Maria Pardee

President of Global Integration, BT Design

Maria was appointed CIO for BT Retail in September 2005. After a successful tenure Maria moved on to be President of Global Integration in July of 2007. The charter of the Global Integration team is to enable BT to fully capitalize on all investments and relationships by evaluating the corporate assets that lie within the divisions and liaising across BT Group, our customers and our partners.

Previously, Maria worked for BearingPoint Inc, a company that provides business consulting, systems integration and managed services to Global 2000 companies, medium-sized businesses, and government organisations.

She has more than 25 years telecommunications and IT experience, and at BearingPoint, she was Managing Director of the Communications and Content Division where she quickly and significantly increased revenues, pipeline and engagement opportunities. Before that, she was a vice-president at American Management Systems Inc, where she managed more than 20 software development and management consulting initiatives.

Mark DeNino

Managing Director, TL Ventures

Mark joined TL in 1994.  Mark's venture capital experience began in 1981, when he helped launch a biomass venture backed by General Electric's venture capital group (now Canaan Partners) using technology developed at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1986, Mark to joined Fidelity Bank to start-up and head up a corporate finance activity there.  Mark later joined at TL Ventures.

Mark's investment interests are varied and run the gamut from software to business services to communications and energy.  Recognizing more than a decade ago that the energy and utility industries were ripe for early-stage investing capable of generating venture-type returns, Mark established an affiliated private equity activity targeting those markets specifically.  This effort culminated with the formation of EnerTech Capital in 1996, one of the first energy focused funds.

Mark has also been responsible for TL's participation in the Kauffman Fellows program and, with Anthony Chang, developing an effective network in Asia to assist TL portfolio companies' source and sell products there.

Mark is the co-author of a 1983 Harvard Business Review article, "When Corporate Venture Capital Doesn't Work."  He graduated with a BS degree from Boston College and an MBA degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Kevin L. Kemmerer

SVP Technology Group, Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.

As a member of Safeguard's executive team, Kevin is responsible for identifying and partnering with entrepreneurial companies in the software applications and technology services market. Kevin joined Safeguard in June 2004 as Vice President, Business Development.

Prior to joining Safeguard, Kevin was a director with Kennet Venture Partners, where he sourced and managed software and technology-enabled services investments. He also served as a principal at Broadview International, where he co-led the firm's Silicon Valley team focused on mergers and acquisitions in the software applications market. Earlier in his career, he was a manager in Deloitte & Touche's Management Consulting practice and a software developer at Salomon Brothers.

Kevin earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, and holds an MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, Kevin is a member of the Board of Directors for Safeguard's portfolio companies  Acsis, Advantedge Healthcare Solutions, Authentium, Bridgevine and Portico Systems.

Vijay Khanna, Jr.

General Partner, GIV Ventures

As a General Partner at GIV Ventures, Vijay focuses on investment opportunities in the enterprise software and services sector. Vijay had initially joined GIV at its inception in 2000 and rejoined the firm as General Partner in 2007. Vijay is either a Director or works closely with the management teams of Maxager Technology, e4e, TraceGains, Knewco and Tarang.

Prior to rejoining GIV, Vijay served as Vice President of Corporate Development for SAP AG. At SAP, he identified and structured several new business development programs, minority investments, and strategic partnerships which resulted in explosive revenue growth for SAP. Vijay played an active role in launching SAP's new mid-market solutions and in the formulation and implementation of SAP's reseller program. 

Prior to joining SAP, Vijay worked in the Corporate Development Group at Intelsat Corporation, the world's largest commercial satellite communications services provider. At Intelsat, he structured the $1.2 billion asset purchase of Loral Satellites.

Vijay also worked at NewSpring Ventures where he focused on growth stage investments in the Internet Infrastructures and IT Services space. Before entering the venture capital industry, Vijay worked as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley and Wachovia Investment Banking.

Vijay holds an MBA in Operations Management and Private Equity from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.  He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Rochester.

Raj Pai

Managing Director, CID Capital

Raj Pai is a Managing Director of CID Capital. Raj has extensive experience working with businesses at all stages of development, and his areas of expertise include information technology, communications, enterprise software, and hardware/network infrastructure.

Raj focuses his efforts on early through growth stage equity companies, and he assists with evaluating businesses in the information technology, life sciences and business services sectors. He is currently a Board director at RedSky Technologies, a leading provider of emergency response crisis solutions. His other current portfolio responsibilities include acting in a Board observer/oversight capacity to Midi, Inc., the leading provider of high-impact ethics and compliance learning solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies; Ageia, a developer of advanced technology to enhance interactive digital media; Qorval Integrated Solutions, a highly specialized professional services company focusing on business process and system optimization; SmartSignal, an equipment performance management software company; Lamina Lighting, a market leader in the development and production of super-bright LED arrays; Celleration, a therapeutic ultrasound platform to promote wound healing; and Shakti Systems, a developer of integrated circuits for power management applications.

Raj is active in the venture community and has served on several conference panels, participated as a judge in many business plan competitions and selection committees, and served as a moderator or panel member at many venture-related events. He is also active in several community and non-profit organizations in an advisory/executive committee role, including BioAngels, Chicago-ITEC, Midwest Healthcare Investment Network (MHIN), Midwest Venture Summit (Chicago), Invest Midwest (Kansas City), and CPEN (Chicago Private Equity Network). In addition, he was selected to be a member of the 'Economic Club of Chicago', a nationally recognized organization committed to establishing lasting inter-generational relationships within the civic and business community.

Prior to joining CID Capital in 1999, Raj worked in information technology and risk management initiatives for several Fortune 500 companies, including British Telecommunications, Ameritech and US West. He was a senior management consultant for American Management Systems.

Raj received an MBA from the University of Chicago, a master's degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Bombay.

Brian K. Paul

Managing Director, Lehman Brothers

Brian K. Paul is a managing director in Private Equity and a partner in Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. Prior to joining Private Equity in 1999, Mr. Paul worked in Lehman Brothers' Global Technology and Healthcare Investment Banking Groups, in New York, London and Los Angeles. Within these investment banking groups, Mr. Paul was responsible for public and private equity offerings as well as strategic advisory assignments. Before joining Lehman Brothers in 1994, Mr. Paul was an associate at First Boston where he was responsible for the purchase and sale of mortgage loan portfolios. He currently is a director of ExaGrid Systems, LifeSize Communications, and Meru Networks.

He is a board observer of Egenera. He was previously a director of ShoreTel Communications, Creekpath Systems, Isilon Systems, AOptix Technologies, Elemental Security, and E2O Communications, Inc (sold to JDSU). Mr. Paul holds an M.B.A. with distinction from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Emily Mendell

VP, Strategic Affairs & Public Outreach, National Venture Capital Association

With two decades of broad-based experience in the financial services and technology markets, Emily Mendell is responsible for the positioning, communications, media relations and public affairs for the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

Emily began her work with the NVCA in 2000 as a managing principal of The Weiser Group, a communications firm. At The Weiser Group, she specialized in designing and implementing public relations and marketing strategies, and developing editorial materials pieces for clients. Her industry expertise includes accounting, financial services, private equity, transaction processing, and electronic commerce.

Prior to joining The Weiser Group, Emily served as Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications for Integrion Financial Network, a consortium of 18 banks, IBM and Visa. While at Integrion, Emily was responsible for all corporate communications, including the organization's internal and external positioning.

Emily previously held management positions at CoreStates Financial Corp including Vice President of Strategic Business Development within the transaction processing division.

Emily is a cum laude graduate of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics with a concentration in Finance and Management.

Darr Aley

Chief Marketing Officer & Cofounder, Generate Inc.

Darr has twenty years of experience building companies in the business-to-business and business-to-consumer technology, software, and Internet segments.

Prior to co-founding Generate, Darr helped direct corporate development and M&A at Amazon.com. He led and managed negotiations for several retail and technology acquisitions including Amazon's expansion into China. Prior to this he was hired out of Accenture by Amazon to help build their e-commerce ASP Services business, focused on selling Amazon's best in breed retail solutions to F500 global retailers. This grew to become a $700M business unit for Amazon over the last four years.

As an entrepreneur Darr has started or joined several early stage companies whose successful exits have totaled over $600M. Included in these were Shiva (sold to Intel), Avatar (sold to DCA), Zip2 (sold to Compaq), WhoWhere (sold to Lycos), and Epylon (sold to Accenture). Darr held executive roles in marketing, business and corporate development at each of these companies. He and his brother Tom also worked together with executives from Bank of America and Goldman Sachs to create the Stonepath Group, a venture group focused on early stage businesses.

Arlen Shenkman

Vice President, Corporate Finance M&A, SAP AG

Arlen Shenkman is Vice President of Corporate Finance at SAP AG. He is responsible for mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments globally. In addition, Arlen is responsible for handling investments made from the SAP NetWeaver Fund, a $125 Million fund dedicated to investing in the SAP partner ecosystem.

Arlen joined SAP in 2004 as a Director of Corporate Finance. Prior to joining SAP, Arlen was Senior Counsel and a Corporate Secretary of IKON, a Fortune 500 technology company. Arlen started his career as a corporate attorney, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, securities and finance.

Arlen received his Bachelor of Political Science with honors from the George Washington University and his Juris Doctor with honors from the University of Miami School of Law.

Manoj Verma

VP of Corporate Development, Ask.com

Manoj Verma is currently VP of Corporate Development at IAC Search & Media . Manoj cover 's Ask.com , Consumer Application and Portal Business, Evite, Bloglines and Advertising Solutions from an M&A perspective.

Prior to joining IAC, he spent 4 years at Yahoo! in a variety of Corporate Development, Business Development and Product Integration roles within the M&A group, LAUNCH Music and HotJobs respectively. Prior to Yahoo!, he co-headed Corporate Development at Amazon.com and was a Senior Associate in the Investment Banking Division at Lehman Brothers in New York and Hong Kong prior to his time at Amazon.com.

Manoj is passionate about the consumer internet space and is actively involved as an advisor to several start-ups providing strategic and business development advice.

Manoj holds a Bachelor of Social Science Degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Ottawa, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Eyal Kaplan

General Partner, Walden Israel Venture Capital

Eyal has been a General Partner with Walden Israel since 1995. Walden Israel is a leading early stage venture capital firm with institutional investors from the US, Europe and Israel, and is among the top performers among its peers. He is now active in additional initiatives in private equity investing, direct company involvement, and entrepreneurship.

At Walden, Eyal has focused on early stage investments in information technology and other industries. He currently serves on the Boards of several Walden portfolio companies, including Universal-Ad, Camero, Enigma, and Schema, and until recently nLayers (sold to EMC) and Cognitens (Sold to Hexagon).

Prior to joining Walden Israel, Eyal was a founding executive at Geotek Communications, a U.S. pioneering company specializing in wireless and mobile data technology. At Geotek, Eyal held senior roles in many areas. He helped grow the company from three initial employees to over 400 and to bring the company to a market cap of close to $1 billion.

Eyal holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Technion in Israel, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts and Sciences at The Lauder Institute, the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Chairman of the Wharton-Israel Alumni Club and a member of the Board of the Technion Alumni Association, and sits on the Advisory Boards of the Caesarea Center for Risk Management at IDC, and the Global Consulting Practicum at the Wharton School. Eyal is a regular speaker at Wall Street and industry conferences.

Mark Wolfram

Managing Director, Venture Integration, Microsoft

Mark is Managing Director of Venture Integration and has been in the role since September 2003. His team is responsible for deal execution, integration and building MSFT M&A capability. He and team are currently working on the Yahoo, aQuantive and FAST transactions and have helped integrate over 60 companies over the past four years. Mark has been at Microsoft for 15 years in various sales and finance roles including a stint as the Sales GM for the Pacific Northwest for 5 years. Prior to Microsoft, Mark spent 10 years in banking including a role as VP for Australia/New Zealand for Mellon Bank based in Sydney, Australia.

He holds a BA and MA from Johns Hopkins University and SAIS and is married with 2 children.

Saikat Chaudhuri

Assistant Professor of Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Saikat Chaudhuri is Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA, where his research encompasses mergers and acquisitions, technological innovation, and organizational adaptation.

Prof. Chaudhuri has consulted for a range of technology-based companies on acquisition and other corporate growth strategies, such as TranSwitch, Diamond-Cluster, and the startup Vox Populi, and has advised the Indian government on IT-based economic development opportunities. Prof. Chaudhuri's current research projects include understanding operational drivers of performance in innovation-targeted acquisitions, based on multi-method field research with leading telecommunications and software companies.

Recent publications include the journal article "Integrating Acquired Capabilities: When Structural Integration is (Un)Necessary," forthcoming in Organization Science, and the book chapter "Managing Human Resources to Capture Capabilities: Case Studies in High-Technology Acquisitions," in Managing Culture and Human Resources in Mergers and Acquisitions edited by G. Stahl and M. Mendenhall and published by Stanford University Press in 2005. His first article on the subject, "Capturing the Real Value in High-Tech Acquisitions," which appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 1999, continues to be widely used in business schools and amongst corporate managers.

Prof. Chaudhuri received his BSE and BS from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997, his MSE from Stanford University in 1998 and his DBA from Harvard University in 2004.

Court Cunningham

Chief Executive Officer, Yodle

As CEO of Yodle, Court oversees all aspects of operations and strategy, including technology, product development and sales and marketing. Prior to joining Yodle, he held the position of COO at Community Connect, a niche social networking company, where he lead consumer marketing, product management and development efforts. Before that, as SVP/GM of the Marketing Automation group at DoubleClick, he was instrumental in establishing DARTmail as the industry leading email marketing solution.

Court received a BA in English from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Lucinda Holt

CEO, Commerce360

Lucinda is an accomplished technology CEO who led a number of successful companies. In 2004, Lucinda co-founded and led TurnTide, an anti-spam technology company, which was acquired by Symantec for $28 million in only six months. Prior to founding TurnTide, Lucinda was President & CEO of Destiny WebSolutions, a venture-backed Inc. 500 winner that provided Internet strategy and implementation consulting to large financial institutions. While growing Destiny from $250,000 to $25 million in revenue Lucinda received many honors. She was named America's 17th Most Influential Consultant by Consulting Magazine, won the Eastern Technology Council's Enterprise Award for CEO of the Year, and was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Philadelphia.

In addition to her CEO roles, Lucinda has been an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at First Round Capital and has held management positions at Infonautics, Automated Call Processing, SEI Investments, and American Express. She graduated cum laude from University of Pennsylvania and earned an MBA from the Wharton School in Entrepreneurial Management.

Ari Jacoby

President and Co-Founder, VoiceStar

VoiceStar is where businesses serving advertisers turn when they want to make performance-based advertising a reality. VoiceStar's industry leading Call Tracking and Pay Per Phone Call technologies provide real-time data on advertising effectiveness, helping VoiceStar's customers and their clients ring up sales.

Ari has extensive experience growing businesses. He co-founded VoiceStar after serving as a senior consultant in the Business-to-Business division at Google. Ari was also the founder of the TradeCraft Group, a strategic media consulting firm.

Before joining Google, Ari served as Director of Business Development for Reed Business Information-US, a division of Reed-Elsevier. In this role, he was responsible for cross-portfolio strategic partnerships, e-commerce services, and licensing for 135 industry leading Business-to-Business properties.

Ari was the founder and CEO of Newsletters.com prior to joining Reed Business. He led efforts in content aggregation, syndication, and affinity channel sales at Newsletters.com, which was acquired by Tribune Company in 2000.

VoiceStar was acquired by Marchex, Inc. in September 2007.

Nat Turner

Founder, CEO, Invite Media

Nat is co-founder and CEO of Invite Media, a startup focused on advertising optimization within social networks. Invite Media is working with some of the top statistical minds in the advertising industry and is currently based in Philadelphia, PA.

Nat is also a senior at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, concentrating in marketing and entrepreneurship. In 2006, Nat was named a Wharton Entrepreneurship Fellow, an award given to foster Ambassadors of Entrepreneurship for The Wharton School. In 2007, Nat received the Wharton Venture Award, given to Wharton students pursuing entrepreneurial ventures.

In the past, Nat has founded or co-founded several other ventures, including EatNow.com, CertificateSwap.com, and OnlinePlugins.com.

Steve Woda

Founder, Chairman, buySAFE, Inc.

Steve fell victim to ecommerce fraud in 2000 when he purchased a PDA on eBay that never arrived. Recognizing the need for a better trust and safety model for online shoppers, Steve turned his frustration into inspiration by developing the concept and vision for buySAFE, marking the first time surety bonds would be successfully used for e-commerce. Today, buySAFE is the world's leading e-commerce trust and safety company having bonded more than 14 million online transactions. As founder, chairman and senior vice president for product and strategy, Steve is responsible for leading its business intelligence, strategic planning, partner implementation, design, and product management teams. Prior to founding buySAFE, Steve was both a vice president of Assurance Capital Corporation and a director of the Financial Risk Solutions practice within the Rutherfoord Companies. He has also worked with PayMyBills.com, USF&G Insurance, and The Travelers.

Rhys Williams

President, New World Angels

Rhys L. Williams is President of Tequesta BioVentures, which focuses on commercializing biotechnologies from leading universities and research institutions in South Florida. Mr. Williams is also President of New World Angels, Inc., a member-managed angel investment group based in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Palm Beaches region. His prior business experience includes roles as a venture capitalist with SI Ventures (GarnerGroup affiliated fund), finance and legal executive with Ixion Biotechnology, financial consultant with Smith Barney, and operations supervisor with American Express. He serves the Boards of the Univ. of Floridas Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Leadership Florida (Florida Chamber of Commerce affiliate), South Florida Science Museum (Palm Beach County)(Chairman). He is also an advisor to Ocean Ridge Biosciences and co-chair of the underwriting committee for the JFK Medical Center Foundation. He is a member of BioFlorida, the Economic Council of the Palm Beaches, the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, the Harvard Club of the Palm Beaches, and Florida Blue Key. He earned his bachelors degree from Harvard College magna cum laude and both MBA and J.D. degrees from Univ. of Florida, where he served as MBA class president as well. He is admitted to the Florida and New York Bars and speaks Spanish and basic Portuguese. A military veteran, his 14 years of active and reserve component service included command of an Army Special Forces combat diver detachment and deployments to Latin America. A fifth generation South Floridian, Rhys lives in Delray Beach with his wife Dr. Lorna Sohn Williams and their two children.

Jeff Bell

Corporate Vice President, Global Marketing, Microsoft - Interactive Entertainment Business

As corporate vice president of Global Marketing for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft Corp., Jeff Bell is responsible for worldwide marketing strategies and plans for the Xbox and Games for Windows businesses. His team serves Microsoft Game Studios games, the Xbox and Games for Windows platforms and brands, global marketing promotions for Xbox Live, and customer relationship management.

Since joining Microsoft in June 2006, Bell's team has produced the launch campaigns for "Gears of War" and "Viva Piñata," and implemented the first global and vertically integrated marketing campaign for Xbox, Next Generation Now. Bell brings a consumer experience and innovation to the Interactive Entertainment Business from his most recent experience at the Chrysler Group, where he was largely credited with helping revitalize the Jeep and Chrysler brands and was recognized by Advertising Age as Interactive Marketer of the Year in 2005. He received the MediaPost Online All-Star Award in 2005 and was recently named one of the 21 Most Intriguing People in Marketing by min Magazine. And following the record-setting launch of "Halo 3," Bell was named to Advertising Age's 2007 MARKETING 50.

Bell graduated from Kenyon College and holds a master's degree in international economics from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Art Chang

Founder and CEO, Tipping Point Partners

Art Chang is the founder and CEO of Tipping Point Partners, an investment and advisory firm focused on innovative applications of technologies that enable the relationship between audiences and their passions, via the Internet and mobile, for consumers and enterprises. Art also serves as the CEO of haystack.com.

Art's career prior to Tipping Point Partners has been focused on the B2B side of consumer-facing industries where he was a founder or manager in seven start-ups, including hooloo.com, an e-commerce site for Chinese-speaking consumers (sold in 2000); and Splendid Television, the boutique television program finance and distribution company behind shows like BBC/A&E's Victoria & Albert and TNT's James Dean.

Art has 10 years of experience in venture capital, where he worked on the Telemedia Accelerator, an incubator for interactive television; concert.tv, the live music television channel; CRC Jianian, the privatized distribution arm of the Chinese national music agency; and IGA Worldwide, the in-game advertising company. Art was a professionally trained violinist and had an architecture career that culminated in I.M. Pei's firm. Art really enjoyed waiting tables while a student at Yale.

Darren McPhee

Senior Marketing Manager, Gaming, Advanced Micro Devices

As AMD's Senior Marketing Manager of Gaming, Darren McPhee is responsible for oversight in the areas of go-to-market strategy, ISV marketing management, OEM/channel partner marketing management, the AMD GAME! Website, and the AMD gaming community. Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. McPhee held management positions with AMD's Notebook Graphics Marketing business. Darren McPhee holds a BBA from Cape Breton University and a MBA from St. Mary's University.

Steve Perkins

Marketing Director, Electronic Art's Mythic Studio

A ten-year veteran of the computer and video game industry, Steve Perkins is Director of Marketing for Electronic Arts. He currently partners with EA Mythic, the Fairfax, VA-based studio responsible for the development and operations of the massively multiplayer online role-playing games Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™, Dark Age of Camelot™, and Ultima Online™. In his role, he oversees all aspects of the strategic global marketing for these titles, including advertising, promotions, PR, online, and the management of EA Mythic's relationships with key strategic marketing partners.

Steve received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business (WG '98) prior to joining Electronic Arts in 1998. While at EA, he has worked on many high-profile computer and videogame franchises, including SimCity, The Sims, James Bond, Black & White, Lord of the Rings, and Battlefield.

Roy Taylor

Vice President of Content Relations, NVIDIA

Roy Taylor joined NVIDIA in February 2000 as Vice President of Sales for Europe, Middle East, Africa and India (EMEAI). In 2005 Mr. Taylor relocated to California to work out of NVIDIA's head quarters in Santa Clara. In his current role Roy is Vice President of Content Relations responsible for the development and support of third party PC software as well as NVIDIA support tools and publication. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mr. Taylor spent over eight years running his own business as a manufacturer's representative for amongst others IBM Microelectronics and NEC Semiconductors. Prior to this, he held various management positions at electronics and component companies. Mr. Taylor holds a Diploma in Business Studies from Mid Kent College of High Education in Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom.

Spencer Reiss

Contributing Editor, WIRED Magazine

Wired Contributing Editor Spencer Reiss Joined the magazine in 1996, after a dozen years on the cutting edge of old media as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek. Focused on innovations ranging from new media and telecommunications to energy and private space travel, he also directs the Monaco Media Forum, an annual gathering of global media executives. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University, Spencer lives with his wife and three perfect children in Lakeville, Connecticut.

Alex Chan

Director, Connected Systems Division, Microsoft

Alex Chan is Director of the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft. His team is developing an Internet Service Bus (ISB) and incubating new technologies around cloud services.

Before Microsoft, Mr. Chan helped start a new business venture at Cisco Systems to develop networking infrastructure for distributed applications and services. His earlier efforts in Cisco resulted in the creation of market-leading voice over IP products. He holds thirteen US Patents.

Mr. Chan received his MBA with Honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was on the Director's List. He also holds a Master's degree from the University of Waterloo and a BSc from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, both in computer science.

Ramon Estopina

Strategy Director, BT Design, BT

Ramon Estopina is Strategy Director for Global Integration in BT Design. BT Design is BT's design and delivery business. Ramon and his team focus on promoting business awareness and identifying new opportunities for the BT Web21C platform. Their aim is to enable companies and developers to build successful and innovative software applications using BT's Web21c technologies.

Ramon joined BT Design in 2005 and has held various positions in IT and Strategy including responsibility for Strategic Partnerships and Business Intelligence.

Ramon holds an MBA from University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He lives in Washington DC with his wife and one year old son.

Adam Gross

Vice President of Platform and Developer Marketing, Salesforce.com

Adam Gross is Vice President of Platform and Developer Marketing at Salesforce.com. At the company, Gross focuses on bringing platform, integration and development technologies to developers, ISVs and companies around the world to build on-demand applications on the Force.com platform and deliver them through the AppExchange marketplace.  This work includes launching the company's first Web services API, which has grown to become one of the most popular business Web services available, accounting for over 50 percent of all of Salesforce.com's traffic.  

Prior to Salesforce.com, Adam was an early innovator in the Web services market, serving as Vice President of Product Marketing at GrandCentral Communications (recently acquired by Google). Prior to GrandCentral, Gross co-founded Personify, a San Francisco-based software company that provided personalization and analytics systems for some of the largest sites on the Web, and served as a technology analyst in Stanford Research Institute's Media Futures Program. Gross holds a B.S. in New Media Systems and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gross is an accomplished speaker, having recently presented at some of the industry's most popular business and technology conferences including O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, MIT Technology Review Emerging Technology Conference, InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum, NYPHP Conference, eBay's Developer Conference, IBD Network – Web 2.0 and the Enterprise, Web 2.0 Expo.

Jonathan Rochelle

Senior Product Manager, Google Docs, Google

Jonathan Rochelle is a Senior Product Manager at Google's New York City office. He is primarily responsible for the development of the spreadsheets application within the Google Docs and Google Apps product set. Prior to joining Google, Jonathan co-founded two companies - ITK Solutions, a Wall Street-based consulting firm, and 2Web Technologies, a Software product company responsible for the development of the XL2Web product, which was acquired by Google as the technology behind Google spreadsheets. Jonathan also has 16 years of prior experience as a software engineer and Applications Development manager on Wall Street and received his BS degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany.

Rick Treitman

Entrepreneur in Residence, Adobe Systems

As Entrepreneur in Residence in Adobe's Business Productivity Business Unit, Treitman oversees product development and marketing for Buzzword, an innovative online word processor for the Web. He joined Adobe in 2007 through the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, where he served as CEO. Prior to founding Virtual Ubiquity in 2005, Treitman was one of the early employees at Lotus and very well plugged into the Boston software scene. At Lotus he was Director for the Document Products Group, where he shipped a DOS word processor called Manuscript and formed Lotus Books. He went on to create and own Softpro Books a well-known Boston-area technical bookstore. He sold the store in June 2005 to start Virtual Ubiquity. Prior to Lotus, he held marketing positions at Interactive Data Corporation, Electronics for Medicine, and Polaroid where he created the Polaroid Learning Project.

Jeff Barr

Senior Web Services Evangelist, Amazon.com

As Senior Web Services Evangelist, Jeff Barr is focused on furthering awareness of web services and inspiring developers to create innovative applications using Amazon Web Services. Barr meets regularly with developers throughout the U.S. and abroad to introduce Amazon Web Services' expanding platform and showcase businesses that currently utilize the program's services.

Barr joined Amazon in August 2002 as a Senior Software Developer on the Associates team and has a longstanding interest in Web services and programmatic information interchange. He has held development and management positions at Microsoft, KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, was a co-founder of Visix Software, and launched the news feed service, Syndic8.com.

Razmik Abnous

Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Documentum Founding Engineer, EMC Content Management and Archiving

Razmik Abnous leads EMC Content Management and Archiving (CMA) technology strategy and direction, driving innovation and advanced development for CMA, providing technology leadership to strategic customers and partners, and leading CMA industry standards efforts. Mr. Abnous is one of the original designers of the Documentum platform architecture. He has lead the development and architecture of several Documentum product releases since the inception of Documentum.

Mr. Abnous has more than 25 years of experience in leading and architecting software products. Prior to EMC Documentum, he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation and Ashton-Tate on object-relational databases, artificial intelligence, image-processing systems and silicon compilers.

Mr. Abnous received a BS and MS in Applied Math and Computer Science from the University of Louisville. He is the co-author of two books: Intelligent Offices and Object Orientation, both published by John Wiley.

Geoff Cook

CEO, myYearbook.com

Geoff Cook founded EssayEdge.com and ResumeEdge.com from a Harvard dorm in 1997. Geoff was one of the original dorm room dot com entrepreneurs and has been featured in Wired, Rolling Stone, ABC News, CNBC, USA Today, NPR, etc. His Wired feature outing himself as Dorm Room Entrepreneur at Harvard helped lead Harvard to lift its centuries-old ban on dorm room entrepreneurship by the next school year.

Upon graduation, Geoff grew CyberEdit to 500+ freelance editors and $5 Million in revenue with profits of $1+ Million per year. Geoff walked away with millions when he sold his company to The Thomson Corporation.

So when his kid sister approached him with her own great idea for a Web site, Geoff listened. He's the first investor and a founding executive of myYearbook.com, the online social network that is ruffling the feathers of MySpace.com and Facebook. These days, the new dad leaves the day-to-day management of the site to his younger siblings while he handles investor interest from Silicon Valley and forms new business partnerships with A-list brands and companies from Cliffs Notes to Disney. Geoff's goal: to take online marketing way beyond banner ads and make it a relevant part of myYearbook members' online experience.

Wayne McLeish, LL.B.

President and CEO, DRN Commerce Inc.

Wayne started DRN Commerce in 1998. Before DRN Commerce, Wayne was a successful partner in a large law firm. His experience and a thorough understanding of financial services industry needs proved invaluable in developing the linkage among financial institutions and their service providers. At the helm of DRN Commerce, Wayne oversees all aspects of DRN's technology and service offerings for financial institutions.

DRN Commerce has developed powerful proprietary database software that provides companies with the ability to communicate and collaborate with their outside service providers. Hundreds of companies currently use DRN's collaborative software products including 5 of the largest 100 banks in North America. DRN is a world leader in providing collaborative commerce technology solutions for the financial services industry. DRN's software and has allowed its clients to significantly increase performance while reducing administrative expenses within recovery processes. DRN Commerce was recently acquired by First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) a Fortune 500 Company.

Wayne holds a Degree in Economics from The University of Western Ontario and a Degree in Law from the University of Windsor. He and his wife Joanne have four children.

David St. Clair

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, MEDecision, Inc.

David St.Clair founded MEDecision in 1988 and has served as the chairman of the board and chief executive officer since 1988. From 1985 until 1988, Mr. St.Clair served as the vice president of GMIS, Inc., which was subsequently acquired by McKesson Corporation. From 1981 until 1985, Mr. St.Clair served as a principal for Hay Associates in its strategic management group. Mr. St.Clair received a B.A.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Richard Zippel

Vice President of Technology in the Chief Technologist's Office, Sun Microsystems

Richard Zippel, Ph.D., is Vice President of Technology for Sun Microsystems in the Chief Technologist's Office, where he manages activities to make utility computing accessible to developers and cost effictive to customers. Previously, he was director of HP's Research Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass, where he also served as the technical lead for HP's initiative into the healthcare and life sciences market.

Rich was a professor, head of the computer science department, and a founding member of Israel's first private university, the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. He has also been a faculty member at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research interests included protein databases, programming languages and systems for physical simulations and computational fluid dynamics, symbolic computation, MOS circuit design and VLSI CAD tools.

Josh Quittner

Executive Editor, Fortune

Josh Quittner is FORTUNE's Executive Editor, covering technology and Silicon Valley. He is based out of FORTUNE's San Francisco Bureau.

Previously, Quittner served as Managing Editor of Business 2.0. Prior to that he served as technology editor for Time magazine and editor of Time.com. He has also served as managing editor of On, a monthly guide to personal technology. He anchored "TimeTech," a daily 60-second technology report distributed by CBS Radio Network, and founded the Netly News, a daily feed on digital news and culture, while working at Pathfinder, Time Inc.'s pioneer online site. He also worked as a staff writer at Newsday, where he created the weekly Life in Cyberspace column.

Quittner was named as one of the 20 most influential technology journalists three years in a row by Adweek's Technology Marketing magazine and as one of the "21 most intriguing people in magazines" by MIN in 2003.

Quittner is a graduate of Grinnell College and the Columbia School of Journalism. Quittner is an accomplished speaker and media commentator. He is also the coauthor of five books with his wife, New York Times online shopping columnist, Michelle Slatalla. They live in Mill Valley, Calif., with their three daughters.

Joseph Braue

Senior Vice President and Group Director of Light Reading, CMP

Joseph Braue has overall responsibility for the Light Reading portfolio that provides broad and deep coverage of the telecommunications industry with news and analysis through LightReading.com and paid research through HeavyReading.com.  Braue has more than 20 years of editorial and publishing experience and has been the recipient of several Jesse H. Neal Awards for editorial excellence.  Most recently, Braue was senior vice president for CMP Integrated Marketing Solutions (CIMS). Prior to that, Braue was vice president and group publisher for Data Communications Magazine and founded tele.com Magazine in 1996.  Braue has a BS in communications from St. John's University, New York.

Richard Castellini

Vice President, Consumer Marketing, CareerBuilder.com

As Vice President of Consumer Marketing, Richard Castellini leads CareerBuilder.com's efforts in developing online and offline marketing strategies to continually drive quality job seeker traffic to the site. He conducts in-depth analysis of worker attitudes and job seeker behavior from a national, industry and local standpoint to determine the most effective ways to reach targeted audiences and deliver relevant candidates to employers. Prior to taking on this role, Castellini served as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, where he helped to expand the company's vast network of partners by successfully bringing CareerBuilder.com's recruitment resources to key national and vertical Web sites.

Castellini came to CareerBuilder.com from DigitalWork.com, where he specialized in technology development. He also has experience in the field of Human Resources, having served as a lead project manager for Hewitt Associates, a global benefits consulting firm. He has an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Richard M. Guest

Managing Director, New York, Tribal DDB Worldwide

Throughout his career, Rich Guest has focused on leveraging his trough the line experience to help clients develop idea-centric communication programs that capitalize on multiple media touch points to amplify the impact of the communication. He is leveraging this experience to help clients define Integration 2.0…Next generation models of marketing integration that leverage their entire agency roster.

Rich is currently responsible for managing the New York Office of Tribal DDB Worldwide. In this capacity he manages the Office's 60+ employees and oversees several key client relationships including Johnson & Johnson, Jose Cuervo International, and Diageo.

Previously, Rich spent several years at Tribal DDB's Chicago Office working in a variety of Client Service, Business Development, and Marketing Strategy roles. He managed agency relationships with including Dell, LensCrafters, Microsoft, McDonald's, Qwest, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Universal Studios. During this time he helped McDonald's craft their first In-Game Marketing Strategy and negotiate relationships with Electronic Arts and Activision which saw the company's products place The Sims, The Sims Online, and other major video game titles.

Rich has also worked at DDB Chicago, J. Walter Thompson (Detroit), and comScore Networks. He has been awarded an M.B.A from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.A. with Honors from Indiana University Bloomington.

Richard Kosinski

Vice President, Political Advertising, Yahoo!, Inc.

Richard Kosinski leads Yahoo!'s political advertising unit, which was created to help political candidates and issue and advocacy organizations take advantage of Yahoo!'s extensive array of online advertising and marketing solutions. Richard is responsible for sales, marketing, research, and the development of advertising platforms and tools that candidates need to fund raise, acquire supporters, and activate the voter base.

Richard has 19 years experience providing strategic communications direction for some of the world's largest firms, including a ten-year stint as a leader of advertising sales at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal.

Richard has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Arizona, and executive education credentials from the Harvard Business School and Columbia University.

Zdenek C. Kratky

Senior Customer Marketing Manager, Philips Norelco

Zdenek Kratky is a senior customer marketing manager on the Philips Norelco Shaving and Beauty business. His responsibilities have included managing all U.S. marketing and consumer communication activities related to the male trimmer and grooming business as well as the male additive electric shaver business. He has also managed the above the line advertising/media budget for the Philips Norelco brand. Currently, Zdenek is working on management agenda strategic initiatives related to Philips Consumer Lifestyle brand activities.

Prior to his current role, Zdenek worked as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, based out of Boston Massachusetts. Zdenek's work focused on strategy development for industrial conglomarates as well as general management topics across a broad range of industries. Earlier he worked as a brand manager for Nestle in the Czech and Slovak republics, overseeing the Nescafe, Nesquik and other instant drinks portfolio brands consumer and commercial business activities.

Zdenek is a graduate of the Simon School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.

Rohit Bhargava

Senior Vice President, Digital Strategy & Marketing, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide | 360 Digital Influence (Moderator)

Rohit leads the interactive marketing team at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide and is a founding member of the pioneering Digital Influence Group at Ogilvy - a leading agency in helping clients around the world navigate the social media universe.

He publishes the award winning Influential Marketing blog (www.influentialmarketingblog.com) and has been featured in media worldwide including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, The Globe & Mail (Canada), Marketing China (China) and AdWeek (Australia).

Rohit is also a popular speaker on marketing and social media and is currently authoring a book focused on the necessity of putting personality into marketing called "Personality Not Included" which will be published by McGraw-Hill in spring of 2008.

Maryrose Dunton

Head of User Experience, YouTube

Maryrose Dunton is the head of User Experience and the founding member of the YouTube Product team. After working with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen at PayPal, Maryrose joined YouTube in 2005. She has built the Product and User Experience teams from the ground up, placing particular emphasis on creating user-centric and innovative product solutions across all YouTube platforms.

Maryrose has a lifelong passion for technology and social responsibility. She has used the intersection of the two to bring thousands of nonprofits to YouTube, helping them reach a broader audience through video. Maryrose is also responsible for creating and launching the YouTube Nonprofit Program, which provides nonprofits enhanced branding, promotion and fundraising capabilities through the site.

Patricia Goldman

Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, March of Dimes

Patty Goldman is Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at the March of Dimes. Her responsibilities include all areas of marketing the organization and building and marketing e-business projects. She focuses on exploring how technology can better enable the Foundation to streamline processes, more effectively deliver health messages, and market to a broader audience. She has spent the last 6 years enabling new ways to both fundraise online and raise awareness of the organization through traditional and online media.

Prior to her tenure at the March of Dimes, Goldman was Co-Founder and President of e4media, a Web development company that specialized in content management and e-commerce deployment. She was also the head of production for FoxNews.com, where she helped to create and manage a site that provided up-to-the-minute news to millions of customers. She also has worked in the entertainment business, for both Disney and Warner Brothers.

She holds a BA with Honors in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, and a master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California.

Joshua Peck

ONE Campaign

Profile coming soon.

Ben Rattray

Founder and CEO, Change.org

Ben Rattray is the founder and CEO of Change.org www.change.org, a social network that connects nonprofits, social activists, and engaged citizens around the world. He was previously a political consultant and co-founder of GFS, a social entrepreneurship venture that provides software to help nonprofits and municipalities navigate the federal grant process. Ben is a frequent speaker about how organizations and activists can use the social web to advance social change and is a graduate of Stanford and the London School of Economics.

Sebastian Traeger

CEO, Razoo

Sebastian Traeger is the CEO of Razoo.com,  a social network for social good whose goal is to inspire and empower people to give and serve.  Previously, he co-founded, built and sold two web businesses: Christianity.com, a popular portal featuring news and resources and Silas Partners, a web consulting company that helps non-profit organizations with online strategy, marketing and fund raising.  In 1998, Sebastian helped launch Village Phone, a telecommunications company with operations in developing countries.  Prior experience included two years as a Management Consultant for Dean & Company Strategy Consultants. In this role, he advised major corporations in industries ranging from banking to telecommunications to utilities. Sebastian and his wife Nikki live in Washington, DC where he is an active member of Capitol Hill Baptist Church and serves on the Boards of two non-profit organizations.

Rebecca Masisak

Co-CEO, TechSoup

Rebecca Masisak joined TechSoup in 2001 to launch TechSoup Stock and chart its strategic direction and growth. In 2007, this award-winning technology product philanthropy service helped corporations distribute over 840,000 donated and discounted technology products. 40,000 nonprofits and NGOs have saved up to $239M that can be redirected to direct services instead of infrastructure. Donating partners include Microsoft, Symantec, Cisco Systems, Adobe, BEA Systems, and Intuit.

Ms. Masisak was a founder and Senior VP of Strategy and Operations for a venture-backed startup Internet Service and Telecommunications Provider serving 350,000 customers and a Managing Consultant with Coopers & Lybrand.

Rebecca holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.S. from Duquesne University. Rebecca volunteers to develop entrepreneurship in teenagers around the world through Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE).

Russ McGuire

Director of Corporate Strategy, Sprint

Russ McGuire is a leading strategist and visionary in the telecom industry.  As director of strategy for Sprint, he is responsible for developing the strategic vision and competitive strategies for the $40 billion+ telecommunications giant.

Mr. McGuire is also the author of The Power of Mobility, a book about how businesses can prosper in the next technology revolution, published by John Wiley & Sons.  His daily weblog on these topics can be read at www.law-of-mobility.com.

Mr. McGuire's experience includes 20+ years in the telecom industry.  Prior to joining Sprint, Mr. McGuire was Chief Strategy Officer for TeleChoice, and prior to that he was vice president of strategic development for Williams Communications.  Mr. McGuire has also founded or co-founded two technology start-ups.  He began his telecom career as a software developer for Northern Telecom.

Dr. Lee W. McKnight

CEO, President, Chairman and Founder, Wireless Grids Corporation

Dr. McKnight is the visionary founder of Wireless Grids Corporation, established in 2004. Professor McKnight is co-inventor of Wireless Grids Corporation's patent-pending technology, winner of the 'Most Innovative Technology or Product' Award from UNYTECH05, and recognized as a 'Transformative Innovation,' by the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2008. He is also founder and President of consultancy Marengo Research, and founding Board Member of Summerhill Biomass Systems. He is Director of the Wireless Grids Lab and Associate Professor of Information Studies in the top-ranked iSchool at Syracuse University, where he participates in the Internet Governance Project and lectures on 'Promoting Innovation' for MIT professional education. He was recognized as Massachusetts Telecom Professor of the Year by Mass High Tech, and previously taught at MIT, Tufts and Harvard. He is the co-author or co-editor of 4 MIT Press books and many articles on Internet technology, economics, management and policy. He speaks at business and academic conferences worldwide to share his vision on the future of industry, information technology, and society. He has been quoted by The Economist, Business Week, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and appeared on AP radio, NPR, CNBC, TechTV, WCNY-TV, and Voice of America. Lee's PhD is from MIT, MA from Johns Hopkins, and BA (magna cum laude) from Tufts University.

Derrick Oien

Co-Founder and President, Intercasting Corp.

Derrick Oien is a seasoned operations executive with an extensive background in entertainment, media and technology. As co-founder and president of Intercasting Corporation, Derrick oversees the company's overall strategic direction, managing product development and negotiating strategic partnerships.

Prior to co-founding Intercasting Corporation in March 2004, Oien was President of Vivendi Universal Net USA, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal that operated MP3.com, Rollingstone.com, eMusic, and Trusonic from December 2001 until April 2003.

Oien was COO of MP3.com from January 2001 until the acquisition in August 2001, which resulted in his promotion to President and COO, and in December to head of all of Vivendi's Internet music properties. Oien worked at MP3.com starting in July 1999, holding a number of positions including strategic account management through January 2000. In January 2000 he became Vice President of Operations until his subsequent promotion to COO in January 2001.

Previously, he held a variety of positions with companies such as Universal Music Group, Computer Sciences Corporation, BDO Seidman, and Sony Pictures Studios in primarily operations or technology roles.

Oien graduated Magna Cum Laude from California State University Los Angeles with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Information Systems.

Mark Pecen

VP, Advanced Technology, Research in Motion Limited

Mark Pecen serves as Vice President, Advanced Technology for Research in Motion Limited (RIM), makers of the BlackBerry wireless devices, systems and services. He reports to RIM CEO and founder Mike Lazaridis and is responsible for corporate strategy and economic assessment of advanced wireless technology investments, commercialization of applied research, strategic technology partnerships and customer collaboration on future technology deployment.

Pecen is the founder of the RIM Wireless and Networking Advanced Research Centre and founder of the RIM CTO Board. Current priorities include development of technologies for the evolution of existing and creation of Next Generation wireless systems. Since 1988, Pecen has invented a number of technologies adopted in global standards for the Global System for Mobile telecommunication (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution (EDGE), Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) and various Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) standards.

He serves on the boards of several technology-focused industrial, academic and governmental associations in North America and Europe and is a regular advisor to the Canadian government regarding global regulatory policy matters related to wireless communication.

Pecen holds more than 70 patents in the areas of mobile communication, networking and computing, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Scott Snyder

President & CEO, Decision Strategies International
Senior Fellow, Management Department, The Wharton School
Adjunct Faculty, EMTM Program, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Dr. Snyder is the President and CEO of Decision Strategies International. He has over 20 years of experience in business leadership, strategic planning, decision support systems, and technology management for both Fortune 500 companies and start-up ventures. Dr. Snyder has held executive positions with several Fortune 500 and was selected as a candidate for Entrepreneur of the Year for the Philadelphia Region. He has is co-author of the book Inside the Minds: Small Business Growth Strategies: Goals for Successful CEOs (Apatore Books, December 2007).

Dr. Snyder is a Senior Fellow in the Management Department at the Wharton School, an Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, has lectured at MIT and RIT, and sits on various advisory boards. Dr. Snyder earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania and has an executive degree from USC in Telecommunications Management.

Amol Sharma

Telecom Reporter, Wall Street Journal

Amol Sharma covers the telecom industry for The Wall Street Journal. He has written about the maturation of the U.S. cellphone industry and the shift carriers are making to new data services and business models. His stories have turned a lens on new trends in the industry, from mobile advertising and location-based services to emerging technologies. Amol has also reported consistently on the convergence of Internet, media and wireless through extensive coverage of major developments like Apple's entry with the landmark iPhone and broadcasters' early forays into mobile TV. He reported on Google's plans to build an open operating platform several weeks before the company made its official Android announcement. Amol has also tracked major corporate stories, such as AT&T's merger with BellSouth and the demise of the Sprint Nextel merger. He has broken a series of stories during Sprint's decline about the executive shuffle at the top and the carrier's plans to deploy WiMax.