Craig Muzilla is Vice President, Middleware Business Unit at Red Hat, where he is responsible for the overall middleware and JBoss product business. Craig has extensive experience leading businesses that provide Java, SOA, application integration and data integration middleware software products. He provided leadership establishing early Web services industry initiatives, and has led strategy, product management, marketing, and business development for many middleware software companies.

Prior to Red Hat, Craig was Senior Vice President at MetaMatrix, a leader in data services middleware that was acquired by Red Hat. Craig was also vice president at Avaki Corporation (now Sybase) and Bowstreet (now IBM). Craig holds an MBA degree from Boston University and a bachelors degree from Ohio State University.

Rob Cardwell serves as Vice President of Middleware Technology at Red Hat. He has more than 20 years of software development and information management experience, primarily in the healthcare, financial services, and government sectors. He joined Red Hat through the acquisition of MetaMatrix in May 2007, where Rob was CTO from 2002-2007. Prior to MetaMatrix, he was Vice President of R&D for InnaPhase (now Thermo Electron), leading the software development organization and directing product strategy. Rob was also the CIO of Solucient (now a division of Thomson), which provides data warehousing and information services for the United States healthcare industry. Prior to Solucient, he held management and development positions for several consulting organizations, including Accenture and IBM.

Rob graduated from Johns Hopkins University and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. He serves as an Advisory Board member to the Johns Hopkins Engineering Program for Professionals.

Sacha was General Manager of JBoss (Europe) until its acquisition by Red Hat in 2006. Sacha founded JBoss EMEA in Switzerland in 2003 and played an instrumental role in defining the JBoss business in Europe. He also played a key role in recruiting some of the key JBoss products (jBPM, Drools, Arjuna, JBoss ESB). In March 2001, he implemented the first version of the clustering features in JBoss. Prior to JBoss has was founder of Cogito Informatique, a Swiss consulting firm working in the application server and middleware fields. Sacha is a computer science graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).

After graduating from Cornell University with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2000, Dan became captivated by the world of free and open source software. He soon discovered the combination of Linux and the Java EE platform to be the ideal blend on which to build his professional career. He is the author of a three-part series on Seam for IBM developerWorks and Seam in Action, published by Manning Publications.

Dan continues to write articles on Seam and related technologies such as JSF, JPA, and Hibernate. He is a committer on the Seam project, an active participant in the Seam community, a Java blogger and has recently joined the core developer team at JBoss, a Division of Red Hat. You can keep up with Dan's development experiences (more or less) by subscribing to his blog at http://mojavelinux.com or followng him on Twitter at mojavelinux.

Dimitris Andreadis currently leads the JBoss Application Server project. He has been a JBoss addict and contributor from the early JBoss days and he finally joined JBoss in 2004. He has extensive experience with JMX and CORBA technologies and represents Red Hat on the Resource Consumption Management API Expert Group (JSR-284). Previously he spent seven years at Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems. Dimitris studied computer science at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and received an M.Sc. by research from University College Dublin, Ireland.

Emmanuel Bernard is Core Developer at JBoss and project lead of Hibernate Annotations, Hibertnate Validator and Hibernate Search. After studying Theoretical Computer Science at Supelec, one of the top French Grandes Ecoles, Emmanuel spent time in the Retail Industry as project lead and architect, involving various technologies including, Java and ORMs.

Emmanuel joined the Hibernate team more than 3 years ago, he then focused on EJB 3.0 for JBoss. He is a member of the EJB 3.0 expert group and the JSR 303: Bean Validation expert group.

Aaron leads the product line management effort of Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and the Red Hat Application Stack. Aaron joined Red Hat in 2005 as the Director of Global Strategic Services, overseeing Red Hat's technical account managers and all of its global enterprise support partners. Prior to joining Red Hat, Aaron was a director of information technology at UBS Investment Bank, where he held a variety of roles in application development and global program management. Aaron started his career as a technology consultant with Arthur Andersen and is a graduate of Indiana University.

Joe Dickman has over 16 years experience as a technical architect, developer, and business leader. His most recent endeavor is the establishment of Vizuri, a business unit of Applied Engineering Management Corporation that delivers advanced information systems and electronic commerce solutions for the private sector. As Managing Director, Joe is responsible for overall operations of Vizuri.

Joe has extensive experience within the Financial Services and Insurance industry segments that have yielded solutions for Ameritrade, Independent Insurance Agents of America and Aon Insurance.

Prior to Vizuri, Joe worked at Noblestar for 9 years where he was the Director of Business Solutions Architecture and Sterling Software for 7 years where he held various positions from architect to director of Product Development.

As director of product line management for Red Hatís JBoss SOA products, Pierre is responsible for driving the strategy and enterprise messaging for these Red Hat products. Starting with JBoss Portal and JBoss JBPM in 2005, Pierre led the product strategy and expansion into the integration and SOA markets. The resulting JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform includes JBoss ESB, JBoss JBPM, and JBoss Rulesóall now the unit volume market leaders or emerging strong challengers to long time incumbents. Pierreís focus is to expand Red Hatís market presence in these major middleware categories, bringing the value of open source and community innovation to customers in these markets.

Sam manages Dell Computer, as a Red Hat OEM account for all of the Americas, and interacts with joint customers on a regular basis to deliver value and performance. Sam also works to educate Dell AE's, Dell IT, and inside sales reps on the benefits of open source development and deployment with RHEL and JBoss. Sam teaches the understanding that technology is not the end but the means to help companies decrease broken business processes and replace them with more modular and reuseable services.

Sam holds professional certifications and training from Compaq, IBM, BellSouth, and Red Hat.

Nick Hopman is a program manager for Amentra, an independent subsidiary of Red Hat, and leads Amentraís JBoss Migration practice. With his overall knowledge of application architecture and software development best practices, Nick has overseen and led numerous JBoss migration efforts with great success.

Ken Johnson heads product line management for Red Hat's MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform. He joined Red Hat with the 2007 acquisition of MetaMatrix, where he was a senior engineering manager. Prior to MetaMatrix, he held a variety of technical leadership positions at Vignette Corporation, Oberon Software, and Sybase, with a focus on integration and data management technologies. Ken received his bachelor of science in manufacturing engineering from Boston University.

Ales Justin was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia and graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University of Ljubljana. He fell in love with Java seven years ago and has spent most of his time developing information systems, ranging from customer service to energy management. He joined JBoss in 2006 to work full time on the Microcontainer project, currently serving as its lead. He also contributes to JBoss AS and is Seam and Spring integration specialist. He represent JBoss on 'JSR-291 Dynamic Component Support for Java SE' and 'OSGi' expert groups.

Mark is Engineering Director at Red Hat and Technical Development of the JBoss SOA Platform. Prior to joining Red Hat, Mark was lead of the JBossTS and JBossESB projects, after being acquired from his previous start-up, Arjuna Technologies, where he was co-founder and Chief Architect.

Mark has also been a Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett Packard, leading the transaction service team to develop the worlds first Web Services transactions product. As well as participating in various standards efforts in OASIS and W3C (and co-author of several WS-* components) he has written extensively on fault tolerance and distributed systems.

Bob McWhirter has been developing software for over a decade, moving from C++ to Java to Ruby. He's the founder of The Codehaus open-source community and the JBoss Drools business rule engine. He is currently a member of the Research & Prototyping team at JBoss, where he's investigating melding JBoss with both virtualization technologies and the Ruby language. He lives in rural Virginia among the cows and coyotes.

As vice president of engineering, Andy Miller manages JBoss' expanding number of open source projects, development talent, and enterprise platform products. He brings 23 years of experience and extensive, hands-on technical expertise working with open source and JBoss technologies. Previously, Andy was vice president of technical architecture at Corporate Express, where he led the company to move its information systems to open source to improve reliability, performance and drive down costs, including the strategic decision to make JBoss the platform for mission critical corporate applications.

Chris Morgan comes to Red Hat with over 14 years of experience in software development, application management, and systems management. His extensive professional background includes software support, software engineering, sales, and consulting with IBM for a variety of Fortune 500 businesses. His master's degrees in computer engineering and business (MBA) give him unparalleled insight into both the business value and technical nuances of management software - how it can cut costs and enable business through optimization of your technology platforms.

Chuck Mosher is the principal architect for the MetaMatrix practice within the Global Professional Services division of Red Hat. He came to Red Hat via the acquisition of MetaMatrix, where he was the Director of Federal Architecture and Solutions. Chuck has provided architectural consulting to numerous enterprise software vendors and partners, as well as developed strategy recommendations for senior executives seeking to integrate and extend their systems. At Red Hat he is responsible for designing enterprise integration architectures, consulting on implementations, and responding to customer requirements and feedback. He communicates extensively on product strategy and capabilities to partners and customers through industry events, webinars.

Pete is the project lead for Seam and the Web Beans RI and is a lead developer on RichFaces, a rich Ajax JSF component set. Pete also represents JBoss on the JSF 2.0 Expert Group. He is currently employed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat, as a core developer working on JBoss open source projects. Before working for Red Hat, Pete used and contributed to Seam while working for a UK-based staffing agency as an IT development manager.

Troy Phillips is a JBoss Solutions Specialist for Red Hat's State & Local Government and Education Markets. Troy works with customers across all 50 states. He joined Red Hat in June 2008 after five years with Oracle. He has a computer information systems degree and enjoys all things related to technology.

Mark Proctor received his Beng in Engineer Science and Technology and then his Msc in Business and Information Systems; both from Brunel University, West London. His Msc thesis was in the field of Genetic Algorithms; which is where he first got his interest for anything AI related. Mark became involved in the Drools expert system project at an early stage and soon became its project lead. Mark then joined JBoss (later acquired by Red Hat) as an employee when the Drools project was federated into the JBoss JEMS stack. Having developed a powerful expert system, Mark is now turning his attention to other declarative paradigms in an effort to unify them to allow for richer domain modelling environments.

John Punzak joined Red Hat three years ago to lead our team of sales professionals dedicated to customers in the public sector space. The division has grown rapidly as agencies are recognizing the growing opportunities in the open source space and Red Hat's leadership position as a superior value vendor. Prior to joining Red Hat, John had over 20 years of industry experience working for technology vendors such as Oracle and Unisys.

Burr Sutter is a current Sun Java Champion, president of the Atlanta Java Users Group and founder of the Atlanta Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. He has over 20 years of software design and development experience along with numerous published articles, book chapters, and developer conference speaking engagements. He is presently employed at JBoss, a division of Red Hat.

Jim Tyrrell is a JBoss Solutions Architect within the JBoss division of Red Hat. He has over 12 years of experience designing and developing enterprise systems across various fields, such as online commerce, government, insurance, and manufacturing. Jim is a longtime JBoss evangelist and joined Red Hat in November 2006.

Mike Vertal brings over 18 years of operational, technical and executive leadership experience to this leading professional services firm that focuses on open source solutions.

Before starting Rivet Logic in 2005, Mike served in executive positions at leading software and services companies. As Vice President of Engineering at Norcom Networks, a leading mobile middleware and network services provider, Mike directed a total conversion to open source software that simultaneously reduced operating costs by millions of dollars and dramatically improved service reliability.

Mike holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from Case Western Reserve University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

George Williams is Director, Professional Services, for EnterpriseDB andis responsible for the global professional services and support teams,providing a wide array of support options to fit the needs of each customer from business hours support for development through 24/7 follow-the-sun support for mission critical implementations.

Previously George was VP, Solutions, at Fusion Technologies and CTO at Essemm Information Systems. George is also the founder member of theteam that worked on the Ruby PostgreSQL Enterprise Stack and has spokenat many international conferences.

George has authored many white papers and is also the co-author of Oracle Backup and Recovery 8i, published by McMillian Press (Oracle Series).