Web Services, Service Oriented Architectures, SaaS, Web 2.0,
ESBs, Java, .Net, XML and AJAX for the Financial Markets

 2008 Conference Speakers

Bill Adiletta
President
TekFinancial Solutions

William F. Adiletta is the president of TekFinancial Solutions, a division of Tekmark Global Solutions LLC. TekFinancial Solutions offers specialized consulting to the financial services community including Enterprise Integration, Electronic Trading Systems Development, Wealth Management, SOX Compliance, Managed IT Services, Network Security, and FIX Integration, building on Tekmark Global Solutions strengths.

Mr. Adiletta has over 25 years of experience leading some of the most significant innovations in the Financial and Telecommunications industries; and is a recognized expert in global trading systems and large-scale software development.

Prior to his current role at TekFinancial, Mr. Adiletta was the CIO of Global Crossing responsible for consolidating the technology infrastructure of its global acquisitions and centralizing worldwide information systems and controls. Upon Global Crossing’s acquisitions of IX Net and IPC Mr. Adiletta was CTO for both organizations.

Prior to his positions with Global Crossing, Mr. Adiletta was president of the Capital Markets division of OptiMark Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of trade order matching facilities for global securities markets and exchanges. He originally joined OptiMark as the CTO and developed three complete exchange systems at the Pacific Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the Osaka Stock Exchange.

Previously, Mr. Adiletta was President and COO of Market Vision, a leader in Electronic Trading Systems for Equity, Fixed Income, and Foreign Exchange as well as real-time middleware.

Bill Adiletta earned a B.A. in Physics from the University of Connecticut, and an M.S. in Physics from DePaul University in Chicago.

Marc Adler
Senior Vice President, Equities and Head of Complex Event Processing
Citigroup

Marc started out in Wall Street in 1986 as one of the first Windows developers, consulting for Goldman Sachs. In between running Magma systems, a successful software company, and being involved in multiple start-ups, Marc has consulted for companies like Wachovia, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Citigroup, and others. He is currently leading the new Complex Event Processing effort at Citigroup, and is always on the lookout for new ways to make money for the business. You can read his musings at magmasystems.blogspot.com.

René Bonvanie
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing,
  Partner Programs and Online Services
Serena Software

René Bonvanie brings nearly 25 years of executive management and marketing experience in the enterprise software industry to Serena. At Serena, Mr. Bonvanie’s responsibilities include developing business and marketing strategies to consolidate Serena’s position as the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM) and capitalize on future trends in application development, such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web services, and Software-as-a-Service. He also leads Serena’s efforts to develop partner relationships and go-to-market activities for new products and services.

Before joining Serena, Mr. Bonvanie served as SVP and GM of AppExchange and Developer Relations at salesforce.com. Prior to that, Mr. Bonvanie served as senior vice president of global marketing at SAP, chief marketing officer at Business Objects, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at VERITAS Software Corporation, vice president of product marketing at Oracle Corporation, and senior sales and marketing positions at Ingres.

Mr. Bonvanie holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He lives with his wife Marie and three sons in Foster City, CA.

Lance Braunstein
Managing Director - Field, Application and Data Services
Morgan Stanley

Lance Braunstein manages infrastructure and application development organizations for Morgan Stanley’s Retail Brokerage. His development responsibilities include the financial adviser workstation, client portal and call center applications. Lance is also responsible for web infrastructure, middleware, developer tools, quality assurance, data warehousing, data modeling, data reporting and the software development lifecycle. He previously served as Executive Director of Infrastructure Engineering and Risk for the Retail Brokerage and Executive Director for Infrastructure Operations at Morgan Stanley Online. Lance was also the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Morgan Stanley Online and acting CISO in Retail. Lance currently manages Morgan Stanley’s team with the help of 500 technologists.

Before joining Morgan Stanley, Lance was Managing Partner and Co-founder of Systems Engineering Group. He played a leading role in establishing the firm as an innovator in web and security consulting to Fortune 500 companies.

Lance received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, an MS in Physics from Colorado State University, and BA in Mathematics from the University of Rochester. He has been a technical adviser to several companies including Cisco, Collation, Actona, and Intruvert.

Sandy Carter
Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing
IBM

Sandy Carter is Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing for IBM Corporation, leader of a marketing organization with over 7 industry marketing awards in 2007, and author of the newest SOA technology book called, “The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0”.

Sandy is responsible for driving IBM’s cross-company, worldwide SOA marketing initiatives, and in this role, helps oversee the company’s SOA marketing strategy across software, services and hardware and sets the company’s SOA marketing direction. In addition, she directs SOA messaging and content, leading a global team in driving customer demand for IBM and IBM Business Partner SOA solutions.

Sandy’s track record speaks for itself: 4Q2006 marked the fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit WebSphere Family growth, and the WebSphere brand has won seven industry awards. In addition, she has helped IBM’s SOA initiatives consistently earn third party validation and top leadership rankings by analysts and pundits alike, as evidenced by these reports: reporting on 3Q 2006 results, Mark Loughridge, Senior VP and CFO, IBM Corporation, said: "This quarter, our software results once again reflected strong demand for products deploying Services Oriented Architectures.", and Dwight B. Davis, from Ovum said, "IBM's approach to the SOA market is more comprehensive and more coherent than any other vendor's plan at the moment.", while Barrons reported "SOA has become a buzzword for the growing trend throughout the IT industry to make computer systems more flexible and adaptable to changing business needs. IBM sells more than three times as much in SOA products and services as anyone else.”

Sandy is a frequent speaker at industry events sponsored by Forrester, Gartner Group, IDC, Women in Technology (WITI), and InfoWorld magazine and has the leading Blog in the industry for SOA. Her professional associations include member and winner of the Best Speaker Award, the Marketing Focus Advisory Council; Board Member of the Grace Hopper Industry Advisory Committee; and membership in Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Inner Circle. She is a recipient of the 2005 AIT United Nations Member of the Year award for helping developing countries in the area of technology. Under Sandy’s leadership, IBM SOA was recognized by the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals with 4 MarCom Awards for Excellence in Marketing Communications: 1)SOA launch movie, 2)INNOV8 BPM Game, 3) SOA e-newsletter, 4)IMPACT 2007. IBM SOA also received the Award of Merit from the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) for the videos “SOA launch movie” and the “INNOV8 BPM Flight Simulator Movie Trailer”, and was awarded the 2007 Platinum Ava Award for web based multimedia production for the SWAP’d Video (www.soalaunch.com). In addition, the INNOV8 BPM flight simulator game movie trailer was a finalist in the area of short media video in the 2007 OMMA Awards. Sandy is an active member of Women in Technology and the Co-Lead IBM Partnership Executive at Duke University.

Sandy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in math and computer science from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard, and is fluent in eight programming languages. For more information, visit Sandy’s blog at:
http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/SOA_Off_the_Record

Joe Cleaver
Platform Strategy Advisor
Microsoft

Joe Cleaver is a Platform Strategy Advisor, focusing on Financial Services in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. In this role, Joe is responsible for articulating the business value of .NET platform adoption and helping key customers in early adoption of new and upcoming Microsoft technologies. Joe also helps to understand current issues and trends that top tier Financial Services customers are contemplating, and working closely with other groups within Microsoft, helps to bridge those issues and trends with Microsoft platform solutions.

Joe joined Microsoft in 2006 after nearly 10 years in Financial Services, and has held senior consultant as well as officer roles in top tier Financial Services Firms. Joe’s experience includes strategic analysis and management in areas such as anti-money laundering compliance IT, investment banking IT, and software quality to name a few.

Stephane Dubois
CEO
Xignite

Stephane Dubois was among the first entrepreneurs to monetize packaged financial web services products in 2003, and has grown his completely web-driven business organically to attract 200 customers in only three years. Dubois is a visionary who has held senior product management positions at Advent Software, Walker Interactive Systems, and Oracle Corporation. Dubois holds an M.S. from M.I.T. Sloan and both M.S./B.S. degrees from the MBA Institute in Paris.

Kelly Emo
SOA Product Marketing Manager
HP Software

Kelly Emo, Director of SOA software product marketing at Hewlett-Packard is a seasoned executive with many years experience in high-tech, mostly in software infrastructure and networking technology areas with a focus on product management, business development and product marketing. Her first several years were with Hewlett-Packard focused on product management and strategy around HP-UX networking technologies, distributed computing middleware, network and systems management and application development tools. Kelly helped to launch the HP Enterprise Java program owning product management for Java for HP-UX and also took a break from product management and planning for a few years to manage corporate communications for HP OpenView and HP Telecommunications in the early '90's.

Following her initial career with HP, in the "dot-com" days of the year 2000, Kelly joined a newly funded startup in the Software as a Service space as Director of Business Development and later moving into the role of Director of Marketing at Jamcracker, Inc. For the last four years, Kelly has worked at BEA Systems, responsible for launching BEA's Enterprise Service Bus and more recently as Director of Integration Product Marketing, spanning integration technologies including EAI, ESB and BPM.

Kelly has a B.S. in computer science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and a M.B.A. from University of Santa Clara.

Chor-Ching Fan
Vice President, Product Marketing
JackBe

Chor-Ching leads Product Management, Strategic Product Marketing, and Industry Solutions for Presto, JackBe’s Enterprise Mashup Software Platform. Chor-Ching joins JackBe from RiskMetrics (formerly ISS) where he was responsible for launching global proxy voting solutions on ISS’ Governance Analytics service platform. Prior to ISS, Chor-Ching spent eight years with GE Information Services, graduating from GE’s Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP) and managing key CRM and ERP projects as a Six Sigma Blackbelt. Chor-Ching graduated from Virginia Tech with Bachelor’s degrees in both Accounting Information Systems and Finance and is pursuing his MBA at Johns Hopkins University.

Hugh Grant
Director, Global IT Research and Development
Credit Suisse

Hugh Grant is a Director in the Global IT Research and Development group at Credit Suisse, with responsibility for fostering and managing innovation and strategy around software development technologies, methodologies, and tools (SOA and Service-Oriented software delivery).

Prior to Credit Suisse, he was co-founder and CTO of Cape Clear Software, and Chief Architect of IONA Technologies. He has also worked for Oracle Corporation and Fujitsu/ICL in senior technical roles.

Mr. Grant holds a Master's degree in Computation from Oxford University, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin.

Frank D. Greco
Senior Architect
Lehman Brothers

Frank is a senior architect in the Fixed Income Technology and Analytics (FTA) division of Lehman Brothers. He is currently responsible for the coordination of architecture and technology within the FTA division. One of his major tasks is identifying significant tools, innovative designs, effective components and viable strategies of next-generation production systems particularly for analytics.

Frank has over 15 years of experience in application development in the financial services sector and is a well-known member of the local technology community.

Rodney Greenwald
Senior Vice President
SunGard Kiodex

Mr. Greenwald currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Market Data at SunGard Kiodex, Inc., managing sales across the Americas and Asia Pacific regions as well as Kiodex’s market data business. Previously, he was a portfolio manager at two hedge funds and ran a long/short equity as well as a volatility dispersion portfolio. Prior to these positions, Mr. Greenwald was a vice president trading and marketing commodity derivatives at Citigroup, where he was responsible for managing the Bank’s global oil trading books in addition to marketing derivative products in energy and other commodities.

In addition, Mr. Greenwald was a civil engineer for several years and responsible for building inspections, roadway designs, sewage studies and other engineering projects. He holds an MBA with a finance concentration from the Pennsylvania State University and a BS in civil engineering from the University of Hartford.

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.

Matt Jacobson
Vice President of Client Services
Connotate

Matt leads the conception, filtering and execution of Connotate’s services efforts for all clients and prospects.

With over twenty years of high tech industry experience, and executive roles in two, Fast 500 companies, Matt has a wealth of knowledge regarding the technology and business life cycles. His experience includes leading software product businesses, consulting businesses, R&D organizations, customer support and instituting project management best practices. Prior to starting his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Matt received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors from the Pennsylvania State University and a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.

James Leman
Principal, Head of Capital Markets
Westwater Corp.

James T. Leman is currently a principal and Head of Capital Markets at Westwater Corp., a management and technology company, after having spent thirty four years involved in Global Electronic Trading and External Connectivity, Global Middle Office Operational Management and Regulatory positions with Citigroup, HSBC and the New York Stock Exchange along with their affiliates.

Jim has thorough in-depth skills in all financial and operational aspects of the brokerage industry and led the firm and the industry in the creation and development of revolutionary technologies for equity trading and managing the processing of securities transactions. Recognized as one of the top technology innovators of the ‘90s by Wall Street & Technology Magazine. Jim’s responsibilities included supervision of over 24 Electronic Trading staff and over 260 Middle Office employees globally for customer electronic trading and post execution support respectively. His Connectivity teams in US, UK, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia oversaw trading and connectivity with over 1200 customers. His Middle Office teams in the same location support sales/trading and trader post execution processing teams, pursue STP objective and elimination of manual handling of trades through application of technology along with strong customer relationship building activities.

Jim is a Founding member of the FIX (Financial Information Exchange) Industry committee and he led the global creation of the FIX committee in Europe, Japan, and Asia. Jim was a founding member of Thompson/DTCC Omgeo (US) Advisory committee and led the development of the Oasys and Oasys Global Middle Office Application development effort. Jim was a lead Participant in internal committees to analyze trading processes and design the Equity desk trading systems (EDTS) still in use today. Also designed and installed the program trading desk system (PTMS) still in current use today.

Before joining the NYSE Jim served 3 ½ years in the US Army with tours in Germany and Vietnam as a rotary wing aviator. Jim resigned as a Captain in 1972. Jim holds a BS Accounting St. Peter’s College 1968 and an MBA Finance Fordham University 1975.

Barry Lynn
Chairman & CEO
3Tera

Barry X Lynn is Chairman and CEO, 3Tera, Inc. Prior to joining 3Tera Barry founded Be eXceL management, inc., a management consulting firm, incubating and serving early stage technology companies. Additionally, in 2000, he joined Shoreline Venture Management, an early stage venture capital firm, as Director and General Partner.

Prior to that, Barry had a long career in the investment and information technology arenas, with Chemical Bank (JP Morgan Chase), Bank of America and Wells Fargo where he was executive vice president and head of Investment Operations before becoming chief information officer (CIO) of Wells Fargo and Company, as well as president of Wells Fargo Technology Services. During that time he built the first Internet online banking system in the world. He was also president of Wells Fargo Securities Clearance Corp. and founder and president of Wells Fargo Securities, Inc.

Barry has also served as Chairman and CEO of PRIVACI, a company providing anonymous purchasing and personalized services for consumers on the Internet, and Director of publicly traded software company, Merant PLC, prior to its acquisition by Serena.

Jonathan Marsh
Director of Mashup Technologies
WSO2

Prior to joining WSO2, Jonathan spent almost 10 years at Microsoft where he was the primary representative for W3C standards Working Groups in the XML and Web Services area, including the Web Services Description (currently serving as chair), Web Services Addressing, XSL, XML Core, XML Linking, DOM, and the Advisory Committee. He also has been active in the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group and several OASIS Technical Committees.

Jonathan has served as editor of W3C Recommendations including XInclude, XML Base, xml:id and the XPointer Framework, as well as editor of the W3C Member Submissions WSDL 1.1 Binding Extension for SOAP 1.2 and the SOAP 1.1 Binding for MTOM 1.0.

He has been involved in the development of a number of technologies that have proven invaluable to the industry, such as XML 1.0, XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0, the XML Information Set, WS-Addressing 1.0, WSDL 2.0, and the WS-I Basic Profile.

Jonathan is trained in both software development and product design. He co-founded and served as Design Director of Walkabout Software in 1996. Walkabout developed rendering technology and HTML extensions enabling CD-ROM-level design control over web page publishing including advanced layout and composition, animation, and interactivity. The company was later acquired by Microsoft.

He has won awards for his design accomplishments including the ID Magazine Design Distinction award in 1995, and awards for the 1994 Apple Interface Design Competition for a project designing a handheld digital computer/network communicator for 4-6 year olds.

Jonathan has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Nevada, Reno and received his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering/Product Design from Stanford University.

Miko Matsumura
VP and Deputy CTO
Software AG

Miko Matsumura is Vice President and Deputy CTO at Software AG. He spearheaded the SOA initiative at webMethods, Inc. as vice president of SOA product marketing. He also served as chair of the SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee at Oasis and is the organizer of the SOA Link Interoperability Initiative. Miko regularly speaks throughout the world on SOA issues, as well as blogs at www.SOAcenter.com.

Prior to the acquisition of Infravio, Inc. by webMethods, Miko served as vice president of marketing and technology standards at Infravio, where he led marketing operations and strategic planning. Matsumura emerged as an industry thought leader at The Middleware Company, where he was a co-creator responsible for building the partner program for SOA Blueprints, the first complete vendor-neutral specification of an SOA application set, supported by BEA, Borland, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Veritas and others. At Systinet, Matsumura worked with the executive team and offshore development center on product development, product strategy, and outbound marketing, including representing the company at industry events. At Sun Microsystems, Matsumura held the position of chief java evangelist, where he was a visible spokesperson for Java technologies and worked closely with Java ISVs and licensees to further the developer community. Before joining Sun, Matsumura worked at Wired Digital (acquired by Lycos) and the Well online community (acquired by Salon). He has also worked extensively with software start-up companies, including Biztone and Kalepa Networks (acquired by Semio) raising more than 12 million in capital for Java start-ups.

Matsumura is currently a limited partner with Focus Ventures and was an advisor to the Asia Java Fund, as well as start-ups TogetherSoft (acquired by Borland), Dejima (acquired by Sybase) and Kendara (acquired by Excite). Matsumura holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a Masters Degree in Neuroscience from Yale University.

Patrick May
Director, Sales Engineering
GigaSpaces Technologies

As the Director of Sales Engineering, Patrick May is responsible for coordinating a team of senior Solutions Architects conducting technical sales efforts across the Americas.

Prior to joining GigaSpaces, Patrick filled roles ranging from Principal Technical Architect to VP of Engineering to Chief Technology Officer, working with numerous organizations, bridging the gap between the commercial and technical teams to achieve large-scale, mission-critical objectives. His nearly 20 years of industry experience have focused on the design and development of adaptive, distributed systems in the financial services, telecommunications, and broadcast video industries.

Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jahan Moreh
VP - Engineering
U1 Technologies

Jahan Moreh is VP of Engineering at U1 Technologies. U1 Technologies builds high performance applications using SOA and delivers very high performance, low latency enterprise messaging services through Ambrosia middleware.

As VP of Engineering at U1, Jahan works in the areas of architecture, design, and implementation of secure systems for deployment on the Internet. Jahan's particular areas of expertise include high performance entitlement enforcement, information security architecture, middleware architecture, enterprise messaging, service oriented architecture implemented using web services, and developing secure Java applications.

From 1996 until 1998 Jahan was Chief Security Architect at Open Horizon, Inc. In this role Jahan was responsible for architecting security for the Ambrosia messaging system. Ambrosia's comprehensive security model includes authentication, authorization, privacy protection and integrity protection.

Jahan contributes to the Security Services Technical Committee of the Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). The work of the Security Services Technical Committee has resulted in the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), which is an open standard for exchanging security-related information among organizations.

Jahan's qualifications include Information Security, XML Security (SAML, WSS), LDAP, PKI, Integrating security with enterprise applications, Security Training, Expert Witness, and Technical Information Disclosure for Patent Applications.

Jahan is co-holder of six patents in the field of information security including U.S. patents 6158007, 6584584, 6959336, 7194547, and 7325127 and co-applicant for six pending patent applications.

Jahan has testified before the Social Security Administration commission on the issues regarding privacy protection of citizens in face of information availability on the Internet. He is a frequent speaker at major technology conferences and has published numerous papers and articles.

In addition, Jahan is a senior member of faculty at Department of Engineering and Information Science and Technical Management (EISTM) at UCLA where he teaches classes in Distributed Systems Security, Web Services, Java, XML, Information Security through Cryptography, PKI and LDAP.

Jahan holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University of New York.

Joe Morrison
Senior Consultant
Lab49

Joe Morrison is a principal consultant at Lab49, a leading provider of advanced technology applications for the financial services industry. With offices in New York and London, Lab49 counts some of the world’s largest financial institutions as clients.

Morrison has over 20 years of experience leading engineering teams in designing and building complex network-based applications. His projects have ranged from pure distributed object research at Verizon Laboratories, to value chain management software at Benchmarking Partners in Boston, to in-the-trenches SOA projects for financial services firms in New York.

Prior to joining Lab49, Morrison founded a high tech company called e-smith, inc. providing a solution enabling network service providers to easily install and remotely manage Linux servers for Web hosting, email, and file sharing. Morrison sold the company in 2001 to Mitel, a Canadian VoIP solutions provider.

Morrison also has two open source projects to his credit; a Linux server distribution which formed the basis of the e-smith solution (http://smeserver.org/), and a programming language called Eleven for exploring advanced ideas in web application state management (http://statesafe.org/).

Morrison holds a BMath degree in Computer Science from University of Waterloo, and a master's degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Michael Ogrinz
Principal Architect for Global Markets
Bank of America

Michael Ogrinz is a Principal Architect for Global Markets at Bank of America, the nation’s largest consumer bank. His team is responsible for incubating innovative solutions, evangelizing best practices, and promoting technical cohesion across business units. In part due to the acquisitive nature of the Bank, Michael and his team must frequently resolve unique integration challenges such as the ones discussed in his presentation at this conference.

Cameron Purdy
Vice President, Development, Fusion Middleware Group
Oracle

Cameron Purdy is a Vice President of Development in Oracle's Fusion Middleware group. He was the founder, president and CEO of Tangosol and has over ten years of experience with Java and Java-related technology. Since 2000, his leadership, vision, and commitment to exceptional product quality and customer satisfaction have made Tangosol Coherence, now Oracle Coherence, the market leading in-memory caching and data grid solution to companies building and running mission critical Enterprise Java and .NET applications. Tangosol was acquired by Oracle in April 2007.

As a software visionary and industry leader, Mr. Purdy is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and has received a number of awards in recognition of his contribution to the Java community. He regularly participates in industry standards development and is the specification lead for JSR 107 (jCache).

Jim Richmann
Principal Architect, Digital Enterprise Group
Intel

Jim Richmann has 35 years of IT and High Performance Computing experience. He currently is Principal Architect within the Intel® Digital Enterprise Group with specific responsibilities in defining and validating Intel’s roadmap for future enterprise products. In addition to 23 years in the federal government and almost five years at Intel, he spent ten years on Wall Street in a variety of assignments, and has an MS in Industrial Engineering. He is the first listed inventor of several milestone patent applications for technologies still used in equities trading. His current assignment is program manager for a high end system with capabilities in performance per watt projected to exceed any system currently announced by any vendor.

Jonathan Rochelle
Senior Product Manager
Google

Jonathan Rochelle is a Senior Product Manager at Google's NYC office. He is primarily responsible for the development of the spreadsheets application within the Google Docs and Google Apps product set. Prior to joining Google, Jonathan co-founded two companies - ITK Solutions, a Wall Street-based consulting firm, and 2Web Technologies, a Software product company responsible for the development of the XL2Web product which, was acquired by Google as the technology behind Google spreadsheets.

Jonathan also has 16 years of additional experience as a software engineer and applications development manager at JP Morgan & Co., working in a broad array of businesses including Proprietary Trading, Credit Origination, Structured Finance, Stock Lending, Custody and Cash Services amongst others. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany.

Jake Sorofman
VP of Marketing and Business Development, North America
JustSystems

Jake Sorofman is a seasoned software marketing executive with a strong product strategy and communications background. Previously, he was VP of product marketing with Mercury Interactive (now part of HP Software), where he was responsible for the Systinet product line. He joined Mercury though Mercury's $105 million acquisition of Systinet Corporation. Before Mercury, Jake led marketing for two WebSphere products at IBM Software Group, which he joined through the 12/04 acquisition of Venetica. Prior to Venetica, Jake was director of product marketing with Documentum, Inc. (now part of EMC), which he joined through the acquisition of eRoom Technology. Jake also has extensive experience in public and analyst relations, having led corporate communications for Ironside Technologies (now part of Infor). Jake has a BA in english and political science from University of New Hampshire and an MBA from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley College, where he was an American Marketing Association George Hay Brown Scholar.

Tom Steinthal
Managing Director, Financial Services
BSG Alliance

Thomas Steinthal is the Managing Director and Head of the Financial Services business at BSG Alliance Corp. In his career, Tom has managed equities technology teams at Goldman Sachs, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase, and Prudential Equity Group. Tom has led Nasdaq technology teams since 1998 and has designed and implemented Nasdaq trade order management and market making systems. Tom has been a member of various Nasdaq and NASD technology committees. He has been Series 7, 63, and 55 licensed. Tom’s blog is at http://steinthal.wordpress.com and he uses that site to discuss Financial Services and IT in general and Enterprise 2.0 in particular.

Raju Vegesna
Evangelist
Zoho

Raju is an evangelist for Zoho and is one of the foremost thought leaders in the Office 2.0 revolution. Raju is one of the key people responsible for developing the strategic direction of the Zoho Suite. He is an avid blogger (see: blogs.zoho.com), and users of Zoho are encouraged to contact him directly. Prior to joining AdventNet, Raju co-founded an Internet services company serving the educational market. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science.

Jason Wood
Head of Research
RT Capital Management
and Enterprise IT Blogger

Jason is a principal and head of research for RT Capital Management, a New York-based investment manager. He co-manages two funds, Rothschild Capital Partners, L.P. and Rothschild Technology Partners, L.P. and has been with the firm since 2000.

Before joining RT Capital, Jason was a sell-side research analyst at Josephthal & Company covering enterprise software, internet infrastructure and networking technologies.

An advocate for social computing, Jason started the Ponderings of Woodrow blog [http://woodrow.typepad.com/the_ponderings_of_woodrow/] because he felt there was a sparsity of commentary and analysis regarding enterprise technology in the blogosphere. Since then, the community has flourished which has led to the formation of The Enterprise Irregulars.