Panelist biographies, Corporate Technologists' Roundtable, May 10, 2006
The following people are confirmed members of the panel discussion portion of the Trusted ILLIAC Cluster Launch and Corporate Technologists' Roundtable to take place at the University Club of Chicago on May 10, 2006. Additional panelists will be added soon.
Chief Scientist and VP, Information and Software Systems Research, AT&T Labs
David Belanger is currently the AT&T Labs Chief Scientist and the Information & Software Systems Research Vice President at AT&T Labs in Florham Park , NJ. As Chief Scientist, he is responsible to the AT&T CTO for identifying pre-product technology important to the future of AT&T, evaluating technology, building alignment within AT&T on technology directions, and serving as AT&T liaison to external technical communities, specifically, universities, government agencies, and industry laboratories. The Information & Software Systems Research Lab conducts research in large-scale and real-time information mining related to operations of a (communications) service business; interactive information visualization; scaleable, reliable software systems; and new, information-based communications services. It is also responsible for delivery and operations of very large-scale (e.g. >100TB), near real-time service management capabilities to AT&T and its customers.
Dave joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1979 working in the area of database support for economic analysis for product lifecycles. This was followed by research on large-scale data and information systems, and program generation for data manipulation systems. He has subsequently led research efforts in software systems and engineering, information mining, and visualization.
Prior to joining AT&T, Dave was on the Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty at the University of South Alabama, a consultant for a variety of companies, and co-founder/VP of Gulf Coast Data Systems (a computing services company). He received his B.S. from Union College (NY) in Mathematics, and an M.S. and Ph.D., also in Mathematics, from Case Western Reserve University.
In 1998, Dave was awarded the AT&T Science and Technology Medal for his contributions in very large-scale information mining technology.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Nallatech
Allan Cantle founded Nallatech in 1993 and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since the company's incorporation.
Allan is responsible for formulating the company's overall strategy, vision, and focus necessary for Nallatech to maintain its leadership in developing new high-performance computing platforms, which are capable of delivering 100 times the performance at 1/10th of the cost of traditional computing platforms.
He has grown the company from an office in his home study to a company employing 65 staff in 6 offices across the UK & USA. Allan is also a non-executive Director of Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire. Allan's 25 years in the electronics industry include 13 years at British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) as a Systems Engineer before he started Nallatech. Allan has a 1st Class honours degree in Electronics and became a Chartered Engineer at the young age of 26.
Director of Advanced Technology Planning and Performance Computing, AMD
Michael Goddard's team is responsible for strategy development, identification, coordination, and contribution to the development of technical/business requirements of key emerging commercial technologies as well as system performance analysis and disclosure. Prior to his current role, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff on the microprocessor design team and spent 10 years as a key contributor helping AMD develop its family of x86 microprocessor products. He also spent 3 years in Europe helping software developers analyze and optimize their code for the Athlon family of processors. He holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He holds more than 15 patents in various areas of computer architecture.
Chief Operating Officer, Trusted Computer Solutions
As Chief Operating Officer of Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS), Ed Hammersla develops and implements technical, financial, and operational strategies that increase company valuation and satisfy growing market demand for cyber-security and secure information-sharing solutions.
Before launching his first company, International Customer Solutions Inc., in 1987, Hammersla spent 10 years with IBM Corporation, where he began his career as a systems engineer and later moved into marketing and management positions. Since that time he has successfully brought technology together with industries from healthcare to government through operational leadership and executive involvement in numerous industry-leading organizations.
In his current role, Mr. Hammersla leverages the experiences gained in more than 26 years of software engineering and business management. Most recently, Mr. Hammersla founded onehealthbank.com, based on an innovative and disruptive business model to bring financial credit-card-style point-of-service settlement to the healthcare industry. Under his direction the company grew from concept to $60 million market valuation in just four years. In 2001, onehealthbank.com merged with Realmed Inc. to become the largest provider of point-of-service financial settlement technology to the healthcare industry.
In addition to his extensive entrepreneurial experience, Mr. Hammersla is a recognized leader in the government IT industry, having served on numerous government committees, industry association working groups, and boards of directors.
Mr. Hammersla holds two bachelor's degrees from Principia College, Elsah, Ill. in business administration and biblical archaeology. He also serves as a principal at VentureHouse LLC, a venture investment management firm based in Birmingham, Ala. and Alexandria, Va.
Vice President of Global Systems Management and Compliance Area Strategy, IBM Research
Since January 2006 Matthias Kaiserswerth has led the IBM Research Strategy in Systems Management and Compliance, coordinating the research work across IBM's eight global research laboratories.
From 2002 until the end of 2005 he was the Managing Director of an IBM Integrated Account. He led a team of sales and services people serving the global power and automation company ABB, headquartered in Switzerland. During this time he grew revenues by more than 80%, mostly due to a 10-year $1.7B infrastructure outsourcing contract closed in 2003.
In 2000 Matthias Kaiserswerth became the director of IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory. He was responsible there for some 200 researchers in the field of physical sciences, communications technology, and computer science. Additional responsibilities were for the IBM Zurich Industry Solutions Lab where IBM hosts customers to meet with its researchers to discuss future technology and emerging business trends.
From 1997 through 1999, Dr. Kaiserswerth was on assignment at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, where he led the networking software and security research. In addition, he was responsible for setting IBM Research's global security research strategy and starting IBM efforts in the emerging field of privacy technology research.
From 1988 through 1997 he worked as a Research Staff Member in the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory on various research projects, ranging from high-performance communication systems to message brokering in a medical environment. Most recently, he worked on smart cards and Java security, which led to the OpenCard industry standard for using smart cards in a Java environment and Visa's Java Cardtm Price Breakthrough program based on the IBM Zurich Research JCOP platform.
Dr. Kaiserswerth received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and from Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, respectively. He is an honorary professor at Friedrich-Alexander University , where he teaches applied computer science.
Senior Director, Xilinx Research Labs
Mr. Patrick Lysaght is a Senior Director at Xilinx Research Labs, where he leads research activities in reconfigurable and embedded systems. His research interests include reconfigurable computing (especially dynamically reconfigurable systems), embedded systems, system-level modeling, and emerging design technologies for FPGAs. Patrick also leads the Xilinx University Program worldwide.
Before joining Xilinx, Patrick was a senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) and at the Institute for System Level Integration (Livingston, Scotland). He started his career in research and development with Hewlett Packard (Edinburgh) and held a number of technical and marketing positions before joining academia. He has co-authored more than fifty technical papers and co-edited two books on programmable logic. He is actively involved in the organization of a number of international conferences and is chairman of the steering committee for FPL, the world's largest conference dedicated to field programmable logic.
Distinguished Technologist, HP Labs
Joe Pato is a Distinguished Technologist at HP Labs. He is the Lab Scientist for the HP Labs Trusted Systems Lab (TSL) and is also the manager for TSL's US research group. He has previously served as Chief Technology Officer for Hewlett-Packard's Internet Security Solutions Division. Joe has been involved in security research and development since 1986, but still sees himself as a distributed systems researcher who views security as a tool to enable collaboration.
Joe's current research focus is on the security needs of collaborative communities, addressing both large-scale inter-enterprise models and the challenges of ubiquitous devices. Specifically, he is looking at critical infrastructure protection and the confluence of trust, services, and mobility. These interests have led him to look at preservation of internet communication in the event of cyber-terrorism, trust frameworks for mobile environments, and how to apply privacy considerations in complex systems.
His past work includes the design of delegation protocols for secure distributed computation, key exchange protocols, and inter-domain trust structures, the development of public and secret key based infrastructures, and the more general development of distributed enterprise environments. Joe is also a founder of the IT-ISAC (IT Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center), where he has served as a board member. Joe has participated on several IEEE, ANSI, NIST, Department of Commerce, W3C, FSTC, and COSE standards or advisory committees. In the past, Joe served as the co-chair for the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee, which developed SAML Security Assertions Markup Language from June 2001 until November 2002. SAML 1.0 was approved as an OASIS standard on November 1, 2002.
In recent years, Mr. Pato has been one of the instructors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology teaching the course "Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier." Mr. Pato currently serves as chair of the National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Committee "Whither Biometrics," studying the challenges facing widespread use of biometrics in security applications. He previously served as a key member of CSTB's Committee that produced the "Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy" report. Mr. Pato's graduate work was in Computer Science at Brown University.
Vice President of Technology, Networks and Enterprise Business, Motorola
Paul Steinberg joined Motorola in 1992 and is currently responsible for the architecture of Motorola's telecommunications wireless infrastructure products, spanning radio access and core networking elements. Prior to this assignment Paul contributed to system architecture and software development for Motorola's cellular infrastructure common platforms as well as to the Japan PDC and CDMA2000 cellular access network product families. Throughout his career, he has focused on IP networking, high-availability platforms, and call control aspects of network solutions. Paul is a member of Motorola's Science Advisory Board and was awarded the Dan Noble Fellow award in 2004. He also holds several US patents. Prior to joining Motorola, Paul was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he worked on operating system architecture and development of shared memory and distributed multiprocessing computing systems.
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