Troy Augustine is President and CEO of iNET Interactive, a social media company operating some of the most prominent online communities for technology professionals and technology enthusiasts including WebHostingTalk.com and HotScripts.com. In this role, Troy oversees all business functions including sales, marketing, and business development. Since taking a leadership role in iNET just 18 months ago, the company’s revenues have doubled.

Prior to iNET Interactive, Troy served as the Vice President of Marketing for Tradec, an enterprise software company that was among the first to embrace a SaaS delivery model. Tradec’s investors included top-tier venture firms Kleiner Perkins and Norwest Venture Partners, and its clients included Dell, Juniper Networks, Brocade, and Jabil Circuit. The company was acquired by Agile Software (NASDAQ: AGIL) in 2003.

Troy holds an MBA and a masters degree in engineering from Stanford University. He also holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Kansas.

Joe Bardenheier is the head of mergers and acquisitions for the Endurance International Group, Inc. one of the largest and fastest growing shared hosting companies. Joe has over twenty years of experience building and operating companies and has had tremendous success in rapidly implementing marketing, sales and acquisition strategies for product and service firms alike.

Prior to joining Endurance International, Joe was a Co-Founder, President and CEO of The Gavin Group, an apparel company that was successfully sold to a publicly traded firm in 1992.

Mr.Bardenheier was the Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for Vanguard, the world ’s largest manufacturer of sailboats where he led the acquisition of their largest competitor. Joe was a Senior Consultant with Ernst & Young LLP, he founded and sold WebOnTap to Endurance in 2000 and also holds and MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Mr. Beloussov is a successful self-made entrepreneur and business executive with an outstanding 15-year track record in building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Since 2003, he has been the Chairman and CEO of Parallels, a global leader in virtualization and automation software for consumers, businesses and service providers. Under Mr. Beloussov's leadership, Parallels has quickly grown to profitability and #1 market positions with its innovative desktop virtualization, OS containers and control panel product lines. He is also a Founder and major investor in Acronis, a global leader in storage management and disaster recovery software for consumers, SMBs and large enterprises. Previously, Mr. Beloussov co-founded and helped grow a PC manufacturing business to $150 million in revenue in less than 3 years, the S&W electronics company to over $500 million in only 8 years, Solomon Software SEA - each of which has become the first year of inception. He holds a B.S. in Physics, an M.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering with High Honors, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

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Jim Boykin is the CEO of We Build Pages (www.webuildpages.com), which specializes in search engine optimization and link building services.

Jim also blogs at www.JimBoykin.com giving advice and thoughts about methods of achieving higher rankings in search engines, such as Google.

We Build Pages has focused on internet marketing since 1999, and is considered a world leader in this industry. Jim often speaks at other search engine marketing conferences such as Search Engine Strategies and Webmsterworld conferences. To find more information on Jim Boykin or We Build Pages, Google us ;) there's a lot of good info there.

Corey Bryant has been an independent agent with First Data Services by Cardservice International since 2002. Mr. Bryant is an expert in the field of e-commerce and has over 75,000 posts on various online forums from Web Hosting to Web Development to Small Business. He currently writes a blog at www.mymerchantaccountblog.com. Prior to working in the payments industry, Mr. Bryant served in the United States Air Force.

Pathfinder Associates builds software products for enterprises and software vendors. Pathfinder’s approach integrates user experience design with agile development to improve software quality and accelerate development. This approach helps Pathfinder’s clients speed intuitive and reliable software to market.

As Pathfinder’s Director of infrastructure, Alan Choyna is responsible for developing the hardware architecture, implementation and infrastructure management strategies for our solutions and our clients Data Center facilities.

His mission over the last few years has been to increase Pathfinders clients sites uptime, performance and security while lowering the hardware and management costs through focusing on equipment that has a high “performance/cost” ratio, and the judicious use of open source software solutions for applications, application servers, security, networking and monitoring applications.

As the complexity of High performance, high availability environments has increased Alan has focused on the challenge of making implementation and management of the various hardware and software components easier and more transparent.

Prior to joining Pathfinder Alan's focus was on international banking software. Alan consulted on many multi million dollar financial projects for 15 years in developing Banking and CRM software on 3 continents (Australia, South and North America).

Alan has a great curiosity regarding all electronic devices, and his hobby is keeping up to date with various technologies, and seeing as far down the technology road map as possible. He has appeared on the popular program “Chicago Tonight” discussing technologies such as Digital Video Recorders, Security and Email Viruses and worms.

Prior to SoftLayer, Mr. Crosby spent five years with The Planet as Chief Operations Officer where he managed all operations including sales, provisioning, product selection, managed services, application development, engineering, information security, business development and legal departments. Serving in prior executive management roles at Catalog.com and Dallas Internet, he brings extensive experience in leadership and management skills coupled with extensive technical skills in software and hardware environments. Mr. Crosby holds bachelor's degrees in Finance and Management, a MS in Finance and MBA from Tarleton State University, a part of the Texas A&M University System. Mr. Crosby's legal education includes a JD from Texas Wesleyan School of Law. Mr. Crosby is a licensed attorney in the State of Texas and is an active member of the State Bar of Texas.

As a sixteen-year veteran of the Internet and co-founder of one of the industry’s first ISPs, Curtis brings a vast array of industry experience to the hosting industry. He is a recognized leader in the Internet, Ecommerce and Hosting Industry, and speaks regularly at related conferences on hosting infrastructure, online marketing and the transformation of the hosting industry. Additionally, Curtis is a recognized leader in the online marketing industry, having worked with all the major search engine companies and the search engine marketing industry since the mid-nineties.

Since 1990, Curtis has been involved in the evolution of the Internet, working first as a consultant with both the Federal and Provincial government, then in 1993, moving on to the startup and management of an ISP, Helix Internet. After facilitating the sale of Helix to Norsat International in 1996, he was the Managing Director of BridgeLinks Technologies, developing, & implementing successful marketing and business strategies for online access providers and telecommunication companies such as BCTel (Telus), Rogers, Sprint, GroupTelecom and the banking industry. In addition to acting as Managing Director of SharksFly, Curtis is engaged as SVP, Sales & Marketing at Superb Internet Corp., one of the oldest and most respected hosting companies during which Superb Internet became a household name in the hosting industry, growing over 2000% in this time.

Curtis holds a Bachelors degree Business Administration from the University of Alberta, a Bachelors degree in Economics & Computer Programming from the University of Manitoba and did his Post Graduate work in Marketing and Business Law at the University of Calgary.

William da Cunha’s global mandate is to expand EVault’s key Alliances and grow its software and services business. William has more than 15 years of Business Development, Alliance and Operations experience in the high tech industry. Prior to EVault, William was Director of Strategic Alliances at iAsiaWorks a publicly traded company focused on building state of the art data centers in the Asia Pacific region. At this position, William was instrumental in building some of the company’s key alliances with carriers and storage companies located in the U.S. as well as in Europe. In the past, William also served as a Vice President at DRI, a supply Chain Management company, and also held a management position at Hutcheson & Company, a technology focused management consulting company based in Boston, MA.

William earned his BA Degree in Economics from The College of Wooster, Ohio.

Mike Dodson, director of Security Strategy, is responsible for establishing the strategic direction of Mirapoint’s security products. Dodson has more than 15 years experience overseeing both the development of technology and deployment strategies. Prior to Mirapoint, he was co-founder and General Manager of FoxHollow Technologies, where he was responsible for IT, Engineering, and Machine Shop functions. Dodson was also co-founder of Lumend Inc., which was ultimately acquired by Cordis (Johnson & Johnson). Dodson received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science both in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University.

Adam Eisner joined Tucows in 2004. As Product Manager for Domains, he is responsible for driving innovation in Tucows' domain name business. Adam has almost 10 years of experience in the areas of Internet marketing and services, and holds a Journalism degree from Toronto's Ryerson University.

Jothan Frakes has 14 years of comprehensive experience in the Domain Name Industry, having operated ccTLDs, worked for major registries and registrars, and founded and produced domain industry events like the Domain Roundtable Conference in Seattle.

Jothan has participated as speaker, panelist or moderator in conferences around the globe, speaking on the domain marketplace, ccTLDs, secondary market for domains, online advertising, intellectual property, and other topics tutorials and workshops at ICANN meetings in Morocco, Brazil, Portugal, and Puerto Rico, INTEROP in Japan, DENIC technical workshop in Germany, and participated in multiple DOMAINfest conferences in the US, Spain and Holland.

Russell Gottlich has been an Agent with First Data Independent Sales since 2002. Mr. Gottlich provides merchants with electronic payment solutions for retail and Internet businesses. Russ works closely with his Merchants and Referral Partners to provide them with unparalleled service and support.

Prior to working in the payments industry, Mr. Gottlich founded several businesses including an Internet based financial services company and a CPA firm.

Russ earned his BS in Accounting from Ithaca College

Misha Govshteyn is responsible for technology strategy, product development, security research and operations at Alert Logic. As Alert Logic's founder and former CEO, Govshteyn also leads the company's board of directors as Chairman. Prior to founding Alert Logic, Govshteyn served as a Director of Managed Services for Reliant Energy Communications. In this role, he developed and successfully launched five major product lines including a Managed Intrusion Detection service and managed enterprise firewall/VPN products. Under Govshteyn's direction, Managed Services was the fastest growing group at Reliant Energy Communications, increasing revenue by 300% and reaching profitability in less than a year. Prior to Reliant Energy Communications, he held the position of Director of Advanced Technical Services at Insync Internet Services.

Steve is CEO and a co-founder of Edit.com. Prior to Edit.com, Steve was the Business Development Director at International Commerce Exchange Systems, a technology company that provided large tradeshow companies with electronic marketplace complements to their physical shows. He was responsible for establishing partnerships with global tradeshow companies.

Afterwards, he co-founded and was the Business Director of Nylon Technology, a New York-based web development agency that provides custom web development and hosting services to small and medium sized businesses. He was responsible for managing all non-technical aspects of the agency which had 25 to 50 active custom web development projects at any given time.

Steve has a BA in Economics from Columbia College, Columbia University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He regularly speaks at the Columbia Business School and is an active mentor in the Lang Center Entrepreneurship Program.

Douglas is a writer and consultant who specializes in customer service. He has worked in the web hosting industry since 2004 and has held positions ranging from frontline customer service representative to general manager.

As a writer, Douglas is the Customer Service Editor at Ping! Zine and a frequent contributor to HostingTech and Tophosts. He also runs the popular customer service and customer service experience blog, Service Untitled. On his blog, Douglas has written more than 300 posts and interviewed executives from Dell, Best Buy, HP, Rackspace, and more.

Douglas utilizes a practical, hands on approach when it comes to helping companies improve their customer service.

Lou Honick co-founded HostMySite.com to bring a truly service-oriented Web hosting company into the hosting industry. Under his own self-created customer service philosophy, Lou has grown HostMySite.com into a successful multi-million dollar Web hosting company with more than 60,000 fiercely-loyal customers worldwide. HostMySite.com’s unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction is evident through a strong customer service-focused culture based on integrity, quality, and trust. As CSO, Lou’s recent accomplishments include ranking HostMySite.com on the 24th & 25th annual Inc. 500 lists and securing his own rank on Inc. 500’s 30 Under 30 list of the coolest young entrepreneurs in America.

Richard Jimmerson is ARIN's Director of External Relations. Richard has over eight years of experience managing global Internet numbering resources. He managed ARIN's registration services operation and served as Director of Operations for five years before taking his current position to better concentrate on coordination issues that face the Regional Internet Registry system today.

Prior to joining ARIN, Richard managed information systems for medical equipment providers and the Unites States government.

The founder of Coyote Point Systems in 1999, Bill's the kind of renegade entrepreneur you'd expect to find at the helm. He leads the architecture and development team and drives the company's global product strategy. Previously, Bill was president of Brown Cow Engineering, Inc. That firm developed a variety of software applications for UNIX systems — from internals to file systems, networking and Web needs. Before that, Bill created technology for IBM's Olympic Web server, which was also deployed for the Deep Blue vs. Kasparov chess competition and for IBM's video-server multimedia-distributed file system. Bill has a BS from Fordham University and an MSCS from Columbia University.

Amarjyoti Krishnan is the co-founder of Bobcares.com and Poornam, a Software and IT services company specializing in Outsourced Tech support and Server administration for Webhosts and ISPs. Poornam Info Vision is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company with a team of over 280 engineers.

He is a Computer Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the Hosting industry. He has articles that have been published online and print.

Nicholas Mailer is a founder and director of The Positive Internet Company in London and also serves as CEO of the newly-launched US subsidiary of the company.

In 1994, Nick was the author of the very first published book setting out the enormous potential benefits of the Internet to education and society more widely.

Nick is an authoritative commentator on technology. His work has appeared in technical and mainstream media and he is a much-in-demand speaker at events around the world. Nick is a passionate advocate of Free Software and Free Society.

Internet Specialist with 12 years of business & technology experience. Pays attention to details while keeping the big picture in mind. Proven ability to quickly adapt and develop expertise in new technology. Solid understanding of the ISP, hosting and domain name registration businesses. True believer in the "Participation Age" and Open Source Development.

Frank is COO at SharedReviews.com Inc, a "social review network" and CEO at DomainCocoon, a consulting company for Domain Name Owners, Registrars and Resellers. He used to publish the renowned DomainEditorial.com and is now founding partner at the new DomainNameNews.com. Frank used to work as a Senior Sales Engineer at Tucows.

Tom Millitzer is President of New Commerce Communications, Inc.(NCC) a firm he founded in 1994. NCC is a specialized business broker firm that specializes in Internet company mergers and acquisitions. During his career he has been involved in almost 200 Internet and Telcom related financial assignments including over 100 transactions involving the acquisition of web hosting assets.

Prior to NCC he was co-founder and President of Charter

Cable Systems, Inc. a cable television company based in Cincinnati. He also held executive positions at Group W Broadcasting and Cable.

Mr. Millitzer writes the merger and acquisition blog for the Web Host Industry Review (WHIR).

He is a graduate of Parsons College and attended the University of Iowa during his graduate tudies. He is located in Cape Coral, FL.

Sangeetha Naik is co-founder of Bobcares.com, a Software and IT services company specializing in Outsourced Tech support and Server administration for Webhosts and Datacenters. Bobcares is ISO 9001:2000 certified with a team of over 280 engineers.

Sangeetha is a Computer Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the Hosting industry.

George Roberts is the President & CEO of Interjuncture Corp., the producer of the HostingCon tradeshow and conference.

George has nearly 20 years experience in various technology-related businesses, from small IT shops to Fortune 500 IT departments.

A Master’s Thesis entitled “Price Formation in the Domain Name Secondary Market” provided Tim Schumacher with the insights that led him to co-found the world’s most successful domain marketplace. As CEO, Schumacher helped Sedo.com become a rarity—a profitable dot-com—while maintaining rapid growth and international expansion.

Schumacher holds a diploma in business administration from the University of Cologne, Germany, a major in finance from the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, and a CEMS-Master of the Community of European Management Schools. Tim has worked as a consultant and conducted and advised various Internet and software projects. He is a co-author of “Domain-Namen im Internet”, Germany’s definitive guide to domain names.

Brian Shepard leads Canada Web Hosting's growth, financing and business planning. He is focused on building industry partnerships, acquisitions, recruiting quality personnel and shaping the culture of the company to embody its core business values. He has over ten years experience operating his own companies in the hosting industry and majored in computer science and economics at Brock University.

David Snead is an attorney in private practice in Washington D.C. His practice focuses exclusively on representing web hosting companies and other entities active in the internet infrastructure. He has spoken extensively on subjects of importance at conferences ranging from HostingCon to ISPCON.

Sean Stafford, Director of Product Development for DnZoom Inc., has been actively involved in the domainer community for well over three years and has helped guide the implementation of the new domain name aggregation product, DnZoom.

Having worked previously in multiple facets for ModernGigabyte LLC., Sean was able to take the experience he gained with hosting service aggregation and apply it to the domain name registration and aftermarket, giving domainers the first truly agnostic, centralized system for domain organization and mass portfolio management.

Sean's current projects are the recent completion of his ebook "Domaining - Working The Online Mines", managing his own domain portfolio, and development of future products in the online domainer community.

Mr. Stibel currently serves as President and a member of the Board of Directors of Web.com and joined the company through the merger with Website Pros in September 2007. Prior to the merger, he was President and CEO of Web.com (formerly Interland) since August 2005. Mr. Stibel was part of the founding management team at United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), a technology company that owns and operates leading web services, including NetZero, Juno, and Classmates.com. Prior to United Online, Mr. Stibel was founder, Chairman and CEO of Simpli.com, a search and marketing technology company currently owned by ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK). He serves on the board of directors for Web.com, Autobytel (NASDAQ: ABTL) and several private companies, including The Search Agency and EdgeCast. He also serves on the Board of Brown University's Entrepreneurship Program and Tufts University's Gordon Center for Leadership. Mr. Stibel has authored numerous academic and trade articles on a variety of subjects and is the named inventor on the US patent for search engine interfaces. He received a Master's degree from Brown University and studied business and brain science at MIT's Sloan School of Management and at Brown University, where he was a Brain and Behavior Fellow.

Hillary Stiff is Vice President of Cheval Capital. Ms Stiff has been an investment banker and CFO for 18 years, completing acquisitions and raising capital for companies in the telecommunications and internet industries.

Over the last several years, Ms. Stiff has focused on acquisitions in the hosting and ISP industries and has completed over 90 hosting and ISP transactions, including 10 hosting transactions in the first six months of 2007 and 21 in 2006. Ms. Stiff's clients have included such companies such as NTT/Verio and The Endurance International Group among others.

A related service Ms. Stiff provides her clients is a weekly acquisition Opportunities List. This list summarizes the hosting and ISP companies available for sale and is distributed weekly to over 200 active buyers. (Currently this list includes over 30 companies available for sale.)

Cheval Capital, Inc. is a boutique Investment Bank that specializes in helping companies make acquisitions, raise capital and navigate complex financial events. Cheval's services are based on the insights and experience its principals have gained from completing close to $2.0 billion of transactions in a variety of businesses. This experience, when coupled with Cheval's high level of service and support, can lead to better transaction terms, faster completion and less management distraction.

Cheval Capital is a member of the NASD and SIPC.

Ms. Stiff can be reached at hstiff[at]chevalcap.com or 703-549-8602.

Derek Vaughan has been actively marketing on the Internet since 1995. His extensive online marketing experience includes the online direct marketing of books for $300 million per year NYSE traded book publisher Thomas Nelson. Mr. Vaughan also marketed products online at the Walt Disney Company as the online marketing manager of ecommerce for ESPN.com. He was also the marketing manager for the launch of the NASCAR Online Store in October of 1999.

More recently Mr. Vaughan turned his attention to online marketing for the Affinity Internet, Inc. family of companies – which owns a broad portfolio of web hosting brands. Additionally, Mr. Vaughan served as Vice President of Marketing for Aplus.Net and helped them establish a strong position in the web hosting field.

Derek Vaughan holds undergraduate degrees from both Indiana University and Purdue University, and has earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Owen School at Vanderbilt University.

Mr. Vaughan is currently a partner with TechPad Agency.

As CEO, David Wippich comes to Ensim with over twenty years of experience at international technology companies. Most recently David served as chief operating officer at Active ISP, one of Europe's largest domain name and hosting providers to the SME market. Previously he was executive vice president of marketing and sales at ConnectInc.com, a high volume e-commerce platform provider serving complex trading networks for Global 2000 companies. In prior positions, David was vice president and general manager for the Internet and Embedded Products Division of Phoenix Technologies, and served in a variety of senior sales and operations management positions at Acer, the world's seventh largest PC maker.

David attended Stanford University and Southern Oregon University.

A software engineer by training and a serial entrepreneur, Frank founded Caspio in 2000 to create platform that simplify web application creation and deployment.

Today Caspio’s Software-as-a-Service platform is changing the way web based applications are created. Companies ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies are relying on Caspio for their day-to-day web applications.

Prior to Caspio, Frank co-founded Autoweb.com, an online auto-buying service he led to successful IPO in 1999. Prior to Autoweb.com, Frank held positions at Microsoft and Pacific Bell. Frank holds a BS from California State University, Chico, where he is recognized as a distinguished alumnus.