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2010 Speaker Bios - Updated Regularly, Please Check Back

Paul Baffes

Founder, Dr. Worklife

Paul Baffes, Ph.D., is a work-life balance consultant, author, and motivational speaker who has helped thousands world wide to address their work-life needs, using principles he developed over a 20-year career in a wide variety of business settings.
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Duane Baldwin, MBA, CISSP

Cyber Security Practice Director, COMSYS

Duane Baldwin leads the COMSYS Information Security Governance team. He has 20+ years of information security experience, working for numerous organizations including the Department Of Defense, Bank One, and the Department Of Energy. His team works with a number of Fortune 500 companies to address industry best practices for security and risk assessment, with a particular emphasis on regulatory requirements such as SOX, GLBA, PCI, and HIPAA. These efforts include successful remediation of vulnerabilities found in one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history.
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Jay Campion

Co-founder & Managing Director, Access Venture Partners

Jay Campion is a co-founder and Managing Director of Access Venture Partners (www.accessvp.com). Based in Austin, Jay has over thirty-five years of experience in the formation and management of companies.
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Magaly Chocano

Founder and CEO, Sweb Apps

Magaly spent many years as an agency broadcast producer in the US Hispanic and Latin American markets developing TV, Radio and Print Campaigns for clients such as: Coors Light, Reynold's Wrap, Burger King, Nestle and General Mills. Magaly founded Sweb Development in 2008 as a web development and iPhone development firm.
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Ian Clements

Co-Founder & CEO, ViroXis

Ian Clements is co-founder and CEO of ViroXis, a San Antonio based botanical drug development company with a portfolio of drug candidates build around the oils of different species of the Sandalwood tree.
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Ryan M. Confer

Chief Operating Officer, INNOVATE TEXAS FOUNDATION

fter completing a bachelor of science in business administration from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Ryan immediately began work in Governor Perry's office providing financial analysis for a number of state economic development initiatives.
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Steve Cook

Managing Shareholder, COOK AND ASSOCIATES CPA

Mr. Cook is the Managing Shareholder of Cook and Associates CPA, a full-service accounting firm based in San Antonio, San Marcos and Austin. He has been in the accounting industry for nearly 30 years.
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Kevin Cooke

Associate CIO for IT Corporate Management, U.S. Department of Energy
Office of the Chief Information Officer

Mr. Cooke's Federal career spans over 20 years of service conceiving, designing and implementing Information Technology (IT) solutions as well as managing IT resources, budgets, and programs for Federal agencies.
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Joe Corella

National Technology Director, Microsoft Corporation

Joe Corella is the National Technology Director for Core Infrastructure Sales for the United States Subsidiary for Microsoft. A 17 year Microsoft veteran of various field and leadership roles, he is now responsible for leading the sales, technology and support efforts for the Windows Client, Server and Management products in the US Enterprise market.
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Matthew S. Crawford, MBA

Founding Managing Director, PTV SCIENCES

Prior to founding PTV Sciences, Mr. Crawford was a Partner at Academy Funds, a venture capital firm based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. While at Academy, Mr. Crawford participated in the creation and financing of many healthcare companies.
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Jeff Dennes

Executive Director of Mobile and Products, USAA.com

Jeff Dennes is the Executive Director of Mobile and Products on usaa.com. In his tenure at USAA he has lead highly motivated teams to develop enterprise strategies for online and mobile financial transactions. He and his teams have created integrated enterprise payment solutions for all of USAA's channels. Jeff has also lead integrated banking, investments and insurance self-service strategies and solutions for a company that is a leader and advocate of excellent customer service. A leader in the mail and 1-800 channels Jeff and his teams have created exceptional customer experiences online and now on the mobile channels. USAA's mobile volumes and capabilities are recognized as leading the way in the Financial Services Sector
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Jean E. Engle

Chief Knowledge Officer, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

Ms. Engle joined the Johnson Space Center as a cooperative education student in 1984. She earned a B.A. in Mathematics in 1987, and an M.B.A in 1993 from the University of Houston, Clear Lake.
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Diana L. Faulkner, MBA, PMP

President, iFUSION STRATEGIES, LLC

Diana L. Faulkner is currently President of iFusion Strategies, LLC. The global consultancy firm provides IT related solutions to solve critical marketing challenges for market driven companies seeking best practices.
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Patricia Florissi

Vice President, Americas CTO, Distinguished Engineer, EMC Corporation

Patricia Florissi is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Americas Sales Organization. As Americas CTO, Patricia helps define mid and long term technology strategy, representing the needs of the broader EMC ecosystem in EMC strategic initiatives. Patricia also acts as the liaison between EMC and our customers and partners, to foster stronger alliances and deliver higher value to EMC clientele. Patricia holds the honorary title of EMC Distinguished Engineer, having been nominated in October 2007.
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Allen Fredrickson

President & CEO, Signature Performance, Inc.

Mr. Fredrickson, President and CEO of Signature Performance, Inc., has an impressive record of accomplishment in founding and growing companies, guiding them from inception to market leading organizations.
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Giovanni Gallucci

Social Media Ninja, giovanni gallucci, llc

Giovanni Gallucci is a recovering .NET programmer turned tech evangelist and social media consultant. He provides strategy for new developments in social media, search, online public relations and buzzmarketing and functions as a strategic representative to top politicos, internet personalities, celebrities, and forward-thinking companies interested in breaking new ground in social media.
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Tee Glasgow

Sr. VMware Specialist, EMC

Tee Glasgow is a Senior VMware Specialist and is a member of EMC's VMware Affinity Team. This team is responsible for all of EMC's VMware focused activities, including the overall strategic alliance, joint engineering projects, joint reference architectures and solutions validation, joint services, marketing activity and sales engagement across global geographies.
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Brigitta Glick

President, PROVENIR, LLC

Brigitta Glick is the founder of Provenir, LLC, a full service management and operational consulting firm headquartered in San Antonio, TX.
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Aaron Gray

Owner / Principle, Greater Returns, LLC

Jim Hayes

Chairman of the Board, Applied Measurement Professionals, Inc.

Jim Hayes is Chairman of the Board, Applied Measurement Professionals, Inc. Olathe, KS. Prior to becoming Chairman, he was general board member for 19 years.
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Mario Hernandez

President, San Antonio Economic Foundation

Stephen High

Executive Advisor, Gartner Executive Programs

Stephen High is an executive advisor with Gartner Executive Programs, serving public and private sector clients in Texas and other areas of the southwestern United States.
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John Hill

President and CEO, TechSage Solutions

John Hill is President and CEO of TechSage Solutions, an Information Technology Managed Services Provider, Microsoft Certified Partner and Value Added Reseller. Since starting the business in June of 2000 as a web development company focused on political candidate web sites, John has consistently added a wide variety of technology services for his clients and has provided outstanding customer service resulting in a solid growing business built on customer satisfaction. John has extensive experience with designing, implementing and managing Information Technology Projects and Solutions. As President and CEO of TechSage Solutions John is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, developing, selling and implementing technology solutions for clients.
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J. Bruce Hughes

Project Manager for Technology Commercialization, SATAI & SOUTH TEXAS REGIONAL CENTER FOR INNOVATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION

Bruce Hughes currently serves as Project Manager, Technology Commercialization for SATAI. For the past two years he has served a wide variety of clients, assisting them with strategic planning, patent research, market research, business planning, licensing, and technology valuation.
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Zena Jacobi

Principal, Healthcare Solutions, HCL Technologies

Zena Jacobi is a Principal in the Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals vertical at HCL Technologies.
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Roxanne Jemeyson

VP IT & Engineering, TerraHealth Inc.

Roxanne Jemeyson is THI's Vice President of IT & Engineering. A graduate of the University of the Incarnate Word, Jemeyson has a strong background in IT/IS support, risk management and QA.
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Nick Jenkins

Solutions Engineering Manager, Sprint

DeEnna Jensen

Business Development, TEAM Integrated Engineering, Inc.

DeEnna Jensen is responsible for leading business development and marketing efforts at TEAM Integrated Engineering, Inc.
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Scott Kaeppel

President, KAEPPEL CONSULTING, LLC

Scott Kaeppel has over 17 years of strategic development of businesses and services to enable quality, profitable growth.
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John Kerr

Principal, Moorman Kerr Interests

A native of Houston, Texas and resident of San Antonio since 1981, John Kerr graduated from Stanford University with a degree in History in 1970 and from the University of Texas Law School in 1972.
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Daniel Lee

Chief Executive Officer, Aperion Biologics

Daniel R. Lee is Aperion Biologics' Chief Executive Officer and has over 20 years experience in the medical device industry. Aperion Biologics, Inc., headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a venture-backed, clinical-stage medical device company addressing the significant need for an alternative to human-based sources of tissues to be used in surgical procedures.
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Tom Llewellyn

Chief Information Officer – Executive Vice President, Broadway National Bank

Tom Llewellyn currently serves as chief information officer, executive vice president for Broadway Bank in San Antonio, Texas. In this role, he is responsible for the statewide operational efficiencies of the Information Technology Department, including Information Systems (IS), and communications.
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David Martin

, Cisco

David has worked in the Networking Industry for 18 years. Currently at Cisco for 10 years, his areas of focus are Data Center and Security. He holds the CCNP and CCDP certifications as well as CISSP and SANS GSEC. He is currently the Channel Development Manager for Virtualization and Data Center Practice Development for Cisco Partners in South Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. He has lived in Austin for 22 years.
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Dean McCall

Co-Founder, IdeaGin

Mr. McCall is currently a partner and co-founder of IdeaGin which is working to develop a platform for website management that is simple yet contains the elements people are demanding for todays socially interactive websites. In addition, Dean is a partner at Enevation a commercial and home automation and controls company.
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Matthew McDermott

Principal Cconsultant, Catapult Systems

Matthew is a principal consultant for Catapult Systems. A Microsoft MVP (SharePoint Server), Matthew is an evangelist and community leader for SharePoint through many speaking engagements and his personal blog about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.
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Dennis McWilliams

CEO and Founder, Apollo Endosurgery

Dennis McWilliams is the CEO and Founder of Apollo Endosurgery, a venture-backed medical device company that is developing flexible tools for minimally invasive surgery.
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Claus Mikkelsen

Chief Scientist, Hitachi Data Systems

Claus Mikkelsen is Chief Scientist of Hitachi Data Systems. Since joining HDS in 1998, Mikkelsen has been instrumental in defining the research and development strategy of the company's data storage technologies, including the industry-leading storage virtualization capabilities of the Universal Storage Platform.
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Paul Miller

Sr. Sales Consultant, Oracle

Edgar "Jed" C. Morrison, Jr., JD

Partner, JACKSON WALKER, LLP

Prior to moving to San Antonio, Jed Morrison was Republican Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee and was later counsel to the Health Care Financing Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services, in Washington, D.C.
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Andrew A. Nat Jr.

Executive Director, TEXAS LIFE SCIENCE CENTER

Andrew A. Nat, Jr. is the Executive Director and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Life Science Center. Previously, he was a Principal and Chief Financial Officer at Vesalius Ventures, a Houston based venture capital accelerator specializing in medical informatics and technology.
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Jennifer Navarrete

Social Media Mixologist, Brewing Media

JENNIFER NAVARRETE is the Media Mixologist at Brewing Media. She teaches entrepreneurs, groups, organizations and non-profits how they can utilize the online social tools to augment their existing marketing campaigns. From one-on-one training, webinars, camp sessions, workshops and conferences her extensive knowledge of Social Media, Web 2.0 tools and technologies keep Jennifer’s schedule jam-packed.
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Paul K. Nichols, Jr.

President and CEO, TRINITY ORTHOPEDICS, LLC

Mr. Nichols is a 32 year veteran of the medical device industry and a successful executive and entrepreneur in the musculoskeletal sector since 1985.
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Mark Q. Niederauer, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer, EO2 CONCEPTS

Dr. Niederauer has more than 20 years of experience in engineering, product development and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and electromechanical and bioabsorbable medical devices.
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Gabi Niederauer

Vice President of Research & Development, ENTrigue Surgical, Inc.

Since May 2007, Dr. Niederauer has been serving as Vice President of Research & Development at ENTrigue Surgical, Inc.
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Joseph (Joey) D. Oliver III

COO & CFO, ENTrigue Surgical, Inc.

Joey Oliver has more than 25 years of financial and business operations experience in both public and private companies, including the management of companies through turnarounds, financial and organizational restructurings, integrations of acquisitions and the maturation of early stage growth.
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Alex Paul

Director ITSM, ManageEngine

Alex D. Paul, Director ITSM at ManageEngine has helped customers around the world implement ITIL.
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Bret Piatt

Director of Techincal Alliances, rackspace Cloud

Bret Piatt is the primary technical contact for partners of the Rackspace Cloud division. He is also actively involved in the cloud computing community promoting open standards and helping open source projects gain awareness.
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Matthew Reedy

Director of Research and Development, SecureLogix Corporation

Matthew Reedy is the Director of Research and Development for SecureLogix Corporation. In this role, Mr. Reedy contributes to future product designs, directions and capabilities and assists in software development activities for current products.
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Jeffrey Reich, CISSP, CHS-III, CTM

Director of Operations, Institute for Cyber Security at the University of Texas

Jeff Reich has developed a history of entering situations where little to no security or risk management infrastructure exists, or an existing system needs updating. He is an executive with extensive experience in building and leading high performance teams.
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Taylor Rhodes

Vice President & General Manager, Rackspace Enterprise Services

Taylor Rhodes is Vice President and General Manager of Rackspace Enterprise Services. In this role, Taylor is responsible for sales and marketing, product development and customer support for the company’s strategic enterprise segment.

Taylor joined Rackspace in 2007 to lead the Intensive business unit, where he had responsibility for delivering Fanatical Support to more than 1,000 of the company’s largest and most complex customers.
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Ann Beal Salamone

President, ROCHAL INDUSTRIES

Ann Beal Salamone is President of Rochal Industries LLP, a private research company which develops new biomaterials for wound and burn care.
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Michael R. Samardzija, PhD

Counsel, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

Dr. Samardzija's practice focuses on the prosecution of patents in biotechnology and the lifesciences, specifically physiology, molecular biology, cell biology, immunology, pharmaceuticals, biologics and diagnostics.
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Michael Samardzija

Counsel, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

Joe Sanchez Jr

Senior Advisor, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency

Mr. Joe H. Sanchez, Jr., is the Senior Advisor to the AF ISR Agency Director of Communications (A6). He is responsible for ensuring commanders, units, and personnel are provided with the necessary policy, procedures, and guidance to support AF ISR Agency command, control, communications and computers, and intelligence network operations across the AF ISR Agency. The agency is a primary subordinate unit of HQ Air Force Intelligence Directorate (A2).
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Matt Scherer

Owner, Scherer Communications

David Smith

Chief Executive Officer, HBMG Inc.

A noted strategist, futurist, and technologist with over 30 years of experience, Mr. Smith offers expertise in technology transfer, strategic and technology planning, communications...
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Jim Stone

Senior Systems Engineer, VMware

Jim is a VMware senior systems engineer and has been with the company for the last three years.
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Don Taylor, Col. USAF Ret.

President, TEAM Integrated Engineering, Inc.

Mr. Don Taylor (Col. USAF Ret.) is president of TEAM Integrated Engineering, Inc., a San Antonio based consulting firm providing advisory and assistance services to the Department of Defense in the core fields of environmental, engineering, logistics, and medical support.
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Ted Terrazas

Founder & President, TERRAHEALTH, INC. (THI)

The son of a military family, Ted Terrazas was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and attended schools in the United States and abroad.
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Jaye Thompson, PhD

Senior Vice President, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs, OPEXA THERAPEUTICS, INC.

Jaye Thompson has more than 20 years of experience in the clinical research industry.

Art Wachdorf, HQE, USAF

Senior Advisor for Cyber Operations and Intelligence, 24 Air Force

Alex Walker

Director of Information Technology & Director of Enrollment Services, Cetero Research, (formerly dgd Research)

Mr. Walker is currently serving two roles, the Director of Information Technology and Director of Enrollment Services, for Cetero Research, (formerly dgd Research). He has over 30 years of experience in electronics, biometrics, marketing, and information systems technology.
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Jay Webster

Chief Product Officer, QUOVA, INC.

Jay Webster is Chief Product Officer at Quova, Inc. of Mountain View, CA. Quova, Inc., www.quova.com, is the leading provider of IP geolocation data and services.
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Whurley

Evil Genius, Whurleyvision, Inc

Hurley, better known in technology circles as whurley, is one of the world's leading authorities on open source, open innovation, and collaboration life-cycle management. Named a Master Inventor by IBM, whurley has received numerous awards, including an IBM Pervasive Computing Award and an Apple Computer Design Award. In 2008, he was named one of the "Top Leaders in Open-Source Business" by LinuxWorld magazine.
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Mark B. Wilson, JD

Partner, FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI LLP

Mark Wilson is a partner in the Austin office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., where his practice focuses on all aspects of patent prosecution and enforcement.
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Brian Windsor, PhD

Senior Vice President of Portfolio Company Management, EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Brian currently serves as Senior Vice President of Portfolio Company Management for Emergent Technologies, Inc., an innovation management company located in Austin, Texas.
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Nelson Wolff

County Judge, Bexar County

Nelson William Wolff was appointed Bexar County Judge in 2001 and has since been elected to the position in November 2002 and again in 2006. He is the first County Judge who also served as Mayor of San Antonio in more than 100 years.
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David G. Young, III, MD

FACP, Brig. General, USAF (Ret.)/President & CEO, REES Group

David G. Young, III, MD, FACP, Brigadier General, USAF (Ret) is currently President and CEO of REES Group, which provides strategic planning, architecture and interior design services for medical, government and senior living facilities.
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Ruben Zamorano

President, Diabetica Solutions (formerly Xilas Medical)

Mr. Zamorano is a serial entrepreneur who has more than 24 years of experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Since 1997, he has served as President of Diabetica Solutions (formerly Xilas Medical).
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