GUS ROBERTSON
Red Hat Asia Pacific
Vice President, Asia Pacific

Gus Robertson joined Red Hat Asia Pacific in early 2003 and is currently Vice President, Asia Pacific. Gus is focused on driving the strategic direction of Red Hat’s sales and marketing initiatives across the region, continuing to drive growth and support both partners and customers. Before joining Red Hat, Gus has held various senior management positions within the IT industries in Asia Pacific, having worked for big brand names such as Microsoft, Visio and Lexmark. Gus has had great success developing relationships with Top 100 customers, major consulting and software firms, resellers, and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners, and has extensive regional operational experience in managing and growing technology companies.

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.

TAN SEE GHEE
AMD Far East Ltd
MSS Technology Manager, South Asia

As a technology manager, See Ghee leads a team of application engineers in South Asia to provide best-in-class pre-sales support to Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers, distributors and alliance partners. He joined AMD in October 2000 as Country Technical Manager, South Asia Pacific region with over 10 years of high-tech industry experience. See Ghee started out as a microchip engineer for Sony and has worked on VLSI 3D graphics chips design in the Central and Kihara Research Laboratory in Japan. He then moved to Sun Microsystem's Microelectronic Division in Singapore as the Field Application Engineering Manager for the processor and server platform business in this region. See Ghee has a Bachelor Degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, majoring in Computer from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

BRYAN TAN
Keystone Law Corporation
Director

Bryan Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore and is called to the Singapore and English Bars. Bryan practised in large Singapore's law firms, and international firms before starting Keystone Law Corporation, a boutique IT/Telecoms/Media law firm. Keystone's clients include leading players in the software, Internet and telecommunications industry. Bryan's areas of practice include information technology, telecommunications, biotechnology and bioinformatics, Chinese intellectual property, data protection, media/entertainment and corporate work. He has given numerous talks in Singapore and abroad to research institutes, universities, the legal profession as well as industry bodies. Bryan serves on the board of advisors to the Institute of Technical Education and the Gold Award Holders Alumni (Duke of Edinburgh's award) and the editorial board for the Electronic Evidence Journal. He has also been a member of the Law Society's Information Technology and International Relations sub-committees, as well as the LawNet Management Committee. He is also the author of Halsbury's Laws of Malaysia - E-Commerce and is currently writing the Halsbury's Laws of Singapore on E-Commerce.

HARISH PILLAY
Red Hat Asia Pacific
Manager, Partner Development

Harish Pillay has been with Red Hat Asia Pacific since September 2003 and is currently overseeing the company's Indepent Software Vendor (ISV) ecosystem initiatives in Asia Pacific. Harish joined Red Hat from Maringo Tree Technologies, an open source consultancy, training and services company he co-founded in 2002. He has held senior management and technical positions at Brokat Asia, Sembawang Media, CSA Automated and CSA Holdings.

An avid open source activist and commentator, Harish co-founded the Linux Users' Group Singapore (LUGS) in 1993 and is currently its President. He is a senior member of the Singapore Computer Society and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. In 2005, he was inducted into the Oregon State University's Engineering Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers in recognition of distinction in professional practice and service to the profession and to the society at large. Over the years, he has presented papers and spoken at numerous events such as the IX Asia 2003/2004 in Singapore, Asia Open Source Software Symposium, LinuxWorld Asia in New Delhi, COSGOV in Hanoi and Indian eGov Conference, India.

STACIE L. LEGROW
Red Hat, Inc.
Senior Commercial Attorney

Stacie LeGrow joined Red Hat,Inc. as a member of the Business Affairs team in 2004. The team negotiates revenue contracts and is responsible for educating clients and partners about Red Hat's subscription terms and licensing approach. Stacie leads the company's internal sales training programme educating Red Hat Global Sales teams on legal issues surrounding open source software. She is also responsible for the management of legal concerns surrounding worldwide hosting programme and provides legal guidance for partner channel programmes. Before joining Red Hat, Stacie served as Associate Counsel for an international logistics tracking company based in North America. Stacie holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Juris Doctor from North Carolina Central University. She is an active member of the American Bar Association and the North Carolina Bar Association.

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.

RAM SIVARAM
Oracle Corporation
Technical Manager, ATSC & LEAP Centre

Ram Sivaram is the Manager for Oracle's Advanced Technology Solution Center (ATSC) and LEAP Center based in Singapore. ATSC is chartered with building forward looking solutions based on Oracle technologies and products. LEAP Centre provides proven set of processes, tools, best practices and services designed to promote Linux adoption among Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) in this region. In his role, Ram is responsible for the operational management and technical leadership of Oracle ATSC and LEAP Centres. These two centres are key to Oracle's strategy of using Oracle's technology to build solutions with wide ranging impact. Ram has more than 18 years of software development and management experience. He holds a bachelor's degree in science and a master's degree in computer management. He is also a Project Management Institute (PMI) Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and a Board Member of PMI's Singapore Chapter.

SHANE OWENBY
Red Hat Asia Pacific
Regional Manager, ASEAN

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

SIMON J. BIRKETT
HeadWest Software, Inc.
President & CEO

Simon Birkett has 18 years of IT experience with key interests in software development processes and interaction with project and management accountability. At HeadWest, Simon is responsible for its product strategy, high level product architecture and overall strategy. Prior to establishing HeadsUp/HeadWest, Simon developed a successful development company, NetSiam and a GIS business, ViewSiam, in Thailand. ViewSiam developed sophisticated geographic information systems in Asia with clients such as General Motors, Zuellig Pharma, AIS, and Pizza Hut. Simon negotiated NetSiam’s role as Merant’s channel marketer for Thailand and was integral to building the $9 million Asian business for Merant. He subsequently provided change management consulting services to Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific in Hong Kong on Merrill’s Y2K project.

SUBRAMANIAM SATYAMOORTHY
JBoss Inc.
Director, Market Development, Asia Pacific

Satya began his career with Unisys in India and was one of the first Java geeks to ride the Java and Internet tide since 1994. He was the head of the e-business center of CGI (formerly IMRGlobal) in Florida, and was instrumental in transitioning IMRGlobal from a Y2K company to a modernisation and e-business consulting firm. He then took up the position of Head of Architecture, National Division, Nielsen Media Research, the company that pioneered media and TV ratings in United States. Satya spearheaded the use of open source products which resulted in huge savings on J2EE application server licenses. As Head of Architecture, he spoke regularly about enterprise architecture, open source software and data warehousing. Satya, an early adopter and advocate of JBoss products and open source since 2001, became the founding Director of Asia Pacific operations, JBoss Inc. A prolific and interesting speaker, Satya currently heads Market Development, Asia Pacific, JBoss,a division of Red Hat.

TING LEE YIAW
Rabobank
IT Senior Manager

Ting Lee Yiaw is the IT senior manager and open source advocate for Rabobank International, a trip-A credit rating bank. He has held various IT management portfolios in major European and American banks in the last decade. Lee Yiaw is familiar with open source technologies and tools, being an early adopter of open source 14 years ago.