Speakers at the Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Conference

John A. Jackson
John brings to Fusion over 30 years of IT and IT Risk Management experience and is widely regarded as a visionary and leader in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. Early in his career, John founded Chi/Cor Information Management's IT consulting practice which developed the industry's first contingency planning software tool. As one of the first employees at Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services, John was instrumental in launching its Hot Site and Consulting Services businesses. In his 18 years with the company, John ran Comdisco's European operations, initiated and managed several Asia-Pacific recovery businesses, and in 1999 became president of Comdisco Continuity Services to lead its worldwide services organization. Upon initiating the division's sale to SunGard in 2001, he moved on to general management positions with Hewlett-Packard and IBM, running their domestic Business Continuity organizations and achieving record results for IBM in 2004. Seeking a more entrepreneurial opportunity, John co-founded Fusion Risk Management in 2005. Today, John leads consulting engagements with Fusion's midsize and large enterprise clients, and he is very active in the Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity industry, serving on the Executive Advisory board of Disaster Recovery Journal, the Editorial Advisory board of Continuity Insights magazine, the Advisory Board of Private and Public Businesses, Inc., and he is the Chicago chapter president of InfraGard, a partnership between the FBI and the private sector for infrastructure protection.

W. Curtis Preston
W. Curtis Preston authored "Using SANs and NAS" and "Unix Backup and Recovery," the seminal O'Reilly book on backup and “The Security Handbook”. He has been designing storage systems for more than 10 years and has designed systems for environments ranging from backup systems for small businesses to enterprise storage systems for Fortune 100 companies. His passion for backup and recovery began with managing the data growth of a 24x7, mission-critical environment running nine versions of UNIX, three databases and 250 servers.   Since that time, Preston has been able to help many companies design resilient storage systems, and his client list includes many Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.  Widely recognized as the thought leader in the field of backup and the former President and CEO of the Storage Group, Curtis Preston joined GlassHouse in July 2004.  W. Curtis Preston is the Vice President of Data Protection for GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.

Joe Vetrano
Joe Vetrano is an IT executive and consultant. His background includes positions as the CIO at Johnson Wax Professional, VP of Planning at Exelon Energy, VP at Cosi and Flagstar Restaurants, and a Director at Burger King.  He also was a management consultant at Coopers & Lybrand where he worked on IT strategies with senior management in healthcare, credit card, telephone, travel, and restaurant companies. Joe is often sought to spearhead the use of technology to generate revenues.  At Burger King, revenue gains of $75 million were attributed to systems he designed and implemented. Moreover, Joe uses a business approach to rationalizing IT investments that has saved more than $50 million of operating capital. As a management and operating committee member has held lead roles in acquisitions, mergers, ventures, and reorganizations, with responsibilities in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, India, and Mexico.  Joe actively consults and speaks on sales development, CIO issues, outsourcing, and business recovery.  He has groundbreaking experience in outsourcing and has written an article that is recommended reading on the subject. While at Burger King, he was a key leader in business recovery after the company’s headquarters were destroyed by Hurricane Andrew.