Conference Advisory Board

Jean Bozman
Director, Infrastructure Research
Neuralytix

Jean S. Bozman is a well-respected IT professional with more than 20 years of experience covering the worldwide markets for operating environments, servers and the workloads that run on servers. Ms. Bozman began her career at IDC in 1996, focusing on the worldwide market for server operating systems. In her current role as research vice president in IDC's Enterprise Server Group, she analyzes the worldwide server market and she manages the Clustering and Availability Software (CLAS) market research for IDC.

Ms. Bozman is widely quoted in business publications, including BusinessWeek and Investors Business Daily; in daily newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News and Los Angeles Times; and in online publications, such as CNET (news.com), Bloomberg and Reuters. Pior to joining IDC, Ms. Bozman was an editor at Computerworld.

She started Computerworld's Chicago Bureau in 1987, initiating Computerworld's coverage in the Midwest, and she moved to California as the publication's Senior West Coast Editor in 1989, covering the open-systems market. Ms. Bozman holds a B.S. in earth and space sciences from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and a master's degree from Stanford University.

Jay Kramer
President
Network Storage Advisors

Jay Kramer is a world recognized technology consultant specializing in training and marketing for the network storage industry. He has personally trained over 2000 professionals on storage networking, and he currently works with leading product companies worldwide. Jay has been VP Marketing for many storage companies including Sepaton, Astute Networks, iStor Networks, Infinity I/O, Maxtor, and Creative Design Solutions. He also has extensive experience in marketing and strategic planning at Unisys.

An industry leader, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) and was one of the Founders of the Flash Memory Summit. Jay has chaired SNIA committees and was a driving force in launching the first open systems SAN Certification Program, thus creating a career path for storage professionals.

Jay has also been a featured speaker at industry conferences and has published articles and white papers on network storage, cloud storage, storage virtualization, data protection, and software defined storage. He is a graduate of Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management with dual degrees in Marketing and Finance.

Tinh Ngo
Director Business Development – Data Communications
Viking Technology

Enterprise Strategic Marketing and Communications Director with over 10 years experience with brand development and marketing to the storage industry with specialization in Solid State technologies.
Seasoned in both corporate and marketing communications with the ability to developed unique go-to-market strategies that enhances alignment with customer needs, creating strategic marketing plans that leveraged multiple channels and mediums to drive lead generation, product demand and brand development.

SW Worth
Senior Standards Program Manager
Microsoft

SW Worth is a Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft, and an elected member of the SNIA Board of Directors. From 2002 through 2006 he was the worldwide lead for the SNIA Tutorials. Before joining Microsoft in late 2003, SW was Technical Marketing Manager at Crossroads Systems. From 1991-1999 he was an internal IT consultant with a large integrated electric and gas utility in the northeastern United States. He has a background in environmental engineering, and worked in paper mills in several U.S. states and in France.