Study Group: IT Infrastructure Software Experts(?)

Michael Horsch Fizz is the Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. He specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology vendors. Vendors include but are not limited to Avaya,...

John P. Pironti is the Chief Information Risk Strategist for Getronics. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security programs, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services,...

George Kaadi is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Sompo Japan Insurance Company of America. Prior to Sompo he was CTO at AboveNet, co-location and Optical Fiber provider. Prior to AboveNet he was CIO at Marvel Entertainment Group "Publishing and Studios". Prior to Marvel, Mr. Kaadi...

Mark Teter is the Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Systems Group, a value added reseller and systems integrator. He is responsible for managing accounts for Sun Microsystems, IBM, HDS, EMC, Symantec Veritas products, Qlogic, Emulex, F5, Adaptec, Network Appliance, Cisco, Quantum, Juniper, Brocade...

Roland Icard is the Chief Information Officer and President at Austin CIO Partners, a strategy consulting firm. He specializes in technology planning, project portfolio management, IT governance, application portfolio optimization, enterprise architecture, compliance management, business continuity...

Paul Massie is the Senior Director of Information Technology at Genesis Microchip, a fabless semiconductor firm with 1,200 employees. He is responsible for all IT functions at a growing US$ 300MM company based in multiple countries. Previously, Mr. Massie was the Director of IT Infrastructure at Openwave...

Ralph Behar is the Chief Information Officer of Johanson Dielectrics, a discrete components manufacturer with 10,000 employees. He is an acknowledged authority on mini-computers (HP3000), security, data storage, network products and services. He has held senior IT positions at Johanson Dielectrics,...

James Szmak is the Senior Vice President Operations and Partner at Salire Corporation, a Business Technology evaluation company. Salire provides Fortune 1000, state and local government, K-12 and higher education with insight into latest hardware, software and communication technologies. Previously,...