Brett has over twenty years of experience in the software industry including CEO and CTO level positions as well as senior level positions in software architecture, engineering, product management, marketing, sales and corporate development. Prior to joining rPath, Brett served as CTO and Vice President of Engineering for Versata, Inc., a provider of business rules management products for enterprise application development which was acquired by Trilogy, Inc. in 2006. A serial entrepreneur, Brett has founded three technology companies including Verve, Inc., an early leader in the embedded business process engine space, which he brought to profitability and sold in late 2000 without external investment. Brett studied Computer Science and Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Deepak Alur is VP of Engineering at JackBe Corporation. He is responsible for the design, architecture and development of JackBe's enterprise mashup products and has 18 years of industry experience in building highly scalable enterprise software systems. Prior to JackBe, Alur spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems in different roles, most recently as principal engineer at Enterprise Web Services practice, where he was instrumental in successfully leading and executing several large-scale mission-critical software projects for customers like eBay and RouteOne. Passionate about building high-quality enterprise systems using pattern-based approaches, Alur is highly experienced in object-oriented design, Java, J2EE, Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture. He is also a co-author of the well-known Java enterprise software best practices book, Core J2EE Patterns.

As Deputy CTO Theo focuses on researching technology trends and the impact they will have on BEA’s technology strategy. During his time at BEA he has been responsible for research on Social Computing, Web2.0, SaaS, AJAX/RIA, etc. Theo has more than 18 years experience in software development, web development, application integration and software architecture & design. He began his career working with mainframe systems, databases, and third & fourth generation programming languages. For the past 13 years he has focused almost exclusively on integration technologies & problems and possesses an in-depth understanding of integration, Services Oriented Architecture, XML and emerging technologies. Prior to joining BEA, Theo spearheaded Software AG’s SOA Competency Center and global SOA Practice in his role as Chief SOA Architect. He was responsible for developing their SOA methodology, best practices and architectures. He also served as the primary SOA expert for press and industry analysts for Software AG.

Toufic Boubez is the co-founder and CTO of Layer 7 Technologies. Prior to co-founding Layer 7 Technologies, he was the chief Web services architect for IBM's Software Group and drove their early XML and Web services strategies. Toufic co-authored the original UDDI API specification. He’s the co-editor of the W3C WS-Policy specification, and is a co-author of the WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation specifications. Toufic is a sought-after presenter and has chaired XML and Web services conferences. In 2002, InfoWorld named Toufic to its “Ones to Watch” list. An author of many publications, one of his most recent books is "Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI."

Kevin Brown is President & CEO of Kidaro. Prior to joining Kidaro, heserved on the original executive team of storage security firm Decru, where he led worldwide marketing, business development, and product management. Brown helped the company achieve #1 market share and global adoption across the financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and government sectors. Following the $272 million acquisition of Decru by Network Appliance, Brown was named to the Network Appliance Information Governance Board, where he helped shape the company's policies relating to compliance, security, and intellectual property protection.

Previously, Brownwas a key member of the founding team of Inktomi, a pioneering infrastructure software firm, where he served in a number of executive positions, including Vice President and General Manager of Inktomi's networking business. He's a Fellow at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and earned his Bachelor's and MBA degrees at UC Berkeley.

Bob Buffone, chief architect, is responsible for platform and tool technology at Nexaweb Technologies, a provider of the Nexaweb Platform enabling enterprise class rich Internet applications (RIAs). He is also a committer on the Apache XAP Project, which provides an extensible framework for declaratively creating AJAX applications. Before Nexaweb, Bob was with Trakus, a technology company focused on tracking sports in real time. A leading expert in user interface design, he is a regular speaker at industry events and has published multiple articles on tool and application development.

David Chappell is vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle Corporation. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He is well known worldwide for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards. As author of the O’Reilly Enterprise Service Bus book, Dave has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. Chappell is also well noted for authoring Java Web Services (O'Reilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (Wrox) and Java Message Service (O'Reilly), and has written numerous articles in leading industry publications

David is a founding partner of Mindbridge Software. In 1998, he left his former company to start an online college textbook sales site. It quickly became clear that the internet textbook site wasn't going to work, so the company began developing revenue-producing websites for organizations including Eli Lilly and Cisco. While developing and delivering these sites, David began to hear a constant theme among his customers they needed an easily installed intranet tool -- so David and his team developed IntraSmart, the Intranet in a Box solution. With the advent of web-based intranet solutions however, it became obvious that Mindbridge needed to expand its horizons. In 2006, David and his new partner, Rick Puckette, began developing an open source security monitoring solution. MindGuard, which is developed in an open source environment and delivered as a SaaS, was released in April, 2007. David's ability to foresee groundbreaking trends in IT have served him well as Mindbridge continues to grow into new realms.

Sujal Das specializes in product management and new market strategies for networking and semiconductor companies. Over a span of 15 years, he has held senior level technical and management roles in companies such as Unisys, AMD, Marvell Semiconductor, and Mellanox Technologies. Sujal has driven internal development initiatives and external alliances to grow business for these companies into adjacent and new consumer and data center networking markets. Currently, Sujal is director of product management at Mellanox Technologies where he is responsible for driving the company's products into mainstream and virtualized server and storage connectivity markets. Sujal has a BS EE from BITS, Pilani, India and MBA from Santa Clara University, California.

Francois Depayras is vice president of marketing for Ensim Corporation. He is responsible for identifying and quantifying Ensim's market opportunities and requirements, forming core value propositions to address them and, communicating that value through a wide range of communication channels. Prior to joining Ensim, he was senior product manager at Critical Path.

John Fallows is a pioneer in the field of rich and highly interactive user interfaces and co-founder of Kaazing. Originally from Northern Ireland, he graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for more than 10 years. Before founding Kaazing, John was a consulting member of the technical staff for server technologies at Oracle. During his last five years at Oracle, he focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate AJAX technologies. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress). In his role as chief technology officer, John formulates Kaazing's vision of creating the best real-time Web framework based on the Java standard. He defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees its development.

Raymond Feng is a senior software engineer with IBM. He is now a committer of Apache Tuscany open source project working on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) runtime. Raymond has been developing SOA platform for more than 5 years and is one of the pioneers implementing SCA. Prior to this role he was a key developer and team lead for WebSphere Process Server products since 2002.

Kyle Gabhart is a subject matter expert specializing in Service-Oriented technologies and currently serves as the Director of SOA Technology for Web Age Solutions, a premier provider of technology education and mentoring. Since 2001 he has contributed extensively to the SOA community as an author, speaker, consultant, and open source contributor.

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Arthur Hitomi is CTO & co-founder of Endeavors Technologies, with expertise in application & data streaming, peer-to-peer and distributed workflow systems. Through involvement with the IETF, he contributed to the development of Internet standards. Art has a BS w/honors and MS from UC Irvine, where heâ€™s currently a PH.D. candidate.

Rami Jaamour is a product manager for SOA Solutions at Parasoft Corporation. Rami has 5 years experience in the SOA and Web services domain. He has published numerous articles and spoken at many SOA related events, such as RSA, EclipseWorld, SOA World, etc.. His experience with SOA includes the development of effective SOA test automation methodologies and the establishment of effective SDLC processes and activities that are essential for successful SOA initiatives. Jaamour has worked with many of Parasoft clients on achieving their goals in having secure, reliable and compliant SOA.

Gordon serves as the Virtualization Evangelist for DataSynapse, and is an industry veteran with twelve years of experience as a systems engineer and solution architect. In his role, Gordon is responsible for communicating the value of products and solutions to various audiences, including customers, partners, prospects and the market at large. He is also a global resource to the field operations team, providing in-depth knowledge of products and expertise in infrastructure software.

Prior to becoming the Virtualization Evangelist, Gordon was director of systems engineering for DataSynapse, working directly with product marketing, and engineering and support. Before joining DataSynapse, Gordon held several positions in systems engineering and solution architecture at Borland Software, Oracle, WebGain, ObjectSpace, Sun Microsystem and ObjectDesign. Gordon has also worked as an adjunct professor of computer science for the University of Massachusetts.

A native of Sweden, Jonas Jacobi has worked in the software industry for more than 15 years with a mission to simplify application development. Prior to founding Kaazing, he worked for Oracle for eight years as a Java EE evangelist and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team. As co-founder and chief executive officer of Kaazing, Jonas sets the company's business and product strategy and oversees all aspects of Kaazing's operations and mission to become the world-wide leader in real-time software. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress).

Sajindra Jayasena is a senior software architect at Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of IT consulting, technology implementation and outsourcing services focused on transforming IT through software platforming. He has led numerous IT architecture, strategy and implementation projects for over five years, and in the recent past has focused on SOA-based enterprise platforms. Sajindra counts over 11 years’ expertise in J2EE/J2SE development and design, including J2SE/J2EE Open Source enterprise platforms. Sajindra is currently the lead technical architect of the Openreach Portal Platform for British Telecom’s new Openreach organization. He has also played senior consultant and architect roles on a number of leading banking and finance projects at Virtusa.

As VP of Sales, Mr Jensen is responsible for defining and executing Thinstall's sales strategy and activities globally. Prior to joining Thinstall, Peter spent 13 years at Oracle and 4 years at Symantec in various positions as Director of Sales and Product Marketing in California, Belgium, Austria, and Denmark. Peter holds an MBA from Copenhagen Business School.

James Kao is a Principal Solution Architect at ClearApp, which provides comprehensive application service management (ASM) for the largest and most complex J2EE-based composite applications. He is responsible for providing consulting and performance tuning services to companies ranging from Silicon Valley startups to large Fortune 500 companies. Prior to ClearApp, James worked for Veritas Software Corp. and The Middleware Company. He holds undergraduate and Master's degrees in computer science, as well as an MBA, from Cornell University.

Steve Kaplan is president of AccessFlow, a consulting firm focused on enterprise virtualization. Prior to co-founding AccessFlow, Kaplan founded and ran By The Bell, an ROI consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations assess the relative value of various enterprise IT strategies. He got started in IT in 1987 by co-founding and running an integration firm, RYNO Technology, which was named the Citrix Partner of the Year for the United States before its acquisition by MTM Technologies in 2001.

Kaplan has co-authored three books on Citrix/Terminal Server—all “Official Guides” published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill. He has also written dozens of IT articles and white papers on subjects such as security, disaster recovery and the effect of regulatory compliance on IT. Most recently, he authored “VirtualMan Begins”, which is actually a white paper disguised as a comic book about virtual infrastructure.

Kaplan helped pioneer and develop Citrix’ ACE Cost Analyzer and assisted Gartner in developing an ROI tool for Citrix. He has held positions on the advisory boards of several industry manufactures including Microsoft. He is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Terminal Server. Kaplan holds a BS in business administration from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Northwestern’s J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Enterprise Architect with over 10 years of industry experience specializing in C/C++, Java and Microsoft Technologies. At WSO2 while contributing to a variety of projects, helps establish overall engineering processes. Previously, has lead a 300+ engineering team, developing many enterprise solutions, providing strategic direction to improve software engineering productivity and software quality.

Madhur Kohli is VP of Engineering at Levanta. He has over 20 years of experience in complex enterprise computing systems architecture and realization, including 17 years at Bell Communications Research and Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, where he directed and contributed to R&D in Policy-Based Management, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Real-Time Databases, IP Telephony and Messaging systems.

He is also widely published, with over 30 refereed papers in research conferences and journals.

Brian Korn is the Director of Marketing for Scalent Systems, a leader in real-time data center management, virtualization, and automation software. Brian has more than 17 years experience in delivering datacenter automation software and server platforms for companies including Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and a number of startups including Terraspring. Brian has a BS from Lehigh University and a MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Raj Krishnamurthy is the Chief Architect of JackBe's Enterprise Mashup Platform and is the innovator behind the Enterprise Mashup Language initiatives at JackBe. He has 15 years of experience in Software engineering & architecture. Prior to JackBe, Raj was the Principal Architect at eBay and was a key member responsible for architecture, design and implementation of the eBay platform. Prior to that, Raj spent several years at Sun Microsystems as Senior Enterprise Architect helping build Java/J2EE solutions for Sun's premier customers incluing eBay, RouteOne, American Express and others.

Gary Lamb has over 24 years of IT experience dating back to MVP systems programming, and including running a security consulting practice for ISS. Gary has helped implement DR solutions for multiple Fortune 1000 clients including designing the branch ATM backup network for one of the nation's largest banks. Gary is currently helping design a virtual DR grid for the State of Nevada.

Peter Linkin has over 20 years of marketing experience with Business Systems and Application Infrastructure. Before Cisco he held senior product management and marketing roles at BEA Systems, HP, Lucent, and Vitria. Mr. Linkin holds degrees in Physics and Business Economics from the University of Surrey, UK.

Paul Lipton is a Senior Architect in the CA Intellectual Property and Standards Group where he specializes in SOA, Web services, standards, open source initiatives, and emerging technologies. He has participated in many standards organizations such as OASIS and the W3C, is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, and a Sun Java Champion. Paul has also been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. He is a highly sought-after author and speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences around the world covering such topics as Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Web services, management/security, governance, Java, .NET, EAI, and emerging technologies.

Guy Loewy has many years of experience in technology leadership and a history of developing innovative, market-driven solutions. At WebLayers, Loewy creates technology that enables companies to govern their SOA implementations. Previously, he was co-founder and Chief Architect at Bridges for Islands, and VP of Product Management at Attunity.

Bob Lozano is a technology industry veteran, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder and chief strategist of Appistry, a software company pioneering the convergence of grid computing, virtualization, and service-oriented architecture. Bob founded and led successful companies PaylinX and Tapestry Computing. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri and an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Sastry Malladi is a technology evangelist with over 18 years of experience in architecting and building scalable distributed computing systems in the areas of application servers, Java/J2EE/Web services, SOA and grid computing. He is currently a principal architect at eBay, driving the SOA architecture for the eBay e-commerce platform. Prior to joining eBay, Malladi was co-founder and CTO of OpenGridSolutions, a founding member and Architect at SpikeSource, and architect at Oracle. He holds a master's degree from I.I.T, Kharagpur, India, and has contributed to and represented in many standards at OMG, JCP, GGF and OASIS.

Miko Matsumura is vice president and deputy CTO, SOA products at webMethods and chair of the OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee. He is well recognized for his work at The Middleware Company, Systinet, and as Chief Java Evangelist for Sun Microsystems. He has an MBA from San Francisco State University and a masters in neuroscience from Yale University.

Albert spent many years working with application integration and monitoring technologies. His professional interest is in IT integration, performance monitoring, service oriented architecture (SOA), ITIL. His personal interests are in financial markets, technology and photography. He currently holds the CTO position at Nastel Technologies.

Shridhar joined iTKO in September 2005. He has an accomplished executive career leading global teams in marketing, sales, implementation, and business development of software applications. Prior to iTKO, he held several key management roles during a 10-year tenure at i2, including CMO, SVP and GM of the High-Tech Business Unit, and VP of eBusiness solutions. His deep understanding of sales management, product management, development and end customer business needs were essential in helping i2 grow from a startup to a world-class enterprise software company. He started his career as an applications engineer for Ford Motor Company. Shridhar holds software and process engineering patents, and earned Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and SUNY Buffalo, respectively.

Michael Peachey is product manager and director of engineering for TIBCO Software's acclaimed AJAX and Rich Internet Application (RIA) toolkit: TIBCO General Interface. A recognized leader in AJAX innovation, Michael co-founded General Interface in 2000 with a vision for applications that performed like desktop GUIs, but ran in the browser. Since 2000 he has overseen the development of AJAX frameworks and solutions that have powered astoundingly rich Web applications in demanding Fortune 500 and U.S. Government deployments. Michael has furthered this vision with TIBCO since the 2004 acquisition of General Interface Corp. He has worked with leading businesses such as American Express, Hearst Publishing, Intuit, and many others to deliver business solutions optimized around Internet technologies since 1992.

Michael Pellegrini is a Principal Architect in the Office of the CTO at Active Endpoints, Inc. For the past 15 years, he has worked for both leading software vendors and IT organizations in moving technology solutions from early-adoption to mainstream acceptance.

Jeff Polick is Regional Manager, APC-MGE. Since joining APC-MGE in 2004, he's been a regional manager responsible for mid-market sales and channel development for the north western states. He has over 30 years of hands-on experience assisting large and small corporations improve their enterprise IT infrastructure availability.

Polick has been a key contributor to various industry conferences related to business continuity, physical infrastructure of information technology, and data center design. His recent experiences include presenting at various Network Computing Data Center events, Digital Power Forum, IT Connect Expo, and CSC Computer Sciences LEF Study Tour.

As a Senior Architect for Verio, Matt Probst is instrumental in the development and deployment of Verio's Linux and FreeBSD Virtual Private Server (VPS) technology. He focuses on performance optimization of individual, clustered and distributed software and services.

Matthew Quinn is vice president, product strategy, TIBCO Software, Inc., responsible for helping shape TIBCO's product vision and developing strategies for executing on that vision. Since joining TIBCO in 2000, he has worked in a variety of key positions, including serving as chief product architect responsible for working with customers on a daily basis to ensure that they received the most out of their business integration investment. As an expert in agents and highly distributed complex systems, Mr. Quinn is often called upon to help customers solve some of their most challenging integration problems. Mr. Quinn is a frequent speaker at industry events. He is currently completing a book on enterprise architectures, and holds a B.S in computer science and a M.S. in information technology from RMIT University.

Marc Rix is a lead architect at SAIC, focused on accelerating key business activities through SOA and BPM. He has been building enterprise-scale integration solutions for the past 10 years and specializes in increasing competitive advantage for large technology companies. He is a regular writer and speaker on topics related to building organizational agility through innovation.

Nicolas Robbe is VP of Product marketing at ILOG, a leader in business rules management system (BRMS) and optimization software. Robbe also manages strategic marketing for the company and has over 15 years of experience in the fields of business rules technologies and optimization, and their application to specific-industry problems. Prior to joining ILOG in 1995, Robbe spent several years in software engineering positions at Siemens and Bull Computers. He attended the University of Colorado and the Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France, where he graduated with a MS in Computer Science.

Benjamin Rudolph leads SWsoft's global communication, awareness and public outreach efforts. He joined SWsoft in 2005 as Parallels' first US-based employee, where he was responsible for launching the company's portfolio of desktop virtualization solutions. Prior to SWsoft, he managed corporate communications for Jinfonet, a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, and for Aptagen, a biotech company focused on custom gene and protein design.

Rudolph has served as an on-air analyst for BBC World News and is regularly quoted as a virtualization expert in USAToday, Time, The Financial Times, PC World, MacWorld, Wired, CNET and InformationWeek. He blogs at http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/.

Rakesh is a lead developer for Oracle Fusion Middleware Integration Platform with 7 years of experience in integration platform technologies. He has filed patents on the area of automated schema mapping. Lately he is researching and blogging on usage of mashup technologies for enterprise integration. He was also part of OASIS BPEL 2.0 technical committee. Rakesh holds a bachelor degree from IIT Kharagpur with concentration in Computer Science & Engineering.

Brian Stevens is CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat. He has over 20 years of enterprise engineering experience in UNIX and Linux technologies, including work as a developer on the first commercial release of the X Window System. Since joining Red Hat's senior management team in 2001, Stevens has been critical to the company's enterprise operating system, storage, and clustering strategies. He now leads the Emerging Technologies group.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Stevens served as CTO of Mission Critical Linux, where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development, and clustering products. Stevens also spent 14 years at Digital/Compaq as a Senior Member of Technical Staff, where he was responsible for the architecture and development of the Tru64 OS and clustering products, as well as the inaugural release of Digital's TruCluster product. Stevens received his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of New Hampshire and his M.S. in Computer Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Ian Thain is a senior technical evangelist / software engineer in the Worldwide Marketing Organization of Sybase, Inc. For over six years, he has worked with many engineering teams, including the Sybase WorkSpace product, and is a dedicated technical expert, continually working with Sybase's key partners and clients to enhance the capabilities of the solutions that Sybase can offer to its customers. Ian regularly addresses technical audiences all over the world, providing technical knowledge. He also writes whitepapers, demos and articles for various Sybase products and is published in journals such as PowerBuilder Developer’s Journal from SYS-CON Media. Ian also blogs at http://ianthain.pbdjmagazine.com/, http://ianthain.wsj2.com/, and http://blogs.sybase.com/bloggers/IanThain.aspx.

Roland Wartenberg is Director of Virtualization Strategy, SAP. He started his IT career as a consultant with Digital Equipment from 1991 to 1997 and 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 Wartenberg 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 Wilson is an Enterprise Architect with Amerisure Mutual Insurance. He has been in the IT industry for 30 years and has worked as a consultant for a number of companies in the insurance, finance, transportation, software and health industries in the United States and Europe. This experience has included system development, database administration, and for the last decade architectural strategy, design and implementation.

Wilson started with Amerisure Insurance in 2004 as their first Enterprise Architect and has acted as a change agent in that organization to bring about significant change in moving the company forward with a comprehensive virtualization strategy. The early and tangible success of these efforts has created a momentum for driving this strategy broader and deeper across the organization.

Thomas Wong is VP of Engineering at Attune Systems. He has more than 25 years of engineering and management experience in both early-stage and established technology companies. Prior to joining Attune, Wong founded Frezweb.com, a Web2.0 file system technology company. Previously, he was the co-founder and VP of Engineering at NeoPath Networks, a file virtualization vendor, where he built and led the NeoPath Engineering function from the ground-up, delivering alpha, beta and two successful product launches on schedule. He has also worked in various engineering and management capacities at Ingrian Systems, Sun Microsystems, Healtheon/WebMD, Tandem Computers, and Wang Laboratories.

At Ingrian Systems, Wong designed and implemented the switching software for the Ingrian Level 7 Secure Content Switch appliance. At Sun, he the project lead in the SunOS file system (ufs) group and also wrote the CDROM file system (hsfs) for SunOS and Solaris. He was also a project editor for the European Computer Manufacturers Association TC 15 committee and a project editor for the International Standards Organization SC 15 committee (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC15). Tom wrote the European Standard (ECMA 168) and the International Standard (ISO/IEC 13490) on recordable compact disk format. In addition, he has twenty U.S. patents issued along with ten published U.S. Patent applications in the file system and computer networking areas. Tom received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and engineering from M.I.T. and a Master's degree in Software Engineering from the Wang Institute at Boston University.

John Woolbright is Senior Vice President and CTO of Synovus Financial, Inc. He has over 15 years of experience in technology and the financial services industry. His experience includes Card Processing, Branch Automation, ATM, Items Processing, Core Bank Processing, Distributive Systems and E-Commerce Solutions. In addition to his current responsibilities overseeing network operations, information security and application development, Woolbright is responsible for establishing the technology architecture and roadmap that will allow flexible and business driven integration of our customer facing and non-customer facing systems.