Raj Dhingra
Group Vice President & General Manager for Desktop Virtualization, Citrix Systems, Inc.
Raj is a seasoned business executive with a track record of building category leaders in high-growth markets. Currently, Raj is the Group Vice President and General Manager for desktop virtualization at Citrix Systems, Inc. Prior to joining Citrix in January 2008, Raj was responsible for corporate marketing, product strategy, and business development at PortAuthority Technologies—ranked by Forrester Research and Gartner Research as a category leader in Information Leak Prevention/Content Monitoring and acquired by Websense (Nasdaq:WBSN) in January 2007. Previously, Raj served as senior vice president of marketing for McAfee, where he was responsible for corporate and product marketing of network and system security products. During his tenure, the McAfee IntruShield family of network IDS/IPS products, acquired from IntruVert Networks, became the #1 worldwide market share leader. Prior to joining IntruVert Networks, he was chief operating officer and senior vice president of marketing at SonicWALL Inc., a developer of Internet security solutions. Before SonicWALL, Raj held several senior management positions at 3Com, including vice president of business development, and vice president and business manager of 3Com's SuperStack division. Raj is an IT security expert and has provided thought-provoking perspectives at industry conferences and for television, trade journals, and business media.
Andy Miller
CEO, Miller Consulting Group
Andy Miller is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Miller Consulting Group, a corporate and market positioning firm specializing in the information technology and financial services sectors. With more than 30 years as a marketing opinion leader, Andy was among the first to recognize that the old paradigms of technology marketing and brand positioning no longer apply in today’s information-driven global economy. In 1977, he founded Miller Communications, one of the first firms to specialize in public relations for the IT industry. He led that firm from a one-person start-up to the world’s largest technology public relations network. More importantly, he set standards for technology marketing and public relations that are emulated coast-to-coast. Andy’s firm helped guide Compaq, Lotus, Intel, Cambridge Technology Partners, SAP, Siebel, Internet Capital Group, and a host of other industry pioneers from their early stages to positions of market prominence.
Prior to founding Miller Communications, Andy served in various capacities at Little, Brown & Co. and the Associated Press, and as Associate Editor of The Harvard Business Review. Andy is on the Advisory Boards of Internet Capital Group, Azima, Cecropia, Candide Media Works, iMotions, and Helium, Inc. and is a member of Common Angels, a venture group comprised of select technology and business leaders investing in emerging technologies and promising start-ups. He has served as a member of the Governor's Committee on Telecom Policy for the State of Massachusetts, known as Mass Telecom, an early member of the Massachusetts Software Council, and Trustee of the Computer Museum. A graduate of Boston University, he has served on a number of industry, education and conservation boards.
Bekim Protopapa
formerly Vice President of Sales at Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Bekim has over 15 years of senior sales management experience in both start-up and mature technology companies. He has held senior sales and business development positions at NetIQ, BladeLogic, Blue Coat and currently LifeSize (a division of Logitech). In each case, the companies either completed an IPO or were successfully acquired. Bekim has built direct sales organizations, inside sales and channel sales teams; managing revenue and P&L from initial customer acquisition through to $100MM. His career has been focused primarily in the systems management, network/security and video communications markets.
Bekim is an active Angel Investor and Advisory Board member of Cymtec Systems and Quaresso Software Technologies. He is a graduate of Rice University in Houston, Texas and lives in the suburbs of NYC with his wife and two teenage sons.