BRUCE BADGER
OpenSkills.org
Founder and President

Bruce is an enthusiastic technologist and the founder and president of OpenSkills.org, a global non-profit association of professional individuals. His strong technical leadership skills has contributed to his success at a wide range of IT projects, over a period of more than 25 years. He has built and deployed many systems and libraries over the past 10 years, preferring to develop software using Smalltalk, a pure Object Oriented language. Bruce is currently focusing on the evolution of the services market as Free and Open Source Software is increasingly being adopted. He has written a number of open source libraries, and is currently engaged with building the support systems for the OpenSkills.org.

DARRYL LEONG
AMD
Business Development Manager, Australia and New Zealand

As Business Development Manager, Australia and New Zealand, AMD, Darryl Leong is responsible for directing and executing AMD's sales strategy through the development of breakthrough business in the commercial and enterprise space, long-term relationships with strategic partners, and bringing enhanced value to clients. Since joining AMD in January 2006, Darryl has already significantly grown AMD's market share in the server and desktop space in both Australia and New Zealand. Darryl has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, having worked in engineering, sales consultancy, and business development roles.

MAX MCLAREN
Red Hat Australia/New Zealand
General Manager

As General Manager, Red Hat Australia and New Zealand, Max McLaren is responsible for the full spectrum of Red Hat sales, marketing and services business in Australia and New Zealand. Max has over 20 years of extensive experience in the IT industry. Prior to his appointment, Max spent 12 years with IBM and Lotus, most recently as Regional Manager, Small Medium Business, for IBM Software in Australia and New Zealand. He was also Regional Manager, Lotus, IBM Software in Australia and New Zealand, following his South East Asia and South Asia roles. Max was also Managing Director, Lotus, South Africa. Prior to joining Lotus in United Kingdom, Max held sales roles at at AT&T, and Centre-File having kick-started his career in sales with the advent of the Personal Computer (PC) revolution with IBM PC retailers, Office Efficiency Machines Ltd. and Entre Computer Centre, in London. Max grew up and schooled in Zimbabwe, and has a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Natal.

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

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.

SCOTT CRENSHAW
Red Hat, Inc.
General Manager, Enterprise Linux and Platform Products

Scott Crenshaw leads Red Hat's Platform Products Group, where he holds P&L responsibility for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as the company's storage, clustering systems management, and security and identify product lines. Prior to joining Red Hat, Scott was CEO of NTRU, an security technology vendor whose investors included Greylock, Sony and Texas Instruments. Scott held a number of executive positions at enterprise software vendor Datawatch, most recently as Vice President of Business Development. Scott was a Sloan Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management; he received an MBA from MIT and a B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.

SIMON SPENCER
National Australia Bank
Manager Enterprise Services - Technology

Formerly of Citigroup in New York and a chief technology officer at two successful dot-coms in the United States and Australia, Mr Spencer joined the National Australia Bank four years ago to drive a number of innovation programmes in Linux, Grid, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Re-engineering (BRE) and develop an overall Enterprise Architecture governance framework. He aims to ensure that technology investments in major programmes such as International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Basel II were leveraged to deliver a long term transformation to the National Australia Bank.

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BRAD MURDOCH
JBoss Inc.
Vice President, International Operations

Brad Murdoch is presently Vice President, International Operations, JBoss, a division of Red Hat. Most recently, Brad was the Vice President of Service and Operations for JBoss, Inc. and was instrumental in setting up of an international service and training delivery organisation of JBoss. He was the man behind JBoss's emergence as the leader in delivering the best support among the Java EE middleware vendors. Brad joined JBoss from Wind River Systems, a market leader in embedded software solutions, where he was Vice President, Strategic Alliances. In that role, he was responsible for the company’s partnership strategy, including the alliance with Red Hat Software that took Wind River into the Linux market. Brad's 20-year career included engineering and sales positions at Unisys Corporation, Hewlett Packard Limited and Clarity Software. He holds an honour's degree in computing science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

JAN MARK HOLZER
Red Hat, Inc.
Consulting Engineer

Jan Mark Holzer is a consulting engineer in the Emerging Technologies Group, Red Hat, Inc .In this role, Jan evangelises emerging technologies to Red Hat's large and strategic customers, interfacing among customers, field and the Emerging Technology Group. His current focuses are Xen, virtualisation in the datacentre, Stateless and other upcoming technologies in the Linux and datacentre space. He is also running early adopter programmes for customers who want to deploy Xen. Jan has more than 15 years of experience as the IT/datacentre architect and consulting engineer at Digital, Compaq, HP and Red Hat, helping customers to leverage emerging technologies in their datacentre environments. He has also worked on many mission critical projects with customers with remedial issues and headed up a group of consulting engineers providing fly-and-fix support directly out of Research and Development organisations. In his role, he has worked with many Fortune 100 companies and worked on and supported various UNIX, Linux and other operating systems.

MARTIN ZIERER
Red Hat Australia/New Zealand
Senior Solution Architect

Martin Zierer joined Red Hat Australia/New Zealand as a solution architect in October 2005. Martin works closely with the local Red Hat Sales team to lead the pre-sales effort for Australia. Martin provides technical expertise in the deployment of enterprise solutions on open source and Linux technologies. His expertise is in enabling solutions on new hardware platforms to drive cost reduction, higher performance and standardisation of IT infrastructure. Before joining Red Hat, Martin worked as Solution Specialist and Strategic Relationship Manager at Intel in Australia, where he was a key contributor to the inaugural production deployments of Oracle 9i RAC on Linux in Australia, the Teraflop cluster installation on Dell / Linux at AC3 in Sydney and the first 64-bit Itanium data warehousing solution for a financial institution in Melbourne. He was Senior Technical Consultant at Intel Solution Services and was Team Leader, Databases for Cable & Wireless Deutschland, in Munich, Germany. Martin is a Red Hat Certified Engineer and an Oracle Certified Associate with 11 years of industry experience.

OSCAR MARQUEZ
iSheriff
Chief Technology Officer

Oscar has worked extensively in the international IT security industry. He has broad experience with major security solution vendors and has participated in the establishment of several innovative technology and security companies internationally. Oscar is Chapter President for the New South Wakes Information System Security Association and sits on multiple security forums internationally. Oscar is an experienced industry visionary and technology evangelist (Novell, Siemens Praxa, BindView (Symantec), Netiq, Ubizen (Cybertrust), Tier-3) and has spoken internationally at infrastructure and IT security conferences around the world. He brings more than 17 years international technology expertise to the technology team.

SIMON TUOHEY
AIPEX Pty Ltd
Manager, Enterprise Architecture

Simon Tuohey leads the Enterprise Architecture practice in AIPEX, an Australian IT consulting company. His 25 years in IT encompasses a variety of technology leadership roles, spanning development of issue management and collaboration systems for multiple Olympic Games, whole-of-government solutions design and implementation. He has experience in product marketing field support, complex enterprise application integration initiatives, and development of real-time operating systems way back when open source wasn't even a twinkle in an eye, and "real-time" really meant something. Simon recently completed a Master of Education at University of Melbourne, focusing on management and expert practice, and organisational learning and leadership. He continues to be fascinated by how individuals develop expertise, and organisations fail to do so.

STEWART SMITH
MySQL AB
Software Engineer

Stewart Smith is a software engineer working for MySQL AB out of Melbourne, Australia. He works on MySQL Cluster - a high availability, high performance, shared nothing clustered storage engine for MySQL. He often ends up talking at a lot of places and is always willing to answer questions - more so if he's offered a good beer.