Conference: Software-as-a-Service Track

Since graduating with MSc in Naval Engineering from Southampton University, where he learnt how to build boats and submarines, Alastair has spent the last 10 years in the online services industry. During early years, he helped to build the first online market place for the global food commodities market, which provided marketing, auction and logistics capabilities to companies across Europe, Africa & the Far East. There he also became a professionally trained tea taster. Alastair then moved to dunnhumby, where he led the growth of its web-based marketing intelligence product to £20m in three years. Alastair joined dunnhumby's Strategic Management Board in 2005 to head up the group's Shopping Experience practice, a $60m+ business globally. Alastair's grandfather was the inspiration behind starting his own dot-com, Huddle.net. To celebrate this, Huddle's holding company is named after one of grandfather's inventions - Ninian, the biggest ever concrete platform ever built. When not running the company, Alastair enjoys skiing, snowboarding, hiking, diving and driving. The latter has become an infrequent affair as Alastair passionately believes in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Bill Lucchini is Vice President and General Manager of Intuit QuickBase, a platform that allows users to select and customize their own SaaS applications. Since assuming his current role in January 2007, QuickBase usage has grown to a quarter million users, including more than half of the Fortune 100. Under his leadership, QuickBase successfully launched the Enterprise Edition of QuickBase, designed for deployment across thousands of employees, partners and vendors as well as the QuickBase Developer Program, a new Platform-as-a-Service that enables developers to create rich Internet applications that integrate with Intuit QuickBooks. Before joining QuickBase, he served as vice president and general manager of Intuit's Mid Market Group, where he drove QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions product to become the fastest-selling mid-market accounting product in the U.S.

George Symons serves as CEO of Yosemite Technologies. Mr. Symons brings broad experience in storage software development, business development and building global business to the role. As CEO, Mr. Symons is responsible for all global operations including sales, marketing, finance, professional services, product development and business development. Mr. Symons joined Yosemite from EMC, where he served as Chief Technology Officer for Information Management, responsible for defining EMC's product and technical strategy. He also played key roles in the integration of Legato enterprise backup and recovery products and Documentum content management software into EMC. Prior to EMC, Mr. Symons held positions within Legato including CTO, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, and Vice President of Development and Product Management. He was involved in the integration of products from SCH Technologies and OTG into Legato's product line, and later in the acquisition of Legato by EMC. Prior to that he was Vice President of Engineering at FullTime Software, VP of Marketing at Software Research and PROCASE Corporation, and also held product marketing and product management positions at Sun Microsystems. Symons has B.A. degrees in Computer Science and Management Science from University of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A from University of California, Los Angeles.

Co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, Mike and his team at FreshBooks are putting the "Service" back in "Software as a Service". An entrepreneur with two successful start-ups to his name, Mike talks faster than he writes and can deftly juggle and keep his eye on hundreds of balls at one time. Mike is a founder of the mesh conference, lecturer at Humber College and a frequent speaker at Internet conferences. See what Mike's up to by reading his blog or catching his latest Twitter updates. Mike loves his work, and would rather be outdoors than inside.

As Director of Product Management for Google Apps and Partner Products, Stephen Cho is responsible for providing Google's consumer products, especially Google Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs, Start Page, Sites, ...) and Search, to partners around the world (telco/ISP, media/portal, social network, mobile, OEM, ...). He was previously Director of Google's Global Online Sales and Operations responsible for millions of Google Apps users and online customers, and earlier was Director of New Content Initiatives, where he was responsible for business development efforts around video/YouTube, Google Maps/Earth, Google Books/Scholar, and new areas, including non-music audio, government content, and news. Prior to Google, Stephen was Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing for Cisco's Application-Oriented Networking Business Unit. He led product management, marketing, business development, sales strategy, and businesss operations and planning for a several hundred person division he helped found in 2003 which provided intelligent application infrastructure (messaging, middleware) in the network. Earlier, he was Senior Director of the Service Provider Solutions Practice in Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), which developed Cisco- and partner-based solutions for major service providers around the world leveraging Cisco's advanced technologies (IP Telephony, contact centers, content delivery networks, ...). And prior to this, he managed the Cisco IBSG Customer Care and e-Commerce solutions organizations. Before joining Cisco, Mr. Cho spent several years in strategy and technology consulting with McKinsey & Company in their Telecommunications, Multimedia, and Electronics Practices and as a leader of their North American Data Networking Initiative. Prior to this, he was with The Boston Consulting Group focusing on technology areas. Mr. Cho was a Fulbright Scholar and holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Ed Sullivan, Aria Systems' Founder, has been the CEO since the company's inception in 2003. As CEO, Ed offers his vision, innovative ideas and valuable insight to the needs of the marketplace to bear on Aria's strategic direction. Under his leadership, Aria has been established as the market leader in on-demand billing and customer lifecycle solutions and currently supports over 1 million customer accounts in 236 countries. Ed's entrepreneurial spirit and innovative ideas have led him to build several successful companies. Prior to Aria, he was the Founder and President of LaserLink.net, the World's first and largest Virtual Internet Service Provider. LaserLink provided billing and Internet services to over one million end users and operated the Internet Services for several ISP's including American Express, Compaq, Gateway, Amway and IBM. LaserLink was acquired by Covad Communications in March 2000. Ed serves as a Director of NetQOS, an Austin Texas based IT company which offers end to end network management solutions. NetQOS was recently ranked the number one fastest growing technology company in Texas by Deloitte and Touche. He also serves on the advisory board of Covad Communications (DVW) a publicly traded provider of voice and data services. Ed has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University.

Rick is the Co-founder and CTO of Boomi. His responsibilities include establishing the strategic direction of Boomi's technology, as well as managing the operations of the product development group. He also sits on the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Nucci works directly with customers and partners to help understand and solve their business integration challenges. Boomi has a patent pending for Rick's latest invention around the technology that powers Boomi On Demand, the company's most recent product offering. Prior to forming Boomi Inc., Rick worked for EXE Technologies, a market leading Supply Chain Execution solution provider, in the areas of product development and implementation. It was in this role that Nucci learned first hand of the cost and complexity of integrating disparate applications and business partners. With over 10 years of experience in application and data integration, Rick applies this experience to deliver the company's integration solutions. Rick speaks at universities and business events on topics of Entrepreneurship and Technology. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Business Logistics.