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Andrea Donnellan
Geophysicist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
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Donnellan has been a geophysicist at JPL since 1993 and is also a research professor at the University of Southern California. She has held JPL positions as the deputy section manager of the Exploration Systems Autonomy Section, supervisor of the Data Understanding Systems Group and as a research scientist in the Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Group. In that group, she helped establish the Southern California Integrated Global Positioning System Network, a state-of-the-art continuous Global Positioning System network used to assess and mitigate earthquake hazards.

Donnellan's current focus is developing the Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory, which will use computational technologies to study earthquake physics and fault systems. She also uses Global Positioning System and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) satellite technology coupled with computer models to study earthquakes, plate tectonics and corresponding movements of Earth's crust. Donnellan has published more than 25 articles in leading journals and has twice been a finalist in the astronaut selection process. Her previous honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and JPL's Lew Allen Award for Excellence in Research, in recognition of significant leadership and technological innovation performed during the early years of a researcher's professional career.

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Dr. Rich Wolski
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Eucalyptus Systems Inc.
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Dr. Rich Wolski is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Eucalyptus Systems Inc., as well as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Having received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of California at Davis (while a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) he has also held positions at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Tennessee.

He is currently also a strategic advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center and an adjunct faculty member at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Wolski has led several national scale research efforts in the area of high-performance distributed computing and grid computing, is the author of numerous research articles concerning the empirical study of distributed systems, and is the progenitor of the Eucalyptus project.

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Manish Parashar
Program Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
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Manish Parashar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where he is also the Director of the Center for Autonomic Computing and The Applied Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL), and Associate Director of the Rutgers Center for Information Assurance (RUCIA). He also has a visiting position at the eScience Institute at Edinburgh, UK.

Recently, he joined the US National Science Foundation as a Program Director in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI). Manish received a BE degree from Bombay University, India and MS and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University. His research is in the broad area of applied parallel & distributed computing and computational science, and specifically on solving science and engineering problems on very large systems. He has received the IBM Faculty Award (2008), Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (2004-2005), the NSF CAREER Award (1999), TICAM, University of Texas at Austin, Distinguished Fellowship (1999-2001), and Enrico Fermi Scholarship, Argonne National Laboratory (1996). He is a senior member of IEEE/IEEE Computer Society and ACM.

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Bill Appelbe
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientist, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC)
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Bill Appelbe is the founding Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientist of Victorian Partnership For Advanced Computing (VPAC) since 2000. VPAC is a state-based research service provider, serving industry, academia, and government, that is a "profitable" not-for-profit company employing about 60 staff over four locations in the state; with strong national and international projects, collaboration, and funding. Appelbe completed an undergraduate honours science degree at Monash University in 1974 then completed a Masters then Doctorate in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in 1978 at the University of British Columbia.

Subsequently, he was employed at the University of California, San Diego, then as an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech (1987-1998). Appelbe has had strong ties to industry for many years, being employed or funded by companies and organizations including IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Los Alamos, and Motorola. His research interests are in parallel programming tools, software engineering and software frameworks. Appelbe is an honorary faculty member of Monash University and RMIT and a member of the Executive Committee of the NSF Center for Geodynamics at Caltech.

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Anthony Williams
Coauthor, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
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Researcher and consultant Anthony Williams is the coauthor with Don Tapscott of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, the breakthrough introduction to the new economics transforming business and competition with the emergence of Web 2.0. Based on the largest investigation of strategic IT in business ever conducted, Wikinomics shows how Web 2.0’s interactive technology platforms make new ways of value creation possible — even imperative. For more than a decade Williams has researched the impacts of new technologies on social, political and economic life. He has authored numerous influential reports on strategy, innovation and intellectual property, including a global effort to understand how transparency is revolutionizing business and redefining the corporation’s role is society.

Williams was a core member of an esteemed research team that charted a new course for governance and government for twenty top government agencies around the world. He is the author of a major study entitled Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government & Democracy, and several other articles on the topic. Williams’ work has been featured in such publications as BusinessWeek, the Globe and Mail and the Times of India, and has been widely circulated in proprietary syndicated research programs.

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Jerry Sheehan
Chief of Staff, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
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Jerry Sheehan is currently the Chief of Staff for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. In this capacity, Mr, Sheehan has been deeply involved with the Institute''s efforts to understand information communication technologies in an era of carbon constraints.

Sheehan was the lead organizer for the Greening of the Internet Economy workshop held in January 2009 that brought together 200 leaders from the public sector, universities, and industry to discuss challenges and opportunities for Green ICT. Sheehan is also Senior Personnel on the National Science Foundation GreenLight MRI aimed at developing a community instrument for measuring the carbon footprint of modern research cyberinfrastructure.

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Mathieu Lemay
CEO and President, Inocybe Technologies
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Mathieu Lemay is CEO and President of Inocybe Technologies inc., a company specialized in Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS) products and services. He started his career at Communication Research Centre's, a Canadian government lab where Lemay started working on User Empowered Networking under CANARIE's UCLP and UCLPv2 directed research programs. In 2005, Lemay created Inocybe Technologies inc. to promote the business models of Infrastructure providers and services. This lead to the creation of the IaaS Framework on which different projects and middleware solutions have been developed by research projects and future of the Internet initiatives.

Lemay is promoting the impact that Utility ICT, virtualization and their respective business models will have on Green House Gas emissions reductions by optimizing the use of the physical equipment by different organizations. Inocybe Technologies inc. and partners have been participating in many international research projects under FP7 and NSF programs creating different cyberinfrastructure environments for the research and education communities. Lemay holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Optical Networks and is currently finishing his PhD on infrastructure slice orchestration for Virtual Infrastructures. He is now a recognized expert in Service Oriented Architectures for federated network and computing management.

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Jacques Mc Neill
Green ICT Initiative Coordinator, Prompt Inc.
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Jacques Mc Neill is Coordinator of Prompt’s Green ICT Initiative. He is President of Technoprise Inc., an ICT consulting firm that actively participates in the early stage activities of new innovation development activities. His career has spanned the industry, academic and government realms of the ICT sector.

As a new venture entrepreneur and project developer, he participates in leading edge partnership opportunities in Canada and abroad, occasionally assuming in a start-up an executive position during its “valley-of-the-death” phase. He provides hands-on management experience and addresses ICT market opportunities through strategic partnerships. Mc Neill has been a member of Prompt’s Board of Director member since the organization’s inception and was Board Chair for three 3 years. Since 2008, he has coordinated the launch of Prompt’s Green ICT initiative. He is a McGill graduate in biochemistry and his MBA in Marketing and International Business lead to a career as high-tech entrepreneur in the ICT industry.