Keynote Speakers 1

Ken Muir is the Director of Engineering at Novell for GroupWise. Ken joined Novell in 1995 after graduating with honors from the University of Utah with degrees in both Electrical and Computer Engineering. As an Engineer, Ken worked on AppWare, NWAdmin, ConsoleOne and other various eDir management utilities. In 1997 he joined the ZENworks team where he became a lead engineer on the ZENworks for Servers product. In 2001 Ken joined the ZENworks management team running the ZENworks for Servers product and then as a Senior Manager working with additional components of ZENworks including leading the release of ZENworks Linux Management 7. In July of 2005, Ken was named Director of Engineering and given responsibilities of all areas of development, testing and maintenance of GroupWise.

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. 

Michael Bell - VP of R&D, Sr. Engineer Michael Bell in addition to being VP of Research and Development, also fulfills the role of Senior Engineer at GWAVA. Michael developed, Guinevere, the first Anti-Virus/Anti-Spam solution for GroupWise and has been the Co-Developer for GWAVA. Michael is a long time Netware Administrator and has been a member of the Novell Sysop Team since May, 1998. He also maintains the Win32 HOWTO for Spam Assassin  (http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html).