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Darren Ehlers
Vice President Products and Corporate Development, Clever Machine
Darren Ehlers is vice president and cofounder, Clever Machine. Previously he was senior director of product management, SungardSCT and prior to that he was director of product management at Vignette. Darren has significant speaking engagement experience, including multiple customer conferences, industry conferences, analyst and press briefings, and direct sales support.
Vice President Products and Corporate Development, Clever Machine
Darren Ehlers is vice president and cofounder, Clever Machine. Previously he was senior director of product management, SungardSCT and prior to that he was director of product management at Vignette. Darren has significant speaking engagement experience, including multiple customer conferences, industry conferences, analyst and press briefings, and direct sales support.
John Goodson
Vice President of Product Operations, DataDirect Technologies
John Goodson leads the product strategy, direction, and development efforts for DataDirect Technologies' products. For more than 10 years John has worked closely with Sun and Microsoft on the development and evolution of database connectivity standards including J2EE, JDBC, .NET, ODBC, and ADO. John speaks frequently about these topics at other major industry events, and he has been published recently in numerous trade publications. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
Vice President of Product Operations, DataDirect Technologies
John Goodson leads the product strategy, direction, and development efforts for DataDirect Technologies' products. For more than 10 years John has worked closely with Sun and Microsoft on the development and evolution of database connectivity standards including J2EE, JDBC, .NET, ODBC, and ADO. John speaks frequently about these topics at other major industry events, and he has been published recently in numerous trade publications. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
Natty Gur
CTO, dao2com
Natty Gur has 13 years of experience in the IT field, and for seven years he has focused on running enterprise architecture in companies and governmental bodies. Natty also serves as technical director of IASA, serves as a member of the IASA board of directors, and he was elected by Microsoft as MVP for the last three years.
CTO, dao2com
Natty Gur has 13 years of experience in the IT field, and for seven years he has focused on running enterprise architecture in companies and governmental bodies. Natty also serves as technical director of IASA, serves as a member of the IASA board of directors, and he was elected by Microsoft as MVP for the last three years.
Chris Haddad
Practice Manager, Burton Group
Chris Haddad is Practice Manager and strategist with the Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies service. He has over 15 years of experience architecting and managing application development initiatives and providing advice to leading Service Oriented Architecture infrastructure companies such as Grand Central, SOA Software (formerly Flamenco Networks), Computer Associates (formerly Adjoin), Verisign (formerly Securant), Employease, Jamcracker, ClearNova, TRX and Raygun. Prior to joining Burton Group, Haddad was CTO for Cobia Communications, an Atlanta-based consulting firm providing XML Web services.
Practice Manager, Burton Group
Chris Haddad is Practice Manager and strategist with the Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies service. He has over 15 years of experience architecting and managing application development initiatives and providing advice to leading Service Oriented Architecture infrastructure companies such as Grand Central, SOA Software (formerly Flamenco Networks), Computer Associates (formerly Adjoin), Verisign (formerly Securant), Employease, Jamcracker, ClearNova, TRX and Raygun. Prior to joining Burton Group, Haddad was CTO for Cobia Communications, an Atlanta-based consulting firm providing XML Web services.
Chris Hagenbuch
Program Manager, Apptis
Chris Hagenbuch has over 12 years of IT industry experience, with 10 years of multiphased and full life-cycle, distributed N-tier development on multiple platforms with multiple RDBMSs. Having held the titles director of engineering, principle enterprise architect, and senior developer, he has considerable experience and exposure to a wide variety of technologies, due diligence efforts, system architecture, design and integration, functional prototyping, full life-cycle system development at all stages, heterogeneous development environments, change management, and SEI and CMM models, RUP, and SCRUM, among other process-driven methodologies. Chris also has several years of project management experience at both the team, project, and program level including financial performance and P&L experience, and he has given various presentations at symposiums and to senior (C-level) executives. Chris holds many technical certifications, as well as holding Certified Practicing Scrum Master and PMP.
Program Manager, Apptis
Chris Hagenbuch has over 12 years of IT industry experience, with 10 years of multiphased and full life-cycle, distributed N-tier development on multiple platforms with multiple RDBMSs. Having held the titles director of engineering, principle enterprise architect, and senior developer, he has considerable experience and exposure to a wide variety of technologies, due diligence efforts, system architecture, design and integration, functional prototyping, full life-cycle system development at all stages, heterogeneous development environments, change management, and SEI and CMM models, RUP, and SCRUM, among other process-driven methodologies. Chris also has several years of project management experience at both the team, project, and program level including financial performance and P&L experience, and he has given various presentations at symposiums and to senior (C-level) executives. Chris holds many technical certifications, as well as holding Certified Practicing Scrum Master and PMP.
Guy Hoffman
President and CEO Metallect
Guy Hoffman is a successful emerging market strategist with over 20 years of executive and venture capital experience. Prior to joining Metallect as its president and CEO, Guy served as a venture partner for TL Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with $1.4 billion under management. At TL Ventures, Guy sourced and managed investments in information technology and communications and served as a board member of several software companies including b-there.com (acquired by StarCite), DigitalWork, Factory Logic, and Participate Systems. He also assumed interim CEO positions in multiple portfolio companies. Previously, Guy held CEO positions at Deja News Inc. and iSong.com as well as senior management positions at OpenConnect Systems and Eicon Technology Corporation. At OpenConnect, Guy was responsible for developing a turnaround strategy that ultimately resulted in achieving market leadership in Web-enabled legacy systems. At Eicon, Guy helped grow the company from inception to a $600 million public market capitalization. Guy holds a BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
President and CEO Metallect
Guy Hoffman is a successful emerging market strategist with over 20 years of executive and venture capital experience. Prior to joining Metallect as its president and CEO, Guy served as a venture partner for TL Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with $1.4 billion under management. At TL Ventures, Guy sourced and managed investments in information technology and communications and served as a board member of several software companies including b-there.com (acquired by StarCite), DigitalWork, Factory Logic, and Participate Systems. He also assumed interim CEO positions in multiple portfolio companies. Previously, Guy held CEO positions at Deja News Inc. and iSong.com as well as senior management positions at OpenConnect Systems and Eicon Technology Corporation. At OpenConnect, Guy was responsible for developing a turnaround strategy that ultimately resulted in achieving market leadership in Web-enabled legacy systems. At Eicon, Guy helped grow the company from inception to a $600 million public market capitalization. Guy holds a BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Gunther Lenz
Program Manager, Siemens Corporate Research
Gunther Lenz is the author of .NET: A Complete Development Cycle (Addison Wesley, 2004) and Practical Software Factories in .NET (APress, 2006). In his current research he focuses on Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) and software factories. Gunther received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award (MVP – Architect) and is an invited member of the Microsoft Software Design Review team. He frequently presents at internal and external conferences on subjects related to software engineering.
Program Manager, Siemens Corporate Research
Gunther Lenz is the author of .NET: A Complete Development Cycle (Addison Wesley, 2004) and Practical Software Factories in .NET (APress, 2006). In his current research he focuses on Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) and software factories. Gunther received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award (MVP – Architect) and is an invited member of the Microsoft Software Design Review team. He frequently presents at internal and external conferences on subjects related to software engineering.
David S. Linthicum
CEO, Bridgewerx
David S. Linthicum is the CEO of Bridgewerx and is an internationally known expert in application integration and service-oriented architecture. David has formed many of the ideas for modern distributed computing including Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and B2B application integration, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and approaches and technology in wide use today. Dave is the former CTO of Mercator and has held key technology management roles with a number of organizations including CTO of Saga Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities. David keynotes at many leading technology conferences, and he has authored over 500 articles for major computing publications. He has monthly columns in several popular industry magazines. David has authored or coauthored six books including David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server and Intranet Development (John Wiley & Sons, 1997), the groundbreaking and best-selling Enterprise Application Integration (Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999), and his latest book, Next Generation Application Integration (Addison-Wesley Longman, 2003).
CEO, Bridgewerx
David S. Linthicum is the CEO of Bridgewerx and is an internationally known expert in application integration and service-oriented architecture. David has formed many of the ideas for modern distributed computing including Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and B2B application integration, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and approaches and technology in wide use today. Dave is the former CTO of Mercator and has held key technology management roles with a number of organizations including CTO of Saga Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities. David keynotes at many leading technology conferences, and he has authored over 500 articles for major computing publications. He has monthly columns in several popular industry magazines. David has authored or coauthored six books including David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server and Intranet Development (John Wiley & Sons, 1997), the groundbreaking and best-selling Enterprise Application Integration (Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999), and his latest book, Next Generation Application Integration (Addison-Wesley Longman, 2003).
Andrew Nash
CTO, Reactivity Inc.
Andrew Nash, CTO of Reactivity, was formerly the director of technologies at RSA Security and led RSA’s efforts within the Liberty Alliance on the Strong Authentication Expert Group to create a model for industry-wide, open, and strong authentication systems. He is a known leader in PKI and Web services security markets and the coauthor of numerous Web services specifications including WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-SecurityPolicy. Andrew is an author of an RSA Press book on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), a member of the OASIS Web Services Security TC, and was chairman of the PKI Forum Technical Working Group. Andrew has been a key technology leader at both RSA Security and Digital Equipment Corporation. He graduated from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and holds a post graduate degree in software engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney.
CTO, Reactivity Inc.
Andrew Nash, CTO of Reactivity, was formerly the director of technologies at RSA Security and led RSA’s efforts within the Liberty Alliance on the Strong Authentication Expert Group to create a model for industry-wide, open, and strong authentication systems. He is a known leader in PKI and Web services security markets and the coauthor of numerous Web services specifications including WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-SecurityPolicy. Andrew is an author of an RSA Press book on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), a member of the OASIS Web Services Security TC, and was chairman of the PKI Forum Technical Working Group. Andrew has been a key technology leader at both RSA Security and Digital Equipment Corporation. He graduated from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and holds a post graduate degree in software engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Alan D. Ross
Lead Security Architect, Intel Corporation
Alan D. Ross has 11 years of IT security experience in various capacities, from data security analyst to engineering and architecture. He is experienced with the entire information security life cycle and is currently leading security architecture activities for Intel Corporation’s IT division.
Lead Security Architect, Intel Corporation
Alan D. Ross has 11 years of IT security experience in various capacities, from data security analyst to engineering and architecture. He is experienced with the entire information security life cycle and is currently leading security architecture activities for Intel Corporation’s IT division.
Neeraj Sangal
Founder and CEO, Lattix Inc.
Neeraj Sangal was the founder and CEO of Tendril Software, which was acquired by BEA/Webgain. The Tendril product, StructureBuilder, was at the core of Webgain's model-based development strategy, and Tendril pioneered in UML models for Java—being the first to come up with seamless code and model synchronization capability. Tendril was also the leader in applying this capability to the creation, verification, and deployment of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). Neeraj was also previously founder and CTO of Metrix Network Systems and was responsible for the creation of the NetMetrix suite, an award-winning application for network monitoring and analysis. Metrix was acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP). At HP, Neeraj eventually headed up a development organization located at three different geographical centers. He focused on management practices, software process improvements, and the use of tools for running an effective distributed development organization. Neeraj holds an M.S. in computer engineering, an MEng in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Neeraj has published articles and papers in magazines and conferences, and he holds a patent related to UML and model-driven development technology.
Founder and CEO, Lattix Inc.
Neeraj Sangal was the founder and CEO of Tendril Software, which was acquired by BEA/Webgain. The Tendril product, StructureBuilder, was at the core of Webgain's model-based development strategy, and Tendril pioneered in UML models for Java—being the first to come up with seamless code and model synchronization capability. Tendril was also the leader in applying this capability to the creation, verification, and deployment of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). Neeraj was also previously founder and CTO of Metrix Network Systems and was responsible for the creation of the NetMetrix suite, an award-winning application for network monitoring and analysis. Metrix was acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP). At HP, Neeraj eventually headed up a development organization located at three different geographical centers. He focused on management practices, software process improvements, and the use of tools for running an effective distributed development organization. Neeraj holds an M.S. in computer engineering, an MEng in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Neeraj has published articles and papers in magazines and conferences, and he holds a patent related to UML and model-driven development technology.
Charles Stack
CEO , Flashline Inc.
Charles Stack is CEO of Flashline, a provider of software asset portfolio management solutions. Stack has been managing software development for over 20 years, with more than a decade of experience managing the development of online systems. He is credited with founding the first Internet retail store, Books.com, and is the inventor of two patented ecommerce applications. Stack is recognized throughout the industry as a true visionary, having been honored with awards such as InfoWorld's Top 10 Innovators in eBusiness, and the Small Business News Visionary Award. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and trade shows, lecturing on enterprise architecture, IT governance, and service-oriented architecture.
CEO , Flashline Inc.
Charles Stack is CEO of Flashline, a provider of software asset portfolio management solutions. Stack has been managing software development for over 20 years, with more than a decade of experience managing the development of online systems. He is credited with founding the first Internet retail store, Books.com, and is the inventor of two patented ecommerce applications. Stack is recognized throughout the industry as a true visionary, having been honored with awards such as InfoWorld's Top 10 Innovators in eBusiness, and the Small Business News Visionary Award. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and trade shows, lecturing on enterprise architecture, IT governance, and service-oriented architecture.
Shari Zedeck
Director of Product Management, Progress Software
Shari Zedeck is an industry veteran with 25 years of experience in software development, support, product management, and marketing. She is currently director of product management for the OpenEdge Division of Progress Software, a global industry leader providing application infrastructure software for all aspects of the development, deployment, integration, and management of business applications. Shari was also director of product management and marketing for the NuMega Lab of Compuware Corporation, delivering DevPartner development and debugging tools for Java and Microsoft development. In her 12-year tenure at Hewlett-Packard and Apollo, Shari held a number of positions working on graphics, developer tools, and CORBA-based technologies, but never strayed far from her development roots. Shari holds an MBA from Boston College and a BS in computer science and mathematics from Binghamton University.
Director of Product Management, Progress Software
Shari Zedeck is an industry veteran with 25 years of experience in software development, support, product management, and marketing. She is currently director of product management for the OpenEdge Division of Progress Software, a global industry leader providing application infrastructure software for all aspects of the development, deployment, integration, and management of business applications. Shari was also director of product management and marketing for the NuMega Lab of Compuware Corporation, delivering DevPartner development and debugging tools for Java and Microsoft development. In her 12-year tenure at Hewlett-Packard and Apollo, Shari held a number of positions working on graphics, developer tools, and CORBA-based technologies, but never strayed far from her development roots. Shari holds an MBA from Boston College and a BS in computer science and mathematics from Binghamton University.
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