Throop Wilder
Throop Wilder has over 15 years of industry experience including co-founder of American Internet Corp. (AIC), acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. in September of 1998. Prior to AIC, Throop co-founded an award-winning local Web site development company called BigBad. Previously, Throop co-founded and served as an executive in several other networking software companies that developed communications software for Wide Area and Local Area Networks. He has served on advisory boards including New Oak (acquired by Nortel), Webspective (acquired by Inktomi), Broadsoft, Xevo, Omnipod and several companies currently in early stages of development. Throop received a BA from Williams College with highest honors and is a guest speaker on Management of Technological Innovation at MIT's Sloan School.

Dana Kaufman
Dana Kaufman is Vice President of Product Management at Forum Systems. Previously, he founded ObjectVenture, an early leader in Pattern-based software development technology. Dana also worked at Borland in their Enterprise consulting practice; and was a founder and CTO of Apogee Information Systems, a successful Enterprise consulting company which was acquired by Borland. An accomplished speaker, he has lectured at conferences worldwide on topics ranging from Web Services and SOA Security to Java, Internet, and wireless application development.

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