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Kit Colbert
Senior Cloud Strategist, Office of the CTO, VMware
WEDNESDAY 8/8 10:30am
Kit Colbert is the lead architect for VMware's vCenter Operations suite which provides performance, capacity & configuration management optimized for virtualization & cloud environments. Previously, Kit was the key architect and technical lead for VMware's VMotion & Storage VMotion products. He is noted industry-wide as a leader in virtualization memory management topics.
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Henry Jenkins
Director, Information Systems, Huntington Hospital
Huntington Hospital is a not-for-profit, 625-bed hospital focused on excellence in delivering care to the community, with revenues of $535M in 2010. Prior to Huntington, Henry was CIO for First Foundation Inc. where he consolidated four distinct technology platforms into a shared services model, drove adoption of a CRM initiative and re-engineered finance & operations processes. Earlier, Henry was the CTO for First American Trust where he created revenue-generating web applications and reduced operating expenses through consolidation & virtualization.
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Bill Swales
Vice President, Americas ISS, HP
WEDNESDAY 8/8 11:05am
Bill's business unit is the largest revenue generating region in HP ISS, generating approx half of HP's $12+ Billion worldwide ISS business. His focus is on rapid delivery of HP's innovative new products & resources to customers. Bill oversees product marketing, business development, operations/supply chain mgmt and P&L responsibilities. He also hosts HP datacenter solution efforts including Microsoft Infra2Apps, HP CloudSystem and HP's Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD). Bill has 18 years executive experience at companies including HP, McDATA, EMC, IBM and Storage Tech.
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Tom Ashbrook
Sr VP & CIO, Bridgepoint Education
Tom Ashbrook is responsible for all aspects of Bridgepoint's technology infrastructure, application development, and support and maintenance, including information service delivery and security. Under his direction, the Business Technology Services (BTS) Department is dedicated to accelerating Bridgepoint by aligning its technology deployment strategy with its business strategy.
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Marc Demarest
CTO & Principal, Noumenal
THURSDAY 8/9 8:25am
Marc Demarest is widely known as an early proponent of data marting & tiered enterprise data warehousing models. He is an expert on "big data" & sensor networks and is authoring a book on non-technical aspects of enterprise data warehousing. Marc's firm, Noumenal, provides management and technical consulting services internationally.
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Paul Rettberg
Sr. Technical Director, CommVault
THURSDAY 8/9 9:55am
Paul Rettberg is an 18-year veteran in the data mgmt & storage industry. He is responsible for Partner, OEM & Inside Systems Engineering at CommVault as well as Pre-Sales & Professional Services training & enablement. Earlier, Paul served in technical & mgmt roles at leading firms in the storage, storage networking & virtualization space. Paul has also developed storage distribution channels in the Asia Pacific market.
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John Spiers
CEO & Founder, NexGen Storage
THURSDAY 8/9 10:25am
John Spiers founded venture-backed NexGen Storage after selling the highly successful LeftHand Networks to HP in 2008. John has been pioneering revolutionary technology in the storage industry for over 25 years and now introduces NexGen Storage with its revolutionary approach measured on quality of service guarantees. John holds many storage patents and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.
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KC Choi
VP, Americas Solutions Architecture, HP
KC Choi and his team of 700 Solutions Architects provide technology infrastructure design & architecture guidance for HP's corporate, enterprise & government clients — supporting annual sales in excess of $12 billion across the Americas. KC also leads HP's IT Transformation teams in transferring HP's best practices to customers who share the vision of delivering IT-as-a-Service.
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Dan Molina
CTO, Nth Generation
TUESDAY 8/7 8:25am
With 21 years in IT, Dan Molina is responsible for Nth's R&D initiatives & for identifying, evaluating & incorporating leading-edge enterprise technologies into Nth's solutions portfolio. Dan also has extensive experience in the design of Server, Storage, Backup, DR, Virtualization & Archiving solutions for Public Sector clients.
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Jeromie Jackson
Security & Mobility Practice Lead, Nth Generation
TUESDAY 8/7 8:45am
WEDNESDAY 8/8 8:20am
WEDNESDAY 8/8 2:15pm
Jeromie Jackson brings decades of experience to the leadership of Nth's Security Practice. Since 1994, he's helped organizations minimize risk and vulnerabilities while achieving and sustaining regulatory compliance. Jeromie's security certifications include CISSP & CISM. He also manages So Cal ISACA & OWASP chapters, is a SANS Mentor and is certified in COBIT & ITIL. Jeromie is an international speaker, appearing on the cover on Forbes Magazine and in Insurance & Technology Review and Credit Union Magazine.
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