Alex Williams is the community manager for NetHawk Interactive. He manages the Tek-Tips blog network. Alex has worked in the online media trade since the late 1990s. A veteran blogger and podcaster, he is the former community manager for two startups. He has produced several events, including RSS Winterfest and the Podcast Hotel, which looked at the intersection of art and commerce and how digital media affects independent culture. Alex is a journalist by trade. Before starting his online media career, he worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor and television anchor, reporting business news. He lives in Portland, Or. with his wife Judy, two cats and a coop full of chickens.

SharePoint WCMS developer since 2006, also consulting, conception, training, administration, loving Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V

ANXeBusiness is a technology company focused on providing managed services that enable secure collaboration within and between enterprises. The company's services include Managed Security Services, Transaction Services and Lifecycle Management Services. Service capabilities are delivered using a cloud-based, multi-tenant delivery model with gold-standard service levels.

Asad Imam is currently studying at Newcastle University for his Master of Science degree in E-business and Information Systems. In his latest presentation - “Case Study to present Cloud Computing as an emerging e-Business”, he prepared a detailed report and critically analysed cloud computing as a thematic area. In addition, he gave a presentation about Amazon Web Services to present what makes Amazon Web services special in the domain of Cloud Computing.

Ben Chai is a founding director of Incoming Thought Limited a company which specialises in whitepapers and education for corporations in the area of security. Incoming Thought has worked with several organisations such as the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, Security Vibes and The Corporate Executive Program. Ben has also been technically involved in several major deployments of Windows technologies (Active Directory, Microsoft SMS, Windows NT, Microsoft Exchange) to blue chip corporations such as Royal Bank of Scotland, Citibank, Total Oil and worked with several businesses in the capacity as a security consultant, helping them with hardening their systems and security processes. Further articles on security matters from Ben Chai can be found in Computer Weekly, ITproportal, Infosecurity from Elsevier and the Incoming Thought Twitter account.

Bob Angus is a Product Marketing Manager in VeriSign’s SSL business unit with a 20+ year career in selling and promoting internet and software products. Carrying the flag for the ecommerce revolution, Bob loves innovative technology, effective marketing, and scouring the earth for unusual baseball memorabilia.

Branden Williams is a long-time security professional. His primary focus is retail and payment security-related services in the Global Security Consulting group. When he is not on the road or looking for a great brewpub, he resides in Flower Mound, Texas.

Bronwyn Johnson is an author and freelance technology journalist. Passionate about technology and gadgets, Bronwyn has been involved with IT sales and marketing for over 15 years. She is currently working for VeriSign as a Product Marketing Manager based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Driving the strategy for all of Shavlik Technologies' customer facing operations, Chris Schwartzbauer heads up global marketing, sales, business development, and customer support activities. Chris is an expert in automation trends and the streamlining of IT security operations, and is in ongoing consultation with Shavlik's largest customers, including several within the finance, government and technology sectors. He helps companies understand how to pinpoint and remediate vulnerability gaps in security operations and the IT risk management process. In 18 years within the technology and security sector, he has overseen the launch and development of pioneering technologies within the security sector, working with companies such as Secure Computing, SafeNet Incorporated, Object FX, and Dianon Systems. A former US Army Captain, Chris has a B.S. in Engineering from The United States Military Academy.

Chris Stoneff, principal product manager at Lieberman Software Corporation, a Los Angeles-based developer of privileged identity management software.

Drazen Drazic is the CEO of Securus Global. Securus Global is one of the leading Information Security consulting organizations in the Asia Pacific region - also servicing clients from around the globe. He is directly engaged as a strategic consultant by many organizations, across most industry sectors on matters to do with Information Security policy and strategy. In earlier times, he has headed up Information Security for a large global investment bank and Big 4 professional services firm, worked as a regional IT Director, and has spent many years promoting and talking about Information Security. He is also the chief writer on the IT Security Management site, Beast or Buddha.

Eric Schultze manages Shavlik's product vision and implementation. Schultze most recently served as a program manager for the Microsoft Security Response Center and a senior technologist in the Trustworthy Computing team at Microsoft Corporation. In those roles he managed the Microsoft security patch and bulletin release process and developed security solutions for Microsoft products including patch management and deployment solutions. Before joining Microsoft, Schultze co-founded Foundstone, Inc., where he directed their "Ultimate Hacking: Hands On" training program. His experiences in assessing, penetrating, and securing Microsoft technologies formed the basis of Foundstone's audit and assessment methodologies for Windows operating systems. Prior to starting Foundstone, Schultze was a senior manager in Ernst & Young's national Attack & Penetration group, where he was widely recognized as the firm's expert on Microsoft security. Eric has Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Sociology from Amherst College.

Eve Maler is an Emerging Technologies Director at Sun Microsystems, innovating technologies related to digital identity management and developing strategies for promising new technologies on the scene. Eve was one of the inventors of the Extensible Markup Language (XML). She has also made major leadership, technical, and educational contributions to other successful open standards and communities, such as Project Concordia, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), the Liberty Alliance, the Universal Business Language (UBL), and DocBook. One of her current projects is ProtectServe.

Founded www.nethawk.net with the goal of providing the best solution to getting important technology products and services to the IT community on a permission basis. The goal has always been to streamline the information acquisition process and adapt the marketers to the buyers.

Jason Miller is the security and data team manager for Shavlik Technologies, St. Paul, MN. He leads a team that is responsible for monitoring current threats and vulnerabilities, providing patch management analysis and researching new protection methods through configuration management to help customers secure their network more effectively.

John has been working in ESM/IT Management for over 30 years. For the last 12 years he has been deeply involved in the Tivoli community as an enterprise trainer and architect/implement. He has developed many of the IBM/Tivoli education courses as well help design some of their certification tests. He has written 6 IBM Redbooks and has presented at every IBM Tivoli yearly conference since it's inception. His latest ventures include bot Tivoli and Infrastructure 2.0 activities still in the enterprise space (Fortune 5000).

Jonathan is a recognized pioneer in advertising optimization services having unmatched performance success using real-time technology to deliver relevance with content and creative. His clients have included Amazon.com, Ameriprise, Disney, Citibank, H&R Block, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Monster.com, Sears and T-Mobile. For 2 years preceding its $65M acquisition by Omniture, Jonathan was Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Offermatica’s service unit OTTO Digital. He helped spearhead Offermatica to market domination in the SaaS content testing and targeting space achieving a 100% success rate of performance improvement with over 50 businesses and 6 of the top 11 brands in the world. Jonathan left Omniture in February 2008 to start RAMP Digital. RAMP’s creative technology for event driven display ads & landing pages delivers unprecedented relevance, functionality and performance using APIs and Semantic technology to target users and content in real-time. RAMP's leadership in this emerging space was quickly established in August 2008 upon release of the industry’s first case study on semantic ads. The study showed a 2x-9x lift in performance metrics using semantic ads vs. standard flash units. Jonathan’s first six years in digital were spent bootstrapping VitaminLab.com as Founder & CEO. In 2001 VitaminLab was ranked by Gomez the #5 ecommerce site in nutrition. In 2004 VitaminLab won the Nutrition Business Journal Award for 5-year growth. After exiting Jonathan held senior positions with leading UX consultancy Creative Good and leading SEM DigitalGrit.

Mark Tamis has been active in Professional Services for a number of US Software Vendors for most of his professional life, from Enterprise Application Integration to Enterprise Portals and Business Process Management. Based in Paris, France, he has dealt with small to very large client implementation of Enterprise 2.0 technologies all over EMEA. His current interest goes out to the nascent domain of Social CRM, which has incredible potential to improve the way we do business and getting our clients, employees, partners and suppliers to co-create value together using technology as the link.

Mark Townsend's career has spanned the past two decades in computer networking, during which he has contributed to several patents and pending patents in information security. He has established himself as an expert related to networking and security in enterprise networks, with a focus on educational environments. Mark is a contributing member to several information security industry standards associations, most notably the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). Townsend's work in the TCG Trusted Network Connect (TNC) working group includes co-authoring the Clientless Endpoint Support Profile. Townsend is currently developing virtualization solutions and driving interoperability testing within the industry. Prior to his current position, he has served in a variety of roles including service and support, marketing, sales management and business development. He is considered an industry expert and often lectures at universities and industry events, including RSA and Interop. Mark is also leveraging his background and serving his community as a school board member in a progressive school district consistently ranked in the top school districts of New Hampshire. Mark serves on the policy and negotiations sub-committees and is also the district technical liaison.

Marshall Kirkpatrick is Vice President of Content Development at ReadWriteWeb. He is also lead writer and the author of the ReadWriteWeb Guide To Community Management. Prior to joining RWW in September 2007, Marshall was Director of Content at SplashCast Media. During 2006 he was Lead Blogger at TechCrunch. Marshall hails from Portland, Oregon, USA.

Mauro Cardarelli is co-author of "Essential SharePoint 2007 -Delivering High Impact Collaboration". His deep knowledge of the Microsoft platform and recognized expertise in the areas of knowledge management and business intelligence make him a popular technology expert with experience. He has been published in various industry journals and is a featured speaker at many industry conferences. Mauro is Managing Partner and founder of Jornata, a Boston-based Microsoft SharePoint technology solutions provider. He has 20 years of experience designing and building technology solutions for customers representing a wide range of industry verticals.

Michael Krupa is a Technical Director at Charles Schwab and is responsible for the architecture and design of their HR systems. Prior to Schwab he owned his own IT consulting company and worked with companies such McKesson, Levi Strauss, Stanford University and Kaiser to define and implement HR Technologies. Michael pet project is advocating the use of true multi-tenancy SaaS applications.

Michel is a world-renowned developer, researcher and entrepreneur who most recently founded Radiant Logic, a software company focused on integrating Directory Services (LDAP), XML and databases to enable companies to easily locate and combine information housed in disparate databases and better manage e-business. Prior to founding Radiant Logic in 1995, Prompt served as Senior Vice President of Client/Server Technology at Knowledgeware, now known as Sterling Software. In 1986, Prompt founded Matesys SA in France, a company dedicated to providing services and database support. Matesys introduced the first "file-manager," duplicating the "Apple Macintosh finder" under Windows 2.1 and sold 500,000 copies to IBM for academic bundles. Prompt founded Matesys Corp., in the U.S., in 1991, becoming one of the pioneer companies in client/server technology. Matesys introduced one of the first visual programming tools under Windows 3.0 for the client/server market (Object View). Prompt successfully sold the company to Knowledgeware in 1993. Prior to Matesys, Prompt was a core developer in the database group of the GCOS 7.0 Operating System for Bull Systems. He also served as a consultant to Cap Sogeti Gemini, one of the largest IT service companies in Europe. Prompt received his diploma from Institut Politiques de Paris (Political Sciences Institute of Paris). He has a Masters degree in applied mathematics from Paris Dauphine University and received a diploma of advanced studies in computer science from Paris Dauphine University.

Nate DiNiro is an experienced social media and IT manager, who has worked with startups and delivered IT solutions to a number of large-scale enterprises. He's had the opportunity to work with organizations like Perot Systems, Intel, Goldman Sachs, Chase Bank, Washington Mutual, Bank of America, Hypovareinsbank, Bouygues Telecom, ICG, Alltel, Sprint, Motorola, Freightliner, and IBM GIS. In his most recent job, Nate worked as the community manager for Earth Class Mail, a startup based out of Seattle.

Nils is responsible for security, risk management and business continuity planning, including the security of the QualysGuard platform. He will also lead the Qualys CSO Advisory Board efforts to collaborate with customers on forging and implementing security and compliance best practices. Most recently, Nils was the CISO for Electronic Arts, where he was globally responsible for managing information security and risk management. While CISO of Robert Half International, Nils led information security and business continuity on a global enterprise-wide scale. Nils has also held the position of Director Global IT & Security and Chief Privacy Officer at Mindjet Corp and Senior Manager Product Security at Adobe Systems where he created Adobe's product security incident response team, chaired Adobe's Security Task Force and managed Adobe's first Common Criteria Certification. He maintains numerous security certifications, including CISSP-ISSMP and CISM. He has held several Board of Directors positions (ISACA Silicon Valley, OVAL) and is a member of Corporate Advisory Boards. Nils is a member of the CSO Interchange, the CISO Executive Council and is a subject matter expert for ISACA and ISC2. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for the CISO Forum of ISSA.

With over 15 years in management and technology consulting, Owen is an I.T. Professional who has a passion for technology and how it impacts business and our society. He has been involved in the Technology field since the 80’s when he was responsible for supporting an automation system for a radio station. After 15 years of Radio & Television in various roles including sales, announcing and finally managing his own radio station; he left to pursue his passion of technology and embarked upon technology consulting. He has an extensive technology background in key verticals such as Manufacturing, Transportation, Music Industry and retail. In more recent years he served as the COO of Shorebridge Technology Group, Director of Information Technology for Campus Crusade where he was responsible for team selection, hiring and business planning along with developing cost effective I.T. budgets. Prior to that his consulting firm provided services such as designing and implementing I.T. Strategic Plans and Business Process Management. With a strong background in Operations and Infrastructure he specializes in building teams and systems that support organizational needs. Owen is currently researching and writing a series on – Nanotechnology. He also provides Social Media Consulting, I.T. Strategic Planning and Public Speaking.

Resource Nation connects businesses with local and national pre-screened vendors in over 100 categories from payroll services to web design. The company provides tools to help start and grow your business and how-to guides for online business communities such as Entrepreneur.com, StartUpNation.com, and Ladies Who Launch.

RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a fully automated management platform that delivers the scalable, cost-effective, on-demand power of cloud computing, while providing complete IT control and transparency. The web-based RightScale Cloud Management Platform is available in a range of editions, from the free Developer Edition to Professional Editions. To date, thousands of deployments and over 600,000 servers have been launched on RightScale for leading companies such as Animoto, Playfish, Sling Media and TC3. RightScale is based in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.

Steve Evans is the president of Serk, an IT infrastructure consulting company. With 10 years of enterprise IT experience he helps companies both large and small streamline their IT operations. Steve also has a background as a developer. He bridges the world between Developers and IT Pros and frequently speaks at Code Camps and User Groups. He teaches developers what they need to know about operating systems, directories, servers, and more. When not doing something related to work he has a wife that is a full time student, two young daughters, and a plethora of pets. All the information you need to interact with Steve online can be found at http://serktools.com.

Steve Shah is the CTO/SVP Product Strategy and Co-Founder of Asyncast where he leads product strategy and engineering vision. Prior to starting Asyncast, Steve founded and is the principal of RisingEdge Consulting where he provides strategic marketing services for a number of Silicon Valley infrastructure companies through Ridge Partners and 7MPS. Some of Steve's customer's include Citrix Systems, Coyote Point Systems, Coradiant, Silver Peak, and Amadeus Capital.

T.Rob has been specializing in WebSphere MQ since 1995. Since joining IBM in 2006, he has focused on improving security of MQ messaging networks around the world. Currently he works in IBM Software Services for WebSphere, providing consulting services and training for all aspects of WebSphere MQ. He is a regular speaker at IBM conferences and is the author of the Mission:Messaging column on developerWorks. Be sure to check out his WebSphere MQ Security podcast The Deep Queue at http://t-rob.net/dq.

Tim Callan is a product marketing executive for VeriSign's SSL business unit. He is a longtime marketer of Internet and software solutions, a sometime entrepreneur, and a frequent writer and publisher of this and that. The opinions expressed in this blog are strictly his own.

Travis Spencer is a software engineer at Fiserv, specializing in federated identity, Web services, SOA, and multitenant distributed systems. In applying his expertise to the financial industry, Travis has gained an acute understanding of the importance of digital identity management, security, and the need for interoperability among heterogeneous systems. Travis has almost 10 years of IT-related experience that includes supercomputing, ecommerce, enterprise application development, and more. Travis is especially passionate about cloud computing and sees it as an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and innovative organizations.

As the director of the Software Assurance, Wes Higaki coordinated the efforts by Symantec Corporation to certify its products to provide customers additional assurance through independent third-party evaluations. He oversaw all of Symantec's Common Criteria and FIPS-140 certifications. He also manages ICSA and Checkmark testing. Higaki has led a working group through the National Cyber Security Partnership to develop plans to improve the Common Criteria by working with industry and Government. He has been instrumental in assembling the Common Criteria Users’ Forums – an effort to bring Government, customers (commercial and Government), vendors and evaluation labs together to improve the Common Criteria. Higaki has over 25 years of technical and managerial experience in the software industry. He has been with Symantec since the December 2000 acquisition of Axent Technologies where he was an engineering director. Prior to Axent, Wes worked for over 20 years in R&D at Hewlett-Packard Company including 7 years at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Higaki received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of California, Davis and a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of Santa Clara.

Dr. Zen Kishimoto is in charge of Green IT at Alta Terra. His broad technology background and diverse functional roles at individual-contributor and executive levels in large corporations and start-ups is a strong basis for conducting research in the greening of IT. Both strategic and tactical insights based on these experiences are necessary to make IT and its related technologies greener, since both a holistic and component-level view are necessary. This is specifically so in his first area of concentration—data centers—in which a large number of software, computer hardware, and networking components as well as facility elements are interrelated and configured in a complex manner. For over 25 years, Zen was involved in various technology areas as a user and a vendor, including software development methodologies/process/tools, Open Source Software (OSS), Internet/Network security, embedded software/systems, networking, Web, VoIP and to name a few. Based on exposure to those multiple technology areas, he can take a view from the perspectives of a user and a vendor of each technology as necessary. After working for Fortune 100 companies, Zen has been a successful entrepreneur and software business consultant specializing in product management, turning technologies to viable business and covering each phase of product management. This includes market research, technology assessment, project management, technical marketing, promotion, product launch, business development and sales. In addition, he produced numerous research papers for his clients in the areas of software and telecommunication as a consultant. In addition, Zen, originally from Japan, has a web of business contacts and relationships in Japan and is keen on the green IT/Technology market outside of the US, bridging language, culture and business practice for his clients. As greening of IT and its related technologies require a global view, he can give appropriate advices and comments not confined to the US domestic view but global ones for his clients. Finally, before joining Alta Terra, he has played CTO, COO and other executive roles in Silicon Valley startups, including Cardsoft. Earlier he served as functional general manager and Senior Director at NEC Technologies, where he started the Internet business unit. He has held technical positions at NEC, Hewlett Packard and GTE. He is also the principal of IP Devices, a software business and market research consultancy specializing in IT infrastructure.