Keynote Speakers
Layered Technologies is excited to announce two compelling speakers at LT PACT this year. Our kick-off Keynote address will be delivered by speaker James Staten, Principal IT Analyst for FORRESTER Research. Also, back by popular demand is Andy Schroepfer of TIER1 Research, highlighting recently released data on the state of the Hosting Industry.
James Staten
Principal Analyst of IT Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research
James Staten, Principal Analyst with Forrester Research, will deliver the Keynote address at LT PACT this year.
James contributes to Forrester's offerings for IT Infrastructure and Operations professionals. He is a leading expert on x86 servers and server infrastructure, data center futures, and application-specific infrastructure deployment trends and technologies.
"[Cloud Computing] provides a very low-cost, no-commitment way for enterprises to quickly get new services and capabilities to market that entirely circumvents the IT department. Infrastructure and operations professionals can try to ignore it as it is just in its infancy, but doing so may be a mistake as cloud computing is looking like a classic disruptive technology.*"
Andy Schroepfer
Founder & Hosting Visionary, Tier 1 Research
Andy Schroepfer, the founder of Tier 1 Research, will provide highlights on recently released data regarding the transformation occurring in the Hosting Industry.
Mr. Schroepfer founded Tier 1 Research in August of 2000 after four years on Wall Street. Thereafter, he became Vice President and Senior Equity Analyst with Goldman Sachs covering the Internet Infrastructure Services sector. At Goldman Sachs, Mr. Schroepfer was the lead analyst on such firms as Exodus, Digex, StorageNetworks, and Universal Access. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Andrew was with U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray where he covered Communication Service Providers as a Vice President and Senior Equity Analyst. His coverage included such firms as Qwest, Level 3, and Exodus.
Additional Speakers include
Barry X Lynn
Chairman and CEO
Barry Lynn brings to 3Tera hands on experience in data center innovation and deep understanding of enterprise customers and applications. He has over 35 years of executive experience in the IT and financial services sectors in Fortune 100 companies and as an entrepreneur.
Early in his career, Barry was with Wells Fargo, where he was executive vice president and head of Investment Operations before becoming chief information officer (CIO) of Wells Fargo and Company and president of Wells Fargo Technology Services. In 1995, while at Wells Fargo, he built the world's first Internet online banking system. Barry was also president of Wells Fargo Securities Clearance Corp. and founder and president of Wells Fargo Securities, Inc.
Prior to 3Tera Barry founded Be eXceL management, Inc., a management consulting firm, which incubated early stage technology companies. Additionally, Mr. Lynn is a general partner of SVP II, a fully invested venture fund managed by Shoreline Venture Management LLC.
Barry Lynn served as Chairman and CEO of PRIVACI, a provider of anonymous purchasing and personalized services for consumers on the Internet. He was Director of Merant PLC, a public software company, prior to its acquisition by Serena. Mr. Lynn is currently on the Boards of Directors of Alacritech, Attune Systems and Layer 7 Technologies.
Todd Abrams
Chief Operations Officer, Layered Tech
Todd leads the Layered Technologies team and oversees daily operations. Prior to founding Layered Technologies, he served as CEO and founder of FX-Directors’ Solutions, a leading technology services company in the funeral services industry. At FX Directors’ Solutions, Todd worked to build a solid technology and financial foundation that was acquired to form Aldor Solutions in late 2003. Previously, Todd served as Vice President of North American Operations for EDGE Technologies, a large wholesale computer component and white box system distributor. While at EDGE, Todd built the North American Operations and grew sales from $2 million to over $110 million within 2 years, while also establishing 8 U.S satellite locations. Earlier in his career, he worked for EDGE Internet Services Australia (EISA), an ISP that was publicly traded on the Australian Exchange. EISA aggressively grew in the US market by acquiring other ISP’s across North America.
Terrance Bush
Chief Information Officer, Layered Tech
Terrance began his career at FastServers.net in 2000, and held a number of key management positions prior to taking on the CIO role in 2003. Currently he is responsible for R&D and technology strategy for the development organization, along with overseeing our IT engineering, network and security architecture departments. His previous jobs include senior positions at Fortune 500 companies including AT&T and StockPoint (now a division of CBS MarketWatch).
Dennis Dayman
Chief Privacy Officer, Eloqua
From 1998 to 2000 Dennis was Director of Policy and Legal External Affairs for Southwestern Bell Global, where he supervised the day-to-day operations of those departments. He left SBC Global in 2000 to join Mail Abuse Prevention Systems (MAPS) as a Senior Consultant where he helped develop and maintain internal process for the consulting services group and external process for the client services group. He spent 2002 to 2004 he worked in the Security and Legal Compliance group at Verizon Online. He has also been a consultant for telecommunication and IT companies, handling legal, privacy, policy and PR issues.
Jack Finlayson
Chief Executive Officer, Layered Tech
Jack Finlayson joined Layered Technologies in 2007 as CEO, assisting the company with the high rate of growth they were experiencing. Finlayson is charged with the profitable growth of Layered Technologies for their next phase of expansion. Previously, Mr. Finlayson served for 6 1/2 years as President and COO of SAVVIS Communications, Inc. where he was an integral part of the SAVVIS IPO, the integration of Cable and Wireless America and the overall significant profitable growth of the SAVVIS business. Prior to SAVVIS, Finlayson held the positions of SVP at Global Crossing Inc. and Corporate VP and GM for the Americas and Asia Wireless Infrastructure Group at Motorola. Finlayson also held multiple executive positions in marketing, management and sales at AT&T.
Jimmy Guerrero
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems, Database Group
Jimmy Guerrero currently coordinates MySQL’s Web 2.0 and SaaS marketing programs. He joined MySQL in 2005 as the product manager for MySQL Cluster and other MySQL high availability technologies. Prior to joining MySQL he held various sales and technical positions at Idera Software and Embarcadero Technologies. He currently resides in Houston, Texas.
Tim Johnson
Sr. Manager of Channel Market Development, Global Marketing, Seagate
Tim joined Seagate in 1991 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, but has worked for Seagate in Minnesota since 1994. Before joining the channel market development team in 2007, his work focused on manufacturing engineering and product development engineering responsibilities. His expertise varies from ensuring successful transfers of production processes and equipment from US based design centers to high volume factories in Asia, overseeing Seagate’s product development lifecycle processes, and leading Seagate’s expansion into new markets through the development of innovative new products, including removable drive cartridges and surveillance products.
Tim holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and a Master of Business Administration from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Tim lives in Chaska, Minnesota with his wife and four children.
Matt Mullengweg
Founder& Owner, Wordpress
Matt Mullenweg blogs at ma.tt. He is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely used open source blog tool. In late 2005 he left CNET to found Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet.com. In his spare time he enjoys taking photographs and playing jazz. (read Matt's full bio)
Aaron Phillips
Vice President of Sales and Marketing, FastServers.net
Aaron Phillips, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at FastServers.Net, is not your typical executive. Early riser Aaron Phillips starts his day with a fresh cup of hot coffee, loaded with caffeine, and ready to take on the world. Every morning begins at 5AM sharp. To most, this is too early in the morning to get started, but not for Mr. Phillips. Each day is new and unique to Aaron. His day is typically filled with the challenges of being the Vice President of Sales and Marketing. But guess what Aaron spends most of his day doing. His day is spent leading his very own team of highly trained Account Executives and Marketing Gurus to help FastServers.Net reach the top. Aaron's dedication to building a quality sales team is just the beginning. Wait until you read about some of his other duties as VP of Sales and Marketing.
John Pozadzides
Chief Marketing Officer, 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.
Chris Samson
Senior Hosting Technology Specialist - CSNA, 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, Provisioning (MPS), Exchange Server (2003, 2007), IIS 6 and 7 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.
Andrew Skale
Attorney, Mintz-Levin
Andrew’s practice is focused on patent, trademark, copyright litigation, and entertainment law. He also handles complex litigation, including unfair business practices and class action defense. In addition, Andrew prosecutes patents and trademarks before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Andrew has appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box and featured on KCEO radio as an expert in intellectual property law. He has also spoken at the University of San Diego regarding entertainment law. (read Andrew’s full bio)
Jonah Stein
Owner, It's The ROI
Jonah has 10 years as an internet professional and 20 years as a salesman pursuing ROI.(read Jonah’s full bio)
Jeremy Suo-Anttila
Chief Technical Officer, Layered Tech
Jeremy currently manages the Layered Technologies Advanced Technologies Group (ATS). ATS handles day to day operations of LT core systems, IP Network Architecture, Security, Abuse, C.S.R, Technical Services Group and New Product Development. Jeremy grew the data center at Layered Technologies from 0-9000 servers in 3 data centers. Prior to Layered Technologies, Jeremy was the director of Data Center operations for Aldor Solutions Corporation, an applications and web services company.
Tommy Toles
Business Development Executive, AMD
Tommy Toles currently serves as a Business Development Executive for AMD. In this role, he is responsible to represent all elements of AMD technology to the IT community across the South Central US. Other roles that Tommy has held during his 16 year tenure at AMD include leadership positions in Product Management and Technical Marketing. Prior to joining AMD, Tommy was a design engineer responsible for PC systems at the Tandy Corporation and also at Bell Helicopter where he served in Design Avionics. He holds a BSEE from Texas A&M University where he was active in the Corps of Cadets and a member of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band. Tommy is an avid water-skier and serves in a leadership development role at Gateway Community Church in Austin, TX. He and his wife of 14 years have 3 children.)
Soeren von Varchmin
Parallels
Mr. von Varchmin heads Parallels' Software as a Service (SaaS) initiative. In this role, he is building a rapidly growing ecosystem around Parallels's SaaS platform and products for global delivery of a wide range of 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 International Service Providers business unit. Previously, 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 in just 2 years. The company was later acquired by Parallels in 2003
David Wartell
Vice President & Founder, R1Soft
David Wartell is the founder of R1Soft. Prior to BBS Technologies, Mr. Wartell was the President and CEO of Righteous Software Inc. Mr. Wartell has over 10 years experience in software development and Internet infrastructure where he has held positions ranging from software engineer and network engineer to CEO. Before starting R1Soft he worked as the Sr. Network Engineer for EV1Servers/ThePlanet in Houston Texas were he was responsible for one of the largest computer networks that supported over 20,000 Linux and Windows servers and over 25 Gigabits of Internet connectivity.