Phil Dunne, Cloud Essentials Specialist, Salesforce.Com
Phil Dunne has been a dedicated Salesforce.Com evangelist, touring the UK with our enterprise cloud computing CRM Essentials road show. Phil joined the company from SAP/Business Objects in 2007. Having championed the use of Salesforce.Com within Business Objects saw the huge market shift to the cloud.
David Terrar, CEO, D2C Limited and Chair of Intellect SaaS Group
David heads up D2C, a consulting firm which provides business and social media consulting as well as Cloud based solutions for accounting, content, collaboration, and web publishing. He is Vice Chair of the UK's Intellect Software as a Service Group, and a director of EuroCloud UK.
Andy is responsible for discussing the “Enterprise Cloud” journey with EMEA VMware customers, he has over 8 years virtualisation experience and has been involved in small to very large VMware deployments. Key experience has been in regulated computing environments and the processes that need to change in the data centre for a successful deployment. Previous positions in VMware have included Senior Evangelist, before that Andy was a customer of VMware virtualising data centres all over the world for a large multinational organisation.
Phil Wainewright, CEO Procullux Ventures, VP EuroCloud and ZDNet blogger on SaaS
Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. His newest role as an industry advocate is as vice-president of EuroCloud. He is best known for his Software as Services blog on ZDNet, and also blogs on The Connected Web at eBizQ, covering topics from cloud to social media.
Mark is currently CIO of Essex County Council. He joined ECC as a consultant in May 2006 and was appointed CIO just over a year ago.
His major achievement at Essex to date has been overseeing the successful in-sourcing of their IT operation, which was outsourced to BT Global Services, without any significant issues or problems.
Mostafa Afifi, Virtualisation Engineer, Morgan Stanley
Mostafa Afifi is Virtualisation Engineer at Morgan Stanley, where he balances his time between selling Virtualisation & Cloud Computing’s benefits, and engineering a solution that can meet the demands of a very competitive business. His focus has been on business cases, return on investment, and on ensuring that virtualisation brings operational benefits.
Stephan Haux, Senior Product Manager – EMEA, Iron Mountain Digital
Stephan Haux is Senior Product Manager for EMEA at Iron Mountain Digital. Haux oversees EMEA activities for determining market requirements, for going to market across Iron Mountain Digitals product and service portfolio. Haux frequently speaks at events, briefs journalists and engages with the analyst community in all parts of the world. Before Haux joined Iron Mountain held various international positions at SAS for example as Team Leader and Product Manager.
Phil Dean has worked for Cisco for fifteen years and is responsible for Cisco’s technology vision and architectures in Cisco’s European Theatre.
Phil started his career as an electronics engineer at EMI in the team which developed the x-ray CT scanner but has since worked in the IT and communications industry for over 20 years in management roles across product development, product management and IT strategy.
As a former ethical hacker with seventeen years experience in the Information Security industry, Jason has used his knowledge and expertise to create technologies that ensure organisations stay one step ahead of the security game. Jason continues to raise the profile of Information Security risks and solutions, including the introduction of the term CSO (Chief Security Officer) within business.
With over five years of field experience working with customers on Linux-based implementations in the UK and Europe, Boris Devouge is an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies and migrations. Prior to joining Canonical, Boris worked as a senior solution architect at Red Hat and a technical support engineer at Hewlett-Packard.
Scott Dobson, Managing Director, Cloud Distribution Ltd
A well connected, experienced and highly motivated industry professional with over 20 years of experience selling complex, high margin communications solutions to enterprise clients via EMEA channels. These channels include Service Providers, PTT's, Telcos, distributors and Systems Integrators.
Equally at home within a start-up or established vendor, Scott’s core skills are in building a team of aggressive individuals (sales, pre-sales, marketing etc.) to generate high yield in the shortest possible time frame throughout EMEA via the channels above.
Jon Beck, Senior Vice President of Sales & Business Development, OpSource
An industry veteran of sixteen years, Mr. Beck currently manages the global sales, client services and business development teams at OpSource. Prior to OpSource he served in various senior management positions at Critical Path, Netcom (acquired by EarthLink), Global Center (acquired by Exodus), and Genuity (acquired by Level 3 Communications) and most recently as COO at Pandora Networks, a leading VoIP messaging company where he managed marketing and field operations in the U.S. and U.K.
Tim is an experienced networking and security industry expert who joined Mimecast from RSA Security where he held the position of Area Vice President, International Marketing. Prior to RSA he was Business Development Director for networking company 3Com.
He is a forward thinking marketing leader with a track record of high performance in corporate strategy, marketing, sales channels and communications.
Simon Abrahams, EMEA Head of Product Marketing, Rackspace
Simon Abrahams is Head of Product Marketing for Rackspace EMEA, with ownership of the EMEA product strategy, market positioning, and delivery of all new products. In this role Simon is responsible for aligning Rackspace’s product innovation initiatives with the needs of European customers, as part of Rackspace’s Fanatical Support commitment.
David Akka, MD, Magic Software Enterprises UK, Eire & Nordics
Mr David Akka M.Sc, MBA, is the Managing Director of Magic Software Enterprises (UK) Ltd. Mr Akka has been with Magic Software since 1998 and is considered one of the organisation’s foremost authorities on Cloud computing and SOA methodologies.
Prior to working with Magic Software, David held the position of CTO, Service Delivery Manager and worked in several Management Consulting roles.
Chris Rae, EMEA Director, Automation Solutions, CA
Chris Rae has been working in IT for over 20 years. He began his career as a lecturer in Mainframe PL1 programming techniques. After two years he moved into sales of Mainframe solutions where he first had exposure to Virtualisation. Over the length of his career he has gained experience in many diverse areas such as Mainframe Systems Management Tools, Distributed Systems Availability Technology, and SAP support solutions.
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized business strategist and enterprise architect who has worked for over twenty years bringing innovative solutions to clients in the Global 2000, federal government, and Internet startup community.
Kenneth Verlage joined DHL in 1991 and has held numerous management positions within the DHL Group. His solid management skills combined with a hard won experience of strategic change projects have made him a highly regarded senior manager. In 2001 Kenneth went into a CIO role creating a totally re-designed IT-solution for DHL in the Nordics.
Adrian Steel, Head of Infrastructure Management, Royal Mail
Adrian has entered his 25th year inside the IT industry, his career thus far has been wide and varied...... Adrian's early career very much focussed on detail technical support of Local and Central Government majoring in Microsoft technology stacks, natually branching out and majoring on automation and toolsets providing significant inroads to reduce service outages and incident volumes.
Adrian Davey is Head of IT for Tube Lines, a position he has held since 2005. Tube Lines maintains the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern lines on the London Underground as part of a 30 year PPP contract awarded in 2003. Between them the lines carry over 1 million passengers per day. Adrian is accountable for the development of the IS and IT strategy and enabling technology to support the maintenance activities and upgrade programmes on the three lines. The focus over the last two years has been on information visibility using enterprise 2.0 technology approaches and Green IT.
Bill Ashraf, Director of Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Sussex
Bill Ashraf is Director of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Sussex. He is currently heading up the strategy at Sussex for e-/technology enhanced learning, student facing educational support technology and is the "owner" of the moodle based VLE.
Andrew Charlesworth, Director of the Centre for IT & Law, University of Bristol
Andrew Charlesworth is Reader in IT Law in the School of Law and Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, where he is the Director of the cross-disciplinary Centre for IT & Law. His key areas of research include data privacy, intellectual property, and e-commerce.
Eachan spent his early career in consultancies where he indulged his fascination with technology in industries such as Insurance, Banking, Telecoms, and Defence. His work delivered several Microsoft reference sites for enterprise integrations.
Moving out of the corporate and into the web Eachan spent 5 years with Betfair as Chief Architect and leading development teams. Since joining Sporting Index in 2009 as CIO he has been refreshing the technology stack with grid computing patterns and delivering new business-to-business products.
Currently CIO for Westminster City Council, David is driving forward an exciting new IS strategy based on the principles of customer centric service delivery, a zero infrastructure technology environment and transformational change.
Paul James, CIO, Dstl - Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Mr James joined the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in 1997 and is currently the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
As CIO, Mr James is responsible for Knowledge and Information Services (KIS) and the systems and processes that support KIS. Mr James has been responsible for the transformation of Dstl’s knowledge and Information services and how these are delivered to enable the business and the wider MOD. Mr James has provided the transformational vision and successfully lead delivery of that transformation.
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Phil Dunne has been a dedicated Salesforce.Com evangelist, touring the UK with our enterprise cloud computing CRM Essentials road show. Phil joined the company from SAP/Business Objects in 2007. Having championed the use of Salesforce.Com within Business Objects saw the huge market shift to the cloud.
David heads up D2C, a consulting firm which provides business and social media consulting as well as Cloud based solutions for accounting, content, collaboration, and web publishing. He is Vice Chair of the UK's Intellect Software as a Service Group, and a director of EuroCloud UK.
Andy is responsible for discussing the “Enterprise Cloud” journey with EMEA VMware customers, he has over 8 years virtualisation experience and has been involved in small to very large VMware deployments. Key experience has been in regulated computing environments and the processes that need to change in the data centre for a successful deployment. Previous positions in VMware have included Senior Evangelist, before that Andy was a customer of VMware virtualising data centres all over the world for a large multinational organisation.
Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. His newest role as an industry advocate is as vice-president of EuroCloud. He is best known for his Software as Services blog on ZDNet, and also blogs on The Connected Web at eBizQ, covering topics from cloud to social media.
Mark is currently CIO of Essex County Council. He joined ECC as a consultant in May 2006 and was appointed CIO just over a year ago.
Mostafa Afifi is Virtualisation Engineer at Morgan Stanley, where he balances his time between selling Virtualisation & Cloud Computing’s benefits, and engineering a solution that can meet the demands of a very competitive business. His focus has been on business cases, return on investment, and on ensuring that virtualisation brings operational benefits.
Stephan Haux is Senior Product Manager for EMEA at Iron Mountain Digital. Haux oversees EMEA activities for determining market requirements, for going to market across Iron Mountain Digitals product and service portfolio. Haux frequently speaks at events, briefs journalists and engages with the analyst community in all parts of the world. Before Haux joined Iron Mountain held various international positions at SAS for example as Team Leader and Product Manager.
Phil Dean has worked for Cisco for fifteen years and is responsible for Cisco’s technology vision and architectures in Cisco’s European Theatre.
As a former ethical hacker with seventeen years experience in the Information Security industry, Jason has used his knowledge and expertise to create technologies that ensure organisations stay one step ahead of the security game. Jason continues to raise the profile of Information Security risks and solutions, including the introduction of the term CSO (Chief Security Officer) within business.
With over five years of field experience working with customers on Linux-based implementations in the UK and Europe, Boris Devouge is an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies and migrations. Prior to joining Canonical, Boris worked as a senior solution architect at Red Hat and a technical support engineer at Hewlett-Packard.
A well connected, experienced and highly motivated industry professional with over 20 years of experience selling complex, high margin communications solutions to enterprise clients via EMEA channels. These channels include Service Providers, PTT's, Telcos, distributors and Systems Integrators.
An industry veteran of sixteen years, Mr. Beck currently manages the global sales, client services and business development teams at OpSource. Prior to OpSource he served in various senior management positions at Critical Path, Netcom (acquired by EarthLink), Global Center (acquired by Exodus), and Genuity (acquired by Level 3 Communications) and most recently as COO at Pandora Networks, a leading VoIP messaging company where he managed marketing and field operations in the U.S. and U.K.
Tim is an experienced networking and security industry expert who joined Mimecast from RSA Security where he held the position of Area Vice President, International Marketing. Prior to RSA he was Business Development Director for networking company 3Com.
Simon Abrahams is Head of Product Marketing for Rackspace EMEA, with ownership of the EMEA product strategy, market positioning, and delivery of all new products. In this role Simon is responsible for aligning Rackspace’s product innovation initiatives with the needs of European customers, as part of Rackspace’s Fanatical Support commitment.
Mr David Akka M.Sc, MBA, is the Managing Director of Magic Software Enterprises (UK) Ltd. Mr Akka has been with Magic Software since 1998 and is considered one of the organisation’s foremost authorities on Cloud computing and SOA methodologies.
Chris Rae has been working in IT for over 20 years. He began his career as a lecturer in Mainframe PL1 programming techniques. After two years he moved into sales of Mainframe solutions where he first had exposure to Virtualisation. Over the length of his career he has gained experience in many diverse areas such as Mainframe Systems Management Tools, Distributed Systems Availability Technology, and SAP support solutions.
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Kenneth Verlage joined DHL in 1991 and has held numerous management positions within the DHL Group. His solid management skills combined with a hard won experience of strategic change projects have made him a highly regarded senior manager. In 2001 Kenneth went into a CIO role creating a totally re-designed IT-solution for DHL in the Nordics.
Adrian has entered his 25th year inside the IT industry, his career thus far has been wide and varied...... Adrian's early career very much focussed on detail technical support of Local and Central Government majoring in Microsoft technology stacks, natually branching out and majoring on automation and toolsets providing significant inroads to reduce service outages and incident volumes.
Adrian Davey is Head of IT for Tube Lines, a position he has held since 2005. Tube Lines maintains the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern lines on the London Underground as part of a 30 year PPP contract awarded in 2003. Between them the lines carry over 1 million passengers per day. Adrian is accountable for the development of the IS and IT strategy and enabling technology to support the maintenance activities and upgrade programmes on the three lines. The focus over the last two years has been on information visibility using enterprise 2.0 technology approaches and Green IT.
Andrew Charlesworth is Reader in IT Law in the School of Law and Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, where he is the Director of the cross-disciplinary Centre for IT & Law. His key areas of research include data privacy, intellectual property, and e-commerce.
Eachan spent his early career in consultancies where he indulged his fascination with technology in industries such as Insurance, Banking, Telecoms, and Defence. His work delivered several Microsoft reference sites for enterprise integrations.
Currently CIO for Westminster City Council, David is driving forward an exciting new IS strategy based on the principles of customer centric service delivery, a zero infrastructure technology environment and transformational change.
Mr James joined the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in 1997 and is currently the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
