SHANE OWENBY
Red Hat Asia Pacific
Regional Manager, ASEAN

As the Regional Manager, Shane is responsible for the the overall business operations in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia which include sales leadership, staff management and tactical strategy planning.

Prior to his appointment, Shane was the Manager of Red Hat's Asia Pacific Sales Engineering team and was directly involved in closing large Enterprise Linux opportunities. Prior to Red Hat, Shane held other managerial and technical positions at an Open Source collaborative software company, CollabNet Inc. and in the Linux Technology Center (LTC) at IBM.

Shane's other interests are traveling, baseball and rugby.

NICK CARR
Red Hat Inc.
Global Product Management Director

Mr Nick Carr joined Red Hat in 2002 and is Product Management Directorfor the Red Hat Enterprise Linux family of products. Born and educated in England, Mr Carr worked for Digital Equipment Corporation across Europe before moving to the United States. Mr Carr has over 30 years experience in the computer industry, covering server and storage hardware, and operating system software, in both proprietary and open source environments. Prior to joining Red Hat, Nick worked at Mission Critical Linux, EMC, and Compaq Computer Corp.

PATRICK CHAN
Asia/Pacific Vertical Markets IDC
Research Director, Emerging Technologies

Patrick Chan, Ph.D., is currently with IDC as the Research Director, focusing on emerging technologies like Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Activity Monitoring, Composite Applications, Enterprise Application Integration, Grid Computing, Enterprise Infrastructure, and other emerging areas. Dr. Patrick Chan previously worked with standard organisations OASIS as the Asia Pacific representative to support and expand the consortium's activities across Asia/Pacific through focused educational and business development activities. He has over 15 years of academic and industry consulting experience, serving in roles as diverse as technical director, global architect, e-government specialist, business development and alliances director, and research scientist.

DR PUTCHONG UTHAYOPAS
Thai National Grid Center, Software Industry Promotion Agency
Director

Dr. Putchong Uthayopas received his Ph.D from University Louisiana at Lafayette in 1996. His major research interest is in parallel/ distributed computing tools and environment, cluster computing, grid computing. He is currently the Director of High Performance Computing and Networking Center, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Thailand. From 1998 to 2001, he was a visiting scholar at Argonne National Laboratory in the summer. Dr. Putchong is actively involved in many cluster and grid computing activities in Thailand and Asia Pacific. He is a regional executive member of IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing, Co-Chair of Grid Working group under Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium, member of PRAGMA and ApGrid. He is also an advisor to the Sub-committee for Information Technology, Science and Technology committee, Thailand House of Representative. Recently, he was appointed by Ministry of Information and Communication Technology to be Vice-Chairman of Thailand National Grid Committee.

JAMES CLARK
Thai Open Source Software Center
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

James has been writing open source software since 1987. His first big project was the open source implementation of the standard Unix typesetting system, which was donated to the GNU project and is now a standard part of Linux. James was a major investor and a director of SoftQuad Software before it was acquired by Corel. Currently, James provides a legal framework for various open source activities through his company, Thai Open Source Software Center. An expert in SGML/XML, James was awarded the first XML Cup in 2001. Since November 2004, he has started working at Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA) at the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology promoting open source in Thailand. James also support a number of charitable projects in Thailand, mostly related to education, particularly in rural areas. His main partner in these projects is PDA. In particular, he supports Lamplaimat Pattana School.

VAUGHAN WOODS
Collabnet Asia Pacific
Vice President and General Manager

Vaughan Woods, Vice President and General Manager of Collabnet Asia Pacific, is leading the establishment of this Open Source vanguard throughout the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to powering the Red Hat 108 site, CollabNet solutions supports more than 60 Global 2000 companies and over 800,000 software developers. CollabNet has been recognized for its leadership with 10 major industry awards in 2006 including the Red Herring 100 and the Codie Award. Previously Director of IBM Rational for Asia Pacific, Vaughan has been involved in the software industry for more than 15 years and is a passionate advocate of customer service, value and industry transformation. Mr. Woods makes his home in Singapore.

ARAKIN RAKCHITTAPOKE
Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited
Infra-Structure Platform Development ICTM

HARSHA SANJEEWA
hSenid Software International
Chief Technical Officer

Harsha has more than eight years of software engineering experience on a wide range of enterprise systems. As a Chief Technical Officer, he is involved in envisioning future direction for hSenid mobile products. He is also involved in deriving and maintaining road maps for hSenid mobile and Open Source products. He has been closely working and promoting hSenid’s Open Source HRM system, OrangeHRM from its inception.

Prior to joining hSenid, Harsha worked with Idiom Technologies, Inc as a Virtusa employee in the capacity of a Senior Software Engineer. Harsha is also one of the founders of the software startup SriLogic (pvt) Limited, where he worked as a Solutions Architect. Harsha has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

QUAH HAK TENG
Red Hat Asia Pacific
Sales Engineering Manager, ASEAN

Quah Hak Teng is a technical consultant at Red Hat Asia Pacific. Quah's responsibility involves creating and meeting demand for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform in ASEAN. A Red Hat Certified Engineer, Sun Certified Java Programmer and Certified Solaris Administrator, Quah facilitates the adoption of Linux among partners and customers with his many years of experience building the architecture and providing support for Linux and Unix solutions. Prior to Red Hat, he was a developer consultant and technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems, focusing on guiding enterprise solution developers.

RAMESH RAJARAMAN
Oracle Corporation
Senior Manager, ISV Business Development

As Oracle's senior manager for Independent Software Vendor (ISV) business development in Asia Pacific, Ramesh spearheads the Oracle–Red Hat Linux Enterprise Application Porting (LEAP) Center business , supporting migration and Oracle-Linux technology enablement of ISV solutions. He has more than 15 years' of IT experience in verticals such as aviation, banking, telecommunications, retail, and healthcare.

ANOTHAI PATHOMMANIT
Atos Origin (Thailand) Ltd
Technical Consultant

Anothai has 14 years of experience in infrastructure consultancy. Anothai has expertise in systems integration, management of mission critical systems, IT consolidation, backup/recovery, and system security. He holds a Master of Science Information Technology from the Kasetsart University and is a RedHat Certified Engineer.