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Phil Karren - USA Product Marketing Manager
Phil Karren currently works as GroupWise Product Manager for Novell. My background on a short form is that I've worked for 21 years in IT marketing and development, for Novell, IBM, CacheFlow as an employee, and for several clients as a freelancer, including Linux Networx, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Church and Family History Department, Cisco, Novell and others.
Charles Taite - Canada GWAVA - CEO/CTO Co-Founder of GWAVA
Charles Taite - CEO/CTO Co-Founder of GWAVA, Charles Taite steers GWAVA's technology vision. He is the former CTO for Tobit Software of North America where he was instrumental in helping Tobit establish its technology roadmap for entering the North American market. He guides GWAVA's research and product development efforts, while overseeing GWAVA's technical services and support division. His expertise comes from a 15-year career in the networking industry, specializing in secure electronic messaging. He is a Certified Novell Engineer (CNE).
Richard Bliss - USA VP of Marketing GWAVA
Richard Bliss has been actively involved in the messaging industry since 1989. Prior to joining GWAVA, Richard was the Director of Marketing for Novell GroupWise, a position in which he was responsible for communicating Novell's vision for its GroupWise and collaboration products. 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 a host of 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.
Joe Bertnick - USA Director Product Management GWAVA
Joe Bertnick Director, Product Management GWAVA, Mr. Bertnick manages the development of new products for GWAVA. Mr. Bertnick brings 15 years of networking, security and software experience to GWAVA. He has extensive experience in information security, hacker defense and in helping global organizations develop and implement policies and technology to secure their corporate infrastructures. Mr. Bertnick is a perennial speaker at many industry events, such as Novell's BrainShare, Blackhat, Infosec, MISTI and others. He specializes in topics focusing on developing real world solutions to secure corporate information systems.
Roel van Bueren - Netherlands One of the Core Developers of Reveal
Roel van Bueren has been working with GroupWise since WordPerfect Office 3.1. As a consultant, trainer and author and co-founder of 'Custom-R-Tools' he likes to push GroupWise to its limits and explore its boundaries by using 3rd party solutions and by developing new ones. With Ronald de Zwart he has written GWAVA's new Reveal product. Currently Roel is working on his new book "Preparing to install, the complete guide to MSI Application Distribution in a Novell ZENworks environment
Ronald de Zwart - Netherlands One of the Core Developers of Reveal
Finds his way through Declare's, dll's, API's and all that other stuff that makes the world go round. Currently busy with GWAVA Reveal and many other cool GroupWise tools.
