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Goro is Senior Vice President, Research and Development Center, Fujitsu North America, responsible for developing new technologies and partner technology alliances. His leadership in international alliances, strong sense of business and profitability, plus decades of ICT and processor engineering, inspired the creation in the late 1990's of a Silicon Valley team to work closely with Sun Microsystems. Relocated with his family to Cupertino, he went on to develop the Solaris OS for Fujitsu’s PRIMEPOWER, the world’s fastest server of its time. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Tokyo.

Mike is a Principal in PwC's US Consulting business serving as PwC's US Cloud Computing Leader and a leader of PwC's Digital Transformation initiatives. Mike is one of the principal authors of the firm's Digital Transformation framework and Cloud Computing strategy. Mike has over 19 years of business consulting experience delivering strategy and operations consulting as well as large scale transformation and technology services to clients in the Technology Industry. He has extensive experience in helping organizations assess, design and implement strategies focusing on the improvement of business and technology processes.

Mike's thought leadership on emerging business and technology issues helps to shape the firm's point of view. He was a primary contributor to PwC's Technology Forecast titled "Driving growth with Cloud Computing". He is a frequent speaker on the topic of emerging technology and business models. Some recent speaking engagements on Digital Transformation and Cloud Computing include:

• The Evolving Landscape of Cloud Computing
• Monetizing Software as a Service: Enabling New Business Models
• How Cloud Computing and Digital Transformation can be your next competitive advantage
• Cloud Computing: Achieving Maximum Market Impact
• Keynote address at UP2010 Cloud Computing Conference
• PwC's 10 Minutes: Cloud Computing

Mike is seen as a leader in the market when it comes to consulting on strategy and operations related to the convergence of technology and emerging business models. He is the lead consulting partner on some of PwC’s largest Technology Industry clients where he delivers emerging business transformation consulting services. Mike has worked over the past several years with many of the leading technology companies in a number of different capacities and areas including Strategy, IT, Operations and Finance.

Mr. Pearl holds a Bachelors degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Notre Dame.

Gerard is the Global and US Oracle practice and alliance leader for PwC. As such he is responsible for all Oracle solutions and services as well as the Oracle relationship and practice. Gerard is also a Market Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Practice in the North East region. He is responsible for Business Transformation and Technology consulting services such as IT Transformation, business application selection and implementation. Information Security and Privacy, Information management, and Software Development. He services several of the firm's key clients and also leads several Oracle engagements at key clients. Gerard has also assisted clients with sourcing and international business strategy activities with a particular focus on India. Furthermore, Gerard has also been the US Advisory CIO for PwC, with responsibility for oversight for the Advisory IT organization and the development, maintenance and support of the Advisory-specific technology products.

Gerard has over 25 years of experience and is trained in Business Applications and Information Systems, Information Security, Privacy, Information Management and IT auditing. Gerard has performed many national and international projects with regards to these subjects. Gerard has been IT-auditor, consultant and project manager in a wide variety of countries and industries, including Technology, Financial Services, Retail, Consumer Goods, Industrial Manufacturing, Healthcare and Utilities. He has been project manager for large scale transformation and implementation projects. Gerard has also gained extensive knowledge and expertise with managing or supporting large enterprise projects for global organizations, such as for instance ERP implementations, global strategic sourcing projects, as well as year 2000 and Euro conversion projects.

Gerard has an IT Auditing degree from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and holds a B.S. in Business Information Systems. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified Information Security Manager and he is also an IAAP member.

Mr. Lasher is President and Chief Innovation Officer with CSC's Office of Innovation, which includes The Leading Edge Forum; The Research Network; Global Solutions Organization; Corporate Alliances; and Knowledge Management & Enablement. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Lasher has held numerous Managing Director positions within CSC's European Group, including: BAE Systems global account; European Consulting; CSC Belgium and Luxembourg; and Director, industry practices for Benelux.

Malcom Frank is Cognizant’s Executive Vice President of Strategy and Marketing. Malcolm focuses on Cognizant’s brand, driving business through the company’s business units and oversees Cognizant’s corporate strategy, including its Future of Work initiative. He has authored articles in several leading industry publications, is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study on management and leadership and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance in 2005 by Treasury & Risk magazine. Malcolm earned a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

As executive vice president of engineering, David Hitz is responsible for the future strategy and direction of Network Appliance.

Dave Hitz and James Lau founded Network Appliance in 1992 with a desire to simplify storage the way Cisco simplified networking. Hitz and Lau believed that general-purpose computing systems were too complex, so they built dedicated devices called appliances. These appliances were designed to do one thing well—storage. Thus, the word appliance was inserted into the company name.

Prior to this, Hitz worked as a senior engineer at Auspex Corporation, an enterprise storage solutions provider, where he was responsible for file systems and microkernel design. He also held engineering positions at MIPS Computer, focusing on file system and I/O subsystem design for the System V kernel development effort. Before his career in the computer industry, Hitz worked as a cowboy, where he got valuable management experience by herding, branding, and castrating cattle.

Hitz holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton University.

Eric Grancher leads the database back-end services section in the CERN IT department – supporting databases related to mission critical assets such as particle accelerator and experiments events that supports CERN’s infrastructure and research. Since joining CERN in 1996, Eric assumed responsibilities in IT to work on RAC application scalability with Real Application Cluster, storage scalability for databases as well as high-availability architectures. Prior to joining CERN, he graduated as engineer at the French school “Telecom ParisTech” and with an MSc at “Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon”. Eric has been an OakTable member since April 2005 and has specific interest in database applications and performance. Eric is a frequent speaker at industry events and Oracle community forums to share his vision, strategy and experience in managing and driving unique Oracle databases.

Michael Landers manages the IT Operations team for the AT&T Wi-Fi. AT&T is one of the country’s largest Wi-Fi hotspot providers with over 30,000 venues supporting billions of connections yearly. Michael's group is responsible for the operation of all the systems, networks, storage, databases, and applications supporting the AT&T Wi-Fi product and service. This includes multiple data centers and POPs throughout the US with over 1.5 PB of storage, thousands of servers, multiple very large Oracle RAC clusters, and hundreds of gigabytes of Internet bandwidth. Michael joined Wayport in 2005 which was purchased by AT&T in 2008. Prior to joining AT&T, he worked for Applied Science Fiction (acquired by Eastman Kodak in 2003) leading the IT group. Michael has been working in the IT field for 15 years.

Zach Nelson is an accomplished software industry executive and visionary with more than 20 years of leadership experience. His career began with executive positions in marketing, sales, product development and business strategy at some of the most influential and innovative technology companies, including Oracle, Sun Microsystems and McAfee/Network Associates. CEO of NetSuite since 2002, Nelson led the company’s successful IPO in 2007 and its rise from startup to a slate of over 12,000 active companies and subsidiaries. Under Nelson’s leadership, NetSuite has grown substantially year-over-year to become one of the industry’s leading cloud computing companies. He was named one of the 10 Visionary CEOs of 2008. Nelson holds a patent in the field of application integration, and has several others pending approval. He holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University.

Mike Macrie is the current Vice President of Information Technology for Agricultural Services at Land O’ Lakes. At Land O’ Lakes, Mike is responsible for the overall technology leadership of the Winfield Solutions and Purina Mills businesses.

Since joining Land O’ Lakes, Mike has been instrumental in leading Land O’ Lakes $100M Bedrock Applications Upgrade Program as well as aiding the Winfield organization in developing unique and market leading solutions in the areas of Prescription Agriculture and Industry Analytics.

Prior to joining Land O’Lakes, Mike was the Vice President of IT Architecture & Strategy for Ingersoll Rand, a $13B diversified, global manufacturer.

Over the course of a 9 year career at IR, Mike had held positions in strategy development, architecture development, consulting management and project management. At Ingersoll Rand many of his efforts surrounded the leadership of over 35 implementations of Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel CRM, and PTC’s Windchill applications in various business sectors and locations around the globe.

Prior to Ingersoll-Rand, Mike held positions with AlliedSignal Aerospace and G5 Technologies Inc. where he pioneered the theory and development of virtual corporations. Mike also operated his own business, Multi-Media Solutions, a computer services company for which he owned for 5 years.

Mike has a Bachelor’s degree in Applied & Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Duke University.

Jeanne Johnson is a Principal in KPMG’s U.S. Advisory practice. She is the partner sponsor for KPMG’s Data Analytics initiative, encompassing performance management, data, and analytics. Jeanne has over 18 years experience in helping organizations plan and execute transformation and change initiatives.

Prior to the KPMG acquisition of Wise Window, Inc. in April 2012, Sid Mohasseb was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for WiseWindow, Inc. At KPMG, he is a Managing Director for Data Analytics and leads the KPMG MOBI (Mass Opinion Business Intelligence) products and services.

Prior to WiseWindow, Mohasseb was the Managing Director of Venture Farm LLC, a seed funding firm and served as the CEO of Vital Source, Inc., a global distributor of electronic components with offices in the US, Europe and Asia, where he led the company on a 30-fold revenue growth over a three year period. He was also the Chairman / CEO of Competitive Knowledge, Inc. (CKI) – a, data focused, VC backed Internet Company. After his tenure as a partner at the SGS Group (a national management consulting firm), he founded Anabasis-Straub, a strategy and operations management consultancy entity, serving municipalities and Fortune 500 clients.

Todd is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Advisory Services practice with more than 20 years experience in business analysis and process improvement across various industries. His focus is on analyzing business operations and leading implementations of performance management solutions to improve profitability, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Ayan Mukerji is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Wipro's Media and Telecom Strategic Business Unit. In his previous role, Ayan headed Wipro’s Product Engineering Solutions business unit. The unit included semiconductor and system solutions, mobile devices, consumer electronics, automotive electronics, aerospace & defense, industrial automation, medical devices, high performance & cloud computing, peripherals and technical publications.

Over his tenure of more than two decades at Wipro, Ayan has held a wide range of leadership positions across IT, Product Engineering and Systems Integration businesses. In his previous role, as the Chief Sales and Operations Officer for Europe until March 2010, he transformed Europe into one of Wipro's fastest growing regions. Under his leadership Europe grew significantly ahead of competition and established a stronghold in different markets. Ayan has been instrumental in driving growth and expanding Wipro’s customer base in France, Germany and the Nordics in particular. Wipro also grew its European development centre footprint by opening new offices in Rennes (France), Cologne (Germany), Oslo (Norway), Reading, and London (UK), during his two year stint.Ayan's experience of working with CIOs and CTOs of Fortune 100 corporations over the last 10 years gives him a unique and in-depth understanding of their markets and businesses. He also plays a strategic role in advising large corporations that are expanding their India presence. He is currently based in California.

Mark A. Winther is Group Vice President and Consulting Partner of Worldwide Telecommunications at IDC. In this role Mr. Winther leads a focused Global Telecom Consulting group that helps clients meet their planning, business, and market intelligence needs. His global consulting team leverages the knowledge assets of more than 150 communications analysts worldwide to effectively develop solutions and services that global clients require.

Prior to his leadership role in consulting Mr. Winther was responsible for the strategic direction and planning, as well as project management and profitability for the IDC global telecommunications syndicated services practice. This practice consisted of IDC research covering IP convergence, broadband, wireless, enhanced voice and data application services. Overseeing a global product line, Mr. Winther managed operations in US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Mr. Winther is the founding producer of IDC Carriertrak, a continuously updated database of financial and operational statistics for over 550 fixed and mobile operators worldwide. Enabling operator performance cross comparisons by geography, market segment, and product offer, IDC Carriertrak is a one-stop-shop for understanding the $1.4 trillion telecommunications industry.

Mr. Winther is a frequent speaker at industry events worldwide and has presented at the following selected events: Capacity USA, Capacity Asia, NextGen Telecom Wholesale Asia, Mobile Internet Latin America Summit, Vortex, Chase Securities Telecom Tutorial Series, Telecom Business, IDC Telecom Transitions conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia; IDC European Telecom Forum, Italia TeleComNet, ComNet, the Columbia Institute for TeleInformation, and TeleStrategies Seminars. Mr. Winther has contributed articles to the Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, NetworkWorld, and Computerworld.

Mr. Winther joined the International Data Group family in 1984 when he joined LINK Resources Corp. LINK Resources was fully merged into IDC in 1993. Prior to joining IDG, Mr. Winther served as managing editor at QV Publishing Inc., a major publisher of newsletters and market research reports on the cable TV, pay-TV, and consumer online services markets.

Mr. Winther has BA from Swathmore and attended the Masters Program at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bhaskar Gorti is senior vice president and general manager of Oracle's Communications Global Business Unit, responsible for managing strategic planning, product development, sales, service and support for Oracle's Communications products.

Formerly CEO of Portal Software, Inc., Mr. Gorti led the company's global sales, services and support efforts, including the enhancement and expansion of Portal's relationships with global customers for more than four years. Previously, Mr. Gorti was SVP of marketing and alliances at Portal Software, where he successfully relaunched the company and established a number of strategic development and delivery partnerships.

Prior to that, Mr. Gorti served as vice president, global sales and alliances at OnDemand, acquired by Chordiant Software, where he successfully negotiated sales and alliance agreements with industry-leading companies. He has also held prominent positions at Hewlett Packard where he was director, worldwide business development, telecom and ISPs; and general manager, e-services (SMB) business unit. He has also worked for Aluminum Company of America, Sun Microsystems, and ARPANET Office of Naval Research.

Mr. Gorti holds a Master of Science degree from Virginia Tech

Bill Zujewski has over 20 years of product strategy and global marketing experience in enterprise software and business applications. He has a proven track record of defining innovative products for emerging markets and bringing leading-edge and game-changing products to market.

Before joining Axeda, Bill was Vice President of Product Marketing at Art Technology Group (ATG), the leader in e-Commerce software, where he helped the company grow from $90M in annual revenue in 2006 to $210M in 2010. Before ATG, Bill led product management and product marketing at edocs, Inc., and Broadvision, Inc. While at Broadvision Bill also led professional services and oversaw dozens of highly visible and ground breaking projects from 1997-2000, including the launching of online shopping on HomeDepot.com, Walmart.com, and GESupply.com. Bill began his career in engineering and software development at Data General and Informix.

Bill holds B.S. Degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from The Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

Paul Perez is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cisco’s Data Center Group, responsible for leading the overall technology strategy for products and solutions associated with server access virtualization, Cisco Catalyst and Cisco Nexus switching solutions, Cisco MDS storage switches, and Cisco ACE load-balancing software. He is also an executive sponsor for innovation and works broadly with his peers across Cisco to grow technical leaders, cross-pollinate technologies, and keep Cisco differentiated in cloud computing for 21st century workloads.

Perez came to Cisco from Hewlett-Packard, where he was most recently Chief Technology Officer for HP’s ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure. Previously he held the same title for HP’s enterprise storage business, where he led an aggressive acquisition effort. While at HP he spent 27 years in various technical and management leadership positions in enterprise storage, servers, and networking.

Perez holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He also holds seven patents in integrated circuit and computer design, and was a founding member of The Green Grid.

Wim Coekaerts is the Senior Vice President of Linux and Virtualization Engineering for Oracle. He is responsible for Oracle's complete desktop to data center virtualization product line and the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program. Mr. Coekaerts joined Oracle in 1995.

The 34th America’s Cup is the eleventh straight AC campaign for Tom Ehman. A consummate veteran of international yachting, he has been at the forefront of many of the changes and innovations that have transformed top-level sailing into the modern, professional and more media-friendly sport that it is today. Notably, Tom spearheaded on-the-water umpiring that has been used in the America’s Cup since he instituted it for the 1992 Cup in San Diego.

A former collegiate and North American sailing champion, and winner of the 1976 Championship of Champions, at age 25 he became the youngest-ever Executive Director of the USA's national sailing association – indeed, the youngest of any national governing body for an Olympic sport in America.

Since he started with the America’s Cup in 1980, Tom has served in many roles including rules advisor, team executive, event manager, and chairman of the Challenger Commission. He is the only person of long-standing involvement in the Cup who has worked only for American campaigns – New York YC, San Diego YC, St. Francis YC, and now Golden Gate YC.

For the past three campaigns, Tom was Head of External Affairs for ORACLE Racing. He now serves as GGYC Vice Commodore and Managing Director of the GGYC America’s Cup Committee, as Executive Director of America’s Cup Properties, Inc. and as Director of External Affairs for the 34th America’s Cup.

Now working on his seventh America’s Cup campaign, Ian ‘Fresh’ Burns got his feet wet working for the Australian defender Kookaburra during the 1987 Cup in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Burns joined ORACLE TEAM USA when it was formed in the summer of 2001 as BMW ORACLE, and is one of nine original members still with the team. Burns’ sailed with the crew as a navigator during the 2002-03 Challenger Selection Series, which saw BMW ORACLE Racing advance to the final.

Burns eventually moved over to the design team and now has risen to Design Team Coordinator. He holds a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering.