Omer F. Soykan is Senior Vice President of Investment Banking Technology at Jefferies Group in New York. Soykan joined Jefferies in 2004 from Broadview International where he served as chief information officer for eight years. At Jefferies, Soykan is responsible for providing leadership, direction and guidance to senior management on technology strategies and architecture and developed the overall strategy and architecture of the current investment banking division.

Scott Handy VP Worldwide Marketing and Strategy, System p IBM Corporation Scott Handy is currently the Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, System p for IBM. Prior to that he was Vice President of Worldwide Linux and Open Source for IBM. In addition, Scott has held numerous executive, technical sales, marketing, and strategy positions covering Large Accounts, Channels, Small and Medium Business, and IBM solutions for Windows NT, Sun Solaris and OS/2 Warp.

Anthony Gold VP & General Manager, Open Source Business Unisys Anthony Gold currently has responsibility for the Open Source business within Unisys, providing global leadership in delivering market-leading solutions for this billion dollar business. He developed the Open Source strategy for Unisys and managed the development of the solution portfolio and all go-to-market execution plans.

Phil Robb Engineering Section Manager Open Source & Linux Organization Hewlett-Packard Phil Robb is an Engineering Section Manager in the Open Source & Linux Organization of Hewlett Packard. In this role Phil leads several product development teams focused on Open Source Solutions and Open Source Governance. Phil is also a long-standing member of HP’s Open Source Review Board which is the governing body within HP for all open source software usage and deployment.

Bob Weiderhold Chairman, President & CEO Transitive Corporation Bob Weiderhold brings more than 20 years of software-related, high technology experience to Transitive Corporation. Until 2001, Bob served as President and CEO of Tality Corporation, the worldwide leader in electronic design services whose revenues grew to $200M and had 1,500 employees worldwide.

Sunil Saxena Director, Open Source Software Software Solutions Group Intel Key Linux visionary at Intel Corporation, Dr. Sunil Saxena is a Senior Principal Engineer and Chief Architect, in the Open Source Technology Center, which drives Linux and open source software development in the industry.

Killian Murphy is a Director in the IT R&D team at Credit Suisse. As part of this technology strategy team, Killian has focused on software and collaboration technologies. Central areas of focus have included virtualization at the operating system and application levels, server and CPU architecture, IM and video conferencing and many other technology areas.

Chad Sellers is the Lead Software Architect at Tresys Technology. He has both government and commercial experience working with SELinux over the last three years. He has functioned as a developer of the core technology, including library and system utility work, as well as a system implementer utilizing SELinux to meet system security goals. Chad has also taught numerous classes on SELinux.

Matthew Arrott Principal, The November Group and CTO

Venu Pemmaraju Senior Investment Manager Intel Capital Venu Pemmaraju is currently a Sr. Investment Manager in Intel Capital. He joined Intel Capital in 2000 and his investment focus area is open-source software. His investments in this segment include MySQL and Fonality. Venu has a BS in Electronics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, an MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Houston and an MBA from University of Chicago.

Patrick Leonard Vice President, Product Development Rogue Wave Patrick Leonard is responsible for development of all Rogue Wave ® products. To this role, Patrick brings a broad range of software and technology industry experience including software design and development, product management, international markets, public policy, professional services and product marketing. He also serves as a company representative to government organizations.

Jeffrey Birnbaum Founder 60East Technologies Jeffrey M. Birnbaum is the founder of a stealth mode start- up, 60East Technologies. He is leading the developing of "AMPS" (Advanced Message Processing System) which delivers unprecedented levels of performance required for real- time environments (> 1M FIXML msgs/sec) using multi- socket multi- core commodity computers and 10Gb networking.

John O’Hara Distinguished Engineer, IB Architecture, IB Technology JP Morgan John O'Hara is an executive director and distinguished engineer in JPMorgan's investment bank technology division in London. He has over 15 years of commercial computing experience and has successfully delivered many large scale technology projects at the bank across the firm's business lines including equities, F&O, prime brokerage, rates and fixed income.

Larry Ryan Director, Worldwide Financial Services Hewlett-Packard Larry is a Director at HP responsible for developing and executing HP’s strategy for open source and Linux in the financial service industry market worldwide. Over the last few years he has helped many financial institutions embrace and deploy open source solutions. Prior to this position Larry built and managed an industry lab, which developed solutions for the financial service industry market.

Michael read Mathematics at Oxford University and then completed a one year teaching assignment at Warwick University before joining what is now Deloitte in London; qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1986. Michael had a long career in public practice and specialised in regulatory audit and ancillary services to small and medium sized stockbrokers and fund managers ranging from regulatory advice and accounting assistance to mergers and acquisitions.

Tim Burke Director, Emerging Technologies Red Hat Tim Burke is the Senior Director of Emerging Technologies at Red Hat. The Emerging Technologies group focuses on delivery of leading edge capabilities for future releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). This team is highly active in developing upstream Linux community innovation.

Alexis Richardson is a co-founder of CohesiveFT, maker of "plug-and-run" virtual appliances for financial industry data standards, and sponsor of Rabbit AMQP. Previously he was CEO and co-founder of MetaLogic, a middleware company specialising in high throughput caching and transaction management products. A past consultant for Fortune 1000 corporations, Alexis most recently worked on various high performance front office trading solutions.