- Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Edward Tenner
Edward Tenner (born 1944) is a researcher at Princeton University and former editor at Princeton University Press. Tenner is also a technology writer who currently writes a column named "Megascope" for "Technology Review". He has written several books on the effects of technology on everyday life.
- Jay Bhatti
Jay Bhatti trabajó en Microsoft en la gestión de productos. Jay obtuvo su MBA de la Wharton School, y realizó sus estudios en Ingeniería de Sistemas de la Universidad de Rutgers.
- Wayne Cotter
Wayne Cotter is our IT Water Cooler featured funny man. He's a former electrical engineer and software developer who bailed out in the 80's to become a comedian. Wayne may be familiar to you as a headliner at corporate events for many companies including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, CDW and Apple Computer. He has also appeared dozens of times with both David Letterman and Jay Leno. See more at Wayne's website .
- Andries van Dam
Andries "Andy" van Dam (born 1938) is a professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Originally appointed as a professor of applied mathematics, he helped to found the computer science program as a joint project between the departments of applied mathematics and engineering. When the program was promoted to a full department, van Dam served as its first chair, from 1979 to 1985.
- Lewis E. Platt
Lewis Platt Former CEO, Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates (1999 - 2001) and F ormer CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company (1992-99)
- Earle Hager
Earle Hager is a Business Development Manager with the Global Commercialization Group. Earle has extensive experience in developing relationships and growing businesses and has done so with multiple organizations in Texas in the areas of consulting, placement, training, and product sales. His expertise is in understanding the business issues and challenges faced by companies and the development of solutions which included the many players in the success of the project.
- Zig Serafin
Zig Serafin is general manager for the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft Corp. He is responsible for working with the leadership team to shape Microsoft’s strategy in unified communications, overseeing strategic growth areas, building up Microsoft® product lines in the enterprise communications segment, expanding Microsoft’s voice communication services platform, and developing strategic partnerships.
- Roch Parayre
Roch Parayre , PhD Senior Fellow, Mack Center for Technological Innovation Managing Director, Decision Strategies International, Inc. Roch Parayre is a senior partner and scenario-planning expert with Decision Strategies International, a consulting firm specializing in strategy. He teaches executives at the Wharton School, at CEDEP/INSEAD in France, and for the Institute of Management Studies.
- Meng Weng Wong
Wong Meng Weng CTO, Karmaspere, Inc mengwong@pobox.com Wong Meng Weng is best known for his work on SPF, the email authentication standard which was embraced and extended by Microsoft to form Sender ID. Meng has been involved in email for his entire professional life: he started pobox.com , an email services company, in 1995. He has been actively involved in antispam technologies since 2003, working on opensource software and open standards.
- Jeanne L. Allert
Jeanne is a regular contributor to association industry publications and is a sought-after public speaker. She has appeared at conferences in Norway, England, Sweden, France, Egypt, and across the United States. For the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), she co-authored and presented a 2-week course on educational technologies to state trainers and designed and presented at a week-long technology conference for dignitaries of the United Arab Emirates.
- Mohanbir Sawhney
Dr. Mohanbir Sawhney Dr. Mohanbir Sawhney is a globally recognized scholar, teacher, consultant and speaker on strategic marketing, e-business and innovation. He is the McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology and the Director of the Center for Research in Technology and Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Business Week named him as one of the 25 most influential people in e-Business.
- Tamar E. Granor
Tamar E. Granor , Ph.D. , has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000, and is co-author of the magazine’s popular Advisor Answers column. Tamar is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe.
- Peter D. Hart
PETER HART For more than 35 years, Peter Hart has been one of the leading analysts of public opinion in the United States. Since 1971, he has directed Peter D. Hart Research Associates, which has conducted more than 6000 public opinion surveys that have included interviews among more than five million individuals. Hart Research also has undertaken more than 5000 focus group sessions.
- Mike Rider
Mike Rider has 20 years of high technology experience and is currently VP & GM at TechWorkers a technical workforce solutions company providing consulting, temporary staffing and outsourcing services. Prior to joining TechWorkers Mike worked 11 years at PeopleSoft, a leading business software company. Mike served as Vice President of IT at PeopleSoft for nearly six years where he was responsible for the strategy, design and operations of their global IT infrastructure including data . . .
- Robert Do
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- Gavin
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- Grant Allen
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- Kenneth A. McArthur
Kenneth A. McArthur President of McArthur Business Systems Mr. McArthur has been building quality business applications for over 20 years for clients including Pepsi North America, Coke, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, International, Oglvie and Mather Advertising, Chase Manhattan Bank, Dimark, the University of Pennsylvania, The Jackson Laboratories and many others.
- David H. Marion
David H. Marion is the immediate past chairman of Montgomery, McCracken and formerly chaired its Litigation Department. A former Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Mr. Marion is widely known for successful trial practice, concentrating in business litigation, antitrust, securities, professional liability and communications law. Mr. Marion has acted as both plaintiff and defense counsel in many major antitrust, ERISA, securities and RICO actions and class actions.
- Rick Brown
Rick Brown joined MessageLabs as Senior Vice President of Sales in December 2006. Prior to joining MessageLabs, Rick was Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Whale Communications/Microsoft. Prior to this, Rick served as Senior Vice President of McAfee for more than four years holding multiple executive positions, including Senior Vice President of the Worldwide Systems Integration Group and North American Telecom Group.
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- Rachael Palmer
- David Wessels
David Wessels , PhD Assistant Professor of Finance The Wharton School Professor David Wessels is a director of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Named by BusinessWeek as one of the nation's top business school instructors, David teaches courses on corporate valuation, investment banking, and venture capital to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives in Philadelphia and San Francisco.
- Peter Berk
- Pam Edstrom
Pam Edstrom , executive vice president at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, in partnership with Melissa Waggener Zorkin, is the principal strategic adviser for the agency’s Innovation CommunicationsSM work. Pam’s professional career began in 1979. She was public relations manager at Tektronix Inc. from 1979 to 1982. She then served as Microsoft’s first director of public relations from 1982 to 1984.
- Jay Traband
Jay Traband , Founder and Chief Technical Officer Jay is a co-founder, lead architect, and chief evangelist of IdeaBlade technology. He has more than 20 years of application development experience. Jay has filed for several patents in the area of internet-based application frameworks. Prior to founding IdeaBlade, Jay was Principal Architect at Rivio, Inc. where he led the development and implementation efforts of more than 40 engineers, both in the US and off-shore.
- Zal Bilimoria
- Alan Atkinson
Alan Atkinson - Chief Executive Officer Alan spent 5 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories working as a system administrator for the mainframe and Unix environments. He was responsible for tape backups. Alan joined Goldman Sachs in 1992. As an Information Technology Vice President, he founded the Storage and Capacity Management group and was responsible for the firm's storage infrastructure throughout the globe.
- Larry Tanz
Larry Tanz , Chief Executive Officer, LivePlanet: Larry Tanz joined LiveP lanet in September 2000. He is a producer on a number of LivePlanet initiatives including Project Greenlight. He also oversees all of LivePlanet's business activities and manages development and production for certain LivePlanet projects. He also works extensively with consumer brands both to produce branded entertainment concepts as well as to integrate them into LivePlanet projects.
- Mathew Frazer
Mathew Frazer , President and Chief Executive Officer Mathew Frazer brings extensive business management, technology and unified communications experience to Adomo. He comes to Adomo from Genesys Telecommunications, an Alcatel-Lucent company that is the market leader for Contact Center software, where he was Vice President and GM of Enterprise Solutions and created a new business focused on the 100 million users outside the Call Center.
- Mark Whitcher
Mr. Whitcher has over ten years of experience in complex negotiations and benefits restructuring involving companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Motorola, British Airways, EMC Corporation, McAfee, Dun & Bradstreet, 3Com, Softbank, Apollo Holdings, Warburg Pincus, Symantec, Cincinnati Bell, Nokia and Tenneco Automotive.
- Steven S. Weiner
Steven S. Weiner Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell Steven Weiner is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell's Corporate Department and practices in the Menlo Park office, spearheading the firm's intellectual property (IP) practice.
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- Bernhard Kappe
Bernhard Kappe Managing Director As Managing Director of Pathfinder Associates, Bernhard Kappe leads Pathfinder’s management team and provides strategic direction to clients and their projects. Before founding Pathfinder, Bernhard served as a consultant for clients such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Metropolitan Life Insurance, and the City of Seattle.
- Patricia Friel
Patricia Friel , MBA Middle School Mathematical Thinking Patricia Friel has been involved with Eastside Prep since the school's inception, first as a founding board member and now as a teacher of Mathematical Thinking for the 07-08 school year. Before teaching, Patricia had a 12 year career at Microsoft and prior to that, she was a radar systems engineer for Lockheed Martin.
- Peter Molettiere
Peter Molettiere Co-Founder & Director of Engineering Peter's experience ranges from managing the corporate IT department for a quickly growing $25M medical communications company to building next-generation applications and prototypes for clients as diverse as Alexa Internet, Kitchens Inc., Netscape Communications, Microsoft, Sabre/Travelocity, and Sony Online Entertainment.
- Odell Guyton
Mr. Guyton has appeared as a legal commentator on national and local television programs. He is on the board of Northwest Victim Services in Philadelphia and is on the executive committee of the Board of Trustees of Moravian College. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar, the United States District Court, the Bar of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the Criminal Justice Act Selection Committee, the Philadelphia Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
- Victor McCrary
Victor McCrary , PhD. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory president@nobcche.org Vice President
- Richard Sprague
http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague; http://richardsprague.blogspot.com