As Global IT Chief Security Officer, Tom Dunbar holds global responsibility for XL Capital’s overall IT Security program. This includes the company’s IT security strategy, tactics, planning, governance, architecture, and operations. Mr. Dunbar is also responsible for the company’s security policies and standards including Information Risk Management. Additionally, he manages the global Disaster Recovery Program for the XL organization. Mr. Dunbar joined XL in 2002 as their first Global IT CSO and was promoted to Senior Vice President in April 2005.

Mr. Dunbar has 10 years experience in Information Security. He holds both the CISSP and CISM certifications. Prior to joining XL, he was Director of Information Security Programs at Citigroup where he was responsible for the management of information security officers through the Citigroup global network and the direction of IS programs including policy, standards, training, awareness, metrics, and financials.

Mr. Dunbar holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Dunbar is co-inventor of record on two patented Information Security effectiveness/measurement tools: Citigroup Information Security Evaluation Model (Citi-ISEM) and the Information Security Metrics Program.

Mr. Dunbar is the recipient of the 2006 SC Magazine Award CSO of the Year.

As director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C., Jim Harper focuses on the difficult problems of adapting law and policy to the unique problems of the information age. He is the author of the acclaimed new book Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood, and is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.

Harper's work has been cited by USA Today, the Associated Press, and Reuters. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CBS, and MSNBC, and other media, and his scholarly articles have appeared in the Administrative Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Harper is the editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think tank devoted exclusively to privacy, and he maintains online federal spending resource WashingtonWatch.com. He holds a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law.

One of the IT industry's most respected analysts and consultants, Jamie Lewis drives and provides strategic direction for Burton Group's overall research efforts. With over 21 years of experience in the IT industry, Lewis has both studied and influenced the development of core network infrastructure technologies. In his five-year tenure at Novell, for example, Lewis helped educate the market about the emergence of the network operating system, directory services, and messaging systems.

Lewis continued to focus on these and other core technologies after co-founding Burton Group in 1990. He has dedicated 16 years to Burton Group, working as both an analyst and a consultant. During that time, Lewis was instrumental in defining the concepts relevant to enterprise directories, meta-directories, access management systems, and other essential components of the emerging identity and access management infrastructure. More recently, Lewis charted Burton Group's expansion into Web services, application platforms, and security with the launch of the Application Platform Strategies and Security and Risk Management Strategies. With Lewis' reliable guidance, Burton Group continues to monitor the evolution of these core technologies to support networked business models. Prominent users and vendors turn to Lewis for his keen insights into the evolution of these technologies and the markets that drive their development.

Since assuming the executive leadership of the Alliance in 2002, Scott Wallace has become a fixture in Washington and other policy circles as a voice for the potential of information technology to solve problems related to cost, efficiency and effectiveness of medical care and health management. His legal and entrepreneurial background complements a knowledge of healthcare issues, positions and players as he guides the Alliance in its the role of consensus-builder and authority on IT-related policy, clinical and technology issues.

Recent leadership roles include chairing the congressionally chartered Commission on Systemic Interoperability, a broadly based appointed body that issued 14 recommendations for accelerating the pace of health IT adoption and making the importance of this adoption resonant to consumers. He was named twice to Modern Healthcare magazine’s annual list of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.”

Mr. Wallace previously was principal owner of Great Lakes Capital, a financial, commercial and business-development consulting firm with a major focus on technology. Prior to starting Great Lakes Capital, he led several technology-based companies: He served as president and CEO of PowerClip Co., a wireless products company; president and CEO of Eichrom Industries, an advanced materials and specialty chemical company that earned a spot on Inc. magazine’s 1996 lists of the 500 fastest growing companies in America; and vice president and general counsel for GCE, a venture capital fund.

Mr. Wallace earned a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, a master’s degree with honors in business administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University. He began his career practicing corporate and transactional law at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.

Phil Becker is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital ID World and a Managing Partner of Digital ID World, LLC. Phil has a BSEE from Vanderbilt University and has been in the computer industry since 1967. His signature is on both the Moon and Mars, for computer communications projects he built for the Apollo and Viking missions. Phil has created technology to link computers in both the pre-Internet and Internet eras and as an entrepreneur built and took public two companies in the computer communications and Internet spaces. In 1992 he founded ISPCON and grew it to be the premiere Internet Service Provider Trade Show. Phil is a technical best selling author and speaker about the Internet, digital identity, and their impact on business and society.

Doc Searls is a writer and speaker on topics that arise where technology and business meet. He is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, one of the world's leading technology monthlies, with a paid circulation of over 100,000. He is also co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Borders Books and Amazon.com bestseller. (It was Amazon's #1 sales & marketing bestseller for thirteen months and sells around the world in nine languages.). Doc also writes the Doc Searls Weblog. J.D. Lasica of Annenberg's Online Journalism Review calls Doc "one of the deep thinkers in the blog movement." Doc's blog has over 60,000 readers per month.

Jeff is the manager of Directory Services at Fifth Third Bancorp. Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio with 104.6 Billion in assets with over 1,100 full service banking centers. Jeff is responsible for day-to-day oversight and evangelization of the entire Directory Services environment for the Bancorp as well as leading identity integration projects at the bank.

Jeff brings 10 years of Directory Services and Identity Management experience with practice production experience with Novell, Microsoft, Netscape, Radiant Logic, and Sun directory systems; working most recently at Andersen Consulting / Accenture in the Infrastructure Outsourcing group. Prior to this conference Jeff has presented at the Radiant Technologies User Group and Digital Identity World – Frankfurt on topics of single sign-on, directory federation and virtualization, and general Identity topics.

Michael Barrett is the chief information security officer for PayPal. In this role he is responsible for ensuring the security of information systems and services, as well as the integrity and confidentiality of customer and employee information. Before joining PayPal, Barrett was vice president of security and utility strategy at American Express where he helped define the company’s information-security program and directed its Internet technology strategy.

Previously, Barrett was president of the Liberty Alliance, an open-standards consortium focused on identity management standards and guidelines. Barrett was the driving force behind the introduction and standardization of the Alliance’s federated identity concepts, and he also co-chaired its Identity Theft Prevention Working Group. Barrett is both a certified information systems security professional (CISSP) and a certified information security manager (CISM). He graduated from Brighton University (U.K.), where he earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science.

Ian has 23 years of IT experience that includes software development in the oil and gas, national defense, and health sectors, and infrastructure planning and design with the BC provincial government. For the past 6 years Ian has led the design and implementation of the Identity Management infrastructure in the BC Government.

Ian leads a team of technical staff providing architecture and design of the corporate active directory infrastructure, web single-sign-on, BCeID Internet User authentication, meta-directory services, two-factor authentication, wireless LAN and remote access authentication. Ian has a BSc. in Computer Science from the University of Victoria.

Paul has over 20 years leadership experience in the IT security industry in technology, product and business development. In 1984 he developed the world’s first high-speed implementation of the now ubiquitous RSA crypto-system. In 1990, he co-founded authentication token business, (Nasdaq: SMDK), which he managed and led to a successful sale in 1996. In 1998 Paul joined Visage Developments Limited – developers of the Passfaces™ system – which in 2000 he restructured and relocated to the USA as Real User Corporation. Paul has a BS in Electronics from Sussex University and an MS in Computation from Oxford.

Mike Beach is an E-business Security Specialist in the Computing Security Infrastructure organization of The Boeing Company. His primary responsibilities are in the area of authentication and authorization systems, with a current focus on web single sign-on, cross-company federation, and access provisioning efforts. Mike has been with Boeing for 20 years providing information management and systems development expertise. He has been chief engineer/architect for several major system development projects, and was selected as a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow in 1995. He is the Boeing representative to the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee and participated in the formulation of SAML 2.0.

Mike holds a Batchelor of Science Mechanical Engineering degree from California State Polytechnic University and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. He was recipient of a 2004 Digital ID World industry award for pioneering federated identity.

Bob Blakley is Principal Analyst at the Burton Group. He was until recently Chief Scientist, Security and Privacy, IBM. He has chaired the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and the New Security Paradigms Workshop.

He holds an AB in Classics from Princeton University, and an MS and PhD in Computer and Communications Science from the University of Michigan.

Dan Blum was the Co-founder and principal of Rapport Communication, which merged with Burton Group in May 1998. He is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of information security, compliance, identity management, federated identity, and directory services. Dan has authored or co-authored over 50 vendor-neutral research reports, technical positions, and methodologies/best practices recommendations within his technology focus areas. He has consulted for many Global 1000 companies on key strategic architecture and technology decisions. He has participated in and contributed to standards organizations such as the International Information Integrity Institute (I4), Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP), International Standards Organization (ISO) and National Institutes of Standards (NIST). He has worked with technology suppliers, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Syntaxes (OASIS), and Liberty Alliance to promote the use of federated identity management through industry events and interoperability demonstrations. He is also a columnist for Network World, co-author of "The E-mail Frontier," published by Addison-Wesley, 1994 and author of "Understanding Microsoft Active Directory Services," published by Microsoft Press, 2000.

Chris Cahalin has over 18 years of experience in the IT field with responsibilities including: IT strategic planning, IT architectural design, enterprise IT security, IT governance, IT capital expenditures, and enterprise operations spanning 400+ restaurant locations.

Papa Gino's Inc. and D'Angelo Sandwich Shops Inc. has implemented the first, and most comprehensive, enterprise deployment of trusted computing in the nation.

Chris serves as a member of the 2006 Client Customer Advisory Council for Dell Inc. and maintains industry expertise participating in such events as Microsoft's VISTA Technology Adoption Program as a partner.

As Director of IT Compliance, Michael Chilton is responsible for ensuring IT compliance with all Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) policies as well as any applicable regulations and legislation. He works closely with both internal and external audit to remediate any deficiencies detected and determine systemic changes to ensure that remediation efforts span beyond specific findings. Michael also is responsible for ensuring contract compliance with CHW's IT service provider, Perot Systems Corporation.

Prior to his position with CHW, Michael was an Account Executive for Siemens Business Services responsible for sales, service delivery, and customer relationship management with a major government client. Michael has also worked in the aerospace industry although the majority of his career was spent at Intel Corporation in Middle and Senior management positions inside and outside of IT helping to connect-the-dots between business requirements and the IT organizations. Michael Chilton has a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from SUNY Buffalo (New York).

Thomas Cleveland is an Information Security Analyst for the University of North Carolina Health Care System. With over 20 years of IT experience he specialized in needs assessment, product evaluation and leading edge system integration. Previously, he was an IT Consultant for the University of North Carolina. He was instrumental in introducing distributed processing to educational and research initiatives; later to launch the same effort for the UNC Health Care System. These projects included research and evaluation of advanced workstations and servers, enterprise network infrastructure and security engineering. His current focus is on identity management, authentication, and access continuity.

Sean Convery is CTO at Identity Engines, a venture-backed startup developing innovative identity management solutions for enterprise networks. Prior to Identity Engines, Sean worked for seven years at Cisco Systems, most recently in the office of the security CTO.

Sean is best known as the principal architect of Cisco’s SAFE Security Blueprint and the author of “Network Security Architectures” (Cisco Press, 2004). Sean has presented to or consulted with thousands of enterprise customers around the world on designing secure networks. Before Cisco, Sean held various positions in IT and security consulting during his 13 years in networking.

Lee Cooper is director, product management at SAP, in the recently formed Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) business unit. He has held various roles at SAP and is currently responsible for risk management solutions.

Mr. Cooper holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

John Donovan is an IT Security Manager at Network Appliance. He has over 15 years experience in Information Technology engineering and management including 10 years experience with various Identity Management technologies. He's held positions at several enterprise and startup companies in the Silicon Valley including Amdahl, Xilinx, and iBuilding.

John is active in the local information security community and is a board member of the Silicon Valley ISSA Chapter.

Linda brings over 20 years of experience in both payment systems and identity federation governance and policy, as well as payment technologies to bear on client consultations and engagements. Linda has managed large global payments processing, created payments and technology strategies, and hammered out policy and governance issues in both the payments and identity spaces. Linda has worked with both public and private associations as well as Fortune 500 clients.

Before joining Glenbrook, Linda was a founding executive of Ping Identity where she worked with leading industry groups and commercial adopters of identity federation to create effective business frameworks for federation. Prior to Ping, she served as an Executive Vice President of Visa International for the global Visa payments systems, and Electronic Commerce initiatives, and was the founding policy and strategy officer of Inovant, Visa’s wholly owned payments processing arm. Linda had responsibility for all Visa systems, including the online real-time authorization system and the global clearing and settlement systems.

Shawn Ellis has over 13 years of experience in the IT Security and Software Engineering fields. He has been a Director of Identity and Access Management in Information Security for Raymond James Financial since 2003. In this role, Shawn has architected and built a successful Identity and Access Management program, as well as developing secure software development policies and performing software design reviews to support the software engineering efforts at Raymond James. Previously, Shawn worked for the defense and space systems contractor Honeywell, Inc. where his responsibilities included secure software systems engineering and systems architecture. Additionally, he worked for BP, The University of Georgia and On Line Instrument Systems where his varied responsibilities included, program and project management, systems and software engineering, and secure software development.

Johannes Ernst is the CEO of NetMesh Inc. NetMesh develops a Web 2.0 software platform called InfoGrid, that includes a decentralized identity layer. NetMesh also runs MyLID.net, a hosted identity service. Johannes is credited with the idea of URL-based, light-weight identity (LID). He is one of the originators of the Yadis identity interoperability and discovery specification.

Prior to NetMesh, Johannes was with BMW Research and Engineering and with FZI in Germany, then with an embedded software vendor in Silicon Valley and a startup he founded during the bubble. He contributed to the beginnings of the Unified Modeling Language, and had leadership positions in various industry groups such as the Object Management Group. He has a doctorate in EE, and has been recognized by the World Economic Forum in its Davos meeting as a "Technology Pioneer".

Dan Farber is vice-president of editorial at CNET Networks and editor-in-chief of ZDNet. Dan has more than 25 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. He joined ZDNet in 1996, and led the development of ZDNet's worldwide network of more than 70 technology-focused sites. At CNET, he has led the development of ZDNet's network of blogs covering the intersection of business and technology.

Randy Fix has focused on software development of business and engineering systems to support engineering, procurement, and construction projects. He has worked in numerous areas of technology including scientific computing, 3D design, electronic document management, geographical information systems, and knowledge management.

He is currently responsible for the architecture and development of knowledge management and collaboration environments to support Fluor's business units. This includes document control tools to protect both Fluor and their client's intellectual property. Fluor has recently deployed the Adobe(r) LiveCycle Policy Server solution to control, track, and dynamically change rights for mobile documents to protect intellectual property.

Mr. Fix holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. In addition he is a licensed Professional Engineer and an Industry Advisor for Stanford's Center for Integrated Facility Engineering.

Steven Gal co-founded ID Analytics in March 2002. Since founding ID Analytics, Gal has led initial sales and marketing efforts for the company's market entries into the US and UK markets as well as the consumer and government markets, and established the company’s privacy and regulatory structure as General Counsel.

Gal was most recently a Group Vice President at HNC Software, Inc. (now part of Fair Isaac) where he had general management responsibility for an HNC business unit focused on end-to-end data management and analytic optimization for some of the world's largest credit card issuers. Prior to joining HNC, Gal ran global marketing and business development organizations in the enterprise software industry. As Vice President of Marketing at Prime Response, Inc., Gal was a member of the executive team that led the company through an initial public offering and merger with Chordiant Software. Gal also ran global marketing and business development at Inference Corporation (acquired by eGain Communications), and co-founded and served as President and CEO of Semio Corporation (acquired by Entrieva).

Prior to entering the technology industry, Gal was an Associate Professor in the Entrepreneur Program at the University of Southern California's (USC) Marshall School of Business, where he taught entrepreneurship and strategy, and spent several years on Wall Street in risk arbitrage and on the floor of the New York Futures Exchange. Gal is an attorney and a member of the California Bar, with a focus on the regulatory aspects of data privacy. He has a BS, from Cornell University, and a JD, from the University Of Southern California School Of Law

Venkat is responsible for System and Application Architecture, Development, and Deployment teams for SMS, EMS messaging system for customers for Customer Service, Self service and marketing, for Verizon Wireless. He is also responsible for Service Oriented Architecture for Customer care, middleware infrastructure Services, and Managing Customer Care enterprise team.

Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Venkatt had worked at Conrail, WIPRO, and TCS. Venkat has received Masters in Computer Science and Bachelor of Engineering degrees. He has served as Secretary for his local chapter of the Institution of engineers, and also the Indian society for technical education.

Ian Glazer is the director of identity strategy for Trusted Network Technologies, where he is responsible for business partnerships, product strategy and working with key industry identity groups such as the Identity Gang. Prior to TNT, Ian was one of the main product managers on the IBM Tivoli identity management team responsible for the provisioning connectors, small and medium business provisioning offerings, and user management componentization. His duties also included work with standards bodies such as OASIS.

Ian joined IBM through its acquisition of identity management leader Access360, where he stared the federal sales group for identity management. His responsibilities at Access360 included sales engineering, field marketing, solution development and product management. Before that, Ian worked for Oracle in the federal sales group. He was a trusted technical advisor to some of Oracle’s largest accounts in the U.S. federal government including the U.S. Postal Service, Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Education.

Ian, a Washington D.C. resident, is an avid martial artist and writer. He is a frequent blogger on Trusted Network Technologies’ blog, as well as his personal blog. He received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, and has also studied at the University of Edinburgh.

Patrick Harding was a VP and Architect at Fidelity Investments where he was responsible for aligning identity management and security technologies with the strategic goals of the business.

Mr. Harding has been integrally involved with the implementation of federated identity technologies at Fidelity -- from "napkin" to production. Mr. Harding represented Fidelity within the Liberty Alliance since its foundation and has contributed Fidelity's requirements to the development of the SAML 2.0 specification within OASIS.

Previously, Mr Harding was a software developer before joining Fidelity and participating in the build out of Fidelity's original Internet firewall infrastructure. Mr. Harding spent time consulting on Internet security in the late 1990's before returning to Fidelity to focus on Internet application security, identity management and web services security.

Mr. Harding has over 15 years experience in software development, networking infrastructure and information security. His industry experience includes financial services, travel services and consulting. Mr. Harding has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

A pioneer in the internet sector and open source software community, Dick Hardt has been active in technology development for nearly two decades. His most recent venture, Sxip Identity, builds Identity 2.0 appliances and enables authentic internet identities. Sxip provides on-demand identity management solutions for the enterprise and user- centric solutions that securely automate the exchange of identity data on the Web.

Prior to Sxip, Hardt founded ActiveState in 1997. Under his leadership as CEO, ActiveState became a leader in tools for open source programming languages and anti-spam software and was acquired by UK-based security company, Sophos in 2003.

Jason Hart is Chief Executive Officer and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Hart brings strong leadership, teamwork, and a focus on delivering real business value to ActivIdentity customers. Mr Hart is also responsible for the Company's sales and marketing initiatives, product management and business development activities. Mr. Hart serves on the Company's board of directors.

Mr. Hart founded Protocom in 1989 and has received many awards and industry and international recognition for his business acumen, innovation, and leadership in the information and communication technology sector. Mr. Hart was named the Ernst & Young Australian Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002, and was awarded an Honoree Ambassadorship for the Australian Capital Territory Government in 2001. Under Mr. Hart's guidance, Protocom became the fastest growing Australian software development firm, measured in terms of its revenue growth and staff expansion by Deloitte Australia Technology Fast 50 in 2004.

David Hochhauser is Vice President of Eurekify North American operations. Prior to joining Eurekify, David managed world-wide marketing and business development for Shunra, an innovative and fast growing network and application performance management software company. David was previously the head of brand-marketing responsible for partner, marketing and product strategy and programs for Computer Associates Unicenter family of infrastructure management solutions. David was with CA for 4 years, initially as head of their corporate market strategy group after a 16 year career at IBM where he held a variety of positions in security and e-commerce business units, and IT strategy consulting. He has extensive experience in business development, business and product strategy and planning, marketing and product management, managing partner and customer relationships, and solution definition across a broad range of industries. David has a Masters of Science in Physics from New York University and graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a Bachelors degree in Chemistry.

Possessing a significant presence in the area of intellectual property (IP) for the networking and semiconductor industry, Ram Jayam is CEO and Founder of Apere Inc. Prior to founding Apere, Ram served as Vice President and General Manager, SNG segment at Adaptec. Ram, a graduate of the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Computer Engineering, has deep and varied experience in the technology and semiconductor areas, including the founding of a number of successful start-ups.

Ram's career includes the development of CMOS processors at Amdahl Corp. Subsequently, he worked on serial controller and Ethernet designs at Cirrus Logic, and later with the services of Larry Roberts of AMP Inc., he worked on ATM designs. Ram identified an extraordinary opportunity in protocol acceleration for storage, and subsequently founded Platys Communications. He rapidly established Platys as a leading provider of networking solutions: Gigabit Ethernet, Sonet and Network Protocol Processors. This ultimately resulted in the successful sale of Platys to Adaptec in 2001.

Ram is a recognized authority in the technology and semiconductor field, and continues to be an active participant in media discussions and a frequently requested speaker at industry conferences. He is also on the Board of several technology companies including Vianeta and Innova.

Dave Jevans is the CEO of IronKey Inc., and Chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (www.Anti-Phishing.org), a consortium of over 1,500 financial services companies, ISPs, law enforcement agencies and technology vendors dedicated to fighting email fraud and identity theft online. Dave's distinguished career in Internet security includes Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President positions at Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ: TMWD), Valicert (NASDAQ: VLCT), Teros (acquired by Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS)) and Differential.

Dave is the holder of numerous U.S. patents, and has a Master of Science degree from University of Calgary, Canada.

As Vice President of Corporate Development Kurt is responsible for driving Courion's strategic vision and direction. In this role he is responsible for product management and securing and managing Courion's alliances and partnerships. Prior to Courion, Kurt was Vice President of the Service Management Strategies program at META Group, a leading industry research organization. At META, Kurt established himself as a leading authority on the help desk, IT service management, systems management and IT outsourcing markets. Kurt is widely recognized as an authority on support automation and self-service operations and identity management. Kurt was an original member of the Help Desk Institute (HDI) Strategic Board of Directors, and was recognized by the Help Desk Professionals Association as a "Help Desk Industry Legend". Before joining META Group, Kurt was with The Bentley Group, a leading CRM consulting firm as head of its CRM Practice, and with International Data Corporation, a leader in IT market research. Kurt also worked in financial and software product management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation. Kurt has Bachelor of Science degrees in both Marketing and Finance from Boston College.

Mr Kadlec has 13 years experience in information technologies ranging from systems administration to enterprise identity management architecture. Steve Kadlec is responsible for access and identity management at GE Healthcare. In the past 5 years Steve has led technologies such as Microsoft SMS, Exchange, Active Directory, MIIS, and has led design for large scale acquisition integrations.

As vice president of strategic alliances in the Consumer Solutions Division at RSA Security, Steve Klebe drives strategic relationships with technology companies and industry associations – and evaluates opportunities for entering and developing new markets – for the company’s broad portfolio of products and services designed to bolster security and confidence in the online channel by protecting organizations, their brands, and their customers against fraud and the latest online threats.

Steve joined RSA Security via its acquisition of PassMark Security in 2006. He has over 25 years of experience in electronic payment, fraud and data security and was one of the earliest evangelists for Internet-based payment, e-commerce, fraud prevention and authentication.

Prior to his role as vice president of sales and business development at PassMark Security, Steve was vice president of strategic alliances at CyberSource. During his eight years there he developed relationships with Visa International, Visa USA, GE Capital, First Data Merchant services, Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, Paymentech and others. Earlier in his career, he held management positions at CyberCash, VeriFone and Atalla.

Steve has been on the board of directors of the Electronic Transaction Association, co-chaired the Internet committee of the Electronic Funds Transfer Association, and taught classes at NACHA’s Payment Institute. He has presented at over 50 banking and computer industry conferences. Steve holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University.

Karthik Krishnan is a Senior Product Manager in the Security Products Group at Juniper Networks. His responsibilities include driving the business strategies, product development, partner interactions and customer engagements to help drive the growth of Unified Access Control, Juniper’s LAN Access Control solution. Unified Access Control helps enterprises secure access to network and resources within the LAN from diverse users and endpoints in a standards based fashion. As a result, enterprises can granularly defeat threats, ensure compliance and deliver secure and assured network services. He was instrumental in the launch of the solution in 2005 and is also driving the development of the next generation of the solution, including the integration of the Funk technologies into the product line.

Prior to this, his responsibilities included driving the business strategies, product development, partner interactions and customers to help drive the growth of Juniper's SSL VPN product line. More specifically, he was instrumental in the release of the industry's first adaptive dual transport mode VPN functionality on the SSL VPN product, enabling customers to converge all their remote access needs, from clientless web based access to full network access, on a single platform. The Juniper SSL VPN products have earned the most awards and industry accolades in the SSL VPN market since first shipping in 2001, and still represent the market’s leading SSL VPN solution.

Prior to Juniper, Karthik worked at Intel Corporation where he managed their competitive marketing program and also worked in the microprocessor design group, responsible for the successful development and launch of Intel's first Celeron microprocessor. Karthik has also worked for Microsoft Corporation in their server marketing organization. Karthik has a Bachelors in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Heidi Kujawa is the Director of Enterprise Applications for Sony Pictures Entertainment. She has worked in the technology industry for more than 12 years. During the past 5 years, her primary focus has been deployment of enterprise-wide strategic initiatives such as; identity management, content management and portal technology for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Heidi is a PMP and an active speaker at technical and project management related conferences.

Prior to joining Sony Pictures Entertainment, Heidi was an independent consultant for various companies throughout the US.

Don Long has worked in the IT industry for 34 years. He currently serves as Senior Director of Information Services and Technology for White Castle Management Co. which operates 400 quick service restaurants. Prior to joining White Castle Don worked in Government, Insurance and owned and operated a consulting business which provided IT services for Government and Private Industry.

Long has a history of speaking engagements for technology and vertical trade shows to include a Technology & Track session presentation on a biometrics project at MURTEC (Multi-Unit Restaurant Technology Conference) in 2005, and numerous NRA (National Restaurant Association) conference presentations. He also conducted a number of presentations on technology during a past role as president of COPUG (Central Ohio PowerBuilder User group).

At EpicTide, Mr. Long is responsible for the business strategy and operation of EpicTide including sales and marketing. Prior to founding EpicTide, Kurt founded and served as CEO of two highly successful software companies, OpenNetwork Technologies, acquired by BMC Software in 2005 and OpenWeb, acquired by USWeb in 1997. Mr. Long is a recognized expert in the "AAA" security industry (Authentication, Authorization, Audit).

Some of the awards that Mr. Long or the companies he founded have received include: AlwaysOn – AO Top 100 Private Companies 2003 and 2004, Ernst & Young Florida Finalist Entrepreneur of the Year 2001, Deloitte and Touche Fast 500 (Multiple years), Global Software 500 Recognition (Multiple years), Deloitte and Touche Technology Corridor Fast 50 (Multiple years), Florida Fast 100 (Multiple years), University of South Florida Distinguished Alumni – Pinellas Chapter, and University of South Florida Distinguished Company – Pinellas Chapter

The common elements of Mr. Long’s companies are a passionate focus on providing best-of-breed software solutions, an extreme commitment to customer success and the recruitment of great people. At the outset of his career, Kurt held positions of growing responsibility with Lockheed Space Operations at Kennedy Space Center and IBM. Mr. Long received a Bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Florida graduating with High Honors. He also received a Master’s degree in Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science from the University of South Florida, graduating with Honors. Mr. Long serves on numerous commercial and community Boards.

Chris Lundell is a Network Engineer at the Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse's satellite office in Lebanon, NH, where he manages (and was the primary designer for) the Identity Management stack serving over 24,000 employees. Burlington Coat Factory recently completed the conversion of their UNIX authentication scheme from NIS to LDAP as part of their SOX/auditor compliance.

Chris is also a member of the Customer Advisory Board of the Identity Management Division at Oracle Corporation. Chris holds a Doctorate of Music from Indiana University, and is the Organist at Dartmouth College.

Jeff McIlrath has been with Accenture since 1992 and has more than 13 years of experience in risk management, focusing on internal controls and identity and access management solutions. He has held various roles at the company including internal audit, corporate finance, and product management.

Currently, Mr. McIlrath is responsible for Accenture's CIO Information Security organization, which includes the managing the company's information security strategy, policy development, compliance reviews, security awareness, and identity and access management.

Cathy Medich is an independent consultant focusing on marketing and strategic planning for technology businesses. Past and present clients include: Hewlett-Packard, Zantaz, Securify, ePatterns, the Smart Card Alliance, NACHA, RadarGolf, ViVOtech and VeriSign.

Michael Melo is the Manager of Identity Management Architecture for the Walt Disney Company. In this role, he is responsible for evolving Disney's Identity Management strategy, policy, and architecture. Before joining Disney in 1998, Michael worked at Time-Warner and McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Company (now Boeing).

Michael believes that bios often get too lengthy and self-promoting, so he will stop now.

Ryan is the Director of Global Information Assurance at Federal-Mogul Corporation. He has more than 15 years of experience in both the automotive manufacturer and supplier industries.

At Federal-Mogul, Miller is globally responsible for Information Security, IS Compliance, and Disaster Recovery Planning. He is a member of the CIO’s IS Global Management Team and also plays a governance role over all IS projects to ensure compliance to Federal-Mogul Information Assurance standards.

Prior to joining Federal-Mogul in 2005, Miller was the IT Audit Manager for DaimlerChrysler AG. In that role he was the auditor-in-charge for major North American audits as well as audits with a global scope. Between 1999 and 2003, Miller had the overall IT responsibility for one of the programs of DaimlerChrysler’s e-business holding company, DCXNET. Between 1995 and 1999 Miller held several roles with increasing responsibility within DaimlerChrysler’s IT group.

Miller began his automotive IT career at EDS in 1991. Over the course of four years he served in a variety of positions with increasing responsibility at EDS for the General Motors account.

Miller has undergraduate degrees in Accounting and Business Administration from Grace College as well as an MBA from Oakland University.

Mr. Nadalin is a Distinguished Engineer and the chief security architect for IBM Software Group. As a Distinguished Engineer, he is responsible for security infrastructure design and development. He serves as the primary security liaison to Sun Microsystems JavaSoft Division for Java security design and development collaboration. Also Anthony serves as the primary security liaison in development of Web Services security specifications to Microsoft. In his 23-year career with IBM, he has held the following positions, Lead Security architect for VM/SP, and Security architect for AS/400, Security architect for OS/2. He has also authored and co-authored over forty technical journal and conference articles and published several books on Java Security and the Internet. Anthony is also the co-author and editor of various Web Services security and Web Services specifications.

Sachin Nayyar is a Partner at Vaau. Sachin has over 12 years of experience in the Enterprise Security, Risk Management, Identity Management and Regulatory Compliance. Sachin is an acclaimed thought leader in the Identity Management, Identity Compliance and Role Based Access Control market. He has implemented some of the largest solutions in these areas. Prior to joining Vaau, Sachin worked for Ernst and Young where he managed and led several role definition, identity management, security assessment and design and compliance projects. Sachin has BS in MIS and is a CISSP.

Dave Nikolejsin was appointed as B.C.’s Chief Information Officer in July 2005. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for BCNET. From 2003 to 2005, Dave was Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Management Services, responsible for the NetWork BC (Digital Divide) Initiative. This initiative was created to respond to the New Era commitment to “connect every BC community to high-speed broadband.” It remains part of Dave’s new mandate.

Before that, Dave was Executive Director, Planning and Engineering for Common IT Services from 2001-2003 and Executive Director of Network Services from 1996-2001. He was the BC Systems Corporation’s Director of Network Services from 1994 to 1996, after holding various network management positions from 1989 to 1994. Dave earlier worked as a Network Analyst providing technical support of major services with SaskTel in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Dave graduated with Honours with a Diploma in Electronic Engineering from the Saskatchewan Technical Institute in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He also completed the Executive program in Public Sector Leadership at the Royal Roads University in 2001.

Brian brings 14 years of technology industry experience spanning executive leadership posts in sales, marketing, business development and customer service across the security, telco and network/IT industries. Most recently Brian was Senior Vice President of Sales and Field Operations with Teros, a security appliance developer, where he built a global sales team and guided the company to market leadership. Teros was acquired by Citrix (CTSX). Previous to Teros, Brian was Senior Vice President of Sales, Support and Global Alliances at Atrica, a telco infrastructure provider, where he and his global team drove quarterly sales from zero to 8 figures in just 18 months. Prior to Atrica, he was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Marketing, Support & Business Development for LuxN, Inc., a Metro DWDM equipment provider. LuxN was purchased by Sorrento Networks (SNTO). Previous to LuxN, he held senior sales positions at Cisco and 3Com.

Dale Olds is a Distinguished Engineer in Novell's Identity Products Group. This highly coveted title is bestowed on individuals whose creative work adds extraordinary value to Novell. Dale was the lead designer and implementor of Novell Directory Services (NDS) and Novell eDirectory from 1990 to 2000.

Dale is currently working on the evolution of identity services and is an architect for identity-enabled and Open Source technologies. He is listed as an inventor on 10 patents and has received Novell's Edison, President's, and Inventor Hall of Fame awards. His recent industry experience focused on Linux and Internet content delivery services. Dale has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Jon Oltsik is a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group as well as the founder of its Information Security service in 2003. Oltsik is now widely recognized as an expert in security management and technology and also focuses on identity and access management. Prior to joining ESG Jon was the founder and principal of Hype-Free Consulting. Mr. Oltsik previously served as VP of Marketing & Strategy at GiantLoop Network where he managed all external marketing activities and defined the company’s strategic vision. Jon was also a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered a wide range of infrastructure and IT topics. In this role, he was frequently quoted in business journals including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and the New York Times and was also the recipient of a prestigious "best research" award for his breakthrough report "The Internet Computing Voyage." Jon has held additional marketing management positions at Epoch Systems, Clearpoint Research, and EMC Corporation. Mr. Oltsik has an MBA and a BA degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Bruce Paterson is currently Vice President and Senior Project Manager for Regions Financial Corporation in Montgomery, Alabama. He has managed numerous high profile information technology centric projects impacting all business units for the $85B super regional bank. Bruce led a cross functional team of 45 employees that created a major new deposit product for commercial customers, and managed three projects that modernized security monitoring and facility access control across the company. He also managed development and installation of an automated password management and information access system for 24,000 employees, and he managed a 15 project portfolio that upgraded and modernized the IT infrastructure for the entire enterprise, enabling consolidation with another large bank. Bruce led a cross functional team that developed a new company intranet, revolutionizing the way employees communicate and work.

Prior to Regions, Bruce worked for 27 years in the Department of Defense sector in various computer operations, software development, program management, and communications assignments.

Naresh has many years of experience in Identity management. He currently is a Product manager in the identity management product group at Sun. He manages the Identity Auditor product a new offering aimed at legislative and audit compliance. Before the Sun acquisition of Waveset, Naresh served as solution architect at Waveset technologies where he lead some of the early Identity Management deployments. In addition to deployment experience, Naresh has an extensive engineering background in user management from Tivoli Systems where he was s developer in the User Administration product group.

Mr. Perry has been in the IT field for over 25 years, and has worked in a number of capacities. Working exclusively in the Information Security arena for the last 12 years, Jim holds CISSP and ITIL certifications.

Jim has worked for the Defense Information Systems Agency, providing on-site and remote security assessments of numerous DOD facilities, both in the US and overseas. He has also worked for NASA as a security consultant with the NASA Earth Observation Program, providing detailed technical analysis of various NASA facilities and networks. After leaving DISA, Mr. Perry worked for Network Armor, providing engineering and security related services to customers across many different areas, including state government, as well as universities, and commercial customers. Mr. Perry has worked with Regions Financial Corp since 2003, in vulnerability management, and now manages the user provisioning group.

Rod Piechowski manages all activities related to the impact of technology issues on the healthcare industry’s objectives of advancing the adoption and productive use of healthcare IT. Under Mr. Piechowski’s leadership, the Alliance has achieved consensus within the healthcare industry on basics such as a consistent definition of the concept of interoperability among information systems and devices. As the climate for interoperable exchange of patient health information improves, he has positioned the Alliance to be an authoritative voice for the next wave of challenges that such interoperability will bring: matching patients with their electronic information kept in many different healthcare facilities; assuring the confidentiality of personal health information while making it available to appropriate healthcare professionals; and using standardized approaches to information exchange to reduce the cost of moving supplies through the healthcare system.

Mr. Piechowski spearheaded the launch of a Technology Leadership Committee in 2005, composed of Alliance members with special health IT knowledge and a feel for how technology issues affect the crafting of healthcare IT policy and legislation.

Leveraging his experience in technology leadership, Mr. Piechowski served as a staff resource to the Certification Commission on Healthcare Information Technology, a public-private initiative co-founded by the Alliance in July 2004 to identify elements of electronic health records that IT vendors should include in their products and to certify IT systems that comply.

Before joining the Alliance, Mr. Piechowski was the new product manager at Heidrick & Struggles, a global executive search firm based in Chicago. He was publisher of Worldwide Graphics, a weekly newspaper supplying international merger and acquisition analysis to printing and publishing executives in the U.S., Asia and Europe. He earned a bachelor of science degree in English literature from Northern Michigan University.

Jeff has more than 16 years of experience developing networking and ASIC technologies. Prior to becoming chairman and CTO of ConSentry Networks, Jeff was a founder of Foundry Networks (FDRY), where he lead Foundry's hardware engineering group. Prior to Foundry, Jeff was a founder of Centillion Networks, which was acquired by Bay Networks in 1995. Prior to Centillion, Jeff was a hardware engineering manager at Network Equipment Technologies. Jeff holds eight patents related to networking technologies, and he has a BS in Computer Engineering from California State University Chico. Jeff is also a managing partner at Prince Ventures, LP.

Rakesh Radhakrishnan is a Lead IT Architect in the Communications Market Area of Sun Client Solutions. He has covered Telecom Companies, Network Equipment Providers (NEP) and Service Provider accounts in Europe, Canada, USA and Latin America.

He has over 15 years of experience and has an MBA (MIS) and MS(MIT). He is an active member of Customer Engineering Technology Council (CETC) and was the Chairman of a Working Group on Container Alignment Engine (CAE patent received from Europe and US) at Sun. He has published more that 15 papers on IT Architectures (Frameworks, Process and Techniques) and is a frequent speaker in conferences including OMG, TOG, CMG, IRM, SuperG, SunNetwork, Java ONE, etc. He has led multiple Architecture Workshops and Architecture Assessments for IT Consolidation and Network Identity projects. He was recently featured on Officer Outlook for his work on Aligning Architectural Approaches (Sun's WS-Incite Award for 2005).

Rakesh is also Certified by TOG (on TOGAF 8), SEI (as a SW Architect) and OGC (Prince 2 and ITIL). He has Green Belt Six Sigma training and is a ECCSE (Enterprise Computing Certified Systems Engineer –Competency 2000) and as a Systems Architect Pro (from Peoplesoft).

Dr. Ramaswami Rangarajan "Dr. Ranga" is a Principal Network Systems Designer at Sprint. He has a total of 32 years IT experience that includes 10 years at United Airlines, 10 years at Bank of America and the last 12 years at Sprint.

At Sprint Dr. Ranga has designed various systems that were successfully deployed on the network including Network Call Distributor, Call Redirect Application, SiteRP system used by large Toll Free Customers for Dynamic Network Routing, Centralized Translations Control (CTC) currently being implemented as part of Sprint’s Next Generation Network Architecture and many more. In majority of these projects Dr. Ranga also had the "Overall responsibility" for leading teams charged with the implementation, translation of user requirements to detailed design, program design and development, and coordinating with other groups for performing funding requests, acquisition of hardware/software, Operating Systems installation/upgrades, communication Line configuration, preparation of test scripts and System Integration testing. Lately (2003/2004) Dr. Ranga has been working with Sun on the evaluation of Sun's Systems and Technologies for use in Sprint's Call Processing Architecture.

Dr. Ranga has a PhD from University of California, Berkley in Operations Research and a dual BE (with Honors) from University of Poona in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Dr. Ranga also teaches on a part-time basis at California State University at Hayward since 1976.

Jeff Ross is General Manager & Vice President of the Identity & Enterprise Security business for Gemalto North America. In this role, he is responsible for sales, marketing, solutions development and management, strategy, partnerships and alliances, and customer delivery and technical support. He previously served as Vice President for Marketing & Solutions for Gemplus’ North American Enterprise Security & Identity and Banking & Retail businesses. Prior to joining Gemplus in 2004, Mr. Ross founded Alereon, Inc., a leading wireless semiconductor company focused on ultra wideband technology for wireless USB and next generation Bluetooth. He held the position of Executive Vice President at Alereon responsible for finance, marketing, strategy, and administration.

Mr. Ross also worked as Senior Vice President for Corporate and Business Development at Time Domain Corporation from 1999 to 2003. Prior to Time Domain, Mr. Ross practiced corporate law and worked in venture capital. He has considerable experience working with early-stage wireless, semiconductor, and software companies. Mr. Ross is a frequent speaker on technology issues and has appeared on television and radio and in print in such venues as CNBC and the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Ross holds a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis and a law degree from the University of Virginia.

Jon Siegal has more than 18 years of sales and general management experience. Siegal joined Pay By Touch from Siebel Systems, where he was consistently recognized as one of the top contributors to the company's growth from $40 million to $2 billion in annual revenue. He began his career at IBM Corporation, where he was responsible for sales to the media and entertainment Industries. He previously served as Executive Vice President of Global Distribution and Alliances for Pay By Touch, where he was responsible for Worldwide Channels, Alliances, and Sales.

As Executive Vice President, Pay By Touch Online, Mr. Siegal is responsible for extending the Pay By Touch authentication, payment, and personalized marketing services to the Internet. Siegal received a Master's degree in Business Administration from the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

Thomas Raeuchle is Chief Operating officer at Prodigen. He has over 20 years of experience in technology research, hardware and software engineering and product development for end user and OEM markets.

Raeuchle began his career at Honeywell Corporate Research as a Research Scientist in the networking and distributed systems area. He then joined Cray Research where he worked in various roles in SW application development, starting as Chief Product Architect and moving on to become Director of Application Products. Following Cray he joined SAN infrastructure company Ancor Communications as Director of Software Development and Engineering Vice President until Ancor’s successful sale to QLogic in 2000. Recently Thomas has been advising a number of small technology companies and startups in the area of technology strategy and product architecture. He holds a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University and a Diploma in Informatics from the University of Saarbruecken, Germany.

For over 20 years Jim has been primarily involved with corporate communications and training, multimedia engineering and design, and interactive distance learning network implementation. Along with "virtual classroom" vendors and with multinational corporations, Jim has consulted and managed programs with Fortune 100 corporations, government institutions, educational organizations, satellite distributors and Internet service providers around the world.

Jim has designed, implemented, and launched some of the world’s largest live eLearning programs for organizations and institutions such as Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, BMW, 3M, JC Penney, SBC, Sprint, Prudential Insurance, HRDC Canada, Internal Revenue Service, US Social Security Administration, Siemens AG, France Telcom, NewSkies Australia, Wilson Learning Japan and Telkom South Africa. Special attentions to project detail, budget management, meeting project timelines and success criteria have been key elements for success.

Recently joining Oracle, Jim has been integrating new virtual training events from Siebel, and introducing new virtual remote labs and blended eLearning programs for Oracle customers and employees worldwide.

Drummond Reed is Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Seattle-based Cordance Corporation. He currently serves as co-chair of the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) Technical Committees.

Drummond is also a founding board member of OpenXRI.org and serves as secretary of XDI.org (www.xdi.org). He is a trustee of Identity Commons (www.idcommons.net), and a board member of the International Security, Trust, and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA – www.istpa.org). He has been working on technology and open standards for XML-based persistent identity and trusted data sharing since the mid-1990s.

Mike Ruman is the Enterprise Messaging Manager for Grant Thornton LLP. Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global accounting, tax and business advisory organizations. Mike and his team oversee identity management in the directory services environment at Grant Thornton. His team also oversees the messaging environment which includes email, instant messaging, and other collaboration technologies.

Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Mike architected and deployed identity management and messaging solutions for medium to large size organizations.

Paul Sangster serves as a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Standards Officer for Symantec Corporation. In this role, Sangster is defining and leading Symantec’s security standards strategy and working to drive adoption of security and networking standards across the corporation. For seven years prior to joining Symantec, Sangster was the Lead Security Architect for Sun’s Solaris operating system. In this capacity, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Solaris Security engineering organization and created the security strategy, architecture and technology direction delivered in Solaris 8, 9 and 10.

Before Sun, Sangster spent nearly seven years creating and leading the development of the industry pioneering proxy-based firewall product, ANS InterLock. Under his leadership, InterLock introduced a number of key firewall innovations including: VPN, granular application-level controls and logs, many-to-1 NAT and proxy-based web user authentication. Sangster started his career and spent six years architecting and developing highly secure (C2 and B3) operating systems for the U.S. government and NATO. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from University of Maryland.

Tony Spinelli is Senior Vice President, Information Technology Security for Equifax, Inc. In this role, he has responsibility for the global assessment, design, development, delivery, and monitoring of Equifax information technology security. Mr. Spinelli oversees the company’s global technology security architecture, with a focus on security policies, engineering, operations and compliance standards.

Prior to joining Equifax, Mr. Spinelli held leadership positions within two divisions of First Data Corporation (FDC). Most recently, he was Vice President, Information Security Officer for First Data Merchant Services. During his tenure at FDC, Mr. Spinelli also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for eOne Global, the emerging payments segment of FDC. Earlier in his career, Mr. Spinelli was Vice President of Online Services for eSecurityOnline, an Ernst & Young Venture Company where he was a founder. Prior to eSecurityOnline, he was a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young's National Technology and Security Practice.

With deep industry expertise, Tony maintains an external presence on corporate advisory boards of leading information security companies. His extensive knowledge of emerging trends in technology and the security industry has afforded him various speaking and research opportunities. Mr. Spinelli has been quoted by several top-tier media outlets, including Bloomberg, New York Times, Dow Jones, InformationWeek, Computerworld, Washington Post and Forbes. Mr. Spinelli earned a BS in Finance from Saint Louis University, and received his MBA in the Executive Program at Washington University. He has attended selected Executive Series courses from MIT and holds CISSP and CISA accreditations.

Rocky Stefano is the Chief Executive Officer for Identita Technologies Inc. Identita is the benchmark provider of cross-platform authentication, authorization and identity management solutions. A pioneer in the security industry for over 15 years. He is involved in the sub-committee for better mutual authentication within the FSTC (Financial Services Technology Consortium).

Today, Rocky concentrates his time on the emerging market of powered smart cards. In his spare time Rocky volunteers as a youth soccer coach. He currently resides in Toronto, Canada with his wife and two children.

Vice President of Business Development & General Manager Ayelet brings 15 years experience in network security to ForeScout Technologies. Prior to her current role at ForeScout, Ayelet held leadership roles in Product Management, Customer Support and Operations within the company. Prior to joining ForeScout, Ayelet established the U.S. operations for Pelican Security, an enterprise security company with a client-side sandboxing solution, which was acquired by Microsoft. At Pelican, Ayelet launched the Professional Services group while previously leading the Product Marketing team. Before Pelican, she was at Conduct Software Technologies, a network management and traffic monitoring tools firm, which was purchased by Mercury Interactive. Ayelet started her career in the military, where she spent 5 years focusing on networking and security technologies. Ayelet holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems Management from the University of San Francisco.

Deepak Taneja is the founder, president and CEO of Aveksa, an identity-based compliance software company. Prior to founding Aveksa, he was the CTO and vice president of engineering at Netegrity, where he was instrumental in building the company and growing it into the market leader in identity and access management. Prior to his tenure at Netegrity, Deepak held senior management roles at Switchboard, Banyan Systems and Intel Corporation.

Deepak has a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.

Robert Thifault is the Product Line Manager responsible for the Nortel Carrier OAM Solution security strategy. In this role, Robert gathers customer requirements and analyzes market data to support OAM Security Solution direction and decisions. Robert has been with Nortel for 23 years and has held various R&D software management and architecture roles. Robert has a B.S. in electrical engineering from McGill University in Montreal.

David has more than 20 years of experience in developing advanced imaging software and systems for high security, high-availability systems. Prior to founding Imprivata he developed biometric applications for government programs and web-based applications for secure document exchange. David was formerly the technical manager of Kodak's Boston Technology Center, a systems development group for Eastman Kodak. He managed an engineering group that developed the software platform used in most of Kodak's digital photography products including Photo CD print applications.

Prior to that position, he managed Atex System's Imaging Department, where he was responsible for the first full color output system used in the newspaper industry. David worked for a number of start-ups including Lexidata, Inc., and Delphax Systems, now a division of Xerox. Most recently, he was chief architect for eCopyIt, an internet infrastructure start-up offering distributed document capture and direct delivery of documents. He was a member of the scientific staff at the BNR/INRS Labs in Montreal, a collaborative research institution jointly operated by Bell-Northern Research and University of Quebec. He holds six patents and has several patents pending.

David Ting was recently recognized as one of the top 25 CTOs of the year for 2006 from Infoworld. He delivers presentations and lectures in academic and business forums around the world. He regularly speaks at security IT events such as ISSA, ACSAC and ITEC conferences and is a sought after speaker at healthcare, finance and other industry events.

In the last few years Paul's work has focused on creating open source infrastructure for the "social web." A user-centered networking layer that gives people more control over their digital identities across a wide variety of computer-mediated contexts (e.g. email, IM, e-commerce, shared spaces, and enterprise directories), including those involving social networks.

Paul is currently the CEO of Parity Communications, Inc., co-creator of SocialPhysics.org, technical lead of the Eclipse Foundation's Higgins project (eclipse.org/Higgins), and co-creator of IdentityGang.org.

Mr. Trevithick has been involved in the process of inventing software, building companies, and launching new products for the past 20+ years in partnership with Apple, Verizon, IBM, Xerox, Agfa, Fidelity, Accenture, the DoD, the Berkman Center and others. Previously he was president of Bitstream (NASDAQ:BITS) and CEO and co-founder of Archetype, Inc. and Lightspeed Computers before that. Paul has participated in a number of standards efforts over the years, was granted the Seybold Industry Vision award in '99, did research at the MIT Media Lab in the early 80's, and graduated from MIT.

Mike Wenzlaff has been with BC Hydro for more than 7 years, and currently manages content management, single sign-on, online billing and other online tools for customers. A past speaker at other industry-related conferences, he holds has an Information Technology degree.

Andy West is an architect within the Thomson Learning Enterprise Architecture Group. Thomson Learning is a part of the Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC), Thomson Learning is a leading provider of learning products, services and solutions for individuals, learning institutions and businesses. In this role Andy is responsible for the Federated Identity Management Solutions architecture in Thomson Learning's evolving SOA. Andy also sits on the Thomson Architecture Council, which is the pan-Thomson group responsible for the overall direction and governance of Thomson’s architecture.

Andy has over 20 years experience in designing and implementing software systems and products. Prior to Thomson, he was founder of Terma Software Labs, and responsible for the design of JAWS, their flagship event correlation and predictive analysis product. In addition to his software career, he is a world renowned Grammy nominated bass guitarist and continues his passionate interest in music in his spare time.

Jeff Williams has more than 23 years of experience designing, developing, and managing information systems – primarily for public interest non-profit organizations. During the past 9 years he has served as Information Systems Manager for The California State Association of Counties. For a 7-year period prior to his current position, he provided independent consulting and software development to non-profit organizations, public entities, private firms, and some military organizations. To begin his career, he worked 7 years as Information Systems Manager for The California School Boards Association.

Phil Windley is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses on digital identity, interoperability, web services, middleware, and programming languages. Phil is also the Executive Producer of IT Conversations, a frequent author and speaker on these topics. Phil writes the popular Technometria blog and is a frequent contributor to InfoWorld and Between the Lines. He is also the author of the book Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media.

Prior to joining BYU, Phil spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah, serving on the Governor Mike Leavitt's Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early creator of electronic commerce tools. Still active in business, Phil serves on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies. Phil received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univ. of California, Davis in 1990.

Mr. Zou brings more than 15 years experience in marketing and product management. He joins Bridgestream from TIBCO Software, Inc. where he served as general manager of its core business integration line of products and successfully led the company's recapture of its leadership position in the business integration and business process management markets. Previously, Mr. Zou worked at AristaSoft, a start-up that is one of the early pioneers of providing enterprise software as a service.

He was instrumental in managing the definition, development and introduction of five integrated business applications which resulted in revenue growth of $23 million within two years. Mr. Zou has an MBA from University of California at Los Angeles and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from University of Southern California.