SPEAKERS
K E Y N O T E S
 Geoffrey Moore
Best-selling author, Managing Director of TCG Advisors, and Venture Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures
Recognized as a leading business consultant to large companies facing formidable strategic challenges, Geoffrey works as Managing Director at TCG Advisors with established enterprises. He divides his time between consulting on strategy and transformation challenges with senior executives and developing mental models to support the practice. With this focus in mind he has written Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution. Also recognized for his expertise in market development and business and investment strategies, as a Venture Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures he serves as an advisor to many of their portfolio companies by drawing upon best practices derived from his extensive background working with technology startups. Geoffrey has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, and Living on the Fault Line are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools. Highly regarded as a dynamic public speaker, Geoffrey is the founder of The Chasm Group and currently is the managing partner of TCG Advisors. Earlier in his career, he was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high tech marketing strategy and communications company, and for the decade prior, a sales and marketing executive in the software industry.
F E A T U R E D S P E A K E R S
 Russ Daniels
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Software and Adaptive Enterprise, Software, Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard Company
Russ Daniels is vice president and chief technology officer of the Strategy and Technology Office for Software at HP. In this role, he sets and coordinates the technology strategy across HP's software portfolio of solutions for the Adaptive Enterprise - HP's vision of an organization in which business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change.
Previously, Daniels was general manager of HP's application development organization and research and development manager of the software and systems development lab.
Daniels has more than 20 years of industry experience specializing in Java™, object-oriented programming, XML and software development processes. Prior to joining HP, he spent 15 years at Apple Computer, where he held a variety of developer-related positions and managed a website design and hosting business.
He holds a bachelor's degree in general studies, with a concentration on small business management and computer science, from Ohio University.
Joel Dreyfuss
Editor-in-chief, Red Herring
 Terry Garnett
Managing Director, Garnett and Helfrich Capital
Terry Garnett has been on the operating side of companies for about 15 years. From 1990 to 1994, he worked with Oracle Corporation where he reported to Larry Ellison. As part of the Managing Committee, he held the positions of Senior Vice President, New Media Division, and Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Business Development.
Garnett has actively participated in the founding and building of several startup enterprise software companies, including CrossWorlds, and Lightyear. Previously he served as a consultant in the Electronics Practice at
McKinsey & Company and held management positions with Tandem Computers, which has since merged with Compaq and is now a part of HP.
 Greg Gianforte
CEO, President, Chairman and Founder, RightNow Technologies
Greg Gianforte has led RightNow from its founding in 1997 to 32 consecutive quarters of revenue growth, 15 consecutive quarters of cash-flow positive performance and a successful IPO. His market vision, leadership, entrepreneurial philosophy and commitment to ethical business practices has enabled RightNow to consistently grow—during a period when many other software companies have stumbled—and to achieve remarkable levels of customer loyalty and satisfaction. Ernst & Young awarded Greg the Pacific Northwest 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year for the software category. A panel of independent judges evaluated the excellence and extraordinary success of outstanding entrepreneurs in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
 Chris Hoffmann
Senior Principal and Director of Research, TripleTree LLC
Chris Hoffmann joined TripleTree in August 2005. Chris has over 18 years of experience as an operating executive, consultant and analyst in the technology industry. He is leveraging this experience at TripleTree in his role as Research Director as well as assisting on transaction activity in the areas of software and technology services. Chris joins the firm from Tier1 Research, where he was president and lead analyst for the enterprise software sector. At Tier1, Chris architected the growth of the firm toward a successful acquisition in June 2005 by The 451 Group. Prior to Tier1 Research, Chris held executive positions at Zamba Solutions, Gartner, GE Capital Consulting, IBM Global Services and a consulting firm which he founded. He has worked with the world's leading technology firms including IBM, Microsoft, Accenture, EDS and HP; has been quoted in numerous trade and industry publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Investors Business Daily; and is a frequent presenter at industry events.
Chris earned a degree in marketing from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and has completed advanced studies through the University of Minnesota and Michigan State University. He currently serves as a Board Member for Lakeview Hospital and the Boy Scouts.
 Jason Maynard
Research Analyst, Credit Suisse
Jason Maynard is a Software Analyst for Credit Suisse. In addition to direct coverage responsibility for the applications, infrastructure, and systems management, he serves as group head for the software research team. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in March 2005, Maynard was the Global Software Coordinator and Senior Software Analyst for Merrill Lynch. In February 2004, Maynard launched the Merrill Lynch On Demand Index (MLODI) to track and measure the rise of On Demand business models and the trend of Software as a Service. InformationWeek magazine recently named Maynard to its 2005 Innovators and Influencers list based on his work. He has also held positions in marketing and business development for startups in the CRM and Java development space.
 Michael Miller
Chief Content Officer, Ziff Davis Media
Michael J. Miller is the Chief Content Officer for Ziff Davis Media. In that role, he oversees the editorial positions of Ziff Davis's magazines, websites, and events; helps identify new editorial needs in the marketplace; and takes an active role in corporate editorial issues, while continuing his popular column at PC Magazine. From 1991 to 2005, Miller was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine, responsible for the editorial direction, quality and presentation of the world's largest computer publication. As Editorial Director for Ziff Davis Publishing since 1997, Miller takes an active role in corporate editorial issues, helps identify new editorial needs in the marketplace, and helps shape the editorial positioning of every Ziff Davis title.
 Stephen O’Leary
Senior Managing Director, Jefferies Broadview
Stephen O'Leary is a Senior Managing Director of the Jefferies Broadview technology investment banking group. He is Co-Head of Technology Investment Banking and Head of the firm's Boston office. With 20 years of experience in investment banking and venture capital, Mr. O'Leary has completed approximately 100 M&A transactions involving enterprise software, media and Internet companies. Transactions he has advised on include BGS Systems in its sale to BMC Software, Software Artistry and Think Dynamics in their sales to IBM, Ximian in its sale to Novell and Newsedge in its sale to Thomson Corp. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. O'Leary focused on emerging-growth technology businesses at BancBoston Ventures, where he worked for four years. Previously, he served in the U.S. Navy for five years onboard nuclear submarines. Mr. O'Leary is a member of the Board of Overseers for Children's Hospital Boston. He holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BS degree with distinction from the U.S.
Naval Academy.
 David Thomas
Executive Director, Software Division, SIIA
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.
 Tien Tzuo
SVP Strategy & Product Management, Salesforce.com
Tien Tzuo has been with salesforce.com since the summer of 1999, shortly after it was founded. As SVP Marketing, Strategy & Product Management, Tzuo is responsible for salesforce.com's product strategy and roadmap. Tzuo came to salesforce.com from CrossWorlds Software, where he spearheaded CrossWorlds product, marketing and sales push into the Telecommunications vertical worldwide. Prior to CrossWorlds, Tzuo spent over six years at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and professional services roles.
Tzuo has over 14 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. He holds a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford University.
 Philippe Vincent
Partner, Accenture
Philippe Vincent is a Partner with Accenture’s High Technology Strategy practice, and a thought leader in its Software practice. He advises software vendors across a broad array of strategic market facing and operational issues. Philippe also focuses across the High Tech industry on the relationship between IT and Business. He has authored points of views and articles on a variety of high tech issues. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, a MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a Diplome d’Ingenieur from ENSAM, Paris, France. He is based in Palo Alto, California.
 Ann Winblad
Co-founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Ann Winblad is the co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (www.humwin.com) is a leading venture capital firm focused on software investing and manages over $1 billion in cumulative capital. Since Hummer Winblad Venture Partners' inception in 1989 the firm has launched over 90 new software companies. Ann has over 25 years of experience in the software industry as a successful software entrepreneur, strategy advisor, technical author and venture capitalist. Her background and experience have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications.
W O R K I N G G R O U P C H A I R S
 Nick Blozan
SVP of Marketing and Sales, OpSource
Chair, SIIA Software as a Service Working Group
Mr. Blozan has over 20 years of experience in IT, including roles in marketing, product management, sales, and engineering. He previously served as Vice President of Marketing at Allocity, where he was responsible for all aspects of marketing and product management and helped to lead the company through its acquisition by EMC in 2004. Mr. Blozan also spent eight years with VERITAS in various capacities. He was most recently responsible for developing and driving the company's Windows strategy. Prior to this role, Mr. Blozan ran all channel and OEM sales, as well as strategic alliances, for VERITAS in Australia and New Zealand, including developing the channel strategy, selecting appropriate partners, creating the business and marketing plans to drive sales through the channel, and managing strategic alliances with significant partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, Brocade, and Cisco. Before joining VERITAS, Mr. Blozan was a Director of Product Management and Business Unit Director for Seagate Software. He holds a B.S. from San Diego State University.
 David Carpini
VP Commercial Software Solutions, Symphony Services
Chair, SIIA Offshoring Working Group
David brings more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, the last seven of which he spent helping companies leverage global delivery capabilities and offshore best practices. He has a strong history of exceeding revenue and profit objectives, closing multimillion dollar contracts, setting innovative sales strategies and turning around under-performing business units. For several leading companies David successfully led sales and delivery operations for business units ranging from $20M to $100M of revenue. Before joining Symphony Services, David was Vice President of Sales for Covansys, a global consulting and technology services company, where he managed the Commercial Business Development and Sales team for Covansys’ East Region. He joined Covansys from ITWorx, Egypt’s largest software development company. As Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing, David was hired by the CEO to establish the company’s North American sales office. He has also held sales, marketing and engineering roles at Scient and French Fragrances International, and he spent 17 years with IBM Corporation. David holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from Fairfield University.
 Steve Langerock
CEO, Aladdin, North America
Chair, SIIA Security Working Group
Steve Langerock, Chief Executive Officer of Aladdin's USA operations, has been with Aladdin since its acquisition of Chicago's Glenco Engineering in 1996. Steve is the former Chief Financial Officer of the USA division, as well as former president of its Software Security Unit. For nearly two decades, Steve has worked in sales and plant and financial management for major corporations producing technical products. Before Glenco, where he served as CFO and general manager, he was with Fujitsu Engineering, ADVANTEST AMERICA, and Fansteel. Steve's present position as CEO in the USA makes him responsible for all facets of the Aladdin operations in North America. He recently completed The General Manager Program (TGMP) at Harvard Business School.
 Doug Levin
CEO, Black Duck Software
Chair, SIIA Open Source Working Group
Prior to founding Black Duck, Doug served as the CEO of MessageMachines and X-Collaboration Software Corporation, two VC-backed companies based in Boston. From 1995 to 1999, he worked as an interim executive or consultant to CMGI Direct, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation, Oracle Software Corporation, Solbright Software, Mosaic Telecommunications, Bright Tiger Technologies, Best!Software and several other software companies. From 1987 to 1995, Doug held various senior management positions with Microsoft Corporation including heading up worldwide licensing for corporate purchases of non-OEM Microsoft software products. Previously, he held senior management positions with two startups in California and served as an IT and financial consultant to an overseas development company. Doug is an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds a certificate in international economics from the College d'Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
T U E S D A Y P A N E L I S T S
 Tony Bates
Chief Operating Officer and Partner, PSC
Tony Bates is a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of PSC. With global experience of the e-payments, Internet, enterprise software and ASP services industries; Tony has built multi-national organizations with a focus on strategic relationships and international sales from multiple channels. Tony has a deep understanding of e-commerce, enterprise systems solutions, business models, technology companies, and channel relationships. Tony's experience spans credit card payments, international corporate business development, global payment processing, merchandizing, marketing and sales.
Prior to PSC, Tony was the senior business development executive for WorldPay Inc., the global online payments provider of the 5th largest banking group in the world, RBS group. Tony was responsible for business strategy, market development and building high-performance sales teams for the multi-currency e-payments company.
 Alok Bhanot
VP of Architecture, eBay
As Vice President of Architecture for eBay, Alok Bhanot oversees eBay's Systems, Operations Infrastructure, Applications and Data Architectures. In doing so, he works closely with the Architecture and Infrastructure teams for Marketplaces, PayPal and Skype. Prior to joining eBay in March 2002, Alok architected and built high volume transaction processing systems at Visa, eToys and Gradience, a Reuters startup. Alok received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, and worked on graphics, modeling and data management applications at Telco, Pune and Ford, Detroit for a couple of years before moving to the bay area to work at Visa. Having been in the bay area for over 10 years, Alok enjoys spending time with his wife Aditi, a research scientist at UCSF and 2 kids - Rohan, who is in elementary school and Gayatri, a pre-schooler.
 Prashanth V. Boccasam
CEO, Approva Corporation
Prashanth, or "PV", brings over 16 years of management experience to the job of CEO at Approva. Before founding Approva, PV was co-founder and president of Entevo, Corp., which was sold to a NASDAQ-listed company for $125 million in January 2000. Following the acquisition, he defined the overall strategic direction of the company's product portfolio.
Prior to founding Entevo, PV spent several years developing and managing projects at Microsoft's Systems Division, and later in its Worldwide Consulting Groups (MCS). PV's extensive software and management experience includes building, marketing and selling enterprise software products in the areas of Internet and application infrastructure, ERP, directory and security management.
PV holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pune (India) and the University of Cincinnati, and is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at MIT Sloan School.
 Andrew Briney
VP & Publisher, Security Media Group, TechTarget
Andrew Briney is VP & Publisher of the Security Media Group, TechTarget, a multimedia business that includes award-winning Information Security magazine, SearchSecurity.com and the Information Security Decisions conferences, which together reach more than 270,000 information technology professionals. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Information Security Magazine, Briney is a leading expert on the IT security market, technology and business trends. He is a frequent speaker at leading IT conferences, and he has provided expert commentary on Internet security for such media as NBC News, Fox-TV, CNBC, Newsweek, the Associated Press, Wired and The Chicago Tribune. In 2003, Briney was inducted into the Information Systems Security Association's (ISSA) Hall of Fame, the organization's most prestigious honor. He also is a 2004 finalist for a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award from American Business Media. His article on IT security certifications won the 2004 Gold TABBIE award for best feature article from Trade, Association and Business Publications International.
 Brett Caine
President, Citrix Online Division
As group vice president and general manager of Citrix Systems' Online Group, Caine is responsible for overall revenue and shaping worldwide market strategy for Citrix's market-leading real-time access and collaboration services, including Citrix® GoToMyPC®, Citrix® GoToAssist™ and Citrix® GoToMeeting™. Through his leadership, Citrix Online Group grew revenues to approximately $99, million for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. Prior to joining Citrix Online, Caine was vice president of worldwide territory sales and vice president of worldwide indirect sales at Openwave Systems, where he led a global team of sales professionals selling to the Communications Service Provider market. Caine also held sales director positions at Clarify Inc., including director of worldwide channels. During his tenure, he was credited with starting Clarify's channel business and building it to a $30MM run rate business.
 Dr. Timothy C.K. Chou
Author, The End of Software
Timothy Chou is the author of the book The End of Software and was most recently the President of Oracle On Demand. Under his leadership Oracle On Demand became the fastest growing business inside of Oracle.
He serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Embarcadero Technologies, Member of the Advisory Board of Webex Corporation and Emergence Capital. Dr. Chou earned Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his career in the high tech industry he has been a lecturer at Stanford University for over 15 years. In the fall of 2005 he taught the first course at Stanford on software as a service.
 Andrew Clark
Director of Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group
As co-founder of IBM's Venture Capital Group and a senior member of that team, Drew
is responsible for driving external innovation into IBM business units and identifying and
developing new business opportunities.
A 20-year IBM veteran, Mr. Clark has held a variety of key positions in software development, product marketing, corporate staff and emerging-business development and strategy. A serial "intrapreneur", Drew has led several internal startup initiatives, including a key role in formation of IBM's Internet Division.
Before joining IBM's Venture Group, Drew led IBM's search, text mining, enterprise portal and knowledge-management initiatives for IBM Software Group.
Drew has been awarded two patents in Artificial Intelligence, holds a BS in Physics from Western Carolina University and has completed all coursework toward a PhD in Plasma Physics at University of Texas at Austin.
 Robert Corace
Executive Consultant , VMOplus Inc.
Eighteen plus years of business transformation consulting, global outsourcing and operational development, vendor relationship development and management, large scale project management, and knowledge of legal and regulatory compliance.
Mr. Corace frequently acts as "trusted advisor" to many industry executives on the topics of distributed operations, project management, business operations/integrations and processes. Additionally Mr Corace has provided guidance and support as companies investigate and deploy global offshore strategies for product development, research and core development, and insights on Eastern Europe, India and China and their involvement in globalization.
 Keith Davidson
Director of Operations, Autodesk Building Collaboration Services
: As Director of Operations for Autodesk Building Collaboration Services, Mr. Davidson is responsible for the operational delivery of Buzzsaw the industry leading on-demand collaborative project management service. In this role he has ownership for the security and availability of the Buzzsaw service to globally disperse project teams and customers around the clock. He joined the Buzzsaw team, from Autodesk in Neuchatel, Switzerland, shortly after the creation of Buzzsaw.com in 2000 and in his initial roles as IT Architect and Operations Manager he drove the development of the existing Buzzsaw operations infrastructure along with the introduction of management practices and the outsourcing of functions to insured the successful delivery of Buzzsaw as an on-demand service. These include championing the introduction IT Service Management (ITIL best practices), outsourcing layers of the IT operations organization and layers of the Customer Service organization. He has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology working for a variety of organizations from Oil Exploration Companies to Government organizations in the United Kingdom. While having extensive experience in Information Technology management his roles have also included Software Development and Systems Architecture for complex engineering systems, project management platforms and office automation systems
 Ken DeJarnette
Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Ken DeJarnette is a Deloitte & Touche LLP Principal, specializing in the areas of security and privacy. In addition to holding a law degree, Ken is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). Ken has over twenty years experience in security, privacy and regulatory matters. With regard to security and privacy, Ken has lead engagements in global companies, including the development of information security and privacy programs, the development of risk frameworks for analyzing processes, systems and applications, the development of security and privacy polices and procedures, the design and implementation of enterprise security architectures, and responding to security and privacy incidents.
 Satish Dharmaraj
CEO, Zimbra
Satish brings more than 20 years of leadership, knowledge, and management experience to Zimbra where he serves as Chief Executive Officer. Formerly, he was vice president of the messaging product division at Openwave Systems, responsible for the email, unified messaging, voicemail, and instant messaging product lines. Satish was part of the founding team at the unified messaging company Onebox. Before Onebox, Satish was at Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft Division where he led the team that was responsible for the Java Servlets and the team that conceived Java Server Pages (JSPs). Satish has both a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in computer sciences and an executive management degree from Harvard Business School.
 Stan Dolberg
President of Management Consultancy, Carriage House Consulting, LLC
President of management consultancy Carriage House Consulting LLC, Stan Dolberg founded the firm in 2002 to help software and services firms boost sales productivity through strategic marketing. Carriage House Consulting synthesizes the disciplines of marketing, operations, strategy, and research into a powerful results-oriented approach. Stan brings over 20 years experience to helping clients identify best-fit markets, understand target buyer pain and buying criteria, adopt the correct business and pricing model, and correctly package and position the offer. Stan has advised hundreds of technology companies on strategy and positioning. Prior to founding Carriage House Consulting, Stan served as chief research officer and vice president of Strategy at Forrester Research. Between 1995 and 2002 he led Forrester's software research, scaled research to 250 professionals worldwide, and architected and led Forrester's post-bubble turnaround. As an analyst at Forrester Stan wrote, contributed to, and edited hundreds of reports on topics ranging from software infrastructure to packaged applications to consumer technology to business economics. He was a frequent speaker at industry conferences and keynoted Forrester Forums in the US, Europe, and Asia.
 David Gee
Vice President, Marketing, Software, Hewlett-Packard Company
David Gee is vice president of worldwide marketing for HP's Software Group, responsible for defining the solutions, positioning and go-to-market strategy for HP's management software portfolio.
Recently, Gee also served as interim general manager for HP's Software business in Asia-Pacific and Japan where he led the strategy and execution of HP's Software business in the region.
Prior to HP, Gee was vice president, International, for the Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions business unit and was responsible for the sales, marketing, operations and overall business strategy of Yahoo!'s offerings in the enterprise information portal marketplace outside of the United States.
 Lawrence Goldenhersh
President & CEO, Enviance
Mr. Goldenhersh founded Enviance in 1999 to drive a sea change in the quality of compliance management by leveraging the revolutionary power of the Internet. As President and CEO, Mr. Goldenhersh is responsible for the strategic and operational management of the company.
Prior to founding Enviance in October 1999, Mr. Goldenhersh was a member of the Los Angeles law firm of Irell & Manella, a commercial firm of more than 150 lawyers, where he was a partner and served on the firm's management committee. Mr. Goldenhersh specialized in the representation of technology companies and others in complex commercial litigation, including intellectual property litigation. During his 15 year tenure, Mr. Goldenhersh's clients included the H.J. Heinz Company and Speaker of the California Assembly. Prior to beginning the practice of law, Mr. Goldenhersh served as a law clerk to The Honorable Richard P. Matsch, U.S. District Court Judge.
Gregg Gronowski
Vice President of SWRDM Sales, North America, Aladdin
Gregg Gronowski joined Aladdin in November 2001, where he was appointed the position of Vice President of Sales for the Software Digital Rights Management North American sales group. In his role, he is driving the sales and services for the software protection and license management family of Aladdin products known as HASP. Before joining Aladdin Gregg spent 27 years in the Consumer Electronics Industry where he held a variety of executive management positions in Sales, Marketing and Product Management. He has also held positions in sales and business development for startups in the Interactive Television software and content space.
Francois Depayras
Director of Marketing, Ensim Corp.
 Brian Jacobs
General Partner, Emergence Capital
Brian Jacobs is a Founder and General Partner of Emergence. He has over 16 years of venture capital experience, a deep national network and an appreciation for the value of strong technology. He has strong experience in helping both consumer and business-oriented startups achieve their business goals. Prior to founding Emergence, Brian was an early General Partner at St. Paul Venture Capital. During his 10 years at St. Paul, Brian helped to grow the firm to one of the 15 largest venture investors in the country and led the Silicon Valley investing activities. He has prior venture capital experience with Security Pacific Venture Capital. Brian also worked for Raychem Corporation, where he developed and marketed advanced software and electronic components. He also has engineering and new product experience with RCA, Westinghouse, and Polaroid, and he holds several patents.
 Doug Johnson
CFO, Black Duck Software
Mr. Johnson has more than 25 years of financial and operations experience including executive roles at multiple software firms. He is Black Duck Software's senior vice president and cfo with responsibility for finance and operations. Prior to joining Black Duck, Mr. Johnson was chief operating officer of software maker, THINQ Learning Solutions, where he directed all customer facing technical and delivery activities plus hosting operations. Previously, He was executive vice president of operations and finance at Softlock.com, Inc., a distributor of secure digital content on the Internet where he obtained financing for this publicly traded company and managed the engineering and hosting operations for the company's eCommerce services. His background also includes executive management positions at Aztec Technology Partners, Discreet Logic and Fusion Systems Corporation. Mr. Johnson also serves on the board of directors of LSA Global, a leading global human capital training and consulting firm.
 Russell Jones
Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Russell specializes in integrating third-party security products with complex e-business and ERP applications and related infrastructures. With more than 13 years of experience, he has a strong focus on the design, architecture, implementation and deployment of Identity Management solutions (i.e. Web Access Management, User Provisioning), encryption solutions, and distributed architecture application solutions. Russell also has significant experience with the development of security architectures, network security analysis and design, and role-based access control (RBAC) design and deployment. Russell has practical experience applying security frameworks such as ISO17799 and ISO15408 against real world environments. Russell is a key member of Deloitte's Identity Management Council.
Russell is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) as well as a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
He has a Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Management Information Systems and Accountancy, University of Notre Dame, May 1992.
 Robert Jurkowski
CEO, Intacct Corporation
Robert Jurkowski joins Intacct as chief executive officer with more than 20 years of experience in global operations, sales and business strategy from leading software and business solution providers. Mr. Jurkowski most recently served as chief operating officer at Apriso, where he increased year-over-year revenue by 20 percent and doubled software sales. Prior, Mr. Jurkowski was COO of Silicon Energy, where he helped transform the company into a horizontal leader in enterprise energy management solutions for Global 2000 and large utilities. As vice president of worldwide field operations at RightWorks, he grew sales from zero to $100 million in two years. Mr. Jurkowski has also held executive roles at Aurum Software, a division of the Baan Company; Dun & Bradstreet Software; Oracle Corp; Automatic Data Processing; and Caterpillar. Mr. Jurkowski holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the University of Chicago.
 Jeffrey M. Kaplan
Managing Director, THINKStrategies
Jeff Kaplan is the Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, a strategic consulting firm that helps IT enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies. Kaplan is also the founder of the Managed Service Showplace® and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace® free, online directories. THINKstrategies' online directories provide an easy-to-use listing of SaaS solutions by application and MSPs by service category, and extensive information and insight about industry best practices to help organizations fully leverage the growing array of SaaS solutions and managed services. Prior to forming THINKstrategies, Jeff served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at InterOPS Management Solutions, and Director of Strategic Marketing at International Network Services (INS). Jeff also spent thirteen (13) years as a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest and META Group.
 David Kennedy
Chairman, ServiceSource
David Kennedy is Chairman of the Board and leads strategic initiatives within ServiceSource, the leading provider of a global outsourced sales solution focused on maximizing maintenance sales. Prior to ServiceSource, David was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in multiple offices across Europe and the United States. His experience includes over 30 client engagements, focusing on operational efficiency improvement, product marketing and sales, mergers and acquisitions and corporate and business strategy. Before McKinsey, David worked at H.J. Heinz as the Operations Manager for Central and Eastern Europe. David holds an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Business from University College Dublin in Ireland and an MA from Stanford University in International Policy Studies. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for his studies at Stanford.
 Mike Kochanik
Vice President of Alliances, CollabNet
Mike Kochanik is Vice President of Alliances at CollabNet, the leading provider of on-demand distributed application lifecycle management solutions for software development. Mike has been a major contributor in the creation of network-centric IT strategies leveraging open source software and community-based development processes at Global 1000 organizations.
 Steve Lucas
Vice President Strategic Markets, Business Objects
Steve has been with Business Objects for over 7 years. As part of the executive team for Business Objects Americas, Steve manages several organizations including Data Integration, Partner Alliance Sales, Channel Partners and OEM. In addition, Steve is involved in the creation of some of Business Objects' cutting edge solutions. Prior to his current role he authored several books on Business Intelligence, led strategic sales and technology teams as well as worked with the product team on technology planning and direction. Over the entire duration of his career, Steve has worked in the software industry in technical, sales and consulting management capacities. Steve, his wife and two children are based in Denver, Colorado.
Chuck Massanari
VP Sales, Citrix Online Division
 Chris Miranda
VP of Sales, eMeta Corporation
Mr. Miranda is responsible for eMeta's worldwide sales strategy, managing the division's sales initiatives and developing partnerships and alliances. Prior to joining eMeta, Mr. Miranda led a team of major account executives at Canon Business Solutions, developing a market for a new division of the company. Mr. Miranda received his BS degree from the University at Albany, State University of New York.
 Bob O'Connor
CEO, Softrax Corporation
Mr. O'Connor is President and Chief Executive Officer of Softrax. With over 20 years of experience in executive management of software companies, he has proven expertise in finance, sales and marketing. Under O'Connor's leadership, Softrax has become a leading provider of revenue management applications. O'Connor was also responsible for articulating the initial vision for the Company and securing all of the venture capital funding for a rapid growth plan. In addition, he has executed a clear strategy of customer focus, significant sales growth and infrastructure building that has positioned Softrax for industry leadership. Prior to Softrax, O'Connor was CEO of RBS Group, Inc., a software and services company that grew to become IBM's largest business partner in New England. At that time, he was honored by IBM as one of the "Top 50 CEOs" among its business partners. Before RBS Group Inc., O'Connor held senior financial positions at technology companies, including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
 Mike Olson
Vice President, Embedded Technologies, Oracle Corporation
Michael Olson is a technology industry veteran with more than 25 years experience in engineering, marketing, sales and business management. He joined Oracle Corporation in 2006 when Oracle purchased his company, Sleepycat Software, maker of the popular embedded database engine Berkeley DB. Olson was named president and CEO of Sleepycat in 2001 after serving as vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to Sleepycat, Olson served in technical and business management positions at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra and Informix. He holds BA and MA degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
 Clint Oram
General Manager of Sugar Online & Co-Founder, SugarCRM
Clint Oram is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM and co-led the product design as well as the customer services team through the first year of business. He is now responsible for managing SugarCRM's community and SugarForge.org, the premiere destination for community collaboration on Sugar Suite extensions, modules, language packs and themes.
Clint's 8 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 holds a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
 Punita Pandey
Chairman & CEO, NetCustomer
Punita Pandey is the Chairman and CEO of netCustomer. Punita founded netCustomer in 1999 leveraging her experience in software development, management consulting, and IT services. She saw a great opportunity in combining the ubiquitous reach of the Internet with around-the-clock global operations to improve quality and efficiency of services operations. Under her leadership, netCustomer has become a leading provider of advanced applications support services leveraging a 24x7 global delivery model. Prior to founding netCustomer, Punita worked with Healtheon/WebMD, Deloitte Consulting, Tandem Computers, McDonnell Douglas, and Tata Consultancy Services.
During the formative years at netCustomer, Punita evangelized the concept of higher quality and lower cost customer support leveraging 24x7 India operations. Her initial years at netCustomer were captured by Stanford University in a case study on netCustomer. The netCustomer case is taught at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and at several leading universities around the world. Punita is a frequent speaker at the Stanford Business School, the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, San Jose State University, and other universities in the U.S. and India.
 Morris Panner
CEO, OpenAir, Inc.
Since 2001, Morris Panner has been CEO of OpenAir, an on-demand professional services automation application for consulting and services companies.
OpenAir was named a Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 company and a Top 25 Global Service Provider by ASP News. Panner was previously an attorney for the U.S.
Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and spent a year fighting narco-terrorism at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Columbia.
Before that, he was a Federal Prosecutor in New York City, an M&A attorney and a banker at Lazard Frères & Co. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Yale, he has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes and Fast Company.
T.M. Ravi
President & CEO, Mimosa Systems, Inc.
T. M. Ravi has had a long career with broad experience in enterprise management and storage. He is co-founder and chief executive officer of Mimosa Systems, Inc., a provider of e-mail data management solutions. Previously, Ravi was founder and chief executive officer of Peakstone Corporation, a venture financed startup and source of performance management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. In the past, Ravi was vice president of marketing at Computer Associates (CA). At Computer Associates, Ravi was responsible for the core line of CA enterprise management products including CA Unicenter; and in the areas of application, systems and network management, software distribution, help desk, security and storage management. He joined CA through the $1.2 billion acquisition of Cheyenne Software, the market leader in storage management and antivirus solutions.
Loren Russon
Director of Product Management, Novell, Inc.
Loren is responsible for the strategic direction of all Novell Identity Management solutions, making sure they meet customers' needs now and in the future. Applying his expertise to real-world issues, Loren has also worked with some of the largest commercial and government organizations on their identity management projects. He regularly presents at industry events and conferences. Prior to joining Novell, Loren lived in Asia and worked in a variety of product management and marketing roles for a networking hardware and software company.
 Treb Ryan
CEO, 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 - 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.
 Axel Schultze
CEO, Tanooma Corporation
Axel Schultze is a serial entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Tanooma Corporation. In 1983 he founded Computer 2000 which became the largest European computer distributor, the third largest in the world. In 1996 he founded Infinigate which became one of the largest Internet Solutions providers in Europe. With his experience in indirect sales channels he moved to Silicon Valley and founded BlueRoads Corp. in 2001. Despite the .com crisis he successfully raised 3 rounds of funding and created the most successful Software as a Service based Channel CRM Company. He invented a new method of lead distribution and was granted a patent in 2006. After 5 years experience with Software as a Service he founded Tanooma in 2006 together with his partner Dr. Timothy Chou (former president Oracle on Demand). His mission with Tanooma is to help accelerate growth of the SaaS industry by providing the first "Virtual Economy".
 Roger Sippl
Chairman, Above All Software
Roger Sippl is a true Silicon Valley icon and pioneer of innovation. His 25 years of contributions have helped shape the technology landscape of today. In 1980 he founded Informix Software. Under his leadership, Informix pioneered SQL relational databases, 4GL application development tools, and OLTP database technology and is now a part of IBM. Sippl was co-founder and Chairman of The Vantive Corporation. Vantive became a leader in CRM, successfully became a public company, and is now a part of PeopleSoft/Oracle. In 1993, he founded and was chairman of Visigenic Software, helping pioneer distributed computing and application servers in enterprises. Visigenic was acquired by Borland.
 Albert E. Sisto
President and CEO, Phoenix Technologies
Mr. Sisto joined the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer and was appointed to the Board of Directors in June 1999. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors in January 2000. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Sisto was Chief Operating Officer of RSA Security Inc. from 1997 to 1999. He served as President, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of DocuMagix, Inc. from 1994 to 1997. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Sisto was President and Chief Executive Officer of PixelCraft, Inc. Mr. Sisto currently serves as a director of both Hifn, Inc. and Validity Sensors, Inc. Mr. Sisto holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
 Dr. Jerry Smith
CTO, Symphony Services
Dr. Jerry Smith joined Symphony Services in 2005 as Chief Technology Officer, fueling company growth and supporting their groundbreaking services in product development outsourcing. As primary technology strategist, he aligns current progress with future goals. Jerry was previously CTO, vice president of engineering and acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) for IPR International, CTO at Systems and Computers Technology (SCT) and the CTO of professional services firm Semaphore. He also worked in management roles at Xerox, Sales Technologies and KPMG and was the principal investigator/owner of Market Place Technologies.
 Vamsee Tirukkala
co-founder & EVP, Zinnov
Vamsee Tirukkala is the co-founder & EVP of Zinnov, a leading offshore Consulting and Research Company. Since inception in 2003, Vamsee has been leading Zinnov's revenue generation efforts and customer engagements. As a practice leader for the strategic services, Vamsee has assisted multiple Fortune 1000 and reputed ISV companies with their offshoring strategy and operational optimization. Vamsee has been instrumental in successfully establishing strategic partnerships with large consulting organizations and venture firms.
 Zach Urlocker
Executive Vice President of Marketing, MySQL
As executive vice president of marketing, Zack Urlocker oversees the company's worldwide corporate and product marketing, product management, alliances, sales-lead generation, public relations and Web site. Zack is a veteran technology marketer, with more than 15 years' enterprise software marketing experience. Prior to joining MySQL AB, Zack held executive marketing and product management positions at Active Software, webMethods and Borland International.
 Dave Welker
CFO, rPath
Dave has twenty two years of professional experience, with ten with emerging and high-growth companies and twelve in public accounting. His public accounting experience includes early stage, middle market and Fortune 500 companies in information technology, life science, and manufacturing disciplines. He has extensive knowledge of management, operations, finance, accounting, investor relations, human resources, contracts, sales, marketing, inventory control, and administration. Before joining rPath, Inc., Dave held management positions as Vice President of Finance & Operations at several RTP headquartered software companies. Dave has also held management positions at KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, and Price Waterhouse. Dave is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in North Carolina and Ohio and holds a BS degree in Business Administration and Accounting from The University of Akron.
 Dennis Wolf
CFO and Executive Vice President, MySQL
Dennis has over 25 years of experience managing finance and operations for high-growth technology companies. He is responsible for MySQL's worldwide finance, internal IT, accounting, HR, legal, and administrative operations. Prior to joining MySQL AB, he was managing director and CFO of Hercules Technology Growth Capital. Previously, he held CFO and senior executive positions at Omnicell, Redback Networks and Credence Systems Corporation. He also served in executive management roles at Sun Microsystems and Apple Computer, and currently sits on the board of directors for Vitria Technology and Komag, Incorporated.
 Tim Yeaton
Vice President of Marketing, Red Hat
Timothy Yeaton, Senior Vice President Enterprise Solutions at Red Hat, is responsible for all worldwide marketing functions including Partner, Product and Programs Marketing and Communications. Yeaton, who most recently held the position of President and CEO of Avaki Corporation (acquired by Sybase), has over 20 years of experience as part of the management team at companies such as Macromedia and Compaq.
Prior to leading the team at Avaki, Yeaton held the position of Senior Vice President & General Manager, Server Products at Macromedia where he was responsible for complete general management and P&L for all of Macromedia's server-side products. At Compaq Yeaton was Vice President & General Manager, UNIX/Linux Systems Division with responsibility for the general management for Compaq's UNIX systems business, including all UNIX and Linux-related activities across Compaq divisions.
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