VCCG 2010

Kapil Bakshi

Chief Solutions Architect for Cloud Computing

Cisco

Kapil Bakshi is the Chief Solutions Architect for Cisco Federal’s Data Center Practice. Kapil is responsible for leading and driving Data Center and Cloud Computing initiatives in Cisco Federal. Kapil has extensive experience in strategizing, architecting, managing and delivering Data Center solutions to US Federal Agencies and Enterprise customers. During his career, he has held several architectural, consulting and managerial positions within the industry. Prior to Cisco, Kapil worked for Sun Microsystems, where he spent a decade working with US Government and Service Provider industry. Prior to SUN, he worked for Hewlett-Packard and several government system integrators in consulting and product development roles. Kapil is native of Washington DC area, and holds both BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park. MS in Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from University of Maryland, College Park. He also holds a U.S. patent (6373932) for a Service Provider Data Warehouse Solution.

Curtis Brazier

Principal Architect

VMware

Curtis Brazier is a Principal Architect with VMware’s Federal field organization. In this role, he leads VMware’s solutions development and architectural design for major Federal IT programs. He has spent more than 22 years in a variety of roles in the IT industry including implementation, administration and support. His activities include support for both Lockheed Martin internal consumption as well as Public Sector program pursuit. Mr. Brazier is also the primary technical lead for VMware in the Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) Alliance, which is a consortium of EMC, Cisco and Microsoft. Prior to joining VMware, Mr. Brazier supported Public Sector operations for Gemplus and RSA Security in the strong authentication space and Novell in the infrastructure management space.

Jeff Hine

Moderator

Analyst

Enterprise Strategy Group

Based in New York City, Jeff serves as lead analyst for the IT Services segment as well as Practice Lead for End-User Programs. Jeff is a seasoned professional with 20 years of experience in IT consulting, sales, and channels, with a focus in storage and data protection. Having worked for software, hardware, services, and reseller firms in a sales and delivery capacity, Jeff understands the complete technology value chain, and what motivates end-users to choose one vendor over another. Jeff’s perspective is grounded in a career working directly with hundreds of IT executives including a third of the Fortune 100. Living and working in New York City allows Jeff to be close to some of the top IT talent in the country, and work with a group of customers who make it their goal to push the envelope and gain competitive advantage through technology. His career has focused on helping IT executives sort through the myriad of technology choices, and define the strategic projects to deploy, optimize, and manage IT infrastructure. Jeff has worked for industry leaders such as EMC, GlassHouse Technologies, and Avamar; and spent 7 years working in the reseller/integrator channel. He is a graduate of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Bob Wambach

Senior Director for the VCE Coalition

EMC Corporation

Bob Wambach leads Virtual Computing Environment Coalition marketing. Bob is responsible for planning, alignment and execution of Virtual Computing Environment Coalition marketing and sales enablement activities throughout the world, working cross-functionally within EMC and in collaboration with Cisco and VMware. Bob previously led marketing for EMC’s high-end storage and storage virtualization product offerings including EMC’s flagship Symmetrix storage platform. Bob also led pricing and business strategy planning for EMC’s storage division. Prior to joining EMC in 2003, Bob held several executive marketing and engineering roles in the computer, networking and telecommunications industries. Bob holds several U.S. patents for contributions in the computer and communications fields, and holds a B.S.E.E. from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.