Speakers

Doug Hauger

General Manager, Windows Azure, Microsoft

Doug Hauger is General Manager for Windows Azure. He is responsible for bringing to market Microsoft cloud services platform. Prior to taking on leadership for the Windows Azure business, Hauger was the Chief Operating Officer for Microsoft India. During his three years in India, Hauger was responsible for business planning and operations, marketing, advertising and public relations for the Microsoft India subsidiary.

Hauger has been with Microsoft since June of 1999 and has held a variety of roles responsible for driving business and technical strategy for the company’s enterprise business. Before Microsoft, Hauger was Chief Technology Officer for Excell Data Corporation, a subsidiary of Cambridge Technology Partners. In the early 1990s he established the first Internet Server Provider in Morocco and was instrumental in developing the Internet infrastructure in the country. Hauger has a bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and a master’s degree from Boston University.

Treb Ryan

CEO, OpSource, a Demension Data Company

Since 1996, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce. Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting, IP networking, and managed services. Under his leadership, MFN customers included BP Amoco, JP Morgan Chase, Sony, Microsoft, and Mercedes-Benz. Mr. Ryan joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN the following year in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. Mr. Ryan has been a guest speaker at numerous industry events, including CIO, venture capital, Internet, hosting, and software conferences. He attended UCLA and is an advisor to the UCLA CLAS fund.

Tayloe Stansbury

SVP & Chief Technology Officer, Intuit

Tayloe Stansbury is senior vice president & chief technology officer of Intuit. He has more than 26 years of experience in the software industry, most recently as chief information officer of VMware, with responsibility for IT, facilities, and subsequently R&D shared services. Previously, Tayloe was executive vice president of Ariba, where he led engineering, product management, hosting, IT and customer support. Before that, Tayloe held executive engineering and general management roles at Calico Commerce and Xerox. Earlier, he worked on developer tools at Borland International and Sun MIcrosystems, and did research in computational linguistics at Xerox PARC. Tayloe was valedictorian of St Albans School in Washington, DC, and graduated with honors in math and computer science from Harvard University.

Maynard Webb

Chairman & CEO, LiveOps

Maynard Webb is the Chairman and CEO of LiveOps and brings 30 years of experience leading and masterminding success in high-growth companies. Since joining LiveOps in 2006, Maynard has led the company to profitability, more than $100M in revenues, and double-digit revenue growth year over year.

Before joining LiveOps, Maynard served as the COO of eBay where he created and implemented organizational processes and day-to-day structures which enabled eBay to effectively grow from $140 million to over $4.5 billion in revenue in 2005, while the employee base grew from 250 to over 12,000. In the words of his former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, "Maynard played a critical role in eBay history - transforming the site to become a major commerce institution." Before joining eBay, Maynard was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Gateway, Inc and held leadership positions with IBM and Bay Networks among others. Maynard holds a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University.

As a member of the board of directors for two other fast growing technology companies, salesforce.com and AdMob, Maynard's leadership extends far beyond LiveOps. He has also advised on the boards of Gartner, Hyperion, Skype, Niku and Extensity (two of which he helped take public.) Maynard has also held various advisory roles, including being a member of President George W. Bush's National Infrastructure Advisory Council, the Engineering Advisory Board at Santa Clara University.

One of Maynard's key leadership principles is to work for higher purposes in life - it is reflected in his stellar career as well as his contributions and dedication to improving communities and giving back to social causes. Maynard developed the LiveOps Foundation , to support activities that enhance and serve the communities in which LiveOps employees live and work, as well as the associated issues that impact quality of life. In just its first year of operation, LiveOps Foundation was named "Company of the Year" by Entrepreneur Foundation for the rich, well-rounded programs it included. In addition, he also created the Webb Family Foundation, which is dedicated to helping the underdogs in society meet their full potential.

Hyder Ali

Industry Solutions Director, Hosting, Microsoft

Hyder Ali is an Industry Director in the Communication Sector at Microsoft. He is responsible for building hosting offers based on Microsoft Products. Most recently, his team built the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit, a solution for hosters, telcos and outsourcers to build their cloud infrastructure. He has been with Microsoft since 1995 and has held variety of roles in Microsoft Consulting Services, and in MSN Search and Microsoft TV product groups.

Kurt Anderson

Global Operations Business Technology , Pfizer, Inc.

Zorawar Biri Singh

VP, IBM Enterprise Initiatives, Cloud Computing, IBM

Biri is currently Vice President, IBM Cloud Computing, where he helps lead IBM’s corporate wide strategy and solutions for cloud computing and internet scale out infrastructure.

IBM's Cloud organization is responsible for the overall strategy and development of solutions/platforms for cloud computing across IBM’s global software, systems, storage and services brands.

Biri brings 19 years global experience as a leader, executive, and serial entrepreneur in enterprise IT, new media advertising, Telco, e-commerce and retail industries to his current role at IBM. He has an extensive background in enterprise software, cloud computing/SaaS, middleware & data center infrastructure, and communications/networking.

Biri joined IBM through it’s acquisition of Encentuate, Inc. where he served as President & CEO. Encentuate was a leading vendor of identity and access management security software solutions and was acquired by IBM in March 2008.

Biri has previously served as CEO for IT companies that include Pivia (network acceleration appliance, acquired by F5 Networks, 2005), JRG (SaaS targeting CPG markets, acquired by CDC, 2006), Crossweave (software integration tools, acquired by Amberpoint, 2003), and Idapta (B2B start up, 2001).

Biri was COO & founding member of RelevantKnowledge Inc., an early pioneer in online advertising ratings and Internet audience measurement that had a successful IPO on NASDAQ as MediaMetrix. Today it is part of comScore, Inc.

Eileen Boerger

CEO, CorSource Technology Group, Inc.

Eileen Boerger is President of Agilis Solutions and its parent company, CorSource Technology Group. Most recently, Eileen was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Agilis Solutions and has been responsible for the delivery of our outsourced software development services and technical staffing services.

Eileen has extensive experience in the development and maintenance of software systems and applications. She also has managed the outsourcing of software development and maintenance projects to several countries, including Vietnam, India and New Zealand.

Prior to joining the company, Eileen was Vice President of Operations at QualityLogic, where she was responsible for delivering Quality Assurance services. She has also held a variety of management positions at Mentor Graphics Corporation and Unisys Corporation.

Eileen is currently a member of the Oregon Engineering and Technology Industry Council (ETIC), a public sector - private industry partnership focused on growing the capacity and excellence of Oregon's engineering and technology programs. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO) and the Women in Technology International (WITI) Foundation. Eileen has been recognized by Open Computing magazine as one of the "Top 100 Women in Computing".

Jeff Brock

Operations Manager, SaaS Platform Services, Autodesk

Jeff Brock is Operations Manager for the SaaS Platform Services (SPS) group of Autodesk. Jeff leads the team responsible for the delivery environments providing infrastructure, platform, and cloud services to support the production class SaaS products. The SPS role in Autodesk is to incubate new SaaS concepts and respond to the ever increasing on-demand challenges, as well as software plus services endeavors. While managing and supporting the mature customer facing revenue generating SaaS Products, they engage in the typical information security and compliance challenges.

During his 5 years with Autodesk Jeff has been instrumental in incorporating and managing the SPS environments to uphold the security and operational controls of the ISO 27001 standards, including SAS70 type II compliance. His team builds and maintains the global SaaS supporting data centers and infrastructure.

Brian Byun

VP & GM, Cloud, VMWare, Inc.

Brian Byun leads the Cloud Services and Application Business Unit at VMware. He is responsible for the delivery of infrastructure, developer and application-level cloud services with the vCloud partner ecosystem. Since joining VMware in 2003, Brian has led multiple functions in the company including strategic global partnerships, product management, marketing, and most recently corporate development. Prior to VMware, Brian has held leadership roles in product management and engineering covering the gamut of internet consumer and security services, enterprise server, storage, middleware solutions at Rhapsody Networks, Brocade, AOL, Netscape and HP. Brian holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Christopher Cabrera

President & Chief Executive Officer, Xactly Corporation

Christopher Cabrera is a seasoned executive with more than two decades of successful senior management experience at both early-stage and public companies. At these companies, he has managed sales, marketing, operations and business development.

Prior to founding Xactly Corporation, Mr. Cabrera was the senior vice president of operations for Callidus Software (NASDAQ: CALD), an on-premise incentive compensation management company. At Callidus, he was responsible for the execution of worldwide sales and marketing strategies, customer advocacy, and strategic alliances with companies such as IBM, Accenture and Deloitte. Under his leadership, the company acquired more than 100 customers, contributing to the growth of annual revenues from zero to greater than $75 million and a successful IPO in 2003 raising more than $70 million.

Before joining Callidus Software, Mr. Cabrera served as director of North American channel sales at Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), a UNIX hardware and software vendor, where he was responsible for annual sales that topped $500 million.

Mr. Cabrera earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration with an emphasis in entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California (USC) and a master’s degree in business administration from Santa Clara University.

Paul Daugherty

Chief Technical Architect, Accenture

Paul Daugherty is Accenture’s Chief Technology Architect, and also serves as Managing Director of Accenture’s Custom and Emerging Systems Integration (SI) business. In the Chief Technology Architect role, Paul is responsible for shaping Accenture’s architecture strategy and assets, and for managing over 3,000 technology architects who work around the globe and across industries implementing complex, leading-edge technology solutions for Accenture’s clients. His current focus areas include Service Oriented Architectures, Software as a Service, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Legacy Renewal, Open Source, and Mobility.

As Managing Director of the Custom and Emerging SI business, Paul has responsibility for Accenture’s Systems Integration business on custom platforms, industry and domain-specific software packages, and new/emerging technology platforms.

Prior to these roles, Paul led Accenture’s Technology business in the Resources operating group, which serves clients in the utilities, energy, natural resources, and chemicals sectors. Paul has also been instrumental in leading Accenture initiatives in areas such as eCommerce, and more recently, CIO Agenda, which is focused on rapidly growing the architecture and innovation areas of Accenture’s business.

Paul has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He frequently speaks at conferences on industry and technology issues, and has published articles in a variety of publications. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the New York-based Academy of Information Technology, a non-profit organization that works with high schools to increase IT career opportunities for urban youths. Paul is based in New York City, and lives in New Jersey with his wife and four children.

Jeff Deacon

Managing Director, Cloud Services, Verizon

Jeff Deacon is currently a managing director of cloud services for Verizon. In this capacity, he is instrumental is shaping Verizon’s strategy related to virtualization and cloud computing, and is playing a key role in the development of new on-demand IT services.

Previously, Deacon served as manager of IT solutions product marketing for Verizon Business with responsibility for the company’s software-as-a-service and cloud computing services.

With over 15 years of managed hosting industry experience, Deacon has broad expertise helping enterprise customers develop and implement effective data strategies. Over the span of his career, he has held positions in engineering, consulting, and product marketing. Prior to joining Verizon in 2007, Deacon held positions with Opsware, Savvis, LoudCloud and Digex. He began his career in the financial services industry.

Deacon regularly presents at cloud computing conferences, venture capital events and vendor seminars. He also actively consults with senior-level executives across a wide range of industries, including retail, finance, health care and software development, offering guidance and best practices on how to implement highly available IT architectures that scale up and down as demand for network and computing resources change over time.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in information systems from Loyola University of Maryland.

Feyzi Fatehi

Chief Executive Officer, Corent Technology, Inc.

Feyzi has over twenty five years of experience building high-performance high-tech businesses including multiple business units at HP and four software start-ups in Silicon Valley and in Southern California. Two of these start-ups were named among the annual Red Herring 100, with valuations from $100 Million to $1 Billion. Most recently, Corent won the 2009 Emerging Software Company of the Year award.

Feyzi has been a keynote speaker around the globe from Sidney to Singapore, and from Washington DC to London and Rome. He has also spoken at events by Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Pepperdine, MIT, Cal Tech, and UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Feyzi is an inventor and patent holder for the design of the first real-time database. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Solar Engineering, a master’s degree in Software Architecture and an MBA in International Management. He received his director and corporate governance certificate from UCLA and is a graduate of Anderson School of Management’s prestigious M&A program.

Feyzi was elected to the board of the Technology Council of Southern California in 2007 and the Chairman of its Orange County chapter in 2008. In 2009, IBM named Feyzi to their exclusive IBM Partner Advisory Council.

Dan Finnigan

Chief Executive Officer, Jobvite

Dan has spent his career launching and growing Internet businesses with a focus on the recruitment market. Previously, Dan served as Senior Vice President of Yahoo! and General Manager of Yahoo! HotJobs, doubling revenue between 2002 and 2007. At Yahoo, Dan established Yahoo and HotJobs’ partnership with a consortium of over 700 newspapers, today representing 41 percent of total Sunday circulation in the U.S.

Prior to Yahoo!, he led the creation of Knight Ridder Digital, the Internet company of the world’s second largest newspaper publisher, serving as President and CEO. For Knight Ridder, Dan led its joint acquisition of CareerBuilder with Tribune, serving on CareerBuilder’s Board for three years. Prior, to joining Knight Ridder, Dan helped launch, and eventually led as CEO, Smartpages.com (now Yellowpages.com) for SBC/ATT. Dan holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jon Fortt

Technology Journalist, CNBC

Greg Gianforte

Founder, Chairman & CEO, RightNow Technologies, Inc.

Greg Gianforte is founder and CEO of RightNow Technologies, Inc., a provider of on-demand customer experience solutions that help citizen-centric organizations deliver great customer experiences. RightNow was recently purchased by Oracle Corporation.

Prior to RightNow Technologies, Gianforte founded Brightwork, a network management application company, in 1986. Under his leadership, the company successfully installed its software on more than 150,000 Novell systems before McAfee Associates acquired the firm in 1994. Gianforte is a seasoned entrepreneur and currently serves as founder and chair of Bootstrap Montana, a program that provides coaching and micro-loans to promising entrepreneurs in Gianforte’s home state of Montana.

Gianforte has presented at prominent cloud and customer relationship management (CRM) conferences for business leaders, including AFCEA’s All About the Cloud Conference, CRM Evolution and the Business Cloud Summit. A passionate and dynamic speaker, he has spoken for numerous academic institutions, including Harvard Business School, the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Cornell University, the London School of Business, the Manchester School of Business and the Warwick School of Business. In 2007, he delivered the commencement speech to Montana State University’s graduating class.

Honored with an array of distinctions as a technology industry leader, he is a CRM Hall of Fame inductee and he was presented an Honorary Doctorate of Computer Science at Montana State University in 2007. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year in the Pacific Northwest software category by Ernst & Young in 2003 and he received the Stevens Honor award from Stevens Institute of Technology the same year.

In 2008, Gianforte published Eight to Great: Eight Steps to Delivering an Exceptional Customer Experience, a comprehensive guidebook for improving customer relationships in business.

Jason Green

General Partner, Emergence Capital Partners

Jason Green is a founder of Emergence Capital and has over a dozen years of experience in the venture capital business as a General Partner with Emergence, a General Partner with USVP and as an associate and Kauffman Fellow with Venrock, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. Earlier in his career, Jason served as VP of Muzertechnika, the largest private computer and Telecommunications Company in Eastern Europe. Prior to this, he served as a strategic consultant with Bain & Company and with the investment firm of Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe. Jason has led successful early-stage venture investments in past companies such as DoubleClick (DCLK), aQuantive (AQNT), Visual Networks (VNWK), SuccessFactors (SFSF) and Ask Jeeves (ASK) and currently serves on the boards of private companies such as Lotame, TouchCommerce, Yammer, Goodmail Systems, ServiceMax, Inc. and ResponseLogix.

Jason is Chairman Emeritus and on the Board of the Center for Venture Education and the Kauffman Fellows Program, the leading educational fellowship in venture capital. Jason serves as Chairman of the West Coast Research Center for Harvard Business School and is on the Global Advisory Board. He is also a Founding Board member of Endeavor, a non-profit serving the needs of entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Jason graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard with Distinction. Upon graduation, Jason was selected for the Charles Williams Fellowship at Harvard Business School for post-graduate research in Entrepreneurship and Finance. Jason is married with two children. The most unique trivia about Jason is that he is a twin married to a twin."

Patrick Harding

Chief Technology Officer, Ping Identity Corporation

Patrick Harding is the Chief Technology Officer of Ping Identity, responsible for Ping Identity Labs, emerging technologies, architecture and standards, and developing the technology strategy for the company. Previously, Harding was a VP and the Security Architect (Enterprise Architect Division) at Fidelity Investments where he was responsible for aligning identity management and security technologies with the strategic goals of the business. Harding was integrally involved with the implementation of federated identity technologies at Fidelity – from "napkin" to production.

Harding has over 15 years experience in software development, networking infrastructure and information security. His industry experience includes financial services, travel services and consulting. Harding has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

William Harmer

Vice President, Security, SuccessFactors

William Harmer III is SuccessFactors’ Vice President of Security. He joined SuccessFactors in 2007 bringing with him over 20 years experience in Security and IT working for companies such as the Ontario Government, DocSpace/Critical Path, and Manulife Financial. William is CISSP, CISM and CIPP/C certified, he is responsible for Security, Privacy and Compliance at SuccessFactors where he works closely with global clients to help ensure compliance in their use of SuccessFactors’ Business Execution Software.

Trina Horner

US SaaS/Cloud Channel Development Strategist, Microsoft Corporation

Trina Horner is the US SaaS/Cloud Channel Development Strategist for Microsoft US Software plus Services Business. She is responsible for strategy; business plan and programs to help enable companies to sell their services on the web in a hosted model. Trina has held many international and US sales, alliance and business development positions in her over 30 years in the technology at top global companies. In her over 10 years at Microsoft, she has formerly managed the Microsoft partnerships with BearingPoint, CSC and Getronics; and the outsourcing partnerships with Hewlett-Packard, Unisys and IBM. Trina has received a national award for top Women in Technology and she is active in programs in her community mentoring high school and college students for careers in technology and sciences.

Gary Hromadko

Venture Partner, Crosslink Capital

Gary Hromadko joined Crosslink Capital in 2002 to focus on investments in the Communication Services & Infrastructure sector. His current investments and board seats include Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX); SeaMicro, a developer of high performance, low power servers for the web tier in data centers; Tabula, a developer of high performance FPGA devices; Carbonite, a provider of Internet-based backup and restore services; and OpSource.

His previous investments in software and communications infrastructure companies include: Yipes, a metro Ethernet services provider, acquired by Reliance Communications; Stratalight, a developer of 10G and 100G optical transceiver subsystems, acquired by OpNext (NASDAQ: OPXT); Good Technology, a mobile messaging and applications provider acquired by Motorola; VitalStream, a CDN services provider acquired by Internap; Packeteer, a developer of bandwidth shaping communications equipment, acquired by BlueCoat Systems; Netcode, a developer of Java programming libraries, acquired by Netscape; and Medior, a developer of interactive content acquired by America Online.

Prior to Crosslink, Hromadko managed his own investment practice from 1992-2002; was a partner with Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre, a venture capital firm focused on early stage technology companies, from 1989-1992; and was a partner at Robertson, Stephens & Co., focused on equity research in the software sector, from 1983-1988. He began his investment career in public market investing in 1979 at Dodge & Cox.

He holds the BA, English, from Carleton College and both an MA, English Literature and an MBA from the University of Virginia.

David Inbar

Director, Worldwide Marketing and Channel Development, Pervasive Software

David focuses his time developing and expanding the marketing potential of Pervasive’s integration products within the channels and direct sales. He brings together the sales and product development organizations to define markets and strategies for greater market penetration, customer satisfaction and retention. David’s career with Pervasive was launched in 2003 when Data Junction was acquired by Pervasive. David’s experience in developing strategic sales and technology partnerships with leading software and hardware vendors and providing successful product solutions for strategic accounts gives him a rich understanding of the integration market and its customers.

With more than 20 years sales and marketing experience as a consultant and senior executive in the software industry in the U.S. and Europe, Inbar has extensive expertise in DBMS and Application Development and Process Management. Before coming to Pervasive Software, he was VP of Sales and Business Development for Data Junction and prior to that, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Revelation Technologies, Inc. He has also held senior marketing positions at Interco Marketing, Inc., Helix Expert Systems, Ltd. and Ashton-Tate Inc. (later Borland).

Inbar holds a Master’s in Electronic Engineering from Cambridge University and a Master’s of Business Administration from the London Graduate School of Business Studies.

Sumat Kalra

Senior Manager, Business Advisory Services, Grant Thornton

Sumit has extensive experience in technical risk assessments including security assessments, security penetration testing and internet security services, as well as technical infrastructure and technical control reviews.

Sumit has over 10 years of experience providing information technology management and risk management at several firms in various industries (Financial services, consumer retail and technology). He has significant experience in information systems auditing, preparation of Service Auditor (SAS70) Reports, review of legislations impacting IT, information security management and file interrogation and data analysis.

Jeffrey 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.

Chris Keene

CEO, WaveMaker Software

Christopher Keene (www.keeneview.com) is the CEO of WaveMaker Software. WaveMaker is the leading open source cloud development platform. WaveMaker is a profitable company, backed by a 15,000-strong developer community. IBM, Amazon and RightScale have teamed with WaveMaker to launch the Cloud Quick Start Partnership.

Chris is a passionate entrepreneur who has founded four companies and taught MBA entrepreneurship classes at INSEAD and Berkeley. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of NASDAQ-listed Persistence Software, and has worked at McKinsey & Company and Hewlett Packard. Chris holds an MBA from Wharton and a BS with honors in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford. Chris is an avid open water swimmer and a middling guitarist.

Rachael King

Staff Writer, BusinessWeek

Jon Kondo

Cheif Executive Officer, Host Analytics Inc.

Jon is CEO of Host Analytics. Prior to Host, Jon was Group Vice President, North American Enterprise Performance Management at Oracle. In that capacity he was responsible for over 200 people and all EPM revenue in NA. Prior to Oracle’s acquisition of Hyperion Solutions, Jon was VP and General Manager of the Americas where he had full P&L responsibility for the entire Americas Field Organization with revenues in excess of $560 MM and over 400 people including Sales, Consulting, Education and Field Marketing. Jon was also VP of Global BI and Emerging Technologies where he was responsible for worldwide BI and newly acquired technologies field operations.

Jon Kruse

Investment Manager, Intel Capital

Jon Kruse joined Intel Capital in 2004. Prior to joining Intel Capital, he spent 10 years at Intel in a variety of marketing, strategic planning, and finance roles. He led the strategic planning effort which ultimately led to Intel's Digital Home vision, as well as several emerging market based programs and products (PRC Education and Internet Café PCs). Jon also led Intel's European business client marketing team from 1999-2001. Prior to joining Intel, Jon's professional experience included IT and strategic consulting roles at Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand. Jon serves as Board Observer for Panorama Software, OpSource, TOA Technologies, and Voxify. He received his MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Miami University. He has been active in the greater Portland community, serving as a member of the Mayor’s budget advisory council and urban renewal advisory group; chairing the committees for the successful 2008 Oregon Zoo Bond Measure ($125M) and the 2006 Multnomah County Library Levy ($175M); serving as a member of the Multnomah County Library Advisory Board; and serving as Board President of the Portland Baroque Orchestra.

Rob LaMear

Founder & CEO, Fpweb.net

Rob, founder and CEO of Amp Technology LLC, is the visionary behind our online properties, Fpweb.net and Amp.net. A 1991 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Rob had a brief professional soccer career in Europe before returning to the US in 1993. He began his business career as an auditor at the public accounting firm, Benson, LaMear & Rapert, where he eventually managed their technology practice. In 1994, he obtained his 3rd undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Missouri St. Louis.
With the onset of the Internet, Rob used his business process experience to move into web development, search engine optimization and network engineering. In 1996, he started FMS Technology Solutions to meet the increasing demand for web services. That same year, FMS opened the online property Frontpages Web Hosting Network, which eventually morphed into the current Fpweb.net. In 1999, Rob and his firm discovered SharePoint and embraced it with the first hosted offering worldwide. Today, with more than 1,000,000 SharePoint users, Rob and the Fpweb.net Family proudly celebrate 10 years as the largest SharePoint hosting provider in the world.
Active and energetic, Rob lives by the mantra “Dream Big”. You can follow Rob’s blog at For What I.T.'s Worth, or find him on linkedin and Twitter.

Rebecca Lawson

Enterprise Business Marketing, Hewlett Packard

Rebecca Lawson leads worldwide cloud marketing initiatives for HP’s Enterprise Business organization. She is responsible for directing market development, communications, customer requirements and integration of technology and service offerings on behalf of enterprise customers and service providers. Her background in enterprise technology spans over 20 years in product marketing and product management, strategy, marketing communications and business development, both for several internet start-ups as well as several large multi-national companies. She’s a frequent public speaker and author of several technology-related publications.

Scott McMullan

Google Apps Partner Lead, Google Enterprise

Scott is the Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise and is focused on helping companies grow their business with Google Apps and the Google Apps Marketplace. A startup guy at heart, Scott joined Google when it acquired JotSpot, where he ran developer and partner programs, and previously founded Inovie Software, maker of early Web collaboration service TeamCenter, acquired by SDRC. Scott holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from UC San Diego and was a PhD student at the university's Computer Systems Lab.

Mark McNay

Partner, William Blair & Company

Mark McNay joined William Blair & Company in 1999 and serves as head of the San Francisco office and has completed more than 15 SaaS transactions – M&A, IPO and Private Placements. Previously, he was managing director at Volpe Brown Whelan & Co., where he headed the Internet Banking Group, and a managing director at Smith Barney. He is a graduate of Georgetown University (B.S.) and Columbia University (M.B.A.).

William McNee

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Saugatuck Technology Inc.

Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging industry trends and disruptive technologies driving change in enterprise IT. Over the past few years, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing. More recently, he has been actively involved in launching the firm’s CIO-targeted Cloud migration / leadership practice.

Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business / IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business / IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. Prior to this role, he was a lead analyst focusing on enterprise business applications, and asset management strategies.

Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, financial management and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research.

A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of business and IT executives, and vendor clients around the globe. Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus, and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University.

Jim Mohler

Sr. Director, Product Development, NTT America

Jim Mohler is Senior Director, Product Development at NTT America. He is responsible for developing, driving and executing product strategy for the company’s Enterprise Solutions business unit, which provides IT solutions for multinational corporations

For over 10 years, Mr. Mohler has worked with NTT America leading strategic projects to enhance customer experience, and offer competitive and financially viable products and services to medium, large and multinational enterprise customers. His in-depth knowledge of operations, outsourcing, enterprise technologies and product lifecycle management has enabled him to effectively build and manage strategic relationships with both business partners and customers.

Throughout his career at NTT America, Mr. Mohler has managed the Custom Web Solutions department, developed enterprise class custom solutions and products including Cloud-based technologies, and established a new management practice to expand the company’s capabilities in the large enterprise market. In 2007, he was also granted the NTT Communications Global Business Award and the NTT America President’s Club Award.

Anita Moorthy

Sr.Solutions Marketing Manager, Novell, Inc.

As senior solutions manager, Ms.Moorthy is responsible for bringing to market Novell Cloud Security Service, Novell’s newest security offering specifically architected for cloud providers. Prior to taking on the marketing leadership for Novell Cloud Security, Ms.Moorthy held various senior roles in technology companies such as Siebel Systems, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and MDplanet where she was primarily responsible for business planning and product management and strategy.

Ms. Moorthy has a computer engineering degree from University of Waterloo and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management

Imad Mouline

Chief Technology Officer, Gomez, the Web performance division of Compuware

Imad Mouline is a veteran of software architecture and R&D and a recognized expert in Web/mobile application testing and performance management, rich Internet applications, browsers and cloud computing. As Gomez’s CTO, Mouline works with customers, analysts, industry groups and internal resources to evolve the breadth and depth of Gomez‘s platform of Web application performance management solutions.

Mouline frequently presents at conferences including Ajax Experience, Cloud Computing Expo, Internet Retailer, Interop, Internet Strategy Forum, MIT CIO Symposium, and the Web Experience Forum.

Prior to Gomez, Mouline was CTO at S1 Corp and, before that, director of engineering in the office of the CTO at BroadVision, after its acquisition of Interleaf.

Mouline is a graduate of MIT.

Rick Nucci

Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder, Dell Boomi

Rick is the Co-founder and CTO of Boomi where he is responsible for product management and engineering. He is considered an industry expert on SaaS & Cloud integration , multi-tenant architecture, and API design and best practices. Boomi has a patent pending for Rick’s innovative Atom technology that powers Boomi AtomSphere, the company’s software-as-a-service offering. In his role at Boomi, Rick is constantly engaged with customers and partners to ensure alignment between business needs and Boomi’s product strategy.

Prior to founding Boomi, Rick worked for EXE Technologies, a market leading supply chain execution software company, in the areas of product development and implementation. It was in this role that Nucci learned first-hand the cost and complexity of integrating disparate applications and business partners. With over 10 years of experience in application and data integration, Rick applies this experience to deliver the company's integration solutions.

Rick frequently speaks on these topics at industry and business events nationwide including SIIA On-Demand, Interop, Defrag, SaaS University, and GlueCon.

Chris O'Brien

Business and Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury News

Chris O'Brien is a business and technology columnist at the San Jose Mercury News where he has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade. Since arriving at the Mercury News in 1999, he has written about everything from the dot-com boom to the California Energy crisis to the evolution of the valley's innovation economy.

Kevin O'Brien

Senior Director, ISV & SaaS Strategy for Worldwide Alliances and Channels, Oracle Corporation

Kevin O’Brien is Senior Director of ISV & SaaS Strategy for Worldwide Alliances & Channels at Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for ongoing development and execution of Oracle’s ISV & SaaS programs and strategies including SaaS for ISVs, Oracle Validated Integration, and industry solutions. Prior to this role, Mr. O’Brien worked in Oracle’s Technology Channel Program Office launching high growth initiatives targeted at mid-sized businesses. Before that, Mr. O’Brien led go-to-market activities with ISV and channel partners in the North America division. He received his BA in Government from Colby College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Marc Olesen

Senior Vice President and General Manager , McAfee SaaS

Marc Olesen is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for McAfee software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. Olesen leads the engineering, marketing, and sales functions that drive worldwide growth for the SaaS business.

Olesen's extensive experience spans more than 20 years in software and services, including organizational leadership, profit and loss accountability, and solution management. Before joining McAfee in 2009, Olesen was the vice president of software-as-a-service at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he led the SaaS for IT management business, including all solution development, go-to-market, and delivery functions.

Prior to joining HP, Olesen was the senior director of customer service for Qwest CyberSolutions (QCS), where he was responsible for global application management services. Before QCS, he was a technology consulting practice manager with BearingPoint. Olesen also held positions at Remedy and Oracle.

Olesen is a member of Cloud Connect Advisory Board and has given keynote presentations at Computerworld's SaaScon, IDC's SaaS Summit, and the Federation of Security Professionals.

Olesen has a master's degree in industrial engineering and a bachelor's degree in economics, both from Stanford University

Olesen grew up in Canada and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and four daughters. He enjoys skiing, hockey, and running.

Morris Panner

Chief Executive Officer, GroupFlier

Ron Papas

General Manager, Informatica Cloud Business Unit, Informatica Corporation

Ron Papas is general manager of Informatica’s Cloud Business Unit and is responsible for delivering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) integration solutions. Papas joined Informatica in 1996 as the company’s first sales representative and has held several executive positions including vice president of Sales, senior vice president of Alliances and senior vice president of Business Development. Prior to Informatica Papas spent five years at Sybase in various sales and pre-sales roles. Papas has over 25 years of experience in the enterprise software industry and started his career as a software engineer with Gould Computer Systems Division. Papas holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.

Simon Peel

Senior Vice President, Marketing & Strategy, Cast Iron Systems, an IBM Company

Simon Peel is Senior Vice President of Strategy for Cast Iron Systems, an IBM Company, the leading SaaS integration provider with the ability to expedite the integration of on-demand to on-demand and on-premise applications. He has 18 years of experience and expertise in business and product strategy, along with devising high-impact go-to-market plans for SaaS and enterprise solutions. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, including OpSource SaaS Summit, Dreamforce and SIIA OnDemand, and other industry events on a wide range of topics including technology and business strategy. Mr. Peel’s articles on the evolution of SaaS are published frequently and he is often used as a resource by the press. He is also a founding member of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA).

Agatha Poon

Research Manager, Global Cloud Computing , Tier1 Research

Agatha Poon is instrumental in the overall global consulting and research activities with an expertise in cloud computing and enterprise network migration strategies. She closely follows the strategies, business models, and coverage of the leading global and regional telecommunications carriers and managed service providers.

Prior to joining Tier1 Research, Poon was a senior analyst at Yankee Group for more than 10 years, tracking a wide range of research topics including managed services, IP telephony, WAN optimization, application acceleration, cloud computing deployment models, and cloud management solutions. Before joining Yankee Group, Poon worked as a research analyst in Frost & Sullivan’s Telecommunications Service group where she primarily focused on network access technologies.

Poon has been a market research professional for 12 years. She has spoken at numerous professional gatherings and industry events, including PTC, CommunicAsia, BrightTalk, and Cloud Computing Expo.

Poon holds a B.A. degree and an M.B.A. degree in marketing from Ohio University. She was awarded a full scholarship for the MBA program at Ohio University. In addition to her native Cantonese, Poon speaks English and Mandarin fluently.

Steve Riley

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services

Steve Riley, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services
Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com

John Rowell

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, OpSource, Inc.

Over the past decade, Mr. Rowell has held senior management positions with leading hosting, telecommunications, and Internet services companies. He has extensive experience building, operating, and managing complex global IT infrastructure systems that are able to scale to meet dynamic business requirements.

Prior to co-founding OpSource, Mr. Rowell led a team of over 500 people as Vice President of Operations for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for the delivery of managed services and the operation of the MFN data centers in the Americas, supporting leading enterprise customers including BP Amoco, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Paramount, and Sony. He joined MFN through the acquisition of SiteSmith, where he was Vice President of Operations.

Before joining SiteSmith, Mr. Rowell was Director of Enterprise Services for UUNET Technologies, where he led the team responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing support of large-scale enterprise environments in an outsourced model. Clients included AutoNation, Disney, The Go Network, Levi Strauss, Marriott International, mySap.com, Sony Playstation, and Symantec.
Mr. Rowell holds a B.S. from the University of Alabama and attended the masters program for engineering management at George Washington University.

Evangelos Simoudis

Managing Director, Trident Capital, Inc.

Evangelos Simoudis joined Trident Capital in 2005 as a Venture Partner and has been a Managing Director since 2007. Evangelos focuses on investments in software and Internet businesses.

Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. His experience as a technology executive includes serving as President and CEO of Customer Analytics, a Trident-backed, eCRM company acquired by Xchange, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAP), and as Vice President of Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM.

Evangelos' current directorships include DesiHits, Doppelganger, SeaTab Software and Vidavee. Prior to joining Trident, Evangelos was a partner at the venture capital firm Apax Partners, where he served as a member of the board of directors at Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)), Composite Software, Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation (ORCL)) and Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM).

Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.

Narinder Singh

CMO and co-founder, Appirio

As Chief Marketing Officer and head of products at Appirio, Narinder is responsible for overseeing the company's marketing, communication and product strategy. He brings more than 15 years of experience on the cutting edge of software and business innovation to Appirio, and plays a key role in keeping Appirio at the forefront of cloud computing.

Prior to Appirio, Narinder worked at SAP in the Office of the CEO as a part of the Corporate Strategy Group. Working with the management board and other executives, Narinder led initiatives on sales, maintenance and competitive strategies, as well as potential business and technology disruptions, including software on demand.

Prior to SAP, Narinder managed R&D, sales and marketing activity as vice president and general manager of webMethods (WEBM) workflow business unit. Narinder previously led R&D for the company's business process management (BPM), workflow, B2B and industry products. He joined webMethods in 1998 as one of its first forty employees, and subsequently founded webMethods' Trading Networks product, the most successful add-on product in the company's history.

Narinder began his career with Accenture at its Center for Strategic Technology working on leading edge initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. He pioneered early efforts to internet-enable business applications(SAP and Peoplesoft) at companies such as Motorola, Bell Atlantic and Autodesk.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Colleen Smith

Vice President, SaaS/Cloud, Progress Software

Colleen Smith is Vice President, SaaS/Cloud at Progress Software Corporation. In this role, she is responsible for strategic planning for Progress and its global partner channel in addition to SaaS/Cloud industry thought leadership. Colleen joined the company in 2005 with 20 years of enterprise software marketing, sales, and product strategy experience, and has helped transform software companies into industry leaders, built strategic partnerships, designed acquisition strategies, and moved companies through aggressive growth stages.

She holds a bachelor's degree in Business and a minor in Computer Information Systems from Stonehill College, and an MBA from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Colleen has published many research articles on technology best practices and is a frequent guest speaker at Industry events. Her current area of focus/expertise is on Software as a Service (SaaS)/Cloud Computing, the growth opportunities, along with the technology challenges facing ISVs, associated with this new business model.

William Soward

President & Chief Executive Officer, Adaptive Planning

Bill is a seasoned enterprise software executive with 25 years of experience in technology management and operational finance roles.

Prior to Adaptive Planning, Bill was an Executive in Residence at Accel Partners. Prior to Accel, he was General Manager of FRS, a business unit of S1 Corporation that provided financial institutions worldwide with enterprise risk and regulatory compliance solutions. While at S1, Bill transformed FRS into the company's most successful business unit, more than doubling revenues while building profitable and sustainable customer relationships with global financial institutions. Additionally, as a member of S1's executive team, Bill helped spearhead the build out of S1's European operations and served as the interim CEO of both S1 Europe and S1's Edify business unit. Prior to joining S1, he held a variety of executive roles at Edify Corporation, where he built and managed the company's highly-successful online financial services software business and helped drive the company's acquisition by S1. Previously, Bill served in management roles with Siemens-Rolm and IBM, and was Managing Partner and CFO of a residential construction company.

Bill holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jeffrey Spivack

Practice Leader, Advisory Services, Grant Thornton

Jeff Spivack leads the Greater Bay Area Advisory Services practice, which provides compliance, technology and operations services including system strategy and effectiveness, SAS70 and FISMA compliance, operational improvement, program management, and business risk management services including Sarbanes-Oxley, internal audit, enterprise risk management, and industry-specific regulatory and support.

His responsibilities as practice leader include hands-on execution and relationship building with key clients, development of Grant Thornton’s service line, providing thought leadership internally and externally, and coordination of global resources.

Jeff has over 20 years of extensive industry and consulting experience, primarily in the Technology, Financial Services, and Distribution industries. Prior to joining Grant Thornton 13 years ago, he spent 14 years in progressively senior roles at a major international commercial and investment bank and a global distribution company.

Jon Swartz

Technology Reporter, USA Today

Jon Swartz, USA TODAY’s award-winning technology reporter and Pulitzer Prize nominee, covers Silicon Valley trends, social networking, and various aspects of Internet security including software, spam and hacking.

A high-tech journalist since 1987, Swartz has written for Chicago Tribune, Forbes, London Times, MacWEEK, San Francisco Chronicle and Times-Picayune. He was named a top media influencer in the 2002 and 2003 newspapers category in Adweek Magazine's Technology Marketing Media Influencer's Report. He has won numerous journalism awards and is a two-time finalist for the Loebs, the Pulitzers of business reporting.

Swartz is co-author of Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity.

Swartz appears regularly on NBC-Bay Area's Press:Here technology show.

Kara Swisher

Co-Producer, D: All Things Digital, Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com, The Wall Street Journal

Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital,” with Walt Mossberg. It is a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering (http://www.allthingsd.com/d) is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.

She and Mossberg are also the co-executive editors of a tech and media Web site, AllThingsD.com (www.allthingsd.com), where her online-only version of the “BoomTown” column appears.

Kara Swisher worked in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau. For many years, she wrote the column, “BoomTown,” which appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also on The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web’s major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. She has also written a weekly column for the Personal Journal on home issues called “Home Economics.”

Previously, Ms. Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and her graduate degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

Matt Thompson

General Manager, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft

Matt Thompson, General Manager, Developer & Platform Evangelism, is based in Silicon Valley. He and his team look after the "care and feeding" for the communities of developers, startups and IT Pros across the western US. Matt's passion centers around helping companies (of all sizes) be successful applying technologies that can help solve for scale, robustness, and ease of development.

Kaj van de Loo

Senior Vice President, Platforms and OnDemand, SAP AG

Kaj van de Loo is Senior Vice President for Platforms and On Demand in the Office of the CTO of SAP AG. Leading SAP’s center of excellence for Platforms and On Demand within the Office of the CTO, he is responsible for providing technology leadership and translating business objectives into strategic product and technology directions for the technology platforms of the company.

Kaj has more than 15 years experience within the SAP ecosystem, as customer, partner, as well as within SAP. Prior to assuming his current position at SAP, Kaj was the Vice President of Engineering at Questra, a provider of Intelligent Device Management solutions that bring real world devices into business processes.

Before that, Kaj held various development, product management, and technology strategy roles within SAP. His primary focus in development and product management was solutions and applications for discrete manufacturing industries and early e-commerce and marketplace applications. After that he initiated and drove SAP’s corporate SOA strategy.

Kaj holds a Masters degree in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in Sweden. His experience includes nuclear physics engineering and management at ABB as well as definition and development of business applications and technology for business applications at SAP and a start-up. He is based in SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA.

Phil Wainewright

Managing Director, Procullux Ventures

Phil Wainewright is CEO of strategic consulting firm Procullux Ventures and an influential commentator and strategist on Internet computing and its impact on business. He specializes in on-demand services (SaaS), services architectures (SOA) and Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0, and has closely observed the evolution of SaaS and webware ever since he founded the ASPnews.com website in 1998 to track the then nascent ASP industry. In his work, he focuses on identifying the practical business applications (or shortcomings) of emerging technology innovations. He makes his findings available via private consulting, published research, public speaking, webcasts and blogging. His blogs include the ZDNet Software as Services blog and the Loosely Coupled blog, he is a member of the Enterprise Irregulars network and a contributor to the FASTForward Blog.

Joseph Weinman

VP Strategy and Business Development, AT&T Business Solutions

Joe Weinman leads global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T Business Solutions. AT&T is the world's largest telecommunications and information technology firm (YE2008), with US$124 Billion in annual revenue. A 29-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development.

His current focus is on the overall product portfolio, business strategy, partner ecosystem, and emerging technologies to support AT&T's business customers, which range from small offices to large global enterprises, wholesale customers, systems integrators, and local, state, and federal government.

He has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Scott Wiener

CTO, Cloud9 Analytics

Scott Wiener has repeatedly founded successful companies at the forefront of new technological waves, such as document processing (Ann Arbor Softworks, acquired by Ashton-Tate), collaborative systems (Common Knowledge, acquired by CESoftware), semantic search (Relevance Technologies, acquired by Documentum), and now Cloud9 Analytics.
Combining a strong technical perspective with hands-on operating experience in both venture funded and public technology companies, Scott is the visionary behind Cloud9’s “data warehouse in the sky,” the industry’s first truly on-demand analytics platform.
Scott has spoken at multiple events including DEMO, MacWorld Expo, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conferences, and IDG Futures conference and has taught classes on BI, data warehousing and data integration.