The BD Event

Storage Event Agenda

Our Boston 2010 event was a great success, with 110 industry executives networking and learning over the course of 3 days

Tuesday - 6/15

Wednesday - 6/16

Thursday - 6/17

Peter Bell is a General Partner at Highland specializing in technology investments across all stages of company growth. Before joining Highland Capital Partners, Peter was Managing Director and founder of Stowe Capital, LLC, which specialized in providing capital and management expertise to emerging growth companies. Prior to establishing Stowe Capital in 2002, Peter was the co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of StorageNetworks, an information storage software and services company. Under his leadership, Peter took the company from pioneering concept to over $120 million in annual revenue in three years and closed six rounds of equity capital financing, totaling over $700 million, including a successful IPO in June 2000. Peter began his career at EMC Corporation. During his tenure he held positions in marketing, operations and sales and played a key role in building and managing the Open Storage Group at EMC, a major growth engine for the company. Greg Duplessie, Founder of The BD Event Jason Tanner, President of Enthiosys, Inc. - Jason joined Enthiosys as a Senior Consultant in 2008 and has over 18 years of professional experience with software companies, a telecommunications company and the Marine Corps. His expertise spans Agile software product management, product marketing, business planning, partner management, project management and leadership. Dr. Peter Cowden is a widely recognized leader in the field of executive career management. A consulting psychologist and former Fortune 100 corporate manager, Peter has devoted the past twenty years to coaching and guiding executives. Dr. Cowden has successfully guided hundreds of executives to new levels of leadership and career success. He works with organizations ranging from multi-national corporations to early-stage technology companies to venture capital firms to world-renown non-profit organizations. His clients have included Genuity, Akamai, BBN, AT&T, Verizon, Prudential, Thomson Financial, Mass Financial, Biogen, Astra Pharmaceuticals, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston Symphony, Massachusetts Medical Society, AMP, Cabot Corporation, Agfa and Eastman Kodak. He has worked with numerous chief executive officers, chief operations officers, general managers and investment/legal partners. Dr. Cowden combines a unique blend of academic training and corporate management expertise. He holds a doctorate from Harvard University and a masters degree from Yale University. He has taught and lectured at Harvard and Yale as well as for other universities, professional associations and conference sponsors. Dr. Cowden has authored numerous articles on career development, job satisfaction, downsizing and organizational change, which have appeared in professional journals such as the American Psychologist, Monthly Labor Review and American Journal of Psychology. He has been featured, interviewed and quoted in numerous business and industry media including the Boston Globe, InformationWeek, Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech and the Bloomberg Business Report. Peter Levine is senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Cloud Division for Citrix. He is responsible for the division's revenue attainment, product management, business development and strategic direction. Levine joined Citrix in 2007 through the $500M acquisition of XenSource, the leading provider of enterprise-class virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen hypervisor, where he served as chief executive officer. Under Levine's leadership, XenSource introduced the XenServer product family including the OEM edition, signed strategic business agreements with such companies as Microsoft and Symantec, and quickly acquired more than 1,000 enterprise customers worldwide. Prior to XenSource, he was a managing director at the Mayfield Fund, where he spent three years investing in a variety of software companies including Mendocino Software, Centrify, Zenprise, TrueDemand, OuterBay (acquired by HP), and Actona, (acquired by Cisco). Before joining Mayfield, Levine was an early employee of VERITAS Software and during his 11-year tenure with the company, helped to grow the organization from no revenue to more than $1.5B, and from 20 employees to more than 6,000. By the time he left VERITAS in 2001, Levine was executive vice president for Strategic and Platform Operations. responsible for worldwide marketing, OEM sales, business development (M&A, venture fund), and several new product and platform development groups. Prior to VERITAS,he was a software engineer at MIT's Project Athena, where he worked on a variety of distributed computing projects. Levine holds a BS in engineering from Boston University and attended the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Hosted by Mike Miracle of Ridge Partners LLC and John McArthur of Walden Technology Partners. Special participants include: George Symons (VP of Bus Dev for Xiotech), Cherie Whitney (Director of Corp Dev for EMC), Scott Card (Investment Bankin Partner at America's Growth Capital), Neal Ater (CEO of Atempo), Rick Cameron (VP of Bus Dev for GlassHouse), Tom Lahive (OEM Sales Manager for EMC) Hosted by Brad O'Neill, CEO of TechValidate. Special participants include: Asim Zaheer (VP Marketing for HDS), EJ Schmidt (VP Corp Marketing for HDS), Kirby Wadsworth (VP Marketing for F5 Networks), Karl Chen (VP Marketing and Sales for IceWEB), Jerome Wendt (Senior Analyst at DCIG) Dr. John E. DeSanctis is an executive coach and management consultant with over 20 years experience in leadership development. He has established a track record of successfully advising and coaching hundreds of senior executives through organizational and career transitions to enhanced leadership effectiveness and improved business performance. Since joining EDI as a partner in 2000, Dr. DeSanctis has played a significant role in building the successful executive coaching practice area for the firm. The practice includes individual and executive team coaching, succession planning, strategy and transition consulting, management appraisal, leadership development, and executive on-boarding. Dr. DeSanctis works with organizations spanning a range of industries, including high technology, engineering and manufacturing, information services, telecommunications and internet, financial services, health care and life sciences, higher education, and legal and professional services. He has helped executives strengthen management effectiveness, plan and implement succession, develop leadership teams, build organizational capabilities, improve operations, and enhance sales and service performance. Before joining EDI as a Partner, Dr. DeSanctis held executive positions with several corporations, including Simplex/Grinell, The Faxon Company, and Stone and Webster. As chief human resources and learning officer he designed organizational development and succession planning strategy, advised senior executives on career planning, led human resources, created corporate universities, and directed the consolidation of business units. Dr. DeSanctis’ academic training and corporate management experience provide a powerful blend of expertise in linking executive growth with business performance. He holds a doctorate from Harvard University, has held faculty positions at several universities and has taught and lectured at numerous professional meetings and conferences. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Human Resources Council and has been an active member of the Human Resources Leadership Forum, New England Human Resources Association, American Society for Training and Development, and other professional associations. Karl possesses more than 25 years of experience in IT Technology strategy and business management. He specializes in distributed systems, storage, enterprise software and virtualization. He has successfully built and sold two entreprenuerial start-up businesses including LeftHand Networks, which was acquired by HP for $360M in November, 2008 and NuView ManageX, which was acquired in 1997. He has executive management experience in strategy development, business development, marketing, channels, sales management. Karl' s skills include P&L and business unit management, fund-raising, OEM licensing, and mergers & acquisition. His former roles include VP of Bus Dev & Marketing at LeftHand Networks, VP of Marketing at BMC Software, VP of Bus Dev & Marketing at NuView Inc., and senior management positions at Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, and Digital Equipment Corp. He has developed strategic partnerships and negotiated licensing deals industry leaders including Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, Intel, HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco & Citrix Systems and many other world-class enterprise computing companies. Peter Mehta, CEO. Peter Mehta joined SANpulse in 2006 and began to build and integrate various facets of the business. In his role as CEO, he is responsible for all aspects of SANpulse's strategy, operations and execution. Peter has established alliances & partnerships with key industry leaders within the storage industry, built a strong management team and developed a culture that inspires and rewards creativity and unity within the organization. Prior to SANpulse, Peter founded an IT Services Firm which he built into a multi-national entity and sold in 2006. He also held a senior level executive position with a multi-national manufacturing company. He has extensive global experience in treasury, investor relations, business strategy, acquisitions and divestitures, finance, and operations. I am a Venture Partner at OpenView, and I am the point person on AtTask, Exinda and Zmags. I joined the OpenView team when it was still part of Insight Venture Partners and helped found the firm in late 2006. When I joined the team at Insight in 2005, I helped make the investment in Platespin, was a board member of that company, and saw it to its acquisition by Novell. Prior to Insight, I was one of the principles of eEye Digital Security and acted as COO of the company. I joined eEye pre-revenue and left on a $15M annual run rate. In that role, I experienced all the possible ups and downs of a startup, and the challenges of the expansion stage. I can't count the mistakes we made in that venture, which was the best possible preparation for my role at OpenView. Prior to eEye, I was a senior consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton, in the Operations Management Group. I have a BS in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University and a Master of Engineering Management from Dartmouth College. Husband to a gorgeous pediatrician and father to two wonderful children. My family is from Iraq, I was born in New York and lived in Baghdad, Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Hanover NH, Indianapolis, New York, New Orleans, Laguna Beach CA and Boston. Avid fan of Manchester United. Brian Dodd, President and CEO. Mr. Dodd, Co-Founder, has over 25 years of experience developing software for storage management and high-performance computing systems. He was responsible for leading the engineering teams in designing, developing and delivering VERITAS Software's Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) products to the market. He was also responsible for leading the co-development efforts of the Remote Storage Services technology with Microsoft Corporation. This technology currently ships as part of the Windows 2003 Operating Systems. During his time at Cray Research, Mr. Dodd led the region-wide US Department of Energy Applications Support teams responsible for developing and optimizing applications for massively parallel computing systems. He holds a BS in Applied Geophysics from UCLA and has received numerous awards for his accomplishments in scientific computing from IBM and Cray Research. Jay Kramer oversees all aspects of SEPATON's marketing efforts including strategic planning, brand development, product marketing, promotions, marketing communications, and public relations. He brings to SEPATON more than 20 years of worldwide marketing and sales executive management experience with leading storage technology companies, both private and NASDAQ listed organizations. Rick Tinsley joined Silver Peak Systems in 2004 as president and chief executive officer. In 1998, he co-founded Turnstone Systems, served as president and CEO for six years leading the company through a highly successful IPO. In 1997, Tinsley was an "Entrepreneur in Residence" with the venture capital firms Institutional Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital. From 1993 to 1997, Tinsley held various positions at Newbridge Networks, most recently as vice president and general manager with global operating responsibility for LAN Products. Prior to joining Newbridge, Tinsley was responsible for ATM products at TranSwitch Corporation and served as business development manager at Texas Instruments where he managed the startup of the TI486 program. Tinsley earned his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Dallas and a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dave is the former SVP and CIO for EMC In addition to being a Partner at Foley Hoag and a member of the Firm's Executive Committee, David heads the Emerging Enterprise Center. He focuses on representation of venture financed technology companies as well as buyers and sellers of public and private companies. David counsels clients across a broad range of business transactions, including venture capital financings, public offerings, private placements, PIPE (private investment in public equity) transactions, bank financings, and a variety of start-up company issues.

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