Johna Till Johnson, President and Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
Johna Till Johnson is president and senior founding partner of Nemertes Research, where she sets research direction and works with strategic clients. She has decades of experience in IT structure, processes, and organizations and has worked closely with senior IT executives at leading organizations across a broad range of industries. A widely regarded expert, Ms. Johnson regularly speaks at numerous trade shows, conferences, and seminars, and writes an insightful weekly column in Network World.
Ms. Johnson relates to the challenges senior executives face, as she’s managed large technology operations. Before founding Nemertes, she served as senior vice president and chief technology officer at Greenwich Technology Partners, a $60 million infrastructure consulting and engineering firm. At GTP, she secured $5 million in funding, managed strategic technology investments, partnerships, and acquisitions, and ran the technology practices to which GTP’s consultants and engineers belonged. She also managed the laboratory services, oversaw training, and performed consulting for strategic clients.
Prior to joining GTP, she headed the $12 million Global Networking Strategies Service business unit of META Group, where she advised Global 2000 IT organizations, vendors, and service providers. As senior technology editor of Data Communications magazine, Ms. Johnson managed the lab-testing program, and in the early ‘90s was one of the first experts to accurately predict and justify the rise of the commercial Internet.
Ms. Johnson also has designed and developed security, speech-synthesis, and free-space laser products at companies including Mosler Security Systems and Digitus Corp. She holds a BSEE (CS) from The Johns Hopkins University, has conducted graduate work in nuclear and particle physics at the University of Rochester, speaks three languages, and published a science fiction novel in 1995.
Alex Henthorn-Iwane, Vice President of Product Marketing, Packet Design, Inc.
Alex Henthorn-Iwane is Vice-President of Product Marketing at Packet Design, Inc., and has 17 years experience in the design, development and deployment of IP network infrastructure, security, policy and network management products and technologies in enterprise, government and Service Provider environments. Henthorn-Iwane has previously been director of product management at CoSine Communications, Inc, Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises/Lucent Technologies; and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America.
Ray Patalano, Senior Manager, Enterprise Marketing, Ciena Communications
Ray Patalano is a senior manager, enterprise marketing at Ciena Corporation. Prior to joining Ciena, he worked for several premier companies in the networking industry including Motorola, Vanguard Managed Solutions and 3Com, where he held various leadership positions in marketing, sales and product line management.With over 15 years experience, Ray is a seasoned veteran of the telecom industry where he has focused on the needs of multiple vertical market industries including financial services, healthcare, public safety, and utilities. He has been a featured contributor to a number of publications including WSTA Ticker, Health Management Technology, Police Magazine, Security Magazine, Remote Site Magazine, and Computer Telephony. Ray holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Northeastern University in Boston.
Alan Rosenberg, President, New York Operations, Business Only Broadband
Alan Rosenberg is President, New York Operations, for Business Only Broadband. Alan joins BOB from Global Crossing, where he developed and managed the first global financial extranet that interconnected trading floors, exchanges, brokers, clearing houses, and market data makers to more than 1,000 financial clients. Rosenberg holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, and an M.S. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. In addition, he completed advance business education from the London Business School and Carnegie Mellon University.
Tom Shea, Enterprise Account Manager, Blue Coat Systems
Tom Shea is an Enterprise Account Manager for Blue Coat Systems working with select large enterprise customers in the New York City metro area. Mr. Shea has an extensive background in technology sales, marketing and operations as well as twelve years of experience in helping enterprise organizations develop a proactive and forward looking approach to IT strategy and planning. Mr. Shea previously served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Shea Network Solutions, a pioneering independent Value Added Reseller and IT Consulting firm in the New York City metro area. During this time, he authored advanced IT strategy and planning analysis for Fortune 1000 and large enterprise clients, helping those organizations adopt leading edge technology solutions in order to reduce costs, make communications more efficient, and gain a competitive advantage in their respective markets. Mr. Shea has also been instrumental in developing and implementing new channel strategy and programs at both Avocent Corporation and Blue Coat Systems, helping strategic business partners develop a consultative sales approach in order to tailor solutions to customers’ specific business goals.
Fang Wu, Vice President, Customer Solutions, NTT America, Inc.
As Vice President of Customer Solutions, Fang Wu is supervising NTT America's product management, solution development as well as solution implementations to support a wide range of enterprise customers’ global needs. Before joining NTT America, Mr. Wu held various product management and engineering positions to manage, design, and implement new data services including MPLS/ IP product line at companies such as Lucent and AT&T. Mr. Wu has a MSEE from Polytechnic University and a BEEE from City College of New York. He holds two US patents in the areas of network fraud prevention and convergence network architecture.
Chris Holland, Vice President of Product Management, SafeNet
Chris Holland joined SafeNet in March 2004 after the acquisition of Rainbow Technologies as the Director of Product Management, Enterprise Division. During his tenure at Rainbow Technologies, Mr. Holland led the development of SSL remote access technologies. Mr. Holland was promoted into his current role in January 2007 where his focus is to lead the management and development of the companies’ commercial product lines. He is responsible for software protection, identity tokens, HSMs and High Speed Encryption products. Prior to joining Rainbow Technologies, Mr. Holland worked for Ericsson developing next generation small office / home office phone technology. He developed network and security processors for a semiconductor company (Valence Semiconductor). Before moving to the United States in 1997, Mr. Holland worked for AST Europe in the UK as a product manager for consumer desktop computer systems. Mr. Holland holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing Science and Software Engineering from Brunel University in London.
Michael Otani, Sr. Corporate Systems Engineer, Avaya Inc.
Mr.Otani works in the Avaya Technology and Consulting organization and helps organizations increase their WAN availability for VoIP and other real-time applications. He has more than twelve years experience in various technical roles supporting WAN availability solutions at RouteScience and internet security and e-Commerce solutions at Cisco Systems.
Steve Buhler, National Solutions Specialist – Wireless & Mobility, Dimension Data
Steve has over 15 years experience architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise wireless business solutions. He has deep knowledge when it comes to architecting complex wireless networking LAN/WAN solutions in multi-vendor heterogeneous environments to VoWLAN, RFID, Point-to-Point, DAS, satellite backhaul applications, and 802.11N implementations. In addition, he has a proven track record providing accurate ROI analysis and delivering readiness assessments. His certifications in wireless design include MobileAccess Networks, Orthogon, ASCOM, Vocera, IComm, and IPICS.
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