Executive Solution Sessions at Oracle OpenWorld

Lem Lasher is chief innovation officer and president for CSC's Office of Innovation, which includes the Leading Edge Forum, the Research Network, Global Solutions Organization, Corporate Alliances, and Knowledge Management and Enablement. Prior to this assignment, Lasher 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.

As Chief Information Officer, Sanjay is responsible for extending EMC's operational excellence, and driving technological innovations to meet the current and future needs of the business. Reporting to David Goulden, EMC's Chief Financial Officer, Sanjay also leads EMC's network of global delivery centers in India, China, Russia and Israel. These centers support EMC's worldwide research and development efforts, provide customer support and shared services.

Sanjay most recently served as Senior Vice President leading the EMC Office of Globalization. In this role he identified global growth opportunities and built the EMC processes and infrastructure required for global expansion. He was also responsible for bringing in new strategic international partners into EMC's Global Alliances program.

Prior to joining EMC, Sanjay was Microsoft's Regional Vice President, Enterprise Services, Asia, where he worked with the region's largest customers and partners. He also held multiple management positions during his tenure with Microsoft, including President, Asia Pacific Region; President, South Asia; and Managing Director, India. Mirchandani earned a master's in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor's degree from Drew University.

Rich is currently the Chief Solutions Architect for EMC's Global Solutions Group. In this capacity he has developed and delivered multiple solutions designed to help customers reduce cost and risk while optimizing the deployment of mission critical applications. Rich has worked with EMC for the past 14 years in various senior management positions while his high tech career has spanned 30+ years.

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

Dave Hitz and James Lau founded NetApp 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 handle one thing well: storage.

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

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

Josh Morton is the Vice President of IT Enterprise Services at Sprint. He has over 23 years of industry experience at nationally recognized organizations, such as, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, the Aerospace Corporation, and XO Communications. Mr. Morton holds a BS degree in Mathematics from Virginia Tech University, and completed his graduate studies in Engineering Management, with a concentration in Information and Software Engineering, at George Washington University. He also has completed executive studies at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University Graduate Schools of Business.

Mr. Morton joined Nextel in 2003, originally to establish the IT Strategic Planning function, and then in 2004, assumed additional responsibility for Enterprise Architecture and IT Performance Measurement. During the Sprint-Nextel merger, he was overall lead for applications rationalization and has a patent pending for his methods associated with application portfolio rationalization. Today, he has responsibility for IT Enterprise Services, which spans data center management, infrastructure operations, technology engineering and design, network operations, help desk, distributed systems and support, unified communications, vendor contract & asset management, as well as enterprise testing & quality assurance. He also serves on Sprint's Corporate Social Responsibility Executive Board and is taking the lead in environmental stewardship and green IT at Sprint, driving ecological practices in our data centers.

Prior to Nextel, Mr. Morton has provided management and technical leadership across all phases of complex, large-scale IT systems architecture, development, test, deployment, operations and maintenance activities. His system experiences include large ($100M+) ERP implementations, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Portals, Content Management, Sales Force Automation, and eBusiness/eCRM applications.

Mr. Morton has received numerous leadership and technical achievement awards throughout his career, including lifetime achievement recognition from Lockheed Martin for his work in the field of Systems Engineering after helping his Systems Integration Business Unit become the first organization in the world to achieve SEI CMMI Level-5 certification. Mr. Morton received Sprint's highest leadership recognition by being awarded the "Leadership Excellence Award" in 2006.

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 multi-tenant, 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 market and technology leader in enterprise cloud computing. For its revolutionary approach, salesforce.com has 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. The product has won the Software & Information Industry Association Codie Award for Best CRM for the past six years, and the Codie Award for Best On-Demand Platform in 2007, as well as multiple "Editor's Choice" designations from PC Magazine. Benioff has been widely recognized for pioneering innovation with honors such as the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, the SDForum Visionary Award, Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business, and being ranked No. 7 on the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT survey by eWEEK, and one of the Top 10 Greatest IT Chief Executives by VNU. 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.

Throughout his career, Benioff has also 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—establishing 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. Benioff authored The Business of Changing the World, in which 20 great leaders reveal how businesses can go beyond writing a check and leverage the full scope of their resources to make a difference. Compassionate Capitalism, also authored by Benioff, is the first-ever best-practices guide for corporate philanthropy that illustrates the success of the integrated model. 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, and in 2007 the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy presented Benioff with the coveted Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award. In 2008, for his thought and action leadership in corporate responsibility, CRO Magazine named Benioff CEO of the Year.

Prior to launching salesforce.com, Benioff, a quarter century 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.

Michael Richard manages a global datacenter services consulting team at Sun Microsystems. His team is responsible for developing, deploying, and operating the Sun Data Center Efficiency offerings, including IT Business Management, Data Center Strategy, Design, Build, and Operational Management Services.

Michael joined Sun Microsystems in 1998 and has had several roles in both Engineering and Professional Services. As the Director of Technical Operations and Engineering for the Sun Grid, Mike was responsible for building and operating an on-demand grid computing service, providing developers, researchers, scientists and businesses access to compute power over the internet at $1 per CPU per hour. Prior to his Engineering role, Mike spent 6 years in Sun's Professional Services organization as a Software Practice Manager. His group focused on helping customers modernize software applications, resulting in performance optimization and improved security.

Prior to joining Sun, Mike spent 14 years in various roles at IBM Corp, in Sales Management (Channel Sales), Facilities Engineering, Project Management, Finance, Project Executive & Program Management (IGS Sales), Infrastructure Manager (ISSC), and Research and Engineering Management (IBM Micro Electronics).

Responsible for a Professional Services Sales and Consulting Practice that sells best of breed consulting services addressing the key economic and sustainability issues facing corporations and government agencies today. These innovative IT consulting services focus on the architecture, implementation and management services needed to build and retrofit highly efficient and contemporary data center facility, and help customers achieve a wide diversity of business objectives, ranging from carbon-neutral (Eco-logical) mandates to practical data center performance and real-world cost savings in the areas of heat, power or cooling utility bills.

Prior to his current role, John managed Sun's Midwest Professional Services team which sold Sun's Managed and Professional Services into large customers in Sun's US Midwest market area. As Enterprise Migration Practice Manager, John was responsibility for the creation, implementation and management of 4 application migration delivery centers across the US and Canada which focused on moving customer applications from competitor's platforms, such as mainframe, other variants of Unix and Windows to Solaris. John joined Sun's Automotive Practice, in July 1999 as Engagement Manager working on the General Motors account.

Prior to joining Sun, John worked for several large companies in various technical and managerial roles around consulting services and software development. These companies included: Baan, Perot Systems, Ford Motor Company, Platinum Software, EDS and IBM.

John has a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Siena Heights University in Adrian Michigan

Debra Lilley is a principal business consultant with Fujitsu Services, where she leads the business intelligence and strategy teams within Fujitsu's Oracle practice. She is both an Oracle Certified Professional (Applications) and Oracle Master (IT Professional) and one of the first Oracle ACE Directors for Applications. Lilley has been a director of the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) since 2004 and is currently deputy chairman. She is also responsible for the product development committee at the International Oracle User Community (IOUC), working closely with Oracle on behalf of users regarding Oracle Fusion Applications.

As managing director for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Center for Technology and Innovation, Bo Parker leads a research team focused on the future of emerging and disruptive technologies and their business impact. The primary vehicle for publishing this research is PricewaterhouseCoopers' Technology Forecast Quarterly, which has been covering technology since 1990.

Bo received both his BA. and PhD. from the University of California.