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Joshua Baer

Founder & CEO, OtherInbox
Joshua Baer is a serial entrepreneur and technologist.
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Trey Baumgardner

Sr. Sales Engineer, Citrix Systems, Inc.
Trey has been with Citrix for over 10 years, and has extensive experience in application, server, and desktop virtualization.
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Michael Beamer

Global IT Applications Director, National Instruments
Michael Beamer is the Global IT Applications Director for National Instrument. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of growing and running a global team of Application Developers, DBA’s and Applications Administrators.
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Scott Bellware

Founder, Lean Software Austin group
Scott Bellware is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. Scott works with web startups on rapid new product development as well as with IT shops to improve the quality of their products, processes, and performance.
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Chad Bockius

CEO, Socialware
Chad brings 11+ years of enterprise software experience from companies such as Bazaarvoice, BetweenMarkets and Trilogy to Socialware, where he led marketing and product strategy before moving to CEO.
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Howard Charney

Senior Vice President, Office of the President, Cisco
Senior Vice President Howard Charney is a member of Cisco's Office of the President and Executive Staff and reports directly to CEO John Chambers. He contributes to Cisco's strategy and direction and advises customers on implementing critical Internet technologies to improve productivity and competitiveness. He is the company's Executive Sponsor for the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
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Kenneth Cho

Co-Founder, Social Agency
Kenneth brings 15 years of worldwide management, sales and technology experience. Prior to co-founding Social Agency, Kenneth headed up Client Services for a social media software start-up.
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Jason Cohen

Founder, Smart Bear & WPEngine
Jason has started four companies including Smart Bear and WPEngine, both funded and bootstrapped, ran all to millions in revenue, all profitable, and sold two.
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Sam Coursen

Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Freescale Semiconductor
Sam Coursen is vice president and chief information officer (CIO) of Freescale Semiconductor. He is responsible for the discovery, development, and delivery of quality information technology services and solutions that optimize the operational effectiveness and market performance of Freescale.
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Cody De Vos

Agency Relations Associate, Emma
Cody De Vos works for Emma, a Web-based email marketing company that helps small businesses, designers, and agencies create, send and track stylish email campaigns.
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John Dickson

Principal, Denim Group, Ltd
John Dickson is a principal at Denim Group, Ltd. and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) whose technical background includes hands-on experience with application security, intrusion detection systems and telephony security. He helps Chief Security Officers of Fortune 500 and Federal organizations launch software initiatives and has served as Chief Information Security Officer for a major healthcare organization.
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Andrew Donoho

, Donoho Design Group
Andrew Donoho has a small mobile device consulting firm, Donoho Design Group, L.L.C., which concentrates on iPhone development. In addition to developing applications for clients, he has personally developed two REST networking based applications for iOS devices: weLostT and ch@tterT.
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Curt Finch

CEO, Journyx
Curt Finch is the CEO of Journyx (www.journyx.com), the first company to provide Web-based time-tracking, project accounting and resource management solutions that guide customers to per-person, per-project profitability.
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Kyle Flaherty

Director of Marketing, BreakingPoint Systems
For 15 years Kyle has led communication campaigns for technology companies, from top-ten software vendors to start-up emerging companies. Currently Kyle works at BreakingPoint Systems, a leading provider of cyber security technology.

Jonathan Gesinger

Satellite Business Development Manager, Emma
Jonathan Gesinger oversees the sales and business development efforts for Emma, a web-based email marketing and communications service, at satellite offices in Portland, Denver and Austin.
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David Graham

VP of Industry Solutions-Healthcare, INX
David Graham, is VP of Industry Solutions-Healthcare for INX .David's primary responsibilities include the creation of healthcare specific technology solutions that use the best blend of networking, storage, virtualization and middleware to provide real business value to their customers.
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Joe Hootman

Director of Information Technology, Sport Clips
Joe Hootman serves as the Director of Information Technology for Sport Clips, a growing franchise system of over 700 barbershops nationwide.
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William "Whurley" Hurley

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Chaotic Moon Studios
whurley is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chaotic Moon Studios, a mobile applications studio.
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Steve Kaplan

VP of Data Center Virtualization, INX
Steve Kaplan is VP of data center virtualization at INX, a publicly-traded professional services firm that was simultaneous 2010 winner of VMware Solutions Provider of the Year - Americas and Cisco Global Services Partner of the Year.
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William R. (Bill) Leake

President & CEO, Apogee Search
Bill Leake, a former McKinsey & Co. consultant, draws on a deep expertise in both business and marketing to help increase revenues for a wide range of clients. He has been driving provable revenues through web marketing since the early 1990s when, as part of the management team at Power Computing, he built the first company to sell $1 million of product over the Internet.
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Kent Lewis

President, Anvil Media, Inc.
As President of Anvil Media, Inc., Kent Lewis is responsible for managing operations, marketing and business development to achieve the search engine marketing agency's mission: to be one of the most respected search engine marketing agencies in the world.
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Christer Ljungdahl

Director of Web and Database Marketing, National Instruments
Christer Ljungdahl works as the Director of Web and Database Marketing for National Instruments.
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Bryan Menell

Editor, AustinStartup
Bryan Menell is an Austin-based entrepreneur that enjoys working with emerging technology companies. He has started several successful technology services businesses including Exact Systems, Perficient, and Fusion Learning Systems.
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C. Enrique Ortiz

Founder, MobileMonday Austin
C. Enrique Ortiz is a passionate mobile technologist, developer and evangelist who spends quite a bit of time thinking about mobile futures.
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Steve Patrizi

Vice President, Marketing Solutions, LinkedIn
Steve Patrizi leads the advertising sales and operations organization for LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with over 75 million members. His team works with the world's most widely recognized brands and advertising agencies to help them connect with LinkedIn's audience of affluent, influential, and ambitious professionals.
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Laura Patterson

Author, Co-Founder & President, VisionEdge Marketing, Inc.
Laura Patterson's marketing and sales career spans over 30 years having worked for both large public companies such as State Farm and Motorola and as well as start ups.
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Bryan Person

Social Media Evangelist, LiveWorld, Inc.
Bryan Person is a social media evangelist for LiveWorld, Inc., a company that builds, manages, and moderates online communities and social networks for leading brands.
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Jeffrey N. Reich, CISSP, CHS-III, CTM

Director of Research Operations, Institute for Cyber Security, University of Texas at San Antonio
Jeff Reich has developed a history of entering situations where little to no security or risk management infrastructure exists, or an existing system needs updating. He is an executive with extensive experience in building and leading high performance teams.
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Simon Salt

CEO & Co-Founder, IncSlingers
Simon Salt is the CEO & Co-Founder of the IncSlingers, an Integrated Marketing Communication agency that provides everything from customer winning copy to actionable Social Media strategies and their execution.
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Sheila Scarborough

Co-Founder, Tourism Currents
Sheila Scarborough is a writer and speaker specializing in travel, tourism and the social Web (with a little NHRA drag racing thrown into the mix.) She writes for three different blogs and is also a certified Navy Master Training Specialist, with many years of experience as an instructor.
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David Smith

Chief Executive Officer, HBMG Inc.
Mr. David Smith joined the HBMG Inc. team as CEO in early 2008. As CEO of HBMG Inc., Mr. Smith is responsible for the global strategic planning...
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Aaron Strout

CMO, Powered, Inc.
As the CMO of Austin-based social media agency, Powered Inc, Aaron focuses not only on day to day marketing activities but also provides a social voice for the company.
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Phillip Wheat

Architect Evangelist, Microsoft
Philip Wheat started out in development back when you learned from Compute Magazine (by typing in the code) and had to know something about soldering to expand your memory with most computers.
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