David Greschler is the director of virtualization strategy, System Center division at Microsoft Corp. He is a director of System Center marketing, and is focused on virtualization management tools for the desktop and datacenter. David came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was co-founder of Softricity, developers of SoftGrid and the originator and leading vendor of the application virtualization industry. With more than 20 years of pioneering experience in the computer field, David has held various positions at the MIT Media Lab and The Computer Museum, and holds numerous virtualization patents.

Jeff Nick, SVP and CTO of EMC, joined the company in September 2004 from IBM, where he held the distinguished title of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor that IBM bestows on its IT innovators. During his 24-year career with IBM, he filed more than 80 inventions and holds more than 50 U.S. patents in computer systems technology. Most recently, Jeff was vice president, architecture and design, eBusiness On Demand, responsible for the design and architecture of IBM's On Demand initiative. He also led IBM's grid computing strategy, responsible for the definition and evolution of IBM's Open Grid Services Architecture. Jeff began his IBM career as a software engineer focusing on the System 390 MVS operating system, and he eventually became the lead architect for the S/390 z-series platform and eServer initiative. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Marist College with a BS in finance.

Dr Hal Stern is Distinguished Engineer & VP, Global Systems Engineering, Sun Microsystems. In his more than 13 years with Sun, Hal has been CTO, Sun Services; chief architect of Sun Professional Services; CTO for the Sun ONE (iPlanet) infrastructure products division; and the chief technologist of Sun's Northeast U.S. Sales Area. He has done architecture, performance, and reliability work for Major League Baseball, mlb.com, several financial information and transaction clearing networks, and defined next-generation interactive services as part of Sun's technology partnership with the National Hockey League. He is listed as inventor or co-inventor on three networking technology patents and has co-authored technical books on networking and high availability techniques. Before joining Sun, Hal developed molecular modeling software for a Boston area start-up company and was on the research staff at Princeton University.

Jonathan Clark, Founder, CTO & President of Thinstall. Mr. Clark co-founded the video game development company Crack dot Com in 1994, which produced the original PC and Mac titles Abuse and Golgotha and ported Doom and Quake to Unix platforms. He founded Thinstall in 1999 originally focusing on virtualization and copy protection technology solutions for software publishers. The first version of Thinstall for application virtualization was released in 2001 after several years of R&D. Mr. Clark continues the development of Thinstall technology for the enterprise and participates in the company's business direction.

Kevin Epstein is the VP Products for Scalent Systems with a degree in high-energy nuclear physics and a Stanford MBA, several technology patents in his name, founding experience at three successful ventures, and more than 15 subsequent years of experience in guerrilla marketing tactics at such software industry high-flyers as Netscape, RealNetworks, Inktomi, and VMware.

Matt Haynos is the product manager for IBM's WebSphere Extended Deployment. Before that, he was on IBM's grid computing team since its inception as an emerging business opportunity; he had various responsibilities covering a broad range of initiatives and strategies related to building IBM's grid computing business. He has held a variety of technical and managerial positions within IBM in the application development, program direction, and business development areas. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science/applied mathematics and cognitive science, with honors, from the University of Rochester; and a master's degree in computer science from the University of Vermont.

Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, has over 15 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.

Tim Pacileo is an Executive Consultant specializing in IT strategy; architecture design; sourcing; enterprise application selection, implementation and oversight; business continuity planning; software and hardware evaluation and selection; and infrastructure design, focusing on data center and server consolidation, storage area networks (SANs). Prior to joining Compass, he was with Gartner Consulting.

Alessandro Perilli has been an evangelist in the virtualization industry since 2003, through his popular blog virtualization.info. As an industry analyst his work is mostly focused on observing and reporting on new and ongoing market trends, and maintaining a tight relationship with consolidated vendors and emerging startups. Alessandro has a parallel focus in the computer security industry, in which he has been active for more than 10 years, achieving certifications such as the CISSP, and collecting awards such as the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

Christopher Poelker is VP Enterprise Solutions, FalconStor. Prior to this, he was a storage architect at HDS. Before HDS, Chris was a lead storage architect at Compaq, where he built the sales/service engagement model for Compaq StorageWorks, and trained VARs and Compaq ES/PS on StorageWorks. His certifications include MCSE, MCT, MASE, A+ certified.

Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering, joined Double-Take Software as a Product Manager in April 2005. Promoted to director of solutions engineering in January 2006, Mr. Roudebush is Double-Take’s chief evangelist. Mr. Roudebush has over 11 years of IT industry experience and holds multiple industry certifications including Novell Master Certified Network Engineer (MCNE), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has also been named a Microsoft MVP Award winner for 2006.

Raghu Thiagarajan is responsible for directing TIBCO Software's SOA strategy and products across the company’s existing business integration and emerging SOA governance and deployment product families. He has 16 years experience in the software industry, and has held positions in engineering, product management and product strategy at Sybase, CrossWorlds Software and IBM. He is primarily interested in the convergence of integration, data access and application developer technologies as SOA architectures evolve.

Alex Vasilevsky brings more than 20 years of extensive engineering, technology leadership and management experience to Virtual Iron Software. As a co-founder, he has been instrumental in defining and creating the technology and architecture behind Virtual Iron, and holds five U.S. patents for his innovative work in parallel processing.

Roland Wartenberg started his IT career as a consultant with Digital Equipment from 1991 to 1997. He has been with SAP since 1997. He was a development manager with SAP Markets, Palo Alto, from 2000 to 2002. From 2003 to 2005 he lent his multiple skills to the position of product manager for Adaptive Computing with SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. At the end of 2005 Roland took over new responsibilities as an evangelist for SAP's Platform Ecosystem at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, California. He has been working on SAP's virtualization strategy since October 2006. He has made more than 200 public presentations during the past few years. He holds a Dipl.Ing. in electrical engineering.

Jack Zubarev is a founder and COO, overseeing worldwide sales and operations at SWsoft, maker of virtualization and automation software. Jack has helped build SWsoft from its start to today with more than 600 employees. Since 1999, he has held leadership roles including sales engineering, product marketing, and business development.


Jeffrey M. Nick

Session: Keynote: Service-Oriented Infrastructure in a Web 2.0, Virtualized World				Jeff Nick, SVP and CTO of EMC, joined the company in September 2004 from IBM, where he held the distinguished title of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor that IBM bestows on its IT innovators. During his 24-year career with IBM, he filed more than 80 inventions and holds more than 50 U.S. patents in computer systems technology. Most recently, Jeff was vice president, architecture and design, eBusiness On Demand, responsible for the design and architecture of IBM's On Demand initiative. He also led IBM's grid computing strategy, responsible for the definition and evolution of IBM's Open Grid Services Architecture. Jeff began his IBM career as a software engineer focusing on the System 390 MVS operating system, and he eventually became the lead architect for the S/390 z-series platform and eServer initiative. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Marist College with a BS in finance.


Dr. Hal Stern

Session: Introductory Keynote by Sun's Distinguished Engineer & VP, Global Systems Engineering				Dr Hal Stern is Distinguished Engineer & VP, Global Systems Engineering, Sun Microsystems. In his more than 13 years with Sun, Hal has been CTO, Sun Services; chief architect of Sun Professional Services; CTO for the Sun ONE (iPlanet) infrastructure products division; and the chief technologist of Sun's Northeast U.S. Sales Area. He has done architecture, performance, and reliability work for Major League Baseball, mlb.com, several financial information and transaction clearing networks, and defined next-generation interactive services as part of Sun's technology partnership with the National Hockey League. He is listed as inventor or co-inventor on three networking technology patents and has co-authored technical books on networking and high availability techniques. Before joining Sun, Hal developed molecular modeling software for a Boston area start-up company and was on the research staff at Princeton University.


Jonathan Clark

Session: Application Virtualization: Instant Migration to Vista, Fast Delivery, Secure Access, Side-by-Side Deployments				Jonathan Clark, Founder, CTO & President of Thinstall. Mr. Clark co-founded the video game development company Crack dot Com in 1994, which produced the original PC and Mac titles Abuse and Golgotha and ported Doom and Quake to Unix platforms. He founded Thinstall in 1999 originally focusing on virtualization and copy protection technology solutions for software publishers. The first version of Thinstall for application virtualization was released in 2001 after several years of R&D. Mr. Clark continues the development of Thinstall technology for the enterprise and participates in the company's business direction.


Kevin Epstein

Session: Adaptive Infrastructure - Dead Bare Metal to Live Connected Servers in Five Minutes or Less				Kevin Epstein is the VP Products for Scalent Systems with a degree in high-energy nuclear physics and a Stanford MBA, several technology patents in his name, founding experience at three successful ventures, and more than 15 subsequent years of experience in guerrilla marketing tactics at such software industry high-flyers as Netscape, RealNetworks, Inktomi, and VMware.


Matt Haynos

Session: Do I need anything else besides hardware virtualization?				Matt Haynos is the product manager for IBM's WebSphere Extended Deployment. Before that, he was on IBM's grid computing team since its inception as an emerging business opportunity; he had various responsibilities covering a broad range of initiatives and strategies related to building IBM's grid computing business. He has held a variety of technical and managerial positions within IBM in the application development, program direction, and business development areas. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science/applied mathematics and cognitive science, with honors, from the University of Rochester; and a master's degree in computer science from the University of Vermont.


Andrew Hillier

Session: The Next Big Challenge: Managing the Virtualized Data Center				Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, has over 15 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.


Tim Pacileo

Session: Misconceptions of Virtualization				Tim Pacileo is an Executive Consultant specializing in IT strategy; architecture design; sourcing; enterprise application selection, implementation and oversight; business continuity planning; software and hardware evaluation and selection; and infrastructure design, focusing on data center and server consolidation, storage area networks (SANs). Prior to joining Compass, he was with Gartner Consulting.


Alessandro Perilli

Session: Virtualization: State of the Union				Alessandro Perilli has been an evangelist in the virtualization industry since 2003, through his popular blog virtualization.info. As an industry analyst his work is mostly focused on observing and reporting on new and ongoing market trends, and maintaining a tight relationship with consolidated vendors and emerging startups. Alessandro has a parallel focus in the computer security industry, in which he has been active for more than 10 years, achieving certifications such as the CISSP, and collecting awards such as the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).


Chris Poelker

Session: VM Ware and Storage Virtualization – A Comprehensive Approach to Manage, Allocate, and Protect Virtual (VMware) Data				Christopher Poelker is VP Enterprise Solutions, FalconStor. Prior to this, he was a storage architect at HDS. Before HDS, Chris was a lead storage architect at Compaq, where he built the sales/service engagement model for Compaq StorageWorks, and trained VARs and Compaq ES/PS on StorageWorks. His certifications include MCSE, MCT, MASE, A+ certified.


Bob Roudebush

Session: Disaster Recovery 2.0 (DR 2.0)				Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering, joined Double-Take Software as a Product Manager in April 2005. Promoted to director of solutions engineering in January 2006, Mr. Roudebush is Double-Take’s chief evangelist. Mr. Roudebush has over 11 years of IT industry experience and holds multiple industry certifications including Novell Master Certified Network Engineer (MCNE), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has also been named a Microsoft MVP Award winner for 2006.


Raghu Thiagarajan

Session: How to Simplify Heterogeneous SOA: Service Virtualization				Raghu Thiagarajan is responsible for directing TIBCO Software's SOA strategy and products across the company’s existing business integration and emerging SOA governance and deployment product families. He has 16 years experience in the software industry, and has held positions in engineering, product management and product strategy at Sybase, CrossWorlds Software and IBM. He is primarily interested in the convergence of integration, data access and application developer technologies as SOA architectures evolve.


Alex Vasilevsky

Session: The New Economics of Virtualization				Alex Vasilevsky brings more than 20 years of extensive engineering, technology leadership and management experience to Virtual Iron Software. As a co-founder, he has been instrumental in defining and creating the technology and architecture behind Virtual Iron, and holds five U.S. patents for his innovative work in parallel processing.


Roland Wartenberg

Session: Virtualization Leverages Enterprise SOA				Roland Wartenberg started his IT career as a consultant with Digital Equipment from 1991 to 1997. He has been with SAP since 1997. He was a development manager with SAP Markets, Palo Alto, from 2000 to 2002. From 2003 to 2005 he lent his multiple skills to the position of product manager for Adaptive Computing with SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. At the end of 2005 Roland took over new responsibilities as an evangelist for SAP's Platform Ecosystem at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, California. He has been working on SAP's virtualization strategy since October 2006. He has made more than 200 public presentations during the past few years. He holds a Dipl.Ing. in electrical engineering.


Jack Zubarev

Session: Deep Dive into OS Virtualization Technology				Jack Zubarev is a founder and COO, overseeing worldwide sales and operations at SWsoft, maker of virtualization and automation software. Jack has helped build SWsoft from its start to today with more than 600 employees. Since 1999, he has held leadership roles including sales engineering, product marketing, and business development.