Dr. Klaus Schauser, PhD, Chief Strategist of AppFolio, Inc.
Klaus was Founder and CTO of Expertcity/CitrixOnline from 1999 through 2006. Klaus was the visionary behind GoToMyPC, GoToAssist, and GoToMeeting. Klaus led the technical teams responsible for building these products as well as the teams responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure to securely and reliably operate the products upon. Klaus combines visionary leadership and years of expertise in overseeing technological developments. As a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Klaus is a widely published research scientist with extensive experience developing scalable, highly parallel computing environments. Klaus holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has received numerous academic awards.
Michael Crandell, Founder and CEO of RightScale, Inc.
Michael Crandell is the CEO and a founder of RightScale, where he provides the vision and direction for the company as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. Crandell is a frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com. Crandell received his B.A. from Stanford Universityand completed graduate studies at Harvard University. http://www.rightscale.com
Reed Sheard, Ed.D, Vice President for College Advancement, Chief Information Officer, Westmont College
Reed Sheard is the Vice President for College Advancement and Chief Information Officer at Westmont College, a private Christian Liberal Arts College in Santa Barbara. Prior to joining Westmont College Reed served at Spring Arbor University in Michigan as Vice President and CIO for five years and at George Fox University in Oregon as an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies. Prior to Reed’s time in Higher Education he worked at General Electric, Apple, Inc., Informix Software and helped start Consonus, Inc. which was the fastest growing IT company in Oregon1999 and 2000.Reed has served on numerous customer boards for various software and technology companies. Reed and Westmont College were awarded the InfoWorld 100 Top IT Projects in the Cloud Computing Initiative category for 2009.Reed earned his BA from the University of Sioux Falls, a Master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership from Seattle University. http://www.westmont.edu
Lonnie Willis, CEO of CloudTrigger, LLC
In 2009, Mr. Wills launched CloudTrigger in response to the growing demand for complete Software as a Service solutions incorporating SaaS and cloud computing technologies to create a single solution for his clients. As CEO he is responsible for the technology vision and architecture of some of the most innovative SaaS solutions in the market place today. He is a recognized industry leader with over 20 years of experience in IT consulting and management. Mr. Wills has held executive positions with the two of the largest Salesforce.com partners.
As SVP of the CIO practice for Bluewolf and as Vice President of Global Services at Astadia he was instrumental in developing Global Cloud Strategies, building SaaS applications that solved core business challenges improving ROI and TCO. He has managed one of the largest global Salesforce.com consulting practice delivering thousands of successful SaaS solutions over the past several years.
As CIO of BakBone Software, he implemented Salesforce.com and leveraged Salesforce.com as a platform to consolidate several applications to reduce the cost of maintaining the application Silo. Additionally as CEO and Co-founder he launched a Business Intelligence Software company called e-botz, which was based on “Bot Technology” with products like Network Query Language “NQL” and “Content Anywhere” which he later sold. Mr. Wills started his career in IT consulting as a manager and senior consultant at IBM where he managed a large consulting group of over 150 resources for IBM Global Services supporting clients like Washington Mutual, Target, McDonalds, Starbucks and Freightliner.
Mr. Wills is a veteran of the United States Marine Corp, where he served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1989 - 1997. http://www.cloudtrigger.com/