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Brett Adam is CTO of rPath. He has over twenty years of experience in the software industry including CEO and CTO level positions as well as senior level positions in software architecture, engineering, product management, marketing, sales and corporate development. Prior to joining rPath, he served as CTO and Vice President of Engineering for Versata, Inc., a provider of business rules management products for enterprise application development which was acquired by Trilogy, Inc. in 2006. A serial entrepreneur, Adam has founded three technology companies including Verve, Inc., an early leader in the embedded business process engine space, which he brought to profitability and sold in late 2000 without external investment.

Michael Adams is a group product marketing manager working on the VMware vSphere platform and joined VMware in 2007. In his role, he helps drive efforts around product launches and helps evangelize the platform to both internal and external audiences. Prior to VMware, Adams led the marketing efforts for the NetBackup product line at both Symantec and VERITAS Software. Prior to joining the vendor community, he was an open systems storage analyst for the Giga Information Group (now part of Forrester Research).

Anand Akela is Director, Oracle, Enterprise Manager Product Marketing at Oracle.

Rahul Akolkar is part of the Services Cloud Platform department at the IBM Watson Research Center in New York and is a member of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise design team. His research interests include cloud platforms, declarative programming languages, data-rich and multichannel web interaction, and web standards. Rahul represents IBM in the World Wide Web Consortium's Voice Browser Working Group, where he is co-editor of the State Chart XML and VoiceXML 3.0 specifications. Rahul has contributed to several open source projects, is an elected Member of the Apache Software Foundation and currently Vice President, Apache Jakarta.

Allen Allison is Chief Security Oficer at NaviSite. During his 20+ year career in information security, he has served in management and technical roles, including the development of NaviSite’s industry-leading cloud computing platform, chief engineer and developer for a market-leading managed security operations center, lead auditor and assessor for information security programs in the healthcare, government, e-commerce, and financial industries. With experience in systems programming, network infrastructure design/deployment and information security, Allison has earned the highest industry certifications, including CCIE, CCSP, CISSP, MCSE, CCSE, and INFOSEC Professional.

Karl Anderson is CTO at 2600hz, a company that specializes in scalable open source telecom solutions for carriers and large communication service providers. His 12 years of experience in electrical engineering and computer science include developing an entire hosted carrier network from the ground up, managing a large fiber backbone, and leading several successful design teams. In his current role as CTO Anderson serves as a core design engineer, developer for both Whistle and blue.box, OpenSIPs expert, and general problem solver. “I'm lucky that the work that I do is indistinguishable from the things I do for fun," he says. As a robotics fanatic and a lover of all things technical his hobbies include building gadgets, taking things apart, and fiddling with expensive equipment.

Dave Asprey is VP of Cloud Security at Trend Micro, where he helps to shape Trend Micro’s cloud strategy, focusing specifically on expanding a Cloud Security Alliance partner ecosystem. Prior to Trend Micro, Asprey was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Trinity Ventures, Previously, he was VP at Blue Coat Systems. He also served as VP at Zeus Technology and ran strategic planning for the Citrix virtualization business unit.

Manicka Babu comes to Martini with 16 years of technology experience in building B2C web sites, ad networks and enterprise solutions for fortune 500 clients. He oversees the company’s product management and engineering functions. Prior to Martini, Manicka was Director of Engineering at Coupons.Com, where he built and established the technology platform and launched Brandcaster Ad Network. Also he co-authored seven patents related to couponing and advertising technologies. Prior to his work at Coupons.com, he worked as a Senior Manager at Covansys (a CSC company) premier IT Consulting Company. He holds Masters in Computer Science from Bharathidasan University, India.

Kris Bake is the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Solution Manager, Oracle Optimized Solution at Oracle.

David Baldwin is Technical Marketing Manager at VMware. He has been at VMware for four years currently in Technical Marketing for the Cloud Services Product Engineering organization whose is responsible for developing and marketing products to enable service providers to increase adoption of their vCloud products. He has also worked as a Technical Account Manager serving as a trusted technical adviser for VMware's strategic and enterprise customers. Previous to VMware, he designed and developed virtual datacenters as well as integrating manufacturing enterprise applications.

Gary Ballabio is Director of Product Management for the Enterprise Cloud division at Akamai.

Fred Bartkiewicz has over 19 years of experience in asset and risk management serving as a Managing Director at the investment-banking subsidiary of HypoVereinsbank, Managing Director at Invesco and SVP at GLL Real Estate Partners GmbH, a Munich based subsidiary of Generali. While at HypoVereinsbank and Invesco, Fred managed over $2.5 billion in assets and while at GLL, Fred managed over $1.8 billion in assets. Fred is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point (’87) with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Hartford in Paris, France. In May 2010, Fred founded CyberRisk Partners with his brother Drew focusing on cyber risk analytics and cyber risk dispersion.

James Baty is the Vice President of Global Architecture at Oracle.

Kia Behnia is senior vice president and chief technology officer for BMC Software, Inc. He is responsible for leading technology and solution strategy for all products, including emerging areas, such as virtualization management and cloud computing. Under Behnia’s leadership, BMC has developed the industry leading, Cloud Lifecycle Management product suite and continues to drive innovation for businesses that need to implement a cloud computing strategy.

He joined BMC in 2004. During his tenure at BMC, Behnia has served as BMC's Chief Corporate Architect and held the role of CTO for the Change and Configuration products. Behnia has more than 16 years of experience in Enterprise Service, Infrastructure and Application Management, with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from University of California at Davis. Previously, Behnia has served as CTO for Marimba, Inc. He was also a senior member of the technical team for Tivoli Systems, Inc.

Michael Behrens is the CTO of R2AD, LLC. He is an active software developer and a current member of the Open Grid Forum (OGF), participating in the development of the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) specification. He graduated from the University of Hawaii and holds certifications in Java and Android development.

Lee Bender is Director of Sales Engineering at StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Before joining StorageCraft he worked in a variety of IT Services and Management positions. He has spent more than 10 years working for storage industry leaders including Vinca, Legato and EMC. Bender has architected storage and disaster recovery solutions for Wachovia Banks, US Military and The U.S. House of Representatives just to name a few.

Val Bercovici is Cloud Czar at NetApp. He joined NetApp in 1998 and leads the Strategic Planning Team within the office of the CTO. Working with customers, analysts, and alliance partners, Val focuses on next-generation research projects and is responsible for NetApp’s product vision. Bercovici introduced the first Cloud Standard to the industry as chairman of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative, whose mission is to foster the growth and success of the cloud storage market. Previously, he served as the vice-chair of SNIA’s Solid-State Storage Initiative. He has over 25 years of IT industry experience spanning NCR (AT&T) and Cognos (IBM), with 12 years in storage at EMC and NetApp. Previously, he worked as a consultant to private industry and government.

Kunal Bhasin is the Deputy CTO at Terracotta where he overlooks the ongoing evolution of the Terracotta Platform, mentors the Solution Architects in the field and helps with other initiatives of the CTO's office. For close to five years at Terracotta, Mr. Bhasin has been instrumental in some of Terracotta’s biggest deployments in terms of scale, performance and availability while playing a key role in the evolution of the Terracotta technology and product suite. He currently specializes in building and architecting highly scalable, highly available, fully fault tolerant and robust Java applications delivering peak optimum performance, ease of operations and lower cost.

Mr. Bhasin has many years of experience in a wide array of systems ranging from hard real-time at NASA-Ames to web/e-commerce applications. He came to Terracotta from Infospace, where he built and architected components of server side infrastructure including search, mobile and social gaming. Prior to Infospace, Mr. Bhasin was involved in various roles that included building a Robotics test bed for NASA-Ames and performing computer science research as a Research Scholar for Carnegie Mellon University.

Mr. Bhasin holds a M.S. in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Pune University, India. He grew up in India and currently lives in Sausalito, California.

David Blado is a PaaS Evangelist on the OpenShift team at Red Hat. With a background in Release Engineering and Quality Assurance, he has a lot of experience with different technologies that enable him to help the OpenShift community be successful. He's presented at a variety of conferences and meetups on the topics of cloud computing, Java, NoSQL and PHP including Cloud Expo New York, GlueCon, CouchConf,
MongoSF and OSCON. He enjoys learning about new technologies and has been spending more time with NoSQL and Django and keeping a close eye on Node.js.

Darryl S. Brown is Director of Cloud, SaaS & Media at Telx. Prior to Telx, he was at Equinix and VPI Sytems. Brown was also previously the Global Director of Enterprise Marketing at Global Crossing where he managed the enterprise vertical to help develop and market converged, MPLS-based VPN services including VoIP and IP Video to multinational organizations ― all delivering more than $675M annually.

Patrick Bryant is Product Manager at Racemi.

J9 Technologies leads the industry in comprehensive strategies for full cloud application lifecycle management from the moment a line of code is written, through quality assurance, performance testing, deployment, and operations management in production. Our specialization brings together best-of-breed solutions from HP Software, VMware and others with proven methodologies and proven consultant experience.

Rob Calfee has been in the IT Industry for over 20 years, both military and commercial. Over the last 12 years Rob focused on Application Lifecycle Management and Application Performance Management, especially in the cloud and mobile spaces. Rob's commitment to customer success and satisfaction has helped many customers successfully implement solutions to support highly critical business applications across the Application Lifecycle, delivering both in-house and cloud hybrid solutions. Over the last 12 years Rob has worked in sales, presales engineering, and consulting at Quest Software, Veritas, HP/Mercury, and CA/Wily. After partnering with J9 Technologies over the last 5 years, Rob came on board as Director of Sales in 2010, bringing a tight partnership with HP and VMware to drive business growth in cloud and mobile application lifecycle management solutions.

Mike Carpenter is VP Business Development with CARI.net. He has almost 20 years throughout IT in web design, application development, networking, hardware, software, sales, marketing, branding, training, consulting, management and business development.

Adam Carter is an expert in storage virtualization and ten-year veteran of scale-out IP storage systems. Adam has led product management at LeftHand Networks, HP, and VMware, bringing revolutionary products to market. Carter pioneered the industry's first Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) at LeftHand Networks and helped establish VMware's VSA certification category. He brings deep product knowledge and broad experience in the storage ecosystem to SolidFire and heads up all aspects of product development.

Larry Carvalho runs Robust Cloud, an advisory services company helping various ecosystem players develop a strategy to take advantage of cloud computing. As the 2010-11 Instructor of Cloud Expo's popular Cloud Computing Bootcamp, he has already led the New York and Prague bootcamps, receiving strong positive feedback from attendees about the value gained at these events. Carvalho has facilitated all-day sessions at customer locations to set a clear roadmap and gain consensus among attendees on strategy and product direction. He has participated in multiple discussion panels focused on cloud computing trends at information technology events, and he has delivered all-day cloud computing training to customers in conjunction with CloudCamps. To date, his role has taken him to clients in three continents.

Dipto Chakravarty is the Vice President of Worldwide Engineering for NetIQ. In addition to being a 20-year software industry veteran, Chakravarty is the author of two best-selling computer books from McGraw-Hill that have been translated in five languages, has published over 45 technical papers in refereed journals, and holds several patents.

Trevor Chamberlain is VP Business Development at Abiquo. Previously, he was at PSS Systems, where he was a member of the executive management team. Prior to PSS Systems, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Orchestria Corporation, which was acquired by CA Inc. in January 2009. Prior to Orchestria, Chamberlin held a variety of sales management and professional services positions with several companies including DIGEX (later acquired by MCI), IDAPTA, and JD Edwards (later acquired by Oracle).

Scott Chasin is CTO McAfee Content & Cloud Security. He is widely recognized as a pioneer and leading visionary in the cloud security industry, having pioneered the development and marketing of several SaaS-based messaging, collaboration and security-focused technologies. He is credited with the launch of the first Web-based email consumer service, and delivered the first IP-based commercially hosted messaging service supporting thousands of businesses and millions of end users worldwide. Chasin also created and moderated the first full-disclosure security discussion list, Bugtraq, and was a key contributor to the creation of the first open-source, one-time password system, S/Key. Prior to its acquisition by McAfee in 2009, Chasin served as CTO of MX Logic. He was also CTO and Chief Visionary for USA.NET, helping establish the company as one of the first global providers of Internet-based email and advanced messaging services.

Lew Cirne is the founder of New Relic, the first provider of on-demand (SaaS) application management tools for cloud or datacenter applications. A seasoned entrepreneur, technologist, and enterprise software pioneer, he has been focused on application performance management for more than ten years. Cirne holds seven patents related to application performance technology. Most recently he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. He founded and was first CEO of Wily Technology and earlier held senior engineering positions at Apple and Hummingbird Communications.

Lewis Cirne is founder and CEO of New Relic, Inc. the leader in SaaS Application Performance Management. He is a seasoned entrepreneur, technologist, and enterprise software pioneer who founded Wily Technology in 1998. Lew served as Wily’s chief executive officer for the first four years and subsequently as its chief technical officer. He invented its flagship performance management solution, Introscope, and played a key role in Wily’s 2006 acquisition by CA, Inc. After leaving CA and prior to founding New Relic, Lew was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark.

Adiascar Cisneros brings over 20 years of experience in the IT field as the Professional Services Manager at Racemi Inc., an Atlanta based business that builds rapid cloud migration software for Enterprises, MSPs, and OEM partners. Racemi’s cloud migration technology provides built-in automatic conversions for any-to-any cloud migrations which allow customers to use their existing server images rather than having to rebuild for the cloud. Migration capabilities like this are key for adoption of cloud, and required in complex scenarios such as persistent hybrid cloud environments and the migration of complex multi-tiered applications.

The Racemi Services team provides on-site and remote support to customers using Racemi technology for disaster recovery, data centers moves, or data center consolidations. Racemi also offers professional services for onboarding physical and virtual servers to multiple cloud vendors, using Racemi tools to migrate servers in minutes rather than days.

Prior to Racemi, Mr. Cisneros was a Network Security Services consultant for Hewlett Packard Co., providing advanced security consulting to enterprises for their internet based presence.

Anna Claiborne currently serves as the Chair of the Security Working Group in the Open Data Center Alliance. In this role, she leads contributors from around the globe to develop security requirements for cloud and next generation data centers from the perspective of an enterprise end-user or IT.

She has an extensive background in several areas of security and software development. She recently was a Product Manager for Security Services at Terremark, overseeing product development and product line management for Managed Security Services, with a strong emphasis on cloud computing security development. She previously served as software developer for high volume credit card processing application, medical billing program developer, and penetration tester. She founded Prolexic Technologies in 2004, the first company to offer Distributed Denials of Service Attack (DDoS) mitigation services independent of carrier network.

Anna is very active is the security and networking communities, and has spoken on many topics surrounding DDoS. She currently serves on the Peering Forum Board of Directors, and is often involved in activities around North American Network Operators Group (NANOG). She is very active is the security and networking communities, and has spoken on many topics surrounding DDoS. She currently serves as Co-chair for the Security Working Group within the ODCA, is on the Peering Forum Board of Directors, and is often involved in activities around North American Network Operators Group (NANOG).

Richard is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technology Officer for Business Continuity and Resiliency Services in IBM Global Services, specializing in helping customers drive higher business resiliency in order to realize increased business availability. He has over 28 years of I/S experience and has performed consulting engagements to many fortune 500 companies, particularly in the finance and securities industry.

Peter Coffee is VP and Head of Platform Research at Salesforce.com. He joined the company in 2007 after 18 years as a senior contributor to the enterprise IT journals eWEEK and PC Week. Based in the Los Angeles area, he works with IT professionals and ISVs to build a global community based on Force.com: the salesforce.com Platform Cloud. He is a frequent contributor to CloudBlog (cloudblog.salesforce.com); follow him at twitter.com/petercoffee

Michael Collier is a Windows Azure MVP and National Architect for Neudesic, a Microsoft SI partner that specializes in Windows Azure. He has nearly 11 years of experience building Microsoft-based applications for a wide range of clients. He spends his days serving as an architect helping clients succeed with Windows Azure.

Chad Collins leads HighJump Software’s global strategy and marketing initiatives. He joined the company in 2002 and has more than 12 years of experience using technology to deliver innovative supply chain solutions. Prior to HighJump Software, he was in the supply chain practice of Cap Gemini Ernst and Young Consulting, where he managed supply chain technology projects for the world's leading manufacturers.

Bart Copeland is President & CEO of ActiveState Software, to which role he brings more than twenty years of management, finance, and business experience. He is also an active angel investor and serves as a director on a number of tech companies, is a mentor to the BC Advantage Funds. Copeland holds an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of British Columbia.

Bill Cox is Director of Cloud Strategy, Intel Software Services Group. Since joining Intel in 2007, he has led the Group's Cloud strategy efforts. Prior to joining Intel, he was Director of Systems Engineering at HP. During his 14 years at HP, he was responsible for the development of all infrastructure management tools used to manage the various server and storage platforms. In his 30+ years of industry experience,Cox has led the design of compute, network, and storage solutions and actively participated in multiple standards efforts.

Terry is an experienced, hands-on senior leader with a track record of success in building organizations to realize their full potential. He founded Crystal Services, which was purchased by Seagate in 1994 and integrated into the company's software division, which then became Seagate Software. Cunningham helped grow Seagate Software, including piloting the organization through $350 million worth of acquisitions. Cunningham’s accomplishments also include serving as president and COO of Veritas Software, and founding, building, and leading two other successful software companies. Terry brings to i365 a wealth of knowledge and great strength in building teams, driving organizational vision and growth, and catalyzing business success.

Winston Damarillo is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Morphlabs, a cloud computing pioneer, delivering efficient computing based on optimized cloud architecture. Winston is a proven serial entrepreneur with a track record of building successful technology start-ups. His past entrepreneurial endeavors include several companies which Winston grew to profitability and subsequently sold to major IT players: Gluecode Software, an open source application infrastructure company which was acquired by IBM in 2005, Logicblaze, acquired by Iona Technologies in 2007, and Webtide, acquired by Intalio in 2009. Winston is also the chairman of the board of directors for Exist Global, an award-winning leader in enterprise software development, and MaestroDev, a collaborative software development automation company. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Winston was among the highest performing venture capital professionals at Intel, having led the majority of his investments to either a successful IPO or a profitable corporate acquisition. Winston is one of the prestigious Young Global Leader (YGL) honorees for 2010, and an active participant of the World Economic Forum, a place where young leaders envision and create a brighter future. WEF YGL launched the Open Cloud Initiative earlier this year to determine how cloud computing can bridge both digital and economic divides in the developing world. He was recently selected as a commissioner at the TechAmerica Foundation’s new Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD²)/State and Local Government (SLG). The Commission’s objective is to enable state and local governments in the U.S. to better serve their citizens by optimizing their use of cloud technologies and solutions. Winston believes that the open source movement is instrumental in helping state and local governments, as well as developing countries, to adopt and implement cloud technologies to communicate to their citizenry, expand their educational platform and address national disasters. At Morphlabs, he is now solely focused on making efficient IT resources available for immediate consumption, starting with a solid offering of Dynamic Infrastructure Services -- a new mix of on-demand hybrid cloud services. Ultimately, Winston has been working to fuel a global shift in the consumption of power-dense, efficient computing to best practices driven by lower barriers to adoption and the cost benefits of leveraging open source solutions and commodity hardware worldwide. He believes that there is enormous potential for technology companies of all types to contribute thought leadership, IP and solutions to this revolution. He holds a B.S. in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering from the De La Salle University, and he is also a trustee of the Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev), an organization committed to social development initiatives for Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world.

Vincent DiMemmo is General Manager, Global Cloud & IT Services Segment at Equinix. A technology services and marketing veteran and has a broad range of expertise in managed services, applications infrastructure, telecommunications, disaster recovery & business continuity, and data center infrastructure, DiMemmo is responsible for the strategy, planning, commercial development, and program implementation of the developing Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS, and IT Services markets at Equinix. Prior to joining Equinix, he held various senior executive roles in marketing, product management, and business development at SAVVIS Inc., SunGard Data Systems, Global Crossing and One Equity Partners.

Brian Patrick Donaghy is CEO of Appcore, a provider of global cloud computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service for business, telecom, and software vendors.

Jamie Dos Santos is President & CEO, Terremark Federal Group. She is responsible for the planning, development, and execution of the company's federal government sales, marketing and operations strategy and manages all aspects of Terremark's federal government relationships including the Department of Defense, Civilian Agencies and the federal systems integrators. Her previous role as Chief Marketing Officer included the development of strategic marketing initiatives and commercial sales strategies that contributed to the company's sustained growth.

Prior to joining Terremark, she enjoyed a career of 25 years with several global companies including BellSouth, Bellcore and SAIC.

Blake Dournaee is currently the product manager responsible for Intel Expressway Service Gateway, including our Intel Expressway Tokenization Broker product. A specialist in applied cryptography applications at RSA Security and a frequent speaker at RSA conferences throughout the US and Europe, he is an established author who wrote the first book on XML Security and co-authored "SOA Demystified" from Intel Press.

John Engates is CTO of Rackspace. He joined the company in August of 2000 and has worked in several areas of Rackspace including Operations, Professional Services and Customer Care. Most recently, Engates has been responsible for managing the ongoing development of Rackspace's Intensive segment. He was one of the leading forces behind Rackspace's Microsoft Gold Certification. Prior to joining Rackspace, Engates was a founder of Internet Direct, one of the oldest and largest Internet service providers in Texas.

Arsalan Farooq is Founder & CEO of Convirture. Before founding Convirture in 2006, he founded Oracle’s Application Service Level Management division, growing from two engineers to a multi-national organization. His career began as a software designer and in college, he founded a technology consultancy. He holds degrees in Theoretical Physics and Computer Science from Reed College and Caltech.

Mr. Farquharson’s skills span many industries and include designing and implementing system architectures, as well as spearheading initiatives as development / team lead. He is an expert in custom application development, distributed environments, architecting scalable hardware and software applications and systems, and Web services application development. At SOA Software, he spearheads product development and provides thought leadership to enterprise customers implementing Web Services. Prior to joining SOA Software, he worked at US Interactive, where he was a key advisor to CTOs of many companies regarding Internet architecture issues. He was also a member of the architectural guiding committee, which helped to design the next generation of Internet architecture.

Henry Fastert is Chief Technologist and Managing Partner at SHI, where he has overall responsibility for the SHI Enterprise Solution Services (ESS) Group. Leveraging over 25 years of IT experience, his responsibilities include both strategic and operational direction for ESS, as well as providing expertise on infrastructure design, data center consolidation, and technology consolidation to SHI’s largest customers.

He comes to SHI from Unisys, where he was responsible for their North American professional services organization. His responsibilities included business development and service delivery, as well as providing deep expertise on ERP, Business Intelligence, infrastructure design, and data center consolidation. Prior to joining Unisys, he spent five years as VP and Chief Technologist for Melillo Consulting.

Josh Fraser is the vice president of Business Development at RightScale, where he is responsible for all sales and business development initiatives. Prior to RightScale, he held executive management positions at public and private companies, including vice president of Business Development at CallWave, a publicly traded provider of SaaS-based unified communications solutions, and general manager at Student Advantage, a leading marketing and transaction services provider to higher education. He also held business development and analyst roles at Starwave / ESPN.com. Fraser holds a bachelor's degree in finance from Villanova University.

As Chief Cloud Executive for VMware, George Gerchow brings 16 years of IT and Systems Management expertise to the application of IT processes and disciplines that impact the security, compliance and operational status of complex, heterogeneous, virtual & cloud computing environments. Gerchow's practical experience and insight from managing the infrastructures of some of the world’s largest corporate and government institutions makes him a highly regarded speaker and invited panelist on topics including Virtualization, ITSM\ITIL, configuration management, operational and security compliance. He holds ITIL, CISSP, Cisco and Microsoft Certifications.

Rick German is Co-founder, CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Stoneware, Inc. and has been the company's President and CEO since inception. He is one of the key architects of Stoneware’s webOS and is heavily involved in the company's efforts to move Web Desktop Virtualization into the “cloud” computing space. Prior to founding Stoneware in 2000, German was the Vice President of System Engineering for Cornerstone Systems.

Bernard Golden has been called a “cloud guru.” He is the CEO of HyperStratus, a Silicon Valley cloud computing consultancy which works with clients in the US and throughout the world. The firm's clients include Korea Telecom, Chunghwa Telecom, Pepsi, and BMC Software. HyperStratus provides cloud computing services in the areas of application security, system architecture and design, TCO analysis, and project implementation.

Bernard is the Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine. His blog has been called “brilliant and incisive” and is read by tens of thousands of people each month. His blog was named “Top 50 Cloud Computing Blog” by Sys-Con Media, a “20 Most Important Cloud Blog” by AlwaysOn Media, and in a recent poll by AppDynamics his was cited as the third most influential cloud computing blog. In a recent study, he was described as a Top 100 “Most Powerful Voice” in security. Bernard's writings on cloud computing have also been published by the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review.

Bernard is the author of Virtualization for Dummies, the most popular book on the subject ever published. He is also the co-author of Creating the Infrastructure for Cloud Computing (Intel Press, 2011). Bernard is a popular and engaging presenter, and has keynoted conferences from Moscow to Peru.

Ben Golub was Former CEO Gluster, GM Storage Business Unit at Red Hat. For five years prior to joining Gluster, Ben served as the President and CEO of Plaxo, a social networking infrastructure pioneer backed by industry luminaries Michael Moritz (Sequoia), Ram Shriram, Globespan Capital and Cisco. He led Plaxo through a complete turnaround, bringing the company to profitability, over 20 million users, and a large and successful acquisition by Comcast Interactive Media. Prior to Plaxo, he held a number of executive roles at VeriSign including Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President/General Manager of the Enterprise Security, SSL and Payments divisions.

Before VeriSign, Golub held a number of product development, operations and business development roles at companies such as Avid Technology and Sun Microsystems.

Gautam Goswami is a sales & marketing executive with an eye for future technological innovations with a very strong technical background. He currently runs Actuate's Cloud and OnDemand line of business for our BIRT products and is responsible for the global sales and marketing vision for the future of Actuate’s BIRT onDemand initiative. Gautam has been with Actuate for 10 years and is aiming to combine the power of BIRTs open source reach (over 10 million downloads of BIRT) and the speed and economical adoption curve of complex BI solutions in a SaaS/PaaS environment to drive BIRT onDemand and BIRT Cloud implementations in medium to large size implementation around the world.

Gautum brings his background in technology and adds business perspective to understand Actuates customer pain points and offer optimum solutions, thus shortening sales cycles. He keeps himself very well aware of prevalent and emerging Cloud technologies and is always on the cutting edge of the technological innovations in the space. Gautam brings an unique perspective in solving business problems utilizing prevalent and emerging technologies.

Jocelyn DeGance Graham is Founder and President of Cloud Network Of Women (CloudNOW). Named by United Business Media’s CRN as one of the 100 most influential women in IT, she currently leads the Grail Research (Monitor Group) Cloud practice and has deep expertise in the areas of marketing, communications and research.

She has spent the majority of her career advising Fortune 100 companies including Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, and Arthur AndersenAccenture on strategic emerging technology decisions. Prior to joining Grail Research, she directed the marketing program for an award winning Cloud startup that was recognized by Gartner as one of the ‘Coolest Emerging Technologies’ of 2010.

Mr. Guillory is the CEO of Racemi Inc., an Atlanta based business that builds rapid cloud migration software for Enterprises, MSPs, and OEM partners. Racemi’s cloud migration technology provides built-in automatic conversions for any-to-any cloud migrations which allow customers to use their existing server images rather than having to rebuild for the cloud. Migration capabilities like this are key for adoption of cloud, and required in complex scenarios such as persistent hybrid cloud environments and the migration of complex multi-tiered applications.

Mr. Guillory’s leadership spans 15 years in both start-ups and larger corporations. His career began at Brown & William where he was responsible for building IT systems that were fully automated to drive the largest 24 x 7 tobacco manufacturing plant in the world. He leveraged his experience to launch Cpons.com and grew that business into the biggest online discount golf community with thousands of golf courses and nearly a million members. He then joined CheckFree, America’s most successful SaaS online bill payment company where he lead efforts to drive mainstream adoption of their online bill payment product and while there also launched two new business lines for CheckFree. CheckFree was later sold to Fiserv for $4.4 billion; where soon after the transaction Mr. Guillory joined Racemi in its quest to dominate the automated provisioning market.

Sean Hackett is Research Director Cloud Computing at The 451 Group. He has over a decade of experience as an IT industry analyst and consultant. During his career, he has closely tracked the evolution of the IT services industry. Prior to joining The 451 Group he worked at CA Inc, in the company's Corporate Planning and Strategy organization as a Senior Principal. In this role, he supported the company's executive leadership team and board of directors in identifying and investigating new strategic opportunities.

Before CA, Hackett directed IDC's IT Outsourcing and Utility Computing research program, where he was at the vanguard in identifying the disruptive potential of the cloud service-delivery model. While at IDC, he was a frequent industry speaker on the changing dynamics of IT service delivery. Prior to IDC, he worked at Deloitte Consulting as a Senior Consultant in the firm's Outsourcing Advisory practice.

ain Hansen is Director of Product Marketing at Oracle where he leads Data Integration Product Marketing for Oracle Data Integration Suite, part of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Dain has over 13 years industry experience in enterprise software technologies including: Service Oriented Architecture, data services, enterprise service bus, SOA management, security, SOA governance, and Business Process Management.

Previously to this role, Dain was Director of Product Marketing at BEA Systems for SOA integration. Also at BEA, Dain led product management of AquaLogic Service Bus, Prior to BEA, Dain was a business analyst for HP and Bechtel.

Ferhat Hatay is Director of Product Marketing, Systems & Cloud Computing at Oracle.

Adam Hawley is Director of Product Management for Oracle VM, Oracle's server virtualization and management product. Over the last ten years, he has been deeply involved in the development of resource management, data center management, and virtualization products through his career at HP, Sun, and Oracle. During his time at Sun, Hawley headed up the product management group that introduced Solaris Containers before moving to lead the N1 Marketing and Product Management group.

Brian Haynes, director of channel sales for AppRiver, is responsible for building and driving the indirect sales model for this leading provider of email messaging and Web security solutions. Since joining AppRiver in 2004, he has been instrumental in growing the channel to more than 1,300 partners worldwide with more than 65% of total business derived from it.

Haynes has more than 15 years of experience in the technology field. Prior to joining AppRiver, he was the Southeastern Regional Channel Manager at SurfControl where he successfully implemented processes to help drive rapid channel sales, with a primary focus on sales revenue and lead generation.

Warren Heffelfinger is CEO of GoGrid, responsible for executive management and day-to-day operations at the company. He brings to GoGrid over 20 years of executive and operational experience in building and leading businesses in healthcare, telecommunications and technology services. Most recently, he served as CEO of Bay Alarm Medical, a company he co-founded with Bay Alarm Company, the nation’s largest independently owned and operated security alarm business. His focus on channel development and sales management enabled rapid expansion allowing the firm to capture significant market share.

Prior to Bay Alarm Medical, Heffelfinger was the Founder and President of Arrival Communications, a facilities-based telecommunications provider based in California. Under his leadership, Arrival grew revenues 400% ultimately resulting in a successful exit for investors in 2007. He built a strong corporate culture at Arrival which became a true competitive advantage over the 97% of competitors that failed during this period of time. His financial management skills were responsible for a consistent expansion of margins in a challenging economic environment.

Prior to Arrival, Heffelfinger led business development and regulatory affairs for Pac-West Telecomm, a California-based telecommunications service business. During his tenure at Pac-West, the company experienced 80%+ compounded annual growth and was sold to an investor group in 1999. He serves as director of several of corporate and non-profit boards.

Hidayatullah Shaikh is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Senior Manager at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He is currently the IBM lead for Business Support Services for cloud offerings. His areas of interest and expertise include virtualization, cloud computing, remote services delivery, business process modeling and integration, service-oriented architecture, grid computing, e-commerce, enterprise Java, database management systems, and high-availability clusters.

Connectem Inc. is an early stage company focused on transforming the Mobile Core infrastructure from a Node dimensioned architecture to a Cloud dimensioned architecture. Carriers are looking for ways to dramatically change the economics of connecting millions, even billions of devices to wireless networks. SHI & Connectem Inc. are working in co-operation to achieve this fundamental change through advanced software running in the most powerful Cloud services infrastructure available.

Andrew Hillier has twenty years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for the world's largest financial institutions and utilities. A co-founder of CiRBA, he leads product strategy and defines the overall technology roadmap for the company.

Prior to CiRBA, Hillier pioneered a state of the art systems management solution which was acquired by Sun Microsystems and now serves as the foundation of their flagship systems management product, Sun Management Center. Hillier has also led the development of solutions for major financial institutions, including fixed income, equity, futures & options and interest rate derivatives trading systems, as well as in the fields of covert military surveillance, advanced traffic and train control, and the robotic inspection and repair of nuclear reactors.

Mark Hinkle is Director, Cloud Computing Community at Citrix. He joined the company through Citrix's acquisition of Cloud.com, the maker of the open source cloud computing management software, CloudStack. He also is a long-time open source expert and advocate. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium. He has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine. Hinkle is also the author of the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). His blog on open source, technology, and new media can be found at http://www.socializedsoftware.com.

As VP Engineering, Jeff Hobbs oversees development of all ActiveState products, including the Stackato cloud platform. He’s a contributing author for Perl and Python extensions, and a member of the Tcl Core Team. Jeff is the co-author of “Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk”. Jeff works closely with customers including Cisco, Boeing, Synopsys, NASA, and Juniper Networks.

Hart Hoover is a Linux Administrator at Rackspace Hosting. Hoover started his career as a Racker in 2007 as a Linux Systems Administrator, providing technical support for managed servers. In 2009 he joined the Rackspace Managed Cloud Servers team where he helped design the support model for the future of cloud hosting. He specializes in RHEL, CentOS and Ubuntu server environments.

Steve Hudson is Senior Application Performance Engineer at New Relic.

Omri Iluz, in charge of Strategic Technology Partnerships at Cotendo, Inc., has 10 years experience in managing software development teams and developing strategic partnerships at the leading edge of the web acceleration markets. Prior to joining Cotendo, an award-winning innovator of software-based web acceleration technology, he held the positions of Director of Product Marketing and Director of Technology at Oberon Media, a leading multi-platform casual games company that offers compelling casual game content with global distribution. He led Oberon’s community games initiative and later held overall technical responsibility for the company’s R&D group.

Cory Isaacson is CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, maker of dbShards, a leading database scalability suite providing a true “shared nothing” architecture for relational databases. Cory has authored numerous articles in a variety of publications including SOA Magazine, Database Trends and Applications, and recently authored the book Software Pipelines and SOA (Addison Wesley). Cory has more than twenty years experience with advanced software architectures, and has worked with many of the world’s brightest innovators in the field of high-performance computing. Cory has spoken at hundreds of public events and seminars, and assisting numerous organizations address the real-world challenges of application performance and scalability -- effectively applying emerging technologies to a variety of fields including social networking, mobile applications, gaming and high volume transaction systems. In his prior position as president of Rogue Wave Software, he actively led the company back to a position of profitable growth, culminating in a successful acquisition by a leading private equity firm. Cory can be reached at: cory.isaacson@codefutures.com

Nate Isley is a Pre-sales Engineer at New Relic. Nine years ago he became a consultant specializing in J2EE applications after two startup Software Engineering roles. After a year of J2EE consulting he joined Wily Technology and spent five years as APM Professional Services consultant helping customers. Nate transitioned from consulting to Product Management, and spent three years as a key CA APM /Introscope Product Manager. Nate brings his years of APM experience to reflect on the central role APM information plays for all applications.

Jordan Jacobs is Director of Corporate Strategy at Phoenix NAP. A proven technology professional, he has extensive experience in data center planning, design and operations, and has a unique understanding of customer needs utilizing his past experience in sales, marketing, operations and data center facility design.

Jacobs has built and managed five data center floors serving small and medium businesses worldwide and maintained responsibility for the engineering staff and channel partner relationships. He was also a sales manager, providing solutions-based sales to enterprise customers.

Leading effort to build Private Cloud and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions for enterprise software by simplifying the way complex multi-tier applications get packaged, configured, and deployed on the cloud. Leading product management for Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder

Vikas Jain Director of Product Management at Intel for the Cloud Identity and Security products.

Prior to Intel, he has held leadership roles in product management and software development over the last 15 years at a wide-range of technology companies including Oracle, Oblix, Wipro and Infosys. Vikas holds an BS in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology in India

Tyler Jewell is VP, Product Management & Strategy, Oracle Public Cloud. His software career spans 20 years in R&D, marketing, services, and corporate development. Prior to Oracle, he was at Quest Software as PM and Investment Manager. His investments include AppHarbor, AwayFind, Skydera, and WSO2.

As a PM, he held leadership positions for products in emerging markets, including Quest’s applications, monitoring, virtualization and cloud divisions. He’s managed Foglight (Gartner’s APM leaders quadrant), vRanger (the #1 selling virtualization backup solution), and JProbe (the best selling Java profiling tool). Prior to Quest, Jewell was a founder and investor in InfoQ.com, GM of The Middleware Company (sold to TechTarget), and a Java technologist at BEA (acquired by Oracle), TRGi (acquired by BEA) and Talarian (acquired by Tibco).

Marc Jones serves as Director of Product Innovation for SoftLayer. In this role, he is responsible for identifying, facilitating and evangelizing new product and service development – including R&D, software development and system development.

An accomplished technology executive, he previously served as director of software product development with Rackspace Cloud (formerly Mosso), the cloud division of Rackspace. He was a key member of the senior leadership team responsible for developing and managing the company’s cloud computing product strategy and roadmap, architecture and engineering, business analysis and requirements, along with software product development. Jones spearheaded the Rackspace accelerated provisioning automation and process improvements, and aligned software product development around the company’s core competencies.

Prior to his tenure with Rackspace, he was senior director for system architecture with Broadwing Communications. He also served as director of application development for Allegiance Telecom, which was acquired by XO Communications. Additional experience includes work with Netcom’s Hosting Division and Uniden America.

Das Kamhout is the lead for the Intel IT Cloud program. He has worked in many engineering and operational leadership roles at Intel IT, from client engineering to Design Grid engineering and operations allowing him to bring a breadth of experience and skills to complex IT business problems.

Fima Katz is the President & CEO of Exadel. He founded the company in 1998 and has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has held managerial and technical positions with major financial services companies, including Wells Fargo Bank, Concorde Solutions and Bank of America, where he served as the Chief Architect of Internet Systems.

Michael Kopp is a Technology Strategist at the dynaTrace center of excellence. He has over 10 years of experience as an architect and developer in the Java/JEE space and specializes in the architecture and performance of large scale production deployments with a special focus on virtualization and cloud. In this role he influences the dynaTrace product strategy and works closely with key customers in implementing Application Performance Management across the entire life cycle. Before joining dynaTrace, Kopp was Chief Architect at GoldenSource. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences on performance and architecture related topics, a published author and regularly publishes articles on blog.dynatrace.com.

Matt Krebs has over 20 years of experience in the electronic security industry. He currently acts as a Business Development Manager for Axis Communications where he oversees the Axis Video Hosting Solution (AVHS) program. Previously he served as Executive Vice President for SureView Systems and prior to that held various senior leadership roles with ADT Security Services, Protection One and National Guardian Security Services. Throughout his career Krebs has been an active proponent of advancing the industry toward new and innovative technologies.

John Lake has over 15 years of experience in information technology management, largely with high growth technology companies in Silicon Valley. He currently serves as the Director of Information Systems for Panasas, a provider of high performance parallel storage solutions based in Sunnyvale, CA. Since joining Panasas in 2008, John has migrated multiple enterprise applications to the cloud, leveraging solutions from popular cloud vendors such as Salesforce.com, Big Machines, Coupa, Dell Boomi and Marketo. Most recently, his team successfully automated the company’s quote-to-cash process, requiring multiple integrations to be built between on-premise and cloud-based applications. A Bay Area native, John earned his BA from San Jose State University and his MBA from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Rich Lechner is Vice President Energy & Environment at IBM. He has broad experience across the software, systems and services business including key leadership roles in virtualization, Internet technology, Green innovation, and enterprise systems.

He is responsible for defining IBM's cloud strategies and portfolio of services leveraging IBM’s deep process expertise, global delivery, industry leading software capabilities, and research innovations in areas like security and analytics-based optimization. In this role, his organization works closely with clients to apply the transformative power of cloud to reinvent the way they do business.

Jae Lee is the Director of Product Management for Vyatta. He holds over a decade of experience in product marketing and management for the Computer and Network Security industry. Lee has previously held marketing and product management roles at Newbridge/Alcatel, Blue Coat, Check Point Software Technologies, Juniper Networks, and Array Networks.

Tom Leyden is Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, a Belgian Object Storage Innovator. He joined Amplidata in 2009 to drive the company’s marketing, product management and PR strategies. Leyden has 15 years’ experience working for disruptive IT companies (from emerging stage to acquisition) including four years in cloud computing. Through his collaboration with Belgium-based technology incubator Incubaid, he has been involved in several successful startups, including data deduplication pioneer DataCenter Technologies and cloud Innovator Q-layer.

Sheng Liang is CTO Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems. Formerly CEO of Cloud.com, he's a technology visionary who developed the Java Virtual Machine at Sun Microsystems, and a serial entrepreneur. Before Cloud.com he co-founded web application firewall vendor Teros Networks (also acquired by Citrix), and was a member of the senior management team at SEVEN Networks and Openwave Systems, which developed software products for over 100 wireless and wire-line service providers around the world.

A serial entrepreneur, Jason Lieblich is the Founder and CEO of Exoprise Systems. Previously VP & CTO of the Virtualzation division of Citrix, Lieblich sold his venture backed company, Reflectent Software, to Citrix in 2006. He was the founder and CTO.

Brian Lillie is CIO at Equinix. He joined Equinix in September 2008 and has been primarily focused on building business value through strategic technology and product initiatives. Examples include the design and build of the Equinix Customer Portal, Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange Portal, and the soon to be launched Equinix Marketplace portal. In addition to product initiatives, he has driven several internal initiatives to improve internal efficiencies and global scale, including sales force automation, enterprise resource planning, business intelligence and acquisition integration.

Before joining Equinix in 2008, Lillie held several senior-level executive roles at VeriSign, including Vice President of Information Systems. Prior to VeriSign, he was Senior Director of Enterprise Applications at Silicon Graphics (SGI), where he successfully implemented Oracle ERP globally, including throughout EMEA. Prior to these roles, he held several leadership roles in the U.S. Air Force, where he worked in space research and development, satellite operations, and military computers and communications.

Mr. Lillie holds an M.S. in Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, an M.S. in Telecommunications Management from Golden Gate University, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Montana State University.

David (Dave) S. Linthicum is the Founder and CTO of Blue Mountain Labs (www.bluemountainlabs.com) and an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader. He is the author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling "Enterprise Application Integration" (Addison Wesley). He keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Web 2.0, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert.

In his career, Linthicum has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing, including Enterprise Application Integration, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today. For the last 10 years, he has focused on the technology and strategies around cloud computing and how to make cloud computing work for the modern enterprise. This includes work with several cloud computing startups. His industry experience includes tenures as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. In addition, he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities, including the University of Virginia, Arizona State University, and the University of Wisconsin.

Mathew Lodge is Senior Director in VMware’s Cloud Services group. He has more than 18 years’ experience in the technology industry. Previously, he was Senior Director at Symantec, where he led the go to market for its $1BN+ information management group. Prior to Symantec, Lodge held a series of senior product management and marketing roles at Proficient Networks, CPlane, Cisco Systems and Schlumberger.He has a masters’ in Software Engineering from the University of York, and is an alumni of London Business School.

Anand is in charge of Cloud partner integration and IT as a Service in the NetApp storage management group.Anand also works with key NetApp strategic alliance partners such as BMC and CA.Prior to joining NetApp, Anand spent 17 years in the networking industry at Cisco, Juniper and Brocade.

Kristin Lovejoy is the Vice President of Information Technology Risk for IBM, responsible for managing, monitoring and testing IBM’s corporate security and resiliency functions globally. Prior to her role in Corporate IBM, she was Vice President of Security Strategy for IBM Security Solutions, responsible for the overall market direction and strategy for IBM’s portfolio of security products. She is Chairman of IBM’s IT Risk Steering Committee, co-Chair of IBM's Data Security Steering committee, co-Chair of the IBM’s Social Networking committee, member of IBM’s Security Executive Board, as well as a member of a number of external boards and advisory panels, including SC Magazine's Editorial Board, and FS-ISAC. Before joining IBM, she was the CTO, CIO and VP of Support and Services at Consul which was acquired by IBM in 2007 as well as VP of Security Assurance Services for TruSecure Corporation which was acquired by Verizon Business Services Online.

Lovejoy is a recognized expert in the field on security, risk, compliance and governance, with recent appearances on CNBC, NPR and WTOP. Within the past five years she has been recognized as Top 25 CTO by InfoWorld, as Top 25 Most Influential Security Executives by Security Magazine. She holds U.S. and EU patents for Object Oriented Risk Management Models and Methods and currently resides in McLean, Virginia, with her husband and four children.

Bill Lowry is Vice President, Cloud Services at Terremark, where he leads strategic sales engagement and evangelism for the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, working with large enterprises to help apply the power of the cloud to their IT strategies. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lowry was Vice President of Sales for Revere Security. Mr. Lowry has more than 20 years of experience integrating security, storage, network and data center technologies into solutions for utilities, telecommunications providers and Fortune 500 enterprises, with strategic roles at companies including EMC, 3Com, Brocade and Data Return. He earned a B.A. In Advertising from Texas Tech University and resides in Dallas with his wife and children.

Blake Madden is a Technology Evangelist with Spoon.net.

Dante Malagrino is co-founder and CEO of Embrane. Prior to founding Embrane, he spent over 10 years at Cisco in various technical, marketing and sales roles. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and holds several patents in the areas of networking, storage and datacenter infrastructure.

Pete Malcolm is CEO of Abiquo, a leading vendor of Cloud infrastructure management solutions. Described by SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan as “a beacon of light amid the murky fog surrounding Cloud Computing”, Malcolm is the inventor of the term “Resource Cloud”, a concept which provides complete separation between physical infrastructure providers and virtual enterprise consumers, with substantial benefits to both. Malcolm was previously founder and CTO of Orchestria, Benchmark Capital’s first European Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and a Senior Vice President with CA, Inc.

Ross Mason is the Founder & CTO of MuleSoft. He founded the open source Mule project in 2003. Frustrated by integration "donkey work," he set out to create a new platform that emphasized ease of development and re-use of components. He started the Mule project to bring a modern approach, one of assembly, rather than repetitive coding, to developers worldwide. Now, with the MuleSoft team, Mason is taking these founding principles of dead-simple integration to the cloud with Mule iON, the world's first integration platform as a service (iPaaS).

Tim Mather is an Advisory Director at KPMG focusing on information protection, and specifically on cloud computing security.

Joshua McKenty is Co-Founder & CEO at Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. He was the founding Technical Architect of NASA’s Nebula cloud computing platform, and a driving force behind its release to the OpenStack project. He has two decades experience in software engineering, architecture and engineering management.

Andy McLoughlin is Co-Founder, EVP Strategy and GM USA at Huddle. Based in San Francisco, he manages Huddle's growing U.S. presence and is responsible for corporate development and product strategy.

Since co-founding the business he has guided Huddle to become one of Europe's most awarded and well-known technology start-ups. Since launch, he has been responsible for a number of business areas including technology, product development, marketing and business development.

McLoughlin previously worked as a consultant and product manager for KnowledgeCenter Ltd, a boutique content management and business process automation consultancy focussed on the insurance and finance markets. His clients spanned the UK, Europe and US, including prominent global firms such as QBE, Benfield, Arthur J Gallagher, Catlin and Montpelier Re. Prior to KnowledgeCenter, he was Online Manager for Fibernet Group plc, a FTSE 250-listed telecommunications company.