Hartland Ross is an online marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and founder and president of eBridge Marketing Solutions - an online marketing agency and consulting firm catering to technology companies.

An expert in the principles of marketing, strategy and business development, Hartland began his entrepreneurial career in the building materials industry as a successful franchise owner and operator. He followed this up with a stint in the pulp and paper industry before landing positions with two different internet marketing startups in the online advertising sector. He then took his online success and moved on to become VP of Sales and Marketing for a national training and development company.

Considered a pioneer in the online world, 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 and to date has worked with over 150 web hosting companies providing business growth, marketing strategy and industry direction advice and recommendations.

With 15 years of business development experience, plus over 10 years experience in working specifically with technology companies, Hartland is a sought after speaker and online authority who is often interviewed and quoted in various industry related case studies and articles.

Corporate philanthropy is also top of mind for Hartland who believes it's important to give back to his community. Hartland is a past board member of Young Entrepreneurs Association and is an active mentor for Junior Achievement helping our youth become the business leaders of tomorrow.

A graduate of UBC, Hartland holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master degree in Business Administration with a focus on Business Strategy.

As Executive Member, Sojish Krishnan oversees Operations of Technical support division of Bobcares. Sojish joined Bobcares in 2002. 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 at Bobcares.

Sojish graduated as a software engineer specialised in Computer Science and Engineering in 2001. 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.

Gillian Muessig is the co-founder and President of SEOmoz, Inc., one of the world's most renowned and respected names in search marketing. SEOmoz provides tools, guides, subscription services, community and a world-famous blog to help search marketers work smarter and improve their results.

Gillian is a recognized expert in the business landscape of Search and Internet Marketing and has keynotes and provided sessions for conferences in the US, Europe, Scandinavia, China, and SE Asia.

Frank is an investment banker with Cheval Capital. Cheval is a boutique investment bank that has been particularly active in the hosting and Internet services industry. Since the late 1990's, Cheval has helped complete more than 140 successful web hosting and ISP M&A transactions. These transactions have been for companies such as The Endurance International Group, NTT/Verio and Rackspace Managed Hosting as well as other smaller firms. Overall, Cheval's principals have completed transactions totaling more than $2 billion in value

Cheval is a Broker-Dealer and a member of FINRA (formerly called the NASD) and of SIPC.

Mr. Grant is a noted commentator on the Canadian technology marketplace. His views and analysis of corporate strategies and technology trends are well-known to readers of Canada's major publications. He is often quoted in the Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg and Reuters.

Iain is an economist by training and has worked in the technology industry for over twenty years. He has led the SeaBoard Group since its inception in 1986 and has helped many of Canada's corporations, governments and financiers understand, and develop action strategies to exploit the opportunities presented by new technologies and new markets.

Mr. Grant was the founder of the Yankee Group in Canada, a company he led for a decade. He's an active board member of several development stage companies.

Mr. Grant holds a M. Sc. (Economics) awarded by the University of London (LSE) and a B. A. (Hon) from the University of Winnipeg.

Philbert Shih joined Tier1 Research in February 2006 as a Research Analyst for the Web Hosting and Internet Infrastructure Services sector, covering consumer and SME hosting services. Prior to joining Tier1 Research, Mr. Shih spent more than four years covering the Web hosting industry, three of them as Senior Staff Writer for The Web Host Industry Review's online and print publications. At theWHIR, Mr. Shih covered companies in the consumer, SME and enterprise hosting, colocation and hosting automation software segments. Mr. Shih holds an MA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia with a specialization in political-economic development.

Mike Petitti is the Chief Marketing Officer for Trustwave, a leading provider of compliance and data security solutions to businesses and organizations throughout the world. He is a member of the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) Board of Advisors and also serves on the editorial advisory board of ISO & Agent.

Sandip Gupta is the President of Netmagic Solutions. 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 areas of growth, funding and operations. Sandip holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a Bachelor's degree with Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the MN National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. He has been a speaker at various industry trade shows including ISPcon, HostingCon, Internet World, VON, AFCOM Data Center World, Outsource World, and Technosium and also at various vendor user group meetings.

As Vice President of Marketing for ExactTarget, the leading provider of on-demand software for permission-based email, SMS, and voice marketing, Jeff spearheads ExactTarget's thought-leadership, interactive marketing, and social media initiatives. He is one of the driving forces behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE! philosophy, and he has presented at a wide variety of industry events including ad:tech, eec’s Email Evolution Conference, MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit, MediaPost’s Email Insider Summit, Search Engine Strategies, and SMX.

Prior to joining ExactTarget, Jeff was President and Chief Interactive Strategist for Optiem, a digital marketing agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Jeff has also served as a National Applications Consultant for LexisNexis and as an attorney with Baker & Hostelter. Jeff received his J.D. and Masters in Mass Communication from Boston University, and he holds his B.S. in Mass Communications from Miami University where he currently serves on the Advisory Board for the school’s Armstrong Center for Interactive Media Studies.

Bob Angus is a Product Marketing Manager in VeriSign’s SSL business unit responsible for the VeriSign Partner Program. A 20-year veteran of promoting internet and software products, he is passionate about innovative technology, effective marketing, and creating an experience that makes customers smile. Bob also blogs for VeriSign as “The Ecommerce Evangelist” at http://blogs.verisign.com/ecommerce/

Senior Vice President
Global Delivery

As Senior Vice President of Global Delivery, Sumeet Sabharwal is responsible for leading and managing NaviSite's Global Delivery organization. This includes all aspects of sales and delivery for NaviSite’s custom application services business and the Global Delivery operations that span the various service offerings. Mr. Sabharwal brings extensive experience in both the IT services and outsourcing arenas, having spent more than six years leading and managing the global delivery operations for IT services companies, like Sapient and Intrasphere. Before joining NaviSite, Sabharwal was Vice President and Managing Director at Intrasphere, where he led their Global Delivery operations and served on the Board of Intrasphere India. Prior to Intrasphere, he was Vice President and Executive Director at Sapient, where he played an instrumental role in launching the Global Delivery operations in India and growing it to more than 800 people in less than four years. He also led Sapient's application management business across both the US and Europe, and held responsibility over all facets of its operations, including sales and service delivery. He previously held senior level positions at Visient, Sapient, and Motorola.

Cheval Capital, Inc
www.chevalcap.com

Hillary is an investment banker with Cheval Capital. Cheval is a boutique investment bank that has been particularly active in the hosting and Internet services industry. Since the late 1990's, Cheval has helped complete more than 140 successful web hosting and ISP M&A transactions. These transactions have been for companies such as The Endurance International Group, NTT/Verio and Rackspace Managed Hosting as well as other smaller firms. Overall, Cheval's principals have completed transactions totaling more than $2 billion in value

Rafael Laguna, born 1964, was co-founder of Open-Xchange and chairman of the board until he took over responsibility as CEO in January 2008. In 2001, Laguna initiated the technology partnership between Open-Xchange’s development team and SUSE Linux – today a Novell business. The result of this partnership, SUSE Linux Openexchange Server, became the best selling Linux-based groupware solution. Laguna was crucial to Open-Xchange’s extention to Software as a Service in 2006. He also formed the partnership with the world’s largest web host by known servers, 1&1 Internet AG.

Laguna worked as a business angel and consultant of software technology for several Venture Capital Funds. From 2002 to 2004, Laguna was crucial to the investment and the successful sale of SUSE Linux to Novell. From 2003 to 2006, he managed as chairman the turnaround of bäurer AG until its acquisition by Sage. Laguna acts as board member for asknet AG and comparis.ch.

Guillaume Bouchard is the co-founder and CEO of NVI an interactive strategy shop serving the North-American market. NVI was founded in 2004 and has quickly expanded from its four initial employees to a team of 40. The company builds viable revenue models for customers by developing and marketing websites based on an innovative online approach to business. NVI, on its way to becoming the largest full-service web agency and web marketing company in Canada, is already the largest web marketing company in Quebec. The company has successfully worked in diverse industries such as employment; real estate; mortgage; financial services; construction; consulting; IT; radio and television media; e-commerce; sports; mobile communication; law, insurance and non-profit organizations.

Guillaume, a graduate from the prestigious Canadian business and administration school, HEC Montreal, applies his nine years of experience as an entrepreneur towards client consulting, strategizing and blogging.

For a number of years, he wrote a column at SEOmoz.org, one of the top search engine optimization blog and resource site on the web, and at Go-Referencement.org, a French-language SEO, marketing, and web 2.0 resources blog. He is recognized by his peers as a leader in his field and is repeatedly invited as a guest speaker to various conferences across North America. Last appearances includes Pubcon (Vegas), HostingCon (Chicago), SMX Social (Long Beach), Search Engine Strategies (Toronto) and many others. Guillaume is passionate about delivering to his clients a clear view of current web news and trends, and about guiding them to leverage this information to their maximum benefit. He enjoys jolting the market by leveraging sites, brands, and companies that would not have gotten as much exposure if they had invested their marketing budget only on offline strategies. Bouchard is driven by stepping up to the challenges put forth by the industry and by achieving results for his clients.

Elya McCleave, VP of Customer Care at Superb Internet Corp., has extensive experience in technical support and customer service quality assurance, call center management, project management, as well as technical coaching and staff development. She is committed to excellence in everything she does. Elya holds a degree in Civil Engineering, a Diploma of Technology Management from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, as well as numerous certificates in the IT field.

Elya has been working in the web hosting industry for almost ten years. As the VP of Customer Care she leads all aspects of Superb's external and internal support and customer service related operations.

Superb Internet Corporation (www.superb.net) is one of the oldest (circa 1996) and most reputable web hosting companies. Consistently winning more rewards than any other hosting firm, Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting services, from virtual hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated, clustered service solutions. Superb Internet's core focus is customer service, and continuous innovation & service improvement, as a part of its lifelong commitment to staying "Ahead of the Rest."

Head of SaaS and Business Development Hosting ú
1&1 Internet AG

Diarmuid heads up international teams responsible for Software as a Service Product Development and Business Development in 1&1 Internet AG's Hosting Division. Diarmuid has been at 1&1 (a leading German Mobile-Communications, DSL and Hosting Provider and worldwide leading Hosting Provider) since 2007. Diarmuid is an evangelist of SaaS and APS (Application Packaging Standard) and an active member of the APS Non-Profit Organisation, whose goal it is to establish the de-facto SaaS standard.

Prior to joining 1&1 Internet, Diarmuid worked internationally as an independent consultant to a number of clients including Philips, Ericsson, Sony, Sony-Ericsson and Centrica.

David Wartell is the vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies Inc., where he serves as the driving force behind innovative software development while overseeing sales, support and marketing efforts as well.

Prior to this position, Wartell founded Righteous Software Inc. in 2003, which since its establishment has become a recognized leader for its Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) software among Linux users and the hosting industry as well. R1Soft‘s CDP offers high-performance backups and Bare-Metal Restores™ for Linux and Windows.

Other key past experiences and positions that paved the way for David’s successful software venture include more than 10 years experience in software development and Internet infrastructure where he has held positions ranging from software engineer and network engineer to CEO. Previously he has worked as the Sr. Network Engineer for EV1Servers (now The Planet) in Houston, Texas where he was responsible for one of the largest computer networks that supported over 20,000 Linux and Windows servers with over 25 Gigabits of Internet connectivity.

Tom Millitzer is President of New Commerce Communications a firm that provides merger & acquisition services to Web Hosting, Data Centers and Internet service firms. During his career he has been involved in almost 300 mergers, acquisitions, corporate finance and appraisals. He deals with buyers and sellers of Internet firms on a daily basis. He has tailored this HostingCon presentation in a format that should assist the dealmaker in understanding certain buyer and seller motivations, or “Beyond the numbers.” Prior to NCC he was co-founder and President of Charter Cable Systems, Inc. based in Cincinnati. He also held executive positions at Group W Broadcasting and Cable. He writes the M&A Blog for the WHIR. His offices are located in Cape Coral, Florida.

Stacy Griggs is the chief service officer of HostMySite. As chief service officer Stacy manages customer satisfaction and retention.  Stacy is also the General Manager for HostMySite's flagship datacenter in Newark, DE  

Stacy has led several Information Technology services companies over the last 15 years. He was a Managing Director for KForce a $1 Billion publically traded professional services firm.  At KForce Stacy managed 5 business units that collectively generated $18 Million in revenue and had 140 employees.  Prior to KForce Stacy was a Vice President and part-owner of Diamond Technologies, a $9 Million System Integration firm.  Previously Stacy held management positions at TMP Worldwide, the University of Pennsylvania, Christiana Care Health System and Humana

Stacy has been a director of several organizations.  He currently sits on the boards of Junior Achievement of Delaware, The Sunday Breakfast Mission and The New Castle County Chamber of Commerce.  In 2005 Stacy was awarded the Young de Tocqueville Award by United Way of Delaware for chairing their fundraising campaign for executives under 40. Additionally in 2001 Stacy was recognized by Philly Tech Magazine as one of their 30 under 30.   Stacy attended the University of Louisville and majored in Economics

Arun Narayanan is Director and co-owner of InstaCarma.com, a provider of outsourced technical support and server management services to web hosting companies. Since founding InstaCarma in 2003, Arun has served the organization in various technical and managerial capacities. He currently heads the company's business wing that handles processes such as sales, marketing, media and client relationships. Having dealt with hundreds of techs and dozens of hosting industry owners/managers over a span of 7 years, he has well rounded perspectives of web hosting operations, and is always keen to share them with industry colleagues.
Arun holds a bachelor's degree in computer science engineering. He is 30 years of age, and lives in Bangalore, India with his wife Priya and their naughty little dog, Archie. When he is not running his company or running after his dog, he likes to spend time indulging his passion for listening to and creating music.

Henry Weber is currently VP of Operations for FuseMail, LLC - a leading email hosting company that offers a low cost alternative to Microsoft Exchange. In his day to day role in the company, Henry is also heavily involved in the sales and marketing strategy of the company as well as business development. At FuseMail, Henry has helped to drive strong growth, with revenue having doubled each year since the company was founded in 2003.

In addition to FuseMail, Henry is the co-founder of PracticeSpot - an online resource for music teachers and their students. Henry has also worked as the marketing manager for XTEK Limited and consulted with CommuniTech.Net, which eventually sold to the parent company of Web.com in 2001. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics, with majors in Economics and Marketing from the University of Sydney and moved to the US from Australia in 2007 for take up full-time employment at FuseMail.

Carl Hartman is the Managing Director of North America for Applicure Technologies, Ltd., a leading web application security software vendor.   Mr. Hartman has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology in a variety of roles from marketing and sales to development, support, and training.   

Prior to joining Applicure, he was an independent consultant, working with a number of start-up technology companies to create and implement marketing and business development strategies. 

Prior to that, Mr. Hartman spent nearly 18 years at Computer Associates, where he held senior management positions in marketing, sales, business development and strategic alliances.  He is noted for his ability to quickly understand many vendors’ technologies and develop innovative ways to bring integrated solutions to market.   

Mr. Hartman is well-known in the software industry as a speaker on technology strategy at client gatherings and conferences.  He holds a degree in business with a major in computer management.

Chris West is the CEO and co-founder of CDGcommerce (http://www.cdgcommerce.com), a leading nationwide merchant account provider that has specialized in Internet e-commerce merchants since its inception in 1998. Mr. West has a unique perspective on the Web hosting industry, having previously successfully founded, operated and sold a Web hosting provider as well as actively serving the needs of thousands of current Web hosting businesses through CDGcommerce’s payment processing services. Mr. West has also been directly involved in the design, development and launch of multiple e-commerce software & technology initiatives including a number of pioneering industry innovations. Mr. West holds a degree in Business Marketing from the University of Phoenix and lives in Chesapeake, Virginia with his wife (and CDG co-founder) Laura and their son.

Waseem is the COO of Ksplice, a company dedicated to making software systems more reliable and easier to maintain. He received both his B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Ksplice, Waseem spent time at Google and Amazon.com. He is also a licensed film projectionist in Massachusetts.

Christian Dawson joined ServInt in 1998.  As Vice President of Operations, he is responsible for managing the Company's customer service, support, marketing and sales departments.  Mr. Dawson serves on the board of the United States Internet Industry Association (USIIA) where he chairs its Hosting Council.  He earned an MBA from the University of Maryland.

Hari Ravichandran founded Endurance International Group in 1997 and serves as the company's Executive Vice President.  Hari heads up Finance, Corporate Development, Engineering, and Network Operations while playing an integral role in investor relations and strategic planning.  In addition to his role at Endurance, Hari also participates as an investor and advisor to various private equity funds and technology companies. Prior to founding Endurance, Hari worked at Sun Microsystems.  At Sun, Hari helped design microprocessors, massively parallel computers and various Internet architecture protocols.  Hari is the author of five USPTO approved patents and several technical publications.  Hari has a B.S. (Honors) in Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University, graduate education in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School.  Hari is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), founding member of SAMTA (South Asian Mentoring and Tutoring Association) and Managing Partner of the GT Charitable Trust Foundation.

Bill Jolly is the Director of New Markets for Network Solutions.  His focus is on new services in emerging areas that will be the key to continued growth in the quickly-changing web-presence market.  Before accepting this new role, Bill served as the Director of Product Management – Web Presence with responsibility for Hosting, VPS and Email products.  Prior to Network Solutions, Bill was the Director of Product  Management for Enterprise Hosting Products at NTT / Verio.  The foundation  for his time in hosting was six years in both Management and IT consulting with Deloitte and Touche and Whitman-Hart.

Chris Sheridan is Vice-President of Sales for eNom.com. He is responsible for Reseller sales, Retail sales, and Business Development. Prior to joining eNom in April 2007, he worked for VeriSign Naming Services for nearly ten years. At VeriSign, he launched the first Registry customer service organization supporting all ICANN accredited .COM and .NET registrars. He then transitioned from Customer Service to managing all top registrar accounts for VeriSign. His focus with the top registrars was sales and business development.

Ditlev Bredahl has more than a decade of industry experience. He knows the mass market hosting scene inside out, and is a frequent speaker at ecommerce/hosting events. His claim to fame is the 3 year turn-around of UK2Group.com - where he currently holds the CEO position - from a 8 person declining company to a 150+ person international growing hosting giant. Lately he has been very involved in the launch of VPS.NET with the aim of bringing cloud hosting to the mass market.

Ilya Baimetov is Director of Program Management for Parallels Automation line of products. Parallels Automation is a complete cloud service delivery platform that includes Parallels Virtualization Automation, Parallels Operations Automation and Parallels Business Automation products. Ilya also has been driving the work on APS standard from its inception in 2007.  Before that, Ilya spent 4.5 years at Microsoft working on hosted service for small businesses and enterprise system management.

Emil Sayegh is the General Manager of Mosso, Rackspace Hosting’s Cloud Division. Sayegh was previously the vice president of the product group at Rackspace where his responsibilities included the development, marketing and management of new products and services for the company's managed hosting product line.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Sayegh spent more than 15 years in the IT industry in various product development and marketing roles. Most recently, Sayegh was the services marketing and development director at Dell Inc. where he oversaw the global services roadmap. Additionally, Sayegh served in leadership positions at several notable IT companies including RLX Technologies, Compaq Computers and W.L. Gore and Associates. He holds nine patents in the fields of electronics and telecommunication.

Sayegh holds a bachelor of science in Engineering and a master of science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin.

As Senior Hosting Technology Specialist, Chris has been working with Hosting Providers and hosted ISV’s delivering Cloud and Managed Hosting solutions for 10 years. Chris’s technology background is focused on Systems-based Microsoft products such as  Windows Server OS, the System Center Enterprise Suite, Active Directory (AD), Hosted Exchange and Hyper-V .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 2000. He regularly works closely with these hosting providers to deliver value-added Managed Hosting  and Cloud-based solutions leveraging the Windows Platform to their customers.

Nick Nelson is the Affiliate Manager for Aff.biz, an UK2Group company. Nick possesses nearly a decade of Web hosting and affiliate program experience. Through his vision, Aff.biz has grown to a roster of 16,000 affiliates serving 225,000 clients across two continents and thirteen hosting brands.

Prior to his role as Affiliate Manager with Aff.biz/UK2Group, Nick worked with such hosting companies as LunarPages and HostGator. Before that he spent a couple of years with cPanel as Sales & Marketing Director.

Attending Valdosta State University — where he pursues a Dual Degree B.B.A in Economics and B.B.A Marketing — Nick is also the Director of Partner Relations for UK2Group, the parent company of Aff.biz. With whatever spare time he can scavenge together, Nick enjoys playing poker and trips to Las Vegas.

Miguel Ramos is the Product Manager, Hosting Products at Network Solutions. He is responsible for setting the strategy for the Shared Hosting, VPS and Email products at Network Solutions, one of the world’s pioneering Internet companies. A 10 year veteran of the company, he previously lead the engineering team that built the Network Solutions Hosting platform.

Miguel has been working in Internet related companies in the United States and Canada since 1993. Prior to joining Network Solutions, Miguel worked at UUNET (now MCI),  Netcom Canada (now AT&T Canada) and Internex Online (Canada’s first Internet Service Provider). He holds a bachelors degree in mathematics from the University of Toronto, a master’s degree in computer information systems from Boston University and an MBA in finance/marketing from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Michael is a Senior Product Manager, Platform Strategy in Microsoft Server and Tools.  He has been involved with technology marketing and product development for over 12 years. His experience spans across telecommunications, service providers as well as consumer focused technology companies. His current focus is "PHP on Windows" strategy across multiple product groups at Microsoft. You can follow Michael via Twitter @michaeljoffe.

Adam Dillaplain has been involved in the webhosting and datacenter business
for over 12 years.  He currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of
Charlotte, NC-based Caronet Managed Hosting, a three year old division of
Co-Location provider Caronet DataCenters boasting some 6,000 dedicated
servers and 4,800 managed co-location servers across its 4 datacenters.
Adam also serves as an advisor to several other hosting-related companies.
Among other projects, Adam is currently a member of the Board of Directors
of NocWorx, LLC, a provider of datacenter management and automation
software; InterWorx LLC, maker of the popular server control panel of the
same name; 7-Cs, a unique ?wholesale? VOIP solution aimed at globe-trotting
executives; and JAM Resource Recovery Group, a vertically integrated
provider of data center infrastructure services, including design/build,
liquidation, removal, and emergency maintenance.  Adam studied economics and
finance at Texas A&M University and currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

Persony was founded in 2004 by Eric Chen, a successful serial entrepreneur and co-inventor of Apple QuickTime VR. Prior to founding Persony, Eric was the founder and CEO of Presenter, Inc., a Web-based presentation company acquired by WebEx Communications, Inc. in 2003.

Eric founded his first company RealSpace, Inc. in 1996 to develop software for creating online virtual tours. RealSpace was acquired by Live Picture, Inc. and Eric became CTO of Live Picture. Under Eric's direction, Live Picture created many award-winning virtual tour products, such as PhotoVista for stitching digital photos to create panoramas and Reality Studio for creating interactive virtual tours.

Prior to founding RealSpace, Eric worked at Apple's Advanced Technology Group for 7 years as a research scientist, where he was an early pioneer of image-based rendering and published many papers in prestigious computer graphics conferences and journals. Two of Eric's papers have been selected as seminal graphics papers by ACM SIGGRAPH.

Eric received his master's degree in computer graphics from Cornell University. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in industrial design from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan and the Ohio State University respectively. Eric is a prolific inventor and holds 14 US patents. One of Eric's proudest achievements is being the first to create virtual tours of the StarTrek Enterprise, the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City in Beijing, and the White House.

CMO and Executive Vice President
Hostopia

Paul is a well-known and accomplished industry commentator, speaker, panelist, and contributing editor who has addressed large audiences at ISPCON, HostingCON, SuperCOMM, and the USTA. Paul's published articles address ISP owner/operator strategy, sales, marketing & customer service, and a broad spectrum of issues related to SaaS. Publications he’s contributed to include PING!Zine, The Web Hosting Industry Review, The Hosting Standard, and USTA Telecom Executive.

As Chief Marketing Officer for Hostopia, Paul has helped lead the company through 30 consecutive quarters of growth and its IPO in November 2006. He has established Hostopia as a thought leader in the SaaS marketplace specializing in helping broadband providers generate increased revenues in the small business consumer segment.

Paul's professional background includes senior executive roles in business software, telecommunications and ISP organizations.

Attorney at Law

Mr. Snead is an attorney in private practice in Washington D.C. His practice focuses exclusively on representing companies and other entities active in the internet infrastructure. In his 13 years in this area, Mr. Snead has represented these companies both in-house and as outside counsel. These companies include multinationals, middle tier hosting companies, and two guys, a server, a T-1 and a huge MasterCard balance. He has spoken extensively on subjects of importance at over 50 conferences. His views on the impact of Federal legislation on small-to-medium internet businesses have been quoted in the Washington Post and San Jose Mercury News. He is also a columnist and blogger for the Web Host Industry Review. Mr. Snead received his J.D. in 1991 from Georgetown University Law Center and is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and State of New Mexico.

Ashish Moondra is the Senior Product Manager for Power Products, Avocent Corporation. He has over 15 years of experience in the power quality industry working in various product development, marketing and sales roles. He previously worked at Active Power and American Power Conversion. He has an MBA in Marketing & Finance from Virginia Tech and a BS in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India.

Larry Donahue is an attorney and practiced Internet technologist for over 20 years, and devotes his time to helping small, high-tech startups in the Internet and e-commerce sector. As such, he is currently the COO & Corporate Counsel for Deep Web Technologies, a company that specializes in providing technology to search the deep web. Prior to Deep Web Technologies, Larry helped found SpaBoom, a leader in Internet-based Instant Gift Certificate functionality. Prior to SpaBoom, Larry helped lead FatCow Web Hosting, having a direct role in managing FatCow to profitable, triple-digit growth rates and overseeing the sale of FatCow for a higher-than-average valuation. Prior to FatCow, Larry spent almost a decade as a technology consultant and Internet attorney, providing e-commerce solutions for organizations as diverse as GE Capital and the US Army.

Rick began with the original Miva Corporation (now Miva Merchant) in 1999 as Director of North American Sales. His responsibilities included channel sales and management, strategic partnership development and end user adoption. Rick took over as Vice President of Sales and Business Development in 2002. In 2007 he became Executive Vice President when the company was spun out of MIVA, Inc (formerly FindWhat) into a standalone entity. Today, Rick's duties include overseeing all parts of day to day operations with a specific focus on Sales, Marketing and Business Development. During his tenure at Miva Merchant, Rick has worked with thousands of web hosting companies to assist them in offering an ecommerce platform to their end users.

Rick’s more than 12 years of executive-level sales and marketing experience also includes his tenure as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Providence Systems (now Buffini and Company), a privately held sales training company. At Providence Systems, Rick developed and executed the sales and marketing strategies that helped lead a successful corporate turnaround in the late 1990's

Curtis is a 16 year veteran of the Internet and a recognized leader in the Internet, hosting, ecommerce and search marketing industry and speaks regularly at related conferences on these areas of expertise. Since the early 1990s, Curtis has been involved in the evolution of the Internet, working first as a consultant with Federal government, then in 1993, moving on to the startup of one of the first ISPs. After selling his company, he worked with online access providers and telecommunication companies such as Telus, Rogers, Sprint, AT&T, GroupTelecom and Superb Internet.

In addition to his role as RankSense’s CSMO, Curtis is the CEO of Sharksfly Marketing Solutions, providing search & social media marketing solutions, as well as other related market services to clients wishing to optimize their marketing strategies, especially online.

Curtis holds a Bachelors of Commerce from the University of Alberta and did his Post Graduate work in Marketing and Business Law at the University of Calgary

Justin Barney is a seasoned sales executive with a successful record of selling infrastructure solutions to Fortune 500 and global online e-businesses. Before joining 3Leaf, Mr. Barney was a vice president of sales at Citrix Systems, a leader in application delivery infrastructure. There, he was responsible for sales and field marketing for all major Citrix software and hardware products in the Western Region. Prior to that, Mr. Barney held senior marketing and sales positions at NetScaler, a leader in high-performance application delivery systems acquired by Citrix. Prior, Mr. Barney spent four years on Wall Street as an Investment Banker and Private Equity Investment professional. He received his Bachelors Degree in Finance from the University of Colorado, and a Masters in Business Administration from the Wharton School in Philadelphia. Barney served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves from 1992 - 1998.

Richard Jimmerson is Chief Information Officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). Richard has ten years of experience managing global Internet number resources. He managed ARIN's registration services operation and served as Director of Operations and then Director of External Relations 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 United States government.

William Toll has held product management and marketing positions in the Web hosting and financial industry since the late 1990s. Now at the leading hosting services provider, NaviSite, William is responsible for developing the company's small business hosted product lines, including managed dedicated servers, hosted business applications and one of the industry's biggest platforms - Alabanza.com. With a passion for Small Business and their IT service providers he has repeatedly developed products and services which gain wide acceptance. William enjoys working with all of the teams – technical and non-technical to rapidly build a case, define, develop, train and bring products to market. In past positions at companies such as Affinity Internet, Intermedia, NTT/VERIO, and ValueWeb, William was the driving force in launching new products and services to hosting customers. William received a BA in Marketing from New England College in Arundel, England.

Tony Lucas is CEO of UK-based XCalibre Communications Ltd which he founded in 1997. Back in 2004 Tony decided that what the world really needed was a proper cloud computing infrastructure, so he and his team at XCalibre created FlexiScale. While Tony describes himself as an entrepreneurial evangelist who's more interested in doing something disruptive and exciting that helps business than in chasing money, he's actively engaged in the drive for interoperability between cloud providers to encourage wide adoption of cloud technology and the business and environmental benefits it can deliver.

Neil Daswani is a co-founder of Dasient, Inc., a new stealth-mode Internet security company backed by some of the most influential investors in Silicon Valley. In the past, Neil has served in a variety of research , development, teaching, and managerial roles at Google, Stanford University, DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies). While at Stanford, Neil cofounded the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) Security Certification Program (http://proed.stanford.edu/?security).

His areas of expertise include security, wireless data technology, and peer-to-peer systems. He has published extensively in these areas, frequently gives talks at industry and academic conferences, and has been granted several U.S. patents.

He received a Ph.D. and a master's in computer science from Stanford University, and earned a bachelor's in computer science with honors with distinction from Columbia University.

Neil is also the lead author of Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs To Know (published by Apress; ISBN 1590597842; http://tinyurl.com/33xs6g ). More information about Neil is available at http://www.neildaswani.com.

As CTO, Nathan Day is responsible for design, creation, and implementation of the proprietary SoftLayer Infrastructure Management System (IMS). Prior to SoftLayer, Mr. Day served as Vice President of Development at The Planet where he oversaw the back-end management system. Prior to joining The Planet, Mr. Day held the position as Senior Application Developer at Catalog.com. His employment history includes positions with Texas Instruments, MCI WorldCom, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He brings extensive experience in product and software development. His skill set includes PHP, Cold Fusion, Perl, HTML, XML, C, C++, and Python. Mr. Day earned a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University.

De Guerre is the chief technology officer at Cloudmark, pioneers of the world’s first collaborative spam filtration network for stopping abusive messages across email, mobile and social networking infrastructures. A thought leader in the messaging security space, Cloudmark currently protects more than 850 million mailboxes for more than 100 service providers around the world.

As CTO, De Guerre leads Cloudmark's technical relations efforts with customers and partners and plays a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technologies strategies. He has been instrumental in growing Cloudmark's Global Threat Network, the underlying technology that enables users across the globe to report on abusive messages with a feedback system that is automatically incorporated into service provider’ networks.

He is a sought-after expert who regularly speaks at industry events, including Mobile World Congress, Parallels Summit, ISPCON and WebHostingDay. He addresses issues, trends and cutting-edge technologies in the areas of email security, mobile technologies, hosting and new message abuse threat vectors, such as social networking.

De Guerre began his career working at Microsoft for the .NET Compact Framework, where he was in charge of porting the technology to Windows Mobile for Smartphones.

As Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Bob Leibholz oversees Intermedia's sales and business development activities as well as key partnerships. In past positions at companies such as ASCAP and The Harry Fox Agency, Inc., Leibholz led licensing, sales and client relationship disciplines. Long a technology-focused business executive, he has been the chief driver for numerous technology projects, including an industry-wide digital rights management system, Inquiry Management System and many Web-based client-facing applications. He also served as editor of the courseware for the American Management Associate course, The Art and Discipline of Managing Software Projects. Before entering the business world, Bob had a successful career as a concert violinist, serving as concertmaster of several orchestras.

Derek Vaughan is a web hosting industry veteran, marketing consultant and writer. Mr. Vaughan has architected the marketing growth of several prominent web hosting success stories leading to acquisition including Affinity Internet, Inc., Aplus.Net and HostMySite.com. Prior to his entry into the web hosting industry, Mr. Vaughan was responsible for online marketing at The Walt Disney Company where he marketed ecommerce for the ESPN.com and NASCAR.com brands. Mr. Vaughan received his M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and currently serves on the HostingCon Advisory Board.

Kevin Laude is a Senior Software Developer for SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., though he's also known as their "API evangelist". His decade of experience in the Internet provider industry ranges from support to telecommunications, network operations, and systems administration to software development. As SoftLayer's API evangelist he's had the opportunity to help users and developers adapt their automated and internal systems to work with SoftLayer's unique selection of products and services.

Kellie Peterson is an Internet veteran with over ten years experience in the domain industry. She started out wrangling fax transfer and name server change requests in the early days for a regional ISP out of Chicago. Years later she moved on to Albuquerque-based Web Hosting startup FatCow.com. Hosting behemoth Endurance International Group, Inc. snapped up the company in late 2004 and Kellie followed the company east to Boston where she grew the corporate and customer portfolio to 750k names across seven registrars while also working on the M&A team to integrate eight additional hosting companies. Today, in addition to managing her own portfolio of highly targeted names she serves as the Director of Marketing & Operations for Denver-based Name.com where she oversees the team of dedicated free-thinkers which makes the company one of the fastest growing registrars in the world.

Mr. Zubarev is a founder and the president of Parallels' Service Provider division worldwide including sales and operations for hosting and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Since the company's founding in 1999, he has held multiple leadership roles within the company including chief operating officer, sales engineering, product marketing and business development. Zubarev has been instrumental in building the company from its start to today with more than 800 employees. Zubarev was also a founder of Acronis and helped establish the storage management company's sales and marketing organizations in the United States. Previously, he handled product marketing for Pervasive Software and brought its first Linux product to market. Zubarev holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzLocal.com, a 50 person agency based in Westminster, Colorado, specializing in local lead gen, integrating Facebook advertising with social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising, directory listings, web analytics, and call tracking. Clients include Quiznos, Equifax, AmazingMail, Famous Daves, and other national retail and franchised outlets.  A 14 year veteran of online marketing with Yahoo! and American Airlines, Dennis is an acknowledged thought leader in search, affiliate, and internet marketing. He has spoken at conferences around the world, including Singapore, Australia, and the US.

A ten year background in sales and business development prepared Mike for an opportunity to shift over to the Internet in 1999 with Homefair.com. As part of the team that effectively sold out all advertising on the website, the company was acquired by Homestore.com in 2001. Due to the success of Homefair, Mike was invited to initiate and develop the advertising program for MyGeek.com and built the program from the ground up. In the two years Mike spent with MyGeek.com advertising revenue grew to over $300,000 annually. In 2003, Mike joined Equine.com to tackle a similar challenge. As VP of Sales and Business Development he helped Equine.com grow revenue over ten-fold and helped establish it as the leading online destination in the horse industry. Equine.com was acquired by Primedia in 2006 and Mike now devotes the same energy to developing and growing Pinnacle Cart.

Jason Silverglate is 12 year veteran in the hosting and collocation industry and CEO of Fortress ITX/DedicatedNow. Under his leadership, Jay has built Fortress ITX/DedicatedNow into a major player in the industry, since the company’s inception in 1997. 

He attended Rutgers, State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick where he studied computer science and finance.

As a tech industry veteran, Steve brings vision and an extensive set of capabilities to this leadership position, including significant experience in the IT service provider and telecommunications industry. Steve has managed operations throughout the world, and has led complex sales, marketing, business development and product management activities across software and hardware solutions.

Prior to Mezeo, Steve was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of VeriCenter, a successful managed IT hosting provider, acquired by SunGard in 2007. Steve has served in multiple senior executive roles, including Senior Vice President of worldwide sales for SafeNet, a Maryland based security technology firm. At BMC Software, a Houston based systems management software solution provider, Steve served in a variety of capacities, including VP of business development and channel programs, Asia Pacific. Prior to BMC, Steve held multiple sales and marketing positions at IBM including General Manager, PC Server Sales and Marketing for North America.

Daniel R. Hackett is a CPA and full-time Aileron consultant. Dan devotes his time to providing assistance to those who attend our programs in the areas of strategic planning, establishment and operation of outside boards and professional management.

Dan’s career includes positions at Fortune 500 companies, including Arthur Andersen & Co., The Limited, Inc. and Federated Department Stores, Inc. In each position, Dan was charged with implementing change, from starting a new practice to consolidation and reorganization of departments.

When it was time to leave the corporate life, Dan went back to his roots—financial consulting with owners of small- and medium-size businesses. Dan started his own CPA firm, focusing on helping business owners to build a better business.

Dan has been a practicing CPA for more than 15 years and has a B.S. and Masters of Accountancy from Miami University.

If you have not met this red head, chances are you have not been in the hosting industry for long. Sharon has invested many years creating long lasting friendships and relationships and has been involved in the hosting business community for more than half a decade. With 5 years running a hosting company, 4 years in the outsourcing business  and 2 years consulting hosted software companies,  Sharon has exposed himself to every corner of this Industry and internet in general.

These days Sharon is the president of a consulting company for IT outsourcing and business developer called Empire Consultant. As part of his consulting operation he has taken on a role as Director of hosting for an incredibly innovative security company called Applicure which he represents here in Hosting Con.  Some of the fields of his expertise consist of sales and marketing development, Social Networking, SEO, networking, technology innovation and of course Outsourcing.

As COO and Co-Founder, Mr. Flatin is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the business. His leadership skills are augmented by a passion for content delivery networking (CDN) technology, the fastest growing service in the company’s product portfolio.

For more than a decade, Mr. Flatin has been immersed in the content delivery networking technology and is actively involved in creating the service solutions for many satisfied BandCon customers. Previously, Mr. Flatin held key sales positions at Axient and Global Crossing and was the first person hired by the founders of Limelight Networks. Mr. Flatin managed the business development efforts for over 3 ½ years for the CDN provider before joining BandCon.

Mr. von Varchmin heads Parallels Software as a Service (SaaS) initiative. In this role, he is building a rapidly growing ecosystem of Cloud Services Providers and ISVs utilizing Parallels SaaS platform and products for global delivery of Cloud Services over the web. His areas of responsibility also include the integration of recently acquired companies in the System and Billing Automation software space as well as the lead on the International Service Providers business unit, managing teams in the offices in Darmstadt, Germany (European headquarters) and five other locations. Previously, and as Director of Sales & Marketing at Yippi-Yeah! E-Business, Mr. von Varchmin led the rapid growth of the Confixx brand for web servers, attaining market leadership in Europe. The company was later acquired by Parallels in 2003.

Eduardo Vila is Chief Sales Officer and co-founder of HostingPanama.com, Panama's largest and most important Offshore Hosting provider.  Since co-founding the company in 1999, his role in it has been actively important, as he organized and developed the Sales Department and helped the corporation reach a 7500+ customer base in around 8 years.  Eduardo was born in Panama City, Panama on October 25^th, 1977; He obtained his early education in SEK International School; received a B.S., Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Communications from Universidad Santa Maria La Antigua (USMA), Panama.  Just before he joined the HostingPanama team, he worked in sales for AT&T Panama and was an active Director of the Panama Rotaract Club.

Jeff Gordon is a senior litigation counsel with the law firm of Andrew Kurth, LLP.  Jeff is based in his firm’s Austin, Texas office where he represents a diverse list of clients in complex commercial and civil litigation matters, including cases involving contractual disputes, breach of non-competition agreements, partnership disputes, shareholder agreements, theft of trade secrets, and fraud.  Jeff has extensive first-chair trial experience in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings.  In addition to his litigation practice, Jeff regularly advises companies on responding to potential legal threats and steps his clients can implement to identify, manage and eliminate/minimize risks before they result in expensive lawsuits.

As president and CEO of Tucows Inc., Elliot Noss leads the company's business strategy and vision. He is responsible for overseeing operations for the company's domain registration, domain portfolio, email and retail lines of business.

During his tenure, Tucows has grown to become the largest wholesale provider of domain names. Under Elliot's leadership, the company has rapidly expanded the wholesale service line to include email services, SSL certificates, and enhanced domain name offerings which are sold through a growing international reseller channel.

Elliot has been a leader in the Internet industry for over a decade. He champions areas of vital interest to the service providers and Internet users including privacy, ICANN reform and registrar matters, and the implications of emerging technologies.

Elliot chairs the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science Advisory Board and is a distinguished graduate of the University of Toronto where he earned a BA. He earned an MBA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario.

Bill Boebel is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rackspace's Email & Apps division.  Rackspace integrates the IT industry's best technologies into a flexible hosted service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable.  Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for in the US.  Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting.

Bill Boebel leads the strategic technical direction of the Email & Apps organization.  He met co-founders Pat Matthews and Kevin Minnick at Virginia Tech in 1995, and four years later "went pro early" (dropped out of college) to start Webmail.us.  He was hands-on in virtually all areas of the business throughout its early years and eventually earned his bachelors degree in computer engineering.  Bill was the driving force behind the company's highly scalable email hosting platform and anti-spam technologies, and successfully sold the company to Rackspace in 2007.  Today, as a "Racker", Bill focuses on continuing to grow the business at a rapid pace through exciting new technical and business initiatives, while relentlessly striving to maintain the company's fun entrepreneurial culture.

Chris Lloyd is an 11-year veteran in the online space with experience in search,affiliate and internet marketing. Beginning in 1999, he's been part of successful startups, including PrizeCentral.com, Digital Agency Group and Click 6 Media.  He has built several successful affiliate marketing companies over the last decade.

 Currently Chris is Direct of Business Development with Tippit Inc and General Manager of WebHostingUnleashed.com, an industry leader in research and education for IT Hosting professionals.

Sean Richards leads the cPanel Technical Analysts team at cPanel.  As the Linux Technical Support Manager he manages the day to day operations with a focus on infusing advanced technical support with great customer service.

Mr. Richards has lead teams through his previous experience as owner and Technical Director of TouchSupport, a leading provider of technical support geared towards web hosting companies.  As a previous business owner Sean understands that engaged employees help foster long term relationships with customers.

As a recent addition to the cPanel Team Sean has brought a entrepreneurial spirt backed by his hears of managing a highly successful technical support organization.

Wilfried Beeck studied Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Kiel before founding the company in 1983. Together with Stephan Schambach and Karsten Schneider, he also founded Intershop Communications GmbH in 1992 and managed its IPO in 1998. In 2002, Beeck left the board at Intershop AG to concentrate on the development of e-commerce solutions for the SME market with ePages. He is also an investor and board member in a number of high-tech companies.

Shaun has worked in the hosting space for over 8 years and is very in tune with the inherent business and technical challenges.  Prior to joining Microsoft in May of 2006, Shaun started out in the hosting industry as technical support and has since, risen to a Senior Windows Systems Administrator position for the past 7 years.  He has considerable technical knowledge and experience with Microsoft based systems.  He mostly enjoys playing with the bleeding edge of software and hardware technology in an attempt to appease his thirst for knowledge.

Alex Melen is an entrepreneur, web marketing strategist and president of T35 Hosting – one of the oldest (founded in 1997) and largest (over 700,000 active members) free web hosts. Alex has over a decade of experience in business development & web hosting, and has been deeply involved with many online start-ups. Through his efforts he has built T35 Hosting into one of the leaders in the free hosting industry, ranking in the top 5,000 properties in the world (as reported Quantcast).

Cameron leads the technology direction and manages engineering at ParaScale, bringing over 20 years of systems software development and deep expertise in distributed operating systems, filesystems and data center management. Earlier, Cameron led design, deployment, and operation of Scale8's distributed Internet storage service that provided storage for digital content owners including MSN and Viacom/MTV. At the HP Enterprise Systems Technology Lab, he developed system software for disk volume management, data security, and utility data center management. At Teradata, Cameron developed extensions to UNIX to allow the massive parallel processing required by the Teradata database, the world's largest and fastest distributed RDBMS. Cameron started his career at Locus Computing, a pioneer in distributed operating systems, single-system image clustering, and distributed file systems. Cameron holds a BS, summa cum laude, and an MS with honors, in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine. Cameron holds 4 patents in scalable distributed storage systems, virtual file systems, and high availability systems.