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Alan Menezes has written and spoken extensively about the wireless industry. His recently published articles include "Breakthrough Technology Bringing Broadband to the World" in the International Communications Guide 2003, "License-free Broadband Wireless Services Deliver Industrial Strength Performance for Business Users, Financial Viability for New Breed of Wireless Carriers" in Wireless Futures Magazine, September 2002, and contributed articles in EE Times and Broadband Wireless World. His speaking engagements include Supercomm technical sessions, the IOC Wireless Symposium, the FCC-sponsored Conference on Wireless Innovations: New Technologies and the Evolving Policies, USTA Telecom, ISPCON, the Tower Summit and Trade Show, WCA, Intel Developers' Forum, CDC and BWW. PANELIST: Session #W6: WiMAX Roadmaps, Realities and Rumors Andrew Main is the president of Shasta.com, a full-service ISP offering connectivity, hosting and Web site development services. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from UC Berkeley and taught at the junior college level. As Shasta.com's top sales person, he naturally promotes use of the Internet and new technologies every day in compelling customers to use all the services Shasta.com offers. He has been giving seminars and teaching about the Internet for seven years. MODERATOR: Session #B4: Beyond Basic Billing to Integrated OSS Andrew Singer, manager, market intelligence for Check Point Software Technologies, specializes in network security technologies and has more than eight years of experience in the computer networking industry. At Check Point, he is responsible for gathering competitive market intelligence, analyzing trends, developing and implementing strategic initiatives and managing a consistent corporate message. SPEAKER: Session #B1: What's Hot and What's Not in Managed Services Anil Srivastava is a senior staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and architect for Sun Java System Communications software. He has been involved in the messaging and collaboration program at Sun for more than 7 years having worked on Sun Internet Messaging Server, iPlanet Messaging Server and the Sun Java System Messaging and Calendar Servers. Anil spent the last year focused on the architecture of next generation thin clients for communications products, and is currently engaged in a cross-product team focused on advanced collaboration technologies. PANELIST: Session #E6: Webmail Wound-up: What Gmail and 1GB Storage Wars Mean to You Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz is EFF's Media Coordinator/Policy Analyst. She handles media relations, conducts research, and writes policy recommendations and white papers. Although she is a digital rights generalist, her special areas of interest are expanding the public domain, free speech, and network regulation. Previously, she was Culture Editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship in 2002. She writes a syndicated column called Techsploitation and is published regularly in national magazines and newspapers. In her off-hours, she edits an indie magazine called Other. She has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. PANELIST: Session #E1: Legal Maelstrom: Update from the Electronic Frontier Foundation Mr. Pier holds an MSIE (MBA core) from the University of Houston and a BSCE from the University of Texas at Austin. Barry’s experience in developing successful wireless telecommunications networks along with his ability to assemble a “winning team” provides a key asset in the development of WisperTel. Barry has more than 20 years of progressively responsible positions managing people, projects and operations in the wireless (18 year cellular, PCN/PCS, mobile data, fixed wireless and broadband/high-speed Internet access) and other high-tech industries including seven joint-ventures/start-ups, five years overseas assignments and numerous consulting engagements. Barry has held senior management positions responsible for business planning, business development, program engineering, infrastructure implementation and operational functions. As the vice president of carrier relations for Vaultus Mobile Technologies Inc. in Denver, Colo., Barry was responsible for the wireless access product attributes and all carrier-facing operations including contract negotiations, indirect carrier distribution channels, 2.5/3G migration, forecasting, coverage analysis, network enhancements, interconnection, activation, billing and network notifications. As the general manager of ReFlex Communications Inc., a spin-off of Advanced Radio Telecom, Barry was responsible for management of all day-to-day operations for the Rocky Mountain Region including personnel and project management, management of technical operations and sales and marketing for all products and services. Barry also held previous positions as director of implementation and technical operations for Advanced Radio Telecom Inc.; director of development and technical operations for Western Wireless Corp. (d.b.a. VoiceStream); director, mobile wireless for Fluor Daniel Inc.; senior program manager for MCI in the PCS division; and director of business development for U S West (Qwest) in London, England. As both an engineer and an operations specialist Barry has the specialized skills necessary to successfully deploy and operate an advanced wireless broadband access company. PANELIST: Session #V7: Fundamentals of VoIP PANELIST: Session #V8: More Than you Wanted to Know: Anatomy of Service PANELIST: Session #V9: Real-world Deployments Bill Ford is the former president of Boardtown Corporation, the industry leader in billing, help desk and subscriber management software for ISP and web hosting companies since 1996. As president and co-founder of Boardtown, Bill led the company from a startup vision to a company that provides billing for more than three million ISP subscribers. Boardtown Corporation was acquired in April 2004 by Tucows Inc., a leading provider of wholesale Internet services and back office solutions. As a dynamic software designer and Internet visionary, Bill Ford shares his experience with solving problems facing access providers. Bill has spoken on a variety of topics including billing and subscriber management and service outsourcing at ISPCON, Service Networks, Internet Service Provider's Forum and the ISP Business Expo. PANELIST: Session #B4: Beyond Basic Billing to Integrated OSS Bill Woodcock is research director of Packet Clearing House, a non-profit research institute dedicated to understanding and supporting Internet traffic exchange technology, policy, and economics. Bill has operated regional and national Internet service provision and content delivery networks since 1989, and currently spends most of his time building Internet exchanges in developing countries. PANELIST: Session #N6: Peer to Peer: The Peering Panel Brett Glass has more than 20 years of experience designing, building, writing about and crash-testing computer hardware and software. A consultant, author and programmer based in Laramie, Wyo., Glass obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Case Institute of Technology and his MSEE from Stanford. He plans networks, builds and configures servers, outlines technical strategies, designs embedded systems and writes highly-optimized "inner loop" assembly language (the key to software performance) for clients nationwide. He is also an accomplished Webmaster and UNIX system administrator. During his long and eclectic career, Brett has written portions of the code and/or documentation for such widely varied products as Borland's Pascal "toolboxes" and compilers, Living Videotext's ThinkTank, Cisco Systems routers and terminal servers, Earthstation diskless workstations and Texas Instruments' TMS380 Token Ring networking chipset. When he's not writing, consulting, speaking or cruising the Web in search of adventure, he may be playing the Ashbory bass, teaching Internet courses for LARIAT (Laramie's community network and Internet users' group), cooking up a storm or enjoying spicy ethnic food. SPEAKER: Session #N2: Dealing with Computer Techs MODERATOR: Session #E5: Open Source Email Roundup At Packet Design, Alaettinoglu works on scaling and convergence of inter/intra-domain routing protocols. Previously, at USC Information Sciences Institute, he worked on the Routing Arbiter project. He co-chaired the IETF Routing Policy System Working Group to define the routing policy specification language and protocols to enable a distributed, secure routing policy system. As research assistant professor at the Univeristy of Southern California, he taught graduate and undergraduate classes on operating systems and networking. He has spoken at NANOG, IETF, RIPE and APNIC meetings, and at ACM and IEEE conferences and workshops. Alaettinoglu holds a BS in computer engineering from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and an MS and PhD in computer science from University of Maryland-College Park. SPEAKER: Session #N1: Managing BGP in Today's ISP Networks Charles Weaver is the co-founder and president of the MSPAlliance, a global trade group for the managed services/IT outsourcing industry with over 150 members world wide. In addition to running the daily operational activities of the MSPAlliance, Mr. Weaver writes and speaks extensively around the country on the managed services industry. SPEAKER: Session #B1: What's Hot and What's Not in Managed Services Charles Wu, Operating Manager of CWLab, is a serial entrepreneur focusing on the technology space. CWLab, started in 1999 and founded upon the principle of “Telling the Good, Bad & Ugly as it Truly Is,” has been profitably and organically grown from an initial $25,000 investment in a studio apartment into a $15 million organization with over 25 employees based across the United States. PANELIST: Session #W3: Steering Clear of Common, Costly WISP Mistakes Dan Dearing has more than 17 years of industry experience. He has held a number of technical and business positions for both service providers and solution suppliers. Prior to joining NexTone, Dearing was the senior product marketing manager at Ciena Communications Inc., where he successfully managed the domestic and international rollout of their optical transport platforms to Sprint and several emerging carriers. Before making the leap to Ciena, Dearing held both marketing and product marketing positions with Hughes Network Systems (HNS). PANELIST: Session #V5: Realities of the Triple Play Vision David Murray is an Executive Vice President at Propel Software. Murray has more than 23 years of software development experience, having experienced both the technical and management sides of the equation. With Propel since its inception in 1999, Murray has worked with hundreds of ISPs in rolling out Web acceleration to their subscriber base. Before Propel, Murray co-founded Medici Technology which developed and marketed data mining, GIS analysis and strategic marketing software tailored specifically for the community banking market place. Before Medici, Murray co-founded the Internet services business at Geographic Services Corporation (GSC), which provides Internet-based geographic mapping services for store locators on web sites such as Godiva Chocolatiers and Michael's Craft Stores. SPEAKER: Session #N3: How to Benchmark Dialup Web Acceleration Performance Mr. Snead is an attorney in private practice in Washington D.C. His practice focuses exclusively on representing companies active in the internet infrastructure. In his 10 years in this area, Mr. Snead has represented these companies both in-house and as outside counsel. Areas of particular interest include the impact of legal decisions on day-to-day business operations and effectively managing compliance matters. He is on the Web Hosting Industry Review's "Panel of Experts" as well as a regular columnist for its monthly magazine. His clients include Affinity Internet, Inc., Superb Internet, Inc., AITOC, Inc., and FatCow Web Hosting L.L.C. Mr. Snead received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. SPEAKER: Session #H3: Cutting Out the Middle Man: Phishing, Spam and Virus Strategies You can Implement As founder, chief technology officer and vice president of engineering, Temkin has successfully positioned Laszlo to become the next technology standard for rich Internet applications. Before founding Laszlo, Temkin was senior director of engineering at Excite@Home where he led a team of 55 engineers, designers and technical writers responsible for developing the company's consumer software. Prior to that, Temkin was an engineering manager in the Newton division at Apple Computer. Temkin is a seasoned presenter, with experience speaking at industry leading events such as MacWorld, and is an accomplished educator at smaller, more "how-to" focused conferences such as the Apple Developer Conference. PANELIST: Session #E6: Webmail Wound-up: What Gmail and 1GB Storage Wars Mean to You David Williams is the VP Business Development at NextWeb Inc. He has more than 15 years' experience in telecom and Internet business and was a founder at one of the early leading regional ISPs in 1994. Williams has been involved in M&A transactions for both wired and wireless ISPs. He has lead and participated in numerous ISP and WISP M&A transactions and is responsible for evaluating M&A opportunities for NextWeb. PANELIST: Session #B5: Beyond the Mom-n-Pop WISP Derek Kerton is an internationally recognized wireless telecommunications industry expert. His insight into wireless telecommunications technology, products and applications is recognized in widely distributed industry reports, articles, newsletters and frequent quotes in national media outlets. He is also a contributing author to the book “Going Mobile” and the wireless editor for TechDirt. Derek's clients include carriers such as SK Telecom, British Telecom, Bouygues Telecom and companies across the value chain such as Broadcom, IPWireless, WiFinder, GPWare, Digital Fountain and LeapFrog. The Kerton Group also runs a monthly investment forum for telecom service providers. MODERATOR: Session #W5: Traversing HotZones, PtMP and WiMAX with Mesh Networks Donny Smith began working in the telecommunications arena in 1974. He has worked in various technology fields including software engineering, RF design, ISP and CLEC. He is currently working with traditional voice, voice over IP networks and fiber optics to the premises. Mr. Smith has a Computer Science degree from Mankato State University and an MBA from the University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business. MODERATOR: Session #V5: Realities of the Triple Play Vision PANELIST: Session #V3: Avoiding the Pitfalls of VoIP Deployment As Principal of Branch Run Communications, Doug McDonald works closely with partners from both the service provider and vendor community alike to conceive, build and strengthen profitable partnerships. A proponent of the independent service provider, Branch Run Communications works closely with select industry leading firms to strengthen their market position and profitability. Prior to founding Branch Run Communications, Doug spent the last decade working to forge lasting partnerships in the service provider community while holding sales and marketing positions at such industry leaders as Tucows and Hostopia. SPEAKER: Session #B7: The Big Opportunity in Small Businesses SPEAKER: Session #B8: Building the Solutions that Sell SPEAKER: Session #B9: Selling to the Small Business Eden Recor has been a successful ISP owner and operator for more than 10 years. In 2001, he started looking into unlicensed wireless Internet services. In the most recent six months, Grand County has gone full-time into wireless services, hired qualified installation support and is doing numerous upgrades for customers. He has gone through the process of self financing, leasing and back to self financing. He has experience with business plans that work and some that do not. Eden brings real-world insight for those who are planning to add wireless services, how to determine the costs and other considerations that go into starting up the business of wireless. He has taught Internet computer classes in adult education to promote use of the Internet and its benefits as well as educating engineers on technical subjects during his years at Lockheed. He holds a BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and a Masters in Computer Information Systems. SPEAKER: Session #W1: Going Wireless? Decisions and Planning Before the Leap A self-confessed contrarian with compelling opinions on a wide range of industry issues, Elliot Noss is a skilled presenter in all forums. Active in the industry, he has taken a leading role in ICANN reform and registrar issues, advocating on behalf of small and medium-sized ISPs and Web hosting companies. Articulate, focused and media-savvy, he is a frequent guest speaker at industry events; appears regularly as a panelist on Canada's Report on Business Television (ROBtv) as part of Michael Vaughn's Bottom Line Tech Tuesday; and most recently participated in a panel discussion at the Digital ID World Conference 2002 on The Role of DNS and Registries in Identity Management. Noss has a BA from the University of Toronto and an MBA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario. SPEAKER: Session #H2: The ISP Transition from Network to Applications PANELIST: Session #H6: Insourced vs. Outsourced Hosting Gene Lew is responsible for Switch and Data's strategic technology direction, technical infrastructure of its switching, routing and systems functions. He has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech and telecommunications industries, most recelty serving as CTO fo Gemini Networks. Prior to joining Gemini, he was VP Engineering and Advanced Technology of RoadRunner/TimeWarner, and has held senior positions at Verizon, MCI and Matsushita in telecommunications management, network engineering, research and development and product development. Lew has a bachelor's degree in computer science from University of New York. PANELIST: Session #N6: Peer to Peer: The Peering Panel As business manager of the Safety Technology and Strategy Group at Microsoft Corp., George Webb is responsible for coordinating portions of Microsoft’s broad Internet safety efforts to address issues such as anti-spam and anti-phishing for customers through a holistic approach to technology, standards, public policy and enforcement. In this role, Webb focuses on coordination of business efforts, including planning, research, public relations and marketing across Microsoft® product groups, including those for MSN®, Outlook® and Exchange. PANELIST: Session #E4: Mail Accountability
PANELIST: Session #V7: Fundamentals of VoIP PANELIST: Session #V8: More Than you Wanted to Know: Anatomy of Service PANELIST: Session #V9: Real-world Deployments Mr. Carabelli joined Pac-West as president and COO in June of 2001. He was appointed president and CEO in July of 2003. Formerly the COO of ICG, a Colorado-based competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), and president of @Link Networks, a broadband service provider, Mr. Carabelli has more than 25 years of industry experience. He joined ICG in 1996 as executive VP of network operations, and served as COO from 1998 to 1999 with responsibility over network engineering, customer care, sales and installation. Prior to ICG, Mr. Carabelli spent 19 years in management with Ameritech, Michigan Bell and Bellcore. PANELIST: Session #V4: Private Label vs. Roll-your-own VoIP Harry Katz is a program manager with the Safety Technology and Strategy Group Microsoft, responsible for industry standards and tool development. Previously Harry was responsible for email hygiene capabilities of Exchange. Since joining Microsoft 7 years ago, he has also worked on Exchange connectors and developer tools. Prior to Microsoft, Harry worked as a project manager with LinkAge Software on a variety of email gateway and directory synchronization products. Harry has a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. SPEAKER: Session #E7: The Sender ID Framework, Record Publishing and PRA Implementation Ivan Kohler is the original author of Freeside, an open-source billing package for ISPs. He has been working with ISPs to provide innovative and cost-effective open-source technical solutions for an unexaggerated 10 years. Ivan has given presentations on a variety of topics, from secure CGI programming to billing automation, at conferences such as the ISP Forum, ISP Business Expo and now ISPCON. A former MAPS employee (the Internet's original anti-spam non-profit), he also has extensive experience helping ISPs survive the growing tide of spam and email abuse. Ivan is a CPAN author, a Debian developer and a cat person. PANELIST: Session #E5: Open Source Email Roundup Jack M. Pausman, Director - 63, Educated at The Citadel, he began investing in foreign and domestic businesses in 1978. He began developing marketing strategies for private and, soon to be, public companies such as Planet Hollywood and First Plus Financial. He is the Director of Marketing for Wireless Broadband USA and is solely responsible for all of the infusion of monies for the company during it's infant stage. Working with Ed Bell, an icon in the facilitating arena and John Malone, Director of Engineering for WBUSA, Wireless Broadband USA has become a force in the industry bringing all facets of infrastructure and funding to those wishing to start or upgrade a total "turn-key" fixed wireless broadband business. MODERATOR: Session #B2: Real-world Growth Financing for the WISP Jack Unger has 45 years of wireless experience (since 1958) and has served the license-free broadband wireless industry continuously, full-time since 1993. He's the builder of one of the world's first WISPs (1995). He authored the first WISP industry handbook. In 2001, Unger created the first and the only vendor-neutral WISP design and deployment workshop. He is a recognized industry expert in interference avoidance and in interference reduction. SPEAKER: Session #W7: Understanding Layer 1: RF Fundamentals for WISPs SPEAKER: Session #W8: WISP Survival: Designing Around the Noise and Interference MODERATOR: Session #W3: Steering Clear of Common, Costly WISP Mistakes Jason Talley, president of Nuvio Corp., a leading provider of VoIP services to partner companies in rural markets, is an accomplished speaker on VoIP/telecommunications issues and has presented at executive summits, many state broadband association meetings, among other worldwide industry speaking venues. Talley has presented on regulation of VoIP, the case for developing tier-two and tier-three VoIP rural markets, private-label branding of VoIP services and many other topics. PANELIST: Session #V4: Private Label vs. Roll-your-own VoIP Jayson has 20+ years of IT experience in the areas of network security, disaster recovery planning, project management, e-ommerce/Internet, EDI and network/systems management.He works with Internet providers on infrastructure designs and security. Jay has managed development and implementation of e-commerce Web sites and hosting facilities. Customers include Toys-R-Us, AT&T, Private.com, Philips Lighting, Bookbundle, Lillian Vernon, Sports Illustrated, Red Rocket, Mountain Gear, Play Co., Beavex and others. Jay has taught at Baruch College; has been a speaker at Comdex, Tech Forum Managers meetings, user groups across the country, Future Forum 2000, Corporate Advisory Board and CTEXPO. Certifications include ADSI, CCDA,CCNA, CISSP, MCP, MCDBA, MCSE, MCT, NSA-AIM, RWMT, TCI. SPEAKER: Session #N5: Live ISP Network Hack-n-Crack SPEAKER: Session #N7: SWOT for the ISP Security Workshop - Part 1 SPEAKER: Session #N8: Active Monitoring for the ISP Security Workshop - Part 2 SPEAKER: Session #N9: Gaining Additional Revenue with Security Offerings Security Workshop - Part 3 Jeff Orr joined Proxim as a product manager in 1998. Since joining Proxim, Orr has led the introduction of several award-winning Proxim wireless solutions such as the Symphony WLAN, Skyline WLAN, Tsunami Multipoint A.I.R. fixed wireless and Lynx.GX 16T microwave radio systems. Prior to joining Proxim, Orr spent 10 years at Diamond Multimedia where he held several management positions. Orr majored in aerospace and aeronautical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio talk shows, and as a speaker for industry trade shows and seminars. He is also an active member of the WiMAX Forum. PANELIST: Session #W6: WiMAX Roadmaps, Realities and Rumors Jeff Pulver is the President and CEO of pulver.com, and one of the true pioneers of the Internet telephony/VoIP industry. Leveraging well over a decade of hands-on experience in Internet/IP communications and innovation, Mr. Pulver is a globally renowned thought leader, author and entrepreneur. He is the publisher of The Pulver Report and VON magazine, and creator of the industry standard Voice on the Net (VON) conferences, where all sectors of the IP communications come together to discuss, debate, and advance the industry. Additionally, Mr. Pulver is the founder of Free World Dialup (FWD), the VON coalition, LibreTel, WHP Wireless, pulverinnovations, Digisip, and is the co-founder of VoIP provider, Vonage. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: KEYNOTE: Voice over IP: What's next for ISPs and WISPs Jeff Kaplan founded and is the Managing Director of THINKstrategies (www.thinkstrategies.com), a strategic consulting firm that helps IT enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies. Prior to forming THINKstrategies, Jeff served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at InterOPS Management Solutions, an Internet Operations Management Services Provider. Before joining InterOPS, Jeff was Director of Strategic Marketing at International Network Services (INS) and subsequently Lucent Technologies which acquired INS. Jeff also spent thirteen (13) years as a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest and META Group. Jeff is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributing columnist for Mass High Tech Journal, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and Services News on topics ranging from utility computing, managed services, outsourcing strategies, IT operations and service level management (SLM). Jeff serves as the Site Guide for ITworld's Utility Computing web portal [www.utilitycomputing.itworld.com] and is the Outsourcing Expert for TechTarget's SearchCIO [www.searchcio.techtarget.com] and SearchSmallBizIT [www.searchbizit.com] web portals. He also is a MSPAlliance research partner and member of the AMR Research Board of Directors. Jeff can be reached at jkaplan@thinkstrategies.com. SPEAKER: Session #B1: What's Hot and What's Not in Managed Services Ms. Nieman is Airpath’s Director of Operations. Her responsibilities include the day-to-day implementation of the business plan and the management of installation coordination. Prior to joining Airpath Wireless, Ms. Nieman was an analyst for Nortel Networks. Previously, she spent two years with WorldCom as a Systems Software Engineer where she assisted with a systems conversion and the implementation of a customer relationship management database. Ms. Nieman has also held positions of Technology Manager and Clinical Engineer in which she was responsible for project management, team building and customer/vendor relationships. In 1997, she was elected to the North Carolina Biomedical Association's Board of Directors. Ms. Nieman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toledo. PANELIST: Session #B4: Beyond Basic Billing to Integrated OSS Jim is president and founder of Internet Business Consulting, Inc (IBC), PANELIST: Session #W3: Steering Clear of Common, Costly WISP Mistakes Jim Johnson is Director of Product Management for Level 3 Communications, responsible for product management of Level 3’s voice services sold through consumer-facing partners. PANELIST: Session #V4: Private Label vs. Roll-your-own VoIP John Todd has worked extensively in VoIP platforms ranging from enterprise to ITSP architectures. He has worked with various manufacturers of SIP CPE working towards improving "real-world" implementations of VoIP in public networks. He has extensive experience with Asterisk, IP routing, as well as SIP call delivery systems. He rarely sleeps. SPEAKER: Session #V1: Asterisk for ISPs and WISPs SPEAKER: Session #V3: Avoiding the Pitfalls of VoIP Deployment As vice president of marketing and sales, Mr. Mailman is responsible for the marketing and sales efforts, and continued growth of Everyone.net services. Mr. Mailman has more than a decade in the messaging industry most notably as vice president of operations at eFax.com (acquired by J2 Global Communications) where he helped take the company public in 1997 and managed the transition from a hardware company to the leading provider of fax over the Internet in 1999, personally securing more than three million telephone numbers for eFax while establishing 15 points of presence in the U.S. and U.K. In addition to his role at eFax.com Mr. Mailman has served as vice president of messaging and communities at NBCi where he oversaw the email.com relationship, and as director of worldwide marketing operations for Xerox's fax and multifunction groups. PANELIST: Session #E6: Webmail Wound-up: What Gmail and 1GB Storage Wars Mean to You Juan Santiago leads the strategy, new market development and regulatory efforts for Motorola's Wireless Broadband Group. As director of market development, he also guides the ongoing development of the Canopy™ line of wireless broadband products, advises Internet service providers on business plans and manages strategic relationships. Juan's long career at Motorola also included various engineering and management positions with Motorola's radio, cellular, paging and wireless data communications businesses. Juan holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management; an MS in Electrical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University; and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Bradley University. He has published several articles on wireless communications and is the holder of two US patents. Juan is a native of Puerto Rico and now resides in suburban Chicago with his wife and two children. PANELIST: Session #W6: WiMAX Roadmaps, Realities and Rumors Karl Jacob is a three-time entrepreneur, building Internet companies since 1992 in roles that span management, technology and marketing. Two of Jacob's companies have been selected for Fortune Magazine's "Cool Companies of the Year" list and BusinessWeek named him one of the top 10 up-and-comers in 2000. Previously, as CEO and President of Keen, he led the company to be credited as the fastest growing ecommerce company in history. The company has grown quarterly revenue sequentially since inception doing $1 million a week in transactions and is on a clear path to near-term profitability. Prior to Keen, he spent two years as a Microsoft executive, following Microsoft's acquisition of Dimension X where he was founder and CEO. SPEAKER: Session #E2: Email: How to Avoid Being Taken for a "Phishing" Expedition Kelly Williams is Director of Marketing for NovaStor Corporation. Prior to joining NovaStor, Ms. Williams headed her own marketing consultancy specializing in telecommunications hardware in software. Ms. Williams has been involved in the voice over IP/frame relay and ISP market for more than eight years, heading up marketing for ACT Networks/Clarent, Hypercom Network Systems and Sync Research. She has presented a wide variety of topics at industry forums and trainings and sales meetings for more than 15 years. SPEAKER: Session #H5: Serving Up Small Business Storage Kenneth Osowski, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, has been with Pactolus more than three years, joining during the company’s early development stage. Osowski started in the enhanced services market in 1993 at Boston Technology. Later, Osowski co-started IPeria in 1998, where he was VP Marketing and Business Development. Osowski holds a BS in Physics from Franklin & Marshall College and an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University. SPEAKER: Session #V6: Pricing VoIP Services
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