Lane Cooper
Contributing Editor
CIO magazine, Computerworld, Network World
Lane F. Cooper has 20 years of experience as a researcher, reporter and editor analyzing the business and technology industry. Lane has organized and moderated many live and online events and works with a variety of high-tech clients and CIO magazine to ensure that the information presented is interesting to an audience of sophisticated technology buyers and implementers. In addition to moderating, Lane has a message management and media coaching practice and has worked with organizations like BEA, Microsoft, Symantec, Trend Micro among others. Numerous news services and magazines that have carried his by-line include: TechWeb, Optimize, Information Week, Telephony, Tele.com, Communications Week, ComWeek International, Network World, Byte Magazine and Enterprise Systems Journal. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is the Editorial Director of BizTechReports.Com, an independent reporting agency that analyzes user trends in business technology.
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John Eckhouse
Contributing Editor
CIO magazine, Computerworld, Network World
An award-winning journalist, John Eckhouse frequently serves as a moderator for CIO, Computerworld, CSO and Network World magazines on topics ranging from business intelligence to cloud computing to information security. His career as a technology and business journalist spans more than 25 years at publications including BusinessWeek, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle and HomePC. He is the former editorial director of events at The Industry Standard and managing editor of research and events at InformationWeek. He has programmed, hosted and moderated events ranging in scale from intimate focus groups to 2000-person executive-level conferences. Eckhouse has managed B2B and B2C phone, email and web research and event experience surveys with up to 20,000 respondents per survey. He also has produced conferences for clients as diverse as The Economist, RFID Journal, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Mike Elrod
Mobility Solutions Architect
CDW
Mike Elrod is a mobility solutions architect covering the Indiana and Ohio Valley areas. He helps our customers manage & secure their mobile environment, with an eye on transforming their organization with mobile technologies. Before joining CDW in 2014, Mike spent three years with MobileIron, a leading partner in enterprise mobility. From his experience, he recognizes that mobility is changing the IT landscape and CIO Magazine’s 2015 Tech Poll supports that by listing Mobile Apps #3 and Mobile Management #4 of the top 25 CIO priorities.
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Ed Faulkner
Systems Engineer
Apple
Ed Faulkner is a systems engineer for Apple. He works specifically with the CDW team for technical sales enablement and architecting solutions involving Apple technology. He brings a breadth of experience, working with UNIX and Windows systems prior to joining Apple five years ago. He lives in Dallas with his wife, two kids and two beagles.
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Michael Conyers
Large Corporate Account Executive
AirWatch
Michael Conyers has been serving as a large corporate account executive with Airwatch by VMware for the past two years. Before joining Airwatch, Michael spent six years with IBM in the server and storage arena. Michael is originally from South Carolina, where he attended the University of South Carolina. He’s married to his beautiful wife, Tiffany, and they have two kids ages 2 ½ and 2 weeks. In his spare time, he enjoys volunteering at church, working out, and watching movies.
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Aaron Lagowski
Mobility Solutions Architect
CDW
Aaron is a mobility solutions architect covering the northeast region. Before joining CDW in 2011, Aaron spent 20 years in technology related roles, with 10 years as a CDW customer. His experience both inside and outside CDW have prepared him for the explosion of opportunity with mobile technologies. Mobility is moving past typical devices that are internet enabled, to include everyday items all around us. This empowers users and customers with new capabilities and an enriched experience. Aaron knows that mobility is changing the IT landscape and CIO Magazine’s 2015 Tech Poll supports that by listing Mobile Apps and Mobile Management #3 & #4 of the top 25 CIO priorities
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Bill Muth
Field Solutions Architect
CDW
Bill Muth is the CDW Field Solutions Architect for Mobility and is responsible for mobile applications in Healthcare, State and Local Government markets in the Eastern U.S. CDW delivers the options and solutions best suited to meet the mobility challenges of our Customers as a Trusted Advisor. His capabilities includes contributing to customer’s mobility strategy, designing, architecting and developing applications that run on all remote mobile devices and end-points in a secured and managed methodology.
Prior to CDW, Bill was the AT&T Mobility Applications Consultant for Healthcare in the Central Region working with large healthcare delivery systems clinical, operational, senior administration and IT to securely move clinical and business operational workflow to a mobile, real-time business model.
Prior to AT&T Bill was Senior Program Manager with the Motorola Software Group and Connected Home Networks and his duties included the Software Organizations Mobile Security, Interactive User Interface, Operating Systems, Mobile Network Infrastructure, Embedded Open-source Software and Location-based Services.
Bill resides in Orlando, FL exercising his CDW responsibilities.
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David Burgess
Senior Enterprise Account Executive
AirWatch
David has worked in the technology industry for over 20 years focusing on End User Computing. David began his career as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Technology Solutions Consultant in the New England arena.
For several years David worked as an Engineering Technology Director for NetIQ focused in IT Security and Business Process Automation. For the last 5 years David’s career has been focused in the Mobility area. David has worked for MobileIron, Zenprise and for the last 2 years AirWatch. David is the Enterprise Account Executive for some of the largest Fortune 100 companies in the world and has vast experience in providing Mobility solutions to some of the worlds largest and most well known companies.
David has a Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer Science from Lancashire University in England. David lives in New Hampshire.
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Molly White
Enterprise Account Executive
AirWatch by VMware
Molly White is an Enterprise Account Executive for AirWatch, now a VMware company, and global leader in Enterprise Mobility Management. White brings more than fifteen years of sales, consulting and program development to AirWatch.
Prior to joining AirWatch, White served in business process consulting and sales roles, including Deloitte Consulting and Georgia Natural Gas, where she led the development of a profitable new sales channel. Molly has been with AirWatch since 2010 and played an integral role in driving sales as the company grew from 50 to over 2,000 employees.
White earned a Bachelor of Management degree with High Honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology and resides in Atlanta, GA.
