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2008 Conference Speakers Matt Asay
Prior to Alfresco, Asay co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator and architect for the company's shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry's premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entreprenuer-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business. Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively. Evan Bauer
Paul
Brown Paul Brown, Novell Americas Director for the Microsoft Alliance, works within Novell's Global Strategic Partner group. The Novell Microsoft Alliance is responsible for delivering powerful, new cross-platform solutions that help customers make their Linux and Windows environments more interoperable. Paul Brown joined Novell in January 2004 and most recently drove Novell's business growth efforts in the Financial Services Industry. Paul Brown is a native of Ireland and attended Trinity College, Dublin. Head Bubba
Stuart
Cohen
Prior to his post at OSDL, Cohen was vice president at RadiSys Corporation, where his responsibilities included sales, marketing and developing strategic partnerships with leading companies in the technology industry. Prior to RadiSys, Cohen was vice president of worldwide marketing and a corporate officer at InFocus Corporation. Earlier, Cohen spent 17 years with IBM, where he first held senior positions in the US sales & marketing division, and later in the IBM Personal Computer Company and Networking Division. He spent his final six years at IBM with worldwide responsibility for marketing and with business development teams reporting to him in the U.S., Europe, Southeast Asia and China. Cohen holds a B.S. in Quantitative Business Analysis from Arizona State University. Richard Croucher
Citihub are providers of independent advice to Financial Services clients for Infrastructure, Data Center planning and Outsourcing arrangements, with offices in New York and London. Andrew Duncan
Aaron Graves
Aaron is a Brooklyn College graduate with a BS in Computer and Information Science and 30 years in the industry on mainframe systems. Pete
Harris
Before joining A-Team, Mr. Harris worked as an independent consultant, advising technology innovators on how to best position their products and services to serve Wall Street and the financial markets. Prior to working as a technology consultant, Mr. Harris held a number of editorial, publishing and management positions – including Editor-in-Chief and President – at Waters Information Services (now Incisive Media). There, he spearheaded the company’s move into events and online services. Earlier in his career, Mr. Harris specialized in software development. In the mid 1980s, he was a project manager and software architect, working in the Advanced Systems Group of the London Stock Exchange. At the LSE, Mr. Harris built one of the world’s first digital market data distribution systems, dubbed Radix. He has also held a variety of software management and development roles at Intercom Data Systems (now Fidessa), Knight-Ridder Unicom (since merged into Reuters) and the Financial Times. Away from financial technology, Mr. Harris is a board member of GenomeWeb and is also active in the NYC independent music scene, running an Internet radio station, publishing a blog and a monthly newsletter and operating an online gig search website. He also promotes music showcases and assists with the career development of independent artists.
James
Hartley
Previously, as Chief Technologist of SIIA/FISD, Mr. Hartley developed and supported MDDL - Market Data Definition Language - and he facilitated the global conversation on Securities Processing Automation (SPA) including Reference Data and Straight-Through Processing related topics. Previously, Mr. Hartley was employed by Reuters Group (aka Bridge Information Systems) for five years as Catalyst, Office of the Chief Scientist and then Senior Architect for the Chief Architecture Office. At Bridge, Mr. Hartley concentrated on the development of leading edge technologies, including delivery mechanisms and user interface platforms, for the dissemination and representation of quotes, news, charts, and other financial information. Mr. Hartley has had global involvement and responsibilities in furthering new capabilities and products through training and technical leadership. Mr. Hartley has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Computer option) from The Ohio State University and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Duncan Johnston-Watt
Patrick Kerpan
Kerpan brings more than 20 years of software development experience to the role of CTO and was one of CohesiveFT's founders in 2006. Previously he was the CTO of Borland Software Corp which he joined in 2000 through the acquisition of Bedouin, Inc., a company that he founded. Kerpan was also the vice president and general manager of DSP solutions at Borland. Before founding Bedouin, Inc., Kerpan was a senior IT executive responsible for derivatives technology at multiple global investment banks. Kerpan has been an invited speaker at industry gatherings such as VMworld, JavaOne, EclipseCon, EclipseWorld, and Web Services on Wall Street.
Monica Kumar
Prior to joining Oracle more than a decade ago, Ms. Kumar spent five years in various roles within the Product Marketing division at Informix Corp. Ms. Kumar has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Business Administration. Vinod Kutty
Moiz Kohari
Inna
Kuznetsova
In her previous role as Director of Marketing Planning and Execution Ms. Kuznetsova ran the world wide strategy, channels, channel enablement and marketing programs work in IBM System p marketing organization. In May 2007 her mission was expanded to include Business Development for System p as well as Linux Strategy for all IBM company. Prior to joining IBM System p in March of 2006, Ms. Kuznetsova managed an Express Team in IBM Small & Medium Business Group. The team worked on the coordinated marketing strategy and branding efforts for Express, a strategic set of offerings for 100-1,000 employees companies across all IBM product divisions. Earlier in her career Ms. Kuznetsova directed branding initiatives and marketing campaigns world wide for IBM internal start-ups. She was a member of the senior management team that launched one of such start-ups - IBM Life Sciences, developing IT systems for biotech and pharmaceutical research – and brought it to the position of a market leader in less than 3 years. Ms Kuznetsova held various marketing, business development and managerial positions in IBM Corporation since 1993. She has an MS in Mathematics & Computer Science from Moscow State University, Russia, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Tony Luck
Eben Moglen
Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his long, dark period in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society. Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court. He is also a director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Peter
Rodriques Peter has been with Microsoft for 12 years and joined the Intellectual Property and Licensing group in 2005. Peter was on the team that architected the customer and industry roll out plan of the Microsoft/Novell collaboration partnership. In his current role, Peter is responsible for customer execution of the Novell agreement, as well as other strategic agreements with Microsoft’s largest global Financial Services, Retail, and Healthcare customers. Prior to joining the Intellectual Property and Licensing group, Peter was one of the founders of Microsoft’s Financial Services global industry team, and for 9 years led the east region sales organization for that group. Previous to Microsoft, Peter held field sales positions with Wang laboratories and Stratus Computer, and has over 25 years of customer facing experience. Peter graduated with honors from Bentley College with a degree in Marketing and Finance. Stanley
Rose
Prior to joining The Bank of New York, Mr. Rose had completed a 21 year career at Bankers Trust Company, during which he held several senior positions. Mr. Rose was a member and manager of the firm's Technical Architecture group. This group was responsible for the Bankwide Technical Architecture (BTA) that established the standards used for building all applications. In support of the BTA, Mr. Rose presented many seminars and classes to the bank's developers. He chaired the desktop standards and architecture committee, with responsibility for the desktop platform strategy and approving all products, versions and components. He also acted as liaison between the bank's Australia office and central technology in all technology issues. He managed the Distributed Processing Technical Support organization, with engineering and technical support responsibility for all PDP-11 and VAX systems and related procurement and contract issues. Prior to leaving Bankers Trust, he was responsible for Y2K infrastructure policy issues. Before joining Bankers Trust, he established the mini-computer consulting practice of Automated Concepts Inc. in New York City. From 1972 through 1976, Mr. Rose was Engineering Director with Advanced Medical Systems of Wakefield, Mass and Princeton, NJ, a provider of medical information system. Prior to joining AMS, he was the assistant director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science. His responsibilities included development of the ANSI-standard MUMPS database and operating system and infrastructure support for the laboratory’s computer systems. Mr. Rose holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Lawrenceville, NJ with his wife, Louise. His hobbies include his rose garden, photography and travel. He has a grown son and daughter.
Jose Thomas As of July 31st, Jose Thomas will be Senior Sales Executive in the Midwest within the IP&L Customer Advocacy Team at Microsoft. Jose is currently a Solution Specialist within Microsoft’s EPG, responsible for driving sales of the Information Worker Platform. With a 9 year tenure at Microsoft, Jose possesses a unique mix of both sales a technical acumen and will evangelize Microsoft’s evolving message around IP protection and Interoperability to both customers and partners. Raven
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