Wi-Fi Track

Apurva Davé is Director, Product Marketing for Riverbed Technology. Previously, he served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. Apurva holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University.

Liad Ofek Manager, Technical Marketing Cisco's Application Delivery Business Unit Liad Ofek holds the technical marketing responsibilities for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product line. Mr. Ofek leads a team of product Marketing experts and responsible for system level solution definition and outbound technical marketing efforts. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Ofek was the VP of Technical Services for Expand Networks where he established the Pre/Post sale support team; Liad was personally involved with the creation and evolution of the WAN Optimization market. Prior to Expand Networks, Liad worked for Netcom, a leading networking and IT service provider in Israel. At Netcom, Liad managed the technical support team and was responsible for deploying and supporting leading edge networking technology from Cisco and other vendors. Mr. Ofek has over 12 years of experience with customer support and training and has real-world understanding of WAN optimization and deep networking knowledge (CCIE). Liad earned a B.Sc. in Communications Engineering from Holon Institute of Technology

For the past 25 years, Jim Salem has been a pioneer in distributed computing and in the software/platform as a service space. He has extensive experience in all aspects of internet service delivery including scalable hosting infrastructure design, automated application provisioning, efficient storage and server management, and 24x7 operations. Since 1999, Salem has served as Chief Architect of Intuit QuickBase where he has been responsible for designing, building, and delivering fast, reliable PaaS and SaaS services to hundreds of thousands of users in more than half of the Fortune 100 and thousands of smaller businesses. He has also held senior management positions at Intuit in engineering and internet operations. Prior to Intuit, Salem served as Director of Web Hosting Engineering at GTE Internetworking (BBN Planet) where he supported thousands of servers in ten data centers. Earlier, he was engineering manager at Thinking Machines, which developed a 65,536 processor parallel computing platform. Salem earned a B.S.E.E. degree from M.I.T. in 1984. He is based in Massachusetts.

Jinesh has over 9 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh's publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master's degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. He plays tennis and loves to trek.

John Engates is CTO for Rackspace, where he is responsible for R&D and for guiding the technical direction of Rackspace's cloud computing platform. John has over 14 years of experience in the Internet and hosting industry.

Tony is CEO of xcalibre Communications Ltd., the managed hosting company that he founded in 1997 while still at college. Back in 2004 Tony decided that what the world really needed was a proper utility computing infrastructure, so he and his team at xcalibre created FlexiScale, the world's first utility platfor m supporting both Windows and Linux.

Andrew Gross has over 16 years of experience in the design, development, administration and security of complex IT operations systems. In his current role as Chief Scientist and Architect at StackSafe, Gross is responsible for product architecture, evaluation of new technologies and research efforts. An expert in DSP algorithm design, architectural evaluation and source code review, Gross has extensive experience providing strategic consultation to companies on a variety of mission-critical operations and security issues. Prior to joining StackSafe, Gross served as a key software architect for Zenph Studios, an entertainment technology company. Gross also held the title of Chief Architect for Counterpane Internet Security, where he was responsible for the design of production operations and real-time forensic analysis systems in support of the Secure Operations Center. Gross conducted security research for the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), where he was responsible for covering a broad range of areas, including dynamic network monitoring and kernel auditing. In addition, he developed new tools for intrusion analysis and tracing and eventual system recovery. He also served as a network and security administrator for SDSC. Gross received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1997, where he wrote the seminal dissertation on computer forensic analysis.

Mr. Armijo is co-founder and Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Product Management for Cloud Computing firm 3tera, where he is responsible for product and service definition as well as building customer and partner relationships. Prior to 3tera, he was Director of Marketing with SolarFlare Communications, a fabless semiconductor startup developing 10GBASE-T. Earlier, he was co-founder and Director of Marketing for fabric computing pioneering startup Topspin Communications. At Topspin, he developed the company's product roadmap for transparently combining LAN, SAN and server area networks into a virtualized resource pool, now Cisco's V-Frame. Bert has also held management positions with Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cipher Data Products, California Peripherals, CMS Enhancements, Everex and Mobius Technologies.

Mr. Sheynkman is a database software executive who has spent the early part of his career in database sales and technology organizations of Oracle and Microsoft. Mr. Sheynkman was cofounder, President, and CEO of two successful startups: Stanford Technology Group which created the world's first Relational OLAP engine and was acquired by Informix/IBM in 1995 and Plumtree Software which created the world's first corporate portal for heterogeneous information (acquired in 2005 by BEA). Between startups, Mr. Sheynkman was Entrepreneur in Residence at Sequoia Capital. Mr. Sheynkman holds a degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.

James Routh, CISM Chief Information Security Officer The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Jim Routh has over 20 years of experience in information technology and information security as a practitioner, management consultant and leader of technology functions and information security functions for global financial service firms. Jim designed and implemented an enterprise wide information security program for the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) based on risk management best practice, COBIT and ISO 27001 standards. He implemented an information security risk assessment process and an innovative security program for application development and vendor management. Prior to joining DTCC he was the first CISO for American Express and responsible for the implementation of an enterprise wide implementation of GLBA specific controls and practices for two different banking entities in North America. Prior to that, he led a customer information management function within Risk Management for the US card businesses for American Express. Prior to that he led the information technology function for the Institutional Services and Investment Management businesses for American Express Financial Advisors. Mr. Routh was a management consultant in information technology for dozens of leading financial service firms for over 12 years.

James Routh, CISM Chief Information Security Officer The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Jim Routh has over 20 years of experience in information technology and information security as a practitioner, management consultant and leader of technology functions and information security functions for global financial service firms. Jim designed and implemented an enterprise wide information security program for the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) based on risk management best practice, COBIT and ISO 27001 standards. He implemented an information security risk assessment process and an innovative security program for application development and vendor management. Prior to joining DTCC he was the first CISO for American Express and responsible for the implementation of an enterprise wide implementation of GLBA specific controls and practices for two different banking entities in North America. Prior to that, he led a customer information management function within Risk Management for the US card businesses for American Express. Prior to that he led the information technology function for the Institutional Services and Investment Management businesses for American Express Financial Advisors. Mr. Routh was a management consultant in information technology for dozens of leading financial service firms for over 12 years.

Khalid is a leading expert in the areas of information security services, strategy and IT GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance). Khalid's research focuses on building and maintaining effective security programs and making (CISOs) Chief Security Officers more successful in their role. . His research focuses on the strategies, operational processes, and organizational structures for developing and maintaining effective security programs. Khalid covers information risk management, information security strategy, best practices and metrics. He also covers security governance topics such as roles and responsibilities, policies, awareness, training and reporting for the security organization. Khalid has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal. Khalid is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international executive conferences. During his career, Khalid has worked in both the consulting and enterprise sectors. Prior to joining Forrester, he worked for a global insurance company where he provided leadership and direction for the information security program. Previously, Khalid consulted organizations in healthcare, finance, entertainment and communication industries on information security strategy and architecture. Khalid holds a master's degree in telecommunications management from University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in business and economics from University of Texas at Austin. Khalid is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and a Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA).