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Speakers
Mark Minasi
 Mark Minasi is a best-selling author, popular technology columnist, commentator, keynote speaker, and all-around alpha geek. What separates him from many of the other alpha geeks, however, is that he knows how to explain things to normal humans and often make them laugh while doing it. While he is probably best known for his books Mastering Windows NT Server, Mastering Windows 2000 Server and The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide or for his well-received monthly columns in Windows IT Pro, Mark has also authored 17 other technology books, spoken on technical topics in 20 countries, and written and performed in a dozen technical education videos. His most recent works are Mastering Windows 2000 Server, 3rd Edition and Mastering Windows XP Professional.
Mark's humorous, provocative and yet informative style makes him a favorite of audiences around the world. Mark's firm, MR&D, is based in Pungo, a town in Virginia's Tidewater area which is distinguished by having one and only one traffic light. Mark is a regular speaker and seminar leader at technical conferences around the world. Some recent engagements include general sessions at Fall Comdex, technical sessions at Microsoft's Windows 2000 rollout conference, and keynote addresses at Gartner Group's Windows 2000 conference, Compaq's NT Wizards conference, Windows 2000 Connections, and 101 Communication's TechMentor conference.
Ben Smith
Ben Smith is a Security Strategist on the Microsoft Security Strategies Team. He works on developing the long-term security strategy of Microsoft. In addition to being a featured speaker at IT industry conferences and events, Ben was the inaugural Chair of CompTIA's vendor-neutral security certification, Security+ and currently is a member of the United States delegation to the International Standards Organization (ISO), working on information security standards. Ben is a co-author of the Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. He is certified as an MCSE, CISSP, and CCNA.
(Ben is speaking in Denver, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Albany, and Nashua)
Jesper M. Johansson
Jesper M. Johansson is a Security Program Manager in the Security Communications and Engineering group of Microsoft's Security Business Unit (SBU). His work at Microsoft deals with providing a more secure computing infrastructure and user experience across the range of products and services Microsoft sells. He deals with all aspects of Microsoft's Secure by Design, Default, and Deployment objective. Before joining SBU, Dr. Johansson was a Senior Security Technologist in the Security Strategies group, dealing with security issues in Microsoft's own infrastructure. Dr. Johansson publishes regularly in scholarly journals on various information security topics. Before joining Microsoft, Dr. Johansson was an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Boston University, where he taught and did research on information security, computer networking, and databases.
(Jesper is speaking in Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Honolulu, Cedar Rapids, Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Woodbridge)
Mark Mortimore
 After years of programming and teaching and completing his MBA, and after seven years working with Boeing, Mark came to Microsoft in 1995. He spent his first 5 years at Microsoft as a Group Program Manager and Architectural Consultant with the SQL/OLE-DB/Data Access team, Visual Studio, Site Server, & BackOffice. Next, he spent 2 years in Europe, Middle East and Africa, working as a Senior Application Architect with partners and customers in 26 countries. For the past 2 years, Mark has been responsible for coordinating the development of Security information in support of the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing initiative. In person and on the Web, Mark has delivered seminars and presentations to more than 30,000 Microsoft customers worldwide.
(Mark is speaking in Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Seattle, Atlanta, Honolulu, Denver, Dallas, New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Anaheim, and San Francisco)
Steve Riley
 Steve Riley is a product manager in Microsoft's Security Business Unit in Redmond, Washington. Steve specializes in network and host security, communication protocols, network design, and information security policies and process. His customers include various ISPs and ASPs around the United States, as well as traditional enterprise IT customers, for whom he has conducted security assessments and risk analyses, deployed technologies for prevention and detection, and designed highly available network architectures. A router-rooter almost from birth, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications; the simple telephone still provides endless hours of exploratory joy. Steve is a frequent and popular speaker at Microsoft conferences.
(Steve is speaking in Seattle, New York City, Albany, Nashua, Phoenix, Anaheim, and San Francisco)
Carl Almond, Rick Birkenstock, Brian Burrus, and Ryan McCune
While on tour with the Microsoft Security Strategies Roadshow, Avanade will be represented by our U.S.-based Technology Infrastructure (TI) Practice Directors. Key leaders within Avanade, our TI Practice Directors are experts in security, server consolidations, platform migrations, enterprise directories, data center operations, and desktop deployment. They are responsible for conceptualizing, architecting and developing tailored, innovative technology solutions for our customers through our teams of consultants across the country. As true thought leaders in the Infrastructure Transformation space, the Avanade TI Practice Directors have extensive backgrounds with security, especially in regard to the Microsoft platform; designing security solutions that help organizations establish security processes and practices to achieve lower overall operations management costs and more predictability for IT staff. Avanade TI Practice Directors speak frequently at regional Microsoft product launches, industry events, and technology forums.
Arvind Narain
As senior vice president of online and wireless security for McAfee Systems Protection Solutions at Network Associates, Inc., Arvind Narain plays an integral role in the planning, engineering, and delivery of McAfee managed security services for service providers and wireless carriers. Before his current position, Arvind was a founding member of the myCIO team (a Network Associates company) that provided always-on security solutions for the SMB community. Previously, he founded and managed lonemountain.net, a support chain automation provider that included Microsoft, Netscape and Motorola among its customers.
(Arvind is speaking in Fort Lauderdale)
Douglas Hurd
Douglas Hurd has worked in the technology sector since 1987 and has been at Network Associates for the past six years. Based in the United Kingdom from 1989-2001 he worked as a Channel Manager for American Power Conversion, Thomas-Conrad, Emulex, and Trusted Information Systems, which was acquired by NAI in 1998. In 2001, he moved to product management and relocated to the Washington, D.C. Metro area. He is currently the Senior Product Marketing Manager for the McAfee Entercept products and is based in the Rockville Maryland office.
(Douglas is speaking in Tampa, Cedar Rapids, and Minneapolis)
John D. Bedrick
 John D. Bedrick serves as group product marketing manager for systems security within the McAfee System Protection Solutions Group at Network Associates, Inc. Bedrick plays an instrumental role in the communication of strategy, planning, and delivery of McAfee System Security, a single management infrastructure for the securing enterprise PCs and servers against malicious code, hacker attacks and operating system and application software vulnerabilities. Within this role, Bedrick is responsible for McAfee anti-virus, host intrusion prevention, and policy- and process-based firewall technologies. Bedrick joined the McAfee System Protection Solutions team after serving many years at Intel, where he helped establish the company's security strategy and the formation of computer security partnerships including the "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance" (TCPA).
(John is speaking in Seattle, Honolulu, Denver, Dallas, Phoenix, Anaheim, and San Francisco)
Mark Miraglia
 Mark Miraglia is the director of intrusion prevention solutions at Network Associates, Inc. and has extensive experience with security and managed services issues. Before his role with Network Associates, Miraglia co-founded Platformlogic, a host-based intrusion prevention product and served as executive vice president of sales and marketing, as well as serving as a member of the board of directors. Before that, he served as general manager of managed services at TimeBridge, reporting to the Chairman and CEO. During Miraglia's tenure with TimeBridge, he successfully launched a managed service offering resulting in an acquisition by Dimension Data. Before TimeBridge, Mark was vice president of sales for Trusted Information Systems.
(Mark is speaking in Washington DC, Philadelphia, Albany, and Nashua)
Michael Callahan
Michael Callahan is the vice president of North America marketing for Network Associates, Inc. In this role, Callahan is responsible for marketing activities in North America including field marketing, national marketing campaigns and government, health and education marketing. Before his efforts as vice president of North America marketing, Callahan held several other positions with Network Associates, including senior director of McAfee product marketing and director of product marketing/management for Magic Solutions. Before joining Network Associates, Callahan served as a director of product management for Datastream Systems. During his four year tenure with Datastream, Callahan designed and delivered the company's first Web-enabled application, MP2 WebLink, which won Plant Engineering's Product of the Year award.
(Michael is speaking in Atlanta, Cleveland, and Chicago)
Ryan McGee
Ryan McGee is director of product marketing for McAfee Security at Network Associates, Inc. In this role, McGee is responsible for the strategic marketing direction, product positioning and messaging for the McAfee Security product line including VirusScan, GroupShield, WebShield, NetShield, ePolicy Orchestrator, ThreatScan and Desktop Firewall. Since joining Network Associates in 1997, McGee has played various roles in the McAfee engineering and product management organizations, including group marketing manager and senior product manager. In these roles, he has been at the eye of the storm as the malicious code threat has escalated from simple macro viruses, to mass-mailers such as Melissa, and on to blended threats and hyper-fast worms such as Slammer. As a result, McGee has gained valuable insight not only into the nature and future of the threat, but also into the security issues faced by IT teams in enterprises of all sizes.
(Ryan is speaking in New York City and Woodbridge)
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