Sean Kelley is the Global CIO for Deutsche Asset Management and is responsible for worldwide operations and technology. He has spent over 25 years in the technology and financial services field and has experience in a wide range of managerial, financial, operational and technological disciplines including; mergers and acquisitions, securities processing, statistical controls, technical operations management, systems development, quantitative analysis and financial modeling. Based in New York, he has had both small and large organizational management roles as well as leadership responsibilities for numerous overseas locations.

Jon Waldron is the Executive Architect leading the Platforms as a Service initiative for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Awarded the International DBA of the Year in 2007, he is a recognized leader in database consolidation, having pioneered shared database platforms for the Commonwealth Bank before Cloud was fashionable. He has nearly 20 years technology experience in the design and implementation of complex, highly available Enterprise systems.

Mr. Pulier is recognized as among the leading and most successful entrepreneurs in government and enterprise technology. The best-known venture capital groups in the world have financed companies that Mr. Pulier has founded or co-founded. These include rich media presentation (IVT), Enterprise Professional Services (US Interactive), virtual desktops (Desktone), and service oriented infrastructure (SOA Software). Named one of 30 e-Visionaries by VAR Business, Mr. Pulier is a popular public speaker at premier technology conferences around the globe. Pulier is member of Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative, the Center for Telecommunications Management, and is the Executive Director of the TM Forum's Enterprise Cloud Buyers' Council.

Sean Kelley is the Global CIO for Deutsche Asset Management and is responsible for worldwide operations and technology. He has spent over 25 years in the technology and financial services field and has experience in a wide range of managerial, financial, operational and technological disciplines including; mergers and acquisitions, securities processing, statistical controls, technical operations management, systems development, quantitative analysis and financial modeling. Based in New York, he has had both small and large organizational management roles as well as leadership responsibilities for numerous overseas locations.

Nick Holdsworth joined The Commonwealth Bank of Australia in August 2006 as Executive General Manager, Enterprise Operations. In his role, Nick leads our infrastructure and IT Operations teams responsible for Infrastructure Design and Build; IT Operations and Service Portfolio Management. The Team focuses on delivering the finest service outcomes to the CBA business and its customers. Before joining the Bank, Nick was the Director of IT Outsourcing for EDS in Asia Pacific. In this role, Nick was responsible for the delivery of infrastructure services to all EDS clients across the region. Nick was a key member of both the EDS Australia & New Zealand and the Asia Executive leadership teams. Nick has a degree in marketing and finance from Massey University.

K.B. Chandrasekhar founded Jamcracker in 1999, and is also co-founder and Chairman of e4e Services Inc., a global call center and business process outsourcing company. In the mid-1990s, he founded Exodus Communications, which he led to become the leading provider of enterprise hosting services. Chandra has invested in numerous research and development ventures within the US as well as India.

Steve Mannel, media and communications global industry executive at salesforce.com, has been driving business and product development for leading technology companies for over sixteen years. In his current role, he coordinates global strategy and solutions development for the company’s media and communications industry vertical. Previously, Steve held various business development roles in the enterprise software and Internet service providers industries, leading innovative teams at Sun Microsystems, Netscape Communications, America Online and IBM. Steve holds a degree in Philosophy from Rider University.

Brian Klingbeil is the Managing Director EMEA for Savvis, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Before taking this role, Brian was the Vice President of Finance and Strategic Planning for Savvis in the US for 4.5 years. With over 10 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry, Brian was the Vice President of Finance of GTS Telecommunications prior to joining Savvis and has also held key finance and planning positions at Qwest Communications in Denver, Colorado. Brian studied engineering at Miami University and holds a BS degree in Finance from The Ohio State University.

Mr. Pulier is recognized as among the leading and most successful entrepreneurs in government and enterprise technology. The best-known venture capital groups in the world have financed companies that Mr. Pulier has founded or co-founded. These include rich media presentation (IVT), Enterprise Professional Services (US Interactive), virtual desktops (Desktone), and service oriented infrastructure (SOA Software). Named one of 30 e-Visionaries by VAR Business, Mr. Pulier is a popular public speaker at premier technology conferences around the globe. Pulier is member of Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative, the Center for Telecommunications Management, and is the Executive Director of the TM Forum's Enterprise Cloud Buyers' Council.

Bill Ahlstrom is vice president in CA, Inc’s service assurance business unit, based in California’s Silicon Valley. His focus is business development, strategic partnerships, major customers, acquisitions, and Service Providers worldwide. Bill joined CA in spring 2009 after 14 years at Cisco. He has been in the network and systems management space since the early 1980s. Bill was elected to the TM Forum Board in 2007 and currently serves on the Executive Committee.

Bob Natale is the Chief Engineer of MITRE's Joint Network Operations & Cyber Defense department, with extensive experience in information & communications technology (ICT) and software & systems engineering. He has created pioneering COTS products in real-time RDBMS, telecom OSS, and Internet management tools; has been a technical leader on numerous major communications management and service delivery projects; has played leadership roles on multiple industry standards in the IETF network operations and management area (SNMPv2c, AgentX, WinSNMP, XSDMI); serves as the US Co-chair of the TM Forum Government & Defense Community, and as the “Government Lead” for the Standards & Technology WG of the Digital Policy Management (DPM) project; and contributes to W3C, OASIS, NCOIC, and other SDOs. Bob has graduate degrees in Software Engineering, Technology Management, and Public Administration, and is currently working on a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He has certifications in ITIL and IBM SOA Solutions Design.

Dave Wright is Vice President of Technical Services in EMEA. In this role, Dave is responsible for driving the company’s server and desktop virtualisation and cloud infrastructure technology portfolio and promoting technology excellence to customers and partners across the region. Dave’s role encompasses pre-sales, professional services and training and education. Dave has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry, specifically within service management, performance management, data centre automation and software development. Prior to joining VMware in 2005, Dave spent three years at Mercury Interactive as Technical Director for Northern and Southern Europe, where he was responsible for pre- and post-sales delivery across this extensive region. Dave spent eight years at Peregrine Systems, where he held a variety of senior technical and marketing positions. Previously, Dave worked for Boole & Babbage (BMC) and Candle Services (IBM).

Michael has more than 39 years’ experience in telecommunications across a diverse range of areas including construction, planning, engineering, operations, enterprise customer unit and service. His telco expertise draws on an extensive background working mainly within Australia but also with vendors overseas and at two US service providers. He has particular strengths in operations, planning, architecture, design and the engineering capability for Telstra and as Head of Network & Technology, a role he commenced in May 2008, he has been instrumental in the wireline transformation of Telstra. Prior to his current role, Michael was the Executive Director Network Services for five years. His responsibilities covered the operations and maintenance of Telstra’s networks for mobiles, fixed networks, broadband, satellite, transmission network infrastructure and managed services. In November 2007 he won the CEO award for Executive of the year. Michael also holds two external positions including a Director role for the TM Forum and Director 3G Infrastructure Sharing entity that is 50% owned by Telstra. The TM Forum is a global industry body that that works with suppliers and service providers in setting the strategic direction and standards for the industry.

Deb has 25 years communications industry experience and is responsible for Global Strategy and Cloud Computing Solutions for IBM’s Communications Industry division. Previously, Deb held various strategy and leadership roles with Amdocs, Telcordia, Gartner, AT&T and was Vice President & Equity Research Analyst with Goldman Sachs covering the Communications Software sector.

Mr. Vincenzo Asaro is responsible for design and development of IT Management Solution and Corporate Network Management Solution in Telecom Italia’s IT Department. He has an extensive and deep know how and experience on management of network, systems and application and on configuration and automation in IT space.

Director for Enterprise Service Fulfillment, Oracle Communications Jennifer is responsible for Oracle’s communications strategy and market offerings into the B2B market. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa and has over 13 years experience in the communications industry.

Simon Hollins has been part of BT Global Services' Senior Management Team for five years, initially as the CIO of BT Syntegra. Simon has had a number of other senior roles at BT, including leading the first hothouse-led Customer Experience delivery programme in BTGS and running BT Design's 1000 strong consulting unit. Most recently Simon has been the Director of the £750m BTGS Global Systems Transformation programme, which grew in part out of the pioneering self-service work Simon initiated as CIO of the BT RealTime technology incubator. Prior to joining BT, Simon held global CIO roles at PA Consulting, J. Walter Thompson and ICO.

Joe Weinman is responsible for managing HP’s unparalled range of technologies, solutions and integration services for the Communication, Media and Entertainment business. A business that leverages HP’s products, services, intellectual property and partners to enable the creation, aggregation, and distribution of communication and content rich solutions and services in an end-to-end approach. Prior to joining HP, Joe led the global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T Business Solutions. AT&T is the world’s largest communications holding company with US$123 Billion (FY2009) in annual revenue. Joe is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and multiple AT&T Distinguished Speaker Awards.

Gary Bruce is a Principal Researcher within BT Innovation and Design. He leads research and exploitation activities for both service assembly and open source B/OSS software. Gary has worked on network signalling systems and open network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), here at BT and, previously, at Sun Microsystems. His work on open network APIs led to his involvement in various international projects, adopting linchpin roles within the Parlay Group and related initiatives.

Donald has been in Senior business leadership in technology and operations, domestic and international for much of his career. At QWEST he focuses on corolation of corporate, operations and technology strategies into a business transformation roadmap assuring capital investment benefits are realized.

Russell Wurth is Vice President of Business Development at Verecloud. He has over 10 years of experience in the communications industry, including cable, satellite, and wireless, and a broad experience in designing and implementing enterprise architecture and technologies. In his current role working with business strategists, he is assisting his clients in bringing cloud capabilities to reality. Russell participates in TM Forum, ATIS, and OASIS, to drive telecom and IT standards toward interoperability that is needed for cloud computing.

Colin I’Anson, Technical Director at HP is a leading contributor of cloud, infrastructure as a service, and converged infrastructure programmes with HP customers. During his 30 years with HP, Colin has held a variety of roles in HP operating divisions, HP Labs and HP's customer facing organisations. For over 10 years he led HP research in mobile communications including fundamental work for 3G and the foundation of secure messaging systems we use today. A prolific innovator Colin has been awarded over 100 patents worldwide for work in networks, mobile communications and hand held devices. He is a Fellow of the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology).

Richard Arthur has enjoyed the last two decades of the wild ride that has been the communications industry since deregulation. He is currently leading Business Transformation Marketing in HP’s Communication and Media Solutions business unit. This role embraces transformative telecom solutions including telecom cloud services, outsourcing, solution lifecycle services, OSS/BSS and network platforms. Arthur has been a long-standing participant in the TeleManagement Forum, and other bodies, serving as Marketing Committee member, Board Member, and document editor in his many years of participation.

Leonard Donnelly is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology with 20 years International ICT industry experience. He is the new Chairman of Ireland’s National Digital Hub Development Agency which plans to increase employment levels from 1000 digital economy professionals to 10,000 at the Hub over the next 5-7 years. Concurrently he is Executive Chairman of LocationBridge: A new “strategic oversight capability” for Governments, specialisng in the formulation of radically new ICT Strategies, Telecom NGN designs, Technologies and Funding models for countries to leapfrog early into a new Smart Networked Economic era. Previously, he was Executive Chairman of Intune Networks, a highly disruptive optical switching Networking company based in Ireland. The company has developed a unique New Network that will cope with the massive wave of video traffic building in Carrier, Internet and Data Centre network domains.

Mark has over 30 years experience in the communications industry founded on technical, commercial, and managerial roles at hardware and software vendors, service providers, and market research firms. At Intune Mark provides technical and business support to the marketing and business development functions. Prior to joining Intune Networks Mark co-founded OSS Observer which quickly became the leading OSS Market Research firm. Before forming OSS Observer Mark was Director of OSS research at RHK. Whilst at OSS Observer and RHK Mark was a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and authored numerous reports and white papers. Mark’s career also includes tenures at Ceon Corporation where he was Vice President of the European Solutions group; Tellabs Inc. where he was Director of Sales Engineering EMEA; Mercury Communications (Cable & Wireless), the UK’s second licensed fixed telecommunications service provider, where he held managerial, technical, and project management roles. Mark started his career at Marconi Communications Ltd where he spent 9 years primarily involved in digital transmission and cross connect systems. Mark has an HND in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and an HND in Business Administration.

Michael has more than 39 years’ experience in telecommunications across a diverse range of areas including construction, planning, engineering, operations, enterprise customer unit and service. His telco expertise draws on an extensive background working mainly within Australia but also with vendors overseas and at two US service providers. He has particular strengths in operations, planning, architecture, design and the engineering capability for Telstra and as Head of Network & Technology, a role he commenced in May 2008, he has been instrumental in the wireline transformation of Telstra. Prior to his current role, Michael was the Executive Director Network Services for five years. His responsibilities covered the operations and maintenance of Telstra’s networks for mobiles, fixed networks, broadband, satellite, transmission network infrastructure and managed services. In November 2007 he won the CEO award for Executive of the year. Michael also holds two external positions including a Director role for the TM Forum and Director 3G Infrastructure Sharing entity that is 50% owned by Telstra. The TM Forum is a global industry body that that works with suppliers and service providers in setting the strategic direction and standards for the industry.

Monique Morrow is a Distinguished Consulting Engineer and CTO for the Asia-Pacific Service Providers with Cisco Systems. Monique has 20 years experience in IP internetworking. She authored books, articles and RFCs on networking, OAM and security. She is active in IETF, ITU-T and is an Advisory Director of the TMForum.

Elisabeth Rainge manages IDC’s research into telecom software and network operations markets and contributes to IDC’s broad portfolio of network infrastructure market research. Currently, she is leading IDC's research of telecom software, focusing on business value. Specific areas of coverage include OSS/BSS, SDP, policy, NGN voice infrastructures and subscriber data management.

Enrico is a Senior Project Manager at Telecom Italia. He covered the role of Team Leader for both eTOM and SDF Programs, and was awarded as “TM Forum Distinguished Fellow” in 2005. His current interests are on Cloud Computing standardization - he represents Telecom Italia in the DMTF Cloud Management Working Group - , and on software platforms innovation for vertical markets.

David McCallum has been working in the IT industry for over 25 years and has worked for Information Service Providers, Telecommunications Providers and Computer Manufacturers. He focuses on monitoring real time services, network instrumentation design, causality and fault analysis.

Andy Waterhouse has been working with EMCs enterprise customers across EMEA for 5 years, helping them manage their data centres more efficiently with EMC Ionix. Andy also held a variety of management roles with AXA-PPP Healthcare and Lloyd’s of London where he was responsible for designing and managing their Data Center operations.

Stefan McKenzie has over a decade of international Telecom sales experience in Service Delivery Platforms, Mobile Internet, VAS, SaaS, PaaS and Cloud technologies. Cordys provides a unique cloud software platform that enables Telecom Operators to rapidly deliver innovative cloud services across their Enterprise Business, SME and Consumer markets.