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GWAVACon Speakers
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GroupWise Expert Speakers From Novell
Phil Karren Novell
GroupWise Product Manager
Based in Provo, Utah, United States
Phil has 19 years experience in strategy, marketing, market research and software development in companies such as Novell, CacheFlow (now BlueCoat Systems) and IBM. Phil also has worked as a Product Management and research consultant for companies such as Cisco and Valent Software (acquired by Lycos). Phil's unique skill is in working with a broad range of people to research market needs, envision opportunities, coalesce a team around them, and explain them to executives. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
Richard Bliss GWAVA
Vice President, Marketing
Based in San Diego, California, United States
Richard has been actively involved with GroupWise since 1989. Prior to joining GWAVA, Richard was the Director of Marketing for Novell GroupWise. He has been the VP of Marketing for companies such as Allegro (mail.com)-a leading U.S. provider of corporate e-mail management solutions-and Sigaba, an email security company. He has written numerous articles and spoken at seminars, conferences and conventions on messaging, outsourcing and e-mail security. He has also appeared in numerous magazine interviews as well as appearing on CNN.
Tim King
Premium Support Engineer in Novell's ANZ Region
Based in Sydney, Australia
Tim joined Novell with it's acquisition of WordPerfect Corp. He has been supporting GroupWise since 1992 as part of the WordPerfect and Novell Technical Service call centers, and in 2001 became a Novell Premium Support Engineer. He continues to specialize in GroupWise, currently supporting some of Novell's largest GroupWise accounts in the ANZ region.
Lai Kuan Leong
Technical Support Manager for Novell West Asia Region
Based in Singapore
Ms Leong has worked with Novell GroupWise, and its document management predecessor, SoftSolutions, for 13 years. She joined Novell in 1995 as part of the Novell Technical Service call center and in 2001 became a Novell Premium Support Engineer for GroupWise specializing in onsite troubleshooting, solution implementation and training. She has supported some of Novell's largest accounts in the Asia region.
Dean Lythgoe
Engineering Manager for all of the GroupWise clients, Novell
Based in Provo, Utah, United States
Dean has been writing/managing enterprise software for 15 years. He is currently the manager for all of the GroupWise clients, including Windows, Linux and Mac. He also manages the Administration Team, which produces the ConsoleOne plug-ins for GroupWise. Dean teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Business, Computer Science and Information Technology programs at the University of Phoenix. He holds a Masters degree in Business/Technology Management and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
Alan Hall
Product Marketing Manager Workgroup Product Marketing, Novell
Alan Hall has been with Novell for five years and is the Product Marketing Manager for Novell Open Enterpriser Server and Novell Open Workgroup Suite. Prior to Novell, Mr. Hall served as Marketing Director for Active Trading at online broker, Ameritrade, Inc. He has also held marketing positions for various high-tech companies and has over 12 years experience in high-tech marketing, international marketing and sales. Mr. Hall has a BS in International Marketing from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Utah State University.
