Speaker profiles

Head of Product and Marketing, EMEA

About Dave Armstrong
Over the last 10 years Dave has held senior roles in the software market covering Software as a Service, enterprise search and software integration. Prior to joining Google, Dave was senior product marketing manager for Information Builders, where he was responsible for business intelligence and integration products across Europe.

At Google, Dave is responsible for driving product innovation and market adoption of Google's Cloud Computing, hosted security and enterprise search offerings. Equipped with a strong understanding of trends driving technology in the workplace, Dave is a regular speaker at industry events on the topics of the 'consumerisation' of IT and Cloud Computing.

Dave graduated from the University of Leeds with a Bachelors degree in IT, business management & language.

Amazon Web Services Evangelist for Europe

Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age.

He joined Amazon.com in may 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, traveling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and help developers build businesses and applications. He is following the “Cloud Computing” paradigm shift since 2006, and believes that it is going to replace the traditional computing model in a few years.

Of Italian origins, Simone loves travelling, meeting people and connecting with them. He is a Linux and Ubuntu passionate, loves blogging on www.brunozzi.com, and has interests in the environment, clean energies, and technology in general.

Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on web applications. He also served as a professor of Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Simone has a Computer Science degree and spent six months at UC Irvine, California, where he studied the American approach to business and science. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defense in Rome, Italy.

Director of Consulting

About Deryck Mitchelson
Deryck has been involved in Internet Technologies for over 16 years, the last 11 of which has been spent with brightsolid, formerly Scotland Online.

In his current role as Director of Consulting, Deryck is responsible for establishing the IT roadmap and product development for the technology side of the business and managing the stand-alone consulting practice brightsolid minds.

Deryck currently leads initiatives to satisfy birghtsolid's green Data Centre ambitions through the infusion of virtualisation technologies and systems consolidation.

Prior to joining brightsolid, Deryck worked as Application Development Manager for Cartermill International, a subsidiary of the Longman Pearson Group.

Deryck graduated from Dundee University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science and Management Accountancy.

Software Services Manager

About Simon Wardley
As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination in economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether it’s in behavioural patterns, environmental risks of chemical pollution, developing novel computer systems or managing companies.

These days Simon works as the Software Services Manager for Canonical, helping define future cloud computing strategies for Ubuntu. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditisation, innovation and cybernetics. He is also fond of ducks.

As he says “they’re fowl but not through choice”.

Founder & CEO

About Duncan Johnston-Watt
Duncan Johnston-Watt is the Founder & CEO of Cloudsoft Corporation, a venture backed startup providing software and services that help firms realize the benefits of cloud computing. Cloudsoft's first product CloudsoftR Distributed Mediation (CDM) is a standards-based application platform that simplifies the implementation of electronic exchanges and market places in the Cloud.

Duncan has over twenty years experience developing technology for the financial services industry specialising in the development of large-scale distributed systems. A Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate for his pioneering work introducing Java Enterprise to financial services, Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University. Duncan is actively looking for firms interested in participating in Cloudsoft's CDM private beta later in the year. For more information email beta@cloudsoftcorp.com.

CEO

About Jeremy Roche
Jeremy is chief executive officer of CODA and sits on the Managing Board of parent company Unit 4 Agresso NV. He is responsible for group marketing strategy, future product strategy and management of a number of territories within the Unit 4 Agresso Group. He was the driving force behind CODA plc’s success and global expansion prior to its acquisition by Unit 4 Agresso in February 2008 which created one of Europe’s top 10 software vendors.

Jeremy began his career at IBM, after which he joined the software house Lychgate UK where he held a number of senior systems engineering and sales roles. He joined Science Systems (now SciSys) as commercial director in 1990 and following the acquisition of CODA in March 2000, was appointed to head up the product strategy and research and development functions of the CODA Group. Since becoming CEO in 2000 Jeremy successfully led CODA through a demerger which saw the company list independently on the AIM market in London.

As CEO of CODA, he helped establish the European Software Association in 2005 and spent three years as Chairman, promoting software best practice and cooperation across the business community. The Association is a trade organization representing the European software industry. It aims to become the industry’s principal interface with European Union institutions, the media and the general public.

Technical Pre-Sales

About Matt Davies
Matt Davies is part of Cordys technical pre-sales team in the UK. In this role Matt is responsible for all components of technical evangelism of Cordys products to customers, partners, analysts and press to help shape Cordys’ strategic direction, as well as mapping industry trends and market drivers to Cordys solutions.

Matt came to Cordys from BEA/Oracle where he was their EMEA Director of Product Marketing.

Prior to working at BEA, Matt worked at Elata, Broadquay Consulting, iPlanet/Sun, Netscape and IBM. With more than 15 years in the software industry, Matt has gained extensive knowledge of enterprise IT systems, internet technologies, Service and Event Orientated Architectures.

Pre-Sales

About Chris Hyde
Chris brings to his Pre-Sales role within Cordys, over 14 years experience of working with corporate and government clients to establish technology solution sets which deliver value around critical business needs. Chris has a proven track record of understanding business requirements created by regulatory and sector specific issues and translating these into solutions which provide value and return on investment to customers.
Prior to Cordys, Chris held a Senior Pre-Sales role within Novell delivering Identity and Security Management and SOA solutions to government and corporate clients in the UK, Middle East and Africa (6 years), worked with SilverStream Software delivering web and SOA based solutions (3 years) and Sun Microsystems (4 years) supporting corporate clients in delivering complete enterprise software stacks.

About Grant McNulty
Grant has been with Cisco for four years and is acknowledged as an authority in the evolution towards private and public cloud computing. He has been instrumental in developing Cisco’s proposition around virtualization solutions for servers and desktops and has driven Cisco’s offerings in this market space. Grant is recognised as a key evangelist for Cisco technology and solutions and has a wealth of experience presenting the vision that Cisco has for the future of virtualization, private and public cloud computing. Grant has 22 years experience in the IT business having previously worked for companies including Corizon, Art Technology Group, Marconi, Xerox and 3M.

VP Sales

About Chris Purrington
As VP Sales at cloud enabler CohesiveFT Chris is responsible for worldwide sales. With over 20 years in the software industry. Chris has extensive experience in leading ISVs to success in EMEA, this includes 9+ years at Application Lifecycle Management company Borland where he was UK MD and VP UK , Ireland and Africa.

Chris is an active member of the London cloud community, organising CloudCamp London and the AWS London User Group.
Don’t hold it against him but Chris started his career as a ‘bean counter’, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.

About CohesiveFT
On-boarding to public, private, and hybrid clouds is becoming a central activity in the move to virtualized and cloud infrastructures. CFT has focused on this set of activities since its inception in 2006. CFT enables customers to dynamically define and deploy servers for virtual environments and clouds. The company's flagship platform, Elastic Server®, is a web-based "factory" for creating, deploying and managing custom, multi-sourced assemblies comprised of horizontal, open source and third-party software components. Elastic Servers can be saved as templates, updated, augmented, or redeployed in minutes. Additionally CFT’s provides a number of “Cubed” Solutions (Enterprise-Cubed, ISV-Cubed and VPN-Cubed) enabling organizations to assemble, manage and deploy clusters of servers to virtual infrastructure or cloud computing facilities with ease and confidence.

Managing Director of International Sales

About Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy is managing director of international sales at Compellent. In this role he is responsible for building and growing Compellent's international sales channel through a select network of channel partners across Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Before joining Compellent in January 2007, Hardy spent 12 years as an international venture capitalist with Nomura Private Equity Group working for six years in the Group's IT management practice and then six years in its Venture Capital division working primarily with late-stage US technology companies. He previously held senior sales, product marketing and service management positions with Itochu in Japan and Basys (now Avid) in London, UK.
Hardy began his 25-year career as an electronics engineer with the Royal Australian Air Force. Hardy is based at Compellent's European headquarters in Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK.

IT Director

About Richard Britton
As IT Director for one of the UK’s leading ISPs for small to medium size businesses, Easynet Connect and UK Online, Richard is responsible for all customer-facing and operational IT systems right across the business. As well as maintaining and developing all existing solutions, Richard is also leading a change initiative to harness the efficiencies and opportunities of cloud computing within the company. The aim is to optimise business processes and corporate objectives through a responsive and collaborative IT approach that has a strong customer focus.

Prior to joining Easynet Connect & UK Online in May 2008, Richard was Director of Technology and Digital Marketing at Visit Britain and a Consultant for Management Consultants French Thornton, previous to this.

Richard is married and lives in West London.

Enterprise Software Analyst

About Matthew Aslett
Matthew covers data management software for The 451 Group, including relational and nonrelational databases, data warehousing and event processing. Matthew is also an expert in open source software and contributes regularly to reports produced through the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service, as well as to the 451 CAOS Theory blog. Prior to joining The 451 Group, Matthew was Deputy Editor of monthly magazine Computer Business Review and ComputerWire's daily news service. There he covered Linux and open source software and launched the successful Open Source Weblog in January 2006. Matthew started in IT journalism in 1997 as a staff writer with monthly magazine Unix and NT News, where he became editor in 2000. He has also contributed to a number of other publications, including Unigram/X, IBM System User and JavaVision. Matthew holds a BA in Multimedia Journalism from Bournemouth University in the UK.

Principal Analyst & Co-Founder

About William Fellows
As VP Research William created and drives 451’s user research program with IT early adopters and innovators across a range of vertical markets within ICE - the infrastructure computing for the enterprise service. Tracking and analyzing the adoption and maturation of grid since 2000 the program examines the grid, utility, cloud continuum within the context of IT as a service and 'third way' approaches to the organization and procurement of enterprise IT. William’s team also leads 451’s research activities within European Commission Framework Program projects and examines innovation in enterprise IT - wherever it is occurring. William is a co-founder of 451, a regular speaker at industry and 451 conferences and sits on numerous advisory boards and planning committees for industry bodies.

About Miranda Mowbray
Miranda Mowbray is a senior technical contributor at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, where her research interests include online communities, peer-to-peer technologies, and privacy for cloud computing. Miranda co-founded e-mint, the UK Association of Online Community Professionals. She was recently a Visiting Industrial Fellow at the Center for IT Research in the Interest of Society, at UC Berkeley. Her PhD is in Algebra, from London University.

Vice President, Open Source & Linux, IBM Software

About Bob Sutor
Dr. Bob Sutor is the Vice President of Open Source and Linux for the IBM Corporation. In this role he has the responsibility for driving the IBM strategy, sales enablement, and technical pre-sales for software running on Linux and other Open Source environments. He works with customers, partners, government leaders, analysts and the press to understand the value of adopting business-critical Open Source and Linux. He is also responsible for driving and executing the cross-company business and policy strategy for open standards as they relate to software, hardware, services, vertical industries, and emerging markets. A 26 year veteran of IBM, Sutor worked for 15 years in IBM Research, specializing in symbolic mathematical computation and Internet publishing. He co-authored the books Axiom: The Scientific Computation System and The LaTeX Web Companion. ; and was a co-author of the W3C Recommendation Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)as well as the W3C Recommendation Document Object Model Level 1. In 1999 Dr. Sutor moved to the IBM Software Group and focused on jump starting industry use of XML. This led to positions on the Board of Directors of the OASIS standards group and the vice chairmanship of the ebXML effort, a joint OASIS/United Nations endeavor. Sutor then led IBM’s industry standards and Web services strategy efforts. Dr. Sutor is a widely read blogger and is a frequent speaker around the world on open standards, Open Source, virtual worlds, web services, and Service Oriented Architecture. In 2006 he was named as one of Computer Business Review’s “Open Source VIPs”. Dr. Sutor has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in Mathematics.

Director, Cross-IBM Linux Strategy

About Inna Kuznetsova
Ms. Inna Kuznetsova manages a marketing and business development organization with the responsibility for IBM Linux strategy across all company brands. In this role she coordinates cross-company strategy in Linux including the achievement of revenue goals, ensures rapid response to changes in the market environment and acts as IBM spokesperson in the Linux space. 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. Prior to that, Ms. Kuznetsova managed 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 100-1000 employees companies across all IBM product divisions. Earlier in her career Ms. Kuznetsova directed branding initiatives and marketing campaigns worldwide 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 three years. Ms Kuznetsova held various marketing, business development and managerial positions in IBM Corporation since 1993. She received a M.S. degree in Mathematics & Computer Science from Moscow State University, Russia, and was awarded her MBA from Columbia Business School.

About Professor Darlington
Professor John Darlington is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and head of the Social Computing Group (previously the Imperial College Internet Centre). Professor Darlington has a long and distinguished track record both in the development of novel software technologies and in the creation of facilities to improve the accessibility and ease of use of computational resources. These developments have included pioneering developments in functional programming languages, program transformation, functional skeletons, co-ordination forms and component-based application development frameworks and the founding and operation of the Imperial College Fujitsu Parallel Research Centre, the Imperial College Parallel Computing Centre, the London e-Science Centre the Imperial College Internet Centre.

In 2005 Professor Darlington and the London e-Science Centre led an influential UK e-Science Core Programme project: “A Market for Computational Services” This project involved a range of e-Science Centres and Universities (London, CLRC, Manchester, Southampton, Swansea and the Liverpool John Moores Astrophysics Research Institute) and commercial organisations (Sun Microsystems, SGI, NAg, Real Time Engineering and CSC). The project pioneered many of the developments now emerging in Cloud Computing and developed an architecture to reconstruct the Internet as a series of open markets in use-on-demand, pay-per-use services, including Web Services, brokering organisations and utility computing platforms. This architecture was fully implemented and demonstrated in a series of case studies including the brokering of pay-per–use Web Services onto alternative utility computing platforms, applications to engineering mesh-generation services and the brokering of instrument time.

Senior Vice President of Sales and Services

About Simon Cattlin
Simon Cattlin is Senior Vice President of Sales and Services for NEMEA at Ingres. In his role Simon is responsible for all of the sales force and delivery of consulting services across UK, Ireland, Benelux, Nordics, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In addition to managing the revenue line in these regions, he also looks after the customer and partner base.

Previously to Ingres, Simon was Regional VP for BEA, UK Regional Director for Sybase, EMEA Sales VP for Remedy Corporation.

Simon has over 20 years experience developing high growth software businesses driving revenue streams from $20 – $500 million.

Principal Solution Consultant

About Matthew Brady

Matthew Brady is a Principal Solution Consultant with Keynote Systems based in the UK. He has worked on many large monitoring and load testing projects across Europe focused on web, mobile and streaming technologies, and supporting clients including BBC, Financial Times, Royal Bank of Scotland, BP, Philips, Partygaming, Nokia and SonyEricsson. Prior to joining Keynote Systems in 2004, he was European Support Manager at McCabe Software who pioneered the use of software metrics and rigorous software testing tools and techniques in multiple sectors including aerospace, finance, embedded/ mobile devices and retail. He was educated at Salford University gaining BSc (hons) Mathematics.

Executive Director

About Jon "maddog" Hall
Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International (www.li.org), an association of computer users who wish to support and promote the Linux Operating System. During his career in commercial computing which started in 1969, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager and educator.

Mr. Hall is also the Chief Technical Officer of Koolu, Inc. who is dedicated to freeing the telephone for small and medium business in developing nations like the BRIC counties, Europe and the United States of America.

He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and SGI. He currently works as an independent consultant, and is the CTO and Ambassador for Koolu (www.koolu.com) a Canadian firm that is involved with bringing environmentally friendly computing to emerging marketplaces.

Mr Hall has worked on many systems, both proprietary and open, having
concentrated on Unix systems since 1980 and Linux systems since 1994, when he first met Linus Torvalds and correctly recognized the commercial importance of Linux and Free and Open Source Software.

He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College and
Daniel Webster College.

Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many
presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies".

Mr. Hall has consulted with the governments of China, Malaysia and Brasil as well as the United Nations and many local and state governments on the use of Free and Open Source Software.

Mr. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit organizations.

Mr. Hall has traveled the world speaking on the benefits of Open Source
Software, and received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel
University, and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York.

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Inst. f. Wissenschaftliches Rechnen

About Christian Baun
Since May 2008 Christian Baun has been a PhD student at the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK). His supervisor is Prof. Thomas Ludwig from the University of Heidelberg, who leads in Heidelberg, the working group for parallel and distributed computing. The focus of Christian’s work is cloud computing (Eucalyptus) and virtualization (Xen).

Since Mai 2006 until April 2008 Christian worked at the D-Grid project at the Institute for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
(FZK). The focus of his work in those days was sustainability in Grid Computing. This covered the organisational, legal and financial aspects of large grid projects.

He has a Master of Science in IT from the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences and since October 2006 has bee engaged on a teaching assignment there where he gave a lecture covering the topics operating systems and system software.

During the last years Christian has written several books about PHP and LaTeX.

Also Christian is a co-author of a book about parallel and distributed computing. He has also written a few articles in the following magazines: iX, c't, Informatik Spektrum, LinuxUSER, EasyLinux, Linux Enterprise and entwickler magazin.

He was involved in the topics Linux/UNIX and OpenSource since 1994 where he did his first Slackware 2.0 installation.

About Michael Meeks
Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in Free software. He very much enjoys working for Novell where as a member of the Desktop research team he has worked on desktop infrastructure and applications, particularly OpenOffice.org, CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus and accessibility, amongst other interesting things. He now works as an Architect, trying to understand and nudge the direction of our Linux Desktop work. Prior to this he worked for Quantel gaining expertise in real time AV editing and playback achieved with high performance focused hardware / software solution

MD EMEA

About David Stanley
As Managing Director of EMEA for Proofpoint, David Stanley brings over twelve years experience, knowledge and a working relationships with the most senior corporate and marketplace contacts to the role.

Prior to joining Proofpoint, Stanley was Vice President and Managing Director of CipherTrust (acquired by Secure Computing). During his tenure with CipherTrust, Stanley re-launched the company in EMEA, rebuilt the team and channel as well as ensuring that the EMEA operation contributed significantly to CipehrTrust’s fourteen quarters of profitability prior to acquisition. Stanley was also a key contributor to Sophos’s success in the European market, where he began as a direct sales representative, became UK Sales Manager in 1999 and was promoted to General Manager, UK operations in 2002. During his time at Sophos, Stanley grew UK revenues from under $10m to over $45m.

EMEA Head of Product Marketing

About Simon Abrahams
Simon Abrahams recently joined Rackspace as Head of Product Marketing for EMEA. Prior to Rackspace, Simon has held a range of product management and marketing roles with COLT, Orange Business Services, and Infonet focussing on Managed IT and Hosting Services for Business. Simon has also held Sales and Operations positions with AT&T and has acted as an International Marketing Consultant. Simon holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering and a Masters degree in Marketing.

About Rackspace
Rackspace® is the world’s leader in hosting and supports over 5000 customers in EMEA. We deliver websites, web-based IT systems, and computing as a service. For every business and budget, there's a unique need. That's why we deliver a portfolio of solutions like Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting and Email Hosting, each with a diverse mix of products. Our company model is built to adjust to customer needs quickly and efficiently.

Our rapid growth is the result of our commitment to serving our customers with award winning customer service known as Fanatical Support® and our exclusive focus on hosting… and because everything we do is tailored only to hosting, we truly are the hosting experts.

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Solution Architect

About Dave Russell
Dave Russell, Solution Architect at Red Hat UK has been involved with Linux/UNIX in enterprise environments for over 13 years, with very early Linux in the form of Slackware, Red Hat and Debian alongside proprietary UNIX with Solaris, HP-UX and Irix.

Dave spent 9 years at Rolls-Royce Military Aero Engines and another 4 years at UK R&D organisation QinetiQ before joining Red Hat. A heady mix of traditional mechanical engineering, thermodynamics, ebusiness, information security, and cutting edge enterprise wide systems design.
During his first two years at Red Hat Dave was a Senior Consultant within the Global Professional Services division, with further year as a Solutions Architect.

Founder & CTO

About Steve Moyle
Steve Moyle is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer for the database security company Secerno. He has a diverse background including designing control systems for Honeywell and a research career in machine learning at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. His research is at the core of Secerno's award winning products.

Chief Technology Officer

About Richard Jacobs
Richard joined Sophos as one of its first employees in 1989, and is now Chief Technology Officer. In 1996, he founded Sophos's first overseas subsidiary in the United States, and served as its President until 2000, when he returned to the UK and joined the board as Technical Director.

From 2000 to 2004, Richard led the development and expansion of our product range, before moving into his current role to focus on product strategy. He stepped down from the board in October 2007.

Richard holds a BEng in Electronic Engineering from Birmingham University.

Chief Executive Officer

About Gianugo Rabellino
Gianugo Rabellino is Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense, Europe’s leading Open Source systems integrator. He has been at the forefront of the Open Source movement in Europe, founding the first official Italian Linux organization in 1994, and launching Orixo, the consortium of European Open Source companies. A Member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Rabellino serves as Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee, is a committer on several ASF projects including Cocoon, Xindice, and Jackrabbit, as well as mentor of the River and CouchDB projects currently in development at the ASF Incubator. His highly charismatic presentations on topics such as Enterprise Open Source adoption, next-generation opportunities in Open Source, and building Open Development communities draws enthusiastic audiences at all levels at industry-leading events including JavaOne, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, and ApacheCon.

VP of Professional Services

About Mitch Lieberman
Mr. Lieberman is a senior software industry veteran whose career spans 15 years with experience in software architecture, management and a broad spectrum of transactional business applications. Building on his career experiences in product management, system architecture, implementation services and technical sales leadership, Mr. Lieberman is able to offer a unique perspective in the current technological landscape; such as Software as a Service (Saas), open source strategy as well as the up-and-coming Cloud Computing deployment alternatives. Mitch has spent the past 10 years focusing on CRM initiatives across many industries, and the past 3 years with SugarCRM.

CTO Europe

About Kurt Glazemakers
Kurt Glazemakers fulfils the role of CTO Europe of Terremark since January 2009. He leads a team of engineers that concentrate on the development of new hosting solutions.

Kurt Glazemakers is renowned for his extensive knowledge of software development and that of hosting centres in general. He has been responsible for, amongst others, the development of DigitalOps as Terremark Europe’s main hosting tool. He fulfilled a variety of leading functions on operational and strategic level. His career is mainly focused at the development of innovative solutions that increase the availability and scalability of mission-critical infrastructures.

Kurt has been briefly active with DCT (nowadays: Symantec) and, amongst other things, has developed the DCOS, Data Centre Operating System, that was sold to Hewlett Packard early 2002. Kurt started his career with Dedigate (which has been acquired by Terremark in August 2005), after acquiring a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering at the Gent University.

Kurt is married and has a son.

VP International Sales & Operation

Senior Security Advisor

About Rik Ferguson
As spokesman for Trend Micro, Rik is recognised as an industry thought leader and analyst and is regularly quoted by the international press on issues surrounding Information Security, Cybercrime and technology futures. With over fifteen years experience in the IT Industry with companies such as EDS, McAfee and Xerox Rik’s broad experience enables him to have a clear insight into the challenges and issues facings businesses today. As Solutions Architect for Trend Micro, Rik interacts with CIOs from a wide variety of European and Global multi-national blue chip enterprises, government institutions and law enforcement organisations

About Dave Walker
Dave Walker has been a Linux user for over 10 years. In this time he's witnessed the changes, and especially, the greater adoption of virtulisation, particularly in the Business IT sector.

Dave Walker is the Ubuntu UK Community project leader, this involves making direction on the UK effort.

He is also a Business IT consultant specialising in medium to large deployments of Linux related services, including Cloud offerings, Telephony (VoIP) and various other servers providing needed services to the business sector.

Production Marketing Manager Datacentre

About Christophe Dobroschke
Christoph Dobroschke has worked for over 8 years in technical and product management roles within the IT industry before taking his current position as Product Marketing Manager for Datacenter Products at VMware. He is now responsible for providing strategic, business & creative guidance to the EMEA teams.

Christoph graduated from the University of Paderborn in Germany and holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Dipl. Ing. Ingenieurinformatik).

Managing Director

About Nagib Tharani
Nagib Tharani is the managing director for VORARI in the UK. VORARI is a managed cloud services provider and Zimbra partner. Hailing from Canada but resident in the UK over the last 6 years, Nagib has a diverse business and operations background. He has provided critical account management for some of the largest accounts worldwide within the Telecoms & ISP space including Tiscali, Telefonica and Ericsson. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Business Management from Carleton University, Canada.

About VORARI
VORARI is a managed cloud solutions provider. VORARI’s builds solutions around Zimbra’s collaboration suite – the ideal digital nervous platform for agile companies. The new metric for companies deploying to the cloud is not just raw cost savings – but the productivity gains from improving collaboration and digital workflow. Built from the ground up to support web services, Zimbra’s Zimlet architecture enables businesses to seamlessly integrate both existing and emerging cloud services around a open-source collaboration platform. VORARI provides these services to enterprises and ISP’s against their shared platform on Rackspace, VMware and ec2. VORARI also provides development services to service providers looking to expose their services as Zimlets with VORARI

CEO

About John Cheney

A cloud computing pioneer; John Cheney launched one of the first software as a service companies back in the late 1990s. He is a successful
entrepreneur with over eighteen years experience in the IT industry; ten of which have been running IT companies in Europe and North America.

Prior to Workbooks Online, John founded two previous successful software service security companies. John founded BlackSpider Technologies in 2002 and successfully grew the company to become an award winning provider of in-the-cloud e-mail and web security services to over 2,500 organizations world-wide before the company was bought by SurfControl in 2006. John then led marketing and product management at SurfControl and was a key member of the senior management team which led the Company through a successful sale to Websense in October 2007.

Prior to BlackSpider, John was the Founder and CEO of Activis, a managed security services company which was acquired by Articon-Integralis in
1999. Activis was a leading provider of managed Firewall and VPN services with offices in North America and Europe, winning awards from SC Magazine for its services and Frost and Sullivan for its business strategy.

Sales Director

About Conrad Hoe
As Sales Director of Xenolitica, Conrad is repsonsible for building the organisation into a global brand. His experience spans the arena of
selling, implementing and delivering multi million pound software and saas based solutions to organisations across the globe. One of Conrad's key
strengthens is in developing global alliances with premier system integrators. His expertise in CRM (customer relationship management) extends over 15 years, managing support teams of nearly 20+ staff and implemented one of the industries then largest global Service solutions with his commerical experience extending from the Board Room to the Sales Floor.

Prior to joining Xenolitica, Conrad owned and built his own company and has worked for leading brands such as Misys Banking Systems, PeopleSoft, Amdocs and other organisations working with multi-national organisations. Within these companies, Conrad's role was to develop sales and channel strategies to significantly increase the regions' revenues.

General Manager

About Lars Nordhild Rønning
Lars Nordhild Rønning is head of Zimbra’s operations in EMEA, with him and his team focusing on sales and deployments of innovative Web 2.0 Open Source Messaging and Collaboration solutions into large educational institutions, enterprises and service providers. Lars, a native of Denmark but now based in London, has for the last 20 years specialized in identifying new and promising US technology companies and bringing them to Europe, including WaveMarket (Location Based Services), Software.com/Openwave Systems (messaging infrastructure software), Diba/Sun Microsystems (internet information appliances), 7th Level (online and CD-rom based gaming and educational software) and Micrografx (computer graphics). Lars received his education from Pacific Lutheran University, Seattle, USA and Copenhagen University and Business School, Denmark. In his free time Lars is an avid triathlete, cyclist and runner, skier and fisherman.