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Amy Armitage
Director of Business Development, Lunarpages Web Hosting

PANELIST: Session 101: Marketing Round Table

Troy Augustine
President and CEO, iNET Interactive

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.

SPEAKER: Session 405: The Future of Hosted Services: 2008 Survey

Joe Bardenheier
VP Corporate Development, Endurance International Group, Inc.

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.

SPEAKER: Session 201: An Interactive Workshop on Valuing and Structuring Hosting Company Acquisitions
PANELIST: Session 204: Metrics That Mean Money And How To Track Them.

Hamlet Batista
President, Nemedia S.A.

Hamlet Batista is President of Nemedia S.A, a provider of free SEO automation software that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses increase the quality of their natural search traffic while focusing on what they do best. Hamlet’s blog, Hamlet Batista dot Com, explores the most advanced SEO research, as well as strategies and tactics that can give you an important edge over your competitors.

PANELIST: Session 107: Search Marketing Tools for the Hosting Industry

Serguei Beloussov
Chairman and CEO, Parallels, Inc.

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.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: The Optimized Hosting Platform - Meeting the Changing Needs of Hosting Providers

Guillaume Bouchard
CEO, NVI

Guillaume leads one of the fastest growing Web 2.0/Internet marketing companies in Canada. With more than 40 people dedicated to ROI friendly Search Engine Marketing solutions, NVI deploys massive PPC/SEO/SMO campaigns using A/B & Multivariate testing with Google Website Optimizer and Google Analytics and tailored for hosting companies looking to lower their conversion costs. Guillaume leads one of the largest French SEO blog communities, called Go-Referencement.org and runs an English blog with his team at nvisolutions.com/blog.

PANELIST: Session 107: Search Marketing Tools for the Hosting Industry

Ditlev Bredahl
CEO / MD, UK2

KEYNOTE PANELIST: Sealing the Deal

Rob Cameron
Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

Rob Cameron is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Corp. based out of Atlanta, Georgia. As part of Microsoft's Communications Sector, Developer and Platform Evangelism team, Rob focuses on enterprise development tools and technologies for large wireline, wireless, satellite, cable, and media & entertainment companies. Rob co-authored "Building ASP.NET Server Controls" and recently authored the BizTalk Operations chapter for "Pro BizTalk Server 2006", both published by Apress.

Rob has a master's degree in information technology management and a bachelor's degree in computer science. Visit Rob's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/robcamer.

SPEAKER: Session 308: Stay Competitive and Simplify your Web Hosting Platform with Windows Server 2008

Mike Culver
Web Services Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

SPEAKER: Session 406: Hosting in the Cloud

(Curtis) R. Curtis
SVP, Superb Internet & CEO, Sharksfly Marketing Solutions

(Curtis) R. Curtis is a sixteen-year veteran of the Internet and co-founder of one of the industry’s first ISPs/hosting companies. 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 the CEO of Sharksfly Marketing Solutions, providing online & offline marketing solutions, focusing on search engine marketing, working closely with the major search engine companies and the search engine marketing industry from 1993,

In the early 1990s, 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 Helix Internet. After successfully selling Helix to a major telecommunications company, Curtis went on to 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 running his own company, 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.

MODERATOR: Session 107: Search Marketing Tools for the Hosting Industry
PANELIST: Session 404: Ecommerce - Future Success or Potential Downfall of Hosting Companies?

Sunil Daluvoy
New Business Development Senior Manager, Google, Inc.

Mr. Sunil Daluvoy currently works at Google, New Business Development. He is responsible for technology licensing deals and strategic partnerships to build the company’s new products. Before Google, Mr. Daluvoy worked in Business Development for Yahoo!. He was responsible for deal work and strategy related to consumer voice products. Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Daluvoy worked at Excite@Home in various Corporate and Business Development positions. Prior to Excite@Home, Mr. Daluvoy spent three years at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as an attorney advisor. In that capacity, he analyzed large corporate mergers and designed policies to advance innovation and combat the digital divide.

In addition, Mr. Daluvoy was Vice President of the Telecommunications Commission for the City & County of San Francisco, 2002-2005.

Mr. Daluvoy also practiced law as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of CA.

Mr. Daluvoy holds a B.S. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from the University of San Diego. He is admitted to both the District of Columbia and California Bars.

SPEAKER: Session 104: Using Free Google Tools to Improve your Site

Christian Dawson
Director of Sales/Marketing, ServInt

SPEAKER: Session 310: Powerful New VPS Solutions Support Green IT Goals

Jamie de Guerre
CTO, Cloudmark

PANELIST: Session 301: The Hidden Costs of Spam and How to Control Them

Adam Dillaplain
Director of Operations, Caronet Managed Hosting

PANELIST: Session 204: Metrics That Mean Money And How To Track Them.

Brian Donaghy
VP Product Strategy, Smart Online, Inc.

Brian Patrick Donaghy, VP Product Strategy

Smart Online, Inc.

Mr. Donaghy is responsible for developing SaaS product strategy for Smart Online’s syndication partners and customers. Prior to Smart Online, he was co-founder and CTO of Computility, Inc.; Computility created pioneering subscription computing products and SaaS applications for the private and public sectors. Smart Online purchased Computility is 2005. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer for venture development firm, Growth Ventures Group.

PANELIST: Session 206: Taking Advantage of SaaS with the Application Packaging Standard

Adam Eisner
Product Manager, Domains, Tucows Inc.

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.

SPEAKER: Session 103: Making Your Business Consumer-Friendly

Jethro Felton
Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development, ControlScan

SPEAKER: Session 109: In Pursuit of Security - Who's Responsible?

Ben Fisher
Vice President, TechPad Agency, LLC.

PANELIST: Session 101: Marketing Round Table

Adam Fishman
President, NetStores

After graduating cum laude from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, Adam Fishman embarked on a teaching career in music education, affording him the opportunity to become a National Fellow at the American Symphony Orchestra League in Washington D.C. in 1985. While serving as a fellow, Adam’s passion and enthusiasm led him to take part in the development, production, marketing, financial management, public relations, administration and programming for major performing arts organizations in the area. Here, Adam worked with many of the top performing artists and arts managers in the industry. Upon completion of his fellowship, Adam went back to teaching for one more year

Adam Fishman studied computers at Oregon Institute of Technology and has MBA in Marketing from the University of Oregon. Adam then discovered the Internet in 1993, along with the first web browser, Mosaic. Realizing the potential of this new tool, Adam created in 1995 Fishbone Communications, Inc., with the mission to help merchants establish online storefronts. Pursuant to this goal, Adam developed the brand NetStores — an e-commerce solutions provider, complete with NetStores Secure, instant credit card authorization, and worldwide merchant services.

In 1995, Fishbone Communications launched one of the first e-commerce application service known as NetStores. Since that time, FCI and the NetStores brand have maintained a steady focus on their company mission — helping merchants set up their online storefronts.

In 1996, NetStores became the very first complete e-commerce point-of-sale solution, prior to both Netscape and Yahoo. In 1997, NetStores became a registered service mark for online merchant services, which included secure credit card verification.

In the winter of 1999, NetStores was bundled and shipped with Macromedia’s Dreamweaver 3 and NetObjects Fusion 5. . NetStores has also been noted in several Dreamweaver books, as well as in Adobe GoLive 6 for Dummies.

During 2003, NetStores became a UPS-certified online tools company, added multi-language support, partnered with Plesk IP commerce alliance, and acquired QuickBooks certification. In 2003, Microsoft named NetStores as a recommended e-commerce vendor.

NetStores is a worldwide point-of-sale e-commerce solution that can be added to any website, and it’s one of the first e-commerce application service providers (ASP) on the web. With its ease of use, simple integration, and highly customizable features, NetStores has become a favorite among web professionals throughout the world. And there’s no programming required, so you don’t have to be a computer programmer to use NetStores’ e-commerce solution. NetStores provides the service, support, tools and training. With NetStores, there is no software to install or maintain. NetStores provides an easy way for merchants to set up online storefronts — software walkthroughs, integrated courseware and comprehensive customer support are all facets of NetStores’ hold-the-customer’s-hand approach.

SPEAKER: Session 404: Ecommerce - Future Success or Potential Downfall of Hosting Companies?

Marci Gagnon
Channel Marketing Manager, e-onlinedata, Inc.

SPEAKER: Session 202: How to Measure Recurring Revenue and Increase Profits by Design

Kevin Gold
Director, Internet Marketing, iNET Interactive

Kevin Gold is Director of Internet Marketing 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, Kevin plans, develops and controls all online marketing strategies ranging from search engine marketing, email marketing, social media and on-site conversion and analytics. In addition, Kevin is responsible for iNET’s PR and communications strategies.

Prior to iNET Interactive, Kevin served in multiple sales and marketing roles from Managing Partner for an Internet Marketing firm he co-founded to market strategist and business development manager for a high-tech company with Fortune 1000 clients. Kevin is a frequent contributing author to multiple publications including Search Marketing Standard, Practical E-commerce, DIRECT, Entrepreneur.com, MarketingProfs.com, About.com, and Yahoo’s On-Target.

SPEAKER: Session 401: Marketing Web Hosting via Social Media

Jeff Gordon
Counsel, Andrews Kurth LLP

SPEAKER: Session 403: Dealing with the Devil: How to Combat Fraud

Misha Govshteyn
Chief Technology Officer, Alert Logic

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.

SPEAKER: Session 309: Up-sell Security Services to Capitalize on PCI Compliance Needs

Stacy Griggs
VP of Sales, HostMySite.com

SPEAKER: Session 403: Dealing with the Devil: How to Combat Fraud

Sandip Gupta
President, NetMagic Solutions

Sandip Gupta is the President of Netmagic Solutions - a leading Managed Service Provider specializing in data center, managed hosting and remote infrastructure management service to global customers. He has been associated with the service provider industry for more than 10 years and most recently he was the President and CEO of Ensim - a provider of hosting automation solutions to 200+ SPs around the world. He continues to be on advisory boards of many SPs where he provides strategic guidance in are areas of growth, funding and operations. He has been a speaker at various industry trade shows including Afcom data center world, Technosium, TiECON, ISPcon, HostingCon, Internet World, VON and also at various vendor user group meetings. More information is available at www.linkedin.com/in/sandipgupta

SPEAKER: Session 205: Infrastructure Management Skills Shortage: Are You Prepared for the Inevitable?

Lou Honick
Chief Strategy Officer, HostMySite.com

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.

PANELIST: Session 204: Metrics That Mean Money And How To Track Them.
KEYNOTE PANELIST: Sealing the Deal

Richard Jimmerson
Director of External Relations, American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

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.

SPEAKER: Session 303: IPv6: It's Time to Make the Move

Doug Johnson
Director Marketing - Hosting, Parallels

MODERATOR: Session 206: Taking Advantage of SaaS with the Application Packaging Standard

Jeremiah Johnston
Chief Operating Officer / General Counsel, Sedo

SPEAKER: Session 105: Who's Looking Out for the Host? How to Choose Your Own Domain Names to Maximize Traffic and Improve Brand Equity

Ken Jurina
President, Epiar Inc.

As president and founder of Top Draw and Epiar , Ken Jurina has more than fifteen years of experience in traditional advertising and Internet marketing. In 1993, he founded Top Draw which has become a leading advertising, graphic design, and web development firm in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

In 2002, Ken co-founded Epiar, an Internet marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) company that is continually pioneering techniques in merging web development technology with online marketing strategies. After years of on-going R&D, Epiar has developed a suite of proprietary Internet market research applications which are integral in driving qualified traffic and sales for the company’s clientele.

As president of Epiar, Ken oversees the company's growth and helps drive the marketing strategies and creative tactics that are delivering better lead generation and client retention for Epiar clients. In addition to leading the Epiar team, Ken’s role at Epiar comprises senior-level client counsel, strategic marketing, and creative direction.

Ken is also involved with various professional organizations and industry associations. He has served as a judge at the Canadian New Media Association awards for the past four years, and has been a speaker at Search Engine Strategies conferences in New York, Chicago, San Jose, and Toronto.

Additionally, Ken sits on the Global Committee and is Co-Chair of the Marketing Committee for the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), which establishes and promotes ethical SEO practices and guidelines, and is also a founding member and co-chair of SEMPO Canada.

Outside of his professional responsibilities at both Top Draw and Epiar, Ken also plays key organizational roles for various noteworthy causes, including the Cross Cancer Institute (CCI), and the board of directors for Alberta Easter Seals.

PANELIST: Session 107: Search Marketing Tools for the Hosting Industry

Gary Kinman
Vice President of Accounting and Finance, SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.

Mr. Kinman continuously evaluates SoftLayer’s business model to find opportunities to improve operational and capital efficiencies with the goal of maximizing margins. Prior to joining SoftLayer in May 2007, Mr. Kinman was Vice President of Finance at The Planet where he was eventually called upon to serve as Chief Financial Officer through July 2006. He also gained significant experience in maximizing capital efficiency in both the Portfolio Management and Accounting departments of INVESCO Real Estate, who manages over $20 billion of client assets. Earlier, Mr. Kinman served as a consultant at Akili, a boutique consulting firm who advised numerous businesses how to improve performance by embedding the Internet into their business strategy and he holds an MBA from the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.

SPEAKER: Session 203: Improving Financial Performance by Outsourcing Infrastructure

Mark Klein
Director of Business Development, Sedo

SPEAKER: Session 102: Tapping the Exploding Secondary Domain Market: How It Can Increase Your Revenue and Customer Loyalty

Sharon Koifman
Marketing manager, Applicure

Sharon Koifman is a veteran of the web hosting industry and an active participant in the tech community. If you ever come to any event you will most likely recognize him immediately for his consistent drive to making new friends and new relationships.

For the past 5 years he ran Empire Host and built it to more than 3000 clients. These days as the president of his new consulting company, Empire Consultant, he has become the marketing manager for Applicure, an application security firewall company and other technology companies such as Openface and Hypertech, and the list is just starting

SPEAKER: Session 210: Making Web hosting exciting again “the quest to increasing your profit by 50% without investing in new clients”

Sojish Krishnan
Member of Executive Team, Bobcares.com

As Executive Team Member, Sojish Krishnan oversees Operations of Technical support division of Bobcares. Sojish has over 6 years of experience in Bobcares. He is a passionate advocate of superior Customer support and was instrumental in developing the quality standards for Bobcares technical support division. Sojish also spear-headed the implementation of company wide performance evaluation system, which increased the efficiency and productivity of the team.

Sojish holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering. During his free time, he takes classes for University students teaching them the intricacies of internet. He also enjoys criss-crossing the country on his bike.

SPEAKER: Session 209: Best Practices of Support Teams For Better Customer Retention

Rafael Laguna de la Vera
CEO, Open-Xchange

SPEAKER: Session 407: SaaS and Open Source: A Match Made in Heaven

Tito Leverette
Web Platform Architect, Microsoft

Tito Leverette is a Web Platform Architect for the Developer and Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft. He largely focuses on Microsoft's hosting customers as well as other companies with a large web presence, such as Myspace.com. Tito is an 8 year veteran of the hosting industry and has experience designing and deploying Windows Hosting Solutions. He is a contributor to the "IIS 7.0 Resource Kit" published by Microsoft Press. Prior to joining Microsoft, Tito worked for Interland Inc. (now Web.com) as a Systems Architect and then as a Web Platform Engineer for SunTrust Banks.

Tito is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Visit his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/klevereblog.

SPEAKER: Session 308: Stay Competitive and Simplify your Web Hosting Platform with Windows Server 2008

Johnny Levin
Senior Technical Lead, Applicure, Inc.

SPEAKER: Session 304: Hosting Potentially (or Deliberately) Insecure Sites

Oliver Mauss
CEO, 1&1 Internet AG

PANELIST: Session 206: Taking Advantage of SaaS with the Application Packaging Standard

Jill McNabb
Director, VeriSign

SPEAKER: Session 110: Let Video be Your Guide - Getting Plugged into the User Generated Content Craze

Peter Melerud
VP/Product Management, KEMP Technologies

Peter brings over twenty years experience in engineering, marketing and product development with Information Technology companies. He has extensive experience designing and marketing network infrastructure, enterprise business intelligence, data management, content security and compliance technologies, high-end network and systems integration solutions. At KEMP Technologies, Peter specializes in the propagation of the value proposition and solutions for the small and medium enterprise (SME) infrastructure market.

SPEAKER: Session 306: Extending Load Balancing to the Small and Medium Enterprise

Tom Millitzer
President, New Commerce Communications

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.

SPEAKER: Session 410: Flip That Hosting Company

George Mitsopoulos
VP & GM, DNAmail

George Mitsopoulos, VP & GM DSLExtreme, IKANO Communications

Mr. George Mitsopoulos, VP of DSLExtreme Services, has over 7 years of experience in management, Telecom, IP services and customer service. He specializes in leading service based recurring revenue businesses that offer both retail and wholesale access and IP services. He joined IKANO in March of 2006 as part of the acquisition of DSLExtreme that he helped grow to being the largest independent Internet Service Provider based in California and both AT&T and Verizon's second largest wholesale DSL provider. Mitsopoulos leads a 80 person operation located in Los Angeles focused on using technology to automate systems to reduce costs, improve efficiency and overall customer service. Mitsopoulos has also helped to innovate unique marketing relationships with personalities like Leo Leporte of TwiT. He currently leads strategy elements for DSLExtreme and DNAmail assisting small businesses to "compute in the cloud" using Microsoft Exchange and GoogleApps services. Mitsopoulos has a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University with an emphasis in Operations and Management Information Systems.

SPEAKER: Session 409: Helping The Server Hugger Feel Comfortable About 'The Cloud'"

Gillian Muessig
President, SEOmoz

President and Co-Founder of SEOmoz, Gillian Muessig brings more than 20 years of experience in traditional marketing and sales to the world of technology and search marketing. She has appeared in Newsweek Magazine, has been quoted by numerous publications, and is a frequent speaker on biz dev and marketing/sales opportunities for technology product and service providers.

Gillian is well known for anticipating new markets, creating innovative packages of technology and marketing services to address them, and ensuring mutually beneficial partnerships for all concerned.

PANELIST: Session 107: Search Marketing Tools for the Hosting Industry

Dave Murphy
Vice President, Marketing, Hostopia

Dave Murphy, an expert in web communications, has extensive experience managing North American and International marketing within the telecommunications and software industries. His expertise comes from over 17 years of marketing and product development combined with an MBA in marketing and international business.

Dave has presented to numerous audiences including the IEEE World Forum on Broadband to the Home, various business leadership and education focused associations, as well as guest lecturing for several Universities.

SPEAKER: Session 208: If you got 'em, grow 'em.

Richard Peet
North America Channel Manager, Interspire

PANELIST: Session 206: Taking Advantage of SaaS with the Application Packaging Standard

Aaron Phillips
Vice President, Layered Technologies

PANELIST: Session 101: Marketing Round Table

John Pozadzides
CMO, Layered Tech

John served in executive level positions for Cable & Wireless and SAVVIS Communications including positions as Vice President of Sales and Vice President of Strategic Alliances. He has lectured on topics including Web hosting, Internet architecture, Internet security, professional selling and account management. In addition to a wide variety of corporate management programs, John studied Finance and Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas and completed programs offered at Harvard Graduate School of Business, Harvard Law School and the Disney Institute.

SPEAKER: Session 108: Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

Gagan Prakash
Co-Founder and Senior Executive Director of Engineering, groupSPARK

SPEAKER: Session 305: Build vs. Partner: Partner With A Private Label Provider vs. Rolling Out Your Own SaaS Solution

George Roberts
President & CEO, Interjuncture Corp.

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.

PANELIST: Session 301: The Hidden Costs of Spam and How to Control Them

Mark Rogers
Director of Cloud Services, Microsoft Corp.

Mark Rogers leads product management and marketing of Microsoft’s cloud services platform offerings using his 17 years of infrastructure software industry experience to expand the accessibility of Microsoft platform technology via next generation cloud-based capabilities. Prior to Microsoft, Mark was Vice President of Partnerships at IONA Technologies following his role of VP/GM of SOA products launched IONA's Enterprise Service Bus offerings. Mark lead application management products as VP of Product Mgt and Business Development at Identify Software and helped pioneer Internet-based managed services hosting at Intira as VP of channels and global alliances. Mark began his career at NCR Corporation.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Cloud Computing: The Evolution of the Industry

Hartland Ross
President, eBridge Marketing Solutions Inc.

Hartland Ross is President and founder of eBridge Marketing Solutions Inc, an online marketing agency and consulting firm catering to technology companies. Hartland has been working in the sales and marketing of web based technology companies since 1999. He is well recognized and regarded in the hosting industry having worked with over 150 web hosting companies as clients. Companies rely on Hartland and eBridge for advice and recommendations on their marketing, industry direction and strategies for growth. Hartland has also facilitated events and spoken at numerous conferences and presentations. He is a regular blogger at www.thewhir.com. Hartland is often interviewed or quoted in various case studies and articles. Examples of his contributions can be found at http://www.ebridgemarketingsolutions.com/aboutus_pr_01112008.html and http://whirmagazine.texterity.com/whirmagazine/200702/?pg=37.

PANELIST: Session 101: Marketing Round Table

Christopher Samson
Senior Hosting Technology Specialist, Microsoft

As Senior Hosting Technology Specialist who has been working with Hosting Providers and hosted ISV’s delivering Software+Services (SaaS)-based solutions for 8 + years. Chris’s technology background is focused on Systems-based Microsoft products like Windows Server OS (2000, 2003, 2008), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM 2005, OM 2007), Active Directory (AD), WSUS, Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS), Hosted Exchange Server (2003, 2007) and overall the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF). In addition, Chris has been managing from a Microsoft technology background, the top 10 largest and most successful hosting providers in the US since joining Microsoft in 2001 and has assisted these hosting providers to deliver value-added Windows-Based Hosted solutions to their customers.

SPEAKER: Session 307: Microsoft Virtualization Solutions for the Hosting Market

Frederik Schouboe
Director, Cohaesio

PANELIST: Session 206: Taking Advantage of SaaS with the Application Packaging Standard

Philbert Shih
Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research

SPEAKER: Session 408: Perspectives on the Hosting Market: Trends and Future Directions

Ken Simpson
CEO, MailChannels

PANELIST: Session 301: The Hidden Costs of Spam and How to Control Them

David Snead
Attorney, W. David Snead, P.C.

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.

MODERATOR: Session 204: Metrics That Mean Money And How To Track Them.
MODERATOR: Session 301: The Hidden Costs of Spam and How to Control Them
SPEAKER: Session 403: Dealing with the Devil: How to Combat Fraud
KEYNOTE MODERATOR: Sealing the Deal

Paul Stapleton
Managing Director, DH Capital, LLC

Paul Stapleton, located in DH Capital’s Boulder, Colorado office, has over 20 years experience financing and operating Internet-driven media and communications businesses. Prior to joining DH Capital, Paul was the Managing Partner of Niwot Capital, LLC and a co-founder of Rampart Associates, LLC where he was involved in over 80 middle market transactions including three major industry consolidations. He was also Editor of I$P HO$TING Report, a monthly financial analysis of the industry. Paul also serves on the Board of Front Range Internet, Inc. and has served on the Board of Arizona Internet, LLC, both holding companies for Internet-related ventures.

Paul’s early career included positions in New York at money center banks as well as at the Prodigy Services Company when it was the world’s largest online service. He received an MBA from Columbia University, a BSFS from the Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service and an IBD from Nijenrode, The Netherlands School of Business. Paul also serves as Treasurer of St. Johns Episcopal Church in Boulder, Colorado.

SPEAKER: Session 207: Valuation Today and a Forecast for Tomorrow
KEYNOTE PANELIST: Sealing the Deal

Jeffrey Stibel
President and CEO, Web.com

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.

PANELIST: Session 204: Metrics That Mean Money And How To Track Them.

Francis Stiff
President, Cheval Capital, Inc.

Frank is President of Cheval Capital, a boutique investment bank that specializes in mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance.

While Cheval has expertise in a variety of industries, it has been particularly active in the Internet services arena representing such companies as The Endurance International Group, Rackspace Managed Hosting and NTT/Verio, among others, in over 100 successful web hosting and ISP M&A transactions.

Additional information is available at www.chevalcap.com and Frank can be reached at 703-549-7390 or via email at fstiff//chevalcap.com.

PANELIST: Session 204: Metrics That Mean Money And How To Track Them.
KEYNOTE PANELIST: Sealing the Deal

Hillary Stiff
Managing Director, Cheval Capital, Inc.

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.

SPEAKER: Session 201: An Interactive Workshop on Valuing and Structuring Hosting Company Acquisitions

Brett Tabke
CEO, WebmasterWorld.com

MODERATOR: Session 101: Marketing Round Table

Tim Uzzanti
CEO, SmarterTools, Inc.

Tim Uzzanti operates as President and Chief Executive Officer of SmarterTools Inc, a multi-million dollar Software Development Company and SaaS provider serving 15,000,000 end-users worldwide in over 100 countries. Tim Uzzanti founded CrystalTech Web Hosting Inc.—at the time one of the largest Windows Hosting Companies—serving as its Chief Executive Officer until it was acquired by a public company in 2002. Tim Uzzanti has operated on boards for various Technology companies, offering his experience in Business Development and Internet-Technology to other organizations.

SPEAKER: Session 106: Customer Service and Its Discontents

Michael Valverde
CEO, Chain Reaction Ecommerce

Michael joined as CEO of Chain Reaction Ecommerce (CRE) in July of 2006 and since that time has secured venture capital backing and directed a complete brand re-launch. Passionate about helping online businesses succeed; Valverde has also guided CRE in the development of a complete ecommerce ecosystem that extends beyond software to offer merchants the vital marketing, security and payment processing resources they need.

Prior to joining CRE, Michael helped launch hi-tech start-up DVT Corporation; during his five years as CMO, sales rose from $1.5 million to over $15 million while expanding from twelve distribution-partners in the U.S. to more than eighty on five continents. DVT was purchased in 1999 for $63M, a PE ratio of over 45. Michael has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial, entertainment, business consulting and technology marketing experience.

MODERATOR: Session 404: Ecommerce - Future Success or Potential Downfall of Hosting Companies?

Derek Vaughan
VP Marketing, HostMySite.com

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. Further projects at that time included marketing products online at the Walt Disney Company as the online marketing manager of ecommerce for ESPN.com and marketing manager for the launch of the NASCAR Online Store in October of 1999.

Mr. Vaughan then 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 position in the web hosting field. From there, Mr. Vaughan became a partner with TechPad Agency, a full service advertising and web publishing agency for web hosting professionals.

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.

Currently, Mr. Vaughan is Vice President of Marketing for web hosting leader HostMySite.com where his efforts focus on expanding market position and brand recognition via a wide range of on-line and print media outlets.

PANELIST: Session 101: Marketing Round Table

Jan Ver Eecke
CIO, AdRefinery

SPEAKER: Session 402: Beyond Introductory Technology Privacy - Best Practices for Web Hosting Privacy

Chris West
CEO, CDGcommerce

Chris West is the CEO and co-founder of CDGcommerce. Mr. West is a bankcard industry veteran with extensive expertise in all areas of the card not present marketplace from underwriting to risk management. Mr. West has also pioneered the development of a number of online merchant solutions for e-commerce payment processing and fraud prevention.

SPEAKER: Session 302: Proven Methods for Reducing Online Fraud & Risk