PANELIST
Bio's:
Carlos
Caballero, CEO, ClearVU
With more than twenty years of progressive technology,
marketing and management exposure, and strong specialization
in Application and Product Lifecycle Management, Carlos Caballero
serves as a senior strategic execution resource for B2B software
companies. Caballero advises several start-ups and their Board
members on product strategy and strategic marketing. He also
serves as a special liaison and research consultant related
to mergers and acquisitions, industry initiatives and partnerships.
Previously, Caballero founded two companies: Digital Graffiti
- a marketing communications consultancy firm for emerging software
vendors - and Qualitive - a software vendor specializing in
Competitive Intelligence Management software. He has also worked
in a number of global marketing, product management and Senior
Executive roles at Starbase Corporation, Quest Software, NewWorldIQ
and Softool Corporation. Fluent in three languages, Caballero
earned his MS and teaching credentials in physics and applied
mathematics from UNCPBA in Argentina.
Martin
Milani, President & CEO, Chief Technology Officer, Intersperse
Mr. Milani is an industry expert on distributed computing. Most
recently he was CTO of iBuilding, a Web services process-flow
management and orchestration company where he led the design,
application development, product management, support, and consulting
teams. Under his leadership, iBuilding was named by CIO magazine
as providing one of the 100 most innovative products of 2001.
Previously Mr. Milani was at the Times Mirror Corporation where
he held the position of Chief Internet Technologist and Strategist
as well as Chief Enterprise Architect for Times Mirror and Los
Angeles Times. In those roles he was responsible for technology
decision making such as Enterprise Application Integration,
distributed and web-based applications development, shared services,
consolidation of data centers, wide area networks, systems and
network management, security and web enabling of legacy systems.
Before joining Times Mirror, Milani held senior level technology,
consulting and distributed system architect positions at Wells
Fargo Bank, IBM, Retix and Locus computing.
Milani's area of expertise include: Operating Systems, massive
parallel systems, distributed operating systems and kernels,
Enterprise Application Integration, systems and network management,
directory services, asynchronous messaging systems and communications
systems. Mr. Milani obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer
Science with a minor in mathematics from University of Pittsburgh.
J. Patrick Ravenel - Sr. Vice President, Engineering and
Operations, Preventsys
For over 15 years, Patrick has been noted as a top designer
of enterprise software and author of several distributed computing
standards. As Sr. Vice President of Engineering and Operations,
Patrick manages the technical direction of Preventsys products
and services and is responsible for driving technology initiatives.
Prior to
joining Preventsys, Patrick was Founder and CTO of Essential
Compliance, Inc., a high tech consulting firm that catered to
the needs of venture capital firms in the areas of due-diligence,
technical improvement of portfolio companies, and the planning
and implementation of transactional enterprise software. He
has deployed some of the largest high-volume, secure EDI and
XML-based transaction systems in the financial and healthcare
markets. Patrick also served as VP of Engineering for MedUnite,
Inc. where he developed a system capable of managing millions
of real-time, HIPAA compliant transactions. Patrick also led
the designed team for Persistence Software's flagship Enterprise
Java product, and is the editor and co-author of the CORBA Persistent
State Service specification for the Object Management Group
(OMG).
Robert
Smith, Senior Director of Engineering for Symantec
As a Sr. Director, Engineering at Symantec Corporation,
Robert Smith is responsible for developing enterprise wireless,
client, host and server based corporate security products and
identifying new corporate opportunities for securing corporate
end-points. His team's flagship product, Symantec AntiVirus
Corporate Edition (SAVCE), holds the number one market share
position. SAVCE has won numerous awards and is available globally
in nineteen languages. Over the past six years at Symantec he
also led the team that launched the Digital Immune System (DIS),
he co-invented Symantec Enterprise Security Architecture (SESA)
and led the SESA team through the introduction of the first
release. He ran development for LiveUpdate and other core technology
projects.
Before Symantec,
Smith held executive positions in software development, product
management, sales and marketing at Conner Peripherals, ELMS
- a VC funded startup, Yaskawa Electric America, Gateway Computer
and Quadratron - an enterprise focused Unix office automation
software company. Mr. Smith holds a patent for one of his software
designs and has another patent pending.
Smith serves
on the Board of Directors of Cla-Val Corporation, a privately
held multinational company dedicated to producing the world's
highest quality automatic control valves. He also serves on
the board of a non-profit homeowner's association as Treasurer.
He has been
active in the computer industry for more than 22 years. Mr.
Smith graduated with honors with a Bachelors degree in accounting
and finance from California State University, Long Beach. Mr.
Smith holds a current CISSP credential.
Jeff Wade, Director Product Marketing for FileNet Corporation
Jeff Wade joined FileNet in 1988 and has held a variety of positions
in Product Marketing and Product Management. FileNet has grown
tenfold during that time and Jeff has participated and influenced
the evolution of its products, marketing staff and processes
throughout this period of growth.
Jeff is
currently responsible for leading and executing the company's
Product Lifecycle Initiative (PLI). PLI is focused on improving
the efficiency and effectiveness of FileNet's product lifecycle
and portfolio management process from product concept to withdrawal.
Previously,
Jeff has defined and implemented new programs for strategic
alliances and technology ISVs; managed teams directing new product
development, program marketing, and pricing and licensing operations;
and has been a key participant in the definition and launch
of three major generations of products.
Jeff obtained
his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester
Polytechnic Institute and his Masters in Business Administration
from Pepperdine University.
MODERATOR:
Jon Kraft, Senior Vice President, Sales
and Marketing, CoreObjects.
