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Speakers at the Disaster Recovery - Infrastructure and
Systems
Conference |
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Dan Adams
Region Manager for Citrix Systems. |
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Mike Beal
Mike Beal currently is the
Manager of ITS System Software and Storage, overseeing Z series support
and initiatives at COUNTRY Insurance and Financial Services, Inc. Mike
has served in various capacities during his 29 years in ITS, leading
technology implementations, the Y2K readiness effort, and datacenter
relocations and consolidations. He recently managed a conversion from a
manual tape recovery/hotsite solution to an in-house advanced recovery
capability for their mainframe production environment.
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 Sandra Beitz
Sandra Beitz is the Manager of
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Management at COUNTRY Insurance
in Financial Services, Inc. where she has been coordinating the design,
implementation and testing of their recovery strategy and plans for over
20 years. Most notably, she participated in a recent conversion from a
manual tape recovery/hotsite solution to an in-house advanced recovery
capability for their mainframe production environment. Sandra serves
as the Chairperson of the Corporate Business Continuity Committee, an
enterprise-wide group of Business and Infrastructure Recovery
Coordinators whose purpose is to oversee development and maintenance of
the business recovery plans. She currently serves as the President of
the Central Illinois Chapter of the Association of Contingency Planners
and is a member of the McLean County Disaster Council.
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 Paul D'Arcy
As Vice President
of Marketing, Paul D'Arcy brings more than ten years of
technology marketing experience to MessageOne. D’Arcy's key
responsibility in this role is to oversee the company’s
overall marketing program including positioning, product and
program marketing, advertising, demand generation, analyst
relations, and event marketing. Prior to joining MessageOne,
D'Arcy worked for Austin-based Troux Technologies, a
venture-backed provider of IT Governance software to the
Fortune 1000, where he had responsibility for corporate
marketing, analyst relations, and inside sales. Prior to
Troux, D’Arcy held marketing management and product
management positions with Perceptant Software, Trilogy
Software, and Apple Computer. He holds an MBA from Harvard
University and a BA from Wesleyan University.
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Michael Ferrill
IT
Project Manager for Disaster Recovery at Empire Today |
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Anthony Hopp
Anthony Hopp co-founded
EOS, Inc. in 1995 with the primary purpose of creating a private,
nationwide computer network for bankers.
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 Paulette Hradnansky
Paulette is a
Senior IT Director in the Home and Networks Mobility business for
Motorola. In her current role, she is responsible for the service
delivery and availability of end to end global IT services to the business
Prior to that role, she served as the Supply Chain IT Operations Director
for 18 months, and the Director of Information Security
Operations at Motorola, where
she was involved in establishing,
building, implementing and directing various information security efforts
across the enterprise for approximately 15
years. In that role, she had global responsibilities for providing security services which included
the vulnerability remediation program, cyber emergency response program,
computer forensics and electronic discovery programs, threat analysis,
detection and security monitoring programs, external business partner
connectivity program and global disaster recovery and response. Paulette
has more than 25 years in the information technology area. Prior to joining
Motorola, Paulette worked for Comdisco, Washington National Insurance
Company and Carl Fischer, Inc. in various capacities.
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 Steven Keilen
Steven Keilen is
currently the Vice President of Marketing for
Marathon Technologies.
He has 20 years of marketing experience in technology companies ranging
in size from Fortune 200 to pre-revenue start-ups. Prior to joining
Marathon, he was Vice President, Industry Marketing at
Stratus Technologies. Prior to Stratus, Mr. Keilen was Executive Vice
President at Interactive Silicon, an early stage start-up. Previously,
he was Chief Marketing Officer at Forgent Networks (formerly VTEL), a
conferencing and broadband service provider. Mr. Keilen was Marketing
Director, Compaq Computer Corporation. He has also held key marketing
and management positions in the US,
France and
Japan
over 12 year period with Hewlett-Packard Company. Steve holds a BS from
Michigan
State
University.
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 Ken Watson
As a Director, Ken is currently leading
USG’s enterprise-wide business continuity and records retention
efforts. Working with vendor partners, he ensures USG leverages its
emergency notification system, hot site and mobile trailers at its
alternate recovery locations, as well as other tools to help meet
USG’s fiduciary responsibility to its stakeholders. This
former Deloitte consultant, with an MBA from Northwestern
University’s Kellogg School, previously led the implementation of
SUN Identity Manager and policy reengineering efforts at USG to meet
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulatory requirements. Ken is a
frequent guest speaker on information security and risk management.
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 Dennis Wenk
Mr. Wenk is a management
consultant and has consulted worldwide with large Fortune 500 customers. His
experience includes developing architectures and strategies for highly
available, resilient and secure infrastructures in heterogeneous IT
environments; virtually anywhere IT is mission critical to business success. He
has performed quantitative operational risk assessments that were used to
justify the significant investments required to build, transform and maintain
resilient infrastructures in over 20 different countries and developed a number
of risk-based services that increase resiliency and improve continuity
programs. Dennis has written award-winning professional articles and is a
regular speaker at industry conferences world-wide. He has MBA in Accounting and
Finance, BS in Computer Science; is certified in ITIL Service Management and is
a certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Systems Professional (CSP)
and Certified Data Processor (CDP).
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