Dr. Mike Hollier is a technical and commercial pioneer in perceptual engineering. He directed BT's research into audio, video and multimedia performance assessment for nearly a decade before leading the incubation of Psytechnics Ltd. in 2000. He left BT to become Psytechnics' CEO and since October 2002 has served as its CTO. Psytechnics is the global leader in delivering Quality of Experience (QoE) management products for Voice over IP, Video Conferencing, Unified Communications and IPTV in fixed, mobile and converged environments.

Steve Guthrie has spent the past decade in the networking and telephony markets as an active participant in the emergence of LANs, WANs and IP technologies and most recently with unified communications such as IP voice, video, presence and messaging. As the director of product marketing for CA's Network and Voice Management Solution, which includes the CA eHealth Network Performance Manager, CA SPECTRUM Network Fault Manager, and CA eHealth for Voice Systems Manager offerings, Guthrie is responsible for understanding how enterprises, public-sector agencies, telcos and managed service providers use network and voice management solutions and for communicating these experiences and industry best practices to help other organizations optimize their converged network investments and achieve high end-user satisfaction. Additionally, he works in conjunction with product management to understand the needs of large enterprises, telcos and MSPs and define solutions that span these customers' existing networks as well as the networks they are building to support the fast-growing demand for IP services for voice, video and data. Prior to joining CA, Inc., Guthrie was director of global product marketing for Integrated Research. of Sydney, Australia, which develops and sells the PROGNOSIS IP telephony management software solution for large enterprises and managed service providers. Prior to this, he was vice president of marketing at Xelor Software, a start-up based in the Boston area that was focused on solving new and complex business problems associated with time-sensitive, real-time IP communications contending for valuable and expensive bandwidth with data-centric applications. Prior to his appointment at Xelor, Guthrie was director of marketing at Pingtel, where he was recognized for his role in making the Pingtel phone a ubiquitous symbol of IP telephony and SIP-based communications.

Terry Slattery is a Principal Consultant at Chesapeake Netcraftsmen, an advanced network consulting firm that specializes in high-profile and challenging network consulting jobs. Terry is consulting in network core switching and routing. He is the founder of Netcordia, inventor of NetMRI, and has been a successful technology innovator in networking during the past 20 years. He has a long history of network consulting and design work, including some of the first Cisco consulting and training on the east coast. As a consultant to Cisco, he led the development of the current Cisco IOS command line interface. Prior to Netcordia, Terry founded Chesapeake Computer Consultants, which became a Cisco premier training and consulting partner. At Chesapeake, he co-invented and patented the v-LAB system to provide hands-on access to real hardware for the hands-on component of internetwork training classes. Terry co-authored the successful McGraw-Hill text "Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks," is the second CCIE (1026) awarded, and is a sought after industry speaker and advisor.

Teresa is responsible for defining, developing, and delivering product strategy for the company. Teresa joined Unimax in 1996. At Unimax, she has moved from lead technical engineering positions to managing various vendor business relationships to defining which products and services best meet the needs of the converged enterprise system management market. Prior to joining Unimax, Teresa spent 13 years at Unisys where she held lead positions in Engineering, Product Management, and Project Management. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree in Math and Quantitative Methods from the University of St. Thomas.

Eric Bear is the Director of VoIP Solution Sales with Fluke Networks. Prior to coming to Fluke Networks, Eric was the Vice President of Product Management and Business Development at Viola Networks in Israel (acquired by Fluke Networks). He has been in the VoIP industry for the past 12 years in various senior sales and marketing positions. Prior to Viola, he worked at Qovia, a VoIP management company acquired by Cisco; Telchemy, a leading vendor of embedded VoIP call quality software and a supplier to Fluke Networks; and Telogy Networks, which made embedded software in VoIP phones/gateways before being acquired by Texas Instruments in 2000. He spent the first nine years of his career at GTE and MCI in various engineering and product management roles, including an 18-month assignment in Japan for GTE. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bradley University in Peoria, IL, and a master's degree in engineering management from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

As Senior Network Management Strategist, Kevin Porter is responsible for defining and marketing network management solutions with an emphasis on infrastructure security and converged communications. He is a participant of the Trusted Network Connect subgroup of the Trusted Computing Group Consortium and a Board Member of the OpenSEA Alliance, created to promote the development of an open-source 802.1X supplicant for secure network access. During his 20 years at HP, Porter has been instrumental in helping ProCurve deliver a consistently competitive network management platform, allowing customers to monitor their networks with common tools and applications that work seamlessly across both wired and wireless infrastructure. Porter has served in various capacities, including marketing director, R&D project manager and software engineer. He was a principal member of the team that launched network traffic monitoring solutions that formed the basis for sFlow traffic sampling technology used by many network vendors today. In addition to being a frequent speaker at Interop trade shows, Porter is also a U.S. patent holder for network device detection.