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Cristophe Bisciglia
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
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Starting in 2007, he began working with the University of Washington to teach students about Google's core data management and processing technologies - MapReduce and GFS. This quickly brought Hadoop into the curriculum, and has since resulted in an extensive partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) which makes hosted Hadoop clusters available for research and education worldwide. At Cloudera, he helps businesses leverage the same technology. Beyond his work with Hadoop, he holds patents related to search quality and personalization, and spent his last year working at Google in Shanghai. Christophe earned his degree, and remains a visiting scientist, at the University of Washington.
Cloudera will be offering a Hadoop workshop for developers at the conference.
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Paul Strong
Distinguished Research Scientist, eBay
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Paul Strong is a distinguished engineer at eBay Research Labs. He is focused on enterprise grid architectures and technologies, and is driving the long term vision and strategy for eBay's infrastructure and enterprise management within that context. Additionally Paul is active within the Grid standards community and is currently vice-chair of the Open Grid Forum (OGF) board of directors. Prior to joining eBay, Strong was a systems architect at Sun Microsystems where he focused on grid standards and the N1 product set. He was part of the original N1 team, and co-authored the book Building N1 Grid Solutions (Prentice Hall, 2004). Strong was chair of the Enterprise Grid Alliance technical steering committee and its reference model working group, where he edited/co-authored the EGA Reference Model. He holds a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Manchester, England.
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Simone Brunozzi
Web Services Evangelist,
Amazon Web Services
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Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age. He joined Amazon in May 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, traveling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and help developers build businesses and applications.
Of Italian origins, Simone loves traveling, meeting people and connecting with them. He is a Linux and Ubuntu passionate, loves blogging on www.brunozzi.com, and has interests in the environment, clean energies, and technology in general.
Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on web applications. He also served as a professor of Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Simone has a Computer Science degree and spent six months at UC Irvine, California, where he studied the American approach to business. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defense in Rome, Italy.
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Dr. Owen O'Malley
Hadoop Architect and Apache VP for Hadoop
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Owen O'Malley is a Software Architect in Yahoo's Grid team and is a committer on the Apache Hadoop project. He has done everything from writing encryption programs on the Apple 2 to debugging C++ core dumps in the Mars Rover command sequencer. He received his PhD in Software Engineering from University of California, Irvine.
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Charles Brett
Principal Analyst
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Research Coverage
Service-Oriented Architecture, High-Tech, Application Management, Application Development, SOA & Web Services, IT Infrastructure & Operations, Financial Services, Telecommunications Services
Research Focus
Charles serves Application Development & Program Management professionals. He is a leading analyst in complex software, including high-end transaction computing and software infrastructure, complex event processing, and other infrastructure related to event processing. In addition to this research, Charles covers middleware for application integration, and he is actively involved with issues of automated application discovery and software inventory management.
Previous Work Experience
Charles joined Forrester in 2007. Before this he ran his own consulting business for 20+ years and was the editorial director of the SAA Spectrum and then the MIDDLEWARESPECTRA journal. He has 25 years of hands-on experience with IT, working with international companies in Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, California, and New York (where he focused on communications, telecommunications, and the financial sector). Charles has spoken at numerous industry conferences around the world, has written for numerous publications (including The Financial Times), and was the general chair in 2005 of the biannual High Performance Systems Workshop. He is the author of Making the Ends Meet, The 5 Axes of Business Application Integration, and, most recently, he edited Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): Analyses and Commentaries.
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Nir Antebi
Senior Software Engineer, Intel
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Nir heads the team that developed Intel’s grid computing system. During his time as technical leader and a manager, his team has developed the system to greatly improve its scalability, performance, and stability, to enable it to work across multiple sites, and to support the growth in its capacity.
He holds a bachelor degree in Information Systems from the Technion – Israel institute of Technology.
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Kevin L. Jackson
Director, Business Development
Enterprise Solutions, Dataline, LLC.
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Mr. Jackson is a specialist on information technology solutions for government operations and the author of “Cloud Musings”.
Mr. Kevin Jackson is currently the Director, Business Development for Dataline, LLC. Prior to this position, he served in various senior management positions including VP, Federal Systems for Strategic Computer Solutions, WebSphere Everyplace Worldwide Sales Executive for IBM and Vice President Infrastructure & Technology Projects Office for JP Morgan Chase. He is also the Founder and CEO of Zocom, Inc., a boutique consulting firm specializing in advanced information technologies. Kevin also has experience on the government side, with specialties in Space Systems Engineering, Airborne Logistics and Airborne Command and Control with the U.S. Navy and as a Contracting Officer Technical Representative and Project Manager for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Mr. Jackson received his undergraduate degree from the United States Naval Academy in Aerospace Engineering, a MA in National Security & Strategic Studies from the US Naval War College, and a MS in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering) from the Navy Postgraduate School.
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Dr. Yaron Wolfsthal
Senior Manager, Reliable System Technologies
IBM Research Lab in Haifa (HRL)
IBM and EU Joint Research Initiative for Cloud Computing - RESERVOIR
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Dr. Yaron Wolfsthal is responsible for Systems Research at the IBM Haifa Laboratory in Israel, leading a department of over 50 researchers working on strategic systems software projects in the areas of Virtualization Technology, Systems Management and Data Storage. His missions include setting strategic directions and initiating and leading research efforts in these areas. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and holds a BsC, MsC and PhD degrees in computer science, all from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He has over 30 refereed publications and several patents.
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Nati Shalom
Founder & CTO, GigaSpaces
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Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder GigaSpaces Technologies Nati is responsible for GigaSpaces' technology roadmap and the direction of GigaSpaces' products as relates to standards adaptation, architecture, and product design.
Nati has led the development of the first Reverse BID exchange in the Israeli Yellow Pages. He worked in the past with IONA, and was responsible for the penetration of their products and technology, to most of the leading ISV's in Israel. Nati is an experienced software engineer, with a strong background in middleware and specifically CORBA and EJB. He has been working for the past ten years with some of the leading Israeli software companies, such as ECI, Comverse, BMC, Elisra, Rafael, and Amdocs.
During his past work as Technical Manager and Senior Consultant, Nati specialized in Internet distributed applications and was involved in the design of an e-commerce applications for Citibank, Inc. Prior to that, Nati was a Software Engineer at Geotech, where he developed communication networks for cellular telephone systems, and Elisra, where he developed real time algorithms for warning systems.
Nati holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Coventry University, U.K
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Peter Nickolov
President, COO and CTO, 3Tera
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Peter Nickolov is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded four companies. With 13 years of executive experience in startups developing highly innovative products and over 20 years of software development experience, Mr. Nickolov is a recognized expert in the areas of operating systems, real-time software, networking and storage. He has authored 35 patents and has over 50 innovations in the areas of operating systems, multithreading, kernel mode and real-time software, network protocols, file systems and computing resource aggregation.
As the President and COO of 3TERA, Peter is in charge of day to day business and operations of the company. He is one of the principal inventors of 3TERA's core technology. Prior to 3Tera, Peter founded Z-force, a storage networking company that pioneered file switching and NAS aggregation, where he served as vice president of software. He led ZForce's engineering team to the successful delivery of a product that set records for file system performance, scalability and cost efficiency. Prior to Z-force, Peter founded Object Dynamics, a software company providing network infrastructure software, where he served as VP of Engineering. He also founded System Research, an infrastructure software company, where he developed the ProLink network operating system.
Peter holds the equivalent of a Bachelor degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Sofia State University in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Russ Daniels
Vice-President & CTO
HP Cloud Services Strategy
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Russ Daniels is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of HP Cloud Services, where he sets the HP business and technology strategy for HP Cloud Services.
Previously Daniels was CTO for HP Software; during his tenure the business more than tripled in revenue, achieved benchmark profitability, and emerged as a serious player in the software industry.
Recognized by InfoWorld in 2006 as one of the industry’s top 25 CTOs, Daniels speaks widely at conferences and works closely with key HP partners and its largest and most demanding enterprise customers. Daniels has more than 25 years of industry experience specializing in software architecture, enterprise management, and software development methodologies. Prior to joining HP, he spent 15 years at Apple Computer. He has a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University.
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Craig Balding
Craig is a security practitioner for a Fortune 500 with assets of 200 Billion USD. He has a decade hands on IT Security experience and is co-author of "Maximum Security".
CISSP and Creator of CloudSecurity.org
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Craig Balding created cloudsecurity.org to start a security conversation for people and organizations curious about the security implications of Cloud Computing.
In his day job, Craig is a security practitioner for a Fortune 500 with assets of 200 Billion USD. He has a decade hands on IT Security experience and is co-author of "Maximum Security". He leads a global team of technical security experts and is responsible for overall Technical Security Strategy, Security Testing (Red Teaming), Incident Response and Digital Forensics. He regularly advises CIO's, CTO's, Fraud Investigators, IT Security Professionals and System Administrators. His role has taken him around the world and put him face to face with digital attacks (hacking), Phishing, Fraud, Internal abuse and Organized Crime.
As a "hands on" security specialist, he has personally performed over 100 penetration tests, from Web Applications to entire business units. He has shutdown Phishing sites, performed network and off-line digital forensics, analyzed Web Attacks and collaborated with hi-tech crime agencies across the globe. He has written numerous in-house security tools from custom sniffers to attack and defense tools.
He is a firm believer in the value of mentoring and leveraging technology to work "smarter". Craig is a remote worker, parked near Budapest in Hungary.
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Eyal Waldman
President, Chairman and CEO,
Mellanox (NASDAQ:MLNX)
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Eyal Waldman is a co-founder of Mellanox, and has served as Mellanox's chief executive officer, president and chairman of Mellanox's board of directors since March 1999. From March 1993 to February 1999, Mr. Waldman served as vice president of engineering and was a cofounder of Galileo Technology Ltd., or Galileo, a semiconductor company, which was acquired by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. in January 2001. From August 1989 to March 1993, Mr. Waldman held a number of design and architecture related positions at Intel Corporation, a manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Mr. Waldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.
Jon Mountjoy works for Salesforce.com as the Community Manager and Developer Evangelist on developer.force.com. At the company, Jon’s focus is on evangelizing the company’s Force.com platform to developers and supporting the vibrant community developing applications in the cloud.
For more information, visit: http://developer.force.com/
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Stevie Clifton
Co-Founder and CTO, Animoto
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Stevie is CTO of Animoto.com and is responsible for Animoto's technology infrastructure and intellectual property. In tandem with his brother Tom Clifton, Stevie is responsible for the implementation and deployment and of the Animoto website and creative engine.
Stevie is a software engineer and motion graphics artist. Previously, he worked as technology consultant and lead animator for The Documentary Group (formerly Peter Jennings Productions) for four years, and has worked on Peabody and Edward R. Murrow award winning documentaries such as PBS's African American Lives, Peter Jennings Production's The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy, The Documentary Group's Out of Control: AIDS in Black America, and Steep, the extreme skiing documentary that premiered as a spotlight film at the Tribeca Film Festival in Spring of 2007. Stevie graduated from Dartmouth College with a BS in Computer Science 2001.
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Richard Zippel
Vice President of Technology in the Chief Technologist's Office, Sun Microsystems
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Richard Zippel, Ph.D., is Vice President of Technology for Sun Microsystems in the Chief Technologist's Office, where he manages activities to make utility computing accessible to developers and cost effictive to customers. Previously, he was director of HP's Research Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass, where he also served as the technical lead for HP's initiative into the healthcare and life sciences market.
Rich was a professor, head of the computer science department, and a founding member of Israel's first private university, the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. He has also been a faculty member at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research interests included protein databases, programming languages and systems for physical simulations and computational fluid dynamics, symbolic computation, MOS circuit design and VLSI CAD tools.
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William Fellows
VP Research, The 451 Group
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As VP Research William created and drives 451’s user research program with IT early adopters and innovators across a range of vertical markets within ICE - the infrastructure computing for the enterprise service. Tracking and analyzing the adoption and maturation of grid
since 2000 the program examines the grid, utility, cloud continuum within the context of IT as a service and 'third way' approaches to the organization and procurement of enterprise IT. William’s team also leads 451’s research activities within European Commission Framework Program projects and examines innovation in enterprise IT - wherever it is occurring. William is a co-founder of 451, a regular speaker at industry and 451 conferences and sits on numerous advisory boards and planning committees for industry bodies.
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Alexis Richardson
Managing Director, Business Development, CohesiveFT
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Alexis Richardson is a co-founder of CohesiveFT, developers of Elastic Server On Demand (ESOD) and sponsors of RabbitMQ AMQP. ESOD delivers production-line assembly of custom application stacks for any virtual format and the cloud.
Previously he was CEO and co-founder of MetaLogic, a middleware company specialising in high throughput caching and transaction management products. A past consultant for Fortune 1000 corporations, Alexis most recently worked on various high performance front office trading solutions. Before that he worked in proprietary trading of fixed income derivatives at Goldman Sachs, after researching and teaching mathematical logic and computer science at Oxford University.
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Jason A. Stowe
CEO, Cycle Computing, LLC
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Jason Stowe is a seasoned entrepreneur that founded and manages Cycle Computing. Cycle Computing is the Leader in Condor Grid solutions, and has deployed production grids at Fortune 100 companies in Insurance, Finance, Military, and Movies/Entertainment since 2005.
He attended Carnegie Mellon and Cornell Universities, and volunteered/guest lectured for the Entrepreneurship program at Cornell's Johnson Business School. If you have questions or wish to talk before the conference, please feel free to contact him at "cloudsummit -at- cyclecomputing.com" or through our website www.cyclecomputing.com
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Wolfgang Gentzsch
DEISA Project, and member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum
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Wolfgang Gentzsch is currently Dissemination Advisor for the DEISA Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications and a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum standards organization. Before, he was an adjunct professor of computer science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; Chairman of the German D-Grid Initiative; Vice Chair of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group e-IRG; Area Director of Major Grid Projects of the Open Grid Forum Steering Group; member of the US President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST-NIT); Managing Director of MCNC Grid and Data Center Services in North Carolina; Sun Microsystem's Senior Director of Grid Computing in Menlo Park, CA; Founder, CEO and CTO of software companies Genias and Gridware, and professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany, among others. Wolfgang Gentzsch studied mathematics and physics at the Technical Universities in Aachen and Darmstadt, Germany.
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Zvi Schreiber
CEO, G.ho.st No walls
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Zvi Schreiber is the founder and chief architect of G.ho.st, the Global Hosted Operating SysTem, and was previously founder and CEO of Unicorn, in enterprise software (acquired by IBM) and Tradeum, in B2B E-Commerce (acquired for $500m). Schreiber holds a PhD in computer science, is an inventor of some 20 patents, and is a frequent speaker and writer – he lives in Jerusalem with Rina and four kids.
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Professor Barton P. Miller
Barton Miller is Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He directs the Paradyn Parallel Performance Tool project, which is investigating performance and instrumentation technologies for parallel and distributed applications and systems. He also co-directs the WiSA security project. His research interests include tools for high-performance computing systems, binary code analysis and instrumentation, computer security, and scalable distributed systems.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/includes/bio.html
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Duncan Johnston-Watt
Founder & CEO
Cloudsoft Corporation
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Duncan is the Founder & CTO of Enigmatec Corporation, the leading enterprise Data Center Automation vendor. Duncan Johnston-Watt will be leaving the company at the end of the year to establish and lead Cloudsoft Corporation (www.cloudsoftcorp.com), an Enigmatec spin out which will be based in Edinburgh. Duncan will continue to serve on the Enigmatec Board as a non-executive Director and Enigmatec will take a stake in his new company. He has over twelve years experience developing technology for the financial services industry specialising in the development of large-scale systems including the global FX and Money Markets data delivery infrastructure for BNP and the Fixed Income analytics infrastructure at UBS. In April 1998 Duncan joined the Reuters Group subsidiary, Instinet Corporation where he led the development of their new Fixed Income brokerage platform that was launched in March 2000 becoming Managing Director, Fixed Income Technology in May 2000. At Instinet he pioneered the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services. In recognition of this work he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award in April 2000. Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University.
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Moshe Kaplan - Co-Founder and CEO, RockeTier
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Mr Kaplan has over 10 years of experience in providing software solutions to the enterprise, academic and defense sectors. He is an expert in architecture, design, development and implementation of large scale software systems supporting hundreds of millions of events per day . Mr Kaplan holds M. Sc. degree in Engineering (Algorithms) and B. Sc. degree in Computer Science and Physics from Tel Aviv University. Moshe Kaplan served as a department head in Mamram, an IDF elite IT unit. One of his responsibilities there was leading the development of several cutting edge projects.
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Ayal Baron - Co-Founder and CTO, RockeTier
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Mr Baron has over 10 years of expertise in the fields of Software Development and System Integration. He is a performance expert and he is working with many startups and enterprise sector firms helping them reaching their business requirements. Ayal Baron holds B. Sc. degree from the Hebrew University. Ayal Baron is a former Team Leader in Mamram, an IDF elite IT unit.
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Nikita Ivanov
Founder and President, GridGain Systems
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Mr. Ivanov has over 15 years of experience in software development and over 7 years of developing grid computing and distributed middleware, a vision and pragmatic view of where development technology is going, and high quality standards in software engineering. Back in 1996, Mr. Ivanov was one of the pioneers in using Java technology for server side middleware development while working at T-Systems GmbH, one of the largest European System Integrator.
Mr. Ivanov has held various positions architecting and leading software product development for start-up companies and working with well-established companies such as Adaptec, Visa and BEA Systems. Mr. Ivanov is an active member of Java middleware community and is a contributor to Java specifications as a member of JSR-107. Mr. Ivanov holds a Master's degree in Electro Mechanics from Baltic State Technical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Jeffrey M. Birnbaum is Chief Technology Architect and Global Head of Architecture and Engineering at Merrill Lynch. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of the core architecture and engineering of the enterprise including compute, network, storage, middleware, database, grid, market data and high availability. Mr. Birnbaum is also heavily involved in emerging parallel application development for low latency messaging and computational finance.
In 2006, Birnbaum founded 60East Technologies which developed "AMPS" (Advanced Message Processing System) which is a highly parallel low latency content based publish/subscribe engine that delivers unprecedented levels of performance on commodity computers and 10GbE networking. Birnbaum's previous experience includes Managing Director, Chief Technology Architect and Global Head of Enterprise Computing at Morgan Stanley (1991-2006). Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr Birnbaum worked as a systems engineer in the aerospace industry and for the CIA. He holds a BS is Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara.
Assaf is a Corporate Architect in the CTO Office of BMC Software. In this role he is responsible for various technology projects company wide, among them cloud computing. Previously Assaf contributed significantly to BMC’s entry into management of virtualized environments. Prior to BMC Software, Assaf worked in IBM laboratories in Poughkeepsie, New York in operating system design. Assaf has extensive technical and management experience in software development and in implementation of IT, working both at leading software companies and in large enterprises in the United States and Israel. He is the inventor or co-inventor of several patents, and holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Houston.
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Ronen Yochpaz
CTO and Co-founder
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Ronen is the CTO and Co-founder of VeNotion with over 17 years of experience in enterprise IT management, IT enterprises integration, SOA design and implementation and Grid computing. Ronen translated the Virtual enterprise Notion to innovative Virtual enterprise Network of software components leveraging on the SOA initiative known today as the patent pending VeN4 ServiceWare.
Prior to founding VeNotion, Ronen served as Chief integration and SOA architect of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) technology and computer center (MAMRAM). Ronen brings to VeNotion a proven success record and extensive experience in SOA, Grid architecture, enterprise integration, project management, strategic technology development and a proven record of innovation.
Ronen has a bachelor's degree in computer science, MBA, is in the final phase of his PhD. in Information Systems and earned additional degrees from the IDF computer academy.
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