Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Adrian Joseph
Head of Google Enterprise, EMEA Emerging Markets.
Adrian Joseph is Managing Director for Google Enterprise in EMEA. Adrian has been with Google since 2006 where he has built up and managed sales teams in Googles Advertising business. Prior to his role at Google he led large teams at Trafficmaster Plc and held Pan-European positions at AT Kearney and Ford. Adrian holds a BA in Economics and an MBA from Manchester Business School.
Zach Nelson
President & CEO, NetSuite, Inc.
Zach Nelson has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the hi-tech industry, where he has held a variety of executive positions spanning marketing, sales, product development and business strategy with leading companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and McAfee/Network Associates. Nelson has been CEO of NetSuite since 2002. A main driving force behind NetSuite’s successful IPO, Nelson has led NetSuite to be one of the hottest SaaS software companies in the world. Prior to NetSuite, he helped transform McAfee Associates into Network Associates, leading the company's expansion into the network management arena with the $1.4 billion acquisition of Network General. Later, as CEO of NAI subsidiary, myCIO, he created the world's first business-to-business security application services provider. Before Network Associates, Nelson was Vice President, World Wide Marketing at Oracle Corp., where he was responsible for global marketing strategy and implementation. Mr. Nelson, at 31 years old, was the youngest VP of Marketing in Oracle's history. At Sun, he drove the marketing and branding of the first version of the Solaris operating system, and led the product and corporate marketing effort at the company's SunSoft Division. Mr. Nelson holds a patent in the field of application integration, and has several others pending approval. He holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University.
John Wookey
Executive Vice President, SAP
John Wookey joined SAP in November 2008 as Executive Vice President, Large Enterprise On Demand. In this role, Wookey is charged with driving the strategic direction and development of SAP's On-Demand product road map solely for large enterprise customers. Prior to joining SAP, Wookey served as senior vice president at Oracle Corp., responsible JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle and Siebel business applications, and Oracle's next-generation Fusion applications. Over his 12 year tenure at Oracle, Wookey worked with a number of Oracle applications, including Customer Relationship Management, Financials and Projects, as well as Oracle's Healthcare, Financial Services, Life Sciences and Student Systems groups.
Moderators, Panelists & Presenters
Kevin AspindleSenior Partner Development Manager, Progress Software
Kevin Aspindle is the Senior Manager of Partner Development for Progress Software. In this role, he is responsible for the creation of strategies and programs that ensure the long-term growth of the Progress Partner Business, focusing on the Application Partners (ISVs) on a world-wide basis. Aspindle joined Progress Software in 1996 as a Channel Account Manager for the UK Region, achieving sales quotas for four successive years with annual double-digit growth in revenues from the Application Partners that he supported. He went on to serve as the Channel Business Development Manager for the UK Region, supporting the UK Channel Team to continue to achieve their growth and revenue targets, and ensuring the Application Partners from the UK gained world-wide recognition for their ability to build and maintain competitive businesses.
Peter is a technology marketer and business leader with a successful track record and solid experience in starting, growing and leading flourishing businesses in the information technology sector. His passion for IT and his considerable expertise developed championing business technology make him a persuasive and visionary commentator. Mimecast is the third company Peter has successfully founded. Previously Managing Director of Idion Solutions, a gold-certified Microsoft partner in Cape Town, Peter’s first technology venture, FAB Technologies (Pty) Ltd, was strategically acquired by Idion Technology Holdings in 1998 to provide significant skills, intellectual capital and proprietary software to the newly formed Idion Solutions. Fab Technologies, itself a leading Microsoft-certified solution provider and authorised Keyflow solution provider, focused on web and workflow business solutions using best of breed products and technologies. Originally from South Africa, Peter moved to the UK to take advantage of innovation in the UK information technology sector and founded Mimecast soon after.
Heinz-Paul BonnChairman of the Board, GUS Group
Heinz-Paul Bonn is Chairman of the Board of the German software vendor GUS Group. With GUS-OS OnDemand the company provides a complete suite of business solutions for the process industry (pharma, food, chemical), and logistics as a SaaS-offering. He is Vice President of the German Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM, Berlin). Furthermore he is Member of the Advisory Board of Small and Medium Businesses at the Federal Government.
Philippe Botteri
Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners
Philippe Botteri is a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners, an international venture capital firm with 5 offices worldwide and over $2B of assets under management. He co-leads the Software and SaaS practice and was closely involved with the firm’s investments in Wize.com, Intego, Cornerstone OnDemand, Intacct and Eloqua. Before joining Bessemer, Philippe was a Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company's high-tech practice in Silicon Valley, specializing in the software, IT solutions, and internet industries. During his tenure with McKinsey, which started in Paris in 1998, Philippe led the development of "web 1.0" internet start-ups, pioneered the firm's work with "on-demand" software, and advised clients on sales and marketing and growth strategies. His clients included multi-national corporations and private equity funds.
David Bradshaw
Research Manager, European Software and Services Research, IDC
David Bradshaw is research manager for software and services in Europe, and his focus of research is on software as a service, software delivery models and ecosystems. David has had a long and varied career as an industry analyst and consultant, including carrying out major projects in research and consulting for user organisations, governments, investors and technology companies. Prior to becoming an analyst, David was a technology writer and editor.
Richard Britton
IT Director, Easynet Connect & UK Online
As IT Director for one of the UK’s leading ISPs for small to medium size businesses, Easynet Connect and UK Online, Richard is responsible for all customer-facing and operational IT systems right across the business. As well as maintaining and developing all existing solutions, Richard is also leading a change initiative to harness the efficiencies and opportunities of cloud computing within the company. The aim is to optimise business processes and corporate objectives through a responsive and collaborative IT approach that has a strong customer focus. Prior to joining Easynet Connect & UK Online in May 2008, Richard was Director of Technology and Digital Marketing at Visit Britain and a Consultant for Management Consultants French Thornton, previous to this.
Brian Caulfield
Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist & Angel Investor
Brian Caulfield is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. After graduating in 1986, Brian spent over two years doing research at Trinity College Dublin as part of an EU funded ESPRIT project. In 1992 Brian co-founded Exceptis Technologies where he was CEO and CTO. Exceptis developed dispute management software for the electronic/card payments sector that was sold to blue-chip banking customers in Europe, the United States and Asia. Exceptis was sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000. In February 2001 Brian co-founded Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company, with Garry Moroney. In January 2006, Similarity was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA). Brian was also a founder director and shareholder of Prediction Dynamics, which failed in 2004. Brian joined Trinity Venture Capital in June 2002. At TVC Brian sat on the boards of, amongst others, AePONA, ChangingWorlds (sold to Amdocs - NYSE: DOX), CR2, and SteelTrace (sold to Compuware - NASDAQ: CPWR). Brian recently completed an assignment as Interim CEO at AePONA, a UK based telecommunications software vendor, having left Trinity Venture Capital in September 2007. Brian is a board member/personal investor in a number of early stage technology companies, including PutPlace, Vigitrust, Sentry Wireless, Cibenix, Cicero Networks and Clavis Technology. In November 2007, the Irish Software Association named Brian their Technology Person of the Year.
John Chapman
Business Development Director, IT Europa
Charles Convent
CEO, Odyssee Mobile
Marcello Cordioli
CIO, Permasteelisa Group
Diarmuid Daltún
Head of SaaS and Business Development Hosting, 1&1 Internet AG
Diarmuid heads up international teams responsible for Software as a Service Product Development and Business Development in 1&1 Internet AG's Hosting Division. Diarmuid has been at 1&1 (a leading German Mobile-Communications, DSL and Hosting Provider and worldwide leading Hosting Provider) since 2007. Diarmuid is an evangelist of SaaS and APS (Application Packaging Standard) and an active member of the APS Non-Profit Organisation, whose goal it is to establish the de-facto SaaS standard. Prior to joining 1&1 Internet, Diarmuid worked internationally as an independent consultant to a number of clients including Philips, Ericsson, Sony, Sony-Ericsson and Centrica.
Taksina Eammano
Managing Consultant, SaaS Practice, Fujitsu UK & Ireland
As part of Fujitsu's SaaS Practice, Taksina Eammano has been involved in delivering on demand solutions to global enterprises predominately in the financial services sector and has aided these organisations through the lifecycle of adopting a SaaS approach. The Practice specialises in delivery of SaaS-based solutions across an array of business verticals including Sales Force and Marketing Automation, Customer Service, ERP and IT Service Management. Recently, the group has seen an increase in the demand for xRM solutions as organisations realise the OnDemand model goes far beyond traditional CRM and can be utilised to address a multitude of differing business needs. Taksina's current role includes promoting key trends, strengthening consultant awareness, and leveraging the cloud to service her clients.
Charlie Eggerding
Vice President Business Development, QAD
“As global enterprises grapple with the need to operate more efficiently while meeting security and compliance requirements, it’s clear the answer is on-demand applications and infrastructure. In today’s economic climate, IT has to be able to free up resources, not consume more, and that’s why NTRglobal is taking market share around the world. Customers are telling me that NTRglobal is transforming the way they run - and we expect nothing less.” As CEO, Lluis Font is responsible for all aspects of the NTRglobal business. Under his leadership and because of his focus on meeting customer needs, he has doubled revenue year-over-year since 2002. More than 17,000 businesses in 60 countries subscribe to NTRglobal on-demand solutions for remote support with NTRsupport and remote administration and IT task automation with NTRadmin. Before taking the reigns at NTRglobal, Font held numerous executive positions with top consulting companies, including Price Waterhouse, and was CEO of AGM, The Global Company, one of Spain's biggest Internet consulting firms, where he grew revenues from 3 million Euros to 15 million Euros in one year.
Todd Gardner
Managing Director, Software Division
Mr Gardner leads the Software Division and works with its members to shape thought leadership and networking within the industry. Prior to joining the SIIA, Todd was the founder and CEO of SaaS Capital where he worked with hundreds of software companies, venture capitalist and service providers to develop and deliver and innovative growth capital solution to on-demand businesses. For the 10 years prior to launching SaaS Capital, Todd was a partner at Blue Chip Venture Company where he focused on investing in software and content companies. During his tenure in the venture capital business, Todd maintained a 100% success rate in software investing even during challenging investment cycles following the technology bubble of 2000. Prior to his venture work and following an MBA at Indiana University, Todd worked for Deloitte Consulting Group managing large packaged software deployments for ERP, CRM, and financial applications.
After starting an auditing career in New York and Paris, Laurent Gasser spent 2 years in Africa (Benin) on a consulting assignment. In 1991, Laurent embarked on his Business development career by creating at the age of 26 the first Eastern European office of French auditing & consulting firms in Budapest. Laurent developed and managed the Eastern and Central European network of Mazars to the level of 4 offices and 110 people in 1996. Following his experience in emerging markets, Laurent joined RSM International (RSMi), the seventh largest professional service accounting and consulting organization in the world, to develop and manage RSMi China business and create a network of Chinese member firms. Sharing his life between Beijing and Shanghai, Laurent was also at 35 the youngest elected Chairman of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China, and has succeeded in a global reengineering of the French Chamber, opening 2 new offices in Shanghai & Guangzhou, and dramatically increasing membership and revenues. During his 3 years in China, Laurent acquired an in depth knowledge of the Chinese market and regulations, advising foreign companies in various business fields. He has also driven the launch of the first Sino-European accounting Joint Venture, Salustro ZhongRui.
Martin Geddes
Director of Strategy, BT Design
Martin Geddes is Director of Strategy at BT Design, a division of BT Group. He is acknowledged as one of the leading thinkers and analysts on the future of the communications industry. He has a specialist interest in the future of voice and personal communications, as well as the application of two-sided market structures to the telecoms industry. Until the close of 2008 he was Chief Analyst at STL Partners, where he co-founded the Telco 2.0 Initiative. This is designed to catalyse business model innovation and collaboration across the telecoms-media-technology ecosystem. He has consulted to many multi-national network operators and equipment vendors on strategic issues, as well as being a key contributor to Telco 2.0 research and conferences. Martin Geddes also writes a popular telecom strategy weblog. He has been cited by Business Week, Forbes, and BBC News Online, as well as many industry journals. He is a popular presenter at many leading industry conferences.Before a spell as an independent consultant, he was a technology specialist and product strategy manager at Sprint in Overland Park, KS, and is named on 8 granted US patents. Prior to entering telecoms, his early career was as an IT consultant, specialising in high availability and scalability database design at Oracle Corporation, as well as financial transaction processing systems at BancTec Inc.
Mani Gill
VP, OnDemand, SAP BusinessObjects Division
Mani Gill is the Vice President of OnDemand for SAP BusinessObjects Division; he manages the software as a service strategy, direction, and sales for crystalreports.com, Business Intelligence OnDemand and Information OnDemand products. Prior to coming to SAP BusinessObjects Division 12 years ago, he was integrating business intelligence technologies into Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Studio, BackOffice, Dynamics and CRM. Mani is originally from Canada and now lives in Seattle with his wife and two young daughters, and enjoys golfing and travelling in his spare time.
Conor Halpin
SVP, EMEA, OpSource, Inc.
Conor Halpin is SVP EMEA for OpSource Inc. OpSource deliver web operations on behalf of leading SaaS companies world-wide including Adobe, Business Objects, and Xactly. Conor was founder and CEO of LeCayla Technologies, the world’s first purpose built SaaS Metering, Billing and Customer LifeCycle management solution which was acquired by OpSource in 2008 and is now OpSource Billing CLM. Conor brings a wealth of experience in delivering, marketing and selling SaaS solutions both on behalf of OpSource companes and as a founder of a SaaS company himself. He has led the sales and marketing effort for a number of international software companies including eSpatial Solutions and Marrakech eProcurement Services. Prior to that Conor was VP strategic alliances with IONA Technologies. He holds a degree in software engineering from Trinity College Dublin.
Eilert founded Mamut in 1994 with the vision of simplifying the way small organisations do their business by providing a complete IT solution including software, services and knowledge. Eilert has more than 20 years experience from the industry. In the capacity of being Vice Chairman of the European Software Association, Hanoa has taken on a number of ISV and SME initiatives. Hanoa is also Chairman of ICT Norway and Member of the General Council in the Business Application Software Developers Association UK (BASDA). Hanoa was elected Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 by Ernst & Young.
Ingmar Hermans
Equipment Operations Director, Kodak’s Graphic Communication Group, Europe, Africa & Middle-East Region
Klaus Konrad
Investment Director, Intel Capital
Klaus is investment director with Intel Capital since 2001. He covers investments in the enterprise IT sector in Europe. Prior to Intel Capital, Klaus was Fund manager with Allianz Asset Management where he covered the technology sector and built a European small cap fund. He spent some time with the M&A team of JP Morgan in New York. He also was IT consultant with Daimler Chrysler. Klaus has a PHD in Software Engineering and a MD in Electrical Engineering (Georgia Tech and University of Stuttgart) as well as an MBA (CDI, Paris).
Jon Kruse
Director, Intel Capital
Jon Kruse is an Investment Director for Intel Capital responsible for leading investments in the OnDemand and IT Services sectors. He has executed equity and business development deals around the world in firms as varied as Skype (VoIP telephony), Panorama Software (Business Intelligence), OpSource (SaaS enabling), Certisign (Brazil - Service based workflow tools), Star SoftComm (PRC - service based manageability), TOA Technologies (SaaS based field management), and Voxify (SaaS based voice automation). Prior to joining Intel Capital, Jon spent 10 years in a variety of marketing, strategic planning, and finance roles at Intel. He led the strategic planning effort which ultimately led to Intel's Digital Home vision, as well as several emerging market based programs and products (PRC Education and Internet Café PCs). Jon also led Intel's European business client marketing team, which delivered several of Intel's initial Central European and Russian specific marketing programs. Prior to joining Intel, Jon's professional experience included information technology and strategic consulting roles at Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand. He received his MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Miami University. Jon is an active participant in his community, having either served or is currently serving as the President of the Board of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Chair of the Oregon Zoo Foundation, the Chair of the Multnomah County Library Levy Campaign ($175M levy), and appointed advisor to the Mayor of Portland on the city budget process and urban renewal strategy.
Andre Kwakernaat
CEO, Twinfield NV
Steve Lucas
Senior Vice President, Force.com Marketing and ISV Recruitment, salesforce.com
Steve’s main focus is encouraging partners, developers and customers to adopt the Salesforce.com platform and enable the next generation of enterprise applications on the web. Prior to Salesforce.com, Steve devoted 10 years to SAP Business Objects (Acquired) and Crystal Decisions including his last appointment as Worldwide Vice President of the OnDemand (SaaS) business unit. In a general management role, Steve launched the OnDemand business, including strategy creation, management of the entire business unit and the go to market execution, resulting in a successful Business Intelligence on demand service with over 100,000 subscribers. Prior to his role in OnDemand, he led various teams including OEM sales, Partner Channel Management, Data Integration, etc. Earlier in his career, he worked at Software Spectrum and Microsoft in marketing and senior sales management roles. He has authored several books on Business Intelligence, led strategic sales and technology teams driving product planning and direction. Throughout his career, Steve has worked in the software industry in technical, sales and consulting management capacities. Steve, his wife and two children live in Denver, Colorado.
William S. McNee
Founder & CEO, Saugatuck Technology
Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a strategy consulting and subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging IT markets. Most recently, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS), open source and utility computing - published through the firm's complimentary Research Alerts as well as its' premium research deliverables. Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business/IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business/IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of user and vendor clients over the years, throughout the world. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, business development and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research. Mr. McNee is a Board or Advisory Board member for a number of emerging and established technology companies as well as the Westport Public Library. Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University.
Martin Moran
Senior VP Global Alliances, salesforce.com
With over 20 years’ experience in technology Martin Moran is an IT industry veteran and visionary. In 2000, recognising the potential of the cloud computing model, Martin was one of the founders of salesforce.com in Europe. Initially responsible for sales, customer support and professional services, Martin is now Senior Vice President of Global Alliances. Martin has dual responsibilities involving both global alliances with major systems integrators as well as EMEA partnerships. Prior to joining salesforce.com Martin spent almost ten years at IT giant Oracle in application sales where he worked his way through the ranks from sales representative to country manager for applications in Ireland. Martin started his career at Capita Group where he managed business process outsourcing contracts. Moran holds the CIPFA accountancy qualification, which he gained while studying at West London Institute of Higher Education, now known as Brunel University.
Troy Muise
CEO & Co-Founder, Salesboom.com
Troy Muise is CEO and Co-Founder of Salesboom.com, the largest privately held On Demand Enterprise CRM Software vendor. Salesboom.com is a leader in Web Based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software-as-a-Service solutions, more recently referred to as Cloud Based Enterprise CRM. Troy Muise and partner Rami Hamodah co-founded Salesboom.com in 2002. Today, Salesboom.com is a customer-funded global leader in On-Demand Enterprise CRM Software-as-a-Service, trusted by over 4000 organizations around the world. Salesboom.com has grown to become one of the largest pure play SaaS CRM Vendors and is poised to be the next in the space to enter the public market. Mr. Muise has overseen Salesboom.com through much advancement which has been recognized by The New York Times and multiple books on Cloud Computing. These advancements include their Web Services Based API, Partner Eco System, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Platform-as-a-Service and the Magic Migration Button™ for Salesforce.com, Siebel and ACT! Mr. Muise also guided the creation of Innovative Services including Salesboom.com’s CRM Concierge Service™ and user studies designed to increase CRM user adoption
Kevin O'Brien
Director of SaaS Strategy & Programs for Worldwide Alliances & Channels, Oracle
Annrai O’Toole
Vice President, Integration, Workday
Morris Panner
CEO, OpenAir, Inc.
Morris Panner is CEO of OpenAir, Inc., an on-demand enterprise software company and independent subsidiary of NetSuite Inc (NYSE: N). During his tenure, OpenAir has received numerous honors and distinctions, including being named the "Best Business Software Solution" at the 2008 SIIA CODiE awards, the Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 in 2005 and 2007, as well as one of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in Boston in 2006 and 2007. Morris is co-Chairperson of the Board of the Software Division of the Software and Information Industry Association, and on the Board of the Washington Office on Latin America, a social justice advocacy organization. A graduate of Yale and Harvard Law, Morris speaks and writes widely on technology and entrepreneurship and has been featured in Fortune, BusinessWeek and The New York Times.
Sanjay Parekh
Co-founder & Managing Director, WebExpenses
Karen Paterson
Founder & CEO, Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions
Karen Paterson is founder and CEO of Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions. Originally from a retail banking and then corporate finance background, Karen became interested in technology in the early 90’s. After completion of an MBA specializing in international information technology strategy and undertaking a number of complex IT projects, she then traveled internationally providing senior level strategic consultancy to many fortune 500 companies on HR/payroll systems, workflow and processes. In 1996, she formed Patersons with a view to solving a real gap in the market – international payroll. Karen is a thought leader in new wave software as a service technology and the enterprise application market and also works closely with several top U.K. universities on systems methodology. Karen was awarded Best Entrepreneur in EMEA at the 5th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in 2008, was a finalist in the Growing Business Awards and recently named as a 2009 HRO Superstar. Karen holds an MBA a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB) and Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT).
Simon Peel
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Cast Iron Systems
Simon Peel is Senior Vice President of Strategy for Cast Iron Systems, the leading SaaS integration provider with the ability to expedite the integration of on-demand to on-demand and on-premise applications. He has 18 years of experience and expertise in business and product strategy, along with devising high-impact go-to-market plans for SaaS and enterprise solutions. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, including OpSource SaaS Summit 2008, Dreamforce 2008 and SIIA OnDemand US 2008, and other industry events on a wide range of topics including technology and business strategy. Mr. Peel’s articles on the evolution of SaaS are published frequently and he is often used as a resource by the press. He is also a founding member of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA).
Patrick Polak
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Newion Investments Management B.V.
Managing partner Patrick Polak (1965) is co-founder of Newion Investments Management B.V. since 2000 and he is active as a venture capitalist since 1997. After his Aerospace Technology studies at Delft, he (co-)founded an IT company. At the end of 1996, he sold his interest in this company. Early in 1997, he joined N.V. NOM at Groningen where he was specifically responsible for investments in IT-related companies. In addition to the IT investments, he has invested in various other types of companies. Patrick was (or continues to be) member of various Non Executive Boards of Directors.
Torben F. Rasmussen
CEO, e-conomic international
Torben F. Rasmussen, CEO e-conomic International A/S e-conomic is the European market leader supplying SaaS based accounting solution for SME’s. e-conomic has more than 20.000 active companies using our solutions, and more than 30.000 active users. e-conomic has offices in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and UK and have customers in +20 different companies. e-conomic has a strong international ambition to enter all relevant major markets over the next 3 years, either direct or through strategic partnerships. Torben F. Rasmussen has a strong background in the online business. Her was formerly CEO of the world largest, and publicly listed, email and marketing company Come&Stay in Paris, France. He took this company from 6 people in 2001 to 200 people in 2007 and from 100.000 euro in revenue to 30 mil euro revenue in 2007, with offices in 16 countries.
Alexis Richardson
CEO & Co-founder, Rabbit Technologies Ltd.
Alexis Richardson is CEO and co-founder of Rabbit Technologies Ltd., the commercial support company behind RabbitMQ, a leading implementation of the AMQP open business messaging standard. Alexis is also co-chair of OCCI, the new initiative from OGF to develop an Open Cloud Computing Interface. Alexis Richardson is also a co-founder of CohesiveFT. Recently CohesiveFT spun off its investment in Rabbit Technologies Limited which is now operating as a separate company. Previously Alexis was CEO and co-founder of MetaLogic, a middleware company specializing in high throughput caching and transaction management products. As a past consultant for Fortune 1000 corporations, he has worked on various high performance front-office trading solutions. Before that he worked in proprietary trading of fixed-income derivatives at Goldman Sachs, after researching and teaching mathematical logic and computer science at Oxford University.
Jeremy Roche
Chief Executive Officer, CODA Group
Jeremy is chief executive officer of CODA and sits on the Managing Board of parent company Unit 4 Agresso NV. He is responsible for group marketing strategy, future product strategy and management of a number of territories within the Unit 4 Agresso Group. He was the driving force behind CODA plc’s success and global expansion prior to its acquisition by Unit 4 Agresso in February 2008 which created one of Europe’s top 10 software vendors. 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. Since becoming CEO in 2000 Jeremy successfully led CODA through a demerger which saw the company list independently on the AIM market in London.
Diane S. Ruth
Executive Director, Business Development, Boomi
Diane S. Ruth, Executive Director of Business Development for Boomi, Inc. is an experienced business development and channel management executive serving as the head of Boomi’s channel program. Boomi, the leading integration-Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) solution provider, has established a partner-centric go-to-market strategy, heavily investing in the power of the indirect sales channel. Boomi's overall solution architecture, licensing model, marketing and sales strategies are designed to support the Boomi AtomSphere Partner Network - consisting of ISVs, PaaS providers, and Consulting Firms/System Integrators. Diane’s responsibility of delivering a scalable, structured and supportive program to Boomi’s valued partner community is the key to Boomi’s continued success. Prior to joining Boomi, Diane spent twelve years with SunGard Higher Education where she initially managed the Customer Education Center and Training & Certification Program for all Professional Services Consultants and more recently served as the General Manager of Business Development & SGHE Collaborative Program. Diane is a graduate of the York College of Pennsylvania.
Treb Ryan
Chief Executive Officer & Founder, OpSource, Inc.
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. 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. Mr. Ryan has been a guest speaker at numerous industry events, including CIO, venture capital, Internet, hosting, and software conferences. He attended UCLA and is an advisor to the UCLA CLAS fund.
Colleen Smith
VP, Software as a Service at Progress Software Corporation
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 (now part of HP), 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 roles of SVP of Worldwide Marketing and VP of Research & Development at Geac Computer Systems (now part of INFOR), 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.
William Soward
President & CEO, Adaptive Planning
William 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. 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. Previously, Bill served in management roles with Siemens-ROLM and IBM, and was Managing Partner and CFO of a residential construction company. Bill holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mikkel Asger Svane
CEO & Founder, Zendesk
Mikkel is the CEO and founder of Zendesk, the fastest growing provider of SaaS based support solutions in the market. Zendesk is inspiring the help desk 2.0 movement through a focus on enlightened customer support. By leveraging the benefits of Web-based communications and social media, Zendesk extends good help desk karma to any company looking to offer professional-grade support service with very little effort. Backed by Charles River Ventures, Zendesk was founded late 2007 and has more than 1,000 customers including John Lewis, MSNBC and Twitter. To learn more, go to www.zendesk.com or follow @zendesk on Twitter.
Mr Tenwick has been Chief Executive Officer in StepStone from November 2001. He joined StepStone from the position as Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat Europe, which he held since May 1999. From 1994 to 1999, Mr Tenwick held various senior positions with Sybase Corporation, including Vice President of European Marketing and Vice President and General Manager of European Operations. Mr. Tenwick graduated from the University of Brighton with a Business Degree. Mr. Tenwick is married with four children.
Jérôme Ternynck
CEO and founder, MrTed
Jerome Ternynck is the founder and chief executive officer of MrTed, and is a member of MrTed’s board of directors. Jerome founded MrTed in December 1999 and has been the acting CEO for the past 10 years. Prior to MrTed, Jerome began his entrepreneurial career in his early twenties as the founder of a recruitment company in Prague. Jerome’s intuitive approach to technology and interest in the needs of the HR community enabled him to recognise the paradigm shift that the electronic age would inspire in recruitment. Twenty years of earnest and passionate dedication to the talent management Industry has gained Jerome a unique reputation as a true thought leader in HR technology. Jerome holds a Masters degree in Business with majors in Finance and Marketing from Dauphine Business University, France.
Annrai O’Toole
Vice President, Integrations, Workday, Inc.
As the leader of Integration On Demand for Workday, Annrai drives the delivery of making “Workday the easiest application to integrate with.” Annrai joined Workday via the acquisition of Cape Clear. Cape Clear was founded to participate in the major opportunity being created by the emergence of the Web Services technologies and the massive benefits they could bring to the challenges of creating and integrating applications. Prior to joining Cape Clear, O'Toole founded and served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of IONA Technologies. O'Toole began his career working with many European and international standards bodies to develop standards for software interoperability. With these and other initiatives, he has helped define the direction of the computer industry. He holds an MS in Computer Science and an Electronic Engineering degree from Trinity College, Dublin.
Marjorie Toucas
Director of Emerging Markets, EMEA
Marjorie joined SuccessFactors in 2009, responsible for leading substantial growth in SuccessFactors’ EMEA, focusing on small and medium-sized businesses, as the leading supplier of on-demand performance and talent management solutions, including goal management, competency management, succession planning, compensation planning, workforce analytics and performance reviews. Prior to joining SuccessFactors, Marjorie held a number of successful senior roles which included building and growing the SMB Sales infrastructure and developing the market for that segment in EMEA over a 4 year period at MySQL AB as Director of EMEA Corporate Sales and Worldwide Lead Development. Marjorie also spent time at Oracle, as EMEA Education and Research Direct Sales Manager. Marjorie is a graduate of the University of Lyon, France, and Karl Franzens University Graz, Austria, and holds a degree in International Trade and a Masters degree in European Corporate Management and Business from the University of Nantes, France, and Manchester Metropolitan University, England. Marjorie resides in Dublin, Ireland.
Ron van Valkengoed
Managing Director, Ezwim
Ron van Valkengoed has been engaged with Ezwim since 2001, first as customer and later as a member of the advisory board. Ron joined Ezwim as managing director in 2006. Before joining Ezwim, Ron worked for EDS as the Offering Director Managed Mobility (ECO) globally. Extended Connected Office (ECO) is the EDS outsourcing proposition for infrastructure and support services around enterprise mobility. In this role he had global responsibility for product management, sales and delivery readiness of this service offering. In addition he also had responsibility for determining EDS’ indirect channel strategy and carrier relationships with European mobile operators and managing the Research in Motion (Blackberry) and iPass (remote access) partnerships. Prior to this role, Ron led EDS Solutions Consulting (consultancy and applications) in The Netherlands and sales in Europe North, and was a member of the European board for eSolutions.
Larry Velez
Director Industry Initiatives, Microsoft Online Services
Larry is a Director of Industry Initiatives for Unified Communications. He is leads a community EMEA business development managers focused on building sustainable UC businesses with service provider partners. Larry joined Microsoft in May 2006 to engage with European IT leaders on the business value and economic impact of unified communications. His current work involves building a commercially sustainable partner for Microsoft Online Services across Europe. Prior to that, he worked 6 years as an industry analyst at Forrester Research, and META Group (wholly owned by Gartner Group). His work focused on the development and sourcing of network and communications infrastructure for large European firms. His research areas included networks, communication applications, and infrastructure development. Across these topics he has advised firms on the best practices and trends for architecture, governance, contracting, service level agreements, and supplier selection. Before this Larry had functional responsibilities for new business development, project management, and professional service manager for several Dutch firms, and at EIS International he was UK country sales and alliance manager, and prior to that manager for pre- and post- sales operations.
Frits Veltink
CMO & Market Maker, SaaSplaza
Frits Veltink joined Siennax in January 1999 as Director of Sales and Marketing. At the start of 2002, Veltink took on the role of Managing Director of Acadoo (now Siennax Learning Services). Since 2005 Veltink serves in the role of Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for the set up and further development of the Siennax Service Units in Amstelveen and San Diego (CA). After the Launch of SaaSplaza in 2008 Veltink became responsible for the development of SaaSplaza’s service portfolio, partner management and marketing. Prior to joining the company, Veltink held a number of (sales) management functions at Origin, formerly BSO. Veltink was responsible for the set-up and development of the Origin media sector for the global print and media business, with a strong focus on securing strategic outsourcing contracts. Veltink served two years as the Regional Vice Chairman of Comptia's Software Services Group for Europe, a global advocacy group promoting the ASP industry. Within the global Microsoft Incubation S+S program he is seen as a leading partner in driving awareness and readiness of the Microsoft S+S partner community. Veltink holds a degree in Business Economics.
Dr. Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. He was named the 2008 CTO of the Year by Information Week for his contributions to making Cloud Computing a reality.
Phil Wainewright
CEO, Procullux Ventures
Phil Wainewright is CEO of strategic consulting firm Procullux Ventures and an influential commentator and strategist on Internet computing and its impact on business. He specializes in on-demand services (SaaS), services architectures (SOA) and Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0, and has closely observed the evolution of SaaS and webware ever since he founded the ASPnews.com website in 1998 to track the then nascent ASP industry. In his work, he focuses on identifying the practical business applications (or shortcomings) of emerging technology innovations. He makes his findings available via private consulting, published research, public speaking, webcasts and blogging. His blogs include the ZDNet Software as Services blog and the Loosely Coupled blog, he is a member of the Enterprise Irregulars network and a contributor to the FASTForward Blog.
Pascal Walschots
Communication Sector EMEA Lead, Microsoft
Ken Wasch
President, Software & Information Industry Association
Wasch's involvement in SIIA is based on both personal and professional interests. His long-standing interest in computers and software, coupled with the industry's need for a central trade association, led him to establish the Software Publishers Association (SPA) in 1984 with an initial group of 25 software firms. Wasch has led the association from its infancy to its merger with the Information Industry Association in January 1999, resulting in the formation of SIIA.
Bill Wirt is a seasoned information technology executive with a very successful track record in supporting mature and new-technology start-up companies through rapid growth and creation of global reach, resulting in very large value creation for shareholders, investors, customers, and employees. Bill is the Chief Technology Officer at Spotzer Media Incorporated. Spotzer is the first global advertising agency dedicated to making high quality video advertising fast, affordable and highly targeted. Spotzer offers long tail advertisers a range of innovative TV and internet video solutions through partnerships with media companies, directory and classified publishers, local and vertical search companies, and advertising and SEM agencies. Spotzer also provides creative solutions as well as media planning and buying services directly to local, regional and national advertisers.
