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Vanessa Barnett, Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Vanessa undertakes commercial work in the online, technology and digital media sectors. Her clients range from established household names like Tesco.com to exceptional growth businesses like Canonical, commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu operating system. Vanessa has advised on several cloud projects.
“The ‘fantastic’ Vanessa Barnett” (Legal 500) “is admired for her ‘broad industry knowledge, commercial approach and exceptional work ethic’ ” and “has impressed clients with her ‘clear-cut communication style’ ” (Chambers & Partners).
Vanessa co-founded and currently manages the Internet section of Practical Commercial Precedents and is the only technology and media member of The Times’ Law Panel. She is a frequent media commentator on Internet issues.
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Mark Beaumont, Group Manager – Product Management, International IT Solutions, Verizon Business
Mark Beaumont is group manager of product management/development and marketing for the international IT Solutions portfolio at Verizon Business. He leads an international team providing data centre services, managed hosting, application Management and IT solutions to customers operating in sectors including education, government, finance, retail, and manufacturing. The solutions enable large enterprise customers to enter new markets and compete in a global world, supported by a hosted, IP-enabled network. Beaumont’s role includes instigating new hosting and managed hosting solutions and services, reviewing existing solutions, cloud services and expanding the data center capabilities outside the U.S.
Beaumont brings several years experience in managing cross-functional teams to this role. Prior to this, between November 2006 and January 2008, he worked as product manager for the company’s International Data Centers and IT Services group. In this role, he was responsible for the complete service delivery of customer solutions, ranging from contract generation, implementation, and 24x7 support to service level agreement reviews, benchmarking, competitor analysis, and business case proposals. He also managed third-party providers.
Prior to this, between July 2002 and November 2006, Beaumont worked as general manager of managed hosting in the U.K. In this role, he had profit and loss responsibility for the European business unit, and led a team of more than 50 personnel from functions including sales, procurement, billing, accounting and finance as well as logistics, facilities, security, information systems and technology, and human resources. This role included assessing business case proposals needing capital investment approval to ensure the designs could be scaled in line with customer needs.
Prior to this, between May 2000 and July 2002, Beaumont worked as procurement and logistics manager for Digex, which was later acquired by MCI. In this role, he was responsible for assessing the effects of a changing marketplace environment, for generating the annual budget, and providing supporting performance metrics. He was also responsible for escalating faults and resolving disputes, both technical and commercial.
Before joining the company, Beaumont worked as lead commercial specialist for Bechtel, a large U.S. engineering company. |
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Simon Bradshaw, Cloud Computing Legal Research Project, Queen Mary, University of London
Simon Bradshaw originally qualified in electronics and communications and served as an Engineering Officer in the Royal Air Force.
His RAF experience included management of secure communications networks, technical analysis and IT project management. Having
cross-qualified in Law he went on to undertake an LLM in Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law at Edinburgh,
specialising in the IP implications of new technology. He subsequently trained as a barrister and was called to the Bar by
Middle Temple, and is currently working as project coordinator and full-time researcher for the Cloud Computing Legal Research
Project at QMUL's Centre for Commercial Law Studies. Simon is a visiting lecturer in IP law at the University of Exeter
and is an active volunteer legal adviser for the Open Rights Group.
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Lawrence Brown, Associate, Simmons & Simmons
Lawrence is an associate in the Information, Communications & Technology Group at Simmons & Simmons. He advises clients from
various sectors on the full range of technology, outsourcing, communications, e-commerce and information law issues, both on
a transactional and a standalone basis. He has advised various financial institutions (including major investment banks and hedge funds)
in relation to the procurement of cloud computing services. |
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Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, EU and APAC
Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age.
He joined Amazon.com in march 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, traveling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and help developers build businesses and applications. He is following the “Cloud Computing” paradigm shift since 2006, and believes that it is going to replace the traditional computing model in a few years.
Of Italian origins, Simone loves travelling, meeting people and connecting with them. He is a Linux and Ubuntu passionate, loves blogging on www.brunozzi.com, and has interests in the environment, clean energies, and technology in general.
Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on web applications. He also served as a professor of Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Simone has a Computer Science degree and spent six months at UC Irvine, California, where he studied the American approach to business and science. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defense in Rome, Italy. |
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Robert Bryant, Partner, Deloitte LLP
Robert leads the UK Customer Management practice and is the global leader of our Consulting Tourism, Hospitality
and Leisure sector team. He has over 20 years experience in directing and delivering consulting engagements
across a wide range of organisations including government, telecoms, financial services, pharmaceutical,
retail, consumer goods as well as THL.
Robert is responsible for our relationship with various application vendors and has a particular interest in the
opportunities that cloud based computing presents. His experience has focussed on strategic performance improvement
through the successful implementation of strategy, systems and organisational design. Much of his recent work has
been concentrated on helping clients navigate and design business models to respond to the industry challenges of;
increased customer focus, shifts towards brand alignment, and the challenges associated with lowing costs whilst growing revenue.
Managing growing pains around shared services, refreshing IT infrastructure, and responding to emerging markets are often key
elements of his projects, where cloud computing can play a significant role.
He is a recognised expert in the UK field, contributing to national projects and thought leadership on CRM, loyalty,
branding, transformation and programme management. |
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Michel Burger, Head of Now+ Services Architecture Strategy, Vodafone Group Services Ltd
Michel Burger joined Vodafone Group in end of 2008 as the Head of Architecture for Vodafone Internet Services with the responsibility to
manage the current end to end architecture for providing Vodafone with the capability to simultaneously deliver services on many
different operating companies and to define the evolution of this architecture to move Vodafone towards the next
generation Service Providers.
In 2007, Burger was also responsible for defining the long-term vision and architecture for software as a service and service
delivery solutions within the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Group. More specifically, Burger focused on developing
the technology that delivers the core enterprise-class capabilities of Microsoft software as hosted business services.
Burger joined Microsoft in 2004 as the chief technology officer for the Communications Sector and in this role he defined the
technical strategy and most notably, was the driving force in the creation of Microsoft Connected Services Framework, a
service delivery platform that has been deployed by over 35 communications organizations, including the top
telecommunications operators, media companies and content providers.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Burger was chief technology officer at Embrace Networks and director of innovation at Sapient.
He also spent 12 years in a variety of technical positions at Nortel Networks, including Web technology pioneer.
In addition, Burger has been granted multiple published patents on various technologies. |
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Joan Byrne, EMEA SaaS Services Product Manager, Dell
Joan Byrne is Dell’s EMEA SaaS Services Product Manager and has been with the company for 10 years. She recently led the
launch of Dell’s consolidated SaaS Modular services in EMEA and specialises in the areas of customer account management,
operations management and sales support coordination. Prior to Dell, Joan worked for other vendors including IBM and
Compaq, at offices around the world. Her experience also includes working on the channel side, having spent some years
with a large US distributor. |
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Andrew Charlesworth, Reader in IT Law, University of Bristol
Andrew Charlesworth is Reader in IT Law in the School of Law and Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol,
where he is the Director of the cross-disciplinary Centre for IT & Law. His key areas of research include data privacy,
intellectual property, and e-commerce. He teaches three courses on the University of Bristol LLM: IT Law, Law of
E-commerce and Privacy Law.
Recent projects include working as part of the team which produced the methodology for the conduct of effective Privacy
Impact Assessments in the UK, and the associated Handbook on PIAs, for the Information Commissioner’s Office; providing
training on addressing cybercrime for police, lawyers and judges in Bulgaria and Romania via the EU Criminal Justice
Programme; and ongoing collaborative work with researchers at HP Labs on privacy in cloud computing. See Pearson, S.
& Charlesworth, AJ. 'Accountability as a Way Forward for Privacy Protection in the Cloud', in M.G. Jaatun, G. Zhao, and
C. Rong (Eds.), First International Conference, CloudCom 2009, Beijing, China, December 1-4, 2009. Proceedings. LNCS,
5931/2009, (pp. 131-144), Springer, 2009. |
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Steve Chisholm, CEO, Alchemy Plus
Steve is a founding Director and Shareholder of Alchemy Plus, a leading and well established Highland based IT services provider. A Microsoft Gold Partner and pioneer of utility and cloud computing solutions, Alchemy Plus is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s most progressive IT businesses.
Within the IT sphere he has been an evangelist of the benefits of utility computing since early 2005, when the concept was widely regarded with skepticism from many industry quarters. Today, that early belief is being vindicated as utility and cloud computing are fast becoming the most disruptive development in IT service provision in recent history and a key feature in a new Digital Britain.
In December 2008 Alchemy Plus announced plans to build Scotland’s most advanced shared services computing centre in the Highland capital. The centre will offer secure data centre services to both private and public sector clients enabling businesses of all sizes to benefit from sourcing all their IT services on a “pay as you go” basis. The move heralds a potential new industry for the Highlands, which is acknowledged as an ideal location for large computing facilities because of its climate, access to renewable energy sources and relative security.
Steve currently sits on sit on the current Microsoft Executive Partner Forum for Scotland, one of a small group of Scottish IT partners to do so. The remit of the group is to help shape the format of Microsoft’s engagement with its Scottish partner community.
He is a career Executive with over 20 year’s international experience, predominantly in oil and gas and latterly IT. He has held various Board level positions in both private and publicly quoted companies. Organisations he has managed have won awards for fast growth, exports and technical innovation.
In addition to his Directorship of Alchemy Plus he holds various Board positions in both business research and management consultancy companies as well as a number of not for profit / charitable organisations. |
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Neil Cohen, Director of Product Marketing, Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai’s Dynamic Site and Application Performance Solutions. In his role, he sets
the go-to-market strategy towards strategic enterprise IT initiatives such as cloud computing, Web 2.0, virtual desktops and Internet
security. Neil has over 15-years of high-tech engineering, product management and marketing experience. He holds an M.B.A. from
Boston University and Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. Neil has authored a number
of publications on these topics and is an invited speaker in a variety of industry and technology forums. |
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Reuven Cohen, Founder and CTO, Enomaly
Reuven Cohen is Founder & Chief Technologist for Toronto based Enomaly Inc. - leading developer of Cloud Computing products and solutions focused on enterprise businesses. Enomaly's products include the Enomaly elastic computing platform, an open source cloud platform that enables a scalable enterprise IT and local cloud infrastructure platform.
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James Cotter, Partner, Information, Communications & Technology, Simmons & Simmons
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Michael Crandell, CEO, Rightscale
Michael Crandell is the CEO and a founder of RightScale, where he provides the vision and direction for the company
as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. Crandell is a frequent speaker
at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and
transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS)
companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com.
Crandell received his B.A. from Stanford University and completed graduate studies at Harvard University. |
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Phil Dally, Senior Enterprise Architect : OSS & IS Infrastructure, Orange UK
After graduating in 1993, Phil worked as a software engineer at various companies before joining Orange UK in 1995 to develop
Geographical Information Systems (GIS). In 2001 Phil left to take an extended honeymoon to travel the world for 15 months
before returning to Orange UK in 2002 as a Design Authority for Operational Support Systems (OSS). Now an Enterprise Architect,
Phil works closely with colleagues both in the parent company France Telecom and Orange UK to define the strategy and evolution
plans for IS Infrastructure. Phil has been key to the definition of the IS Infrastructure design patterns that are used
throughout Orange UK. |
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Glenn Dasmalchi, Senior Director, Technical Chief of Staff, CTO’s Office, Cisco
Glenn Dasmalchi is the Technical Chief of Staff in the CTO's office at Cisco Systems. In this role, Glenn helps
identify and collaborate on strategy around significant technology disruptions such as cloud computing. In cloud,
Glenn leads several internal and external projects focused on technical enablement of the cloud model. Glenn also
established and leads Cisco’s cloud concept lab. He joined Cisco in 1998, as a manager and later a director of
engineering on Cisco's high-end switching platforms.
Glenn has held a variety of engineering and management positions at companies including Cisco, Apple, and HP.
His previous experience also includes Silicon Valley startups, as well as technology consulting.
Glenn holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. |
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Ashley R. Davis, Managing Director, Datacenter Strategy, JPMorgan Chase
Ashley Davis is a Managing Director with JPMorgan Chase. Ashley is responsible for the firms Datacenter strategy and their
global technology sustainability program. Ashley has an MSc in Intelligent Building Design, awarded in 2005 from Reading University.
Ashley is also a Chartered Engineer and a fellow of the IET. Prior to joining JPMC, Ashley was Managing Director with CS Technology,
a specialist consultancy in the design and operation of Mission Critical Facilities. Ashley has held senior management positions
with Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. |
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Tanya L. Forsheit
Tanya L. Forsheit is one of the Founding Partners of InfoLawGroup LLP, based in Los Angeles, California. Tanya founded
InfoLawGroup after 12 years as a litigator and privacy/data security counselor at Proskauer Rose LLP, where, most recently,
she was Co-Chair of the firm’s international Privacy and Data Security practice group. Tanya’s practice areas include
privacy and data security counseling, compliance, and policies; security breach notice, incident response, and litigation;
marketing counseling and compliance; commercial litigation, including intellectual property (copyright and trademark);
and e-commerce and outsourcing, including cloud computing. In 2009, Tanya was named one of the Los Angeles Daily Journal’s
Top 100 women litigators in California. |
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Alexander "Sasha" Galitsky, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners
coming soon. |
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Nolan M. Goldberg, IP & Technology Counsel, Proskauer
Nolan M. Goldberg is IP & Technology Counsel in the Patent Law Group of New York-based Proskauer Rose LLP and a founding member of the Litigation Department's e-Discovery Task Force. Nolan's practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling, as well as electronic discovery. He is also a frequent author and speaker on cloud computing-related legal issues, including compliance, e-discovery, and intellectual property. |
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Nick Graham, Partner, Denton Wilde Sapte
Nick Graham is a partner in the Technology, Media and Telecoms group at Denton Wilde Sapte. He specialises in technology
transactions including IT and Business Process Outsourcing, acting for both customers and suppliers in both public and private
sectors including business process re-engineering, off-shoring and major PFI projects. He also specialises in IT law, is an
expert in data protection and freedom of information and is head of the firm's Information & Privacy group.
Nick has advised on innovative and complex data protection solutions including CRM strategy and international data transfers.
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Marion Howard Healy, Senior Associate, BroadGroup
Marion Howard Healy is a senior associate who has analysed market demand, change and business opportunities in the
European communications sector for over 20 years. Marion has conducted single client assignments for leading operators
and vendors in Europe, USA and Australia. She has designed and managed international research programmes and
carried out in-depth interviews with corporate IT and Business executives in over 400 organisations,
as well SMEs across industry sectors.
With BroadGroup, Marion has undertaken a number of projects assessing such issues as demand for UK data centres, the
rationale and implications of power based pricing, the need and impact of green data centres, dark fibre deployment
in the UK, and local demand and connectivity in specific UK data centre locations, as well as data centre projects
related to Asia Pacific. Marion is currently researching developments in the enterprise cloud market
for a Q1 2010 BroadGroup report.
She has also spoken at several BroadGroup events, and is an experienced and well regarded conference presenter.
Prior to the formation of BroadGroup, Marion worked with several of the BroadGroup management team as Director,
Billing & CRM at Tarifica – PBI UK Ltd.
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Tim Jackson
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Robert Johnson, Executive Director, Head of Front Office Technology, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc
PhD in Parallelism in Computational Logic, Queen Mary College, London, followed by post doctoral research.
Dr. Johnson started out in financial software houses covering both global and boutique businesses for four years.
He then joined the exotics desk at TMI in 2000, latterly assigned as Head of TSG at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, where he is responsible for all Front Office trading technology. He introduced the first grid instance in 2003 and has had a continuing involvement with HPC since. |
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Richard Jones, Director of Data Privacy, Clifford Chance LLP
Richard Jones is the Director of Data Privacy at Clifford Chance, based in the firm's Communications, Media & Technology group
in London. He advises clients on data privacy and security, technology procurement, content liability, intellectual property and
other issues in relation to web-based and other services, including outsourced and "cloud" services. |
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Brian Klingbeil, Managing Director EMEA, Savvis
Brian Klingbeil is the Managing Director for EMEA at Savvis, a global leader in providing IT infrastructure services, including managed hosting and cloud computing, to businesses and the government in Europe, North America and Asia. In his role, Brian oversees the company's strategic business direction and is responsible for growing Savvis’ business throughout the region. Before taking this role, Brian was the Vice President of Finance and Strategic Planning for Savvis in the US for 5 years. With over 10 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry, Brian was the Vice President of Finance of GTS Telecommunications in London 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. Brian has particular interest and expertise in enterprise Cloud Computing having spent considerable time advising many of Savvis’ mid-large European customers on their options to migrate to Cloud-based services. |
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Evangelos Kotsovinos, Vice President, Technology, Morgan Stanley
Evangelos is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, where he leads initiatives in the space of hosting, virtualization, and cloud computing. His focus is on improving the business value of global-scale enterprise infrastructures by combining novel technologies with entrepreneurial business models and strategies that improve efficiency, manageability, flexibility, and reliability. Evangelos serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Virtual Trip, a group of dynamic start-up companies, where he is developing strategy towards making the group a leading hi-tech solutions provider in the international market. He also serves on the Board of Directors of NewCred Ltd, the UK’s fastest growing credit union. Previously, Evangelos was a Senior Research Scientist at T-Labs, where he helped develop an R&D project into a VC-funded Internet start-up. Evangelos has pioneered the field of cloud computing, authored several peer-reviewed publications and served as a program committee member and reviewer in numerous top conferences and journals. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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Dr. Mark A. Linder, Business Development Manager, SAP Research, CEC Belfast, SAP (UK) Limited
Mark works as a researcher and business development manager for SAP Research. In his function as a researcher, Mark is currently
the SAP team lead of the European Union FP7 funded project RESERVOIR. For this he deals with aspects of large-scale
enterprise software on on-demand IT resources including the importance of standardization. In his role as a business
development manager, he builds an interface between SAP internal development groups and researchers for future
ICT systems and architectures.
Info on education
Mark holds a PhD from University of Muenster (Germany), in Information and Controlling Systems with a focus on Business
Intelligence, investigating controlling and regulating partnerships in economic environments. Prior to his PhD he
finished his MSc in Information Systems. The cores of Mark’s research are business aspects and business/market
models for emerging technologies such as cloud/grid computing.
Info on RESERVOIR
RESERVOIR (http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/). The aim of this project is to allow massive scale deployment and management of
complex IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies (nowadays under the Cloud
Computing umbrella). The developed infrastructure will include ideas and concepts of virtualization, grid
computing, and business service management techniques.
Info on SAP Research
SAP Research CEC Belfast is actively involved in leading efforts in the field of future ICT systems and architectures
as this is expected to be a centrally important topic in large-scale enterprise software.
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Tom Lounibos, President & CEO, SOASTA
Tom Lounibos, CEO for SOASTA, oversees SOASTA’s operations, sales and marketing arms and is responsible for the company’s go-to-market strategy. Tom brings more than 30 years of experience in building early stage software companies, leading two companies to successful IPO¹s. Most recently, Tom was CEO of Dorado Corporation. Previous to Dorado, he was EVP for Sagent Technology through its 1999 IPO, entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosspoint Venture Partners, and held executive positions at Digitalk Corporation, Knowledgeware (KWI), and Encore Financial Services. Tom has also served on several Boards in the Silicon Valley. |
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Renzo Marchini, Head of IT law and data protection Dechert
Renzo Marchini is head of IT law and data protection at the London office of Dechert LLP. Since 1994 he has specialised in information technology, e-commerce, information security and data protection law, as well dealing with all types of commercial and intellectual property issues, including outsourcing and technology transfers.
Over the last few years he has been involved in advising on and negotiating contracts for a number of systems integration projects “in the cloud”, including recently a deployment of an insurance broker’s proprietary system onto a virtualised platform, the outsourcing onto a similar distributed platform of the trading systems of a high frequency trading hedge fund and deployments for customers of well-known cloud providers such as salesforce.com.
Prior to qualifying as a solicitor he worked for a number of years as a software consultant for Logica, engaged in designing, programming and testing complex software applications. His technical expertise was mainly UNIX and C.
Renzo lectures and writes regularly on IT law, e-commerce and data protection. He contributed the chapter on IT law in Sweet & Maxwell's 2002 Exchange and Alternative Trading Systems (Edited by Dick Frase and Helen Parry). Recent articles he has authored have appeared in European Lawyer, Computers and Law, Compliance Monitor and World Data Protection Report. He is currently authoring a book on Cloud Law due for publication in Spring 2010.
Renzo is listed as a leading practitioner in the 2009 and 2010 editions of independent legal directory Chambers UK and is described as "charming, cheerful and dedicated," "extremely commercially minded - he doesn't waste time negotiating insignificant points" and "able to provide detailed explanations without being verbose."
Education
Renzo studied mathematics at the University of Sussex (BSc 1983, First) and then at the graduate level at Warwick (MSc 1984) and at the University of Texas at Austin. He studied law in 1990/1992, obtaining a First in his Solicitors Finals.
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Bill McCluggage, Deputy Government CIO; Director of ICT Strategy & Policy, Office of the Government CIO and SIRO
Bill joined the Cabinet Office as Deputy Government CIO in September 2009. He is also Director of ICT Strategy & Policy
within the Office of the HM Government CIO and SIRO with overall responsibility for the formulation, development and communication
of cross-Government ICT strategies and policies. On behalf of the Government CIO and CIO Council’s Supply Management Board
he leads on driving forward the Government’s ICT Procurement Strategy, including chairing a number of joint Government/Industry
teams focused on improving ICT procurement and supplier management. He joined the Cabinet Office from the Northern Ireland
Civil Service (NICS), where he represented Northern Ireland on the Government’s CIO Council and was the Senior Information
Risk Owner (SIRO) for the Northern Ireland Civil Service.
Prior to joining the NICS he held a number of senior positions in private sector companies, including IT Director for
Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries in Belfast and prior to that served in the Royal Air Force.
Bill is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. In June 2008 he was appointed a
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Christopher Millard, Professor of Privacy and Information Law
Christopher Millard is a member of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). He has been teaching in the Centre on a visiting basis since 1986 and joined the faculty as a Professor in 2008. He has 25 years experience in the technology and communications law fields and has led many multi-jurisdictional information governance and data protection compliance projects. His first book, Legal Protection of Computer Programs and Data (1985), was one of the first comparative studies in the technology law field. He is a General Editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology (Oxford University Press) and was a founding editor of Data Protection Laws of the World.
He was a member of the OECD’s Steering Group on Contractual Solutions for Transborder Data Flows (2000-01) and since 2002 has been a member of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Task Force on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data. He has served as Chairman of the Society for Computer & Law (1994-96), as President of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations (1994-96) and as Co-Chair of the Technology & E-Commerce Committee of the International Bar Association (2002-04).
He is a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and is a consultant to the law firm Bristows. Before he joined Bristows in 2008, Christopher was a partner at Linklaters for six years and head of that firm’s global privacy practice. Prior to that he was at Clifford Chance for 18 years, including 10 years as a partner. In 2008, the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers designated him Internet & eCommerce Lawyer of the Year.
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Miranda Mowbray, Senior Technical Contributor, Hewlett-Packard Labs
She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. Her PhD is in Algebra, from London University. |
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Brian Naylor, EMEA Lead, Cloud Computing Client Engagements, Software Group, IBM UK Ltd
Brian Naylor is the EMEA Leader, Cloud Computing Client Engagement team in Software Group, IBM. The team is responsible for evangelising Cloud computing benefits and implementing first-of-a-kind Cloud solutions with customers all over the world, using products and solutions from Software Group. Brian is an accomplished Senior Project Manager and has been in IBM UK for over 10 years, previously responsible for leading complex system integration projects to implement SOA solutions across EMEA.
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David Naylor, Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
David specialises in working with technology, media, communications and IP-focused organizations and users. He advises businesses at all stages of development, from early-stage ventures to multinationals, on domestic and multi-jurisdictional matters, as well as trade associations and regulatory authorities. Clients he has recently advised include Apple; BBC Worldwide; Digital Television Multiplex Operators Ltd; eHarmony; Enterprise-Rent-A-Car; Mothercare; the OFT; Tesla Motors; Unilever; and (on cloud computing legal issues) EMC. David speaks and writes widely on technology, new media and privacy issues and is acknowledged as a leading technology, new media/e-commerce, and communications lawyer. He is the co-author of the chapter on Mass Market Online and Technology Contracting in the latest edition of OUP’s Computer Law, on the editorial board of silicon.com, and the founder of the Communications Group, a technology, media and communications networking forum. He has an MBA from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.
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Charles Newhouse, Head of Strategy & Design, Enterprise IT Services, BAE Systems plc
Charles joined BAE Systems Head Office in 2000 as Head of e-Business Strategy following the company's investment in the creation of Exostar, the aerospace and defence industry e-marketplace (co-founded with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Rolls-Royce). At the beginning of 2005 he moved to become IT Director, Head Office & Shared Services. In his 3 year tenure of the post delivering services to 2,000 users, he achieved a 25% reduction in the operational IT budget whilst improving service delivery (40%) and customer satisfaction (15%). Since 2008 Charles has been focussed on developing and implementing the strategy for BAE Systems midrange infrastructure service, services platform and identity management programmes; culminating in his recent appointment into his current role. Enterprise IT Services is a c£100M pa business providing 36,000 users desktop, network, collaboration, midrange infrastructure, e-commerce and consultancy services. Prior to this worked for GEC Marconi Electronic Systems in a number of engineering related roles. Charles has an MEng in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University. |
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William O’Mullane, Gaia Science Operations Development Manager, European Space Agency
William O'Mullane has worked on on space science projects since 1996
when assisted with the production of the Hipparcos CDROMS. During this
period he was also involved with the Planck and Integral science ground
segments as well as contemplating the Gaia data processing problem. From
2000-2005 Wil worked on developing the US National Virtual Observatory
(NVO) and on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in Baltimore, USA. In
August 2005 he rejoined ESA as Gaia Science Operations Development
Manager to lead the ESAC development effort for the Gaia Data Processing
and Analysis Consortium.
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Andy Parker, IS Operations Manager, Future Media & Technology, Channel 4
Andy is responsible for delivering the infrastructure platform which supports Channel 4’s award winning internet presence,
including channel4.com, e4.com and 4oD. He recently created an operational framework to support the channel’s first
forays into cloud computing, helping to drive out cost and remove barriers to adoption while keeping an eye on risk and being
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Paul Parsons, CTO & Chief Architect, The Server Labs
Paul Parsons is Founder & CTO of The Server Labs. He has over 20 years of experience in software development and was senior software engineer in the European Space Agency (ESA). After ESA, he worked in the Deutsche Boerse, Commerzbank and DG Bank, designing and implementing real time distributed systems. Since then he has been an architect in different industries, designing high performance and robust solutions. |
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Alan Priestley, Director EMEA Enterprise Marketing, Intel
Alan has been with Intel for over 23 years and has held various sales, technical and product marketing roles including being responsible for launching the Xeon processor product line in EMEA and managing the Itanium processor program office. In his current EMEA Enterprise Marketing role Alan is responsible for Intel’s high-end server business and developing marketing strategy and messaging around Intel's long term enterprise vision for Cloud Computing and Data Centre efficiency. In this role Alan spends a lot of time working with Intel's field organization across EMEA supporting their end-customer engagements.
Alan graduated from the University of Durham with a Master of Engineering in Microelectronic Design and worked as a hardware design engineer for a major UK computer manufacturer before joining Intel.
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JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist, BT Group
JP Rangaswami is the Chief Scientist for BT, reporting to Al-Noor Ramji the CEO of BT Innovate & Design.
He has extensive international experience in IT and financial services companies and is passionate about innovation, information and how it is used, and education.
He is a fervent blogger (www.confusedofcalcutta.com), tweeter (www.twitter.com/jobsworth) and a regular speaker at industry events, particularly on innovation and opensource. |
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Alexis Richardson, CEO and co-founder, Rabbit Technologies Ltd
Alexis Richardson is CEO and co-founder of Rabbit Technologies Ltd., the commercial support company behind RabbitMQ, a leading
implementation of the AMQP open business messaging standard. Alexis is also co-chair of OCCI, the new initiative from OGF to
develop an Open Cloud Computing Interface. Alexis Richardson is also a co-founder of CohesiveFT. Recently CohesiveFT spun
off its investment in Rabbit Technologies Limited which is now operating as a separate company.
Previously Alexis was CEO and co-founder of MetaLogic, a middleware company specializing in high throughput caching and
transaction management products. As a past consultant for Fortune 1000 corporations, he has worked on various high
performance front-office trading solutions. Before that he worked in proprietary trading of fixed-income derivatives at
Goldman Sachs, after researching and teaching mathematical logic and computer science at Oxford University. |
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Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, PROfounders Capital
Sean is a founding General Partner at PROfounders Capital. PROfounders Capital is a new kind of venture capital fund:
for entrepreneurs, powered by entrepreneurs. All investors in the fund are successful founders who devote their time
and their capital to the fund.
Most recently, Sean was with Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe), where he worked closely with
companies such as Bebo, Wonga.com. MoveMe, TouchLocal and BetNow. Prior to Balderton, Sean worked with Commonwealth
Capital Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston. Also Sean worked as a strategy consultant with
Bain & Company, in both the US and Europe.
Sean received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.
In addition, Sean graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rice University.
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Woody Rollins, CEO, Eucalyptus
Woody is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Eucalyptus Systems Inc., the market leader in open source, on-premise, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure software. A serial entrepreneur and passionate about technology, Woody is responsible for the commercial growth and strategic direction of Eucalyptus.
Woody brings a broad background to his role as CEO of Eucalyptus. He has served in executive, business development, marketing, and advisory roles over the past twenty years. In 2004, Woody co-founded Old Firehouse Capital and successfully innovated a business model to leverage the developing turmoil in real estate capital markets. Prior to that, Woody was involved in industries as diverse as art to auto parts, leveraging technology to change the status quo of mature markets.
Woody is a graduate of The Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and three boys.
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Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource Inc
Since 1996, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and
reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce.
Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He
was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting,
IP networking, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution.
Under his leadership, MFN customers included BP Amoco, JP Morgan Chase, Sony, Microsoft, and Mercedes-Benz. Mr. Ryan
joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN the following year in a
deal valued at $1.4 billion. Prior to co-founding SiteSmith, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Professional Services
for GlobalCenter, a pioneer in the hosting and Internet services marketplace.
Mr. Ryan credits his success in creating IT services that meet customers' ever-changing business challenges to his
background in operations, which includes ten years in operations and management positions at Great America, a
division of Viacom, one of the world's largest consumer entertainment companies.
Mr. Ryan has been a guest speaker at numerous industry events, including CIO, venture capital, Internet, hosting,
and software conferences. He attended UCLA and is an advisor to the UCLA CLAS fund.
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Robin Saphra, Group General Counsel, COLT Telecom Group Limited
Robin Saphra has General Counsel and Commercial and Regulatory Director for the COLT Telecom Group for the past four-and-a-half years.
Saphra's career has spanned Africa, Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and North America. He began
his career in media, working for firms such as the BBC, Thames Television and Channel Four after emigrating to the UK from
South Africa in the early 1980s. In 1992 he qualified as an lawyer, joining a specialist telecoms law firm in the City of
London and becoming a partner in its Communications & Media practice. In 1997, he was invited to join a new senior management
team at One2One, then a start-up UK mobile operator running the word's first GSM 1800 network. He subsequently served as Executive
Director, Strategic Development of T-Mobile International, Deutsche Telekom's newly-formed mobile division. There he worked on a
number of key strategic projects, including T-Mobile's global re-branding, the acquisition of VoiceStream and the formation of 3G
consortia in Europe. Immediately prior to his current role, he was a key member of the team that established the United Arab
Emirates' second operator, “du”.
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Gerard M. Stegmaier, Attorney, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
Gerard M. Stegmaier is an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. where he practices in the firm’s privacy and data protection group. His practice emphasizes technology law in the areas of privacy, security, e-commerce, intellectual property and free speech rights in transactional, regulatory and litigation matters. Examples of representations include: coordinating all aspects of multi-national privacy compliance for numerous large enterprises, counseling clients confronting information security breaches and related governmental investigations and, creating and helping clients build comprehensive information governance controls. In 2006, he served as counsel of record to a leading data broker and obtained dismissal of a privacy consumer class action because risk of identity theft did not equate to damages. He has significant experience counseling emerging and fast growth enterprises in all aspects of their information practices especially in connection with regulated industries, mergers and acquisitions and cross-border data transfers. Before entering private practice he clerked for Judge Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. appeals court having exclusive appellate jurisdiction over patent cases. He earned a law degree from George Mason University School of Law where he graduated magna cum laude and finished third in his class. While at GMU he helped found the National Center for Technology & Law. He received his undergraduate degree with honors from George Mason
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Mark Taylor, Senior Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism Group, Microsoft UK ltd
Mark Taylor joined Microsoft in 1993 working in enterprise services sales. Until 2000 Mark held various executive roles including leading Microsoft Consulting Services and Product Support Services. He also led the preparation for the Year 2000 “Millennium Bug” issue. In November 2000 he moved over to start up the UK business of Avanade, the System Integrator joint-venture between Microsoft and Accenture. Within 3 years the UK business of Avanade became the most profitable and active world-wide. Avanade now employs 6000 consultants world-wide and 4500 software professionals in India. Returning to Microsoft in July 2007, Mark leads the Developer and Platform Group in the UK, which is responsible for the technical audience marketing, developer tools sales and product marketing, new and emerging technologies and devices, relationships with key high-profile brands, independent software vendors, further education students and academics, start-ups, venture capitalists and consumer technology enthusiasts. A former developer and self-confessed gadget junkie, Mark is passionate about the role of technology and software in enabling the future. |
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Dervish Tayyip, Head of UK Legal, Microsoft Limited
Dervish Tayyip is Head of Legal at Microsoft UK.
He has held various positions in Microsoft’s legal department supporting the company’s operations in the UK, Middle
East & Africa and its European HQ.
Dervish qualified as an English solicitor in 1991 and before joining Microsoft, he practised at the City of London firm
of Adlers and subsequently became Partner at the London West End firm of Reid Minty.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in law (with honours) from Queen Mary College, University of London. He also holds
post-graduate qualifications in Law from University College London, De Montfort University, Leicester and the
University of Strathclyde.
Notable professional milestones include advising the Committee of Experts who advised the UK Commission on
Intellectual Property Rights (“CIPR”) in 2001-2. He writes and speaks regularly on a wide range of topics relating
to IT and the role of the in-house legal function. |
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Ian Walden, Professor of Information and Communications Law, Queen Mary, University of London
Ian Walden is Head of the Institute of Computer and Communications Law and Associate Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary, University of London. Ian teaches on four courses on the University of London 's LLM programme: Information Technology Law, Telecommunications Law, Internet Law and General Media Law.
He is Course Director for the LLM in Computer and Communications Law by Distance Learning. Ian has been involved in law reform projects for the World Bank, the European Commission, UNCTAD and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, as well as for a number of individual states.
In 1995-96, Ian was seconded to the European Commission, as a National Expert in electronic commerce law, and he is a member of the Legal Advisory Board to the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission. Ian is admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of England and Wales and is a consultant to the global law firm Baker & McKenzie (www.bakernet.com) and is a Public Interest Board Member of the Internet Watch Foundation (www.iwf.org.uk ).
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Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO, Cloudsoft Corporation
Duncan Johnston-Watt is Founder & CEO of Cloudsoft Corporation (http://www.cloudsoftcorp.com), a venture backed
startup providing cloud computing software and services that empower organizations to quickly develop, deploy and migrate
applications in the cloud. Prior to Cloudsoft, Duncan was Founder & CEO of Enigmatec Corporation, the leader in
enterprise data center automation. Duncan has over twenty years industry experience with a particular focus on distributed
systems. A Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate for his pioneering work introducing Java Enterprise to financial services,
Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University. Duncan is actively looking for individuals & firms interested
in participating in Cloudsoft's Monterey beta program.
For more information visit http://beta.cloudsoftcorp.com/join. |
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Simon Wardley, Software Services Manager, Canonical
As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination in
economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems,
whether it's in behavioural patterns, environmental risks of chemical
pollution, developing novel computer systems or managing companies.
These days Simon works as the Software Services Manager for Canonical,
helping define future cloud computing strategies for Ubuntu. He is a
passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source,
commoditisation, innovation and cybernetics . He is also fond of ducks.
As he says "they're fowl but not through choice".
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John Warnants, VP EMEA – Egenera
The infrastructure required for cloud computing isn’t new – the fundamental building block was introduced in 2002
when the first production customers went live with business-critical and mission-critical applications on Egenera’s
PAN Manager Software. PAN Manager delivers a dynamic infrastructure platform which delivers elastic, highly
available capacity, and is today’s ideal foundation for cloud computing – delivering IaaS (Infrastructure as
a Service) that is reliable and simple to manage.
John Warnants, one of the founders of Egenera in EMEA , has worked directly with hundreds of customers (both
service providers and end users), as well as with our strategic OEM partners, Fujitsu and Dell, on successful,
production deployments of PAN Manager.
Earlier in his career, John had responsibility for the technical architecture and project lead for some of the
largest transaction-processing, decision-support, call-centre and portal projects in EMEA. John subsequently
leveraged this practical foundation into EMEA and global leadership roles at a number of small, medium and large
companies, including leading hardware and software companies such as IBM, HP, Mbrane, Corechange (now Open Text)
and Sequent. |
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