Analysts

Skip has held a variety of senior level marketing and sales positions for the last 15 years in data networking, telecommunications and network storage servers industries. At Bay Networks (now Nortel Networks) as Senior VP for WW Channel Operations he guided the channel strategy and implementation through a sales force of 1500 resellers and distributors worldwide with the group contributing over 50% of Bay's 1996 revenues of $2 billion. Also as VP Entry Systems Group, Mr. Wangbickler launched Bay Networks into the low end SOHO and mid-tier business markets. He spent an year developing a distribution model and successfully launching entry of low end products into the European market place.

He was also a co-founder and senior vice president of HolonTech Corporation, an NEC affiliate startup in network storage servers and Internet traffic load balancing switches. Skip started his career with IBM and Rolm Corporation.

Richard Lee is an Advisory Analyst with IMEX specializing in storage and clustering technologies. He is also the founder and president of Data Storage Technologies, a technology and business consultancy. Richard's expertise and focus for the last 20 years has been in High Availability computing, storage and data management. He is a prolific writer and writes for various trade journals including Windows NT, Selling NT Solutions, Storage Management Solutions, InfoStor and Intelligent Enterprise magazines. He is also the author of two books: "Windows NT Storage Primer" published by Duke Press and "Microsoft Windows Cluster Server" published by McGraw Hill/Osborne.

He has been an invited speaker at NT Database Summit, IEEE Mass Storage Symposium, ACM Super Computing, Digital Data Systems and NAS conferences. Richard has a BS EE from University of Michigan and an MBA from Wharton School of Business.

Fred Moore has over 25 years of experience in the computer industry beginning as Storage Tek's first Systems Engineer and rising to corporate vice president of strategic markets. He acted as Storage Tek's chief strategist and spokesman worldwide for over ten years and is credited with creating their strategic vision and long-range plans and being instrumental in providing worldwide product leadership for storage systems for open systems and mainframes.

Recently, he founded Horison Information Strategies in Colorado, to provide services in the area of advanced information strategies as well as a partnership to provide business development services to emerging high-tech firms.

Moore has published numerous papers on Computer Storage Systems and has been a sought after speaker at industry conferences worldwide including Gartner Group Conference, DataStorage, Computer Measurement Group (CMG), Xephon, SHARE, CSC Index, Dataquest, the Network Storage Conference and served on the CCIA Vision 20/20 project.

Moore received a BS in mathematics and an MS in computer science from the University of Missouri.

For more than ten years, author and consultant Marc Farley has specialized in storage networking technology. His knowledge of storage is captured in his reference book, Building Storage Networks, which provides a vendor-independent overview of various storage topics — including SAN, NAS, RAID, Fibre Channel, caching — as well as an in-depth discussion of the issues system architects must address to create an effective modern storage network.

Mr. Farley is a career storage networking professional, and has worked in that capacity in both startups and large corporations, including IBM, Hitachi, Crossroads, Palindrome, ConvergeNet, and SanCastle. He is now an independent consultant to the storage network industry, providing product and corporate strategy, marketing analysis, education and writing services.

Mr. Prophet is an advisory analyst at IMEX.

He is also an Executive Director of MultiMediaCard Association and has guided its formation, charter, promotion and expansion to 42 members worldwide. Earlier Mr. Prophet was an Associate Director at Dataquest, a high technology market research firm and led several teams covering a wide range of strategic, marketing, product and technology issues in computers and semiconductors.

His expertise spans providing industry reports on networking technologies and emerging markets in Access (ADSL, Cable Modems, ISDN), Networking (Ethernet,Token Ring, Fibre Channel), Desktop Video-conferencing and Mobile Computing (PCMCIA & Multimedia Cards). He co-authored Fibre Channel - 1996 & Beyond, the first industry report that provided an assessment of the technologies, applications, players and market opportunities in the nascent Fibre Channel market place.

Mr. Prophet has an MBA from Santa Clara University, a BSEE from Illinois Institute of Technology and an MSEE from San Jose State University. He is also a member of IEEE. Mr. Prophet is an advisory analyst at IMEX. After a distinguished career spanning 35 years in the computer industry, he founded APR a market research firm dedicated to providing strategic analysis and technology market research in Networking and Mobile Technologies.

Dr. Jones is a network consultant, specializing in technologies for optimizing the performance and achieving high availability of networks. He has extensive experience providing proven solutions based on open standards and protocols to improve TCO (total cost of ownership) and enhance managability while minimizing the impact of failure on network operations for a wide range of unique application requirements.

He graduated with a BSEE from Rutgers University and received his MSEE and Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from University of Illinois in 1975. He is the author of several papers in trade journals and a book on High Availability Networking. He founded his network consultancy in 1987. Prior to it he was Project Manager with HP Networking Division for 8 years and served in the US Air Force as a staff Officer working on a secure packet switched networking.

Alok Vasudeva is responsible for identifying potential opportunities in new markets, analyzing various market segments, competitive positioning and developing successful launch of new products in data networking, telecommunications and network storage servers. As a Marketing Manger at Marconi Telecommunications, he guided product direction for Voice over IP products. Prior to that he held Product Marketing positions at Hitachi Data Systems and is credited with providing market requirements and customer interfacing for Hitachi's most successful OEM Storage Subsystem product line. Alok holds a B.S. from University of California Davis, with a major in Marketing and Economics.

Betsy Gilbert has been a marketing communications professional in the computer industry for over twenty years with an expertise spanning corporate and agency advertising, public relations, creation of marketing materials for high technology companies and writing for trade journals, magazine and newspapers. Her promotional projects have ranged from print ads, news releases, feature articles, corporate/product brochures, company backgrounders and news releases to videos and targeted direct mail campaigns for companies such as HP, Compaq, Sun, IBM, Coors, Regis, McKenna, Hill & Knowlton, etc.

She holds a B.A. in journalism from Louisiana Tech University and pursued post-graduate studies in communications at Loyola University.

Matt Haugland is a technical specialist at IMEX in Internet technologies and HTML/Java Computer Languages, NT and UNIX Servers and tracks the Microsoft Windows industry.

Matt Haugland contributes to Networking/Internet/Web Servers related reports at IMEX. His expertise also spans the use of Web/Graphics/XML technologies and advanced software packages. He is a graduate from the University of Oklahoma.

Mike is an Information Technology associate at IMEX. His broad range of expertise spans Internet Technologies, HTML, Perl/Zsh/Bash scripts, Apache/mod_perl, SQL, LAN and High Speed Access implementations, and UNIX/Linux/NT Servers.

Mike is also responsible for implementing and maintaining IMEX's networks, PC workstations, and business software.

David is an Information Technology associate at IMEX. His skills include programming in Python/PHP/C/Lisp/HTML/Zsh. He also has extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux administration and web development. His tasks include website maintenance.

Andrew Kwok is a Research Associate at IMEX responsible for market research, statistical data, analysis, and compiling competitive information on major storage and server industry suppliers.

Kelly Miyashiro is a Research Associate at IMEX who is responsible for database administration. He has expertise in Photoshop, web design, graphic design, and computer hardware.

Kiran is a research associate at IMEX. He is responsible for maintaining IMEX's market research, and company analysis sources.

He is skilled at organizing competitive data, analysis and market reports.

Anil Vasudeva is the founder and president of IMEX Research & Consulting - a technology-markets research company specializing in next generation computing infrastructure, Network Storage, Networking and End-to-End Internet technologies.

Mr. Vasudeva is a 25-year veteran of the computer industry. He previously served as Director, Planning and System Products Marketing at Fujitsu, Vice-President Marketing at Destiny Technology, Director of Marketing & Sales at Ricoh Corp., Marketing Manager at Amdahl and BusLogic/Mylex and Engineering Manager at Memorex/Burroughs.

He has authored several marketing reports in Network Storage, I/O architectures and emerging IP markets, clustering, high-availability, in Telecom and Computing, internet traffic management technologies, and provided business and product planning to several start-up companies. He coined the industry acronym - self-healing (fault tolerant) RAID products. Cited extensively in the press on High Performance Storage and Computing his articles have appeared in CTR, LAN Times, VAR Business, Computer Design, Open Systems Today, Electronics, IEEE Magnetics etc. He is a past member of several industry standard organizations and a holder of several US patents. He has been an invited speaker at several international conferences including Systems & Network Conferences, Storage Forums, NCC, Computer & UNIX Systems, Technology Opportunities Forum, etc.

Mr. Vasudeva has an MSEE from University of Arizona, pursued doctorate studies for three years at UCLA in Solid State Physics and received his MBA from University of Santa Clara.