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Blake is a Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers Entertainment, Media & Communications advisory practice based in San Jose, where he leads the practice's Digital Transformation advisory services. He previously led PwC's national initiative in Digital Media Risk Management, and held principal positions in media industry engineering consulting firms, advising clients on: digital content management, content security & piracy prevention, metadata integrity, transition to HD, and IT integration.

Blake is an experienced Hollywood and Silicon Valley executive, who, over a 20-year period, has been responsible for: the first commercially available Digital Asset Management (DAM) developer product, used for the remake of a major motion picture and the development of a digital feature animation release; broadcast newsroom video asset server; Digital Rights Management (DRM) IP licensing; DRM-enabled online e-book service bureau; file-based digital media transport service; and SOA-based integration architectures for broadcast applications. He has led solution development and integration projects in computing platforms for: real-time broadcast graphics; animation and film industry visual effects; and interactive TV.

Blake is the author of: The Technology Assessment Process: A Strategic Framework for Managing Technical Innovation, published by Greenwood Press; the PwC publication—A New Era for Content: Protection, Potential, and Profit in the Digital World—and the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal article by the same name; and he was co-author of Digital Asset Management: Process Over Product, published in Broadcast Engineering magazine. He holds BSIE, MBA, and MLA degrees from North Carolina State, Xavier, and Stanford universities, respectively.

Darin Yug, leader of PwC's Products & Services Industries Sectors has over 20 years of industry experience including 15 years of consulting for products and service organizations. Prior to joining PwC, Darin was a managing partner and leader of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants' Enterprise practice, including Transportation and Travel Services, Consumer and Industrial Products, and Telecom industries. He also held leadership roles for the firm's Operations, Supply Chain and M&A Integration Practice areas, with a concentration on client delivery, and intellectual capital development.

Darin's key focus areas are process, technology and organizational analysis, strategy and design, supply chain management, change management, post-merger integration and customer-centric strategies. He has worked in a broad range of industries. His functional experience includes purchasing, distribution, transportation, field service, salesforce, e-commerce, order management, customer service, marketing and promotions, call center management, manufacturing, operations and IT.

Lemuel Lasher is CSC's Group President of Global Business Solutions and Services (GBS) and its Chief Innovation Officer. GBS is comprised of CSC's regional Consulting and Systems Integration business in the Americas, EMEA, ASIAPAC, and the global practices: Business Consulting and Solutions, Technology Consulting, SAP, Oracle, and Program Management and Solutions Architecture. His Chief Innovation Officer corporate responsibilities include managing the Office of Innovation comprised of the following global units: The Leading Edge Forum, The Research Network, Global Solutions Organization, CSC Collective Intelligence, and Knowledge Management and Enablement.

Steve Hassell took on the role of President of Avocent in January 2010, after Emerson acquired Avocent Corporation and the final component required to provide holistic insight and control across every aspect of the data center's physical infrastructure. Avocent is now a business of Emerson Network Power, a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure.

Together with Emerson Network Power's power systems, energy management and precision cooling, the Avocent business is developing a unique infrastructure management solution that enables data center managers to bridge the critical gap between a data center's IT equipment and facilities infrastructure by gaining visibility and control over the rapidly changing data center environment.

Steve joined Emerson in February 2004 as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He was responsible for all information technology hardware, software, services and telecommunications across Emerson. Steve came to Emerson from Invensys, where he served as Chief Information Officer.

Prior to Invensys, Steve was at Northrop Grumman-Newport News where he rose through several positions in Strategic Planning and Operations, ultimately becoming both Vice President and Chief Information Officer, and President and CEO of Naptheon, a wholly owned information technology subsidiary of Newport News. Additionally, Steve spent seven years as a surface line officer in the United States Navy.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy and a Masters of Management degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

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

Dave Hitz and James Lau founded NetApp in 1992 with a desire to simplify storage the way Cisco simplified networking. Dave and James believed that general-purpose computing systems were too complex, so they built dedicated devices called appliances. These appliances were designed to handle one thing well: storage.

Prior to 1992, Dave 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, Dave worked as a cowboy, getting valuable management experience by herding, branding, and castrating cattle. Dave documented these and other formative business experiences in his autobiography, "How To Castrate A Bull, Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business."

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

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 University of Tokyo.

Kirk Skaugen is corporate vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group for Intel Corporation. In this role Skaugen leads the business P&L's, strategy, and product development for Intel's datacenter, cloud computing, communications infrastructure, and intelligent connected device platforms. His product responsibilities consist of Intel® Xeon® and Itanium® processors, Intel® Atom™ processor-based system-on-chip design, server chipsets, Intel's wired networking for Ethernet and Thunderbolt™, server motherboards, and software solutions. Skaugen also manages cross-Intel Architecture technology path-finding spanning client to server.

During his Intel career, Skaugen was located in Asia as general manager of the Asia Pacific Solutions Group, with responsibility for the development and deployment of optimized software and solutions for Intel's client and server platforms. He has also served as general manager of the Enterprise Platforms and Services Division with responsibility for Intel's server board and system business. Skaugen spent seven years in a number of positions within Intel's sales and marketing organization, including microprocessor product management, distribution business management and enterprise and client global account management.

Skaugen received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University. He joined Intel in 1992 and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and son.

Angela Carter is a partner at KPMG LLP's Performance and Technology Advisory practice where she assists her clients in developing and executing enterprise business and system change strategies that will allow them to achieve their financial and operational process objectives. She is the national leader for Oracle Advisory services for KPMG and is responsible for the strategy and growth of the firms' service portfolio and alliance with Oracle. She has 19 years of experience in working with companies across a variety of industries to implement their strategies by aligning their financial, operational, and performance management processes and systems with an emphasis on competitive advantage, cost reduction, profit improvement, and risk reduction.

Through her current and previous roles, she has taught courses and presented numerous times including at key associations such as ISACA, FEI, OAUG, Oracle OpenWorld, Gartner, and CFO Horizons. She has a BA in Economics/International Finance from the University of Colorado.

Angela is active in a variety of professional and civic activities including KPMG's Network of Women (KNOW) , Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Northern California Junior Achievement — Volunteer, and San Jose Repertoire Theater — Trustee.

She has two young children, loves to do anything outdoors; as well as travelling the globe.

Christian Hambach is a Senior Manager in KPMG's Midwest IT Advisory Services (ITAS) practice with over 15 years of experience helping global organizations gain results through information technology and business process initiatives. Christian specializes in business transformation, management and ERP delivery experience, and has significant experience within a shared service environment (outsourced and internal).

Christian has significant experience leading ERP implementation and advisory engagements. He has significant experience on Oracle E-Business Suite R12 and R11i Applications. He has managed all aspects of full life cycle engagements across multiple geographies including North America, Europe and Asia, including Chart of Account and organization design. He incorporates over 26 years of experience within financial, manufacturing, and hospitality and travel industries.

Mike Costello is a Managing Director with KPMG's IT Advisory Services, is a member of the ERP and Business Intelligence Leadership Team and Market Lead for KPMG's Coastal and Mid-Atlantic region. He has extensive experience teaming with C-level executives, functional and technology leadership supporting business transformation and information technology projects. Mike has cross industry and public sector experience working with clients on IT strategy initiatives, operational effectiveness, ERP and BI solution strategy and implementation, outsourcing, application hosting, and production operations, IT enabled shared service centers, and business process transformation initiatives supported by Oracle Technology and custom developed solutions.

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 BMW ORACLE Racing when it was formed in the summer of 2001, 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.

Career Highlights:

2004-Present
ORACLE RACING Design Team Coordinator

2001-03
BMW ORACLE Racing, navigator

2000
Louis Vuitton Cup, Abracadabra, navigator

1998
Maxi World Champion, Sayonara

1995
Louis Vuitton Cup, OneAustralia (navigator), runner-up

1992
Louis Vuitton Cup, Spirit of Australia

1988
12-Meter World Champion

1987
America's Cup, Kookaburra, runner-up

Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. He founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand information management service that would replace traditional enterprise software technology. Benioff is regarded as the leader of what he has termed "The End of Software," the now-proven belief that multitenant, cloud computing applications democratize information by delivering immediate benefits at reduced risks and costs.

Under Benioff's direction, salesforce.com has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a publicly traded company that is the leader in enterprise cloud computing. For its revolutionary approach, salesforce.com has received a Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, been lauded as one of Businessweek’s Top 100 Most Innovative Companies, named No. 7 on The Wired 40, and selected for the past two years as a Top Ten Disrupter by Forbes.

Benioff has been widely recognized for pioneering innovation. In 2010 he was awarded the David Packard Medal of Achievement and was named by Fortune one of the Top 50 People in Business as well as one of the Smartest People in Tech. He has been honored as the San Francisco Business Times Executive of the Year, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and the Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

He was appointed by President George W. Bush as the co-chairman of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and served from 2003-2005, overseeing the publishing of critical reports on health care information technology, cybersecurity, and computational sciences. Benioff is also the author of three books, most recently the national best seller Behind the Cloud.

Throughout his career, Benioff has been committed to using information technology to produce positive social change. In 2000, he launched the Salesforce.com Foundation—now a multimillion-dollar global organization—which established the "1-1-1 model," whereby the company contributes one percent of profits, one percent of equity, and one percent of employee hours back to the communities it serves. Acknowledging his commitment to building partnerships between business and society to improve the state of the world, the members of the World Economic Forum named Benioff as one of its Young Global Leaders. In 2007 the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy presented Benioff with the coveted Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award and a year later welcomed Benioff to its distinguished board of directors. In 2008, for his thought and action leadership in corporate responsibility, CRO Magazine named Benioff CEO of the Year. In 2010 Benioff and his wife were honored by Barron's as one of the top 25 Most Effective Philanthropists.

Prior to launching salesforce.com, Benioff, a 30-year veteran of the software industry, spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation from 1986-1999. In 1984, he worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer's Macintosh Division. He founded entertainment software company Liberty Software in 1979 when he was 15 years old. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1986.