Gordon joined IBM through acquisition in 1994. Prior to joining IBM he worked in a variety of technical and development management positions for e-mail and directory integration company Soft-Switch. His focus in IBM has been on large scale Internet deployments, security, and for the last ten years storage. He was part of the core team which brought to market our storage virtualization offerings.

Gordon has a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University of Illinois, over 25 years experience in IT products development, and holds the Senior Technical Staff Member grade in IBM. He is currently on the board for the Data Management Forum for SNIA.

Mr. Hibbard chairs the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Security Technical Working Group and serves as the Vice Chair of the IEEE P1619 (Security in Storage Work Group). He is also an active member of the SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF), INCITS/T11 (Fibre Channel), INCITS/CS1 (Cyber Security), IETF, W3C, and the Trusted Computing Group.

Mr. Hibbard is both a certified security architect and manager (CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, and ISSEP) as well as a certified IS auditor (CISA). He has over 25 years experience in information technology, including over 10 years in information security architecture and management, working for government (DoD, NASA, DoE), academia (University of California), and industry (Raytheon, QSS Group, HDS).

John Isaza, Esq., is a California-based attorney and current principal of Howett Isaza Law Group, a law firm specializing in RIM. In 2004, he completed a stint as general counsel for a publicly traded medical device manufacturer. Prior to that, Isaza was a senior consultant with the Records Improvement Institute. Before becoming a consultant in 2001, Isaza had more than a decade of experience as a trial lawyer specializing in business, environmental contamination, products liability and construction defects.

Kleinschnitz joined Symantec in December 2003 as part of the acquisition of PowerQuest Corporation, where he was chief technology officer and senior vice president of storage products. While at PowerQuest, Kleinschnitz directed product management and development, operations, professional services, and project management. He established and implemented a product vision and strategy to penetrate the storage management market.

He previously worked for two years as general manager of scalable network storage and Open View storage management at Hewlett Packard, where he was responsible for storage management products and storage area network (SAN) solutions.

Prior to working at Hewlett Packard, Kleinschnitz worked for 24 years at Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek), where he helped establish and implement product strategies for Open Systems and SAN storage markets.

In addition, he was a contributing author to multiple intelligent storage architectures that were the foundation of StorageTek s and HP s integrated storage management NT and SAN strategy. He also directed extensive customer, market and technology research and forged strategic alliances in storage and storage networking.

Kleinschnitz holds a degree in digital engineering technology, earned a master s of business administration degree from the University of Colorado and is a seven-year U.S. Navy veteran.

As Technical Lead at The Regence Group since 2003, Jackson has orchestrated a number of initiatives to standardize practices in support of storage provisioning in a vendor heterogeneous environment, data migrations, tiered storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery automation. Prior to The Regence Group, Jackson was a Solaris System Administrator for ten years at Enron Broadband Services, The Regence Group and Oregon Health Sciences University with a specialization in the Veritas technologies. Jackson holds a B.S. in Philosophy from Lewis & Clark College with minors in Chemistry and Communications. He's a member of the SNIA End User Council and a co-founder of the Portland Storage Networking User's Group.