Blaine Kohl
Vice President
Marketing and Sales, Worldwide, and Business Development, North America
Tehuti Networks
Ms. Kohl is vice president of marketing and sales worldwide and business development for North America for Tehuti Networks, a 10-Gigabit Ethernet TCP/IP accelerator company. Ms. Kohl has 14 years of experience in wired and wireless networking and communications technologies and products and offers specific expertise in developing and launching new technologies and products. She also brings broad experience in nonprofits and alliances ranging from technology to equestrian sports. She last served as the vice president of marketing for Bandspeed. Prior to Bandspeed, she was Intel's director of marketing for iSCSI, 1-Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet product lines, where her teams launched the industry's first iSCSI and 10-Gigabit Ethernet products. Prior to Intel, Ms. Kohl was at Level One Communications, Jato Technologies, and Motorola.
Loring Wirbel
Editorial Director for Communications Initiatives
CMP Electronics Group
Mr. Wirbel has written for EE Times and other CMP publications for 18 years, covering such areas as semiconductor markets and communications technology. He studied electrical engineering and information sciences at Michigan State University and received a B.A. in science journalism from the University of Arizona. He worked at daily newspapers in Tucson and Albuquerque before moving to technology trade journalism in 1986. He is the recipient of a Scripps-Howard Award and a two-time winner of Project Censored of Sonoma State University. He is also the author of a 2004 report on military space policy, "Star Wars: U.S. Tools of Space Supremacy."
Adam Bechtel
Director, Global Network Architecture
Yahoo!
Mr. Bechtel previously worked for three years as chief technology officer at Computer Aided Telephony. He also worked for two years as a network architect for Inktomi Corporation. Mr. Bechtel has a B.S. in applied math and an M.S. in telecom engineering from the University of Colorado.
Mike Bennett
Senior Network Engineer, LBLnet Services Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Mr. Bennett has more than 20 years of combined experience in electronics and enterprise networking. He co-manages the LBLnet Services Group, which is responsible for operating and maintaining the Lab's campus-area network, a LAN with more than 13,000 attached devices. Mr. Bennett is an IEEE standards association member, is a contributor of end-user's perspectives to a number of Ethernet standards, and was ranked 40th of the 50 most powerful people in networking by Network World in December 2003.
Brad Booth
Director, Advanced Products
Quake Technologies
Chair of IEEE 802.3an
Mr. Booth serves as the president for the Ethernet Alliance. Previously, he served as a director and as vice president of technology for the 10-Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (10GEA). Mr. Booth is also the chair of the IEEE P802.3an (10GBASE-T) task force, and prior to that, he was the editor in chief for IEEE Std. 802.3ae™-2002. In 2003, Mr. Booth received recognition as a senior member of the IEEE.
Seamus Crehan
Director
Dell'Oro Group
Mr. Crehan is the primary analyst focused on the Ethernet switch market research program. He has tracked this market for Dell'Oro for the past six years. Mr. Crehan's research in telecommunications has been extensive, and he is widely considered an authority on the Ethernet switch market. Mr. Crehan came to Dell'Oro from Intel Corporation, where he was an analyst in three product groups-Desktop, Consumer, and Home-before moving into Intel's main R&D group. Before joining Intel, Mr. Crehan owned and operated a residential construction company.
Joel Goergen
Vice President of Technology and Chief Scientist
Force10 Networks
Mr. Goergen has more than 18 years of research experience in high-speed analog signaling. Prior to joining Force10, he headed research projects at Bell Labs, Ascend Communications, Transition Networks, and MTS Systems. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering and a B.A. in mathematics from St. Cloud State University and actively participates in various standards bodies. In the IEEE, Mr. Goergen is helping to define 802.3 LAN standards, and in the Optical Internetworking Forum, he is focusing on research that leads to fast, narrow copper or optical interfaces. His latest industry research is the SDD21 baseline channel model referenced by the IEEE 802.3AP backplane working group.