Mark Guinther is a Product Line Manager for Networking Technologies at Wind River. He has over twenty years of experience in the data/ voice/wireless networking industry including management positions at Alcatel and FORE Systems. He has a background in a broad range of technologies including IP routing, xDSL, network security, ATM, IPv6, VoIP, wireless, and next generation networks. Mark has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from UC Berkeley and an MBA. Mark can be reached at mark.guinther@windriver.com

Jessica Schieve is the Director of Networking Solutions Marketing at Wind River. She has over 15 years of embedded software and technologies marketing for a broad range vertical markets including: Telcom and Networking, Digital Consumer, and Automotive. Her primary responsibility is to strategically align Wind River’s product portfolio and ecosystem into solutions for next generation networking. Before joining Wind River in 2003, she held senior product management and marketing positions at Scientific-Atlanta, where she successfully launched the company’s set-top box platform software and interactive TV applications product lines.

Carl Ford is Co-Founder of Crossfire Media focused on the impact of communication technology on consumers and industry. Carl has been highlighting the key initiatives around the advances of the Commercial Internet since the beginning. From developing Product and service strategies to moderating meetings at ETSI, Carl’s 20+ years have always focused on the impact that service cost, regulatory and marketing issues have in rolling out new services. As a community developer for Pulvermedia, Carl developed all of the VON Conference content. As an integral part of the IP Communications community, Carl has been instrumental in helping develop various trade organizations and has advised many companies on both strategic and technical issues to satisfy the needs of these company’s customers.