Linux and Open Source in the Enterprise
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 2008 Conference Speakers

Matt Asay
General Manager, Americas and VP, Business Development
Alfresco

Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay currently manages sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management.

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
Chief Technology Officer
Collaborative Software Initiative

Evan Bauer is chief technology officer at CSI. He brings to the position more than 25 years of experience in the architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance of complex information systems at a variety of leading companies. Previously, Bauer served as chief technology officer of Global Technology Infrastructure at Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to joining CSFB he served as principal architect for both Global Operations and Sales and Trading Technology at Bankers Trust Company. Bauer has also served as a principal research fellow at the Robert Frances Group, and was a founding analyst at the Giga Information Group. Bauer has held additional positions at Control Data Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, First Pennsylvania Bank, International Database Systems and the staff of the United States Senate.

Paul Brown
Microsoft Alliance Executive
Novell

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
Vice President, IT Research and Development
Credit Suisse

The "Head" Bubba has 21 years experience in IT. He has been at Credit Suisse for the past 10 years, and has been a member of IT Research and Development since its inception where he is currently heading up Systems & Network Fabric Research; before joining R&D, was a member of the Investment Banking CTO office working on high availability solutions and started out as a developer for Equity trading floor applications. Prior to Credit Suisse, H.B. was an independent consultant designing systems using object oriented design methodologies. The "Head" Bubba has a degree in Computer Science from the City College of New York.

Stuart Cohen
Chief Executive Officer
Collaborative Software Initiative

Stuart Cohen is the chief executive officer of CSI. A seasoned IT executive with 25 years of international business experience, Cohen is responsible for marshaling CSI's leadership team and IT business and technology leaders to apply open source methodologies to software development and business communities. Cohen most recently served as chief executive officer at Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which merged with the Free Standards Group to form The Linux Foundation. In Cohen's four years as the senior executive at OSDL, he more than tripled the Labs' vendor membership and formed Linux User Advisory Councils (LUACs) in three geographies to bridge vendors, users and the community, helping Linux grow from an emerging market opportunity to a mature market success.

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
Associate Partner
Citihub

Richard is currently an Associate Partner at Citihub where he is focused on helping Financial Services clients create and deploy agile infrastructures. Richard was previously Principal Architect at Microsoft, working within their online services group. Richard was responsible for the architecture of their management platform which manages the world’s largest Windows Server environment using high levels of automation. Richard was previously Chief Architect at Sun Microsystems where he created the Data Centre Reference Architecture program and was also responsible for creating their Commercial Grid Utility offering.

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
SVP, Business Development
Scalent

Before joining Scalent, Andrew was VP, Sales and Business Development for Cassatt Corporation. Andrew has also served as VP, Field Operations and Business Development for Egenera, Inc, where he built the company's global field operations unit. Prior to joining Egenera, Andrew worked for EMC Corporation, where he co-founded an independent operating unit to develop business solutions for content management.

Aaron Graves
SVP Architecture and Technology Engineering
Citigroup

Aaron Graves is a Senior Vice President with Citigroup Architecture and Technology Engineering / Technology Infrastructure, currently engineering the VM/Linux environment for Citigroup globally and managing it for North America. He has been at Citigroup by way of Smith Barney for over 17 years, managing mainframe online and communications systems.

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
President, Americas + Editor @ Large
A-Team Group

Pete Harris is President, Americas and Editor-at-Large at A-Team Group, a publishing, research and consulting company focusing on the deployment of information technologies in the global financial markets.

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
Vice President/Research
A-Team Group

Mr. Hartley, as VP Research for A-Team Group, is charged with developing research products on behalf of A-Team, as well as contributing to consulting projects, events, and other A-Team activities.

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
CTO
Enigmatec Corporation

Duncan is the principal founder of Enigmatec Corporation. He has over twelve  years experience developing technology for the financial services industry specialising in the development of large-scale systems including the global FX and Money Markets data delivery infrastructure for BNP and the Fixed Income analytics infrastructure at UBS. In April 1998 Duncan joined the Reuters Group subsidiary, Instinet Corporation where he led the development of their new Fixed Income brokerage platform that was launched in March 2000 becoming Managing Director, Fixed Income Technology in May 2000. At Instinet he pioneered the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services. In recognition of this work he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award in April 2000. Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University.

Patrick Kerpan
CTO
Cohesive Flexible Technologies

Patrick Kerpan is the chief technology officer (CTO) for Cohesive Flexible Technologies, the provider of Elastic Server On-Demand, enabling customers to build and manage applications for virtualized infrastructure. In this role, Kerpan is responsible for directing the product and technology strategy for CohesiveFT's virtualization product lines.

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
Senior Director, Open Source Product Marketing
Oracle Corporation

Monica Kumar is Senior Director of Open Source Product Marketing at Oracle Corporation, where she leads a team responsible for driving the product marketing, business development, and customer and sales strategies for Linux, virtualization, and Open Source. She is also responsible for strategic marketing partnerships with hardware and software vendors. As an evangelist for Linux, virtualization and open source, Ms. Kumar often represents Oracle in customer, partner and industry events. Prior to her role in the Linux Program Office, Ms. Kumar managed global partner alliances as well as worked in Oracle’s Database Product Marketing and Server Technologies Division in various product marketing and product management roles.

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
Associate Director and Head of R&D, Distributed Computing Group
CME Group

Kutty is responsible for the Distributed Computing Research and Development initiatives, Kernel/Production Support and High Density Computing. He continues to develop expertise in technologies that improve the speed of the electronic trading systems platforms, cut costs through initiatives that reduce the overall support and infrastructure costs to the company, and monitor environment capacity. Kutty joined the exchange in 2002 and has held positions of increasing responsibility in the Technology Division since that time.

Moiz Kohari
Vice President, Engineering, Open Platform Solutions
Novell

Moiz Kohari is Vice President of Engineering for Novell's Open Platform Solutions Group. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Kohari was Founder and CEO of Mission Critical Linux. He has 20 years of experience designing, implementing and supporting operating systems. Mr. Kohari's professional experience also includes Tru64 UNIX development/support at Digital Equipment corporation, and real-time kernel development at Concurrent Computer Corporation.

Inna Kuznetsova
Director, IBM Linux Strategy and
System p Strategy & Business Development
IBM

Ms. Inna Kuznetsova is responsible for IBM Linux strategy across all company brands, and manages a marketing and business development organization, as well as strategy and business development projects in IBM System p. In this role she coordinates cross-company strategy in Linux, acts as IBM spokesperson in the Linux space and ensures rapid response to changes in the market environment. In addition, she also manages IBM System p inorganic growth through partnerships and acquisitions.

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
Linux Maintainer - Itanium Architecture
Intel

Since graduating from Warwick University, Tony Luck has worked on just about every UNIX variant (V6 to SVR4, Genix, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux) on a wide variety of microprocessor architectures (m68k, m88k, ns32k, sparc, pa-risc, Itanium). For the past seven years, Tony has been at Intel and is currently the Linux maintainer for the Itanium architecture.

Eben Moglen
Director and Co-Founder
Software Freedom Law Center

Moglen today is director and co-founder of the Software Freedom Law Center. He is also professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School. Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers.

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
Director, Customer Advocacy and Licensing
Microsoft

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
Managing Director, Technology Risk Management
Bank of New York Mellon

Stan Rose joined The Bank of New York in June 1999 as chief technology architect. He is currently coordinating the merger of the Service Provider Management and Risk Assessment programs of the Bank of New York and Mellon. Most recently, he managed the Risk Management, Data Architecture and E-Business Group, with responsibility for the data architecture and business modeling functions, risk management and corporate website. This group is responsible for the Service Provider Management Risk Assessment function, including compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

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
Senior Sales Executive
Microsoft

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 Zachary
Research Director, Open Source
The 451 Group

Raven Zachary is the Open Source Research Director for The 451 Group, an independent technology industry analyst company. At The 451 Group, he is responsible for the firm's Commercial Adoption of Open Source

(CAOS) Research Service and ongoing open source coverage in the end user, vendor, investment, and development communities. Raven has been involved with open source as an end user, project contributor, journalist, consultant, and industry analyst for over ten years.