Conference: Application Delivery Track

Dave Ewart is responsible for Product Marketing at Blue Coat in EMEA. Before joining Packeteer in 2006, Dave led Product Management at VoIP infrastructure vendor, Brooktrout/Dialogic and prior to that held leading roles at the Santa Cruz Operation, driving marketing for their Tarantella product line and laterally their flagship UnixWare NonStop Clusters OS server platform. A native of Scotland, Dave studied telecommunications and electronics at Glasgow's Stow College.

Gary Hemminger is Director of Product Marketing at Foundry Networks. Gary has over 20 years of network experience, with development, systems engineering, product management, and marketing roles in the switching and routing, network management, storage area networking, supercomputing & clustering space. Gary was Vice President of Marketing at IP Infusion, where he helped to define and deliver a next generation, platform independent Advanced Layer 2, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, and DiffServ protocol stack that powers many telecommunications and enterprise vendor equipment offerings. As Director of Product Management at PolyServe, Gary created the strategic plan for the delivery of next generation, highly-scalable clustered server and storage area networking software products. At Network Systems Corporation, Gary was Director of Supercomputer Marketing, where he helped to design and build a number of national supercomputer initiatives, including the National Research and Education Network. Gary attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with distinction in general scholarship, with a BA in Computer Science. Gary also attended Stanford University, where he received an MS in Computer Science. Early in his career Gary was awarded the prestigious Bank of America Achievement Award in Mathematics.

With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman is well versed in load balancing, application acceleration, and content delivery networks. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman's experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine.

Liad Ofek Manager, Technical Marketing Cisco's Application Delivery Business Unit Liad Ofek holds the technical marketing responsibilities for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product line. Mr. Ofek leads a team of product Marketing experts and responsible for system level solution definition and outbound technical marketing efforts. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Ofek was the VP of Technical Services for Expand Networks where he established the Pre/Post sale support team; Liad was personally involved with the creation and evolution of the WAN Optimization market. Prior to Expand Networks, Liad worked for Netcom, a leading networking and IT service provider in Israel. At Netcom, Liad managed the technical support team and was responsible for deploying and supporting leading edge networking technology from Cisco and other vendors. Mr. Ofek has over 12 years of experience with customer support and training and has real-world understanding of WAN optimization and deep networking knowledge (CCIE). Liad earned a B.Sc. in Communications Engineering from Holon Institute of Technology

Gregory Brail is part of the Product Management team at Sonoa, where he works closely with customers who are deploying web services and creating APIs for the Internet. Prior to Sonoa, he worked as an architect, developer, and consultant for BEA, Transact Plus, IBM, and Transarc.

Imad Mouline brings years of software architecture, research and development experience to Gomez. At Gomez, Mouline works with customers, analysts, industry groups and internal resources to help drive the Gomez technology and business strategy to meet customers' needs in the face of new business and technology trends. Prior to Gomez, Mouline held the position of chief technology officer at S1 Corporation for five years. There he played a variety of roles across departments, including engineering, product management, sales and marketing. Previously, Mouline served as director of engineering in the office of the CTO at BroadVision, after its acquisition of Interleaf. During his seven years at Interleaf, Mouline held various professional services and engineering roles, where he ultimately served as the director of engineering for product architecture, while contributing code to one of the products. Mouline has spoken at various user conferences and technology events. Mouline is a valued source to media, analysts and bloggers on a range of topics, including how to engineer customer experience into online applications and services. Mouline is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.