Sumit Dhawan

Sumit Dhawan is Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware’s End-User Computing (EUC) desktop business. He leads product development, product management, GTM strategy for VMware’s complete Desktop Cloud Services portfolio (Horizon), Application Lifecycle Management solutions (App Volumes), and integrated solutions strategy to deliver the Digital Workspace (Workspace ONE). In just two years at VMware, he helped grow the End-User Computing business >$1B in revenue, the Desktop product portfolio being the most significant contributor to that growth. He is leading the biggest strategic shift in the EUC technology strategy, from delivering traditional on-premises to desktop and applications cloud services solutions. He is also overseeing the integration of EUC’s Desktop, Mobile, Identity, and Productivity Application portfolios into the industry’s first consumer simple, enterprise secure Digital Workspace solution, Workspace ONE. His leadership has led VMware to leapfrog its competitors in a number of industry analyst reports, such as Gartner and IDC.

Prior to his current role, he was Group Vice President and General Manager of mobile products at Citrix. He drove Citrix’s entry into the mobile management market, including the acquisition of Zenprise. During nearly 16 years at Citrix, Dhawan worked in several functional areas including product management, engineering, product marketing, sales, and corporate development for various emerging and established products and businesses.

Dhawan holds degrees in both business and science, with a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota. Dhawan graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). He is an avid blogger and spokesperson on how transformative technology drives major strategic shifts for business, helping drive the industry conversation around how the Digital Workspace is driving economic disruption.

Brian  Lesniakowski

Serving as Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Lesniakowski provides expertise in translating customer system requirements into solution designs and is ultimately tasked with developing and directing AEC Group’s overall technology strategy. Brian is responsible for the long-term direction of AEC’s technical adoption roadmap and solution development as well as identifying and assessing new technologies that serve to augment or replace existing solution sets. In his role as CTO, Brian also manages the Technical Architect team, provides pre-sales support, and issues information necessary for the company’s marketing department to support marketing and sales activities.
 
During his 18 years with AEC and his tenure as Chief Technology Officer, Brian has found that the continual challenges associated with maintaining a strong awareness and understanding of technology maturation and evolution is the catalyst that makes his position with AEC Group
so rewarding. The combination of clients, employees, and OEM partners provides such a unique work environment that never stagnates and offers Brian and his co-workers a wealth of opportunities for professional and personal achievement.
 
A sits on multiple technical councils related to technical solution areas and holds certifications in technologies including those from EMC, Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, and Cisco.
 
Brian serves as a youth hockey coach in his time outside of AEC.
 
He holds a degree in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University.

Douglas Brown

Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources.

Prior to DABCC, Doug worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 where he developed the leading Citrix deployment system, “Methodology in a Box”, which has more than a million users. Additionally, his peers and management at Citrix named Doug Systems Engineer of the Year in 2002. From 2005 to 2016, Doug was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft Corporation for his contributions to the industry. He has also been acknowledged with the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vEXPERT awards for his continued support in the IT community. Doug speaks at leading industry events and has been a prolific author over the past 20 years.

Mr. Brown is also host of the #1 ranked virtualization and cloud podcast show, DABCC Radio and DABCC TV.

Dane Young

DANE YOUNG (@youngtech) is a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), VMware vExpert and EUC Champion, and technology enthusiast. Dane is the Virtualization Practice Manager at Entisys360 in Northern California specializing in application, desktop, and server virtualization technologies from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Dane maintains a virtualization focused blog that can be found at tech.daneyoung.com. He has obtained a number of technical certifications from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware. Dane currently holds Master of Business Administration and Management Information Systems degrees.

Christopher Reed

As an award-winning, influential Business and Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience and exceptional critical thinking, leadership, negotiation, and mediation skills, Christopher Reed excels at all things technological. Reed currently serves at VMware in the Office of the CTO as a EUC Technical Strategist. In this role he works with strategic customers to creating strategy, vision, and alignment between stakeholders and streamline the process of positioning, selling, consulting, designing, delivering, and supporting End User Computing Solutions. 

Christopher’s broad reaching experience in Healthcare, Education, Communications, High Tech, Financial Services, and Real Estate industries allow him to work within or across a broad range of industries and levels within an organization. He works to project a refined business acumen with the ability to develop and maintain business relationships. His mentors and colleagues alike have identified Christopher as a thought leader, innovator, collaborator, and energetic motivator manager of people, projects, and programs.

Michael  Hogan

In 2004, Hogan Consulting Group was established as a solution provider in Northwest Indiana.  With a background as a Systems Engineer, Michael saw the need for higher specialization and proficiencies in the technology world around virtualization, application delivery, systems management and security.  Over the years Michael has guided Hogan Consulting to become a premier service provider in the Midwest with offices and resources that cover Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky.  Having grown a company with a focus on improving business outcomes for clients, Michael has worked on many facets of how technology can be used to improve business as a whole.  In January of 2015, Hogan Consulting Group was awarded the Citrix Partner Innovation Award in the Enterprise space.  This award is an international recognition of how HCG applied technologies to completely transform business for one of its clients.    HCG has been recognized by its vendor partners as being a leader in the field with such accreditations as Citrix Platinum, VMware Enterprise, AppSense Platinum, and Lakeside Gold.

Mark Margevicius

Mark’s primary function is to assist customers in understanding the trends and directions of the End User Computing landscape. In this advisory role he will be giving tactical guidance on EUC initiatives and assisting in EUC strategy development in the areas of desktop transformation, mobile computing, DaaS, VDI, and desktop virtualization. He joined VMware after spending 16 years at Gartner Research where he most recently served as vice president and research director, covering end-user computing with a primary focus on desktop virtualization, hosted virtual desktops, PC hardware, and server-based computing. During this time, he assisted clients in the selection of solutions appropriate for their needs and best practices for client-side policies and procedures. Prior to Gartner, Mark spent 9 years at KeyBank, a regional bank in Ohio where he was vice president overseeing infrastructure operations and desktop support. Mark proudly calls Cleveland his home, has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Akron and also holds an MBA from Baldwin Wallace University.

Paul  Kunze

Paul Kunze is Vice President of Sales & Marketing of IntraSystems.  Mr. Kunze’s experience in the industry as well as his vision has kept IntraSystems on the top of its class for 20 years.  Since IntraSystems inception, Paul has maintained highly successful partnerships with key vendors, such as VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft while continuing to grow partnerships with other leading technology vendors to ensure IntraSystems meets the growing needs of their customer base.  Paul actively serves as a member on several vendors’ technology councils.

With nearly 24 years of experience in the technology industry, Mr. Kunze is responsible for driving revenue growth while overseeing IntraSystems’ sales and marketing team.  Under his direction, IntraSystems’ sales team provides solutions to meet customers’ emerging and multifaceted cloud, network, and security needs.  Paul ensures that IntraSystems delivers customer satisfaction through technical competence, prominent partnerships, and professional integrity of all employees.  Under his leadership, IntraSystems’ customer base and revenue has continued to grow year after year. 

Sachin Sharma

Sachin Sharma is a Product Line Marketing Manager at VMware. He focuses on product marketing for End-User Computing products, such as App Volumes. Prior to VMware, he was a Sr. Systems Engineer at Wanova, which was acquired by VMware and developed the Mirage product. Prior to that, he was in several systems engineering, pre-sales engineering, and consulting roles, including with Nimsoft, which was acquired by CA Technologies. He has over 12 years of experience in various IT and systems management roles.

Philip Alberta

An industry-acclaimed business and technology leader, Philip Alberta encompasses the vision, strategy and leadership to drive IT business innovation, growth and excellence in the workplace. As CIO, he enables IPM’s organizational processes, continuously evaluating programs to maximize efficiency and further progress across all business practices. Alberta also plays an integral role in developing executive client relationships, mapping solutions to business objectives and ensuring maximum value is realized from project investments.
 
With a proven track record for implementing fiscally responsible strategies, Alberta joined IPM as a Business Analyst in early 2011 from RTA Group, Alberta’s independent business advisory firm. In this capacity, he worked with executive management to commence an internal company review to identify opportunities across the business and propose viable solutions. He officially assumed the Chief Information Officer role in January 2012.  

Harry  Labana

Harry Labana is VP of Products at VMware, for End User Computing. Prior to that, he served as Chief Product Officer and SVP of CloudVolumes, acquired by VMware in 2014. Mr. Labana served as the CTO and VP of Product Management at AppSense, Inc. since May 2011. He joined AppSense from Citrix, where he served as VP and CTO for the Citrix Desktop Division. Prior to Citrix, he served at Goldman Sachs for nine years, lastly as a Vice President in the Technology division, leading the efforts for desktop and application virtualization.

Matt Lesak

I was given a computer when I was 8 years old and quickly discovered my love for technology. I'm one of the fortunate that is blessed to be able to work in a field that is also my passion. I've worn many hats in my career ranging from client, server, and network engineering, consultant, instructor, technical sales, marketing, and leadership positions.

Paul  Kunze

Paul Kunze is Vice President of Sales & Marketing of IntraSystems.  Mr. Kunze’s experience in the industry as well as his vision has kept IntraSystems on the top of its class for 20 years.  Since IntraSystems inception, Paul has maintained highly successful partnerships with key vendors, such as VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft while continuing to grow partnerships with other leading technology vendors to ensure IntraSystems meets the growing needs of their customer base.  Paul actively serves as a member on several vendors’ technology councils.

With nearly 24 years of experience in the technology industry, Mr. Kunze is responsible for driving revenue growth while overseeing IntraSystems’ sales and marketing team.  Under his direction, IntraSystems’ sales team provides solutions to meet customers’ emerging and multifaceted cloud, network, and security needs.  Paul ensures that IntraSystems delivers customer satisfaction through technical competence, prominent partnerships, and professional integrity of all employees.  Under his leadership, IntraSystems’ customer base and revenue has continued to grow year after year. 

Brian  Lesniakowski

Serving as Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Lesniakowski provides expertise in translating customer system requirements into solution designs and is ultimately tasked with developing and directing AEC Group’s overall technology strategy. Brian is responsible for the long-term direction of AEC’s technical adoption roadmap and solution development as well as identifying and assessing new technologies that serve to augment or replace existing solution sets. In his role as CTO, Brian also manages the Technical Architect team, provides pre-sales support, and issues information necessary for the company’s marketing department to support marketing and sales activities.
 
During his 18 years with AEC and his tenure as Chief Technology Officer, Brian has found that the continual challenges associated with maintaining a strong awareness and understanding of technology maturation and evolution is the catalyst that makes his position with AEC Group
so rewarding. The combination of clients, employees, and OEM partners provides such a unique work environment that never stagnates and offers Brian and his co-workers a wealth of opportunities for professional and personal achievement.
 
A sits on multiple technical councils related to technical solution areas and holds certifications in technologies including those from EMC, Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, and Cisco.
 
Brian serves as a youth hockey coach in his time outside of AEC.
 
He holds a degree in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University.

Brennan Harper

Mark A. Westling leads the Professional Services development efforts at Right! Systems, Inc. The principal mission of this function is to develop and leverage the company’s partnerships and alliances including Microsoft, Citrix, Cisco, Juniper, VMware among others. In addition, Mark is responsible for driving a number of new-business development efforts around cloud computing and managed services.

Mr. Westling joined RSI in 1993 as a member of the original team.  He has over 25 years of technology industry experience. Prior to joining Right! Systems Inc., Mr. Westling worked for the State of Washington and subsequently GRiD Systems as a Senior Systems Engineer.