Bob Reinhold, Principal, Financial Services Office of Ernst & Young LLP
Bob Reinhold is a Principal in the Financial Services Office of Ernst & Young LLP. As a leader in the IT Advisory Services practice, he is responsible for developing and delivering services that aid our clients in improving the business value gained from their investment in IT. Bob is also responsible for developing thought leadership on critical issues and trends in the financial services IT market, including the IT implications of Dodd Frank legislation. Bob has over 25 years of experience advising large clients in IT strategy and roadmap development, enterprise architecture, IT governance and IT process improvement. Prior to rejoining Ernst & Young in 2005, Bob was a Vice President with Capgemini and a Partner with Ernst & Young, where he led IT strategy and architecture consulting practices.
Jason Lambertson, Senior Manager, Financial Services Office of Ernst & Young LLP
Jason Lambertson is a Senior Manager in the Financial Services Office of Ernst & Young LLP. He has over 14 years of experience in the Banking industry serving Financial Services clients in the areas of large scale project, program, change, product, and technology delivery management for retail and commercial / corporate servicing, online, mobile and core banking systems.
Bill Emmett, Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, BMC Software
Bill Emmett, Senior Manager of Solutions Marketing at BMC Software, has been a practitioner, innovator, and marketing leader in the IT management software industry for nearly 18 years. Bill Emmett has been at BMC since 2008, where he leads product and solutions marketing the BMC Atrium and IT Business Management product lines. Additionally, he leads the development and articulation of BMC’s company-wide message – Business Service Management.
Early in his career, Bill Emmett became a practitioner in the area of data center management. Having started as a systems administrator, he used his background to manage a data center that provided a dynamic test lab for software developers in the US and Europe. Twelve years ago, Bill Emmett joined the HP OpenView (now known as HP BTO Software) Integration Lab, where he incorporated two areas of interest – IT Service Management, and IT management software integration. Since then, Mr. Emmett moved on to hold R&D, strategy, and marketing leadership positions at HP Software.
Bill Emmett holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelors degree in Accounting and Computing Information Systems, both from Colorado State University. Bill resides in Fort Collins, CO in the United States.
David O’Shea, Financial Services Solutions Marketing Manager, Intel Corporation
For the last 12 years, David has managed Intel’s relationship with the largest and most innovative Software Solutions providers on Wall Street. From early efforts to establish Linux as a viable Operating System, to working with solution providers to keep pace with market data rates and tuning solutions for low latency, optimal performance, David’s knowledge of computer platforms and financial requirements brings a unique point conversation.
Mica Block, Director of Actuate Corporate Engineers
Mica Block has 20+ years’ software industry experience in various roles, including product management and technical sales. He joined Actuate in 1996 prior to release 1.0, helping build and guide the technical sales force. Currently Mica is director of Actuate corporate engineers—the ACES team that provides high-level technical support to Actuate sales, including proofs of concept, system architecture design, scalability tests, and special projects.
John Pilger, Global Markets, Office of the CTO, Hitachi Data Systems
John Pilger has twelve year tenure at Hitachi Data Systems, during that time he has held management and technical positions supporting technology, architecture and engineering. John’s responsibility has included, designing storage networking systems to complex DR. He has worked with HDS’ global product management supporting product launches, product requirements, and technology initiatives. In his current position, John works with HDS’ top global and strategic customers, helping them develop global storage strategies, deploy architectures and help them understand future directions and technologies. Prior to joining Hitachi Data Systems, John spent thirteen years with IBM. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Emory University.
Bob Primmer, Senior Director, File Content and Services Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems
Robert Primmer is senior technologist and senior director of product management in the file content and services division at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) where he is responsible for devising technology solutions that will be incorporated into future enterprise and cloud product / service offerings. He has 25 years’ experience in technology, working in R&D and Product Management organizations with Cisco Systems, EMC, HDS and several start-ups. He is a member of ACM and IEEE and belongs to the IEEE Computer Society.
Rob Benoit, Business Solutions Architect, NetApp
Rob has been at NetApp for 7 years. Rob started at NetApp as a Systems Engineer in both commercial and enterprise districts. After couple of years, he moved into a role as a Technical Account Manager for a few of NetApp’s strategic Financial Accounts. These accounts included Merrill Lynch, Bank of New York Mellon and Deutsche Bank. While working with these accounts, Rob was able to help his customers leverage NetApp’s technology to provide advanced solutions in the messaging, database, file services, HPC, virtualization and cloud spaces. Three years ago, Rob moved into his current role as a Business Solutions Architect working with some of NetApp’s most strategic accounts.
Rob was in the US Marine Corps for 8 years, with the last 4 years in the reserves. During his time in the reserves, he received his degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University. He then went to work at TIAA-CREF as a Network Engineer supporting their network infrastructure. In his 8 years at TIAA-CREF, Rob ran the Network, Systems and Storage Engineering groups along with other roles in Operations.
