Lou Berthiaume

Territory Manager

APC by Schneider Electric

Lou Berthiaume is the Chicago Territory Manager for APC. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MGE UPS Systems to form Schneider Electric's IT Business Unit, which recorded 2008 revenue of 2,6 billion (including APC-MGE sales of $3.7 billion) and employed 12,000 people worldwide. APC solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, physical security, and design and management software, including APC's InfraStruXure® architecture, the industry's most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. Appointed as Chicago Territory Manger in December 2008, Lou is responsible for developing and supporting Elite APC partners, which includes Data Center power and cooling design. Lou is currently the lead architect of APC's InfraStruXure® system, leading the effort to expand and enhance integrated data center infrastructure solutions.Prior to his role as Territory Manager, Lou held multiple sales and engineering positions with APC including Enterprise Account Manager and Territory Account Manager. Lou is a frequent speaker at local power efficiency and information technology conferences.

Gary Cooke

Information Access & Management Team

CommVault

Mr. Cooke's background consists of over 25 years of experience in Information Technology. Much of his career was spent managing messaging infrastructures for several large multi-national corporations. At one Financial Services/Insurance corporation, he was responsible for its messaging infrastructure and support for 30,000 North American employees. While there he worked closely with the Corporate Legal, Human Resources, and Internal Audit teams regarding E-Discovery and litigation readiness related issues. Mr. Cooke joined CommVault several years ago from EMC Corporation. At EMC, he was an Archiving Specialist responsible for all pre-sales activities around the EmailXtender archiving product. At CommVault, he works directly with customers to develop cross-functional teams and processes to support litigation and FRCP related challenges.

Paul Gillin

Program Director

Next Data Center

The conference is developed by Paul Gillin, a veteran technology journalist with more than 24 years of editorial leadership, nearly all of it focused on enterprise IT. Paul was founding editor-in-chief of TechTarget, one of the most successful new media entities to emerge on the Internet. There he oversaw the development of more than 30 special-interest websites customized to the needs of IT managers and professionals. Previously, he was editor-in-chief and executive editor of Computerworld. During his 15 year tenure, Computerworld received more than 100 editorial awards. He is now an author and speaker specializing in Internet marketing and media.Paul has keynoted more than a dozen technology user group conferences, including all of the largest IBM user groups. He has been a speaker or panelist nearly 100 other computer industry events. Paul was also the founding program director of several of TechTarget's technology conferences, including Storage Decisions and Data Center Decisions. He is known for an ability to translate complex technical concepts into understandable language, a skill that has made him a popular technology analyst on radio and television networks, including CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NPR.

Steve Herman

Vice President of Data Center Business Development

CBTS

Steve Herman is Vice President of Data Center Business Development at CBTS. Steve is responsible for data center site analysis and procurement, data center construction and data center migration and integration for enterprise customers. Prior to his current position at CBTS, Steve was Director of Business Development for CBTS' Managed Services practice and Telephony Sales Engineers. Steve began his career at CBTS in 2001. He has held a variety of positions with GE businesses including GE Capital, GE Consumer Financial Services and GE Aircraft Engines. At GE, Steve held various positions as Midrange Systems Manager, Network Operations Manager, Data Center Manager and Global Operations Services Project Manager. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Akron.

Hector Hernandez

Global SOA Sales Leader

IBM

Hector Hernandez is a Global SOA Sales Strategy &Technology Executive in Software Group. He hastraveled worldwide working with customers on theirstrategies for the implementation of Service OrientedArchitecture (SOA). Today he is responsible for helpingcustomers understand industry software trends, newbusiness models, SOA governance, Smarter Planet andCloud Computing initiatives.He's also held numerous technical supportresponsibilities and has worked with the Fortune1000 and midmarket companies relating to their businessand IT strategies. He played a key role in areaslike; Software Branding responsible for Business Portals.He's held key technical support roles related tocommerce solutions, next generation e-business andpervasive computing. Hector has been a frequentpresenter at many customer conferences relating tobusiness process management, technologies (i.e. SOA,Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Virtual Worlds SocialNetworking, Innovation and Industry trends).Hector has held numerous technical staff, managementand project management positions in InformationSystems. He was Information Systems Managersupporting Worldwide Manufacturing andLaboratories.Early in his career he worked in the Human Resourcesarea as Employment manager and college recruiterduring his 30-years with IBM. He's been a guestinstructor at Florida Atlantic University, Florida StateUniversity, and University of Nebraska.Hector received his Bachelor Degree in BusinessManagement from Barry University and ExecutiveMBA in Innovation & Technology, fromFlorida Atlantic University.

Paul Hildebrandt

Principal

Actinion Solutions

As a 24 year veteran of the technology industry, Paul Hildebrandt is extremely well qualified for many types of business or technology project. He is certified by Microsoft, CompTIA, Novell, Sun Microsystems, and the US Navy. He is educated in both Business Administration and Management of Information Systems. With his education and experience in business and the technology of business, he has a unique capability of putting the right solution in place.Actinion provides consulting, training, and project management services for organizations of all types and sizes. We are a "best of breed" technology services company, matching our customers' requirements with the appropriate products and services that fulfill their needs, budget, and timeframe. Our blended solutions provide an exceptionally well-balanced approach to business technology systems.

Bill Hussain

Vice President, Professional Services

Data Strategy

Bill Hussain oversees Data Strategys' Professional Services organization which provide strategic guidance and technology expertise to help organizations address their business and infrastructure challenges to derive the maximum value from their IT assets and investments. He has overall responsibility for setting the strategy, driving execution, and creating best practices that create an exceptional total customer experience through service delivery excellence. A 15-year veteran IT executive, Bill Hussain joined Data Strategy in May 2009 from VMware, where he was Director of Professional Services responsible for Services Sales and Delivery. Prior to VMware, Bill was EVP of Professional Services at Ejasent a pioneer in Utility/Cloud Computing, leading company through successful product delivery and beta implementations with Fortune 200 companies and ultimately through an acquisition by VERITAS in 2005. Over his career Bill has served in various management and technical capacities ranging from Data Center Operations, Oracle DBA and UNIX Systems Administration, giving him a panoptic perspective on how best to address his clients business and technical needs. Bill studied Biology at Texas A&M and Finance at the University of Texas-Arlington.

Yong Kim

Business Manager of File and Content Solutions

Hitachi Data Systems

Yong Kim is a Business Manager of File and Content solutions at Hitachi Data Systems. With over 20 years of storage industry experience and degrees in Business Management, Yong applies economic principles to the technologies of unstructured data management in today's challenging enterprise storage environments. Yong has worked at various storage firms, as a Technology Architect, a Management Consultant, and a Business Development Manager. In discussions with customers throughout the world, Yong has observed a common theme: enterprises need to manage growth in a fresh, new way. Unstructured data in particular poses unique challenges, thereby presenting opportunities for more intelligent ways of taking appropriate actions. Yong has shown enterprises how to better store and protect data, using both horizontal and vertical infrastructure scalability; to search, identify and classify data on-demand; to tier data transparently, without concern for performance impact; and to lower TCO over the entire life-cycle of the data.

Benjamin Lichtenwalner

Senior Manager of Internet and eCommerce

Whirlpool Corporation

Benjamin Lichtenwalner is the Senior Manager of Internet and eCommerce at Whirlpool Corporation, where he leads efforts globally for the web presence and eCommerce channel across all brands, including Maytag, KitchenAid, Amana, Bauknecht, Jenn-Air and more. Lichtenwalner has also held senior leadership roles and overseen E-Commerce, ERP and social media teams across other Fortune 500, Inc. 500 and non-profit corporations. Having learned from both positive and negative leadership styles, Lichtenwalner now shares his experiences and lessons learned to promote greater awareness of Servant Leadership. Mr. Lichtenwalner holds an M.B.A. with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from Lehigh University and a B.S. in Management Science and Information Systems from the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. Regardless of his professional success, Mr. Lichtenwalner understands that it is not only about him. He has been blessed with incredible teams and a wonderful network of family and friends whose support has been key to his continued success. Benjamin also enjoys spending time with his family, reading (The Good Book, business and technology publications), riding his motorcycle and playing the occasional game of paintball. He spends his time between Westchester County, New York and Southwest Michigan.

Steve Merkel

Director, Solutions Engineering

Latisys

As the Director of Solutions Engineering for Latisys, Steve is responsible for overseeing pre-sales engineering efforts across all Latisys markets. Steve has been with the company in one capacity or another since 2001. Prior to the acquisition of the Denver facility by Latisys, Steve was the Chief Information Officer of the Denver business, where he oversaw the development and implementation of systems and hosting infrastructure as well as lead product development efforts. Steve received his BS in Computer Science from Colorado State University. Immediately after graduating, he began work as a systems engineer for a real-time driving simulation company implementing Linux based simulators for research and educational institutions. Steve has also held technical positions with large ISP's including AOL and CompuServe.

Rob Peglar

Vice President, Technology

Xiotech

Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 31-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is a member of the SNIA Board of Directors, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a nine-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University's Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization.

Rakesh Pitroda

Principal

Netfunction

Damian Walch

Director

Deloitte & Touche

Damian has more than 18 years of hands on experience in development and deployment of disaster recovery, high availability, business continuity programs. Damian has developed many new and innovative methods in the business continuity planning approach, including resilient architectures, pandemic preparedness approaches, inSourcing strategies and business continuity maturity models. Consulting Magazine recognized this by naming him one of the Top 25 Most Influential Consultants of 2003. He has performed over 60 Business Impact Analysis (BIA) from both a business and a technical perspective. He's developed business continuity frameworks, procedures, business unit plans and technical restoration procedures. He has met with approximately 500 unique clients about their recovery needs, activities and actions.