Keynote Speaker Biographies
Dmitri Alperovitch
Director, Intelligence Analysis and Hosted Security
Secure Computing Corporation
Dmitri Alperovitch is director of Intelligence Analysis and Hosted Security at Secure Computing Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s hosted security services, and leads the company’s research in Internet threat intelligence analysis and correlation, focusing on messaging, Web, malware and other network threats. Alperovitch is a leading inventor of numerous key patent-pending technologies, including Secure Computing’s industry-leading global reputation service, TrustedSource™ (www.trustedsource.org), which offers an unprecedented layer of protection to each of the company’s security products.
Prior to joining Secure Computing, Alperovitch worked as a lead software engineer at Securiant, an integrated network security company that provides services to the mid-size and distributed enterprise. During his tenure there, he was responsible for designing and developing the company’s network security appliance.
With more than 10 years of experience in the field of information security, Alperovitch has accomplished extensive research in the areas of reputation systems, spam detection, public-key and identity-based cryptography, as well as network intrusion detection and prevention. He has significant experience working as a subject-matter expert with all levels of U.S. and International law enforcement on analysis, investigations and profiling of transnational organized criminal activities. In addition, Alperovitch is a recognized authority on online organized criminal activity and cyber security, and has been quoted in numerous articles, including those by Associated Press, Business Week, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Washington Post. He has also been a featured speaker and panelist at many law-enforcement, industry and academic security conferences.
Alperovitch received a master’s degree in Information Security from the Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating magna cum laude in 2003.
Jesper Andersen
Senior Vice President, Application Development
Oracle Corporation
Jesper Andersen is senior vice president of application development at Oracle where he is responsible for the overall product strategy and direction for Oracle’s business applications. He brings more than 15 years of development and technical experience to his role with the company.
Prior to Oracle, Mr. Andersen was general manager and group vice president at PeopleSoft, responsible for product strategy, development, quality and customer support activities related to PeopleSoft’s core technology platforms. He has also served as executive vice president of products for Pivotal Corp. where oversaw product definition, development, marketing, quality assurance and technology vision. Before joining Pivotal, Mr. Andersen held numerous roles in Oracle’s development organization where he built and launched Oracle’s first on demand Applications.
Mr. Andersen holds a master’s degree in computer science from Aalborg University in Denmark.
Roger Burkhardt
President and CEO
Ingres Corporation
Roger Burkhardt serves as Ingres's president and chief operating officer. In this role, he is responsible for corporate strategy, development and engineering, and global field operations including marketing, sales and support, alliance and channels, and customer programs. Mr. Burkhardt also serves on the company's Board of Directors.
Mr. Burkhardt joined Ingres from the New York Stock Exchange, where as Chief Technology Officer and EVP for the past six years, he led a global technology team of 2,000 colleagues through the most important business and technology transformation in the Exchange's history: the shift to electronic trading. Under his leadership, the NYSE embraced open source solutions, maintained world-class reliability standards, and increased transaction volumes seven-fold.
Prior to the NYSE, Mr. Burkhardt was president of listed equities for OptiMark Technologies, a developer of electronic trading technology that was adopted by more than 80 percent of the top 200 trading firms in the United States. He had earlier served 15 years with IBM, where he held several leadership positions in engineering, sales and business development. Most recently, he served as director of capital markets, IBM Banking, Finance and Securities, where he ran a $250 million business unit serving the needs of the Wall Street banking community.
Mr. Burkhardt holds an M.B.A. in finance from New York University and both a bachelor's and master's degree in Physics from Oxford University. A former member of the IBM Advisory Board, Mr. Burkhardt is recognized by Wall Street and technology innovators worldwide for his customer advocacy work and thought leadership.
David DeWalt
President and CEO
McAfee, Inc.
Dave DeWalt is Chief Executive Officer and President of McAfee, Inc. He joined McAfee in April, 2007. Prior to McAfee, DeWalt oversaw customer operations and sales at EMC Corporation. His responsibilities included channels, alliances and partners, product sales, global accounts, vertical programs, and field business operations. DeWalt also led EMC's content management and archiving software business.
Previously, DeWalt was executive vice president and president, EMC Software Group. He was responsible for ESG's business, product, technology, and go-to-market strategies, for accelerating the integration of the EMC Documentum and EMC Legato sales teams, and for advancing EMC's evolution to a leading solutions-focused technology company. Prior to that, DeWalt was executive vice president, EMC Software Group, sharing responsibility for its leadership with executive vice president Mark Lewis since 2004. DeWalt joined EMC in 2003 when EMC acquired Documentum, the global leader in enterprise content management, where he served as president and CEO for more than two years. DeWalt led Documentum through nine consecutive quarters of growth, five record revenue quarters, and four successful acquisitions.
DeWalt has more-than 20 years in the technology industry—spanning engineering, product management, marketing, and sales management. Prior to joining Documentum, De Walt was founding principal and vice president of Eventus Software. Following the 1998 acquisition of Eventus by Segue Software, DeWalt served as Segue's vice president of North American sales. Before Eventus, he was vice president of sales and marketing at Quest Software, and before that held various positions in sales management over six years at Oracle Corporation. DeWalt was named one of the 25 most influential executives in high technology by the readers of the industry publication CRN. He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware.
Gary Dobbins
Director, Information Security
University of Notre Dame
Leading Notre Dame's Information Security program since its inception in 2002, Gary previously directed system integration and middleware initiatives at ND, and led a variety of infrastructure integration projects. Gary is a past co-chair of the Educause Effective Security Practices Working Group, a member of the Risk Assessment working group, and the Internet2 SALSA initiative. Previously, Gary was with the University of Arizona, where he and his team provided consulting on specialized technology initiatives.
Abhijit Dubey
Associate Principal,
McKinsey & Company
Abhijit Dubey is an Associate Principal with McKinsey and Company, a management consulting firm. He is one of the core leaders of McKinsey's North American High Tech Software and Services practices and advises leading software and hardware companies on a range of strategic and functional issues.
Abhijit also leads McKinsey’s research and knowledge efforts on Software as a Service (SaaS).
Prior to joining McKinsey, Abhijit worked at Schlumberger in their Oilfield services (Wireline logging) group, in several international locations including North Africa and Europe.
Abhijit has a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Gary L. Hodge
CTO
U.S. Bank
Gary has spent the last 32 years in Information Technology Management in Fortune 500 Companies. He has managed Large Data Centers, Technical Services and Network Services for 18 years. Gary also spent 10 years in various Application Software Development roles. Gary has been at US Bank for the last 16 years in several various Technology Management roles.
At US Bank Gary has managed Network Services, Data Center and Network Operations, Technical Services, Database Services, E-Commerce Software Development, Middleware Development Services, Branch Bank Automation Services, Enterprise Architecture, and Information Security Services. Gary has spent the last four years managing Overall Technology Architecture and Information Security Services.
Surya Kant
President
Tata Consultancy Services, North America
Surya Kant, or Sury as he is popularly known, is the president for the North America operations of Tata Consultancy Services, a leading global IT services firm. In this capacity, Sury is responsible for overseeing and strengthening customer relationships and revenue in the U.S. and Canada. Sury also plays a key role in growing TCS’ business in new markets and expanding its range of technology and service offerings.
Sury has been with TCS for over 29 years, and has made significant contribution to the growth of the company and the software industry. Until 2005 he served as head of customer delivery in New Delhi, a role in which he managed many of TCS’ key customer relationships and grew the delivery centers in the region substantially.
Prior to this, he served as head of TCS’ operations in Japan and the United Kingdom, respectively. Sury started the company’s operations in Tokyo, Japan in 1987, and in the early nineties ran the TCS operations in the U.K.
In 1976, Sury received his Bachelors of Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Electronics from the Delhi College of Engineering and in 1978 he received his Masters in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Computer Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, both at the top of his class.
David Knight
Vice President, WebEx Connect
WebEx Communications, Inc. – a division of Cisco
As Vice President of the WebEx Connect division of WebEx Communications, David Knight is responsible for setting the strategic product direction and requirements for the company’s composite collaboration application platform, presence-enabled applications, and associated technology components.
Prior to joining WebEx, Mr. Knight held executive positions at Portera Systems, a vendor of professional service automation systems; and Sybase, where he was Director of Internet Middleware, among other roles. He began his management career at Oracle.
David Knight holds a bachelor of science degree and master of business administration degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Vivek Luthra
Senior Vice President & Global Head of Services
Ramco Systems
Vivek works as Senior Vice President & Global Head of Services for Ramco Systems based out of Ramco New Jersey's office in U.S.A. In this role he has P&L responsibilities for all services vertical offerings and platform based solutions offerings from Ramco Systems.
He has 13+ years of experience in Business and IT Consulting, and IT & Business Process Outsourcing focussing on Financial and Telecom services verticals working with some of the leading global companies in these verticals. He has worked in middle and senior management roles in Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Alliances, Account Management and Operations in US, Europe and APAC markets.
Prior to Ramco Systems, Vivek has worked with Infosys, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Schlumberger and 2 technology start-ups.
Vivek is an engineer and an MBA by profession.
John McNulty
Chairman and CEO
Secure Computing Corporation
John McNulty is chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Secure Computing Corporation. Under his leadership, Secure Computing has evolved into a leading enterprise gateway security company, going from sales of $40 million per year in 2000 to more than $250 million in 2007. McNulty and his team have built the company through the organic development of best-of-breed solutions, strategic acquisitions to strengthen its product portfolio and strong relationships with a worldwide network of more than 2,000 partners.
In late 2005, McNulty orchestrated the strategic acquisition of CyberGuard for approximately $295 million. That purchase resulted in combining the industry’s two leading application-layer firewalls into an extensible family of high-performance, never-compromised gateway firewalls. Recognizing the critical role reputation systems would play in the future, less than one year later McNulty headed another bold move with the $273.6 million acquisition of CipherTrust, the emerging leader in messaging security. With CipherTrust came TrustedSource™, the most complete reputation system in the industry and many say the future of Internet security.
Following these acquisitions, McNulty personally oversaw the integration of TrustedSource technology across the company’s portfolio of solutions, bringing an unprecedented new layer of protection to each and every product. These acquisitions proved strategic moves for the company, and have effectively positioned Secure Computing as a world leader in the firewall market, the messaging security market and the Web gateway market.
McNulty brings with him more than 30 years of experience in the high-tech industry. Before joining Secure Computing, McNulty served as senior vice president of sales, services and business development at Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., a leading independent software company in the computer telephony integration environment. During his tenure there, McNulty helped the company achieve more than 200 percent revenue growth.
Prior to Genesys, McNulty had a distinguished career at Intel Corporation, where he held several positions in marketing and business development. He also served as general manager of the company’s commercial memory and micro systems division.
Stephen J. Mellor
Freeter
Integranova
Stephen J. Mellor is an internationally recognized pioneer in creating effective, engineering approaches to software development. In 1985, he published the widely read Ward-Mellor trilogy Structured Development for Real-Time Systems, and in 1988, the first books defining object-oriented analysis. Stephen also published Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture in 2002. His latest book MDA Distilled: Principles of Model-Driven Architecture was published in 2004.
He is active in the Object Management Group, chairing the consortium that added executable actions to the UML. He is is now working on the executable UML foundation standard at the OMG. Perhaps surprisingly, he is also a signatory to the Agile Manifesto.
Stephen acts as Chair of the IEEE Software Advisory Board, and is an adjunct professor at the Australian National University.
Bob Muglia
Senior Vice President,
Server and Tools Business
Microsoft
Bob Muglia is Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business (STB), a part of the Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft. STB is chartered to deliver Microsoft's unique vision for information technology professionals and developers: "Empower People across the IT Lifecycle through Integrated Software Innovation." As STB business leader, Muglia is responsible for developing and marketing Microsoft's infrastructure and developer software. This integrated set of products provides the foundation for IT operations, security, application development and integration. This portfolio includes Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center management products and the Forefront line of business security products.
Muglia is a member of Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team (which includes Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer) that is responsible for shaping the company's business and technology strategy.
Since joining Microsoft in January 1988, Muglia has served in a variety of positions, including managing the development of the MSN network of Internet services and Microsoft Office family of business productivity applications, Windows Server applications, and productivity appliances such as Pocket PCs, eBooks and Tablet PCs. In addition, Muglia helped to bring together the Visual Studio family of developer tools and drive the Win32 API, customer requirements and product specification for the Microsoft Windows NT operating system.
Before joining Microsoft, Muglia was a development manager at ROLM Co. Muglia holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Michigan.
Kathy Paladino
President, Enterprise Mobility
Motorola
Kathy Paladino is president of Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility business headquartered in Holtsville, NY. In this role, Kathy is responsible for the business strategy and day-to-day operations of the Enterprise Mobility business which also includes a network of nearly 10,000 partners from around the world.
Joining Motorola (formerly Symbol Technologies) in 2004, Kathy held sales leadership positions in the U.S. and Americas International Theaters and most recently held the position of Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales.
Prior to joining Motorola, Kathy spent eight years with Cisco Systems leading Cisco’s U.S. Cable and Emerging Service Provider business. A 20-year technology industry veteran, Kathy has held sales management positions at Dell Computer and Wang Laboratories.
Kathy is on the Board of Directors for the AeA, a nationwide non-profit trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry. In the past, she has served on the board of directors of the Telecommunications Industry Association and was the 2003 Chair of the Women’s Action Network at Cisco. Beginning in 2004, she’s been proud to act as executive sponsor of Motorola’s Women’s Action Team.
Kathy holds a BSFS Degree from Georgetown University and resides in New Canaan, CT with her husband Matt and son, Mike.
C. K. Prahalad
Distinguished Professor,
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
C.K. Prahalad, the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan specializes in corporate strategy. His books include Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision (1987), co-authored with Yves Doz, Competing for the Future (1994), co-authored with Gary Hamel named the Best Selling Business Book of the Year in 1994. The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers (2004) (co-authored with Venkatram Ramaswamy), and translated into twelve languages. Business Week described the book as “provocative” and “an important book full of disruptive ideas”. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profit (2004). The book was selected as one of the best books of the year 2004 by The Economist, Fast Company and Amazon.com.
He is also the author of numerous award-winning articles. Harvard Business Review awarded him McKinsey Prizes for: “The End of Corporate Imperialism”, co-authored with Kenneth Lieberthal (1998); “The Core Competence of the Corporation”, co-authored with Gary Hamel (1990), and “Strategic Intent”, also co-authored with Gary Hamel (1989); “Weak Signals vs. Strong Paradigms”, published in the Journal of Marketing Research (1995), was awarded the 1997 ANBAR Electronic Citation of Excellence; “The Dominant Logic: A New Linkage between Diversity and Performance (1986), co-authored with Richard Bettis, was selected the Best Article published in the Strategic Management Journal for the period 1980-88; “The Role of Core Competencies in the Corporation” (1993) received the 1994 Maurice Holland Award as the Best Paper published in Research Technology Management in 1993; “A Strategy for Growth: The Role of Core Competence in the Corporation” won the European Foundation for Management Award in 1993.
He has been honored for his contributions with a Life Time Achievement Award by the Ross School of Business. He received honorary doctorates from the University of London (Economics), Stevens Institute of Technology (Engineering),University of Abertay, Dundee (Business) and University of Tilberg (Business). He was a member of the UN Blue Ribbon Commission on Private Sector and Development.
A prominent world-class figure, Professor Prahalad was named number one in the Thinkers50 (the most influential thinkers in management alive today) poll conducted by Suntop media and the Times of London. He has consulted with the top management of many of the world’s foremost companies. He serves on the Board of Directors of NCR Corporation, Teradata Corporation, Hindustan Unilever Limited and the World Resources Institute. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) a global organization devoted to democratizing entrepreneurship.
Mark B. Templeton
President and CEO
Citrix
Mark B. Templeton joined Citrix as vice president for marketing in 1995, and was promoted to president in 1998 and CEO in 1999. Templeton has led the company’s transformation from a leader in a niche market – server-based computing – to a global leader in Application Delivery Infrastructure. Citrix has grown from offering one product about four years ago to a portfolio of products and solutions that allow applications to be delivered, shared, and supported on demand with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost.
More than 200,000 organizations around the world rely on Citrix. Through Templeton’s vision and the company’s strong execution, Citrix revenues have grown from $527 million in 2002 to $1.4 billion in 2007. Templeton is a passionate participant in many community and charitable organizations, and has received numerous leadership awards.
Templeton holds a BA in product design from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the Darden School, the University of Virginia’s graduate school of business.
Jayshree V. Ullal
Senior Vice President, Data Center,
Switching and Services Group
Cisco
Jayshree Ullal, Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Data Center, Switching and Services Group, is a networking executive veteran with experience in engineering, marketing, and business positions. She has spent more than 15 years with Cisco and is currently responsible for driving the direction and execution of modular Cisco Catalyst 4000/6000 Series switching for campus, the new Nexus Data Center switching series, and the expansion into application networking, virtualization, and integrated security services. She is responsible for about $10 billion in direct and $15 billion of indirect revenue.
Ullal previously was Senior Vice President of the Security Technology group, doubling the Self-Defending Networks portfolio to $2 billion and a market share greater than 40 percent across three years. Previously, as Senior Vice President of the Optical Networking Group, she streamlined the business to profitability. She served as coleader of the Service Provider Business Council for key initiatives in high-end routing. Earlier at Cisco, she grew the Cisco Catalyst switching business from its beginning in 1993 to a $5 billion business in 2000, leading its market. As Vice President and General Manager of the LAN Switching in the Enterprise group, Ullal initiated strategic initiatives including unified communications and IP telephony, content networking, and policy networking, giving Cisco enterprise switching a 70 percent market share and overseeing some 20 mergers and acquisitions for the company in the enterprise sector.
Prior to joining Cisco, Ullal was the Vice President of Marketing at Crescendo Communications, which was Cisco’s first acquisition. There she helped pioneer CDDI 100-Mbps over copper and managed the first standards-based CDDI products and first-generation Ethernet switching. She was Director of Internetworking Products at Ungermann-Bass for four years and also held several engineering and strategy positions in Advanced Micro Devices and Fairchild Semiconductor. Strategic and results-oriented, Ullal’s expertise lies in building strong, talented, and competitive teams focused on achieving goals.
Ullal was named as one of the “50 Most Powerful People” in the 2005 Network World, was nominated one of the 20 powerful “Women to Watch in 2001” by Newsweek, and awarded 2001 Innovator and Influencer Award by Information Week. She was the first woman to be awarded the Entrepreneurial and Leadership award, sponsored by Silicon India, in 1999. She is a prominent spokesperson in many business and networking conferences. She has mentored several high-tech networking start-ups as a board member or advisor. She was an executive sponsor for Cisco’s Women in Technology Action Network and a board member of the Anita Borg Institute.
Ullal holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from San Francisco State University and a master of science degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University.
Philip Winslow
Vice President - Software Analyst
Credit Suisse
Philip Winslow is a Vice President in the technology research group at Credit Suisse with coverage of the software industry. He originally joined Credit Suisse as an Associate, covering the Internet Infrastructure Software sector. Philip graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
