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SPEAKERS Below are photos and biographies for many of our expert speakers for the Enterprise DRM Conference. Speaker biographies for the Content Technologies Conference are here. Additional speaker bios will be added as we receive them. Azita Arvani
Azita Arvani has nearly two decades of experience in senior-level assignments across a variety of communications and software markets, including wireless services, mobile commerce, multimedia, handheld computing, digital rights management, networking, and document management systems. Through her consulting company, Arvani Group, Azita works closely with executives of major companies from international mobile carriers to device manufacturers to software vendors and supports them to expand to new markets, develop partnerships, and create and execute business strategies. Some recent clients include: DoCoMo USA Labs, PalmSource, Casio, Xerox Business Research Group, and Swedish Trade Council, among others. Azita holds an MS in Management from Stanford University (Sloan Fellow), an MS in Computer Science from USC(Honors) and a BS in Math/Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude) from UCLA. She is an active member of Southern California Software Council and a former board member of Institute of Management Consultants, Southern California chapter. Speaking in: Mobile Devices and Content Security Robert Brownstone
Robert D. Brownstone is the Practice Technology Manager at Fenwick & West LLP, a 250 attorney Silicon-Valley-based law firm specializing in providing a wide array of services to high technology and life sciences companies. He is a member of four state bars and the Information Systems Auditing and Control Association (ISACA). Mr. Brownstone is a nationwide speaker and writer on law and technology issues arising from eDiscovery, Information-Security and Compliance. He collaborates with clients and colleagues to assess and implement technology solutions for client-matters. Mr. Brownstone is the traffic cop for the Fenwick & West Practice Support Team (FWPS), which received the 2005 ALM Award for Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm for its FIND approach to eDiscovery. He is active in the firm's Electronic Information Management (EIM), Litigation and Privacy & Information-Security Groups. Mr. Brownstone trains clients, attorneys and staff in using software and in specialized areas of the law. Prior to joining Fenwick in 2000, Mr. Brownstone had a varied 13-year career as a litigator, law school administrator, law school teacher and consultant. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School in 1986. Mr. Brownstone received his B.A. from Swarthmore College. Speaking in: William Crocca
William CroccaMr. Crocca has over thirty years experience in technology industry. His roles have included Product eMarketing, System Architecture, Research and Development, Software Engineering, and Imaging Technology. Currently he is a member of the Enterprise Architecture team for Cingular, with emphasis on Transportation and Digital Rights Management. He received the Smithsonian Award for Technology Innovation for creating the first Digital Library system.Mr. Crocca’s diverse experience ranges from tenures at Cingular, Xerox, andEAI to entrepreneurial ventures with startup companies MicroSystemsInternational, where he served as founder and CTO, and WTC Associates, where he served as founder and Director of Marketing. Mr. Crocca continues to provide pro bono guidance to regional not-for-profit organizations, helping them to expand, promote, and manage effectively their service offerings in the community. Speaking in: Mobile Devices and Content Security Jason Elizaitis
Jason Elizaitis, Director of Information Technology, manages Fairfield Greenwich Group's (FGG ) technology team and the firm's global network, and is responsible for IT development. He joined FGG in 2003 after seven years of supporting information systems and providing product development for various healthcare providers and technology consultants in New York. He has studied at Carnegie Mellon University and Hofstra University and is based in the New York office. Speaking in: eDRM in Financial Services Arny Epstein
Arny was most recently a co-founder and CTO of SilverStream Software. At SilverStream, he evaluated SilverStream's technical opportunities and investments and managed the technical end of strategic partnerships. Arny also provided leadership and consistency of architecture across the SilverStream product line. Prior to SilverStream, Arny was the CTO at Watermark Software, where he was responsible for Watermark's close relationship with Microsoft as well as the architecture of Watermark's highly successful product line. Prior to Watermark, Arny was Chief Architect at Lotus Development Corporation, and was responsible for a number of products including LotusScript, Lotus 1-2-3/G (for OS/2) and Lotus Manuscript. Arny has been writing commercial software since 1965. He holds a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from MIT and, while at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, contributed to the creation of data analysis techniques in the field of experimental X-ray astronomy. Speaking in: Information Security and Inter-Enterprise Collaboration George Everhart
With large corporate as well as start-up successes to his credit, George Everhart is uniquely qualified to fill SealedMedia’s top post as CEO. SealedMedia has quietly vaulted to the number one spot, as market and technology leader, in the enterprise digital rights management space. Previously, as President and CEO of OneSecure Inc., Everhart directed the company’s growth in the US, UK and Japan, facilitating its acquisition by NetScreen Technologies. Everhart served nine years at Apple Computer , leading the charge in senior executive positions such as Vice President of Sales and Vice President of Business and Government Sales. From there, he was recruited as President and CEO of Fujitsu PC Corporation, where he grew the company to a $400 million operation in just three years. And, as Senior Vice President of World Wide Sales and Service at 3Com, Everhart implemented new systems for tracking and analyzing worldwide sales, and successfully restructured the company’s OEM business from regional to worldwide. Trent Henry
Emphases Information protection, compliance and control standards, content security, and cryptography. Background Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with over 15 years of experience in information technology. Past work includes PKI industry security management and technology research, Internet server and protocol product development, and operations leadership of large-scale network and distributed systems deployments. Professional experience includes Identrus, Digital Signature Trust, Ameritech, and Apple Computer. Primary Distinctions Respected speaker and writer on information security, audit, and compliance topics. Has participated in security standards bodies including X9 and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Contributed to the first Common Criteria Protection Profile slated to become an ANSI standard. Received undergraduate degree from Stanford University
Martin Lambert
Martin Lambert has successfully created and delivered cutting-edge technologies throughout his career. He began developing the SealedMedia technology in 1996 after he recognized that a rigorous but flexible protection mechanism was required to realize the potential of distributing commercially sensitive or valuable content on the Internet. Prior to founding SealedMedia, Martin was the senior software engineer of Imperial Software Technologies Ltd in the UK, where he created complex Java-development applications. He joined IST after leading development projects at Hughes Network Systems Inc in the US and Smith Associates Ltd in the UK. A graduate with a double First from St John's College at Oxford University, Martin was awarded his doctoral degree from the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University. Speaking in: John Landwehr
As Director of Adobe’s Security Solutions and Strategy group, John Landwehr is responsible for overseeing the company’s enterprise information assurance solutions for securing the entire information lifecycle. He has held positions at NeXT, Apple Computer, and Gemplus, and his experience includes application servers, smart cards, virtual private networks, digital signatures, as well as rolling out a large credit card project. A popular speaker at industry and government conferences, Mr. Landwehr is a recognized expert in information security. He has presented testimony to the United States Congress on electronic commerce and security issues, is a Board of Directors member of the San Francisco Bay Area Infragard Chapter, a board member of the Enterprise Authentication Partnership, a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and a graduate of Northwestern University. Speaking in: Gord Larose
Gord Larose is an established expert on Digital Rights Management technology. After founding a DRM company that was ahead of its time, and consulting in the field, he joined Cloakware in 2004, applying his expertise on a “who’s who” list of major software and device developers implementing DRM. His background includes hardware and software design, embedded systems, intellectual property, technical management, and software robustness. Gord is a Professional Engineer and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) who has several patents issued or pending related to DRM. He maintains the Web’s "DRM Dictionary" and is a sought-after author and speaker. Speaking in: Information Security and Inter-Enterprise Collaboration Richard Lee, Managing Director of Samsung SDS, is in charge of the whole email systems and enterprise portals for over 40 Samsung companies. He is known to be one of the most experienced IT strategists with more than 20 year professional careers in Samsung. Prior to Samsung SDS, he worked for Samsung Electronics and Samsung Life Insurance. He initiated a lot of technology-driven challenging projects in Samsung such as Client/Server Computing, Groupware and Intranet. One of the latest is the DRM project for their email systems of more than 100,000 users and it became one of the largest and most successful Enterprise DRM reference sites ever since 2003. He is entitled to a Professional Engineer in IT and Information Systems Auditor by Korean government. He is a co-author of a book "Client/Server Computing and Intranet" published in 1999. He holds B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Dongguk University and Yonsei University respectively. Integration of Enterprise DRM with email; There should be a way to send any document securely via email. Samsung companies have deployed DRM for their email systems since 2003. The experiences, running DRM systems for more than 100,000 users, will be shared. Following issues are going to be addressed: user authentication, packaging point, security policy for each email message, performance and scalability. DRM was a quite new approach to information security when it was first deployed. Some statistics about usage pattern after DRM deployed will be discussed and some episodes maintaining such a new system for the last three years are going to be presented. Speaking in:
Angel Mehta is Chief Executive Officer of Sterling-Hoffman, a management consulting firm with over 200 employees that represents venture capital firms in matters of corporate development & executive search. Past Clients include leading venture firms such as Bain Capital, Draper-Fisher-Jurvetson, Battery Ventures, and many others. Angel is also editor-in-chief of the Sterling Report, a monthly journal for investors, entrepreneurs, and CEOs in the software industry. Prior to Sterling-Hoffman, Angel worked in Business Development with Siebel Systems. In 2001, he founded 'The Enlightenment Project', an essay competition designed to help teach poor children in rural areas of third world countries how to think and develop as leaders. He has a Bachelor of Arts from York University in Toronto and is a frequent guest lecturer at business schools and conferences across North America. Speaking in: Joe Morray
Joe Morray is president of Trinity Technologies Corp., a process industries and energy consulting firm that helps companies succeed in the use of information systems. The company specializes in driving aligned work processes, technology, and organizational change requirements for the corporate environment. Speaking In:
David Nagel was most recently president and chief executive officer of PalmSource, Inc., a leading provider of operating system software platforms for smart mobile devices. Prior to PalmSource, Nagel was the chief technology officer at AT&T and president of AT&T Labs. Before joining AT&T, Nagel was senior vice president at Apple Computer, where he headed the advanced technology group and then led the worldwide research and development group, responsible for all Macintosh hardware and software products. Prior to Apple, Nagel had a long career at NASA’s Ames Research Center where he was head of human factors research. He is the Co-Author and Editor (with Earl Wiener) of Aviation Human Factors, published by Academic Press. Nagel has served on a number of national and international advisory committees, among them NATO’s Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development and more recently the first President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), on which he served five years for President William Clinton. Nagel is a member of the board of directors of Leapfrog, Inc. (LF), Tessera, Inc. (TSRA), ArcSoft, and Epocrates, Inc., and serves on the board of Trustees of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at University of California, Berkeley, and the SETI Institute. He also was named a member of the UCLA Sciences Board of Visitors, an advisory group for the physical and life sciences at UCLA and the Board of Visitors for the School of Computer Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering and a Ph.D. in perception and mathematical psychology, all from UCLA. Speaking in: Mobile Devices and Content Security Masa Narita
Mr. Masa Narita is Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning Division and Chief Representative at the New York Representative Office of Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. ( www.nikko.co.jp ). He is responsible for strategic business development in US operation since March 2005. Before taking current assignment, Masa was Chief Representative at the San Francisco Representative Office of Nikko Systems Solutions, Ltd., IT arm of Nikko Cordial Group. Masa has more than 15 years of experience in researching financial IT technologies. Prior to joining Nikko, Masa served as system engineer of satellite communications antenna control systems at NEC Corporation. He designed several custom LSIs, electronic/electric circuit boards with Z80 CPUs for de-icing control systems of large 32m parabolic antennas. Masa has a Bachelor of Electric/Electronic Engineering degree at Nagoya University in Japan. Speaking in:
Mr. Noll has more than 15 years experience in corporate technology leadership. He has managed and consulted with a wide variety of Fortune 1000 companies in the areas of technology lifecycle management, processes and corporate change initiatives. Mr. Noll has worked primarily in the Publishing, Manufacturing, and Finance industries through out the years. At Innodata Isogen, Mr. Noll is responsible for providing on demand services that leverage software as a service (SaaS) and our unique mix of skilled labor to provide total solutions to our publishing clients. Through these on demand service offerings, our customers are able to reduce capital spend, use highly automated publishing systems, and augment their staff for key pieces of their content supply chain from a single provider. Prior to joining Innodata Isogen, Mr. Noll was Vice President of Product Development for a public media company specializing in content aggregation and distribution via web and audio systems. Speaking in: Jim Recker
Over the last 20 years Jim has been primarily involved with live interactive distance learning, corporate video production, multimedia engineering and facility design. Focusing on launching live “virtual classroom” programs for multinational corporations, Jim has consulted and managed programs with Fortune 500 corporations, government institutions, educational organizations, satellite distributors and Internet service providers around the world. Jim has designed, implemented, and launched some of the world’s largest live training programs for organizations and institutions such as Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, BMW, 3M, JC Penney, SBC, Sprint, Prudential Insurance, HRDC Canada, Internal Revenue Service, US Social Security Administration, Siemens AG, France Telcom, NewSkies Australia, Wilson Learning Japan and Telkom South Africa. Having recently joined Oracle, Jim is now working on new virtual training initiatives which will include virtual remote labs, special distance learning programs for Oracle end-users, and customer-tailored eLearning programs. Speaking in: Bill Rosenblatt
Bill Rosenblatt is a recognized authority on digital media technologies, including content management, digital rights management, cross-media publishing, and content production systems, as well as on issues related to intellectual property in the online world. He has written several articles and contributed to technology standards initiatives in these areas, and he is the author of Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology (John Wiley & Sons) and managing editor of the Jupitermedia newsletter DRM Watch. He was one of the architects of the Digital Object Identifier, an emerging standard for online content identification and digital rights management. Before founding GiantSteps, Bill was Chief Technology Officer of Fathom, a knowledge destination web site for lifelong learners sponsored by Columbia University, the London School of Economics, Cambridge University Press, the New York Public Library, and other scholarly institutions. Bill defined Fathom’s content and e-commerce technology architecture and built its technology infrastructure. Bill’s publishing industry experience includes stints at McGraw-Hill and Times Mirror Co. (now part of Tribune Co.). Before joining Fathom, he served as VP of Technology and New Media for McGraw-Hill's trade magazine division, where he was responsible for implementing the business’ vertical market web portal strategy, including AviationNow.com, an information portal for the aviation industry. At Times Mirror, as Director of Publishing Systems, Bill implemented content management systems for many of Times Mirror's newspaper, book, and professional information publishing businesses, and helped develop the editorial system architecture for MDConsult, a web service for physicians. At Sun Microsystems, Bill served as a technology strategy consultant to Sun’s major media and publishing customers and did business development for Sun's video server product line. Then, as Market Development Manager for Media, Entertainment, and Publishing, he defined Sun’s market strategy for the industry and built alliances with software vendors who serve it. His career in digital media began at Moody's Investors Service, the bond rating agency, where he developed a pre-web-era architecture for electronic publishing of Moody’s credit reports. In addition to Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology, he is an author of three technical books for the publisher O'Reilly & Associates, which have been translated into French and Japanese; and he was a contributor to the book Electronic Publishing Strategies, published by Pira International Ltd. in the UK. He has been quoted in The New York Times, US News & World Report, Der Spiegel, The Globe and Mail, Australian Financial Review, Electronic Times (South Korea), Billboard, Editor & Publisher, Information Today, and on NPR's All Things Considered. He holds a B.S.E. with honors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, and he has had executive education at Harvard and University of Southern California business schools. Bill is a member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Media Council. Speaking in: New Technologies That Will Influence Your Content Management Stratagies Brett Sheppard
Brett founded Absolutely Inc. (www.ablyinc.com) in January 2004 to help empower emerging companies to cross the chasm from early adopters to a larger customer and revenue base. Previously, Brett served as Senior Analyst at Gartner, where he covered security and IT technologies in 15 countries, and Director of Strategic Marketing at IT systems supplier Nortel Networks. Brett has completed IT and security consulting, integration and sales engagements in 30+ countries. Brett has a BA with Honors and Phi Beta Kappa from University of Virginia and a MA from University of Pittsburgh. He has been based overseas in Belgium, Japan and Singapore. When he’s not working at Absolutely Inc.’s HQ office at the San Francisco Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center business incubator, you’ll often find Brett at client sites and industry events. Across the globe, Brett has chaired conferences and panel sessions for many of the world's leading conference organizers including Gartner, Networld+Interop, IIR, DRM Watch, M2M, Builconn, Upperside (Paris), IBC, and CommunicAsia. Brett’s insights have been quoted widely in the press, including by BusinessWeek magazine, USAToday newspaper, Wired magazine, RedHerring magazine, InfoWorld, Computer World, CIO Magazine, RadioWallStreet, Asia Week, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters and other leading publications. His TV appearances include MSNBC, NHK (Japan), and Fuji Television (Japan). Speaking in: Enterprise DRM and Content Management: Technology Integration and Case Studies Ray Zambroski
Ray Zambroski, CEO of Essential Security Software, brings more than 12 years senior management experience in the creation, development, and marketing of emergent PC and web-based technologies. Prior to ESS, Zambroski was vice president of sales and marketing for Spinoza Technology. Zambroski led product development and partnership strategy for the first PC-based audio-visual management and control product. Prior to this, Zambroski was director of sales and marketing for GLIDES, an early developer of global Web content management tools. Before joining GLIDES, Zambroski spent seven years with Microsoft Corporation where he was instrumental in developing the company’s worldwide value-added reseller channel, and built ISV partnerships contributing to Microsoft Windows, SQL Server and Small Business Server revenues worldwide. Speaking in: |
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