Lane Becker

Lane Becker is co-founder and President of Get Satisfaction, a web startup dedicated to fostering new methods of communication and collaboration between companies and their customers.

Lane is a co-founder of Adaptive Path and currently sits on the Board of Directors. Adaptive Path is a user experience strategy, research, and design consultancy, known for, among other things, coining the technology terms "blog" and "ajax." While with Adaptive Path, Lane ran the consulting business and, as the creator of the New Ventures program, developed strategic partnerships with early-stage startup companies to provide them with long-term support for their product ideation, design, and launch strategies.

As a consultant specializing in organizational strategy and team development, Lane has worked with companies as varied as NPR, PBS, Princess Cruises, McGraw-Hill, the National Gallery of Art, and the United Nations. As a speaker, Lane has provided training and direction to numerous organizations, including Sun Microsystems, the Bank of America, The Washington Post, Visa, and Cathay Pacific Airlines, as well as speaking at conferences such as O’Reilly’s Open Source Conferences, the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Serguei Beloussov

Mr. Beloussov is a successful self-made entrepreneur and business executive with an outstanding 15-year track record in building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Since 2003, he has been the Chairman and CEO of Parallels, a global leader in virtualization and automation software for consumers, businesses and service providers. Under Mr. Beloussov’s leadership, Parallels has quickly grown to profitability and #1 market positions with its innovative desktop virtualization, OS containers and control panel product lines. He is also a Founder and major investor in Acronis, a global leader in storage management and disaster recovery software for consumers, SMBs and large enterprises. Previously, Mr. Beloussov co-founded and helped grow a PC manufacturing business to $150 million in revenue in less than 3 years, the S&W electronics company to over $500 million in only 8 years, and Solomon Software SEA — each of which has become profitable in the first year since inception. He holds a B.S. in Physics, an M.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering with High Honors, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Guillaume Bouchard

Guillaume Bouchard is the co-founder and CEO of NVI, an interactive strategy company based in Montreal, Quebec. NVI was founded in 2004 and has quickly expanded from 4 initial employees to a team of 45 in three years. The company serves to build revenue models for customers by developing and marketing websites. NVI strives to become the largest full-service web agency and web marketing company in Canada and is already the largest web marketing company in Quebec. The company is proud to have worked with clients in such diverse industries as e-tail, employment, real estate, mortgage, financial services, construction, consulting, IT, radio and television media, e-commerce, sports, mobile communication, law, insurance and non-profit organizations.

Guillaume applies his Bachelor of Commerce and Management from HEC Montreal and his 9 years of experience as an entrepreneur towards client consulting, blogging, and speaking at various conferences. He blogs in English at SEOmoz.org, a search engine optimization blog and resource site, and in French at Go-Referencement.org, an SEO, marketing, and web 2.0 resources blog. Guillaume is passionate about delivering to his clients a clear view about current web news and trends, and how to guide them to leverage this information to their maximum benefit. He loves to surprise the market by leveraging sites, brands, and companies that would not have gotten as much exposure if they had invested their marketing budget only on offline strategies. Guillaume is a driven individual who is always eager to rise to the challenge and achieve results for his clients.

Andreas Gauger

Andreas Gauger founded web hosting provider, Schlund + Partner in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1995. Three years later, 1&1 Internet acquired Schlund + Partner and in 1999, Andreas Gauger was appointed Chairman of the Board. Within a short time, Andreas Gauger has led 1&1 to become one of the world’s leading web hosts, by defining a standard for user-friendly and cost-effective web hosting solutions and by developing and directing 1&1’s successful international expansion strategy. With more than 10 million hosted domain names, 1&1 today is the leading provider for hosting personal and business websites.

Paul Ghostine

Paul Ghostine is Vice President and General Manager of the Provision Networks Division of Quest Software. A twenty-year industry veteran, Mr. Ghostine was co-founder and CEO of Provision Networks prior to its acquisition by Quest in 2007. Previously, Mr. Ghostine was also co-founder and CEO of Emergent OnLine, a consulting and systems integration firm, VP of International Sales and Operations with V-ONE, a pioneer in VPN technologies, and held a variety of senior management positions with Renex and Sprint, including overall operational responsibilities for Russia, India, Middle East and Africa at Sprint International. Mr. Ghostine is a graduate of The George Washington University with an undergraduate degree in finance, an MBA in information systems management, and post-graduate studies in business management.

Jeff Kaplan

Jeff Kaplan is the Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies (www.thinkstrategies.com), a strategic consulting firm that helps 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 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace® (www.saas-showplace.com or www.thinksaas.com) and Managed Service Showplace® (www.msp-showplace.com or www.thinkmsp.com), the largest, vendor-independent, online directories in the managed services and SaaS markets. THINKstrategies’ online directories provide an easy-to-use listing of SaaS and managed services by application and industry categories, and extensive information and insight about industry best practices to help organizations fully leverage the growing array of SaaS solutions and managed services.

Dylan Larson

Dylan and his team are responsible for all of Intel’s advanced server technologies such as virtualization, power management, and high performance IO. In this role, Dylan works with software and hardware vendors to drive compelling solutions for end users. Dylan has worked for Intel for 7 years in a number of advanced technology management roles, most recently serving as chief of staff for the General Manager of Intel’s largest business unit the Digital Enterprise Group.

Roger Levy

Roger Levy is responsible for cross-business unit strategy and offerings for the data center, end-user computing and identity and security management markets. Before Mr. Levy began his current position, he served as the General Manager of the SUSE Linux Enterprise business unit at Novell. Mr. Levy is also a member of the Novell Worldwide Management Committee.

Mr. Levy has over 25 years of experience in telecommunications, mobility and networking. He has worked extensively with companies such as AT&T and Lucent Technologies, Inc. in the development and delivery of technology solutions for large enterprises. At Lucent, he held the position of Vice President, Product Realization, and was responsible for product delivery for four internal startups. These startups spanned the routing, mobile applications, enterprise security and service provider network security markets. In addition, Mr. Levy held the position of Vice President, Software Technology Center, where he led Lucent’s open source initiative, driving the establishment of an open source policy, the creation of processes to leverage open source, and the definition of open source acceptance tests. His other assignments included Vice President of Global System for Mobile Product Realization, where he led a 1,500 person team across seven countries.

Mr. Levy holds a Bachelor or Science in physics from Lafayette college and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Bill McNee

Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a strategy consulting and subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging IT markets. Most recently, 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), Cloud computing and open source — published through the firm’s complimentary Research Alerts as well as its’ premium research deliverables.

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. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of user and vendor clients over the years, throughout the world.

Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, business development and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research. Mr. McNee is a Board or Advisory Board member for a number of emerging and established technology companies as well as the Westport Public Library. Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University.

Bernie Meyerson

When Bernie Meyerson dropped a piece of silicon nearly 17 years ago, little did he know he was about to rewrite science history. While cleaning that dropped piece of silicon, Meyerson noticed it reacted much differently than it should, according to descriptions in the textbooks. His subsequent experiments proved that assumptions about silicon, held for more than 30 years, were actually incorrect. Meyerson’s resulting work in silicon germanium technology — SiGe for short — has given new life to the future of chip technology.

Meyerson’s groundbreaking research in growing crystal silicon layers at very low temperatures opened a new door in the quest for faster and more efficient chips. By shortening the chip development process and replacing more expensive and exotic materials with SiGe, Meyerson’s team created smaller and faster chips at a lower price, critical features for successful wireless products.

Meyerson’s pioneering SiGe work made IBM the leading chip provider for the telecommunications industry, and helped form alliances with such giants as Tektronix, Hughes Electronics, National Semiconductor, Northern Telecom and Harris Semiconductor. This industry is estimated to be worth $1.8 billion annually by the year 2005.

Meyerson, once a cabinetmaker, mixes his entrepreneurial spirit, a broad scientific knowledge base, and sales savvy to effect a style as unconventional as his background. With a Ph.D. in physics from New York’s City College, more than 180 published papers and over 40 patents, Meyerson’s work with SiGe is helping to turn the vision of pervasive computing into reality.

Morris Miller

Morris Miller formed Sequel Ventures, LLC in 2005. Sequel invests in and acts as an advisor to numerous start up and established technology companies such as Inventables, Click Forensics, Natuba, and Golfballs.com.

Prior to founding Sequel, Mr. Miller co-founded Rackspace Managed Hosting where he acted as President, co-CEO, and Co-Chairman and helped build the company and its subsidiaries that included ServerBeach. Today Rackspace has more than 30,000 customers and revenues that exceed $500 million.

Previously, Miller formed a start-up company, Curtis Hill Publishing, a legal publishing firm that was the first to publish Texas case law on CD-ROM. Miller also held various positions at Matthews & Branscomb, which is now part of Cox & Smith, San Antonio’s oldest and largest law firm. Miller is an alumnus of Philips Exeter Academy, The University of Texas at Austin, and The Southern Methodist University School of Law.

Antonio Piraino

Antonio Piraino joined Tier1 Research in 2007 as a Senior Research Analyst for the Managed Hosting and Telecom sectors. Prior to joining Tier1, Antonio spent a decade in the Telecommunications, CDN and software development areas. During this time, he was Director of IP & Data services for China Telecom, Telecom Italia and Teleglobe’s e-Business division. His creation of a video streaming distribution network while at Teleglobe achieved success as a "Top 10 Broadband Streaming Implementation for 2001" by the Aberdeen Group. Antonio followed this success up by managing technical business development with Akamai. Antonio started his career in the satellite space, for industry giant INTELSAT, driving developments in the TDMA access technology segment. While still in South Africa, Antonio managed technical support for Derivco, one of the world’s foremost interactive gaming software developers. Following a decade in the Internet space, Antonio was also made a member of The Society of Industry Professionals.

Originally from South Africa, Antonio holds a BSc. from the University of Natal, and is a candidate for Georgetown’s International Executive MBA Program.

Richard Rosenblatt

A serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006 to become the leading distributed social media company.

Richard built, operated, and sold numerous Internet media companies with a combined value of over $1.3 billion. He served as CEO of Intermix Media, Inc., and Chairman of Myspace.com, during which time the public market capitalization grew from $70 million to over $650 million, until acquired by News Corporation. Richard previously founded then sold iMALL, one of the first Internet companies to recognize the power of user-generated content, to Excite@Home for $565 million. Richard is a Southern California native, with a BA from UCLA and JD from USC Law School.

Mike Sharp

Mike has been with Intuit for the last 5 years, beginning with the Architecture and Standards group and currently leading the platform engineering team in Intuit’s IT engineering organization. His team has been chartered with transforming the way Intuit hosts its SaaS offerings. Today Mike will be talking about his team’s efforts to implement the hosting changes necessary to support Intuit’s growth goals in the SaaS space.

Dave Wright

Over a career that spans 3 decades in the computer industry, Dave Wright has been deeply immersed in computing technologies as diverse as multimedia, data processing, decision support systems, content management and internet commerce. Formerly a Director of Architecture for Scient and CTO of Xavient Technologies, Dave is a veteran of distributed computing in both technical and managerial capacities. In his current role as Worldwide Industry Director of SaaS ISVs, Dave is the senior strategist for Microsoft’s marketing efforts with its Hosted ISV channel partners worldwide.