Speakers at the e-Mail Archiving Conference

Walter G. Burton

Mr. Burton is a seasoned IT Professional Services Manager, whose career has focused on customer success, in the usage and exploitation of technology. As part of his current role, Mr. Burton is responsible for researching technical solutions that fulfill customer needs and demands to resolve electronic messaging business level issues, and developing procedures/deployment tools for technology implementations. As part of the requirements of his varied functions and technical expertise, Mr. Burton has attained recognized industry certifications. Over the course of a 25+-year professional career, Mr. Burton has developed and maintained certifications in a number of technologies in the area of computer systems and technology infrastructure. These certifications include; Industry Email Archive Certified Architect with various archive vendors Architecture, Storage, and Implementation, Hewlett Packard including HP-UX 10.2 and 11.x, HP OpenView Certified Consultant in Network and Storage Management, HP Pre-Sales Technical Consultant for Workstations and Servers, Sun Enterprise and Workgroup Computing Technical Certification, Sun HA-Cluster, and a Sun Enterprise Planning Professional, and Microsoft Windows. Mr. Burton graduated from Indiana State University with a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Technology.

Mark Diamond
Mark is founder, President & CEO of Contoural, Inc.  Mark Diamond is one of the industry thought leaders in litigation readiness, e-discovery, compliance, archiving, data  protection and ILM strategies and practices.  A frequent industry speaker, Mr. Diamond addresses how organizations can better align legal and business requirements with IT and storage spending. One of the pioneers in the strategic storage services industry, Mark has successfully built and grown consulting, education and support organizations from inception to large, worldwide organizations numerous times.  Previously, Mark was co-founder of Symantec’s (OpenVision) Professional Services group. Additionally, Mark was founder and General Manager, Worldwide Professional Services for Legato Systems. He was Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services at RightWorks, a provider of business application software to the B2B marketplace.  He recently served as Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association customer advisory board on data security.  He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego.

Teresa Drabenstadt

Teresa Drabenstadt is currently Director, Ethics & Compliance for CUNA Mutual Group in Madison, Wisconsin. She directs enterprise-wide Ethics & Compliance Programs, including Records & Information Management (RIM), Privacy, Do Not Contact, Rate & Form Filing, Advertising and Sales Compliance.  In leading the RIM Program, she and her team have already "achieved" over $20 million in benefits in less than 2 years, in partnership with IT.  In prior work, she served in leadership roles in Internal Audit and IT.  She lead the creation of robust IT audit capabilities, risk assessment tools and the redesign of the audit methodology.  She has over 20 years of IT experience, serving jointly on business and IT Leadership teams,  providing people leadership and strategic direction to large scale projects as well as functional IT support.  She holds certifications in Project Management (PMP), Privacy (CIPP) and Information Systems Auditing (CISA), as well as an MBA and BBA from the  University of Wisconsin Madison.

Brian Greenberg
Brian Greenberg is the President & CEO of General System Dynamics. Brian Greenberg is one of the industries thought leaders in storage litigation readiness, eDiscovery, compliance, backup & archive, data protection, business continuance & disaster recovery and IT operations best practices.  Brian has been a subject matter expert and consultant for the leading storage services companies and Fortune 100 companies including StorageNetworks and GlassHouse.  Brian has been designing and managing data storage systems for nearly 20 years and has designed and managed systems for environments ranging from small dot-com start-ups to enterprise class storage systems for Fortune 100 companies including Motorola, Microsoft, Fujitsu, Washington Mutual and Bloomberg.  Additionally, as a frequent industry speaker, Mr. Greenberg addresses how organizations can better align legal and business requirements with IT and has presented several papers and participated as a panelist at several conferences including StorageDecisions, DataCenter Decisions, Ziff-Davis Enterprise Virtual Trade Show and CAMP IT Conferences.

Dana Moore
Dana C. Moore is the Records & Information Compliance Manager for Foley & Lardner LLP. She has more than 20 years of records management experience, developed records management systems solutions, works on RIM legal compliance issues such as electronic evidence discovery and document holds, and oversees protocols and processes associated with electronic record keeping and the migration of electronically stored information ("ESI").  She has particular expertise in records management systems conversions. 

Barry Murphy

Barry Murphy, a widely renowned and distinguished archiving, eDiscovery, and records management industry luminary, joined Mimosa Systems, Inc. as director of product marketing. An industry pundit who has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and CNBC, Murphy is perhaps best known for his tenure as a senior analyst for Forrester's Information Delivery research group. While at Forrester, he provided pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology, including Fortune 500 CIOs, to earn him a prominent reputation in the industry. Prior to Forrester Research, Murphy was an analyst with the Delphi Group where he covered content management, business process management and web services. Murphy has also been a regular presenter at key industry events including the Forrester IT Forum, AIIM Conference and Expo, ARMA Conference, and LegalTech. Murphy received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.

Steve Susina
Steve Susina has more than 20 years of engineering and marketing experience in the telecommunications and IT industries and currently serves as Director of Marketing for Laurus Technologies, a business consulting and IT solutions provider based in Itasca, IL. Previously, he was Senior Product Manager for UTStarcom's fixed/mobile convergence product line, and has also held various sales, marketing and engineering roles at Tellabs and AT&T. His speaking experience includes technology conferences around the world on such topics as IT & business strategy, optical networking, compliance and identity management and mobile communications.  Susina holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jason Thompson
Jason Thompson is one of GlassHouse’s experts for EDiscovery and international information compliance. Coming from a technical background and having experience with organizational leadership on a CEO and CIO level including the HR and legal departments. He knows how to connect the gap between legal requirements, IT infrastructures, performance and technical requirements.