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Opening Keynote Speaker
Raymond J. Lane
General Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
Ray Lane is General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, America's premier venture capital firm, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling, and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm aimed at improving enterprise productivity. He sits on the boards of Elance, Valdero, Metamatrix, Virsa, Visible Path, Xsigo Systems and SpikeSource. He also serves on two public boards, Quest Software and SeeBeyond Technologies.
Before joining KPCB, Ray was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation, the second-largest software company in the world and the leading enterprise software and services company. During his eight-year tenure, Oracle exhibited phenomenal sales growth, from approximately $1 billion in 1992 to its current annual revenue of $10 billion. Ray led Oracle's business expansion beyond its core database technology into enterprise applications and professional services.
Before joining Oracle, Ray was a senior partner with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he pioneered and led the Information Systems Group, a worldwide consulting practice targeted at helping senior management achieve better results from information technology. He also served on Booz-Allen's board of directors and executive management committee. Prior to Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Ray served as division vice president with Electronic Data Systems Corp (EDS). In addition, he spent ten years with IBM in various product-management, sales and marketing positions.
Ray received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and an honorary Ph.D. in Science from West Virginia University (WVU). He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of WVU and serves as a director of the Foundation Board for the University. Recently, WVU honored Ray by naming the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Ray also serves on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. He has been an active campaigner and planner for Carnegie Mellon's establishment of a Silicon Valley campus, and the co-creator of a High Dependability Computing Consortium with Carnegie Mellon and NASA. Ray also serves as Vice Chairman of Special Olympics International and has served on the International board of Special Olympics for several years. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from Golden Gate University.
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Closing Keynote Speaker
Jonathan Schwartz
President and Chief Operating Officer
Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
On April 2, 2004 Jonathan Schwartz, 38, was named president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems. In this role he is responsible for operations and execution of Sun's day-to-day business including Systems, Software, Global Sales Operations, worldwide manufacturing and purchasing, customer advocacy and worldwide marketing.
Prior to this position, Mr. Schwartz served as executive vice president of Sun's software group where he was responsible for the company's software technologies and business. While in this position, he revolutionized Sun's software strategy with the introduction of the Java System, an innovative collection of highly integrated software for the development, deployment and operation of Java technologies. Mr. Schwartz also re-established Sun on the desktop with launch of the Java Desktop System which has quickly become the industry's number one desktop alternative and is responsible for the launch and proliferation of the popular java.com web properties. These business strategies accelerated Sun's market leadership for the Solaris Operating environment and the Java software language and development platform.
In his previous role as chief strategy Officer for Sun, Mr. Schwartz directed the company's long-range planning and corporate development activities including mergers and acquisitions and Sun's venture capital portfolio. He also oversaw strategic initiatives for the industry, including the Liberty Alliance, an industry alliance to promote standards around network identity. Previously, Mr. Schwartz headed Sun's investment group and ran Sun's development tools and Java product marketing organizations.
Before joining Sun in 1996, Mr. Schwartz was chief executive officer of Lighthouse Design, Ltd., which Sun acquired. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co., Inc., serving financial services companies.
Schwartz is on the board of directors of Dorado Corporation. He holds degrees in economics and mathematics from Wesleyan University. |
