Teneros

Mark England - Senior Solutions Architect,
HP Services, Consulting and Integration Enterprise Infrastructure Practice

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Larry Link - Vice President of Sales, Palo Alto Networks

Mr. Link has a successful, 20-year track record in managing sales and marketing programs for leading information technology companies including: Juniper Networks, Neoteris, Excite@Home, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett-Packard. Most recently, Mr. Link served as Vice President of Sales, Secure Products Group at Juniper Networks. Mr. Link joined Juniper Networks with the acquisition of NetScreen in April 2004 and was responsible for growing the company's worldwide SSL-VPN customer base, revenues and channel partnerships. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Mr. Link was the VP of Worldwide Sales for Neoteris, the market leading SSL-VPN provider that was acquired by NetScreen for $300M in November 2003. As a member of the executive management team, he crafted the successful "go-to-market" strategy, acquired the initial customers, and subsequently built the category leading sales team. Prior to Neoteris, Mr. Link was VP of Sales for the @Work division of Excite@Home, and in that role led an Enterprise sales team that sold corporate Internet Access and Managed VPN services. Mr. Link held sales and sales management positions at Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. In addition to his role at Silver Peak Systems, Mr. Link is a member of the Board of Directors at Applied Identity and is on the Board of Advisors for Teneros,Inc. and several other high profile Silicon Valley start-ups.

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Will Luden - President & CEO, InfoPartners

Mr. Luden is a seasoned entrepreneur as well as a successful large company senior executive. Mr. Luden started and grew a successful chain of stereo stores and a loudspeaker manufacturing operation in Colorado in the 70's. In the 80's, as President and COO, he grew PacTel Information Systems from zero to $220 million, and as President and CEO he took Cellular One in Northern California from $9 million to $50 million. In the 90's, Mr. Luden was the President of Multicom, a home-and-family-focused CD-ROM title company funded by Meredith, the parent to Better Homes and Gardens. Mr. Luden left Multicom to participate in purchasing 50% of Purdy Electronics, a technology-based integrator and fabless manufacturer of private-label flat panel displays and related electronics, where he was the President. Prior to Info Partners, he was the CEO of an Internet-related company, Conveigh, Inc., that supplied interactive video to clients like Lowe's, True Value and Black and Decker. Mr. Luden holds a BA from the University of Colorado and an MBA from The Harvard Business School.

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Doug McLean - Vice President Products, PGP

Mr. McLean most recently served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Postini, a leading provider of enterprise email anti-spam and anti-virus perimeter solutions. Prior to Postini, he served as Vice President for Launch Pad. He has also held management positions at Xerox Corp., Apple Computer, and Hewlett-Packard. Mr. McLean has a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University as well as an MBA from Dartmouth College-Amos Tuck School.

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Arno Penzias - Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates

A Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Arno helps NEA portfolio companies in areas such as technology, strategy and intellectual property. He came to NEA from Bell Labs where he headed its research organization and served as its chief scientist. As the author of two books on information technology, numerous scientific and technical articles, and a wide-ranging portfolio of patents, Arno has received a number of honors and awards for his contributions to science, R&D management and public service—most notably, the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries related to the origin of the Universe.

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Eli Peyman - Assistant Vice President, Corporate IT, Parsons Brinkerhoff

Eli has 25 years of technology experience both hands-on and in technical management and he has worked at Parsons Brinkerhoff, Inc., a worldwide leader in planning, engineering, and program and construction management for 16 years. Parsons Brinkerhoff, at 119 years old, is the oldest continuously operating engineering firm in the world and is a leader in consulting, engineering, and design-build for all types of infrastructure and facilities, including transportation, power, water, telecommunications, and buildings. Parsons Brinkerhoff has approximately 9,000 employees in 250 offices on six continents. Eli began his career at Parsons Brinkerhoff as system analyst and in 1994 was promoted to deputy director of IT infrastructure responsible for design and management of messaging systems (Email), Networking (LAN/WAN), and servers (Active directory and servers management) at the enterprise level and today, Eli is Assistant Vice President of Corporate IT. Prior to Parsons Brinkerhoff, Eli worked at ITRC, a research telecommunications company, as systems analyst for four years. He has many technical certifications including Microsoft® (MCSE) and Novell (CNE, ECNE). Eli holds a BS in electrical engineering and an MS degree in telecommunications engineering.

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John Raos - Vice President of Professional Services, ITS

John began his career in IT Services in 1992 as a Systems Integration Specialist with a small local integrator. Within a year he was recruited away by one of the leading regional IT services providers and quickly was promoted to management and charged with running The Advanced Systems Group. In 1994, he unwillingly became a turnaround specialist as some of the company’s largest outsourcing contracts began to under-perform. Tasked with simultaneously improving service level performance, profitability, and customer satisfaction this position became a challenging and rewarding occupation. These complex contracts were comprised of multi-service relationships spanning Level 1, 2, and 3 network management, help desk and desktop support operations. In 1996, John joined one of the nation’s largest IT Services providers, where he became Professional Services Manager for the New Jersey area. John and his team were recognized for their superior performance each year and the business grew ten-fold during this time. In 1999, John left to co-found IT Solutions with the other partners heading up technical sales, implementations, and Information Systems. John attended Rider University and holds an associates degree in Math Science.

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Neil Setchell - President and CEO, ExtraTeam

Although Neil’s number one job is the day-to-day management of a multi-million dollar consulting business, there is no doubt that his heart lies out in the field, working as an Engineer. Neil’s conviction is that the only work that really matters occurs in front of ExtraTeam’s many customers. That is why, on any given day, you’ll usually find Neil either engaged in a project or else meeting with new clients. His pro-active, passionate, engineering-based style has been instrumental in defining ExtraTeam’s success.

From day one, Neil demanded (and received) an extraordinary level of commitment and technical skills from ExtraTeam’s employees. Believing that you shouldn’t ask anyone to do something you’re not prepared to do yourself, he continues to keep his technical skills up to date and is widely recognized by both Microsoft® and Cisco for his expert technical presentations and seminars Neil has a developed many skills over his 25-year career as an engineer ranging from IBM mainframes through today’s latest converged voice, data and video networks. He has assisted Microsoft® in a number of key product developments, the most recent of which has been Microsoft® Operations Manager 2005. He is a presenter at numerous technical sessions where his extensive knowledge and keen sense of humor receive enthusiastic reviews from attendees. Neil has also been featured in product success videos for both Microsoft® and Cisco.

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