Dave Passmore, Research Director, The Burton Group
As the company's research director in the area of networking and telecom, David Passmore is a thought-leader in network architecture, known for his creation of the firm's reference architecture as well as extensive work in architecture consulting for service providers and large enterprises. He founded NetReference, Inc. (which merged with Burton Group in 1999), and as a vice president managed Gartner's wide-area and local-area network analyst services. Passmore also served as a partner and one of the original members of Ernst & Young's Center for Information Technology and Strategy, and was one of the founders of Network Strategies, Inc (acquired by Ernst & Young). He has been a technical advisory board member for dozens of network startup companies, and regularly consults for multiple networking equipment and software vendors.
Passmore is currently conference chairman of Next Generation Networks (NGN) and co-chair of the NGN Policy conference; he previously served on the program committee for Networld+Interop. Dave has been recognized as being one of the top six consultants in the entire IT industry, featured in an Information Week cover story on "Hot Consultants." He was listed as one of the "most influential industry analysts" by Technology Marketing magazine, and named as one of the 50 "most powerful" people in networking by Network World.
He writes a regular monthly column on network architecture for Business Communications Review magazine. Passmore has BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Avaya
Dr. M.H. Carolyn Nguyen, Director, Industry Solutions Group,
As the director of Solutions Realization in Avaya’s Industry Solutions Group, M-H Carolyn Nguyen is responsible for developing and bringing to market vertical specific solutions. Carolyn was formerly based in EMEA as the Director of Global Mobility, where she drove the Avaya’s strategy and vision for enterprise-enabled mobility and launched the company’s products and entrance into this market. Carolyn also helped create Avaya’s strategy in converged communications and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).
Prior to Avaya, Carolyn was a Brookings Congressional Fellow in 1999, where she developed technology policies and authored legislation on electronic commerce and technology commercialization. She also worked at Bell Laboratories, where she developed e-commerce platform software, distributed multimedia conferencing protocols, data networking protocol design and implementation, and high speed broadband access standards.
Carolyn holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a Master from Cornell University, and a BS from Princeton University - all in Electrical Engineering.
Infinit Technology Solutions
Kevin Seiler, Check Point Software Technology, Major Channel Manager (Infinit Technology Solutions – GOLD Partner)
With over twenty years of experience in data security and information technology implementations, Kevin has first hand knowledge of the requirements of large and small corporations. His experiences include working for a number of major security product manufacturers as well as owning and operating a privately held security consulting firm.
Kevin’s current role with Check Point Software Technologies has provided him experience with remote access requirements for a number of multinational organizations, subject to both US and international security policies. The requirements for secure transmission of data, as well as the ability to insure full protection for ‘data at rest’ has been his primary focus for a number of years.
Juma Technology
Joseph Fuccillo, Co-Founder & CTO
Joseph Fuccillo is a seasoned technologist with an unmatched range of experience in all aspects of communication networks, storage solutions and systems integration. With deep roots in network engineering, he has imparted a visionary foresight as co-founder and CTO of Juma Technology; bringing converged networking to the forefront of the industry. Fuccillo has been influential in creating and shaping the IT infrastructure for hundreds of organizations, including NASDAQ. He is also a highly regarded advisor for today’s major manufacturers and vendors, providing counsel on product development, strategies and architectures. Fuccillo was formerly Vice President for managed services provider Xand Corporation and Director of Technical Services for Westcon. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and multiple vendor certifications.
Trapeze Networks
Richard Rushing, Chief Security Officer
Richard is a recognized IT security expert with almost 20 years experience working with computers and networks as a system analyst, network administrator, engineer, consultant and architect. Richard has participated in several corporate security councils setting standards and policies for entire organizations. Richard was most recently Chief Technical Officer of VeriSign's Network Security Services division where he identified and developed products and services to maintain VeriSign's focus on leading-edge security solutions. He was VeriSign's key player in the delivery of complex security consulting and architecture solutions to numerous Fortune 500 companies.
In 1997 Richard teamed up with Jay Chaudhry and Jay Johnson to form SecureIT, a leading provider of security services to the IT industry that was acquired by VeriSign in 1998. Prior to SecureIT, Richard worked as a security consultant for the Technology Management Services group at GE Capital.
Richard has taught many classes and workshops on Intrusion detection, "What hackers know that you don't", Firewalls, Security Solutions, Network Security, Operating System security, VPN's and Security protocols, and Web Security, Auditing Firewalls, and Auditing Web Servers.
A much-in-demand speaker on information security, Richard has presented at leading security conferences and seminars, including Networld+Interop, Computer Security Institute, RSA Conference, SANS Security Conferences, WebSec, InfoSec, CyberTerrorism, and several industry or application specific conferences and workshops around the world.
Kidaro
Ran Oelgiesser is VP Product Marketing and Co-Founder, Kidaro. He has extensive experience in software architecture, product management and marketing. At Kidaro, Ran applies his extensive knowledge of the enterprise desktop virtualization space to develop and enhance product offerings according to customer needs. Prior to Kidaro, Ran was Product Manager at Cyota (acquired by RSA Security), responsible for launching a new anti-fraud service for financial institutes worldwide. He has also held previous management positions, overseeing software development projects
IPC
Jonathan Morton, Vice President, Global Customer Solutions
Jonathan Morton is Vice President of Global Customer Solutions at IPC where he oversees Sales Engineering, RFP Response, and Customer Pricing teams across Asia Pacific, EMEA, and The Americas.
Mr. Morton is a recognized expert in trading communications systems, having designed specialized, VoIP-based communications solutions for some of the world’s largest global trading enterprises as well as for small and medium-sized trading floors all over the world. Since joining IPC in 1996, Mr. Morton has held a number of key engineering and sales engineering positions within the company. Possessing an unyielding customer focus, he has extensive experience designing, developing, and selling innovative products and solutions that meet demonstrated customer needs.
Prior to joining IPC, Mr. Morton spent 11 years managing international products and projects, and delivering educational seminars for Pierce Phelps and NEC.
Born in Washington, DC, Mr. Morton was raised in Europe and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from American University.
