Tom Austin insures that there is a well-orchestrated focus on the major topics in his area including the people side of communication, collaboration, coordination and information access and management. He guided clients through the great communication and collaboration wars between IBM/Lotus, Microsoft, Netscape, et al, in the 1990s. He also created Gartner's coverage of Network Computing. He was appointed a Gartner Fellow in the first-ever group of Gartner Fellows to reflect industry recognition of his contributions, insight, energy and impact.

Stephen M. R. Covey
CEO, CoveyLink Worldwide

Stephen M. R. Covey is co-founder and CEO of CoveyLink Worldwide. A sought-after and compelling keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance, he speaks to audiences around the world. He is the author of The SPEED of Trust.

He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Covey personally led the strategy that propelled his father's book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine. A Harvard MBA, he joined Covey Leadership Center as a Client Developer and later became National Sales Manager and then President & CEO.

Matthew Glotzbach
Business Product Manager, Google

Matthew Glotzbach joined Google in 2004 with responsibility for the development, management, and marketing of Google's Enterprise product lines. He brings 8 years of enterprise product management, marketing, and sales experience to the team specializing in the unique business and technology needs of enterprise customers. Prior to joining Google, Matthew was a senior member of the management team for the Computer Industry Business Unit at Trilogy, an enterprise software company based out of Austin, TX. He was involved with the creation of Trilogy's product direction and vision and acted as the lead product manager on a number of Trilogy's industry solutions. Mr. Glotzbach holds a Bachelor degree from Cornell University.

Mahadeva Mani
Senior Director, Booz Allen

Mahadeva Mani is a Senior Director with the global management & strategy consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton based in McLean, Virginia. Mahadeva advises clients on their outsourcing and offshoring strategies, specializing in global sourcing, change management and establishing offshore operations. He is currently supporting a leading automotive company to expand its global footprint as part of a major organizational transformation initiative. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Mahadeva spent over twelve years in several management roles in the global telecom and IT industry advising commercial and government clients on outsourcing and information technology solutions. He also co-founded a fast growing telecommunications and IT services company in India and contributed to the growth of the offshore outsourcing industry in that country. He has worked closely with government and industry organizations to advise on the development of sound infrastructure & telecom policies in India, and has spoken at several industry seminars on the development of a stable IT & telecom industry in India and other emerging markets.

Mårten Mickos
CEO, MySQL AB

Mårten Mickos joined MySQL AB as CEO in 2001. Under his leadership, the company has grown from a start-up to the second-largest open source company and the fastest-growing database vendor in the world. Prior to MySQL, Mickos held multi-national CEO and senior executive positions in his native Finland. He holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology.

Dr. Michael E. Raynor
Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Michael E. Raynor is a consultant with Deloitte Consulting LLP and the Deloitte Research Distinguished Fellow. He works with senior executives in the world's leading corporations across a wide range of industries. His first book, The Innovator's Solution, co-authored with Professor Clayton M. Christensen, has been on the Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller lists, and won several "best book of the year" awards in 2003. His second book, The Strategy Paradox, was released in February 2007 to widespread critical acclaim. Dr. Raynor earned his doctoral degree from the Harvard Business School, and teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs at the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Raynor holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Harvard University where he was a John Harvard Scholar, and an MBA from the Ivey Business School. He lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Jeff W. Russell
Duke Fuqua School of Business CIBER Offshoring Research Network

Jeff W. Russell directs research efforts on offshoring and cross cultural communication for the Duke Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the Duke Fuqua School of Business. The offshoring research is a longitudinal study, which objectively benchmarks key performance metrics and the current perceptions of financial, operational and political risk associated with offshore operational models and is a joint effort with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Prior to joining Duke CIBER, Jeff advised high tech SMBs on doing business in China and Taiwan working for the China External Trade Development Council in San Francisco. He has a joint degree in Cultural Anthropology and Chinese Studies from the University of Arizona and spent several years of advanced Chinese studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, Peking University, and Taiwan Normal.

An original member of ICG's advisory board, Doug joined the company full-time in September 1997 as Managing Director. Doug has had many roles at ICG including CEO of WiseWire Technologies, which was successfully sold to Lycos; Chairman of Verticalnet through its IPO; CEO of ICG Europe; and CEO of Mobility Technologies. In addition to these roles, Doug's primary focus at ICG has been to sponsor and oversee investments in several partner companies that have included Blackboard (Nasdaq: BBBB), Verticalnet (Nasdaq:VERT), eMerge Interactive (Nasdaq: EMRG), Arbinet-thexchange (Nasdaq: ARBX), WiseWire (acquired by Lycos), LinkShare (acquired by Rakuten), CreditTrade, StarCite, Mobility Technologies, and Investor Force. Doug currently serves on the boards of LinkShare, Investor Force, CreditTrade, StarCite, ICG Commerce and WhiteFence.

Charles Babcock
Editor-at-large, Information Week

Charles Babcock is one of five editor-at-large writers at Information Week charged with covering broad technology areas, such as database, Web services and open source code. He is a former New York correspondent, senior software editor and technical editor of Computer World, technology editor at Interactive Week and editor in chief of Digital News. He is a graduate of Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

Renato Beniatto
COO and VP of Consulting, Common Sense Advisory

Renato Beninatto is the COO and VP of Consulting at business globalization research and consulting firm, Common Sense Advisory. He is a corporate strategist and international business consultant with expertise in business globalization and localization services. Beninatto has more than 20 years of executive-level experience in the localization industry and has served on the executive teams for some of the industry's most prominent companies. He focuses on strategies that drive growth on a global scale and specializes in making companies successful in global markets and in starting businesses that span across borders. Beninatto is a Brazilian native living Boston. He speaks five languages and has lived in seven countries around the world.

Ken Boasso
Co-founder, Keychain Logic

A co-founder of Keychain Logic, the premier Software-as-a-Service revenue acceleration company, Ken Boasso is the firm’s most recognizable name and face. Responsible for sales and marketing, Ken also works with key SaaS ISV clients on the design and implementation of go-to-market strategies and accelerating customer acquisition efforts. Frequently recruited to speak at industry events and share ideas about the SaaS revolution, Ken is held in high regard by other technology executives and thought-leaders. An entrepreneurial executive with a background building high-performance organizations, Ken’s experience includes leading the national sales organization at PAIX.net (now Switch and Data) to achieve 290%+ revenue growth during a 2½ -year industry-wide recession. Ken also was instrumental in MCI’s entry into the $30B systems integration market, developing, approving and implementing the business case that generated more than $200M in new SaaS-driven emissions control system contracts in less than two years.

Beth Boettcher
Senior Manager, Customer Relationship Management, Accenture

Beth A. Boettcher is a Denver-based senior manager in the Accenture Customer Relationship Management global service line. A specialist in Sales Enablement, Ms. Boettcher has 9 years experience in building and deploying large scale integrated customer solutions. She currently leads Accenture's SaaS Enablement Practice - her work includes optimizing sales force performance on a global scale and driving sales application and process adoption programs.

Stowe Boyd
CEO, Blue Whale Labs

Stowe Boyd is an internationally recognized authority on social applications and their impact on business, media, and society. He serves at he CEO of Blue Whale Labs. Stowe is the editor of Message, and has has served as editor and columnist for Cutter Consortium, Darwin, Fawcette, Wiley, and Knowledge Management magazine. He was formerly the president of Corante, the social media group, as well as the managing director of A Working Model. He is a member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup, the Media 2.0 workgroup, and the Federated Media Publishing blog network. He has appeared in various high-visibility conferences and symposia, including The Collaborative Technologies Conference, Reboot, SHiFT, Lift, Under The Radar, Comdex, Supernova, Braintrust, Instant Messaging Planet, KMWorld, AIIM, and dozens of others. Stowe has a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a master's degree in computer science from Boston University.

Gianpaolo Carraro
Director of SaaS Architecture, Microsoft

Gianpaolo Carraro is Director of SaaS Architecture, in the Architecture Strategy team at Microsoft. In his role, Gianpaolo drives thought leadership and architectural best practices on Software as a Service. Prior to Microsoft, Gianpaolo was co-founder and chief architect of a SaaS startup, prior to that Gianpaolo was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories. He is also a published author and a frequent speaker at major international IT conferences.

Victor Cho
Vice President, Web Marketing and Web Commerce, Intuit

Victor Cho is Vice President of Web Marketing and Web Commerce for Intuit, where he is responsible for increasing sales through all channels using the Internet. He oversees all elements of the company's Web sales and commerce capabilities, including strategy, marketing, design, development, analysis and infrastructure. He also oversees the strategic direction of Intuit's QuickBase, the company's online workgroup application used by 45 of the Fortune 100. Before joining Intuit in April 2004, Mr. Cho was Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operations at iVillage.com where he was responsible for multiple business areas including marketing, commerce and search. Prior to that, he held multiple marketing positions within Microsoft's consumer products and Internet division, including managing worldwide electronic marketing programs, driving business and market development for new Internet businesses and subscription programs and more. He is also a technology entrepreneur and continues to advise multiple Internet start-ups.

Tim Clark
Partner, FactPoint Group

Tim Clark is a partner in the boutique Silicon Valley market research and consulting firm The FactPoint Group (www.factpoint.com). FactPoint has provided custom and multi-client research and consulting to software vendors and enterprise customers since 1992. A business-to-business specialist, Clark's recent research has focused on Software as a Service (SaaS), wikis, open source, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Utility Computing, network security, business continuity and Web services. Previously, Clark was senior analyst with Jupiter Media Metrix and Net Market Makers. Before becoming an analyst, he was a reporter and editor for 24 years, working as senior editor and columnist for CNET's News.com, covering where he covered e-commerce and Internet security.

David Coursey
President, David Coursey Consulting, Inc.

David Coursey has been commenting on technology for nearly 25 years, for such publications as Infoworld, Computerworld, Network World, PC World, Upside, and online sites including CNET.com, Gearlog.com, and eWEEK.com. He is also the author of two books published by Peachpit Press. His columns have been quoted in keynote speeches by Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and other top executives. He has also been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, and other newspapers, and has appeared on all three major U.S. television networks, plus CNN and CNBC. He has hosted a daily call-in program on CNET Radio and also appeared on CNET News.com television and other programs. The former host of the DEMO executive conference, Coursey has also hosted numerous other industry events and has been both a keynote speaker and panelist at major conferences. Coursey makes his services available through David Coursey Consulting, Inc., his industry advisory and analysis company. He also recently founded National Warning Corporation, which provides software and services to the emergency management community.

Jeff Cutler
Chief Revenue Officer, Answers Corporation

Jeffrey S. Cutler is a senior executive with over 20 years of information industry experience. Jeff is Chief Revenue Officer of Answers Corporation, creator of the leading answer provider, Answers.com (http://www.answers.com). Answers.com offers authoritative content covering 4 million topics drawn from over 120 high-quality titles, as well as writing by its own editorial team. As Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff is responsible for business development, marketing, product management, content and advertising sales. Previously, Jeff served as GM of the Software and Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) Content Division. Prior to SIIA, Jeff served as President and CEO for Inlumen, Inc. before overseeing the sale of Inlumen to Pinnacor (now part of the MarketWatch Division of Dow Jones). In addition, Jeff was the co-founder, GM & COO of Winstar’s Office.com, and held senior management positions with N2K Telebase, Thomson Financial and CompuServe.

Joe Demmler
VP of Marketing Operations, Salesforce.com

Joe Demmler, VP of Marketing Operations, is responsible for the Global deployment of Salesforce.com to 5,500 sales and marketing professionals in more than 100 countries. In addition, he is responsible for marketing infrastructure as part of Aon's Global Sales and Marketing effectiveness program. Prior to joining Aon, he held senior executive positions at Accenture and IBM Business Consulting Services where his focus was sales force effectiveness and CRM in financial services.

Scott D. Donahue
Principal, TripleTree

For the past 14 years, Scott has delivered a wide variety of strategic analysis and business development expertise to top technology firms. Having served both in operational, investment, and advisory roles during his career, Scott has built deep knowledge in IT operations and services delivery approaches including: utility computing; heterogeneous data center operations; storage infrastructures; telecommunications and wireless operations management/OSS; and service-oriented architectures. Most recently, Scott was vice president and lead analyst at Tier1 Research, a Wall Street independent research provider focusing on IT infrastructure where he demonstrated thought leadership and provided technical and financial analysis on a wide range of companies including buy/sell recommendations on over 25 top public software firms.

Roy D'Souza
CTO & Co-Founder, Mimosa Systems, Inc.

Roy D'Souza has 20 years experience building products and leading technical teams in the areas of operating systems kernels, networking, file systems and storage area networking. Roy is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Mimosa Systems, Inc. a provider of e-mail data management solutions. In his previous position at Brocade Communications as Director of Systems Architecture, Roy was responsible for defining the technological roadmap of the company. Prior to Brocade, Roy spent three years at a startup, Rivio, as VP of Engineering, building a web-delivered back office product to small businesses. Previously, Roy was at Intel Corporation as a Principal Architect to lead an effort to build an Intel clean room Java Virtual Machine that was rated the highest performing JVM on Intel architectures. While at Intel, Roy also led an effort to tune the performance of Windows 2000 on the Itanium architecture, and is one of the architects of the Itanium performance counter subsystem. He was instrumental in refining the overall Itanium architecture to optimize for the windows operating system. Prior to Intel, Roy was Principal Engineer at the Digital Equipment Corporation in Bellevue, Washington, in the Windows NT Performance group. Roy was responsible for file system and I/O performance for the company's Alpha architecture, and worked closely onsite with Microsoft to make that architecture deliver the highest performance during that architecture's lifetime.

Michael Ferris
irector or Product Marketing of Online Services, Red Hat

Michael Ferris is the Director or Product Marketing of Online Services at Red Hat responsible for the extension of Red Hat's Open Source focus into Internet delivery and business models. Michael has more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software development and management, having led Product Marketing and Management teams at Red Hat during the definition and introduction of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux flagship product line and most recently spearheading the creation of Red Hat's Enterprise Security platform. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2000, Michael held positions at enterprise software firms leading design, product management and development.

Clyde Foster
VP, Gobal Software Sales, Enterprise Solutions, Nokia

Clyde Foster a seasoned executive in enterprise sales with more than 20 years experience, currently serves as VP of Global Software Sales, for Nokia. Foster is responsible for corporate operations and the sales of the Intellisync products to leading enterprises, OEMs and wireless operators. Foster joined Nokia in early 2006 as part of Nokia's acquisition of Intellisync Corporation, where he served as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to his time at Intellisync, Foster held leadership roles in the Global Solutions Services division at Aspect Communications. He also spent 14 years at IBM where he held a variety of sales and marketing management positions. Foster also spent time as president, CEO and founder of eConvergent, Inc., a developer of next-generation customer data integration software.

Sara Garrison
Senior Vice President, Products and Systems Delivery, Sabre Holdings

Sabre Holdings named Sara Garrison senior vice president of its Products and Systems Delivery group in August 2006. With more than 30 years of proven information technology leadership, she oversees the development and implementation of products, systems and services for all of Sabre's businesses. Prior to Sabre, she was employed at Inovant, a Visa subsidiary, where she first served as senior vice president of Technology Solutions and then as senior vice president of Network and Open Systems. In this role, she was responsible for the development of mission-critical applications and led the modernization of the infrastructure supporting all U.S. retail payments and information services.

Conor Halpin
CEO, LeCayla Technologies

Conor Halpin is founder and CEO of LeCayla Technologies who provide the world's first metering and billing solution for SaaS solutions. LeCayla offers the software equivalent of a utility meter allowing software vendors to measure and bill for usage on a per-use basis. Conor's specific expertise is in software marketing and pricing. He has led the sales and marketing effort for a number of international software companies including eSpatial Solutions and Marrakech. Prior to that Conor was VP strategic alliances with IONA Technologies. He holds a degree in software engineering from Trinity College Dublin.

George Hu
Chief Marketing Officer, Salesforce.com

As chief marketing officer at salesforce.com, Hu leads the global marketing organization, which includes corporate marketing, product marketing, and product management. He is responsible for the company's messaging and applications product strategy, and is a member of the company's executive committee reporting directly to salesforce.com Chairman & CEO Marc Benioff. Hu joined salesforce.com in 2002 and has served in a variety of management roles including vice president of product marketing and senior vice president of applications. In these capacities he has led the broadening of the company's product portfolio into customer service and support and partner relationship management, launched breakthrough new products including salesforce.com's Unlimited Edition, and driven the creation of innovative new concepts such as Successforce.com and the IdeaExchange.

Shankar Iyer
VP of Strategic Initiatives, WebEx Commerce

As vice-president of strategic initiatives, Shankar is responsible for the WebEx Connect application partner ecosystem. Prior to Webex, Shankar was the EVP, strategy, marketing, products at GemStone Systems, a leading enterprise software company in the distributed data management space. Before GemStone, Shankar founded and managed technology and strategy consulting firm, Orcheid. From 1998 to 2002, Shankar was vice-president of products and strategy at Tibco Software, where he helped lead the company from a one-product, $15 million company to a 40+ product, $330 million company. Prior to Tibco, Shankar held senior marketing, engineering management and architecture positions at Adobe Systems. Shankar holds an MBA with Honors from Santa Clara University, an M.S. in Engineering from Ohio State University and a B.Tech with Distinction from IIT Bombay.

David Knight
Vice President, WebEx Connect

As vice president of WebEx Connect, David is responsible for setting the strategic product direction and requirements for the new composite collaboration application platform, presence-enabled applications and associated technology components. David joined WebEx from professional service automation (PSA) and SaaS pioneer Portera Systems where he was vice president of marketing and product management. Prior to Portera, David held a variety of roles at Sybase including director of Internet middleware. David began his product management career at Oracle where he was the product manager for Oracle 6.2 and Oracle 7. David has both a BS and MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Steve Lucas
Vice President of On Demand Software and Services, Business Object

Steve Lucas, Vice President of On Demand Software and Services. Steve has been with Business Objects for over 7 years. As part of the executive team, Steve leads the on demand organization at Business Objects, including the strategy as well as go to market execution for software as a service. 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 live in Denver, Colorado.

Deborah Magid
Director, Software Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group

Deborah Magid, Director of Software Strategy, represents the software business in IBM's Venture Capital Group. Deborah is responsible for building ecosystems for IBM by sharing insights about emerging markets, technologies, and business models with venture firms and entrepreneurs. She also brings insight form the venture community to the development of IBM's growth initiatives. She introduces venture firms and their portfolio companies to IBM's strategy, scouts for emerging business opportunities, and shares views on innovation and growth areas of the market. Deborah is a frequent spokesperson on topics of relevance to entrepreneurs and investors, and is on the board of SDForum, the Silicon Valley emerging technology network.

Mike Mansbach
VP Enterprise Marketing, Citrix Online

Mike Mansbach is responsible for product marketing, demand creation and strategic alliances on a global basis. Under his leadership, Citrix Online has grown corporate product revenues substantially and developed alliances with many of the world's leading telcos and ISPs. Previously, Mansbach served as senior vice president of marketing for SeeBeyond, an integration software provider, where his responsibilities included global product and field marketing. He has also held senior management positions with Acorn Technologies and QAD. Mansbach earned degrees in international business economics and European-area studies at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Michael Mankowski
Lead Analyst, Tier 1 Research

Michael Mankowski covers the application software market for Tier 1 Research with a focus on the adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS). Michael is the lead analyst for Tier 1 Research's SaaS adoption service and serves on the ISV Best Practices Committee for SIIA's SaaS Executive Council. Prior to joining Tier1 Research, Michael served in various competitive and market intelligence roles at IBM, providing IBM Global Services executives with insights and opinions on both the hosting and consulting markets. Prior to IBM, Michael held a variety of engineering and technical sales positions, ranging from Submarine Design Engineer to Regional Sales Manager. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Catholic University of America and an MBA from Villanova Business School.

Jason Maynard
Software Analyst, Credit Suisse
Jason Maynard is a Software Analyst for Credit Suisse with coverage responsibility for the applications, infrastructure, and On Demand computing. In addition to direct coverage responsibility, he serves as group head for the global software research team. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2005, Maynard was the global software coordinator and senior software analyst for Merrill Lynch. In February 2004, Maynard launched the On Demand Index to track and measure the rise of On Demand business models and the trend of Software as a Service. InformationWeek magazine named Maynard to its 2005 Innovators and Influencers list based on his work in the field. Before moving into investment research, his professional experience includes product marketing and business development for two software start-ups in the Customer Relationship Management and Java development space. Maynard was a co-founder of Verix Software and played a key role in selling the company to Inference Corporation in 1998. Maynard received an MBA in information technology from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in 1998 while working full-time, and a BS in finance from California State University at Sacramento in 1993.

Ross Mayfield
CEO & Co-founder, Socialtext
Ross Mayfield is CEO & Co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. A noted blogger and industry expert, he is a serial and social entrepreneur. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to over 2,000 customers with Software-as-a-Service, Appliance and Open Source solutions. Mayfield partnered with Dan Bricklin, the creator of the first spreadsheet visiCalc, to co-develop and distribute SocialCalc. Socialtext is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP Ventures and Omidyar Network.

Jeff Moriarty
Collaboration Technical Architect, Intel

Jeff Moriarty is a Collaboration Technical Architect in Information Technology at Intel. Jeff has worked in the evolving technical and social communications arena for over 14 years. He has been at Intel seven years and held roles ranging from software development to program management for enterprise wide application deployments. As part of his current architectural role Jeff is helping to drive the adoption of social medial both internally and externally at Intel, including the technical, social, and cultural challenges they pose. Jeff writes the most read internal employee blog at Intel, and was one of the first participants in Intel's external IT blog.

Bobby Napiltonia
SVP, Worldwide Channels and Alliances, Salesforce.com

Bobby Napiltonia was previously vice president and general manager of worldwide channels and alliances for BEA Systems, Inc. At BEA, Napiltonia directed strategy and business models for the company's worldwide alliance partners including Intel, Computer Sciences Corp., Accenture, Hewlett Packard Co., EMC, Wipro, Tata Consultany Services and Electronic Data Systems. Napiltonia also created new business engagement models with global system integrators, software vendors and launched a formal Reseller Program in the United States. In March 2005, Napiltonia's was recognized by CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine as one of North America's Top Channel Executives of 2005. Napiltonia was CEO, president and founder of State Software Inc., a start-up company selling a software platform for enabling Web applications. Prior to this, Napiltonia spent 12 years in senior management positions working in a variety of channels at Creative Labs and D&H Distributing.

Lior Nir
Director, Product Marketing, Nokia Enterprise Mobility Solutions

As Director of Global Product Marketing for Nokia Enterprise Mobility Solutions, Lior Nir helps develop enterprise solutions that mobilize voice and data. He works with partners and customers on product development, channel building and go-to-market strategies. Nir has also contributed to the Nokia Mobile Email and Nokia MMS solutions, among others. Prior to joining Nokia in 1999, he developed VoIP solutions at Vocaltec. He is frequently invited to speak about mobility at industry conferences.

Morris Panner
CEO, OpenAir, Inc.

Since 2001, Morris Panner has been CEO of OpenAir, an on-demand professional services automation application. OpenAir is used by professional services firms to gain controls and insight on their financial best practices and to track projects, teams, and billable hours for improving employee utilization and to streamline project management. OpenAir is a member of salesforce.com's AppExchange network and its application is based on the Software-as-Service (SaaS) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model. Customers include MedImmune (Nasdaq: MEDI); Selectica (Nasdaq: SLTC), Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) and Software AG of Germany. OpenAir has been named a Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 Company, a Finalist in the Software and Information Industry Association CODiE aware competition 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 is on the Board of the Software Division of the SIIA and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes and Fast Company.

Jay Parikh
Vice President of Site and Content Delivery, Akamai Technologies

Jay Parikh is the Vice President of Engineering at Akamai Technologies and joined the company in 1999. Mr. Parikh currently leads the product engineering teams responsible for Akamai's Digital Asset and Dynamic Site solution lines. These solutions are the core services leveraged by the majority of Akamai's 2,200 customers including Yahoo!, Apple, Microsoft and MTVi. Prior to assisting the company with product development work, Mr. Parikh was instrumental in establishing Akamai's network partnership relationships, a key aspect to the company's overall network architecture and service model. Before joining Akamai, Mr. Parikh was a senior consulting engineer at NetGravity (now DoubleClick), where he led several enterprise integrations projects that implemented the company's various software solutions. In 1995, Mr. Parikh joined Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he worked on a variety of large-scale custom IT integration projects in the telecom industry practice.

Kim Polese
CEO, SpikeSource, Inc.

Kim Polese is the CEO of SpikeSource, Inc., a software company based in Silicon Valley. The company is backed by venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and has developed an advanced automated testing technology for certifying interoperability of open source software - creating in effect a continual "UL" -style certification for Global 2000 companies who are depending on open source software applications to run their core business operations. The automation enables the delivery of low-cost, high-quality software to a mass market, resulting in more affordable and dependable software applications for business of all sizes worldwide. Prior to joining SpikeSource in August 2004, Ms. Polese co-founded Marimba, Inc., a leading provider of systems management solutions, in 1996. Marimba was acquired by BMC Software in June 2004. Ms. Polese served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of Marimba, leading the company through a successful public offering and to profitability in 2000.

Sam Ramji
Director, Platform Technology Strategy, Microsoft Corporation

Sam directs the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft doing primary research on various open source projects, and driving interoperability between Microsoft and key open source technologies. He leads Open Source Technology Strategy, including engaging with commercial Open Source companies like Novell, JBoss, Zend and SugarCRM, to help Microsoft advance our support for and understanding of the open source development, community, and marketing models. Sam has led engineering teams building large-scale applications on Open Source software (at Ofoto.com) as well as hands-on development of client, client-server, and distributed applications on Unix, Windows, and Macintosh. Prior to his current role at Microsoft, Sam was a Director of Emerging Business working on the Silicon Valley Campus where he managed relationships with Venture Capitalists and entrepreneurs. Sam has held management and strategy positions at BEA Systems and Ofoto.com and has worked with Fortune 500 CTOs and architects.

Greg Reinacker
Founder and CTO, NewsGator Technologies

Greg Reinacker is the Founder and CTO of NewsGator Technologies. Greg's background includes technical consulting work for companies such as Galileo International, as well as several commercial software ventures with companies such as McGraw-Hill. Greg is recognized as a thought leader in the weblog and RSS arenas, publicly speaks about RSS, and is a vocal proponent of business uses of RSS and syndication technologies. Greg holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Frank Rego
Product Manager, Open Platform Solutions, Novell

Frank Rego is a Product Manager in Novell's Open Platform Solutions business unit, responsible for the Mono and AppArmor technologies in the SUSE Linux Enterprise product line. Sponsored by Novell, the Mono open source project provides the necessary software to develop and run cross-platform .NET client and server applications, and has an active and enthusiastic contributing community. Prior to joining Novell, Frank worked at Immunix, the company that developed the open source AppArmor application security technology, as Vice President of Business Development. Immunix was subsequently acquired by Novell in 2005, and the AppArmor technology successfully integrated into the SUSE Linux Enterprise family of products.

Cliff Reeves
General Manager, .NET Platform Strategy, Microsoft Corporation

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

Jack Repenning
Chief Technology Officer, CollabNet

Jack Repenning is Chief Technology Officer at CollabNet. Jack joined CollabNet in 2002; as chief product architect he was primarily responsible for building the product architecture that enabled CollabNet grow its current user base to well over one million users. Jack is also an early member of the wildly successful Subversion open source project, a version control system that is widely viewed as the de facto new industry standard. Consistently engaged in developer productivity topics, Jack has participated in open source software projects since the early 1980. Prior to joining CollabNet, Jack worked at well-known Silicon Valley companies such as Hewlett Packard, SGI, Informix, and Rational where he developed expertise in a wide range of technical areas, ranging from inside the kernel to GUI and database design, as well as data center deployment architecture. Jack holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Craig Rublee
Adobe Systems, Inc.

Craig Rublee has been working at Adobe Systems, Inc. for 16 years. During his tenure there he has been involved in the development of technologies to extend the reach of Adobe's products to international markets. This work started with improving the support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean in PostScript based printers and typesetters and was followed by doing similar work for the Acrobat line of products. More recently he has been involved in adding support for Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Vietnamese to the Acrobat product line. In his current role as Sr. Globalization Architect, his responsibilities include promoting software internationalization across Adobe's products. Craig has a BS in Mathematical Sciences and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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.

Michael Thomas
Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Symphony Services

Michael brings more than 20 years of deep experience in the information technology, product engineering and outsourcing markets to his role at Symphony Services, where he is responsible for overseeing worldwide sales operations and leading the sales force. Prior to joining Symphony, Michael was VP of Sales and GM of BPO services for Capgemini North America. While there, he had direct responsibility for sales, client management and platform incubation and development, generating billions in contract value from some of the largest and most complex BPO transactions in the market. He was also instrumental in the creation of new service platforms, such as outsourcing capabilities for a component of Product Lifecycle Management dealing with engineering content management, as well as the development of ISV products within the food industry. His teams established market share for several new offerings and helped clients drive over $3 billion in increased shareholder value.

Mark Tolliver
CEO, Palamida

As CEO, Mark leads corporate strategy and growth. A well-known speaker and industry visionary, he brings over 30 years expertise in global high-tech marketing, product and business strategy to the team. Prior to joining Palamida, Mark spent ten years with Sun Microsystems. During his tenure he was executive vice president, marketing and strategy, as well as chief strategy officer responsible for corporate marketing, product and business strategy, M&A, industry marketing and ISV programs. Previous to Sun, Mark served as President and general manager of iPlanet, a strategic alliance between Sun and AOL Time Warner focused on Internet infrastructure software. iPlanet became a division of Sun in March 2002. Throughout his career he has held senior level executive positions in marketing that included MasPar Computer Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company.

Brian Vile
Vice President, Macrovision

Brian Vile is Vice President of Distribution Solutions. He is responsible for defining Macrovision’s digital distribution channel strategy. A software and technology industry veteran with ten years’ senior management and product strategy experience, he was previously responsible for Macrovision’s installation tools and the information publishing products. Mr. Vile led the due diligence, integration and management of the ZeroG and eMeta acquisitions. Prior to Macrovision, he was Vice President of Product Management at Information Resources, and held high-visibility roles at Hewlett Packard and Motorola. Mr. Vile has an MBA from Indiana University and a BS in Engineering from Lehigh University.

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.

Raven Zachary
Open Source Research Director, The 451 Group

Raven Zachary is the Open Source Research Director for The 451 Group, an independent technology industry analyst company. At The 451 Group, he is responsible for the firm's Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service and ongoing open source coverage in the end user, vendor, and development communities. Raven has been involved with open source as an end user, project contributor, journalist, and industry analyst for over ten years.

Zia Zaman
Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing, FAST