Tony Asaro Senior Consultant and Founder
The INI Group-Information and Insight for IT Professionals
Tony Asaro is the senior consultant and founder of the INI Group, a firm focused in providing information and insight to IT professionals. Tony has been in the IT industry for over 23 years as a system engineer, product manager, business development and marketing executive, entrepreneur, and as an industry analyst and consultant. Tony has focused heavily on storage, data management and virtualization technologies and solutions.
Steve Catanzano President and CEO
Safecore
Steve Catanzano brings more than 15 years of executive level experience in high tech market and business development of early and growth stage ventures as well as two years managing a successful registered broker-dealer firm. His strengths include corporate strategy, business development, regulatory and compliance expertise, and corporate finance. Steve earned a B.S. in Finance from Bentley College. Experience includes: Co-founder and SVP Business Development—Digital Broadband, Director of Worldwide Sales—Aware, Market Development Manager—Shiva Corporation, and Principal—Mutual Fund Investment Group.
Janet Davidson Executive Vice President
Alcatel-Lucent
Janet Davidson is Executive Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent and President of Quality Assurance and Customer Care. Janet is a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Management Committee. Prior to her current role, Janet served as Chief Compliance Officer of Alcatel-Lucent, she also lead the Integration Program Office activities and oversaw Information Technologies. She also served as the Secretary of the Management Committee, Chief Strategy Officer at Lucent, President, Network Operations Software and Integrated Network Solutions. Prior to that, she was President of the Access Networks division of InterNetworking Systems. Her experience within Lucent also includes Vice President, North America, responsible for sales to Sprint, MCI WorldCom, and all emerging service providers in North America.
Janet began her career as a Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs.
She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Lehigh University, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech where she was honored with their Distinguished Alumna Award, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science through Bell Laboratories.
Daniel Garrie, Esq.
FSRDG LLC
A nationally recognized expert in electronic discovery and electronic information management solutions, Daniel Garrie has delivered complex enterprise technologies for the United States Department of Justice, Westpac Bank, Schlumberger, AIG, eBay Motors, DHS, and Johnson & Johnson, and he has advised global companies on complex e-discovery issues. Mr. Garrie consults with attorneys and technologists on complex legal business information management issues involving the use and management of technology to meet regulatory and legal retention requirements and to manage discovery once litigation ensues. Mr. Garrie is considered one of the industry's thought leaders on topics that include consumer Web data both in the U.S. and abroad.
Robert Wambach Senior Director of Storage Product Marketing
EMC Corporation
Bob Wambach is Senior Director of Storage Product Marketing for EMC Corporation. Bob is responsible for EMC's high-end product offerings, including EMC Symmetrix. Symmetrix is EMC's flagship storage platform and has been the high-end storage market leader worldwide for over a decade. Prior to joining EMC in 2003, Bob held several executive marketing and engineering roles, including Vice President of Engineering at Network Engines, and Sr. Director of Platform Engineering at Shiva. Bob holds several U.S. patents for contributions in the computer and communications fields,7 and holds a B.S.E.E. from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.