Snehal Antani
CIO & Chief Architect
GE Capital
Snehal Antani holds dual roles at GE Capital: first, he serves as the CIO for Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF), where he is responsible for driving digital business strategies; and second, he serves as the Chief Architect and CIO of Enterprise Architecture for GE Capital Americas, where he's responsible for defining the technology vision, strategy, and architecture for the Capital-Americas business. Prior to GE Capital, Snehal spent over a decade at IBM within Software Middleware Group, where he held a variety of roles across development, lab services, and product management. He has served as a trusted advisor to many Global 500 companies across industries including financial services, insurance, healthcare, telco, etc; where he has helped shape their technology strategies, drive transformations, and enable them to capture new revenue with emerging technologies.
Snehal has disclosed numerous patents and technical publications in the domains of enterprise application infrastructure and high-volume transaction processing. He earned a BS in computer science from Purdue University, and an MS in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY with a thesis in the area of quantifying and improving the resiliency of middleware infrastructures.
John Burke
Principal Research Analyst
Nemertes Research
John Burke is CIO and Principal Research Analyst with Nemertes Research, where he conducts primary research, develops cost models, delivers strategic seminars, advises clients, and writes thought-leadership pieces across a wide variety of topics. As research analyst, John draws on his past experience as a practitioner and director of IT to better understand the needs of IT executives and the challenges facing vendors trying to sell to them. He has broad and deep experience in computing, communications, and IT management. As an established speaker, John has appeared at Interop, Network World IT Roadmap and TechTarget events, as well as private events for Cisco, AT&T, and others.
Lane Cooper
Contributing Editor
CIO, CSO, Computerworld, Network World
Lane F. Cooper has over 20 years of experience as a researcher, reporter and editor analyzing the business and technology industry. On average, Lane meets with 600 CIOs and senior enterprise executives every year to understand the impact of evolving technological developments on organizations of all sizes across all industries. He has organized and moderated many live and online events and works with a variety of high-tech clients and CIO magazine to ensure that information is presented in a context that is useful to an audience of sophisticated technology buyers and implementers. News services and magazines that have carried his by-line include: Network World, Byte Magazine, TechWeb, Optimize, Information Week, Telephony, Communications Week, ComWeek International, and Enterprise Systems Journal. He lives in Washington DC, where he is the Editorial Director of BizTechReports, an independent reporting agency that analyzes user trends in business technology.
Helen Donnelly
Director, Product Marketing - Cloud
Verizon Enterprise Solutions
Helen A. Donnelly is Director, Product Marketing – Cloud at Verizon Enterprise Solutions. She oversees global marketing strategy, program development, and sales enablement initiatives to promote Verizon’s comprehensive cloud solutions portfolio.
Donnelly is an accomplished B2B marketer with 20 years in marketing, product management, and sales support. Her experience in developing targeted global marketing platforms spans virtually every industry and the public sector, and technologies including cloud computing, visualization, business process management, and complex business applications.
Donnelly has served in a number of senior marketing leadership and consulting roles. Most recently, she led the Sales and Marketing Messaging practice at TELLUS helping companies specializing in such areas as High Performance Computing and Big Data analytics generate demand and drive revenue. Prior to TELLUS, she served as Vice President, Partner Relations at Numerix, where she helped grow channel revenue through joint marketing with partners such as Microsoft and Misys. She joined Numerix from her own boutique marketing consultancy, where she advised enterprise software and services companies including Computer Sciences Corporation, Intermedia, and Actimize on go-to-market strategy and message.
Donnelly also currently serves as Co-founder and Strategic Advisor at CrowdFunding4All, a data aggregation and distribution network that helps its clients make better investment decisions, manage risk/exposure, and more efficiently market projects, products and services.
John Burke
Principal Research Analyst
Nemertes Research
John Burke is CIO and Principal Research Analyst with Nemertes Research, where he conducts primary research, develops cost models, delivers strategic seminars, advises clients, and writes thought-leadership pieces across a wide variety of topics. As research analyst, John draws on his past experience as a practitioner and director of IT to better understand the needs of IT executives and the challenges facing vendors trying to sell to them. He has broad and deep experience in computing, communications, and IT management. As an established speaker, John has appeared at Interop, Network World IT Roadmap and TechTarget events, as well as private events for Cisco, AT&T, and others.
Lane Cooper
Contributing Editor
CIO, CSO, Computerworld, Network World
Lane F. Cooper has over 20 years of experience as a researcher, reporter and editor analyzing the business and technology industry. On average, Lane meets with 600 CIOs and senior enterprise executives every year to understand the impact of evolving technological developments on organizations of all sizes across all industries. He has organized and moderated many live and online events and works with a variety of high-tech clients and CIO magazine to ensure that information is presented in a context that is useful to an audience of sophisticated technology buyers and implementers. News services and magazines that have carried his by-line include: Network World, Byte Magazine, TechWeb, Optimize, Information Week, Telephony, Communications Week, ComWeek International, and Enterprise Systems Journal. He lives in Washington DC, where he is the Editorial Director of BizTechReports, an independent reporting agency that analyzes user trends in business technology.
Helen Donnelly
Director, Product Marketing - Cloud
Verizon Enterprise Solutions
Helen A. Donnelly is Director, Product Marketing – Cloud at Verizon Enterprise Solutions. She oversees global marketing strategy, program development, and sales enablement initiatives to promote Verizon’s comprehensive cloud solutions portfolio.
Donnelly is an accomplished B2B marketer with 20 years in marketing, product management, and sales support. Her experience in developing targeted global marketing platforms spans virtually every industry and the public sector, and technologies including cloud computing, visualization, business process management, and complex business applications.
Donnelly has served in a number of senior marketing leadership and consulting roles. Most recently, she led the Sales and Marketing Messaging practice at TELLUS helping companies specializing in such areas as High Performance Computing and Big Data analytics generate demand and drive revenue. Prior to TELLUS, she served as Vice President, Partner Relations at Numerix, where she helped grow channel revenue through joint marketing with partners such as Microsoft and Misys. She joined Numerix from her own boutique marketing consultancy, where she advised enterprise software and services companies including Computer Sciences Corporation, Intermedia, and Actimize on go-to-market strategy and message.
Donnelly also currently serves as Co-founder and Strategic Advisor at CrowdFunding4All, a data aggregation and distribution network that helps its clients make better investment decisions, manage risk/exposure, and more efficiently market projects, products and services.
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