VMworld 2014 Europe – TAM Services Events – Speakers and Panelists

Panelists, Presenters and Moderators

Alan Barber, Vice President, Technical Services EMEA

Alan Barber is Vice President of Technical Services in EMEA.  In this role, he is responsible for driving and delivering value-added consulting services to help customers and partners across the region better structure, manage, deploy and optimise their VMware virtualization product and platform technology investments.
Alan joined VMware in August 2007 from HP, where he held a variety of senior roles in his 15 year service. His most recent role was as Consulting Director in the UK, where he was responsible for pre-sales and services for HP Software.
Alan has been in the technology industry for 20 years, with the majority of that time spent in professional services and sales, as well as management consultancy and business development.

Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA

Joe Baguley is VMware’s Chief Technology Officer in EMEA. He helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organisations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. As part of VMware’s Office of the CTO, Joe assists VMware’s customers in understanding how to use cloud technologies to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware’s R&D processes.
Follow Joe on Twitter: @JoeBaguley

Kit Colbert, Chief Technology Officer, End-User Computing

Kit Colbert is the CTO, End-User Computing at VMware, driving technical strategy and advanced development of innovative solutions for VMware’s desktop, social, and mobility products. A 10-year veteran at VMware, Kit previously held roles as the Chief Architect and Principal Engineer for Horizon Workspace and as the lead Management Architect for the vCenter Operations Suite. At the start of his career, he was the technical lead behind the creation, development, and delivery of the vMotion and Storage vMotion features in vSphere.
Kit holds a ScB in Computer Science from Brown University and is a recognized thought-leader on End-user Computing and Cloud Management trends. He speaks regularly at industry conferences, on the main stage at VMworld, and is the desktop and mobility voice for the VMware Office of the CTO blog.
Follow Kit on Twitter: @KitColbert

Mathew Lodge, Vice President, Cloud Services Product Marketing

Mathew Lodge is a Vice President in VMware’s Cloud Services group. Mathew has 20 years’ diverse experience in cloud computing and product leadership. He has built compilers and distributed systems for projects like the International Space Station, helped connect six countries to the Internet for the first time, and managed a $630m router product line at Cisco. Prior to VMware, Mathew was Senior Director at Symantec in its $1Bn+ information management group.
Follow Mathew on Twitter: @MathewLodge

Duncan Epping, Principal Architect, VCDX007

Duncan Epping is the co-author of several books, including the best selling vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive. Epping is also the owner and author of the leading virtualization blog yellow-bricks.com.
Follow Duncan on Twitter: @DuncanYB
 Read the Blogs: blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/

Bruce Davie, Principal Engineer

Bruce Davie is a Principal Engineer in the Networking and Security BU. He joined VMware as part of the Nicira acquisition, and focuses on network virtualization. He has over 25 years of networking industry experience, and was a Cisco Fellow prior to joining Nicira. At Cisco, he worked closely with leading service providers to enhance the capabilities of their networks. He led the team that developed multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) and contributed to the standards on IP quality of service. He has written over a dozen Internet RFCs and several networking textbooks. Bruce received his Ph. D. in computer science from the University of Edinburgh in 1988 and is an ACM Fellow.
Follow Bruce on Twitter: @_drbruced

Kevin Lees, Principal Architect, Global Technology Solutions

Kevin is a Principal Architect and the Lead Global Architect for Cloud Operations within VMware’s Global Technology Solutions organization. His team is responsible for defining the cloud operational best practices within VMware. He was the Global Delivery Team lead for VMware’s Cloud Practice from 2009 through June of 2011 during which time he led many of VMware’s early cloud implementations with companies such as AT&T, NYSE, and ViaWest. Kevin holds ITIL and VCP certifications, and has a combined 30+ years of IT system architecture, design, and integration, and IT Operations management experience.

Rawlinson Rivera, VCDX, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, Software-defined Storage Technologies

Rawlinson is a Senior Architect working for the Cloud Infrastructure Technical Marketing organization at VMware. A portion of my responsibilities revolve around developing content to enable and provide technical leadership for customers, partners, and communities. My focus is Software-defined Storage technologies and integration aspects of VMware products and OpenStack framework, and primarily responsible for Virtual SAN.
Follow Rawlinson on Twitter: @PunchingClouds

William Lam, Staff Engineer

William is a Staff Engineer working within VMware R&D as part of the SDDC Emerging Solutions organization. His role within VMware is to help prototype and build out new solutions and help take it to market. His primary focus is on Automation of the Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) from both an API and SDK perspective in addition to general Integration and Operation of the VMware SDDC.
Follow William on Twitter: @lamw