Stein Bagger joined IT FACTORY in December 2001. His main purpose was to devise and implement new strategies to cope with changes in global IT market after the .com burst. Another asset for IT FACTORY is benefiting from Stein's in long time experience in a firm and focused execution and how to grow profitable businesses. Prior to Stein's engagement with IT FACTORY, Stein has been President and CEO in other international software companies with a primary focus on business development, strategic alliances and financing. Stein Bagger holds two bachelor degrees; one in accounting and one in economics. Stein also holds an MBA and a PhD in International Business.

Nick has over 20 years of experience in high technology sales and marketing including various positions in product management and engineering. He brings to 3Tera a wealth of sales experience both in direct and channel sales for software and services companies. Prior to joining 3Tera, Nick served as senior vice president of Sales and Marketing at OpSource, an infrastructure service provider that helps companies move to a SaaS model, where he had a significant role in establishing the company as the leader in the SaaS delivery market in less than two years. Before OpSource, he was vice president of Marketing for Allocity, a storage management company, where he led all aspects of marketing and product management. He helped build Allocity until it was acquired by EMC in October, 2004.

As CEO and founding member of SolveDirect, Martin built up a world leading provider for centrally hosted, web-based Servicemanagement solutions. With the world's largest on demand IT-Servicemanagement platform SolveDirect automated the Servicemanagement of more than 150 major industry leading companies throughout Europe and CEE with Software-as-a-Service resulting in substantial cost- and time-savings in the service processes. Martin is also responsible for sales at SolveDirect and grew the company's turnover by more than 60 percent last year. He has more than 15 years of experience in the international IT sector. Prior to founding SolveDirect in 2000 Martin worked for IBM in Austria where he was responsible for the Servicemanagement business.

Justin Boyce Cam, CEO and co-founder of Comrange, is an experienced information technology specialist. Justin has a unique flair and insight for business software solutions and is passionate about on-demand software. Justin set up Comrange in 2002 to directly address the growing market need for scalable, rapid to deploy business applications. Justin worked as a lead consultant for Paragon Consulting and as a technical specialist to FTSE 100 companies. Justin was responsible for the Project Management and implementation of British American Tobacco PLC's corporate IT plan; the design and implementation of the BAT capital expenditure model, and the design of Marconi PLC's global Group Reporting System. Justin also was involved in project managing the roll out of systems for Inchcape's global finance and IT implementation- a project incorporating a roll out to forty-two countries over 18 months.

David is a Managing Director of Kennet Partners and has been a partner at Kennet since March 1998. David leads Kennet's investment activity in European software and services businesses. David led Kennet's successful investment in Cramer Systems and is a board member of Clearswift Systems, Exony, Fluency Voice Technology, FRS Global and Volantis Systems. He has a particular interest in the development of the SaaS business model and was an investor in Aspective - one of Europe's first ASPs. Kennet has invested in two fast growing SaaS businesses in the US , Medefinance and eProject, and is looking for similar opportunities in Europe. Kennet has a particular interest in the international expansion of European businesses to address global markets.

John is Business Development Director within IT Europa, the leading provider of strategic business intelligence, news and analysis on the European IT marketplace and the primary channels which serve it. John has been in the IT industry since 1969, his early career as an engineer, where he rose to be European Engineering manager for the first company to launch an Intel 8080 based microcomputer. During the 1980's and 1990's John held a number of senior sales and marketing roles as well as being the Managing Director of IT distribution, systems integration, software and services companies. During this time John was responsible for launching many of the technologies and IT brands onto the UK market that now at the core of the IT industry. Amongst these technologies were the first commercial versions of UNIX, first PC networking products, first RISC processor based systems, first X Terminals, first network switches and first IP Telephony products.

Christian Claussen joined TVM Capital in June 1998, and is a General Partner in the firm's technology investment practice. Focusing on communications and Internet-enabling technologies, he leads or co-leads TVM Capital's investments as a director of Arteris S.A., CoreOptics Inc., Definiens AG, Infitel International NV. He also managed the firm's interests in Telesnap AG (acquired by Netwise AB), Time AG (acquired by Genesys S.A.) and Tantau Inc. (acquired by 724 Solutions). Prior to joining TVM Capital, Mr. Claussen was responsible for strategic business development and product line management in optical transmission networks, a $1.5 billion business unit in Siemens' Public Networking Group.

Jim Corgel is general manager, ISV and Developer Relations, Software Group. In this role, he is responsible for IBM's worldwide relationship with independent software vendors (ISVs), which contribute to approximately one third of IBM's revenue. He also manages the key partnerships with the development, academic, and venture capital communities which comprise IBM's industry-leading ecosystem of influencers. Mr. Corgel's career at IBM spans more than 30 years. Since joining IBM in 1975, Mr. Corgel has held a broad range of positions in marketing and field management, including responsibility for IBM's emerging markets division and the distribution industry for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to his current position, Mr. Corgel led IBM's services solutions for small and medium business (SMB) clients. He was charged with growing IBM's SMB business by developing innovative solutions that match SMB client needs and enabling Business Partners to sell IBM services. Previously, Mr. Corgel was general manager for IBM's Web and application hosting services business. His team led the development of variably-priced service offerings that allow clients to scale their business and infrastructure processes based on market demands, and pay only for what they use.

Mac Craigmyle is co-founder and MD of Business Professional Ltd. Business Professional has developed a suite of SaaS business applications - the OnSuite portfolio that are provided to SMB and mid-market businesses. The OnSuite solutions address an organisation business management process automation needs and cover HR, CRM, email, IM, project management, timesheets, expenses, asset management, document management and more. OnSuite is provided on a monthly rental basis per user with no minimum contract and no cancellation periods or fees. Prior to Business Professional, Mac was an Engineering Manager at Honeywell and then founded Compita, a management consultancy providing business process management services to FTSE 100 companies.

Peter de Haas has been working in the publishing industry for 18 years. Started on electronic prepress systems, but as early as 1997 joined a team that published the first completely online publishing product in transportation. Since 2000 Peter de Haas has been working on many different online innovations within Reed Business as a project manager, E-publishing manager and today as a Business Program Manager in the Reed Business Internet Group. His focus has always been to convert innovative ideas into tangible publishing products. One year ago he implemented salesforce.com as an OnDemand CRM tool into the Kellysearch.nl organisation.

As President and Chief Executive Officer of JasperSoft, Paul drives the operational strategy of the company, with a focus on establishing JasperSoft as an industry leader with exceptional products and devoted customers. With more than 22 years of software experience, Paul has held numerous executive positions in both large and small software companies. Previous to JasperSoft, Paul was executive vice president at Thor Technologies, a leader in secure enterprise provisioning. Prior to Thor, he was EVP of worldwide sales for VMWare, the leader in virtual computing for Intel servers. Other notable career positions include those at Business Objects, where Paul was general manager for the Americas and at Oracle Corporation, where he was vice president of the America's Alliances organization. Paul has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Stephen Fearon is the leader of Oracle CRM Solutions Business Development and CRM On Demand for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has been with Oracle for 14 years and has held a number of CRM roles in the UK and EMEA for 7 years. Prior to the acquisition of Siebel, Steve was the EMEA Solution Sales Leader for Oracle's CRM Solution portfolio, responsible for leading the Oracle sales force in EMEA to promote and sell its CRM solutions portfolio.   

Justin Floyd is smartfundit.com's President, Founder and resident ‘visionary'. He co-founded smartfundit.com in January 2006, the first independent platform to deliver finance on demand to the world's technology industry™ which has transacted over $400million of technology financing in the past 12 months. He co-founded CCL with Suki Gallagher in 1993 and excels as both a strategist and a tactician in the high technology marketing arena. As a respected software entrepreneur, he is closely linked to several high-profile industry success stories and has a strong track record in both IT and financing. Over the past two decades, he has founded or co-founded several hugely successful technology businesses and subsequently taken them through to acquisition. These include Atomicdata, Regent and Vecta, the market leader in sales intelligence solutions.

Jerome Fougerat joined Corum in 2006 and now serves as Regional Director in Paris. Jerome's entrepreneurial and IT management career began in the mid-1990's when he co-founded Tribelt, an IT service company for telcos and large banks. He then co-founded Solsoft, a network security software company, for which he raised more than 20M€ from international top tier VCs. Established in France and in the USA, Solsoft sold its solutions to more than 50 of the Fortune 500 companies in the world. Jerome also served as CEO of NetSecureOne, an IT security group he created when merging Zencod and NetSecure Software, and as Sales and Marketing Director for Delia Systems, a scheduling software company. Jerome began his professional career in financial journalism (Capital Finance) before joining the investment firm Renovaction (Rockefeller Foundation's investment vehicle in France).

Simon is the Chief Solution Officer of Attenda - the Always On Managed Services company - which he co-founded in 1997. Today, Attenda is widely recognised as the UKs leading Managed Service Provider. At Attenda, Simon has been instrumental in developing its SaaS proposition which today provides the hosting platform for a wide range of UK-based ISVs. He has worked closely with many of these clients to develop their proposition and speaks regularly about SaaS. Prior to Attenda, Simon has held a number of technical, product and marketing roles at Novell & Dell Computer Corporation. He has spent much of his career in Asia Pacific.

Allen Hoke is the Senior Director of Global ISV Strategy for Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for strategy, relationships and solutions with Oracle's Independent Software Vendor partners, including programs, technology, marketing, sales, support and distribution. In his ten years at Oracle, Allen has served in a variety of partner business and technology roles. Prior to joining Oracle, Allen spent 8 years at several independent software vendors and resellers, managing partner and customer relationships, as well as handling product management of several software development product lines. Allen started his career in the aerospace industry designing and implementing engineering and manufacturing systems. He is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton, with a BA in Business Management Operations.

Eren Kangeldi is the Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Technology AG, a Swiss software manufacturer who develops and implements real-time applications for manufacturing and logistics. Kangeldi joined Kaiser Technology in 2006 and is one of its co-founders. During the past two decades, Kangeldi has managed several complex organizations and successfully penetrated global markets with multinational teams. Kangeldi previously worked with IBM, SAP, Ramco Systems and SKYVA which was later acquired over ABB. He obtained his industry know-how in various positions with Oerlikon Bührle and Digitron. Eren Kangeldi holds a BSC in Engineering obtained at BBA, Zurich as well as an MBA from the University of Applied Sciences in Bern. He also holds a Masters Degree in Business Modeling and Coaching obtained at the University of San Francisco.

As the Senior Director of Product Marketing (EMEA), Jonathan is responsible for driving awareness of the company's award winning on-demand business services across the EMEA region. With over 13 years' IT sector experience Jonathan is one of the most experienced technology marketers in Europe. Prior to joining salesforce.com, Jonathan was CMO at PortWise, the leading provider of mobile identity management software, and has also held senior marketing roles in Europe and the US at global storage giant VERITAS Software. During his two and a half years at PortWise, Jonathan dramatically grew the worldwide awareness and demand for their products and services, taking the company from a Swedish start-up to a global operator securing market share in APAC, North America and Europe. Similarly while at VERITAS, Jonathan was responsible for driving their emerging products worldwide, and grew this new product line from $3 million to over $350 million in just four years.

Brian is a seasoned senior executive who has held senior international positions at D&B, Manugistics and RockPort Trade Systems. More recently he was Senior Vice President in charge of international operations at QRS who were a $140 million supply chain and content provider, based in San Francisco - Marsden is a well respected figure in the global supply chain management sector.

Christine's hands-on approach in leading SpringCM builds on more than 18 years of experience. Previously, Christine served as Chief Executive Officer at Open Road Technologies (now Intellext), a venture-backed advanced search technology company, and as managing director of ClickMarkets, an early stage venture accelerator, whose companies include Mobitrac, LeadAmerica, and Holisticare, among others. Christine also co-founded and served as Chief Marketing Officer for MetalMaker, Inc., an Internet supply-chain service offering to the global metals industry. Prior to that, she worked in mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integration, and new market growth with global companies. Christine serves on the Board of the Software and Information Industry Association, and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. Christine received her BA from Northwestern University, and her MBA from Graduate Kellogg School of Management.

Dave is responsible for the design and implementation of IBM's Software as a Service partner programs worldwide. These programs provide technical and marketing support to hundreds of application vendors who are adopting or who have already embraced the Software as a Service delivery model. In this capacity, Dave also frequently interacts with the venture capital and analyst community. Currently based in Somers, New York, Dave has held a number of international positions during his career at IBM. Dave has been involved in IBM's web and application hosting business for more than 10 years. His previous roles include Global Offering Manager for IBM e-business Hosting Services, EMEA Intranet Solutions Manager and UK Internet Marketing Manager. Dave joined IBM in 1995 after graduating from University of Portsmouth with a BA Honors in Business Studies. He also holds a post-graduate diploma from the Charter Institute of Marketing.

Avinoam Nowogrodski brings over 20 years of experience in sales, engineering and business management to Clarizen. He brings insight and expertise gained in those positions to Clarizen's vision of bringing collaborative project management to every business. Prior to establishing the company, Avinoam co-founded SmarTeam Corporation, a leading provider of collaborative product life cycle management (PLM) solutions. As CEO from 1995 - 2005, Avinoam's leadership molded SmarTeam through many phases, from its early entry into the market via an indirect channel through the creation of an enterprise PLM solution portfolio sold and supported by IBM. In 1999 SmarTeam was acquired by Dassault Systemes (DS) and Avinoam served on the DS General Executive Management team for 6 years. At his departure from the company, SmarTeam had 3,500 customers across diverse industries and over 100,000 users worldwide.

Clint Oram is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM and co-led the product design and development as well as the customer services team through the first year of business. He is now responsible for managing SugarCRM's European operations, located in Dublin, Ireland. Previously, Clint founded Sugar?s community and managed websites like SugarForge.org and SugarExchange.com, the premiere destination for community collaboration on Sugar extensions, modules, language packs and themes. Clint's 12 years in enterprise software experience spans product management, professional services and software engineering. Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, Clint worked at E.piphany, Octane Software, Hewlett Packard and PG&E. Clint has spoken at several open source and industry events including SIIA?s Software Strategy Summit, LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, MySQL User?s Conference, OSBC West, SOA & Enterprise Open Source Conference, DestinationCRM Conference, Southern California Linux Expo and at Stanford University for the Linux Users and Open Source Group. Clint holds a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Simon Presswell is regional vice president EMEA at Citrix Online, a company that is taking the Software as a Service (SaaS) and real-time collaboration markets by storm. Reporting 50 percent year-on-year growth and nearly $150 million in revenue in 2006, Citrix Online has firmly established itself as a leading pure-play Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider for real-time collaboration in Europe. Simon is responsible for spearheading the company's expansion into EMEA and his proven ability to develop market leading positions for young, dynamic and innovative companies mean he is ideally placed to replicate Citrix Online's success across this region, which is ripe for SaaS. Simon is responsible for driving Citrix Online's products sales in EMEA, encompassing the award-winning Citrix® GoToMyPC® remote desktop access, Citrix® GoToAssist™ remote technical support, Citrix® GoToMeeting™ and Citrix® GoToWebinar™ Web-based collaboration services.

Cliff Reeves handles the Collaboration portfolio on Microsoft's Emerging Business Team, covering applications working with Microsoft Office Outlook®, Office, SharePoint, Messenger, Live Communications Server, and Exchange. Cliff has 30 years of experience in the software industry. He started with IBM Corp. as a programmer in England in 1971 and has held a wide range of software-product-development roles in the areas of database, application development, communication, and messaging systems. He was an influential figure in the industry adoption of object technology and was most recently the senior vice president of Knowledge Management at Lotus Development Corp. Cliff was closely involved with IBMs acquisition of Lotus Development in 1995. Reeves is married and has two daughters. He holds a master's degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University.

Jeremy Roche is chairman of the European Software Association, a trade organization representing the European software industry which he helped establish in 2005. Its aim is to become the industry's principal interface with European Union institutions, the media and the general public, and at the centre of best practice and cooperation across the business community. Jeremy is chief executive officer of CODA plc (AIM: CODA), responsible for all group operations including the global consulting and product development functions, ensuring the products and services they deliver to customers are of the highest quality. Since CODA's acquisition by Science Systems in 2000, Jeremy has been a driving force behind the company's success and global expansion and has successfully led CODA plc through a subsequent demerger which saw the company list independently on the AIM market in London. It now has direct operations in 14 countries around the world. Jeremy began his career at IBM, after which he joined the software house Lychgate UK where he held a number of senior systems engineering and sales roles. He joined Science Systems (now SciSys) as commercial director in 1990 and following the acquisition of CODA in March 2000, was appointed to head up the product strategy and research and development functions of the CODA Group. Jeremy graduated from Thames Polytechnic with a degree in business studies in 1987.

Since 1996, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce. Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting, IP networking, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution. Under his leadership, MFN customers included BP Amoco, JP Morgan Chase, Sony, Microsoft, and Mercedes-Benz. Mr. Ryan joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN the following year in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. Prior to co-founding SiteSmith, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Professional Services for GlobalCenter, a pioneer in the hosting and Internet services marketplace.

Colleen Smith is VP, Software as a Service at Progress Software Corporation, a global supplier of software technology and services for developing, deploying, integrating and managing business solutions. In this role, she develops key strategies and business opportunities for Progress around all of the firms' SaaS business initiatives. Colleen joined the company in 2005 with 20 years of software and technology experience. Previously, she was CMO/SVP at Bristol Technology, responsible for the company's marketing, strategy and business development operations, worldwide. Prior to that, she was VP/GM of the Business Process and Technology Practices at AMR Research, a provider of independent analysis and actionable advice to more than 5,000 supply chain and technology executives worldwide. Earlier in her career, she held the role of VP of Research & Development at Geac Computer Systems, and held other senior marketing and sales roles at D&B Software and McCormack & Dodge. Colleen began her career at EDS as a systems engineer.

Vincent Smyth is the EMEA Regional Vice President for Macrovision's business with the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and the Information Publisher community. With 20 years experience in the EMEA software market, Smyth is responsible for leading Macrovision's efforts in helping ISVs and Information Publishers customers increase revenue. Prior to joining Macrovision Smyth held sales management responsibilities for Business Objects, PTC and Computer Associates. During the last ten years Smyth has been responsible for increasing revenue and improving customer satisfaction across strategic accounts, system integrators, channel partners, and SME markets.

Bill Soward is president and CEO of Adaptive Planning. Prior to Adaptive Planning, Bill was an Executive in Residence at Accel Partners. Prior to Accel, he was General Manager of FRS, a business unit of S1 Corporation. While at S1, Bill transformed FRS into the company's most successful business unit, more than doubling revenues while building profitable and sustainable customer relationships with global financial institutions. Additionally, as a member of S1's executive team, Bill helped spearhead the build out of S1's European operations and served as the interim CEO of both S1 Europe and S1's Edify business unit. Prior to joining S1, he held a variety of executive roles at Edify Corporation, where he built and managed the company's highly-successful online financial services software business and helped drive the company's acquisition by S1. Bill holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bob Tarzey is a Service Director at Quocirca Ltd. His main area of coverage is route to market for ITC vendors to enterprises, the mid-market and small businesses. This includes coverage of the sales channel; resellers, distributors, systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) etc. and alternative routes to market such as on-demand and software as a service (SaaS). Bob's focus is generic and includes the total delivery of IT solutions, but he also has a specific focus on IT security and content management. Bob has extensive working experience of channel management. Prior to joining Quocirca in 2002 Bob spent 16 years managing channels for US technology vendors including DEC (now part of HP), Sybase, Gupta, Merant (now Serena), eGain and webMethods.

Thomas provides strategic market consultation, research and analysis for senior industry executives on varied issues relating to the software industry, publishes wide industry knowledge and strategic insight for member companies on the latest trends, business issues and visionary topics as well as fosters partnership and alliance opportunities. He works with executives to develop showcase industry thought leadership and increase industry exposure.

Stefan Töpfer has played a vital part in building the Internet as we know it today. Just after the World Wide Web had been created he led Nacamar Group plc. to build one of Europe's largest Internet backbone networks. Since 1999 Nacamar has become part of Tiscali. Since then Stefan has been involved in several projects which introduced new ways of using the Internet to simplify everyday life and increase productivity. In 1994 he founded Winweb International. As CEO and Chairman of Winweb he is again extending the boundaries of the Internet by using it in a unique way to simplify the life of small businesses, by using SaaS technology to provides Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) for SMEs - Small Business Infrastructure - in Europe, the US and Australia. He also blogs about the impact of SaaS or webware on his (http://www.sme-blog.com) Small Business Blog.

Prior to founding rPath, Erik served in multiple roles at Red Hat including Vice President of Product Engineering, Senior Director of Marketing, and chief developer for Red Hat Software. During his tenure with the company Erik was responsible for leading development for Red Hat Linux, RPM, and Anaconda. He managed a multimillion-dollar budget, participated in two public stock offerings and assisted in acquiring and integrating nine other companies. Erik has co-authored two editions of Linux Application Development. At rPath he is responsible for all aspects of product design and implementation and for the company's IT infrastructure. He holds BS degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Virginia.

As Vice President for WebEx EMEA, Bert is responsible for growing WebEx international market presence. WebEx Communications, the leading provider of web communications services that enable greater productivity and cost-efficiency across the enterprise, is powered by the industry's only globally distributed information-switching network, specifically designed for the delivery of multimedia web communications. WebEx's superior online meeting and web conferencing services include WebEx Meeting Center™, WebEx Event Center™, WebEx Training Center, WebEx Support Center and WebEx Sales Center. Bert has over 20 years of senior management experience in the European technology and telecoms market. Before joining WebEx, Bert was EMEA Managing Director EMEA of Action Engine Corporation, a joint venture between Microsoft and Intel where he was responsible for all aspects of the business in and played a key role in building platform relationships with mobile operators, relevant channels and the region’s large hardware vendors. Prior to this, Bert spent eight years at voice and data networking company, 3Com Corporation, where he held various executive management roles. Bert has a degree in Auditing from NIVRA University in Amsterdam.