raj is currently the EMEA Strategy Advisor for the Cloud Security Alliance, having previously worked as the Vice President for Communications in the ISSA UK Chapter. Having authored numerous articles and papers, and appeared on television (ITV and More4). He is also a member of the advisory council for the Infosecurity Europe show, Infosecurity Magazine, and expert on both searchsecurity.co.uk, and infosec portal. As well as providing assistance in the 2006 RSA Wireless Security Survey and part of the consultation committee for the RIPA Bill (Part 3). Raj is also leading the Common Assurance Maturity Model (CAMM) project (please see www.common-assurance.com), and can be found on Twitter @Raj_Samani.

Jack Santos is a research vice president with Gartner. He is part of the Gartner IT Professionals product and focuses on professional effectiveness for IT practitioners. Mr. Santos covers organizational development, leadership and management practices, development practices, governance, vendor management, data and application architecture, technical support, system integration, security, Internet business, and collaboration solutions.

Philip S. Schacter is team manager for security and risk management strategies (part of the Burton Group acquisition). His focus of research is network security, security architecture, security governance, network identity and policy systems, and single sign-on.

Bryan is the Chief Marketing Officer at VKernel, the leader in capacity management for virtualized environments. His work at VKernel follows eight prior years working in various facets of virtualization including time at Netapp, Onaro and Egenera. At NetApp, he was the general manager of the storage virtualization business unit. He came to NetApp through the acquisition of Onaro, a leader in storage management software where he was VP of Marketing. Before Onaro, Bryan was the VP of Product Marketing at infrastructure virtualization pioneer Egenera. Bryan holds a BS in Systems Engineering from the US Naval Academy and an MBA from Stanford University.

David Shelton is an Operations Director in Corporate Technology at Pacific Life. He leads a group responsible for IT infrastructure and operations for the Corporate Division, overseeing client and server systems. He has over 25 years of professional experience with emphasis in systems infrastructure, identity management, and information security. He has served as a Division Information Security Officer, and currently serves as the chair of the Server Enterprise Architecture Group at Pacific Life, an enterprise IT governance body responsible for server strategic planning and architectural standards. David received his Bachelor of Science in Biology and Master of Science in Applied Biometry from the University of Southern California.

Eric Siegel is a research director with Gartner IT Professionals Research. Mr. Siegel produces detailed research and analysis of network and applications performance measurement, incident and problem management tools and techniques, WAN performance optimization, and quality of service (QoS) technical issues.

Doug Simmons is Burton Group vice president of consulting services. His expertise is in enterprise, e-business and service provider security, risk management, data loss prevention, identity and access management, application and data security, network security, security policy and program development, PKI, messaging and collaboration services.

Nik Simpson covers a variety of topics focused in three areas: 1. Compute platforms, x86 and RISC platforms 2. Data center infrastructure and design (power, cooling, etc.) 3. Thick, thin and zero client desktop platforms

Tom is the IT CTO at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He leads a collaborative, practical, and hands-on approach with JPL and industry to investigate emerging IT technology trends that are relevant to JPL, NASA, and large enterprises -- and to infuse these into JPL’s environment. Tom has led remote teams and large scale IT best practices and tools development and change efforts in small startups, large commercial companies, in international venues, and in the US Government arena. The objective is simple: adopt or perish. But how? By using emerging technologies such as Cloud Computing to transform IT into Innovating Together.

Javier Soltero is the CTO of SaaS and Application Services at VMware. He is responsible for driving advanced development and strategy for app-level cloud services. Most recently, Javier was the co-founder and CEO of Hyperic, the leader in large scale web infrastructure management. Prior to Hyperic, he was the Chief Architect and senior engineer at various enterprise software and internet companies. From early internet messaging, application server, and e-commerce technologies at Netscape to the management platform that became Hyperic, Javier has kept a passion for building technologies that make IT more successful. Soltero has been involved in various open source communities as both user and contributor. He is also an advisor to a number of open source and SaaS startups.

Darin Stewart is a research director for Gartner in the Collaboration and Content Strategies service. He covers a broad range of technologies that together comprise enterprise content management. These include Web content management, document management, search, taxonomy and semantics.

Robert Stroud is International Vice President of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) and a member of ITGI’s COBIT Steering Commiteee. Stroud is a vice president and the service management and governance evangelist for the Service Management business unit at CA, helping to ensure that the company’s solutions adhere to best practices in service management and governance. A 27-year IT veteran, Stroud is a recognized industry speaker and leader. Stroud serves on the international itSMF board of directors. He has authored several major titles on ITIL and COBIT and was involved in the development of ITIL V3. He is a mentor, reviewer and part of the ITIL Advisory Group. Stroud joined CA from the Australian computer security company Cybec, where he held several management positions and was responsible for the company's successful global expansion, culminating in its successful entry into the North American market. Earlier, he spent 15 years in the banking industry where he held several positions within the IT and retail banking sectors. He was involved in the development, design and implementation of advanced technologies, including retail banking systems, ATMs, point-of-sale devices, smartcard technologies and service management disciplines.

Vijay Takanti is VP, Security & Collaboration Solutions at Exostar. He is responsible for creating his organization’s strategy/product roadmap, along with the design, development, and delivery of these cloud-based solutions. Before joining Exostar in 2004, Takanti was founder and CEO of Evincible® Software. Takanti’s career spans nearly 25 years, and he is recognized as an authority on the emerging/evolving technologies related to federation, identity/access management, and collaboration in the cloud. He has played key roles with TSCP and CertiPath, and he is a frequent speaker at A&D and Security events. Takanti holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communications, a Masters in Computer Sciences, and a Masters in Business Administration.

Charles Teague is co-founder and CEO of FitNow, Inc. makers of Lose It!, the class leading weight loss application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Before co-founding FitNow, Charles was a Technologist in Residence at General Catalyst, where he worked to identify new investment opportunities in mobile software, software infrastructure, and internet technologies. Prior to joining General Catalyst, Charles was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Onfolio (acquired by Microsoft in 2005). Charles was the first employee at Allaire Corporation (acquired by Macromedia), ultimately leading product development for Allaire's flagship product, ColdFusion. Charles earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy from Macalester College.

Vittorio is currently Vice President of Program Management at VMware reporting to Rick Jackson, the company CMO. Vittorio is responsible for aligning VMware’s go-to-market strategies and product initiatives with customer priorities. Prior to Joining VMware, Vittorio was VP of Product Development at Oracle Fusion Middleware and ran the Mobility, Voice and Communications Platform team. Before joining Oracle, Vittorio was Vice President of Platform Product Management and Strategy for BEA Systems. He was responsible for driving the product strategy, roadmap and priorities for BEA’s Application Platform Suite which includes application and data integration, portal, application server and WebLogic WorkShop, BEA’s integrated development environment. Prior to joining BEA in 2001, Vittorio was the Vice President of Product Management at eXcelon Corporation. While at eXcelon he pioneered the area of XML technology, XML tools and XML databases. Vittorio was one of the key drivers behind the engineering the most comprehensive XML tools suite and the first XML-based Business Process Engine. Vittorio started his own software company in Italy in 1994. The company ViVi Software specialized in the area of visual tools for object databases. ViVi Software was acquired by eXcelon Corporation in 1997.

Todd Vigneault is Board Certified in Security Management with over 20 years of industry experience in an array of security arenas. In Todd’s role as Senior Manager of Corporate Security at Symantec, he is responsible for delivering Security and Safety systems and the Security Project Management Office across the enterprise. Prior to joining Symantec, Todd held a variety of security leadership positions in various markets, where his responsibilities included program development, project management, policy and procedure implementation, business continuity, travel security, personnel development and retention, systems management and consulting. Todd is a military veteran who served in the United States Marine Corps. Todd holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Security Management and is Board Certified in Security Management through ASIS International.

Flavio Villanustre, CISSP, is the Vice President of Information Security for LexisNexis Risk Solutions. With more than 20 years of experience, he is responsible for strategy around infrastructure and application security, and data security. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Mr. Villanustre held a variety of technical and management roles at various organizations covering in the areas of Information security and Infrastructure. Mr. Villanustre has also been an active member of the open source community, founding the first Linux Users Group in Argentina, BALUG, in 1995.

Eckhard Voelcker is VP and CTO of Windows Management for Quest Software. He started his career in 1981 as a freelance software developer. In the following years, he worked as a product manager for Philips Kommunikations AG, technical supervisor for CPS System Integration Berlin, managing director of Krone Netzwerkservices and regional supervisor of Krone AG. In 1991 and 1992, Eckhard served as IT guest lecturer for computer architecture at Humboldt University, Berlin. In 1994, Eckhard co-founded Voelcker Informatik AG to develop and market technology to automate identity management and user provisioning. As a managing shareholder, Eckhard continuously expanded enterprise activities, leading the company’s transformation into a publicly owned corporation in 1998. Voelcker Informatik was acquired by Quest Software in 2010 to extend the Quest One Identity Solution product portfolio.

Andy is a Senior Enterprise Architect for Communication, Collaboration and Content at Genentech (a unit of Roche). In his current role, Andy is responsible for providing innovative leadership in the areas of email messaging, real time communication, document management, and social networking to assist the company meet its business goals through productivity and efficiency gain. Andy has been at Genentech for almost 6 years. Prior to Genentech, Andy has held various technical and management positions at Gap Inc, Andersen Consulting, and start ups in Silicon Valley.

Richard Watson is an analyst in Burton Group Gartner Research. He advises clients on application architecture, service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud application platforms and business process management (BPM).

Robin Wilton is a research director with a particular interest in digital identity and privacy (and their relationship to public policy), access control and single sign-on, and capitalizing on public key infrastructures.

Chris Wolf is a research vice president for Gartner's IT Professionals service. He covers server and client virtualization, cloud computing, data protection, management and classification, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

Randy Yates is the Director of Information Security at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston Texas. He is responsible for enterprise data security including risk management, security operations and identity and access management. By establishing a strong security governance practice and driving risk management decision making to company executives, Mr. Yates has been successful at deploying numerous strategic security initiatives. Prior to joining Memorial Hermann, Mr. Yates served as a Security Consultant for both IBM Global Services and Healthlink , a CRM consulting for Cambridge Technology Partners and an IT Auditor for International Paper Company.

Dr. Zecca is the Chief Technology Executive for Mitchell 1, a business unit of Snap-on Corporation. Dr. Zecca has held Chief Information Officer, Vice President IT, and IT Director positions with companies such as American Airlines, AT&T-Bell Atlantic, Peoplesoft, and BFGoodrich. He is also currently an Associate Professor of Business and Technology at Ashford University. Dr. Zecca graduated from The University of San Diego with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications Engineering and Philosophy. He obtained a Master’s of Divinity and a Masters of Science degree in Sacred Scripture from St. Patrick’s Theological Union and Seminary in Menlo Park, CA. He has taught extensively in comparative religious studies, biblical versioned analysis, and Old Testament redaction research. Dr. Zecca earned a Masters degree in Computer Science from Virginia Institute of Technology, a Master’s in Business Administration from LeTourneau University of Texas and a PhD in Information Technology Management from Capella University.