Speakers
Background Information:
Elizabeth
Cholawsky, SVP, Consumer Experience of Move.com
(formerly Homestore.com)
Elizabeth Cholawsky brings 20 years of strategic and operational
experience in Internet and telecommunications companies, both
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of Minnesota, and B.A. Cum Laude at Franklin and Marshall College.
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Elizabeth
is currently Senior VP of Consumer Experience at Move, Inc., the
largest real estate presence online. Previously she was Senior
VP of Marketing and Product Development at Commission Junction,
a pioneer and leader in affiliate marketing, later acquired by
ValueClick. In the telecommunications/VOIP space, including Clarent,
she headed up divisions of Product Management, Professional Services
and Marketing. She also held managerial and technical positions
in speech recognition and artificial intelligence startups, following
on from early work as quantitative analyst at the CIA. Elizabeth
gained her Ph.D. in statistics and political science at the University.
David
Curtis, CTO of Palomar Ventures
David
Curtis is the Chief Technology Officer of Palomar Ventures, a
Southern California VC focusing on early stage information technology
companies. David brings to Palomar his deep experience as a software
architect, entrepreneur, and technology investor, and a legacy
as one of the pioneers
of distributed object computing.
As
a founder and CTO of Expersoft, David designed one of the first
distributed object platforms to be used in enterprise IT systems.
He was an active contributor
to the Object Management Group which included authoring several
major components of CORBA. David also served as
Director
of Enterprise Systems at Inprise/Borland, and more recently as
the founder and CTO of XMology Corporation, where he created a
rule-based logic engine
for processing XML data. David's expertise and experience comprises
a variety of disciplines, including distributed simulation, knowledge-based
systems, real-time systems, parallel processing architectures,
and distributed enterprise computing.
Matthew
Glotzbach, Head of Products of Google
Enterprise
Matthew Glotzbach joined Google in 2004 with responsibility for
the development, management, and markeitng of Google's Enterprise
product lines. He brings 10 years of enterprise product management,
marketing, and sales experience to the team specializing in the
unique business and technology needs of enterprise customers.
Prior to joining Google, Matthew was a senior member of the management
team for the Computer Industry Business Unit at Trilogy, an enterprise
software company based out of Austin, TX. He was involved with
the creation of Trilogy's product direction and vision and acted
as the lead product manager on a number of Trilogy's industry
solutions. Mr. Glotzbach holds a Bachelor degree from Cornell
University.
Mark
Goldin, Chief Information Officer & EVP Operations of Green
Dot
Mark Goldin heads all software development, technology and
operations at Green Dot Corporation. Prior to joining Green Dot
Corporation, Mark was Chief Technology Officer for Thomson Elite
and was the founder & president of Elite Online Solutions.
Mark has an extensive background in operating systems and databases
and has worked in the computer and software industry in the US
and overseas since 1983.
Green
Dot Corporation is a pioneer in prepaid financial products and
services and is America's first and largest provider of association-branded
prepaid debit cards sold at retail stores. It is also the owner
and operator of the Green Dot Financial Network, one of America's
largest retail-based cash acceptance networks.
Michael
Platt, Web Architect, Architecture Strategy Team, Microsoft
Michael
Platt is a Web Architect in the architecture strategy group at
Microsoft Corporation in Redmond. He has extensive experience
in Architecting Web and Enterprise Applications for large multinational
Enterprises. He has been with Microsoft for 12 years in a number
of management, strategy, presales and consultancy roles.
Michael
has some 30 years of experience in the IT industry with IBM and
Microsoft in research, design, development, pre sales and consultancy
positions. He has an Honours Degree in Electronic and Electrical
Engineering and a number of published dissertations and patents.
Paul
Ryan, CEO of Done Right
With
20+ years of experience developing and managing integrated business
systems and technologies, Paul most recently was the CTO of Overture
Services, the pioneer in pay-for-performance Internet advertising
(recently acquired by Yahoo!). While at Overture, Paul built the
largest pay-for-performance search engine on the web, heading
the technology team and managing the core technologies and business
processes underlying the company's business.
Prior
to joining Overture, Paul was CIO for Delray Farms, LLC, a Chicago-based
retail startup, where he built the systems and business process
infrastructure for a $250 million retail concept. Prior
to Delray Farms, Paul spent nearly four years at Deloitte &
Touche as a management consultant, and more than four years as
a software engineer, project manager, and lead systems designer
for DEC.
Paul
received a B.S.E. from Princeton University, an M.S. in Computer
Science from Johns Hopkins and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School
of the University of Pennsylvania.
Rod
Smith, VP Internet Emerging Technology of IBM
Rod
Smith is an IBM fellow and vice president of Internet Emerging
Technology, Software Group. He is a recognized technical leader,
both within IBM's software business, as well as across the industry.
His team's technological innovations and cross-industry collaborations
have enabled the rapid adoption of technologies such as web services,
XML, Linux, J2EE, next generation rich user collaboration technology,
and wireless applications.
